And My Parking Space
 Lyrics and Music by Mike Krath

I saw a building go up today
In a city that didn’t need another building
And My view was blocked when I didn’t even have a window,
And my parking space,
And my parking space,
Gone. 
 
And I saw a gated park today,
In a city that had a thousand parks already.
And it was locked and required a key
And I was arrested when I tried to enter. 
And my parking space,
And my parking space,
Gone. 
 
And I wondered why I bothered
To make this place my home
When I couldn’t even manage
To make a space my own,
 
And I saw a sidewalk being built today
On a street where no one was in a hurry. 
And I heard a shout to cross the street
When there wasn’t a light to warn you. 
And my parking space,
And my parking space,
Gone. 
 
Instrumental
 
And I wondered why I bothered
To make this place my home
When I couldn’t even manage
To make a space my own,
And why a woman without a child
Walks a lonely road to find one,
Or why a man who wants a mate,
Takes all the steps to be alone. 
And why the things we want to keep,
By time and chance move on. 
It’s not like we don’t see it,
But when we do, it’s gone. 

And my parking space,
And my parking space
Gone.

Lyrics/Music by Mike Krath

My Parking Space (remixed)

She's s a bolt of lightning in a clear blue sky.  The whole world get's a little bit brighter when she comes walking by.  A stunning ray of sunshine on a cloudy rainy day.  She's nothing more left to say.  She's a Sunshine Superday.

The Perpetual Recreation

Sunshine Superday

A Message of Hope and Harmony...

From a song of the Korean people to a song of the world: "Arirang", the most famous traditional Korean folk song, was rearranged & interpreted by me ;)
Comments and opinions allowed. What do you think?

Arirang

5 tracks in one special. (70 BPM)...

The "vocal patches" (only to be heard in the original, at the beginning ;)are borrowed from the excellent library of https://www.ghosthack.de/.

The first track contains the piano (up to bar 66). I split the piano track into two tracks; bass down/melody up.... After that on the second track (approximately from the second minute - everyone must calculate the bars themselves!) the sample of the "string track" can be heard. From 3:19 the Chinese Dadi is heard on the third track. The 4th track contains the choir sample (I used Nexus here, but I won't tell you the exact patch ;). Track 5 contains the percussion. At first with little dynamics, in the second part with more range!

...and who asks about the "Epic" horns...Well, I played those myself 😆

By the way: The "Crescendo Cymbals" are free to use and available (and not linked in this project). Everyone should be equipped with these tools, which is why I didn't "sample" them separately here.  

By the way, all tracks are "wet", i.e. already equipped with reverb. If you want to work with "Dry", please send me a message.

Everybody who works with these samples has to be aware of the following:
 
The samples come from the following VSTs/ROM samplers/libraries:

https://refx.com/nexus/
https://www.amplesound.net/en/pro-pd.asp?id=40
or
https://www.bestservice.de/ample_china_dadi_acdd.html

Now everyone may tinker! I would be curious to see the result. Gladly also with singing! 😁

Greetings

Frank Mehl, Picture Music, Biebertal

Feathers (Decoded)

sisters of the atmosphere

AEONS

Here’s my new track with vocals, bass, drums, piano, electric piano and dreamy synth sounds. Thank you to my wonderful Sander for another gorgeous master. @wane-of-summer 😊🎶❤️🎼🎹🎵🎤🎧❤️

THIS TIME TOMORROW...

Ghosts

One One

Where, where, where will you be
I sought permission for some hyperbole
One one
Coconut for tea
I got permission for some repartee

Take it back, take it back
One one
I've got some things I need to oversee
Take it back, take it back

We could be floating in a turquoise sea
With knees the colour of lapis lazuli
Take it slow, take it slow now
Very leisurely
We can soak up all that lovely vitamin D

One one
Time for tea
I have a licence from the Grand Wazir

Take it back, take it back
one one

Base photo for cover art by Ali Abdul Rahman on Unsplash

One One

Autumn walk

the Final Get Together

A small note on my own behalf: I have noticed that my playback figures have dropped dramatically. The statistics show that the number of playbacks has dropped from 2000 per week to just under 200.
On the one hand, this is frustrating, as everyone sees this as an indicator and confirmation of their work. On the other hand, figures are not particularly important, but one wonders what is wrong. In my opinion, SC has changed a lot, uploading tracks has become more complicated and constant security queries are annoying.
In addition, great artists are disappearing from the platform, partly by their own choice, partly because they have been banned, the algorithm has “recognized” them as spam and mercilessly deleted their account. I'm still a paying member, but my attitude towards this has changed...

Please let me know your experiences and impressions.

😮‍💨😔


When I don't have the time to actively listen to my favorite artists on soundcloud, I just leave the stream running...while washing up in the kitchen, for example 😆

By the way: this user-92853963 was my old link address and leads to the empty.... I AM NOT A ROBOT!

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A long, long time ago, there was an organ in the Christmas-decorated living room in his parents' house, where Frank grew up. Originally bought by his father for his two older siblings, they showed no interest in playing the organ. Frank, however, did. White and black keys and giving off strange sounds. 

So at the age of 9 he began to let his fingers circle on this instrument, searching for the right keys like on a typewriter. And another 9 years would pass before he could buy his first own instrument. Already at the age of 13 he made notes about the then current synthesizers, bought one magazine after the other and visited music fairs in Frankfurt, Germany.

His first keyboard was the Yamaha DSR-2000, which he bought in a music store near his hometown Biebertal. In installments! Finally he could develop himself further - away from the limited tonality of the small organ. The built-in 8-track sequencer helped him to reach unimagined heights. 
Little by little his equipment expanded and his ambition to create music like that of Jean-Michel Jarres came closer. Influenced by this and countless other musicians of the time, his interest grew, but he taught himself everything. Not even having attended a music school or being able to read music at all, he wrote one song after another and recorded them on the only medium available to him at the time: audio cassettes.
Many of these recordings are unfortunately lost forever, because cassettes are and were not the best recording medium. He has to try to play many of his songs from memory. 

In 2007, he fulfilled a long-awaited wish: to buy a KORG. He had always wanted to own one, but with the latest synthesizers at the time of their release having a purchase price of over 6000 D-marks (the currency of the time in the 1980s and 1990s), that dream of owning one was far away. So in 2007 he bought a used KORG 01W/FD at ebay. And as before with the purchase of the Yamaha keyboard, a completely new world opened up to him.

In addition, there were expanders and sound modules from Kawai, Roland and Yamaha (K1m, SC-55, QY10). Six years later his enthusiasm for making music ebbed and rediscovered his hobby (which it always was and still is). In 2018 in April he decided to present his music to a wider audience and uploaded his first song on the platform soundcloud. Since that time, thanks also to the ever-evolving software, he continues to evolve, experiment and relive his times through music.