Big! Great sound and a beautiful performance!

A beautiful, atmospheric piece – the blend of plucked strings and violin creates a deep, emotional soundscape. You can immediately tell this is genuine, handcrafted music – no AI could produce this warmth and expressiveness.

Un immense merci au talentueux Julien Apelian https://soundcloud.com/audio-colors pour cette magnifique composition qu'il m'a si gentiment proposée, j'ai écrit ce texte sur l'esprit libre qui était le titre de sa composition, sans attache ni contrainte, détaché des lois à l'infini car chaque jour on établi des nouvelles lois qui rendent tout compliqué, 
c'est aussi un petit clin d'œil au chanteur "Renaud" dans sa chanson le déserteur qui m'a toujours touché et nous rappelle ce qu'il y a de plus important dans la vie. quelques autres chanson toujours d'actualités :
Répondez moi de Francis Cabrel / plus de sentiments de Michel berger / Vivre ou survivre de Balavoine/ ma liberté de pensées de Florent Pagny/ La montagne de Jean Ferrat etc..,  

Musique, arrangement et mastering :Julien Apelian https://soundcloud.com/audio-colors
cœurs et image : Lena https://soundcloud.com/user-262019520
chant et paroles :Steph Ouna

paroles

Ne rend pas la vie trop compliquée
A la fin rien ne sera emporté
Il est temps de se laisser porter
Mettre de côté certaines de nos idées

J’ai beau fermer les yeux
Je ne comprends pas
Ce sont les mêmes questions, qui
Reviennent à chaque pas
Alors j’ai composé
Ça me délivrera
Car c’est une illusion
Où, comment, quand et pourquoi ?

Peu à peu tout s’est inversé
On m’avait covidifié
J’avais perdu le goût 
Tout le monde le sait 
Le système rend fou, une partie du monde s’en fou

L’effet de l’esprit libre ouvre les chakras

Besoin de prendre le large
Mon cœur s’est mis à hurler
Même si on me traite de barge
Je vais quand même essayer
J’ai envie d’y croire
Ce n’est peut-être pas facile
Sur cette autoroute, partir
L’esprit libre et tranquille

Refrain :
Hé sur les dunes j’ai crié
Je voulais encore te voir danser
Et chanter nos rêves oubliés
Ici j’en ai plus qu’assez

Bienvenue au royaume de l’absurde
Triangle des Bermudes
Paradoxe d’incertitude
Pleine lune, nouvelle attitude, je reprends de l’altitude

Sans répit, mes doigts grattent l’asphalte
Suspendu à un fil
Comme un funambule en équilibre
Et sans filet
C’est le temps des rois
Entre le cerf et le comte
J’ai bien pesé le pour et le contre
Ça ne fait pas le poids
Si maladroit
Ne sais pas quoi faire de mes dix doigts

Rien ne va vraiment changer
Si certain traînent encore les pieds
Nous ne sommes pas des automates programmées
Loin d’êtres éveillés
Je ne suivrais plus le destructeur
Avec ses machines infernales
Son coté séducteur et ses adorateurs
Qui le mettent sur un piédestal 

J’aime pas les dictatures conformistes
Ecrasent les pauvres pour faire des riches
J’préfère les antivax, les complotistes
Peut-être sont-ils avant gardistes ?

Je n’aime pas non plus les militaires
Car ce sont ceux qui font des guerres
Font taire les poètes, les missionnaires
Transforment les pays en misère, depuis des millénaires

Alors suffirait-il de rallumer son cœur ?
Redécouvrir son intérieur
L'ile aux trésor aux multiples couleurs
Pas besoin de chercher ailleurs

Je méditerai sur les collines 
J’irai trouver cette lumière
Celle que la joie illumine
L’immortel contre l’éphémère

La musique est universelle
Rassemble ses enfants auprès d’elle
Elle ne divise pas, elle est fidèle 
Une vibration éternelle

Alors maintenant pour redonner force et courage 
Devrons écrire les plus belles chansons 
Réparer le monde, cet héritage
Ecouter les enfants et leurs supplications
Solidaire , car la terre promise, le paradis, c’est « ici »

Esprit libre - Steph Ouna _ Léna _ Audio Colors

Cast of Characters:

Mahan Mahan -- @mahan-mahan — Mahan — Washburn acoustic guitars, composition
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)–@josh-clary-1 –- vocals, vocal harmonies, lyrics, four string Warwick fretless bass, Collings mandolin, and Korg piano, Roland Phantom VST strings, and arrangement
K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara -–Ken–drums
Llanpsych -- @llanpsych -- Tez – Fender Stratocaster electric guitar
TexMex Shaman–@texmex-shaman –Stephen– Earl Scriggs custom banjo, mix, mastering, and production
Mistermark-- @user-432503709 -- Mark – mellotron cello & strings, sound effects, editing production

This song began with Mahan writing a chord progression on his acoustic guitar in hopes of doing something different than his usual punk influenced raucous experimentation. He shared it with Josh and asked if he'd add some vocals. So Josh came up with the lyrics, vocal melodies, and harmonies. Then Mahan encouraged him to add more parts, so Josh also laid down a piano, mandolin, and bass part to go with it. At that point, it was sounding like a much bigger production than what either of them had accounted for.
That's when Josh got the rest of the Eclectic Collective involved. First in was Ken, who added his awesome drums to the mix. Josh and Ken went back and forth a couple of times, as they usually do when trying to dial in the rhythm section. Tez jumped in next with his dynamic electric guitar solo at the end. Then, Mark added the cool, proggy mellotron strings, too, as well as did some expert editing. At this point, it sounded so big that Josh decided to include some additional synth strings you hear throughout, too.
Once it was in the can, we turned it over to Stephen who not only mixed it brilliantly, but also added a trippy banjo you can hear in the second to last section.
We had so much fun recording this, in no small part because Mahan is such a brilliant and desirable collaborator. He really set us up with some magic, and we ran with it. All of his music is exciting and worth a listen on his page. We hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we enjoyed creating it.

Original lyrics by Josh Clary:

I've been high
And I've been low
Been making plans
For when I go

Time moves by painfully fast
Everything goes and nothing lasts

We're only here for a very short time
You live your life and I'll live mine
Might as well have fun
Might as well go for a run
Hug my kids, my wife, and folks
Before I go x 2

Into forever dreamless sleep
Wish I had a soul to keep
Time’s like water in my hand
Can't stop the clock's
Relentless plans

When it all comes ‘round
I don’t let it get me down
‘Cause in the end,
I won't make a sound
This life is very short
And we're all very small
Everything’s in motion
On this spinning ball
Time flows only one way
I wish it were not so
I’m busy making plans for
When it’s time to go
Take the time to wonder
Make time to wonder
Wonder at it all



Wonder (Eclectic Collective with Mahan Mahan)

dedicated to my sister Cindy (more to com)

During Sophie's last piano lesson I asked her to improvise a track on this piece. ( the mid range strings)  Then she started to improvise more.  I picked a key and told her to keep playing.  She did. She played beautiful music and she realized that she no longer needed music to play.  The light bulb turned on and she smiled.  People who only memorize music will forget it if they don't keep playing it.  When you can improvise in any key, you never forget that. You will always be able to play any time you sit at a piano and have no fear that you won't remember what you knew. it's important to know how to read music and the theory that goes with it,  but if that is all you can do, find a teacher who can teach you improv.  I'm very proud of her.  She has talent. 

Learning Forgiveness - Collab with Sophie

I hope isn't an Omen....

J'espère que ce n'est pas un présage...

Scarlet Dawn

Original composition by Neno J.
Nylon electro-acoustic guitar Cordoba Studio GK, recorded directly using multi effect Hotone Ampero 100.

New Flamenco Improvisation III (For two guitar)

Dear friends in Ukraine
I don't think you feel you can trust old friends!
I'm so sorry about that!
It seems like there are maniacs running big countries in the world!!
President Zelenskyij and the Ukrainian people are heroes! We all must support them and be kind to them. Dear President Trump - You may not abandon Ukraine. They have a hell there. President Putin and his government must be completely out of their minds. They are sooo cruel. How do the Russian people react?? Are they ashamed??

When Friends Abandon

It is hard when friends are abandoning them - they get so sad
Their hearts will break now when companions are leaving them
but we don’t want any maniacs to rule the whole world
we want to have wise folks to rule


It was hard when neighbors attacked their land - they were surprised
They can’t understand what is the reason for this bloody attack
they haden’t done anything nasty which could motivate this assault
the motive was probably a sign of greed


The invadors show signs of megalomania which are severe
it’s very serious and there are paranoic signs as well
but we don’t want any maniacs to rule the whole world
we want to have wise folks to rule

When Friends Abandon (and-Slava Ukrayini) - 2025-03-19 16.03 (Lyrics in English in description)

One of my favourite Soundcloud artists @remnant60 posted a gorgeous track that he left open for collaboration, so I jumped at the chance to try and add something that might fit with his ambient, mystical guitar sound. I settled on some ethereal cello chords (played on keyboard with some pitch bend modulation) and this is the result. I try to recommend listening with headphones when I think it's worth it, and I think it applies in this case.  :)

Check out his playlist where he compiled various other really cool adaptations of his original tune. Thanks Bill for continuing to inspire us with your magic! 

PLAYLIST: Variations On A Dream
https://soundcloud.com/remnant60/sets/variations-on-a-dream

Universal Language (collab with Remnant60)

Cinematic and Orchestral Music
Picture by MarWin55
Franck C Production
Music by Franck Charles
ASCAP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB4QzfTFg8A

Expedition

In Euripides' tragedy 'The Suppliants', a group of Argive mothers travels to Eleusis to plead with Theseus, king of Athens, to help them recover the bodies of their sons, who fell during the failed assault on Thebes. The Thebans, in fact, refuse to return the corpses for burial. These mothers, immersed in profound grief, represent the universal symbol of maternal mourning in the face of the loss of their children in war.

Cover picture: Theseus and Amphitrite with Athena looking on. Interior from an Attic red-figure cup, 500–490 BC. Currently housed at the Louvre Museum of Paris (inventory G 105).

Composed by Michele Ansani (2023-2025).
Female vocals courtesy of VOX.
Posted on SoundCloud: 2025, April 4.

The Suppliants *

Forever Is Forever

The pizzicato opening sets up the tone for the main theme in Eb minor in the viola part. After the lyrical middle section, the pizzicatos return later, from which the theme returns in c# minor in the violin part. It ends on the E chord, which acts as a dominant for the next movement.

String Trio, Second Movement

Impressionist instrumental music that tells stories without words. Each composition has a strong visual and sound imprint, while having a style and instrumentation specific to the atmosphere that the music depicts.

Musique instrumentale impressionniste qui raconte des histoires sans mots.  Chaque composition a une forte empreinte visuelle et sonore, tout en ayant un style et une instrumentation propre à l’atmosphère que la musique dépeint.

Scarlet Dawn

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