Whopper song. Should have more ears. 7 years 🙌

@user-586885515: Thank you so much!! I am stoked that you listened to and liked it

Are you adding analog drums to virtual? Sounds very authentic. Good track ... sad, dislocated theme, but good.

Absolutely beautiful lyrics, music and singing/rapping, EllE! Authentic and moving!

Your lyrics are incredible! Such a fresh approach.

Smooth as glass on the surface but beneath the calm of still water runs a deep relentless current. Don’t be fooled by a still appearance on top when below the mighty power of a torrent moves unseen.

Original music, no AI, produced digitally using a MIDI keyboard and DAW

Synths, synth guitars and pianos with reverb, synth bass set to a 2-step thump beat with bongos, congas, repique, and snare cajon at 75 bpm.

Water audio recorded live in February 2024.

COVER ART: My own photos designed in Photoshop

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Still Water

Smooth jazz with songbirds at a chill 85 bpm 

Composed digitally MIDI to DAW via VST instruments, all original, no AI, made by a human

When the magnolias bloom, it’s time to pour a favorite beverage, maybe a cuppa at daybreak, and enjoy the songbirds nestled in the trees overlooking the white petals of mid-spring magnolia.

Summer lurks around the corner, but it can wait! Chirpy melodies, cool morning breezes, and sumptuous magnolias, their blossoms swaying in the wind, set the pace. I think of it as Magnolia time — take it easy even when a busy day says no. Chill out. Tune in. And everything will work out. Stop and smell the roses. Or the blossom of magnolia.
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85 bpm

DAW: Apple Logic Pro X
MIDI: Akai Professional Keyboard

E-INSTRUMENTS:
Steinway Grand Piano
Boesendorfer Grand Piano
Solo Vibraphone
Rolling Chords synth
Studio Upright Bass
E-PERCUSSION:
Jazz Vanguard kit
Studio Brush Kit
Latin Kit
Studio R&B+ Kit

LOFI AUDIO of songbirds recorded live on iPhone in March, April, and this week on May 19, 2024, just before a rain when the birds seemed alert to the showers headed into ATL.

COVER ART: CGI created by SUNNYBECK in Photoshop using “Magnolia blossoms from a German postcard” c. 1907. Adolph Selige, Public domain (USA), via Wikimedia Commons upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm…a_Blossoms.jpg
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Magnolia

No Sun On Monday

Sometimes a timeout is necessary, to pause, regroup, and refresh if only for a few minutes. Put up a Do Not Disturb sign. Open a window and let a pleasant distraction offered by songbirds calm the mind. Then resume forward march when ready. Hopefully, time is on your side. If not, seize a moment when you can. 💙

Jazz with songbirds
66 bpm

Audio files of bird chirps recorded live October 13 and 15, 2024.

DAW Apple Logic Pro X
MIDI Akai MPK Professional  
E-instruments:
Concert Grand
SoCal Ballad Piano 
Vibraphone
Clarinet Solo
Studio Upright Bass
E-percussion used:
Shadow Zone Clave
Studio Brush Kit 
Drum ’N Bass Remix
Latin Kit


Cover art is a derivative illustration with additions and alterations to the following photo:
A Neon Closed Sign above a Window by Jeffrey Czum at pexels.com 
https://www.pexels.com/photo/a-neon-closed-sign-above-a-window-4118958/

Windows

Psychological Pollution

Mama

Tulips, bicycles, canals, history, fine art, DJs, and most of all the Dutch people make Amsterdam and the Netherlands a place I could easily call home. 

But Amsterdam is more than a place to me — it’s a symbol of the joy of finding community, of sharing and thriving with people who support one another. Hopefully you can do that right where you live. Or here on SoundCloud. We are "stronger together" is more than a trite slogan because it is a mathematical fact. So let’s take a joyful trip and dance as if everyone applauds your moves.

With a toast 🥂 to Mick and Karin 

60/120/60 bpm

Begins with a classical treatment and electro, then electro, house, and techno music. 

DAW Apple Logic Pro X
MIDI Akai MPK Professional
E-instruments:
Ballad piano
Concert Grand
Clarinet Solo
Bassoon Solo
Cinema Strings
String Basses
Trombones
French Horns
Synths:
Focus
Ghosts
Momentum
Ethereal Mallets 
Ambient Lead
Buzzy Pluck bass
Deep Round Synth Bass
Minimal Techno Pattern bass
E-percussion used:
Timpani
Xtra Timpani Tremolo
Orchestral Kit Kick & Lg. Taiko Drum
Paris House Remix
Tech House Beat
Euro Dance Remix
2-Step Remix Overdrive
Latin Kit

COVER IMAGE is a composite created in Photoshop using my personal photos rendered with an oil painting filter.
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Amsterdam

Getting Lame

Happy Valentine’s Day! ❤️

From robins to finches to doves, all kinds of birds in my neighborhood are looking for valentines — crooning and swooning from treetops and roofs. They act as if spring has already sprung. 

Seizing the opportunity, I live recorded dozens of birdsongs for future music, and this song includes one of those recordings — a mourning dove that was perched on top of my chimney. Its coo-call reverberated down inside, vibrating the metal of my fireplace flue — it’s the simple pleasures of life — that inspired Dove Love 🕊️And the song is relaxing even for children 😉

A lighthearted chill song with Latin rhythms and sprinkles of jazz here and there for dance  💃🕺 or chillax in your favorite spot. 

65 bpm

DAW: Apple Logic Pro X
MIDI: Akai MPK Professional keyboard
E-INSTRUMENTS:
Concert Grand piano
Boesendorfer Grand Piano
SoCal Ballad Piano 
Oboe 
Clarinet Solo
Flute Solo 
Cinema Strings 
Ethereal Mallets
Chimes 3 - Mystic Groove
Deep Round Synth Bass
Minimal Techno Pattern bass
E-PERCUSSION:
Latin Kit
RnB Remix
Studio Brush Kit
Euro Dance Remix
2-Step Remix

AUDIO: Mourning dove recorded live on February 1, 2025

Cover photo of turtle doves by Klub Boks via pexels.com:
https://www.pexels.com/photo/turtledove-birds-sitting-on-a-branch-and-hugging-6925118/

ARTIST’S JOURNAL:  I did not intentionally create what seems to me to be music suitable for a cartoon or animated short. But I must confess that the Disney TV channel was on with the volume off in a room near me as I began work on Dove Love. I would see cartoons as I passed the TV on my way to get coffee in the kitchen 🤔

Dove Love

your way

Time a funny thing

Lyrics: 

This is it isn’t it
What we worked for minutes into hours 
Days and years
Through the anger fear and tears  
What we dreamed about gazing at the stars
 Making up stories about the future called ours
Cruising down the road  in the city at night
Underneath the gorgeous glow of the  city lights
With you by my side it always felt so right
No worries, no hurry always taking our timer

Time is a funny thing
You never really know what it is gonna bring
Moment to moment always in between 
Past and future memories hopes and dreams
The scenes play out but the images remain 
Of happiness and love regret loss joy and pain
Changing constantly but somehow the same
Working and building a lifelong frame

I got it in my mind but I can’t quite make it fit 
Restlessly arranging all the letters in the alphabet 
 Anxiously waiting for a bright  idea to hit 
Taking much longer than I’d ever care to admit
The way you make me feel is a little bit absurd
Like The fuzzy weird feeling that I get with the herbs
variety's spice of life but I want you all the same
I’ll take all the credit if you need someone to blame

It wouldn’t be life it something wasn't in the way
Let me show you the scenario play by play
For everyone there comes a time Where they gotta choose
Their direction and path, what they gain what they lose
You had an opportunity to go score your goal
To kick the winning punt between the two forked poles
That night we talked for hours and  it was hard find
Common ground to stand on and see eye to eye

Time is a funny thing
You never really know what it is gonna bring
Moment to moment always in between 
Past and future memories hopes and dreams
The scenes play out images remain 
Of happiness and love regret loss joy and pain
Changing constantly but somehow the same
Working and building a lifelong frame

The day finally came when it was time for you to leave
It was a late fall day and I felt like all the trees 
After the cold winds blow and they lose all their leaves
Baren branches wishing they had cover from the breeze
It was bitter sweet If I had to  say the least 
I wanted to say more but you said to me please
Don’t make this harder than it already has to be
I love you dearly and it was who taught me how to be free

Time is the strangest thing
You never really know when its gonna sting
Moment to moment always in between 
Past and future memories hopes and dreams
The scenes play out but the images remain 
Of happiness and love regret loss and pain
Changing constantly but somehow the same
Working and building a lifelong frame

Life Long Frame

Words ~ thoughts ~ rhythms

All things made, played, produced and sung by me, elle. unless stated otherwise.

Life Long Frame

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