Epic Friends

This playlist is a tribute to all the amazing musicians and friends who support me on my journey. Here you’ll find their tracks – each one representing creativity, passion, and community. Music connects, inspires, and builds bridges – and that’s exactly what this collection is about.

Circle of Sound

Enjoy a lot and dance.
This track is 100 % free of AI. Pure inspiration!.

El Exiliado

El Exiliado (The Exiled)

Hello everyone,

Many of you probably know this feeling. You start making music and completely lose track of time. The hours fly by, and suddenly it's late in the evening or even nighttime. I wanted to capture this theme in a lighthearted and humorous way.

I'm really happy that I was able to produce this song together with Mike Fox. Mike liked my idea for the arrangement and lyrics right away, and he was immediately on board. How much we appreciate each other can definitely be heard in the lyrics.

For this song, we were also able to bring in two guest singers—but just listen for yourselves! What they sing is probably something everyone in a relationship has heard at some point – or am I wrong?

Mike and I certainly hear it very, very often! 😆

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"We Should Be Asleep By Now"

Axel walks in, right on time,
Says “let’s rehearse” – I pour some wine.
He’s got a plan, I improvise,
But rock ain't played by suits and ties!

Mike plugs in, makes feedback scream,
Calls it “tone,” I call it a meme.
He swears his solos shake the land,
But his hands shake more—he can’t withstand!

We should be asleep by now,
But here we are, we rock somehow!
One more song, then one more beer,
Proud and loud we still are here!

You press one key, a full band plays,
No fight, no sweat—just modern ways!
I bend my strings, I break my bones,
You sip green tea and check your phone!

Oh please, Rockstar, not so loud,
Last night you snored and shook the crowd!
You call my sound too clean, too bright,
But at least my back don’t ache at night!

We should be asleep by now,
But here we are, we rock somehow!
One more song, then one more beer,
Proud and loud we still are here!

My riffs still shake my hometowns sky!

My chords still make the neighbors cry!

Six strings, raw soul, full of might!

But my keys sound’s programmed right! (Here we go)

We should be asleep by now...

Come on, Mike, let's listen to the backing singers.

You should be asleep by now!

Oh Axel, put on your glasses, these are our wives.

You should be asleep by now! 
You should be asleep by now!

Alright, Axel, your keys ain’t bad…

And Mike, your solos (still) drive ‘em mad!

We battle, we clash, we push the fight,
But side by side, we light the night! 

We should be asleep by now,
But here we are, we rock somehow!
One more song, then one more beer,
Proud and loud we still are here!

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Credits:
Guitars / Vocals: Mike Fox
Keys / Vocals: Axel Menningen
Background-Choir: „The wives“

We should be asleep by now

We Should Be Asleep By Now

Flowers.

Written in January 2024.

Published in July 2025.


During the first few months of last year, I was ill with my recurring kidney stone problems.

Fortunately, that passed.

I left some of the compositions I started unfinished, and some sketches were barely started.

This is one of them.

My mother lives in a typical Andalusian house in Seville.

One of the characteristics of these houses is that they usually have a courtyard where there are all kinds of flowering and non-flowering plants.

Obviously, they need to be cared for, watered, fertilized, etc.
My mother loves doing it, and in spring she reaps the rewards of her labor.

I always give my flower icons to the women I follow (I hope I'm not annoying them by doing that), so I thought it was interesting to draw inspiration from all of that to put this together.

17 Tracks native instruments MS2 & Old Xewton forum.
3 XPad 
2 iMini Arturia
1 iProphet Arturia
2 korg IM
1 Ob-xd 
1 flowtones 


Mix: my hear 
Software. Music Studio 2
Hardware.ipad

Cover. A part of the courtyard of my mother's house

Thank you for your comments

Next…. Crossroad

Flowers

This is a collaboration with the very talented Epic Dreamery (Bruce). We completed this last year and posted it on Epic Dreamery's SC page, but I wanted to share it to own page too. It is a song I wish to share, and I hope you like it as much as I do!

Check out more from Bruce here: https://soundcloud.com/epicdreamery


I GOT MOXIE, BABY
Lyrics by Andrea Brennan
Music, vocals and production by Epic Dreamery 

 
I grew up in the projects, was just mom and me
Had three dead bolts on the door , but never much to eat

The world taught me too early, that life isn’t always fair
But I never stopped believing, I could build castles in the air
 
'Cause I got moxie, baby . . . feel it deep inside
Like an ocean rolls the tide . . . Moxie, baby . . .
Can't stop these waves that flow right through me
My moment will arrive . . . 'Cause I got moxie, baby

From cruel broken sidewalks, On the wrong side of town
I conquered attitudes and fears, that were holding me down

The day I turned eighteen, I kissed my mom goodbye
She knew I had to dream, And I knew I had to try
 
'Cause I got moxie, baby . . . I feel it deep inside
Like an ocean rolls the tide . . . Moxie, baby . . .
Can't stop these waves that flow right through me
My moment will arrive . . . 'Cause I got moxie . . . baby . . .
For me there is no maybe

Well I Bought a one-way fare
On the poor man's limousine
On my way into the city, where muse’s dare to dream
I know it won’t be easy . . . but I’m ready and prepared
-SOLO- 
'Cause I got moxie, baby . . . I feel it deep inside
Like an ocean rolls the tide . . . Moxie, baby . . .
Can't stop these waves that roll right through me
Like an ocean rolls the tide, my moment will arrive
. . . 'Cause I got moxie, baby

I Got Moxie, Baby

82_ Lovely Punch - released on 12 August 2025

I was trapped in dreariness. And that in the middle of summer! So, get out of there! With a really punchy beat and beautiful guitar sounds ;-)#electronic #techno #trance #liverecording

(produced with BlocsWave & LaunchPad)

Lovely Punch

Amidst the global cacophony, my friend mannu's https://soundcloud.com/the-mannu/the-stratagem-in-daylight really cut through. It was a great privilege to collaborate with him on this. Discover his remarkable compositions here: https://soundcloud.com/the-mannu  

break free

(horror of the now)
what / has got / into us?
it's got me / it's got you
we've all got each other / by the throat

is there no way / is there no way / out  / of  / this  /abyss
this stupid, senseless / darkness?
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(rambling mumbles - not far off)
. . . well it seems . . . we've run out of road . . . climbing and falling . . .
and all those things that we'll never know . . . now they're gone . . . through 
. . . done for, done for, done for . . . no more leaves to fall . . . 'n you can't count all the signs saying . . . never again, never again
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(life on Mars?)
I don't know this sun / I loved / to feel / the wind
Ohoh ohh / lifelines fed into the meme-stream
as the / cold / light / screams
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(realising)
in my heart the headlines / all things were far / but in my / head / I . .

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(find the path)
Ooowoowoow oowoowoow ooowoowoow aaaaaawwwwwoooo
break free, break free / forget about / you and me / break free, break free, break free, break free! aaah!!!

break free

In the dusty attic of his grandfather’s old house, Dan, who suffers from insomnia, finds a yellowed parchment in the middle of the night. Part of the old eccentric’s legacy? Long ago, he had roamed dark forests, crossed deserts, and explored inaccessible mountains.

The parchment shows, though only faintly, a location in El Caramar — the legendary place his grandfather had told so many stories about. Without delay, Dan sets out in search of further clues. The route leads across the storm-lashed Horka Sea, inhabited by dark creatures. Upstream, through narrow gorges, he must face the natives who guarded the entrance to El Caramar and the secret it conceals.

Watch the video: https://youtu.be/Q4sya2M4UdQ

This purely orchestral music draws on the clichés of film scores from the 1980s to the 2000s. Instead of a clearly recognizable theme or leitmotif, I tried to express rapidly shifting moods through specific instrumentation.

A gentle melody with harp arpeggios immediately transitions into a menacing rhythmic section with chromatic harmony, followed by a tension-filled passage with a strong element of aleatoric writing. The now accelerating tempo leads to the main motif but shifts directly into an action-packed part with string staccatos.

The motif is then varied and played at half speed by solo strings, taking on a very sorrowful tone. But then the mood turns serious. Low brass and a string ostinato lead to the climax of the piece, another variation of the theme in which the choir joins in at full volume.

Call of Adventure

"What Remains Unspoken" is a melancholic, cinematic piece inspired by Thomas Newman and James Newton Howard. 

The piece will be available on all major streaming services from September 19.

https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/track/1sVtFKWKwYSsa7nb9ZgpPt

Instrument libraries:
Piano: Pianoteq 8 Hamburg Steinway
Solo Cor Anglais: Berlin Woodwinds
Strings: Spitfire BBCSO Core, Cinematic Studio Solo Strings
Woodwinds: Spitfire BBCSO Core
Brass: Spitfire BBCSO Core, Spitfire Symphony Orchestra (Solo Trumpet)

What Remains Unspoken

So, our friend (assuming he really is our friend) is no longer alone at home. The work week is over, it’s been a hard one. Maybe for both of them: for him, and for the woman now leaning out the window. There’s a touch of unease in the air, and it’s not necessarily connected to how things are going between them. Maybe something is about to happen. Or maybe not. The only sure thing is that they’re not interested in finding out.

This is the fourth in a series of eight easy, acoustic, rather short, and deliberately inconclusive tracks, assembled by combining new ideas with reworked older material, adding parts and sounds along the way. This time I struggled to make it to the end, adding and removing, changing and restoring and working to the mix. I probably messed things up a bit (thirty recorded tracks, twenty of them muted...), but never mind.

Part 1 here: https://soundcloud.com/michele-ansani/in-case-nothing-happens-part-1-night
Part 2 here: https://soundcloud.com/michele-ansani/in-case-nothing-happens-part-2-dawn
Part 3 here: https://soundcloud.com/michele-ansani/in-case-nothing-happens-part-3-noon

Composed by Michele Ansani (2025).
All the ambient noises are taken from public sound archives. Saxophone is courtesy by Diamond Hues. Male vocals are mine, female by Spitfire Labs.
Posted on SoundCloud: 2025, September 19.

In case nothing happens - part 4 (late afternoon)*

☮ ~ Amber Alert ~ before we turn into a fossil ~ ☮

You are invited to submit YOUR own Planet Earth and Humanity dedicated music for the community playlist. All genres/styles, new or existing music. Send me a link to @samprock for inclusion by 2018/11/28. Playlist will be published on Silent Zen @silent-zen.

Our first Planet Earth collection by fabtastic SoundCloud fam artists:
https://soundcloud.com/silent-zen/sets/climate-change

I played this Amber track on my iPhone X. 100% Korg Gadget app, 128 BPM .... thinking of the subject and remembering how cool the vibe we all did with the collection. Cheers! 

Find Sam Prock at: 
~ @samprock ~ @prockjet ~ @art-of-nonsense ~ @silentzen ~

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Released by Sam Prock and Silent Zen, 2018

Musically yours! ~ S.P. ~

Crystal Ripples

☮  Amber (Community Playlist Collab Invite ~ Please Read) ☮

Lover of orchestral film scores and epic music.

I had started making music in the 90s with my Amiga 500 but it wasn't capable (me neither) of producing the sound of a whole orchestra.

The diverse musical expressions in filmscores have a bigger emotional impact than any other genre I can think of. My music is heavily inspired by the great composers around 1980-2000, like John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, James Horner, Basil Poledouris and Hans Zimmer.

With synthesizers, a whole new world of sound has entered the arena and merges with the orchestra to a fantastic sonic experience.

I try to tell stories and convey emotions in my pieces to take you onto a journey into unknown territory.

Call of Adventure

Jens Sieckmann