Our awesome Japanese friend Tot. (@tot-beat, @user-288513022) was on the drums and bass - thanks again so much for working with us on this fun song, Tot.~ We had a blast!

Art by Masha using Prismacolor Coloured Pencils, which were an amazing gift from @katyasolo. Cheers for that, Katya!

Synth work by Rob Ulysses (@rob-ulysses) and Masha Solo (@masha-solo) Masha also wrote the lyrics and performed the vocals.

This song's story is that one day, Rob & Masha were doing deliveries for a summer-long job in 2021 when Masha spotted an old 60s van in a junkyard and snapped a quick photo, later the two of them making the event into a full song with the help of Tot.

At the same time as Tot. was working on a drum and bass conga style beat but he had no other parts, Rob & Masha were already working on synth parts and a fun chiptunes solo, but they had no drums! So when they heard each other's work in progress, it was only natural that they combined the two into a sort of Farewell To Summer song from their vivid summer memory.

This track is remixable, as long as it's noncommercial.

Lyrics:

Swag And a Bag

Once in my travels, two summers past,
I was on a long road trip for work around Oz,
On country roads, with sugarcane vast,
I saw something that made me drive back and pause,
I saw something that made me drive back and pause...

It really caught my eye,
And I still don't really know why!
But I had to take a photo,
Before I went back to work

It was just this really old van!

In an old junkyard, full of wildflowers, tropical brush,
(And although my job demanded I rush)
I saw that there was an old 60’s van that had seen better days,
It looked like it had seen so many sights, although now decays

(It was just this really old van!)

Before I moved on, I snapped a photograph,
On the side it said something that made me laugh (hah)
“Swag And A Bag” it said, on its side with a tag,
With bright teals and yellows surrounding the autograph
x2

I wondered who had once owned it and why,
If it was for tourists, who’d used it nearby,
What kind of adventures it had been on,
Even though its road trip days were gone
x2

I didn't even really know what 'Swag and a Bag' would mean,
I had to look it up.
But apparently it's really lucky-
It's like when something really good happens to you.
And I found that message positive.

“Swag And A Bag” it said, on its side with a tag,
With bright teals and yellows surrounding the autograph

“Swag And A Bag” it said, on its side with a tag,
With bright teals and yellows surrounding the autograph!

...And I found that message positive.

Swag And A Bag

Swag And A Bag ft. Tot.

Get Up Jake (The Band Cover)

HELLO GABI THIS IS SIGGI TALKING ON THE PHONE
 KNOCK KNOCK HEY STEPHANIE ANYBODY HOME?
JUST WANTED TO REACH OUT AND PASS MY THANKS ALONG 
SO I FIGURED WHY NOT MAYBE PASS THEM THROUGH A SONG

BRAVO LADIES MERCI AUSSI FOR THE BRILLIANT JOB YOU’VE DONE 
AND YOU KEEP DOING DAILY MAN ! YOU TWO ARE ONE AWESOME
SHAKING UP THE DANCE FLOOR TURNING HEADS AROUND 
YOU LOVE MEZCAL I DO TOO SO NEXT ONE IS MY ROUND
DOO DOO DOO
WE WON’T GET BASHED JUST RAISE ONE GLASS FOR YOUR SHOW TO COME WHICH I’M SURE WILL BE A BLAST QUELQUE CHOSE D’ÉNORME 
HORS NORME

HELLO GABI ET STEPHANIE POUR VOS CRÉATIONS
DE LA PART D’UN SIMPLE FROGGIE FÉLICITATIONS
YOU GOT GUTS LOVE ENERGY PLUS IMAGINATION
I GUESS THAT’S THE RECIPE OF WHAT’S MORE THAN JUST FASHION

SO MAYBE JUST ONE MORE SHOT MY VERY LAST ROUND 
SEEMS TO ME YOU’RE ON A HOT SPOT ACCOMPLISHMENT BOUND
DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO

WISH I WAS A MODEL AND I COULD FLY LIKE SUPERMAN 
WISH I WAS A MODEL

SIGGI'S APPLAUSE (Lyrics) Song for Gabi & Stephanie

The Union crosses the Rappahannock river and clears Fredericksburg. The Confederates retreat to the surrounding hills behind a 4 foot high stone wall. Union frontal attacks, while valiant, are futile with casualties 2:1 ending in total Union withdrawal. History would later lay blame on the Union high command for the debacle. 
Lyrics - have multiple meanings: Crossing the river, subsequent fears and sorrow, poor Immigrant and runaway slave Negro soldiers compelled by their conscience to fight for a better free world; give their all often dying slowly and painfully while left alone on the battlefield - now the Lyrics:

Rivers of tears
Unending fears Lord
These souls
Longing to be free
Their all
Is all they have to give oh Lord
Their blood
Buying liberty

Rivers of Tears (Battle of Fredericksburg - with Vocals - Description inside link)

Made in #Ableton (February 2024)

Genres;
#Ambient 
#Electronic

Also available at;
https://hega.bandcamp.com/album/finding-balance

Fields Of Energy

This is the latest from Texas Tea called "Mindless" - a tune Terry sent over and on hearing it, I was inspired to grab the old Fender Acoustasonic as well as the e-Bow and lay down some tracks which Terry then mixed and produced into his synth lines giving the track the organic feel that we were going for.  Enjoy!

Texas Tea playlist - https://soundcloud.com/texmex-shaman/sets/texas-tea-sea

Mindless

Mindless - w/ Tea R. Sea

Xian asked me for a drum track for his absolutely phenomenal existential song about the mythical Atlas, and related it to today! This came together very quickly, as his instruments and vocals were already mixed near perfection! Hope you all enjoy, and I get a chance for another. I dig this one, immensely, and it was a true pleasure recording with him.

Xian3-composition, guitars, bass, tambourine, vocals mix

K2 and the Three-drums, mastering

Lyrics:

Atlas

1
You’re a mountain of a titan of the old times
Gaia is supposed to be your mother
You’re a pole at the coordinate system
You were the prison of your brother
One could’nt really quite imagine
All the masses

You were condemned to hold up
Celestial heavens
After the battle of the gods

Since then you carried the weight of the world
Upon your shoulders

2
You’re responsible and of purpose
You’re imperatively necessary for structure
You are stabilizing and decorative
You’re the leitmotif for architecture
There is a 2nd century sculpture cut of you
In the museum of archaeology in Naples

You are condemned to hold up
All the statics
Between the basis and the rooftop

Where you carry the weight of the world
Upon your shoulders

3
You contain of corpus, archi and processi
You have ligaments like wings
Articulating in every moment
Here and now right inside of the body
Sometimes there is a pain in the neck
That makes everything just worse

You were condemned to hold up
And move yes and no
Between the axis and the occiput

Where you carry the weight of the world
Upon your shoulders

Will you carry the weight of the world
Upon your shoulders ?

Hope, it isn’t too shrugged yet

Atlas-Xian3/K2 and the Three

at the moment this is my best synthesizer track for memphis. not exactly sure how it will mix in but I love the solo so much. best part is my fingers slapping on the screen of my phone. cheers to synoprezFM. Jesus, the things you can do on just a phone. 

memphis raw synth track - holy shit!

working on it

„Wahrheit“ ist eine Einladung zum Hinhören, zwischen den Polen zu balancieren. Dieser isolierte Moment aus dem bald erscheinenden Album, versteht sich als philosophische Andacht, ehrlich und klar. 

Das Ergebnis bricht mit den Erwartungshaltungen nach sofortiger Belohnung und gleitet stattdessen in einen Vorschlag zur Reflexion.

Idee des Albums ist, mit sparsamen Mitteln eine berührende Atmosphäre zu schaffen.

Für Kenner und Suchende, für jene, die Musik nicht nur nebenbei konsumieren, sondern als begleitende Stimme durch die Untiefen der eigenen Wahrnehmung.

Einen Teil dieser Wahrheit findest Du jetzt auf Bandcamp.
Viel Spaß beim hören …

SIGGI'S APPLAUSE (Lyrics) Song for Gabi & Stephanie

IMRE LODBROG