here is my cover of "almost home" by @moby (from his last record "innocents"):
- he released this free bittorent bundle with all his shelled songs months ago
- i have no one around me to sing on my "songs" and i'm bad at it so it's pretty cool to have super-clean vocal tracks like that to work with
- as i'm one of moby's groupies, that seems obvious that i had to use one of these vocal tracks to cover one of his songs
- i have to admit that i'm not 100% happy with this title but again, as i'm still a beginner, i do what i can. i like a few parts of it though.

equipment used : fender stratocaster, a cheap bass, korg nanokey2. only the drums are partially automated. software : logic pro x.

moby - almost home (cover)

Instrumental, lyrics & vocals by Double Visage.

Fragments

Rencontre nocturne

On a random October day

Instrumental by Double Visage.
Lyrics and vocals by Emma Rêve.

Oslo (ft. Emma Rêve)

Sanaatai esvel ügüi

Le début du tunnel

Intermission

Nobody (ft. Emma Rêve)

Zandegi

Eyes closed, can you see

No answers, just questions

Démence, elle

i'm a huge fan of @apparat, this guy makes such awesome songs, his style is unique and absolutely insane!
me, well, i'm just a guy trying to learn how to compose a few songs, i've been playing guitar since years and started to learn the synth/piano recently. as a beginner, i had no clue how to compose an instrumental song from scratch so basically, i just took the song "pv" of apparat as a model and tried to make the same song by myself in order to learn, nothing more. at some point, i understood a lot of things while doing that and stopped to make something as close as possible of the original... so here is what i have done.

ps: apparat, if you read this by any chance: thank you (like... a lot!!!) for your music! seriously!

equipment used to make this song :
- logic pro x on an old 2007 imac
- audio interface: presonus audiobox usb
- guitar amp: vox vt40+
- mics: eagletone cm60 + eagletone dm58
- guitar: epiphone sg400
- synth: novation launchkey 49 mkii
- controller: korg nanokontrol 2

pv cover (based on the eponymous song by apparat)

two things inspired me for this song. first, the song "broken mirrors" by @chromaticsofficial. while working on the song i started playing around with those two piano chords, and well, the song turned out to be a bit cinematic. i was watching the show "sense8" at that time and thought that this song could match the dynamic of its action scenes... so i feel like sense8 also inspired me somehow for this one.

equipment used to make this song :
- software: logic pro x
- keyboard: novation launchkey 49 mkii
- controller: korg nanokontrol 2

Out there

breakthrough

"snake eyes", by the ephemeral band "trouble" @trouble-96902 is the main inspiration for this song; they make an appearance at the end of one episode of the last season of "twin peaks" (snake eyes's guitarist is none other than david lynch @davidlynchofficial 's son). i immediately loved their song and wanted to try to do something somehow similar... so that's my attempt at it.
for the first time in my tiny compositions, i played the drums; yay!! i feel frustrated not to play the drums in my songs, as i play every single other instruments (i usually use logic pro's drummer, which is damn rad!) so i decided to learn drums and bought an electronic one so i can record it easily. playing drums is so cool that i ended up buying a better electronic drum kit since then!
after recording the bass track, rhythm and lead guitar tracks, i thought that it could be nice to add some lyrics to it, so i checked my notes app and found a little text i wrote last winter while being drunk in a bar/night club. i guess that it talks about the way most of humans live, through our limited and distorted perception of life.
as i wanted to add a sort of big room/bar ambiance, i added some reverb over the whole song and reused a recording i've made for another song ("about a lucid dream", published one year ago), of people talking in a commercial center to simulate the noise of the crowd; we can't really hear it, but it's there.

lyrics :
is this life?
incarnating human beings with two eyes
dancing and staring at each others lives
making our best to perfect the illusions
but people are beautiful all together
sharing happiness and love
they are just beautiful and maybe don't even know
the sound vibrates
and it’s funny to observe
so beautiful in a way
such a weird way, though
so fake, really
and the whole stack of atoms of my body
vibrates along the songs
vibrations and matter
hum, life can be so unusual

equipment used to make this song :
- software: logic pro x
- audio interface: focusrite scarlett 18i8
- rhythm guitar: epiphone les paul standard w/ ‘gibson 490r/498t’ pickups
- lead guitar: fender telecaster w/ ‘fender cs texas special’ pickups
- bass: harley benton p-90
- drums: millenium md-90
- lyrics & vocals: me
- microphone: shure sm58
- effect: zoom g3
- keyboard: novation launchkey 49 mkii
- controller: korg nanokontrol 2

opacity and reality

pretty hard to tell what genre is this one, when you mix hip-hop drums, oriental-kind of singing, soft acoustic guitar and high distortion guitar etc... but i like it.
while composing, i wanted some singing, but didn't like the idea to write something neither in english or french. and as i'm currently learning turkish (for no other reason than how beautiful this language sounds!), i just wrote a few lines in turkish. in the end, i believe that it really adds something to this song! :))

lyrics:
görmüyorum (i cannot see you)
ama sen buradasin (though you are here)
bana gizlenmis (hidden inside me)
çok güzelsin (you are so beautiful)
beni asla birakmayacaksin (you will never leave me)
sen benim bir parçamsin (you are now part of who i am)

equipment used to make this song :
- software: logic pro x
- guitars: martin drs1 + epiphone les paul standard w/ stock pickups + fender telecaster w/ ‘fender cs texas special’ pickups
- bass: cort action bass
- lyrics & vocals: me
- microphones: samson q7 + t.bone sc 400
- audio interface: focusrite scarlett 18i8
- keyboard: novation launchkey 49 mkii
- controller: korg nanokontrol 2

görmüyorum

a while ago, i found this little melody on the acoustic guitar and thought it was interesting as an introduction for a song... i recorded it and just started from there, building an instrumental song around it. then i thought it could be great to have some singing on it. sometimes i write lyrics on different topics/emotions, so i searched which lyrics could i use in this song and decided to use these. i wrote them right after watching the "cobain" documentary on netflix, indeed about kurt cobain (i'm kind of a freak about this f' genius and nirvana in general). the documentary was very nice, focusing on the creative aspect of the guy, his childhood, stuff like that...
anyway, in the end, the song is slightly weird, as the melody on the acoustic guitar has nothing to do with the more electronic soundscapes that come after, and it's close to impossible to relate the whole instrumental part with the punk world. but who cares?

lyrics :
an albino
in a blue world
rejected, defined
pieces of paper
pencils and rules
colors, through the eyes
of a child with no chance
atmosphere and melodies
running in a dead head
headless, in other words
words that cannot click anyway
too bad, so much to get
but no, nothing to let
because butterflies die
and earth goes straight
too many variables
in a doomed society
people. yeah, people.
no, no and no
not now, no way
way too late.

equipment used to make this song :
- software: logic pro x
- acoustic guitar: ibanez avn6
- melodic guitar: fender duo sonic w/ seymour duncan pickups
- bass: cort action bass
- lyrics & vocals: me
- microphones: t.bone sc 400 + prodipe gl21 + shure sm57
- effects pedals: electro-harmonix grand canyon + neunaber immerse
- audio interface: focusrite scarlett 18i8
- keyboard: novation launchkey 49 mkii
- controller: korg nanokontrol 2

an albino

suffering is certainly one of the most inspiring feeling to me. when experiencing pain, i now always jump on the opportunity to access my shadow part (yes, the jungian concept) and work on myself ; my goal being to always seek for more mental/emotional stability, and to overall feel happier in this life.
i find any kind of art to be very therapeutic (painting, dancing, ...), but writing lyrics and composing songs are the best tools i've been using so far. no need to wait until we're the best artist out there, just write, create (with/despite your own technical limitations) what feels the closest to what you really feel, no exaggerations, no minimisations, be congruent, and boom, feelings transform!

lyrics :
yet another time
misunderstood
and this now well known feeling
is here again, staring at me
like a black cat in the dark
right here, only if i look closely
hello, you...
it wasn't such a long time ago
but i can see your eyes.
why are things so complicated
they are so simple though
the worst being
that i've been digging so deep
and can't go back at the surface
where most of people are
no more possible to do now
that's a no way back...
left alone...
alone...
alone...
alone...
alone...
alone...
so lonely
in such a mysterious world
full of illusions and shit
things i might never get
but well..
oh well..
just
so alone…

equipment used to make this song :
- software: logic pro x
- rhythm guitar : fender classic player telecaster w/ vintage 52' pickups via fender 212r amp
- lead guitar : fender duo sonic w/ seymour duncan pickups
- bass : cort action bass
- lyrics & vocals: me
- microphones: t.bone sc 400
- effects pedal : zoom g5n
- audio interface: focusrite scarlett 18i8
- keyboard: novation launchkey 49 mkii
- controller: korg nanokontrol 2

digging alone

Bedroom musician, originally from France and now based in Edinburgh, UK.

Adorer of too many music genres, he enjoys composing very different songs a lot more than focusing on only one genre.

His music is a simple personal hobby and isn't meant to be enjoyed by anyone; feel very free not to enjoy it!

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