Love the dynamics of this track! Very original sound. I am enjoying it so much! It's really unique! I will share it around! Nice work! :)

Wonderful track my dear Gunnar! A real rock prog sound, it's reminds me "Flame Dream", do you know them? Nice to meet you and follow you now ;)

Stunning Heart ... Bravo and godspeed on your Epic  quest

you've got a great feel for awesome melodies, for both, vocals and guitar

Rock Opera

Another oldie, this time about a beautiful woman.

Music and lyrics by Thomas O'Higgins Horna.
Performed by FRANK LLOYD.

Cover image, originally by Peggy Sirota.
Edited by †ॐ

Disclaimer: References made to Galdalf's Song of Lórien (by J.R.R. Tolkien) and Ben Folds Five's "Kate" (lyrics by Ben Folds, Darren Jessee & Anna Goodman) were just for fun, not in malicious or for profit intent.

Carbon Cate

home recording.   
a hangN with / two bit ladies.

Place Out On The Ocean

Piece in G minor

Melancolia
Vidéo clip : https://youtu.be/dIxANtZi8fY

Melancolia

There is a scene in the sci-fi novel "The Vanished Birds" by Simon Jimenez where the reader surveys a very long shoreline with very many bonfires. I'm uncertain now of the meaning of this, but it is a very striking image nonetheless.

Image: Neural Blender (Artificial Intelligence)

Bonfires On The Shore

Watch Out

Leave not meekly in that good night; it rages, it rages, against the dying of the light.

Emo Funk Drive

PAPLOVIANTE: BASS & DRUMS
ALFNSO LLORENTE: ELECTRIC GUITARS
MRS A: BACKUP VOCALS

NO LIMIT (Paploviante & Alfonso LLorente)

The solitude of the journey nearly brought our protagonist to the brink of insanity (https://soundcloud.com/gunnarsletta/beyond-the-edge), but he finds peace of mind thinking of his home..

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Lyrics:

Deep in this mental maze, 
I'm trying to carve my way
out to a brighter state.
I need a new place to hold on to

I've been lost and too selfish to see
that no one's to blame but me.
I need to fight that feeling inside.
I need a new place to hold on to.

So I delve deep into my past,
through times that I have lived.
And it dawns on me..
I find what I need to hold on to.

Back to the place where I grew up,
to the place where I learned 
who I'm supposed to be..
The anchor that I can hold on to

A place where encouragement stayed
Rather than taking my chances away
A place to prosper and grow
In the sanctuary of my home...
x2

Though we are far away,
the memories are clear in my mind 
And it stands to me as 
A beacon that I can hold on to

I've been lost in this mental maze,
But now I have found my way out 
To a brighter state..
I've found what I need to hold on 

A place where encouragement stayed
Rather than taking my chances away
A place to prosper and grow
In the sanctuary of my home...
x2

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Image by David Mark from Pixabay

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VANITAS (MORTEM)
Vanitas depict objects that remind us of our mortality and the transience of earthly pleasures.

picture
Public Domain
Vanitas by Antonio de Pereda y Salgado

composer : JUHAX

VANITAS (MORTEM)

High energy synth pop with an irrisistable 80's
dance  flare

Hollywood - Music & Lyrics by Peter Heckmann | Music/Main Melody, (Lead & Back) Vocals & Poem to song adaptation by REKHA - IYERN [Fe] New Nov Collab 2019

Cover Art Design by Peter Heckmann

Music Composed & Produced, Mixed & Mastered by Peter Heckmann
Vocals Composed & Produced, Recorded & Performed, Initial Mixing by REKHA - IYERN [Fe] at IYERN [Fe] RECORDS in CANADA

Peter Heckmann - https://soundcloud.com/peterheckmann

Hollywood lyrics below

Thank you so very much Dear Peter once again for making such glamerous music I truly adore...Your lyrics and booming sonic waves brought out this amazing 80's vocal expression I tried to deliver... I'm so happy to be part of your awesome Red-Hot-Hollywood 💟🔥🔥🔥💟

Hollywood 

Intro - Improv

As they walk on down
The boulevard
Of broken dreams

There's neither hope nor happiness it seems
Staring at the bright light flares
Turning slowly into nightmares
Moonlight cityscape, the fake acrylic
Becoming less and less idyllic
There the countless and the nameless
All drawn into the light
Where most will burn
Just burn, burn, burn

Hollywood yet a place of wonder
Where Gigolo and Gigolette
Can steal a kiss without regret
Without regret

Now it's me just walkin' down
The boulevard of broken dreams
Without a happy endin'
Without a happy end
In plot and schemes

Hidden plastic people
With stainless steel unbeating hearts
Silent silk, silent silk screened robots
Unpaid extras in some movie parts
Silent silk, silent silk screened robots
Silent silk, silent silk screened robots

Hollywood yet a place of wonder
Where Gigolo and Gigolette
Can steal a kiss without regret
Without regret

Now it's me just walkin' down
The boulevard of broken dreams
Without a happy endin'
Without a happy end
In plot and schemes

Hollywood yet a place of wonder
Where Gigolo and Gigolette
Can steal a kiss without regret
Without regret

Hollywood yet a place of wonder
Where Gigolo and Gigolette
Can steal a kiss without regret
Without regret

Now it's me just walkin' down
The boulevard of broken dreams
Without a happy endin'
Without a happy end
In plot and schemes

HOLLYWOOD

Hollywood feat REKHA | Music/Lyrics/Peter Heckmann | Music/Adap'n/REKHA - IYERN [Fe] | Dance 2019

Voix/vocals : Dominique Briand
Mix :  Peter Stevens (soundcloud.com/pwstevens)

Je vais t'aimer est une chanson de Michel Sardou sortie en 1976.  Écrite par Gilles Thibaut, composée par Jacques Revaux et Michel Sardou,

Un immense merci à Alain Guérin (soundcloud.com/user-233987240) pour tes encouragements et ton soutien indéfectible. 
Egalement à Tulipe (soundcloud.com/tulipe-records), Lukowig (soundcloud.com/user-407534243), Wypernet (soundcloud.com/laurent-toupet-930624560), Liz (soundcloud.com/liz-dicker), Myckaël (soundcloud.com/myckael-marcovic), Sunnidays (soundcloud.com/user-138663860)... votre gentillesse me touche profondément.

A huge thank you to Alain Guérin for his encouragement and unfailing support!
Also to Tulipe, Lukowig, Wypernet, Liz, Myckaël, Sunnidays... thanks for your wonderful kindness!

Je vais t'aimer (French cover song) Michel Sardou

Music & Lyrics, Vocal, Piano, Synths, Bass, Drum Programming: Jan Schonander
Waterphone effect by Daniel Simon

Inspired by a recurring dream I used to have about endlessly sinking in a deep ocean I came up with this ambient-ish track. Didn't occur to me to look up what a dream like that can mean until recently and it turns out there are both negative and positive interpretations possible if one is to believe all-knowing Google. 

On a desperate note "To dream of sinking represents feelings of slow loss, despair, or losing ground. You are feeling overwhelmed or unable to stop a negative situation from getting worse. A fear of unstoppable failure. Someone or something is dragging you down. You may be experiencing low self-esteem and confidence. Needing help that is either not available or that you are not being assertive enough about asking for. Feeling pressure to make a decision or change before total embarrassment occurs. A situation that is deteriorating. Feelings about your worst fears becoming a reality. Feelings about being unable to help others. Feeling that you can’t stop your life from getting worse."

Now, I can't remember ever feeling like that when I was having this dream - it's been over 10 years since the last one. But, who knows, maybe those were my subconscience feelings.
 
I prefer a more positive view "A dream about sinking may reflect an unpleasant stage of your life that is coming to an end. Problems or bad people that seem to be slowly going away on their own. Experiencing your enemies succumbing to humiliation."

That last sentence may be wishful thinking haha...., not that I can think of any enemies.

Feel free to comment about your own recurring dreams if you have any and enjoy the music. 

Some fellow Soundclouders have already shared their dreams with me:
- a professor showing up in class with no clothes
- teeth falling out and rattling 
- the gourmet chef
- reading a book word for word
- car crash savior
- pulling a moving earth together with a lifeline

DREAM REPEAT

Helplessly I’m falling
Needlessly I’m drowning

Endless depths swallow me
A faint light shimmering

It’s an endless sinking feeling
I’m not awake, I’m not asleep
I can stop, and then I start again.

It’s all over
We can look ahead
The danger is past
Our time is now
Fate in our hands
Your hands
My hands

It’s all over
All over
All over

Fathoms above crushing me
Creatures below beckoning

It’s an endless sinking feeling
I’m not awake, I’m not asleep
I can stop, and then I start again.

It’s all over
All over
It’s all over

Dream Repeat

Ever since I was a little kid, I've enjoyed playing and creating songs, and now I share my songs here in odd chance that someone else might enjoy them too. My influences are many, but I tend to gravitate towards progressive rock and metal and the epic and symphonic.

For my music, I do composition, arrangement, vocals and all instruments (except drums, those are programmed) and the mixing myself in my little home studio.

( REPOSTS  are  routed to Synthgrinder [REPOSTS] )
( https://soundcloud.com/user-813544615 )


++++. PROFILE NOTES ++++

Once a wannabe, not yet a has been.

It had been over a decade since I put together a song,
and for that matter basically walked away from music altogether.
Losing hope that I would ever have the time to put into music again,
I finally gave away my 3rd music studio.
I ran across SoundCloud around 2013,
and thought I might take what few songs I had recorded, 
and lay them to rest there.
And there they languished.

HOWEVER, around 2017 I went back to SoundCloud
and began listening a little more and a little more,
and actively taking a part in visiting the sites
of so many wonderful musicians and beautiful songs.
Also, more and more often I would discover that these artists
were blossoming everywhere around the world,
and most definitely worthy of high praise and compliments.

Then suddenly, these old dead soundtracks right here
began to have a bit of life breathed back into them.
From the kind words that began to come trickling in,
I thought, maybe, someday I might give this music thing a try again.

The thing that finally pushed me into action
was a particular SoundCloud artist…Sander Heerings,
AKA https://soundcloud.com/wane-of-summer
 

Not only was he encouraging,
but he began faithfully responding to a few questions,
then a barrage of them.

The final result seemed to be that after a couple of months,
the Old Grinder now has a 4th studio and, finally, a new song.
I hope there may be many more to come.

Thank you Sander, and to the multitude that have dropped in
to listen to these old songs, 
and most of all, for perking up my spirits.

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