A sampler of some of the tracks I created after separating from my wife in late 2020 after nearly 27 years of marriage (and we were together for a few years before that). This happened just a couple of months after my long planned retirement. Retirement is turning out quite differently to how I imagined it!

Not all the tracks are about the separation, or my messed-up feelings...some are about the next stage in my life living in beautiful King Valley nestled in the foothills of the Australian Alpine National Park in North East Victoria.

The Ex Files

Journey of the Optimist

Global Hysteria

Imagine celebrating Christmas in the void of space, far from Earth.

A follow up track to my https://soundcloud.com/dacca/nomads-of-the-void track. Spare a thought for those Star Nomads at this time of year...

A cheery lot...

Christmas In The Void

All Instruments By Martin Reed,
Produced By Martin Reed.

it'S a bURNT sAUsAGE Sandwhich

Around 2000 I came up with this idea that I should start a project called Bleak Guitar - a mostly instrumental "band" that would bring together all my preferences for shimmering guitars, dream pop, goth, darkwave, postrock, folk etc. It never happened - until now. 
This track, Nightlight, is an exception: It was recorded in 2002 -  having in mind it should fit the Bleak Guitar project

Bleak Guitar - Nightlight (feat. Liz)

Links to artists, label and stores can be found at the bottom of the description!

The album: [title]
After History of the Universe and History of the Earth, we can enjoy witnessing the development of life on Earth from the tiniest microbes to complex, living organisms. Welcome to the History of Life...life on Earth...

Release date: 29-05-2020 on Legacy of Thought label:

The tracks:
Time Away - Life On Earth
Progeny - 1 - Anoxygenic Photosynthesis
Bronux - First Land Bacteria
Enorasis Project - Eukaryotes
Big Beech - Bangiomorpha Pubescens
Ivan Black - Avalon Explosion
Andawan - Trilobites
Nocturnal Rose - Plants And Arthropods
Tuuligan - Dinosaurs
Colin Stevens - First Birds
K37 - The First Stegosaurs
Ambient Indigo - The First Flowering Plants
Myth - The First Bees
Eagle Rays - Whales
Wundervolt - Divergence Of The Apes

The artwork:
Roberto Sass

Mastering:
Chris Held

The links:
#Facebook: www.facebook.com/legacyofthought
#Twitter: twitter.com/legacyofthought
#Spotify: bit.ly/2jsThR5
#Qobuz: bit.ly/2Ub3iRS
#Youtube: bit.ly/2VTUvFK
#Beatport: bit.ly/2e8VkYG
#Juno: bit.ly/2A0pbvk
#Deezer: bit.ly/2DHMbQu
Also on #itunes and #amazon

Time Away: @timeaway
Nocturnal Rose: @kiabeniki
Colin Stevens: @colin-stevens
Andawan: @andawan
Ivan Black: @ivan-black
K37: @k37productions
Progeny-1: @progeny-1-617773258
Tuuligan: @tuuligan
Myth: @mythprojects
Eagle Rays: @mr-bjorn-1
Ambient Indigo: @ambientindigo
Bronux: @bronux
Big Beech: @big-beech
Wundervolt: Wundervolt: www.wundervolt.com
Enorasis Project: sites.google.com/view/enorasisproject/

Whales  🐳 (History of Life album)

Sweet Dome of Carbon

Silver Souls And Hearts Of Gold-------Grooveclowd with Venus Abalero

Nebula :a cloud of gas and dust in outer space, visible in the night sky either as an indistinct bright patch or as a dark silhouette against other luminous matter.
my thanks to Xitb for his amazing work and sound creativity for some Amazing music see his page @0pentrax

Nebula (encapsulated )  Gina & Xitb

Pierre Bordetti productions (c) 10/2020.

Composed, arranged, performed, and produced by:
Pierre Bordetti

The winter snow arrived early and this very beautiful photo inspired me this song.
This beautiful white snow hides all the sufferings of a completely disoriented nature.

ICE RIVER

frozen river,
your wicks of silver,
dig in the snow,
looking now,
the last heat,
the last beats,
of a fiery summer,
devouring the earth ...

this beautiful white coat,
gives us false illusions,
this truth that we loathe,
which brings us back to reason
which brings us back to reason 
to reason
to reason......

Ice River

I feel like I'm starting over again, as this is my first track using GB but this time on my new iPad Pro. It was a mostly impromptu performance.

The track is intended to convey a sense of poignancy as, without going into too much detail here, I'm going through a bit of a personal crisis. As always, I turn to music to ease me through the pain.

Dreams Unfulfilled

My wife and I separated in early November, 2020.

This is one of my Apple loop mixes / compositions.

Separation

I feel the warmth of the Sun's rays with every dawn.

One Day At A Time

Let's face it, it couldn't get much worse.

Next Year Will Be Better

Inspired by Dante's work.

All synths played by me.

Purgatorio

I've been creating music since March 2014.  Check out my https://soundcloud.com/dacca/sets/milestones playlist for key moments for me along the way since then.

Thank you for visiting my page - I hope you find a track or two that you like. Check out my playlists for different genres. 

I do enjoy musical collaborations, and here are my collaborations playlists:
https://soundcloud.com/dacca/sets/collaborations
https://soundcloud.com/dacca/sets/collaborations-2015
https://soundcloud.com/dacca/sets/collaborations-2016
https://soundcloud.com/dacca/sets/collaborations-2017
https://soundcloud.com/dacca/sets/open-all-hours-open playlist 
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If you'd like to listen to my early "hits" try listening to my One Year On playlist from March 2015:
https://soundcloud.com/dacca/sets/hits

Or you can try my 50,000 plays Playlist from early Sept 2015:
https://soundcloud.com/dacca/sets/50-000-plays-this-week

80,000 plays as I approach two years creating music and sharing on SoundCloud:
https://soundcloud.com/dacca/sets/soundcloud-toddler

Or try this "one stop shop" for a dacca marathon 124 track playlist of the most popular tracks on my stream in 2016 (shuffle play recommended) to celebrate my 100,000 plays:

https://soundcloud.com/dacca/sets/best-of-dacca-100-000-plays

And when I reached 200,000 plays I celebrated with this playlist which focusses on my collaborations over the years:

https://soundcloud.com/dacca/sets/dacca-and-friends-200-000
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When I got to 250k plays I created a 4 "Personal Best" albums for different genres (Rock/metal, space ambient/dark ambient, electronica). You can find them if search for them.

I'm a rocker, always will be. 

I'm also one half of Poleaxed:

https://soundcloud.com/poleaxed-1

My younger brother Pete was in a few punk-goth bands in the 90s, check out them on Strange Tall Songs on SoundCloud:

https://soundcloud.com/strangetallsongs

My older brother Gordon's son is also on SoundCloud under the name Idle John, and even has an album out on iTunes.

https://soundcloud.com/idle_john

Journey of the Optimist

dacca

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