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Butterfly

POPSICLE

DARLING

All Along is a track about the many trips in life. The ups, the downs the lows and especially the highs. Take a step into the other universe with a track about a real life experience taking a dive into the other side and coming back with knowledge beyond our natural comprehension..

All Along

S O S

Under My Sins

Just A Boy In A Band
Loose Buttons
2025

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There’s a rabbit under my bed
“Tricks are for kids” I thought I read
Still I’m out here
Top hat and cane
You came to see magic
 
Sang you this tune
Fumbled the lines
Flicking at ashtrays for a sign
You lit a smoke and sighed as you said
"Aww, isn’t this tragic?"

Waning Crescent
Mental muscles fear the dark
Crashed a party I’m too scared to start 

Tell me
Where are we sleeping?
I had a thought 
Sweeter than Sweden 
Played out
King of the evening
When morning comes 
I’ll be staring up at the ceiling
Maybe I’m just a boy in a band
Still chasing what I can’t

Found the right crew
Didn’t need much 
Started a band, look at our luck
Kinda conceded
These boys were all that I needed

Humbled ending 
Empty bleachers in the park
Crashed a party I’m too scared to start 

Tell me
Where are we sleeping
I had a thought 
Sweeter than Sweden 
Played out
King of the evening
When morning comes 
I’ll be staring up at the ceiling
Knowing I’m just a boy in a band
Just chasing what I can

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Recorded at Vinegar Hill Sound in Brooklyn, NY
Produced by Chris Petrosino and Manny Silverstein
Engineered by Chris Petrosino, Reed Black, and Manny Silverstein
Mixed by Chris Petrosino
Mastered by Adam Ayan

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Management: eric@mooncrawlmgmt.com

Just A Boy In A Band

Love Is Hard

Give a Damn About Tomorrow

Escapando para desaparecer

That Better Place

Ego, the first single from his rock album Prison Of Modesty, set for release in June 2026. ‘Ego is a kick ass rock song with an infectious chorus and a killer solo. Everyone should listen to it’, Kuiper laughs.

Then, on a more serious note. ‘It’s a song about how your Ego can keep you small. Being narrow minded in life comes from an Ego that is too big. It happens to me too sometimes’, Kuiper says with a wink.

In Ego, Martin mixes personal experiences with observations from everyday life. 'An ego can be nourished by an upbringing in which you are the centre of attention. Too much love without boundaries is fertile for an Ego.'

Kuiper wrote the song a while ago, right after his first child was born. ‘Once you become a father you start to look back on your own youth and struggles while growing up. That’s basically the story behind Ego.’

Ego is the first song of the rock album Prison Of Modesty. ‘I love rock music and Prison Of Modesty is a dream come true. The album will be released in June next year.’

For the ten songs on Prison Of Modesty Kuiper worked with Henk Wesselink and Ymte Koekkoek of the rock band Money & The Man and Jim Zwinselman and Erik Neimeijer. Producer Guido Aalbers mixed and mastered the tracks. ‘It was really special to work with such talented people. They really turned my songs into big rock anthems!’

Martin Kuiper’s journey in music is not your typical story. He released his first song in 2023 when he was 49 and his musical output has been steady since then with the folkrock album To Feel Is To Believe, the live ep To Hear Is To Believe and the five song ep Dreaming Of Sea Of Time. Now it is time to rock for Martin Kuiper, with Ego being his first impressive card on the table.

Open Your Eyes

Caught In It

The Love I Feel

WILFUL DREAM are
Davide Capolongo, Giuseppe Scuotri

Composed, recorded, produced and mixed by Davide Capolongo
Written, recorded, coproduced by Giuseppe Scuotri
Mastered by Beau Vallis in Miami, FL

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Wake Me

A grandson's tribute to his veteran grandfather...
The song follows the story of Leslie James Pink (grandfather to our guitarist Tom Pink) who, at 17, disguised his age in order to enlist in the RAF in World War II. Being the centenary of the First World War, we thought it a fitting time to remember ‘Jim’ as he was known. 

Jim took part in the D-Day landings of 1944 & served in France, Belgium, Holland & Germany. Some of the things he witnessed were horrific, including the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen. At such a young age he was irrevocably changed, so the song is dedicated to servicemen & women like him, and their families, who continue to live with the consequences of war long after the guns are silent.

The video was filmed & edited by our guitarist Tom. The track was produced by Chris Porter (George Michael, Elton John, Bowie) recorded live at The Visconti Studio.
Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D61KokiDKcY

Alligators

Dragon Drop ©

Dragon Drop

We’re Chasing Shadows, a North Wales based indie rock band.  We formed in 2015, and since then have built up an excellent reputation across our local area. We’ve released four EP’s so far, played gigs across the UK in venues small and large, received radio play across the globe and loads of great reviews of our music on blogs, from UK based to ones in Germany and Brazil.

We were really grateful to be supported by BBC Wales Horizons/Gorwelion Launchpad fund, who awarded us a grant to support the recording of our fifth EP in 2019. To support that we have played a number of gigs to promote our new music, including FOCUS Wales, HMV, loads of local venues and there’s more to come.

The feedback we’ve had from our gigs so far has been great, and the comments we’ve had about our music so far have been amazing. We’re back in the studio in March with more new music on the way, building up on the momentum we have built so far, with our aim of getting our music out to as many people as possible, and gigging in as many places as we can.

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