Name: Broken Dreams by Hans Sterk
Duration: 2 min 27 s
Description: Broken Dreams tells a story about a woman who finds a place to sit down on a rainy evening and thinks about the reason why her dreams were not coming alive. May be a spark of hope enters the track at the end.

Heartfelt emotive story, artwork and composition, Hans.

A very emotional track. I think it's great how you portrayed the different moods musically and yet there is a thread running through the whole piece. I'm very impressed, Hans! 👏

As beautiful, as dramatic... An amazing work.

Very nice motif construction, great cinema!!

The Mysterious Decibel - On An Island

Lyrics, instrumental, Vocals, Sounds, mix, song structure - The Mysterious Decibel

Vocals mastered by: Mark McClellan

Lyrics:

Feet kicking by the water
This land is mine, many years a squatter
Hanks had Wilson and I have no-one
Just me and the goo holes in the sand for fun
The days grow like vines but they choke the veins
Hurricanes blow and scatter remains
Riches in the crater never mean a thing
If no one is there to share and bring
My kingdom is numb, What have I become?
Too long on an island can reduce you to crumbs
Perception is lost, neuron holocaust
Might go for the mermaid drop a salad toss
Might build a raft from an apes bones and guts
Might drop a load in the fruit, Coconut!
Might tear off my skin and burn it over the coals
Because i'm so fucking tired of playing these roles!

Sanity crashes in the sands of me
A look from the sea would be
Sanity crashes in the sands of me
A look from the sea would be
Sanity crashes in the sands of me
A look from the sea could be...... FREE!

On An Island

Glenn Sevillo: Lead vocals
Cavebar: Background vocals, mandolin, banjo, harmonica, 6-string and 12-string guitars
Mastering and drums: A7 Recording studio
Photo: Damian G. - Happy Campers Bear & Misha
Special thanks to Glenn Sevillo for singing on this track. Friends are for all time!
Lyrical inspiration: Robbie
A pop song with a touch of Appalachia and a nod to The Turtles' "Happy Together".

Lyrics:
Weather’s been dreary, body is weary,
Now the heavy days are draggin’ on,
Feeling alone ‘cause your lover has gone off without you.
Wonderin’ will you feel an end to the chill and,
Now the doctor thinks that somethin’s wrong,
Lookin’ ahead makes you linger in bed with a dark view.

Just gimme a call before your pillow gets damper,
Abandon it all like a happy camper,
Share our song, you know we’ll never go wrong.
Here are tickets to the sunniest weather,
Pour a drink and we’ll wing it together,
We’ll be fine, ‘cause friends are for all time.

You know you feel off, you think you’re gettin’ a cough,
And your mood is sinkin’ lower by the day.
You’re bein’ dramatic, it’s psychosomatic, I’m quite sure.
The evening news is addin’ to your blues,			
‘Cause it tells you that the gloom is gonna stay,
Startin’ to cry and you’re wonderin’ why you see no cure.

Just gimme a call before your pillow gets damper,
Abandon it all like a happy camper,
Share our song, you know we’ll never go wrong.
Tickets to, the sunniest weather,
Pour a drink and we’ll wing it together,
Life is fine, ‘cause friends are for all time.

Oooh, oooh, now the sun is fillin’ up our days,
Oooh, oooh, driftin’ together in a multi-coloured haze.  Woh-ho-hoooo  
             
Instrumental with ba-ba-ba’s…

Oooh, oooh, now the sun is filling' up our days,
Oooh, oooh, floatin’ together in a multi-coloured haze.  Oh-ho-hoooo  

Just gimme a call before your pillow gets damper,
Abandon it all like a happy camper, 
Share our song, you know we’ll never go wrong.
Tickets to, the sunniest weather,
Pour a drink and we’ll wing it together,
Love is fine, but friends are for all time.
Love is fine, but friends are for all time.

Happy Campers (featuring Glenn Sevillo)

Alchemist

Fear of missing out, or FOMO, is becoming increasingly common. This retro-flavored song aims to raise awareness about what is actually a significant issue, with a touch of irony.
https://ffm.to/missing-out
Released on major streaming platforms on September 9, 2024.
©2024 Beating Edge

Lyrics:

Street lights are shining
City never sleeps
Friends are out there dancing
Night is full of beats

I see the photos flashing
On my tiny screen
They're out there in the action
Living my dream

I got FOMO oh oh oh
Fear of missing out and so
The world it spins without me
Stuck here feeling low

Fashion's taking pictures
Wearing denim dreams
Snapshots of their laughter
Cameras always keen

Messages are ringing
Can't escape the noise
They're out there always singing
While I lose my poise

I got FOMO oh oh oh
Fear of missing out and so
The world it spins without me
Stuck here feeling low

Fashion's taking pictures
Wearing denim dreams
Snapshots of their laughter
Cameras always keen

Messages are ringing
Can't escape the noise
They're out there always singing
While I lose my poise

I got FOMO oh oh oh
Fear of missing out and so
The world it spins without me
Stuck here feeling low

Stuck here feeling low

Missing out

Tear down the room
Waist down
Ask to the man
Advice

Those imperfections
Won't scare
Praise to the moon
Alive

Rise up, young soul
Eyes gouged, don't let it show

Free to believe
Freedom exist
A lie

Procreation
Won't seal 
Scream to the moon
Abide

Rise up, young soul
Eyes gouged, don't let it show
Itching, your skin 
I've longed
Don't let me go

Tear Down the Room

Freedom fighter.

Broken Dreams tells a story about a woman who finds a place to sit down on a rainy evening and thinks about the reason why her dreams were not coming alive. May be a spark of hope enters the track at the end.

Broken Dreams

Rescoring of the sequence when birds attack Bodega Bay's school, from "The birds" by Alfred Hitchcock. This first part begins when Melanie (Tippi Hedren) is going out from school while children are singing inside the classroom.

La menace venue du ciel - Part 1

L’amore è cieco

A Waste Land Companion is, as its title implies, an addendum to Boris Rogowski‘s
album The Waste Land which was released in February 2023 on Piano and Coffee
Records. A meditation on the infamous eponymous 1922 poem by T.S. Eliot, The
Waste Land traces its psychological journey through a barren world in search of lifegiving
water as well as its physical journey through London on the zenith of
Modernism.

During the recording sessions for the album—whose sound is characterised by the
interplay between a string quartet, flute and a collection of specifically created,
deeply warped and tape-weathered samples—over 20 pieces were recorded.
Rogowski had originally intended to use all of them in chronological order, beginning
with the famous part about April being the „cruellest month“. However, it turned out
that a shorter playlist and a strictly musical order worked better for the album.
Rogowski decided to focus on the string-centred pieces to give the album a dreamlike,
hypnotic pull. However, as he valued the shorter, piano-based pieces just as
much, the idea for a companion (mini) album was born almost immediately.

It was a most sensible decision: Chamber gems like „The Hyacinth Girl“ and „A
Wicked Pack of Cards“, mixing English folklore with nods to Richard Wagner’s Tristan
and Isolde, might have gotten lost between the dark, monolithic soundscapes of the
album. Here, however, framed by works for solo piano and harmonium, they are
allowed to shine. A Waste Land Companion begins and ends with two piano pieces
only loosely connected to T.S. Eliot’s poem: „Dear Jessie (to Jessie Laidlay Weston)“ is
an ethereal miniature in reverence of the brilliant English medievalist whose book
From Ritual to Romance, a historical examination of the King Arthur legend, greatly
influenced Eliot while working on The Waste Land. „Universe on a shoestring“ is even
serener, a kind of exhalation after a long and arduous journey. It was the last piece
Rogowski composed during his concluding writing session in the mountains of the
island of La Palma. Here, close to the GTC, the world’s largest optical telescope, the
universe seemed closer than anywhere else on earth—and the grim world of The
Waste Land already a distant memory.

Bandcamp

A Wicked Pack of Cards

Symphonie No 2 Herbst X Hälfte des Lebens

Making music is a way to express myself and let me explore the endless world of options while enjoying the beauty of sound. Because I don't have a musical background, I have to learn all aspects of making music every time an idea for a new track comes up in my mind. For me, it feels like a challenge to find out how to learn more about music theory, harmonies, chord progressions, etc...and how this could be connected to each other to create a well sounding track.

Broken Dreams

Hans Sterk

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