Genius lyrics & soundscape! Incredible vocals...So warming & inviting!! LOVE your sound chemistry, Maddie! You are a GEM! ;)

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Love the sound and feel of the song...    good work!

Recorded and mixed in Jeskola Buzz Tracker ...

Buzztler_Southamerica_(StonesWannabe)

“Sweet Bitterness” was written while I was in my winter funk. I characterize that with a lack of motivation, longing for happier times, and just an overall feeling of wanting to escape to a different place. With this song, the desire to look at life like when you were a child is the most prominent source of inspiration. It’s the feeling of getting excited over the smallest things as a kid, and not experiencing that same amount of joy in current moments. I wanted to capture that feeling of insecurity in the lyrics, and the innocence of the old memories in the music. The hitting line in the song is “I wanna feel alive”, which encompasses the entire meaning of the song. I co-produced this song with Michael Jack, and worked with some other amazing musicians to create this song, and I’m glad it could come alive the way it did, and make me feel alive while watching it develop!

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Sweet Bitterness

Minimalistic piano

https://industrial-1.bandcamp.com/track/edit

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Hi,
So, as life is busy and my studio room is being rebuilt, I found myself rummaging through my archives and found another interesting bit - this is still a 4-track, I think it's from 1999, I seemed to have been on a real mental groove.

I threw some neat VSTs on the tracks to give it a slightly modernized feel, hope you enjoy.

Spirit Lifter

A children's fairy tale as a name giver? One might have expected that from economists, but from astrophysicists? Well, they were also inspired by economists when it came to finding a catchy, symbolic replacement for the term habitable zone. This is the name given to the area around a star in which life could arise on possible planets.


Very roughly speaking, the distance to the star must allow temperatures at which water remains liquid on the surface of a planet. According to the ideas of terrestrial biology, life cannot develop without this.

For decades, this was a rather theoretical consideration. The few scholars who thought about habitats in other star systems first spoke of ecosphere or life zone, until they finally agreed on habitable zone. Sounds nicely learned. But with the discovery of the first exoplanets, planets outside our solar system, at the end of the millennium, academic as well as general attention increased enormously: Is there something out there? Is there distant, alien life? Could there be? With each newly discovered exoplanet is meaningfully tapped: Isn't it so close to its star that it burns up everything? Doesn't it orbit it so far that everything freezes on its surface?

It's like in a fairy tale with Goldilocks and the three bears, where everything has to be just right. The porridge must not be too hot, the little bear's chair undamaged, his bed unused. Economists have long spoken of a goldilocks economy when moderate growth coincides with slight inflation. A fairy-tale term - now also for an astrobiological concept.

Brevity Of Life (Goldilocks)

I keep a box 
and you can bet I keep it locked 
nightmares stuffed inside 
and 
I refuse to pay it any mind 
cause I know it’s all tangled and untame 
       So I refrain 
           yea       I refrain 

Ripples running cross the surface 
being chased
at any moment 
I’m capsized and rolling over 
and you know I want to blame the wave 
       the anger and the flame 
A fire in my belly
Lightening in my veins

Then I feel the shame 
       yea I feel the shame
so I put it all away 

In a box
I keep 
Buried at my feet 
all tangled and untame 

Yea
I feel the anger and the flame 
Fire in my belly 
Lightening in my veins

you know 
gotta put it back again

I Refrain (amped)

whenourulersgointohiding

Q-The Island of Dr. Moog

This simple piece is based on a piano tune I originally wrote in 1994. I've modified it a bit and added a second instrument, but it wouldn't let me do more than that.

Spitfire Audio's BBC Symphony Orchestra Core and XLN Audio's Addictive Keys Studio Grand Piano

Before This, Beyond That

Dance In The Dust

Mahalo Daze

Some New Kind Of Kick (Cramps Cover)

Madison's unique sound and style has captured the hearts of those that have been watching her grow online over the past 8 years, as well as those that catch her live shows, up-close and personal.
Madison grew up in the heart of Barrie, Ontario, which has been a hub for art and music for the past 15 years or more, which she has contributed to for most of her musical journey. Whether it be teaching piano and vocals for the past six years, playing at local bars and venues, or out busking downtown during the summer months, Madison is very involved in making her presence known locally. She has been working with a Canadian Co-Operative called OMCI for the past three years, learning, and now teaching the ins and outs of the music industry to aspiring musicians and artists. Her love for her community and those within it brought her to receiving the Emerging Artist Award at the Barrie Arts Awards in 2019.

Since 2016, Madison has been releasing music on all the major streaming platforms. Her first single, “Who Am I?” began to gain online and FM radio-play after it’s release, and since then she has been consistently putting out new music each year that has been receiving the same accolades and traction across many different countries around the world.

Since her first release, Madison has given her fans five other singles, several of which have been nominated for different independent award shows, and has also topped the charts on several online radio stations! Madison began gaining more of a presence in the industry when she began to travel to different places to propel her career forward! She attended Judy Stakee Songwriting Retreat in Nashville, Tennessee in 2017, and then in 2018 she was a feature performer at the Millenium Music Conference in Pennsylvania. One of her most influential trips was to the Josie Music Awards in Tennessee, coined as the largest independent awards show in the world. In 2018, she won Young Adult Artist of the Year, and in 2019 she took home Pop/Contemporary Rising Star of the Year. In 2019, she also attended the International Singer-Songwriter Awards in Atlanta, where she performed at the after show, and took home the award for International Female Rising Star of the Year; and in 2020 she won International Young Adult Artist of the Year, as well as the International Silver Music Video of the Year for her song “Exhale”! Her most recent trip to the United States was to record her song “Too Nice”, which was produced in Pennsylvania with Andrew Chervak from MIDNIGHT STUDIOS.

While she has garnered quite a bit of attention from these accomplishments, you wouldn’t know it from the young artist. Her ability to remain genuine and humble throughout all her successes is some of what keeps people coming back to see what else the songwriter is achieving. Her music, with storytelling and vocals that remind people of Joni Mitchell, mixed with a modern pop/rock flare, appeal to many different groups of people. Her goal is to allow her audience the ability to relate and see themselves in her songs, no matter the age or demographic.

With a lively personality, ability to experiment, and talent for songwriting, Madison Mueller is an up and coming artist that you’ll want to keep your eyes on.

Sweet Bitterness

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