I see your latest stuff is very danceable. I think you found your calling. Mahon at the table.

Dammit spellcheck changed your name from Mahan to Mahon. Yo watch your hand

this composition makes us revisit the disco in a great way!

the way you revisit the disco is totally stimulating and great!

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Y tú no estás aquí

Copyright 2025 Joe Stroffolino 
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Vocals, Strumming and picking tracks (Taylor 114ce): Joe Stroffolino
Additional Picking Track: Native Instruments Sunburst Guitar
Bass, Drums and Keys: Toontrack EZ Bass, EZ drummer and EZ Keys
Fiddle: PG Music Real track (viola)
Recorded using Logic Pro 11 and mastered with Ozone 11
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All those times when you tried to play at the at top of your game
lately your enthusiasm’s starting to wane
You’ve been trying so hard to re-ignite that fire in your belly
lately your resolve, it’s turning into jelly 
You've been trying to be the best that you can be
but maybe you’ve been barking up the wrong tree
if your Spidey sense starts to tingle, maybe it’s a sign 
that you should open up the curtains and let in some sunshine
Sometimes you need to listen to your inner voice
Every morning that you wake up you still have a choice 
You’ve been swinging for a home run, but you can’t even seem to get to first base
You feel stuck like a rat in a race, like one of those monkey’s they shot into outer space
There’s days when it feels like you’re hanging by the end of your rope
And you struggling so hard to find a solution so you can cope
if your Spidey sense starts to tingle, maybe it’s a sign 
that you should open up the curtains and let in some sunshine
Sometimes you need to listen to your inner voice
Every morning that you wake up you still have a choice 
You try to make it through each day and sometimes you feel like the missing link
White knuckling your way through all the changes, trying not to be the first to blink
People doing things fast with AI that you're sure would take you several weeks
But you swear you’re going keep doing things the old-fashioned way with your luddite techniques
Your life is like a river that’s constantly flowing, 
You get swept along by the current You’re never sure where it’s going
Sometimes it feels like you’re playing a game of musical chairs
You’re afraid that when the music stops, you’ll be the one whose left standing there

If your Spidey sense starts to tingle, maybe it’s a sign 
that you should open up the curtains and let in some sunshine
Sometimes you need to listen to your inner voice
Every morning that you wake up you still have a choice

All Those Times

MELOMANIAC

Composed in 2017.

Remastered in April 2025.

The people I follow know that sooner or later I'll visit their SC page to listen to their compositions. It's a ritual I do 4-5 times a year. And when I say listen... I mean really listen.

I do it because I like certain styles. Other times it's the technique. Other times it's the composition. Other times... simply to learn.
The truth is that music, as an element of communication, tells me a lot about the creator's intention, how it interprets certain themes, and even conveys a certain profile of the composer himself.

It's hard to explain, but it's as I say.

This composition is introspective and brings together some of my favorite styles, such as melodic, rock, and electronic.

I named it this because it corresponds to a period when my listening became more pronounced and I didn't have anyone to listen to me at the time.

It's certainly a strange composition, especially because of certain percussion sections (understood as self-criticism).

I will be grateful for your comments, as always.

Thank you for your time.

Paco

MELOMANIAC

21 tracks, MS2 native instruments and Forun Xewton
4 tracks, KV331 Synthmaster
DAW
Music Studio 2
Hardware
iPad
Mixer
My car perfectly parked.
Photo: My current complete music creation setup: iPad 7 and Sennheiser HD569 headphones

Next composition: flowers

Melomaniac

Just an old man getting crazy with his looper pedal

Do Like You Wanna Do

Many years ago I was in a bar out in the Mid West of the US and I fight broke out... It was weird coz it seemed like I was watching a real life film... lot of over weight 'chaps' swinging fists and kicking out like donkeys.  a very funny thing to behold. Anyway I wrote this track and am working on an album to go with it.  'The Buckled Wheel Inn'.

More Beer, One More Fight

Gosh Darn Cool As Heck

Brian Butts - Guitar, Drums, Bass, Keyboards, Master Mix
Robert Grigg - Guitar https://soundcloud.com/robert-grigg?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Image Generated by http://hotpot.ai

Apotropaic

Bandcamp

Fever & Humidity (feat. Robert Grigg)

Bid me to live, and I will live
Thy protestant to be;
Or bid me love, and I will give
A loving heart to thee.

A heart as soft, a heart as kind,
A heart as sound and free,
As in the whole world thou canst find,
That heart I'll give to thee.

Bid that heart stay, and it will stay,
To honour thy decree;
Or bid it languish quite away,
And 't shall do so for thee.

Bid me to weep, and I will weep,
While I have eyes to see;
And having none, yet I will keep
A heart to weep for thee.

Bid me despair, and I'll despair,
Under that cypress tree;
Or bid me die, and I will dare
E'en death, to die for thee.

Thou art my life, my love, my heart,
The very eyes of me;
And hast command of every part,
To live and die for thee.



To Anthea , who may Command him Anything (A poem by Robert Herrick)

I'VE BEEN UP I'VE BEEN DOWN
I'VE BEEN FOOLING ALL AROUND
FROM THE TOP OF THE WORLD TO THE GROUND

I'VE BEEN SEEN WITH NO SOUND
A HAS BEEN NOWHERE BOUND
I'VE BEEN LOST AND BABY I'VE BEEN FOUND

I'VE BEEN UP I'VE BEEN DOWN
I'VE BEEN FOOLING ALL AROUND
FROM THE TOP OF THE WORLD TO THE GROUND

I'VE BEEN UP I'VE BEEN DOWN
I'VE BEEN FOOLING ALL AROUND
FROM THE TOP OF THE WORLD TO THE GROUND

I'VE BEEN SEEN WITH NO SOUND
SHUFFLING WIND NOWHERE BOUND
I'VE BEEN LOST AND BABY I'VE BEEN FOUND

ONCE A KING TWICE A CLOWN
I'VE BEEN SNEAKING AROUND
FROM THE TOP OF THE WORLD TO THE GROUND

WHISPERING TO THE WIND 
LOVELY SWEET LITTLE NOTHINGS
SOMETIMES LOVE IS A SOLITARY THING

I'VE BEEN UP I'VE BEEN DOWN
I'VE BEEN FOOLING ALL AROUND
FROM THE TOP OF THE WORLD TO THE GROUND





I'VE BEEN UP (Lyrics)

Recording sessions from 21-02-2024 - 15-07-2025.
presets, mixing, processing and editing: Pier WILL.
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- Made with MOOG & Modular / Multi-tracks / Without AI / No samples
- Composed, arranged, performed, produced by Pier WILL & Studio 4H09
- Artwork - Pier WILL- Gustave Moreau (Oedipus and the Sphinx)
- Acknowledgements - Ableton, AKG, Arturia, Audacity, Cantabile, Focusrite, 
  Korg, M-Audio, MSI, Sony, SoundCloud, Teac, Techniks, Yamaha.
________________________________________________________________________

Under the Wings of the Sphinx-1

"God's dead" of Selective Mind will be re-released on Spotify on Aug. 24, 2023.
Listen to the best sound quality on Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/artist/6awg4DWzR5DGAtneoNxMT8
Listen to the best sound quality on Apple Music
https://music.apple.com/us/artist/1517620124
(24 bit WAV files of my songs are forced to downgrade to mp3's minimum 128kbps on SoundCloud steaming)

This song was originally composed for Yasser Arafat in 2003.

"Sound is creature."

We've synthesized almost sounds by ourselves.
And we don't use any preset sounds.

God's dead? There's no heaven. Prayers forsaken.
God's dead? Believers, prayers forsaken.
Holy place, now destroyed, compromise never seen.
Clear sky turning red. Living fire never ends.
In front of your eye, the earth burns.
Face of distress clouds the sky above.
In the light no human race. Into blackness we fade.
In the fire still all of us, endlessly burn.
In the shadow, the mirror reflected remembrance.
We all fall bleeding in the final blow.
God's dead? There's no heaven. Prayers forsaken.
God's dead? Believers, prayers forsaken.
Both leaders getting old losing sight of peace.
Incoherence no one cares. Misery never rests.
State of siege and the forces are here
Chains of violence dry up our tears

Save Gaza 5. God's Dead (2023) / Selective Mind

空虚な闇 Empty darkness

For you by Aniello Guerra

Zendegi Ghashangeh ~ زندگی‌ قشنگه

Music by Mahan Mahan

Dedicated to all you "Ello, Goo'bye, Get on the Dance Floor" junkies.
Languages spoken in the song:  in the order of appearance: Persian (Parsi dialect,) English (American,) German (Bavarian,) Korean (South dialect) & Spanish (Castilian.)

All samples used with implied permissions & good intentions including but not limited to:

http://www.freesound.org/people/cajo/sounds/47035/
http://www.freesound.org/people/Corsica_S/sounds/66788/
http://www.freesound.org/people/bmoreno/sounds/145223/
http://www.freesound.org/people/zeshoog/sounds/60058/

Recorded and Mastered at Pahlavi Sound Studios in Mama Shadi's basement, Los Angeles, California, USA 09/2019

Zendegi Ghashangeh (Life is Beautiful) زندگی‌ قشنگه

Uploaded with AudioShare app - http://kymatica.com/audioshare

Savannah Grass

Psychedelic Journey'ers and electronic music lovers (mostly Psytrance, deep, ethnic and progressive house, Techno / Minimal Techno, Psybient / Psychill and also quite into certain types of Hip Hop and Rap) 

Music by Fley Jey (Johannes Fl), Spaceschneider (Carlo Ro) & Psymaen ('Man Sy'), Cover Artwork and Visual arts by Psymaen & Spaceschneider or as attributed in description of individual track. 

Also visit https://soundcloud.com/rogalist-records

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I'm a counter-clock wise guy when the speed does me in,
Right from the get go, I'm mad till the end...

I'm mean, lean, cruel, obscene... Not only am I Elvis, I'm also James Dean.

ღahan 💀 ღahan, the bass player of the not-so-legendary Los Angeles based grunge band of the 1990's "Toxic Daisies" nowadays spends his time writing jingles for commercials never aired for products never sold in stores. Aside from the jingles, he also collaborates with other musicians and artists and produces musical tracks and posts them on SoundCloud. Long time sufferer of ADHD and a born-again atheist, he... (due to a sudden loss of interest, this bio has been left incomplete...!)

I ♡ Audiobake 




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...Namas`cray (the crazy in me recognizes and respects the crazy in you)

Zendegi Ghashangeh (Life is Beautiful) زندگی‌ قشنگه

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