Gathering tracks for my next Capel/80s album, Return to Aloha. 
Release Date: 07/14/19

Return to Aloha

Just today's warmup! Haven't posted/finished one in ages.

Warmup 8/7/18

Artwork by @TunesofDusky
Alternate take on https://soundcloud.com/leila-wilson-woofle/swimming-through-the-dark-early-wip This is much closer to the original idea I had in my mind for the song than what came out before.
I actually like this one a lot better, too, but as with most tracks on Capel albums, there'll be multiple versions of this one anyway. :V  I'm slowly but surely chipping away at The Bad Friend (my next album) along with the next Capel album (where this song and its partner will live!) I'll be working more on those after I finish up the book-related projects.

Swimming Through The Dark [Night]

After like, 4 albums, Capel finally gets her own theme on Return to Aloha. It's a lot sadder than those who've been keeping up with her narrative might expect, but there's a lot about her that hasn't come to light yet.
Enjoy!

Lost Girl

Last upload for today!  Art is by Dusky!
This is another track from the next album I'm working on -- Return to Aloha. It's a sequel to a series of other albums I've had going on since around 2014 or so. Fans of that particular series might recognize this tune!

Colony - Afternoon

Uploading on hotel internet, so we'll see how this goes... Also, art's by Renz! 
This is another of the "battle" themes from my upcoming album Return to Aloha (one of the Capel albums, a story about a laser-staff wielding space-monster nurse.) This one covers conflicts less emotional than https://soundcloud.com/leila-wilson-woofle/clouded-moonlit-rendezvous . I guess you could call it the standard battle theme if all the Capel albums were a game's storyline.
Which is totally not something I've been poking at.

Evenhanded Rendezvouz

Another updated track from the Adventures of Capel's earlier albums. I'll likely be including this one on the Return to Aloha album due out sometime in Spring as a bonus track or something. Includes the leitmotif from Technology (as does most of the AoC series, now that I think about it. <_>; )
Art's by Dusky!

C-O-R-E-2

Another track from Return to Aloha. Have I mentioned  the setting those albums take place in has space dragons? It has space dragons.
They don't like noise and light and often will eat ships, or waltz into massive ship battles and wreck both sides of the conflict. Nobody knows how to kill them, or even hurt them.  All over the galaxy are ruins of an ancient civilization that worshiped them. No one knows how this civilization traveled between stars or anything. Sometimes these ruins even pop up on moons. Capel's first experience with the ruins was on her first stay on Aloha, and they made her feel uncomfortable for reasons she couldn't and still doesn't understand.

Interstellar Dragons

Another track from my upcoming album, Return to Aloha. This is one of the themes for Capel (the protagonist)'s home apartment on Planet Aloha. As with many song on this album, it's based off of songs from the very first Capel album from all the way back in 2014! There's a few parts of it I'm not 100% happy with, but for the most part, I think I'm satisfied. Sister song to this one; https://soundcloud.com/leila-wilson-woofle/rezdisk Enjoy!

Hab Block 2A

'nother track from my upcoming album, Return to Aloha. This one focuses on Capel's many motorized excursions into the deserts of Aloha. I've been plodding away on it between many, many other things. One of those, and the most important right now is that my book is finally out. Give it a looksee!  https://www.goalpublications.com/store/p43/symphony-of-shifting-tides-print.html

Desert _3C [Day]

Another song from my upcoming album Return to Aloha (which I'll probably be releasing alongside The Bad Friend, later on this spring.)
This song may be familiar to those familiar with my work. It's an alternate take on this tune from Elancia Chronicles: https://soundcloud.com/leila-wilson-woofle/heroism?in=leila-wilson-woofle/sets/elancia-chronicles-order-of-1  Which, let's face it, was already really 80s! I decided to go for a feeling a bit closer to 80s anime rather than just straight up 80s for this rendition.
Got some fun stuff like a collaboration in the pipeline, so stay tuned. Work's a bit slow for a little while.

Go Forth Hero Capel! 1B

Another track from my upcoming album Return to Aloha. Part of the album is all about redoing tracks from the first album in the series to a style that fits in with the newer albums in the series.  This one was honestly one of the hardest to figure out what to do with! I'm happy with the result, though. Keen listeners or long time listeners might notice the instruments from Night Talk (Nightbridge) and the melody from Lost Girl (Return to Aloha) which was a reprise of Night Talk. The song ends with Lost Girl and Night Talk, before it dissipates into the stars.
For those with a passing interest in the 'lore' behind the albums, this is the love theme for Capel (the derpy medic protag) and her on-again-off-again love interest, Haze. An ex-pilot turned junker. I hope things can work out for them someday.

When I Met You (I wasn't Scared Anymore)

Sorry for the long delay between uploads! I haven't been able to work on much music that I'm currently able to share. Other than this, and one Elancia track, I've not had much time for my own stuff. Hopefully you all enjoy this track from Return to Aloha though! Longtime fans will recognize it as the first medbay theme from the Capelspace/whatever i'm going to call it series of albums. There was a lot of things I wanted to try with this song since its original draft, and I'm pretty happy with the result! Capel spends more time dancing to the waiting room music than working during her night shifts because hardly anyone checks into medbay during those times.

Medbay - Night

More Return to Aloha stuff! I'd say the album's finally nearing completion. This one, like many of the other tracks on the album is a re-do of a track from the first album. Engineering gets two themes, although this particular theme is more specifically for one engineer rather than the department as a whole, for those who care about the lore of this series of albums.  Anyway, rambling aside, some folks might recognize bits of this from Strut The Mall, which is a partial reprise of it.

Haze Does Work

'nother track from Return to Aloha! I think I'm going to have to split the album in half at this rate. It's reaching Shifting Tides sizes!
This track is exactly what it says on the tin. Capel's off to play around in the rain with flowers, and get swarmed by butterflies. #Justspacemonsterthings

Capel Play with Flowers and Rain

So I've been binging a lot of 80s anime with my sister for inspiration on Return to Aloha (my next 80s album!!) It's been working out pretty well so far.  Bubblegum Crisis/Crash/AD Police have all been pretty inspiring, as has Macross!
The result here is a fusion of the sounds from those shows, especially AD Police and Macross for this one.  Big thanks to The Ghost Mall for his informative videos on VSTs! I picked up a fresh one (KORG Polysix!) due to them. Also used this song to test out the Roland SoundcanvasVA. Enjoy!

Advanced Federation Police

Return to Aloha is about 80% done now. This track here is a reprise of the Cafeteria theme from the original Planet Aloha album.  Now it's been extended to not just be the cafeteria, but also the rec center. Colony members need a place to unwind, exercise, and play handball or swim laps, after all! 
There's all sorts of weird disparate elements in this one, but I feel it's mostly cohesive! Enjoy!

With My Friends

From my upcoming album, Return to Aloha. This is a reprise of the bar theme from the very first Aloha album. I wanted it to sound like one of those crazy/fun 80s party songs. It took forever to find an organ to fit that sound... but it was worth it!

Bar Party_1D

Another track from my upcoming album, Return to Aloha! This one's a reprise of the early AM colony track from the very first album. I had to do a lot more chicanery to this file than I did to the one of the bar song, for sure. I think it was worth it though. It was fun working with triplet notes, which I felt I hadn't done enough (read: at all) in the Capelspace albums. The influences here are probably very, very obvious. Enjoy!

Colony - Early AM

Another track from Return to Aloha (release date's now looking like June, because I want this album to really be worth you guys' time!)
The album deals a lot with the difficult social navigation one must do to make and keep friends. For someone like Capel it's twice as hard, because she's a fish with a dog brain and the only things she's good at are medical science, driving, and bashing stuff with her staff or pumping it full of bullets. Great talents, but none of them are social.

Then again, it's pretty hard for all of us, I think, even if we don't realize it sometimes. This song is about when it goes right.
ALSO I SCREWED UP THE FADEOUT ;~; I'll fix that on the album version.

Friend(Space)ship

This one was interesting... I wanted to fuse the sound of an RPG song (read: I've been marathoning the hell out of the Suikoden series again,) with the 80s sounds of Capelspace (since this song is from Return to  Aloha.) In the end, I'm pretty happy with it, even though it's a lot different than the rest of the album! This is the song for when Capel and her friends (or whoever is unlucky enough to be roped into one of her misadventures) explore caves.
Keen listeners will recognize this one from the original Planet Aloha album.

Caver

Composer for Star Buster, Miasma Caves, Leilani's Island, Freedom Planet 1 and 2, HardSpeed and tons more.
Freelance game composer, author and semi-professional race car driver from the west coast. I've been in the game music business for around 10 years.  I have two major projects (HardSpeed: Synthpop/80s) and Elancia (JRPG styled music.)

Return to Aloha

Leilani Wilson