A classy song, beautifully sung. Great chords, melody and interesting structure.

oooh Suzanne's voice reminds me of Kate Bush in this one.

as i clearly as i hear this, pure magic. wonderful team-up with suzanne. her voice is not from this planet <3

absolutely sublime in every way... Top of the charts song...

not so sweet nostalgia, interesting complex vibe!

Down The Surface: 21 Underground sounds from the SoundCloud community

Remixed and re-mastered for April 2024.

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Copperfield has all-too-vivid recollection of the terrifying storm at Yarmouth and the tragic end to a near-to-shore rescue attempt.

As Clearly As I See

As clearly as I see what happened then
Before me now, it happens again

Greet the faces, scenes and figures in the fire
The howl and the roar rattling windows, pews and doors
Sheets of lead ripped clean from the high church spire
The dark invests the storm with terror in new forms

Fearful of falling stacks, the showered salt rains down
Streets strewn with sand dunes; trees torn from the ground
The tremendous sea in the grip of the blinding crown
High watery walls whip and engulf this shattered town

As clearly as I see
It happens again

The ship’s bell rang on deck; she rose with two men gone
He made toward the wreck, striving valiantly and strong
They drew him to the shore and tried by all means and skills
So shaken to the core, a generous and meek heart stilled

Guest player: Steve Pumphrey - guitar solo

As Clearly As I See

Hard times, I hope you will forgive the lightness of touch. A big thank you to three magnificent earthlings who allow me to keep dreaming: https://soundcloud.com/janinelevinson, https://soundcloud.com/jonathan_beckenstein and Yaron Engler. 

https://youtu.be/gcvxFj4CPZY

Rocket fuel regular
Or rocket fuel light?
Said the Venusian
He was ever so polite

She said, give me regular
And lit a cigar
He knew straight away
That this girl was from Mars

No smoking in here
You’ll blow us all up
She said, give me ya phone number
And I might look you up

He went red
She remained green
Coz Martians and Venusians
Are like meat with ice cream

Meat with Ice Cream
Meat with Ice Cream

He went red
She remained green
But when you think about it
What’s wrong with meat with ice cream

He gave her his number
That’s  what they did
She gave hime a wink
And he fluttered his lids

Meat with Ice Cream
Meat with Ice Cream
He gave her his number
And a little while later they had green and red kids

Meat with Ice Cream
Meat with Ice Cream
Meat with Ice Cream
You know what I mean

Meat With Ice Cream

Meat With Ice Cream (feat. Janine Levinson & Jonathan Beckenstein)

2022/07/10

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Hokey - Mezz Recipe (ft. WT)

Zeitfreiheit

Huna Mana (feat. Steen Gees Christensen)

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This song is a new version (variation) of my tune called „Surf Dance”. I dedicate this piece to all those people who „surf” with me. Hope you enjoy this one. Thank you so much for your love and your ongoing support, my friends! 😎🎸

The End of Surf Season

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Winter Sun

Greetings and good afternoon to my SC friends. This is the 10th and final song intended for my upcoming album ‘What Color Is Your Paradox’. It is also my 7th mind-blowing collaboration with our dear friend Carlos Vivanco (https://soundcloud.com/carlosvivanco-1, https://carlosvivanco1.bandcamp.com). 

This piece was highly entertaining and challenging to work on. We started with clearly defined regions (mine being the more techno sounding stuff… Carlos building the traditional instrument sections). I then mangled the whole thing, and tried to blur the lines more as the song progresses, until both worlds felt fully merged by the end. At least, that was the goal. I’ll let you decide if the structure succeeds in that regard. :)

The title is also quite significant to me at this point in my life; based on the idea of ‘masking’, and our growing inability to do so. 

If you aren’t familiar with the term ‘masking’, one Mental Health Care website I found defines it this way: “Masking often involves suppressing or hiding true emotions, which can lead to a buildup of unresolved feelings and contribute to increased stress, anxiety, and emotional turmoil in the long-term. In the context of mental health and neurodivergence, masking refers to the actions or coping strategies that individuals use to conceal their genuine thoughts, emotions, or challenges.”

It didn’t really occur to me at first that I was masking when I was younger. I guess that idea doesn’t resonate when you’re deeply lost in the illusion; at least, until something makes it obvious. But in hindsight, I’ve worn many masks over the course of my life (Art Director, Technician, Pre-Press Specialist and Graphic Artist would be some of my professional masks. And I would even go so far as to include Husband, Father and Son, since I was on auto-pilot during the earliest stages of those as well). 

As my life progressed, I felt more and more insincere in those roles. I felt something was wrong. I just couldn’t put my finger on it. Then COVID (something that actually required us to wear real masks. What irony!) came along, and miraculously changed that for all of us. We gained the necessary space we needed, to finally see the illusion more clearly. Now, that illusion grows more fragile and transparent by the day. So while I’m still in the early stages of trying to figure out the new paradigm… I suspect the really critical takeaway at this point is just recognizing when we’re being our genuine selves, and when we’re lost in a role; especially if that role is debilitating to our personal growth and well being.

Another thing I’m thinking a lot on these days…. Society is dependent on me playing those roles. And society doesn’t really care whether I’m happy or not (as long as I keep paying my bills, and buying their products, and believing their lies). So maybe, just maybe, society doesn’t have my best interests at heart (as I had originally hoped). Maybe… just maybe… we’re going to need to redefine who we are personally, as we stop playing along with this globally unconscious and ultimately destructive agenda.

Thick and chunky topic, I know. But that’s the way the world feels to me these days… like we needed a brisk slap across the face to wake us all up. COVID was that slap (and probably just the first of many still to come). It’s time to prioritize our own self interests; because if we don’t, they certainly won’t. So rip off those masks, and let your freak flag fly. It’s our life, and we’ll be the ones sitting on our deathbed, asking ourselves if we lived life true to ourselves…. or if we just fulfilled the role demanded by this illusion.

We hope you enjoy “Cracks In The Surface”; and it inspires you to think about what aspects of your reality are cracking. Keep in mind… if you still have a pulse, there is always time to change things up. :)

Paradox?

Cracks In The Surface | Carlos Vivanco & GrevusAnjl

THE BORDER EXPRESS
Written by Mike from UNGUIDED EXPRESS (Bass & Drums) and
ANDREW BORDERICK (Guitars &  Keys) 
Mixed & Mastered by Andrew Borderick Copyright 2024 AB Music
Special thanks to Mike Gabriel for the invite to this amaxing track.

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THE BORDER EXPRESS

THE BORDER EXPRESS - Collab with UNGUIDED EXPRESS

True Love

■Youtube
https://youtu.be/90WxrPZql3w?si=_aAXOfr7Veoj7P8O

■概要(Overview)
ある日、彼女はルーレットを回しました。
自分の運命は自分で決める。そう、それは運命のルーレットです。

「いつ崩壊するかわからない、砂のお城に住むのは嫌。」
「まずは山を買おう！そしてタケノコを育てて本物のお城を買うの！」

たちまち努力は実を結び、全て彼女の計画通りに進みます。
そんなある日、いつものように彼女は収穫したタケノコを売るために街を目指します。
しかし、一つのタケノコを落としてしまい、コロコロと湖に落ちていきます。
「ああ、完璧だった私の計画が崩壊していく・・」
・・・・・・・・・・・・
そんな感じの曲です。
説明が長い！くどい！・・なにはともあれ、新曲です。
Vocalサンプルも少し入れていて、英語がわからない私が聴くと「Down Down Takenoko」と聞こえたので、このタイトルになっています。

またいつものように即興ギターを組み合わせて無理やり曲にしました。
エレアコを修理して、DIも買って、ご機嫌でギターを弾きました・・ほかの音に埋もれたけど(^^)
説明が長い！くどい！はい、すみません。以上です。

■Overview
One day she spun the roulette wheel.
She decides her own destiny. Yes, it's the roulette of fate.

"I don't want to live in a sand castle, not knowing when it will collapse."
"First, let's buy a mountain! Then we'll grow bamboo shoots and buy a real castle!"

Soon her efforts bear fruit and everything goes according to her plan.
One day, as usual, she heads to town to sell the bamboo shoots she has harvested.
However, she drops a bamboo shoot and it falls into the lake.
"Ah, my perfect plan is falling apart..."
・・・・・・・・・・・・
It's a song like that.
Long explanation! Tired! ...Anyway, it's a new song.
It also includes a few vocal samples, and when I listened to it even though I don't understand English, it sounded like "Down Down Takenoko," hence the title.

Also, as usual, I combined it with improvised guitar and forced it into a song.
I repaired the electric acoustic guitar, bought a DI, and played the guitar in a good mood...although it was buried in other sounds (^^)
Long explanation! Tired! Yes, sorry. that's all.

■歌詞
運命のルーレット　回り始めて
身震いしているの　さっきからずっと

砂のお城に住んでいるような気分で
今日まで生きてきた

抱えきれないほどの　タケノコを元手に生きていく
見渡す限りの竹林　それを育てていきましょう

山を買うの
タケノコの山
回り始めたのルーレット


遠心力で投げ出されそうになってからルールに気付くよりも
いっそ　自分で回したルーレットの
結末を見てみたくなったの


それから十年の　歳月が過ぎても　尚回る
見渡す限りの竹林　トラックでタケノコ運ぶ

街に向かう途中の道で
転がるタケノコ　湖に

水中のパンダ：Down Down Takenoko..!(落ちてこい！)
私：No!(落ちないで！)
・・・

運命のルーレット
止まってしまうわ・・・

私が手にしたものが崩れてゆく
いまはもう　ただの砂の城にしか見えないわ
悲しいけれど
運命のルーレット

■Lyrics
The roulette of fate begins to spin
I've been trembling ever since

I've lived up until today feeling like I was living in a sandcastle.

Living with an abundance of bamboo shoots as an asset
Let's grow the bamboo forest as far as the eye can see.

I'm going to buy a mountain
That's a mountain of bamboo shoots
The roulette is starting to spin now


Rather than realizing the rules after you're about to be thrown out by centrifugal force.
Anyway, I wanted to see the outcome of the roulette wheel I spun myself.


Even after ten years have passed since then, it still keeps going.
Bamboo forest as far as the eye can see, transporting bamboo shoots by truck

On the road on the way to town
Bamboo shoots are rolling into the lake

Underwater Panda: Down Down Takenoko..!
Me: No! (Don't fall!)
...

Ah, if this continues, the roulette wheel of fate will stop...

What I have in my hands is falling apart
Now it just looks like a sandcastle
Although sad
roulette of fate

Down Down Takenoko

lyrics:

Is the glass half full
Or half empty, bull
The glass is too big
And I took a swig

Now it's in my veins
And I'm feeling the pains
Of post-ironic memes
Of monocultural teams

Writin' their minor songs
Discrete dabs, no passin' bongs
Let me play you this one
This is serious anti-fun

I've been drinkin' that Gen Z pee
It's problematic just talkin' to me
All I did was mention a Beatles tune
And your angry ass decorated the room

I've been drinkin' that Gen Z pee
But maybe I should spend more time in the street
I've got a sign with two sides, scrawled
Just tryin' to see you, I'm gonna crawl

Just attempt to conceive
What privacy may relieve
Tyranny of the self
A manic grandmother elf

Those prior problematics
Now fermenting spaztics
Your songs ain't so bad
Just call 'em all "I'm Sad"

Poor you
The poor things

I've been drinkin' that Gen Z pee
Now I'm mired in madness, clipped speech intensity
I fixed up the house, I cleaned the toilet
But you didn't stick around long enough to soil it

Hope I didn't spoil your party (What party?)
I've just been listenin' to Jen's E.P.
Me and that girl, I mean, honestly, like, for me
In my opinion, personally, it's like, seriously
For me, I mean

Gen Z Pee (or, Jen's E.P.) [P×2 Demo]

01 - Native Instruments - Noire Pure - Sparkling Chords
02 - Spitfire Audio - Albion - NEO - Brunel Loops - Light Above The Cloud
03 - Spitfire Audio - Aperture Strings - Refractions - Tremolo
04 - Spitfire Audio - Fragile String Evolutions - A Fragile Start
05 - Sonuscore - The Orchestra Complete - Violin 1 Staccato - Violin2 Staccato - Viola Staccato - Cello Staccato -Double Bass Staccato
06 - Soundiron - Voices of Rapture - Soprano Phrases French
07 - UVI - FALCON - VOKLM - Angelique
08 - UVI - FALCON - VOKLM - Spectrally Distant
09 - UVI - FALCON - World Suite - Celtic Twelve Strings
10 - UVI - World Suite - Bagpipes

Fragile Tales [Part 1]

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