epic track man. Love the intensity changes on the keys. Very cool 🫡🔆

🆒🆒🆒💯💯💯👍👍👍☮️

This  is great--All jazzy in the middle  with a hard candy shell :)

A lush breakbeat master piece. Nicely done Ian!

An electro Nu Jazz atmosphere with a bit of bossa at a chill 85 bpm

Composed digitally MIDI to DAW via VST instruments, all original, no AI, made by a human

In ATL where I live, rainstorms have arrived for the next few days as Hurricane Erin has moved inland. Yet, even on the rainiest of days, the afterglow of music created around firelight lingers like the smoky scent of burnt hickory. In my world, that “firelight” is a computer screen, although in the past I’ve noodled an acoustic guitar around a campfire. Who hasn’t?! 😀

Today, I feel fortunate to enjoy the immense talent and camaraderie of SoundCloud friends. So a song of thanks. Pretend we’re gathered around a campfire for a toast — Here’s to humans making music 🥂🍻 To the goosebump factory! as friend @TheBeautifulDark calls it  ✨🪄And to its afterglow! 🍾 🙏

AFTERGLOW DEFINITION (Translation by DeepL)
1. A glow that remains after a light has disappeared 
1. Ein Leuchten, das nach dem Erlöschen eines Lichts zurückbleibt
1. Une lueur qui persiste après la disparition d'une lumière
1. Een gloed die blijft bestaan nadat een lichtbron is verdwenen
1. Un resplandor que permanece después de que la luz ha desaparecido
1. Un bagliore che rimane dopo che una luce è scomparsa
1. En glød, der bliver tilbage, efter at et lys er forsvundet
1. Hehku, joka säilyy valon katoamisen jälkeen
1. En glød som blir igjen etter at et lys har forsvunnet
1. poświata, która pozostaje po zniknięciu światła
1. Záře, která zůstává po zmizení světla
1. 光が消えた後に残る輝き
2. A pleasant effect or feeling that lingers after something is done, experienced, or achieved
2. Ein angenehmer Effekt oder ein angenehmes Gefühl, das nach einer Handlung, einer Erfahrung oder einer Errungenschaft zurückbleibt
2. Un effet ou une sensation agréable qui persiste après avoir fait, vécu ou accompli quelque chose
2. Een aangenaam effect of gevoel dat blijft hangen nadat iets is gedaan, ervaren of bereikt
2. Un efecto o sensación agradable que perdura después de haber hecho, experimentado o logrado algo
2. Un effetto o una sensazione piacevole che permane dopo che qualcosa è stato fatto, vissuto o raggiunto
2. En behagelig effekt eller følelse, der varer ved, efter at noget er blevet gjort, oplevet eller opnået
2. Nautinnollinen vaikutus tai tunne, joka säilyy sen jälkeen, kun jotain on tehty, koettu tai saavutettu
2. En behagelig effekt eller følelse som henger igjen etter at noe er gjort, opplevd eller oppnådd
2. Przyjemny efekt lub uczucie, które utrzymuje się po zrobieniu, doświadczeniu lub osiągnięciu czegoś
2. Příjemný účinek nebo pocit, který přetrvává poté, co je něco vykonáno, zažito nebo dosaženo
2. 何かを成し遂げた後や、何かを体験した後に残る、心地よい効果や感覚。

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85 bpm
Fm, E6 with a short C7 transit in the middle 

DAW: Apple Logic Pro X
MIDI: Akai Professional Keyboard

E-INSTRUMENTS:
Concert Grand
Ambient Lead
Analog Phaser Pulse
Lunar Chords
Session Strings
Breathy Keys
Acoustic Guitar
Dark Bass Sweep FX
Studio Upright Bass
Deep Round Synth Bass
South African Singers
E-PERCUSSION:
African Kit
Latin Kit
Pop Kit
Studio Brush Kit
Drum ’N Bass Remix

LOFI AUDIO of fire igniting from a matchstick was recorded live on August, 15, 2025, and birdsong was recorded live on May 19, 2025, both via iPhone.

COVER ART is original CGI by SUNNYBECK using a composite derived from original and AI-generated images rendered by the DaVinci app, then altered, retouched, and designed in Photoshop.

August 21, 2025, 11:11 PM ET 
Released on SoundCloud
All Rights Reserved
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Afterglow

This is a new recording of an old song I wrote for my son when he was a kid.  He just got married earlier this year.   Time really flies.

Thanks for stopping by and hope you enjoy the song.

[CREDITS]
Music / Lyrics / Vocals / Keyboards / Programming - Michael C. Lynn
Cello - Matt Nelson @Band_in_a_Box

[LYRICS]
Make yourself a dream 
Sketch a vision to lead you through   
Set the goals in life and cast away the blues
Make yourself a dream though things aren't always what they seem 
Sometimes you'll find your whimsical moments in your dreams

Feel the magic in the songs 
Rhythm of life singing along  
Lovely things surrounding you 
Dreams are coming true
Bathe in the breeze of the morning sun
Fulfill wishes one by one
Keep your feet firm on the ground 
Things will come around for you

Life is like a dream 
Full of wonders and surprises 
Needless to ask why 
All in the mirror of your eyes

Lines of hills clear in the morning sky 
Scent of flowers colored butterflies 
Rewarding opportunities are all there to welcome you

Reach out for the twinkling stars 
Stretch and they aren't very far 
Keep your feet firm on the ground 
Things will turn around

Feel the magic in the songs 
Rhythm of life singing along  
Keep your feet firm on the ground 
Things will turn around for you

Make Yourself a Dream

Cool Funky backing track provided by Freddie Edwards ==> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cs1NwbZp2w
Inspired by the following presentation ==> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3nwdRIXGjc
POVERTY FOR PROFIT WHORES
You got your section-eight slumlords
Payday loans nobody can afford
IRS tax return skimmers
Corp’rate middleman breadwinners 
Gettin’ rich off the poor, poverty for profit whores

CHORUS
They gotcha payin’ more for a low credit score
Get behind on your bills, get charged more
Gettin’ rich off the poor
Poverty for profit whores

Yeah, they’ll get you by any means
They be keepin’ people on kidney machines
Foster children funds stolen by the state
Privatization schemes at your gate
Gettin’ rich off the poor, poverty for profit whores, oh

CHORUS
Payin’ more for a low credit score
Get behind on your bills, get charged more
Gettin’ rich off the poor
Poverty for Profit whores

[Music/adlib]

Oh, and the bigger the monopolies grow
The higher food prices go
They gotcha financing groceries at the Walmart checkout
Miss one payment the usury leaves you flat-out
Gettin’ rich off the poor, poverty for profit whores

So, when you take a look around the USA
All that poverty is somebody’s payday
And you’re one paycheck from livin’ in your car
Jude stole it all from your, your cookie jar
Gettin’ rich off the poor, poverty for profit whores

CHORUS
Gotcha payin’ more for a low credit score
Get behind on your bills, get f*cked more
Gettin’ rich off the poor
Poverty for profit whores

We gotta eat the rich to save the poor 
We gotta eat the rich to save the poor
Needin’ more pitchforks than never before
Gettin’ rich off the poor, poverty for profit whores
Poverty for profit
Poverty for profit whores
Poverty for profit
Poverty for profit whores
Gettin’ rich off the poor
Poverty For Profit Whores.

© 2025 Renee La Chapelle – All Rights Reserved

POVERTY FOR PROFIT WHORES

At The Gate (2025) Remastered

The Shangri-La Mushroom Dance

Breakbeat (2025) Remastered

My first live piano performance Schweeeeeet (I've since added harp and acoustic guitar but the live piano/vox performance remained the foundation)

Human time rules❤️‍🔥

The law of attraction. I can't remember what author championed it. But it's very true in a sense I think. We project and absorb either positivity or negativity. The world and average mind set is showing us negativity on steroids at the moments and as far as I can see people are re-projecting that negativity when they are not conscious about absorbing and re-projecting it.

That's why I feel so strongly in positivity especially now. We can actually get that positive wild fire we need from people to spread empathy instead of apathy. We don't all need to understand that, we just need enough of us to be tuned to ourselves enough to not reproject the negative energy we see in front of us even if we are the target.

As my Mum says to be all the time...

Don't reflect it back Carl... 

Greatest spreaders of love ever known to existence. My Mum and Dad. Lyrically here I actually refer to the Sun as Mum and Dad. This is completely true in an evolutionary sense. It is our true God and lit us our path 4.5 billion years ago. It's real and it's the truth as most sane minds accept so maybe let's not get hung up on the well spoken clowns that have tried to brain wash us since. Our kids deserve proof, not confusion ❤️‍🔥

Listen to A Secret of Sleep by ZenGazer on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/NTOcsZOaiYc8R1H6hp

Shout out to Zengazer. He inspired me to put this piece out like this and to stop being a pussy with the piano. Cheers bruv 🫡 🔆 



This is the New

This is the end
The end
Come the new
Goodbye pretend
Mindset meets knew
Knowledge of old
Becomes feathered told
Neurons of gold
Expansion soul bold

White noise wiped out
Lie addiction not doctrine
Awakening clout
Affliction not toxin
Pain felt knows feel
Eyes meet the real
Tears of the sun
Reflection of Mum

Evened mouths shout
Together pined whine
Our pride becomes solar
Just water grape vine
Evolution gets bolder
More young as older
Bright sky lit rad
Thanks daily good Dad

Sonnet extend our bright lights of truths
Kids smile their happiness
Living our proofs
Mending them
Making them truer for all
Changing their tunes
Good want for next call

Composer of sum
Direction for anger
Pure bliss is on
Rise spirited hanger
Gone heaven and hell
Old mindset once fear
We live for today
Tomorrow made clear

Perfection like Wasp or Leaf or mighty Shrew
Sit 'side existence
This is the new
This is the end
The end
Come the new
Goodbye pretend
Mindset meets knew


https://youtu.be/ukhmq5on-IA?si=8pMdhyNug85KiSj4

This discussion with Neil Di Grasse Tyson on AI inspired a lot of this song

This is the New

Cats explore the Night (Remix)

Descending Points

Instrumental version

80s inspired synth rock with heavy vocoders, arpeggios, and lot's of synthesizers.

Composed with passion.

Not giving up (Instrumental)

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ULTRA LIGHT BEAM

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