Name: Astra 8 Remastered by Magi©ian™ (Making music make a difference)
Duration: 7 min 36 s
Description: More of my early work from way back when. Hope you enjoy.

Deep and compelling textures Ian. Great work!

oh wow that artwork brings back memories!!

I was listening to some of this album yesterday - along with some of the others 😊 still have (almost) your complete catalogue!

it's just awesome to hear these again on this platform - so happy you decided to upload them! amazing! 💛

Love the string section ✨️🎧✨️💕

Lyrics:
If you don’t feel nothing,
Why don’t you leave?
The time that we wasted
Well I really can’t concieve
What we held onto
I thought was our fate
If I could find a silver lining,
I would wait

Try to hold onto
things that we said
Then I remember
it was only in my head

Give me answer
Tell me a lie
Make me feel better 
Won’t you help me reconcile
All of these feelings
eat away at my pride
Am I just a play thing
that you’re taking for a ride?

Try to hold onto
Things that we said
Then I remember
It was only in my head

Wake in the morning
Truth shows up too soon
The rise and fall 
The violent sun and killing moon
Reach out to something 
I know it isn’t there
The silver lining
dissipates into the air

Every now and then
Every now and then
I can finally start to breathe

Silver Lining

Psalm

Composed and played by Fred Heinen, additional Reeds by me - clarinets, bassclarinet, tenor and baritone saxes and a flute.
Look for Fred Heinen soundcloud.com/user-382853314 and take a listen to his wonderful music!

Verzückende Entführung

I heard a politician say he wants to bring us back to 1952.
But I'd rather living here living in the present with you.
1952 I'd rather be living here in the present with you.
***
Father comes home every evening. Looking so debonair. He puts I Love Lucy on the TV set and lies around in his underwear. Empty beer cans strewn about. It’s the antithesis of Better Homes and Gardens. He lights up another cigarette and inhales the hydrocarbons. And he scratches his belly and he says to himself life is good I should feel blessed. But there’s a twinge of pain in his stomach and lately work has got him stressed.

I’m glad I wasn’t around in 1952. I’d rather living here in the present with you. The old people reminisce about all the things they miss.  I’m glad I wasn’t around in 1952.  
Mother has her hair up in curlers. As she cleans up the household mess. And when her husband comes home tonight she’ll greet him in a pretty dress. She reads good housekeeping diligently looking for the latest advice. But sometimes she feels like a character who’s living in a fool’s paradise. And  she’s striving for an ideal that is impossible to achieve. And there’s an itch that she keeps on scratching but there’s no way to relieve.

Nice houses in the suburbs.  Bomb shelters in every backyard.  People driving their American built gas guzzlers down the boulevard.

Junior wears his coonskin cap and he likes to shoot his BB gun. He used to play cowboys and Indians but now fighting communists is more fun. At school the kids practice duck and cover so they can survive the H bomb. In ten more years if he survives he’ll be fighting off in Vietnam. And sometimes he has nightmares where he dreams about the start of world war three. Cause lately it feels like he might be living through the end of history.

I’m glad I wasn’t around in 1952. I’d rather living here in the present with you. It may have been good for some. But not for everyone. I’m glad I wasn’t around in 1952.

1952

More of my early work from way back when. Hope you enjoy.

Astra 8 Remastered

*** Submitting a response doesn't work well for me, it's a shame for those who listen to me, but I'm not responsible for that. Artificial Intelligence is taking its toll 🤣
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Recording sessions from 18/11/2023-27/11/2023.
Presets, mixing, processing and editing: Pier WILL.
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🛠 - Made with MOOG & Modular / Multi-tracks
🎹 - Composed, arranged, performed, produced by Pier WILL & Studio 4H09
🔲 - Artwork - Pier WILL
🙏 - Acknowledgements - Ableton, AKG, Arturia, Audacity, Cantabile, Focusrite, Korg, M-Audio, MSI, Sony, SoundCloud, Teac, Techniks, Yamaha.
⚙️ - #Ambient #Movies #Experimental 
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Over 1800 Tracks now on my channel, making music on here since 2015.
Have been remastering some of my 'unloved' tracks from the past here on SC - music which has not received as many plays as I would have expected. Maybe 2nd time around your might like it.
The 2025 remastered tracks are being readied for my best of 2025 album in 2026, available January 2026.
I do not use AI on any of my work, just blood sweat and tears, and a lot of emotion/feelings. The reason I have so much music on SC is that I love making music and it is my life. Also I love to share my work with you all, please enjoy.
Have recently discovered some old tracks which I did back in 2009 but have never been previously released or worked on further. Decided to let them see the light of day, unedited and unpolished. Hope you enjoy them and can see where my humble beginnings started.
Also new for Autumn 2025, a collection of classical piano pieces which I composed back in 2010, in memory of my late father who inspired me to play the keyboard in the first place. Under the title of Magician In Private, hope you will allow my indulgence into a special world of just simple piano, no frills.
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All my remastered best tunes from 2015 to 2023 are now available to buy on Bandcamp.
Am back to making regular music now but sorry no Christmas songs this year. This time of year is very hard for me as it is when my father became very ill and died in the new year 2010. I still miss him very much but hope he would be proud of my musical journey, he is my number one inspiration.
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Finished remastering up to and including 2023 now. Has been a mammoth task but well worth the effort. Next year I shall be working on a remastered series of my pre KORG days 2000 to 2008, in 8 volumes, as well as celebrating in style my 10 years of KRONOS magic, can't wait for 2025.
Have now amassed over 1000 tracks on SC (that's over 8000 minutes of music) and it has been a blast sharing them with you all. Next year 2025, marks the 10th anniversary of the start of my KORG journey.
Am currently putting together a remastered Anthology collection of all my best tracks from 2015 onwards. 2015 consists of a 3 volume set (Now available on Bandcamp). 2016 consists of a 4 volume set. (Also available on Bandcamp). 2017 consists of a 4 volume set. (Available on Bandcamp) 2018 consists of a 4 volume set. (Also available on Bandcamp). 2019 consists of a 4 volume set. (Now available on Bandcamp). 2020 consists of a 3 volume set (now available on Bandcamp).
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Have recently been rediscovering some of my older music pre KORG days and remastering for uploading to my cloud. Hope you like. Seems such a long time ago now.
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Astra 8 Remastered

Magi©ian™ (Making music make a difference)

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