Dude … this is top 2% from you … an album track - absolutely no question. Holy sh!t ... amazing!

This is gorgeous! Has a great epic feel. Great production. I love the background "ahhh's." Beautiful piano, beautiful vocals

R&B / Soul

Youthful Mind
Music and Words by Mark Magram
Vocals by Junior

[03:45]
Produced by Mark Magram
©2020 MagramMusic


(Verse 1)
I gave you everything but everything was never much
You didn't notice but I never thought of giving up
Nice clothes nice car anything you need
It wasn't empty I was making you a part of me 

What's mine was yours and yours was mine we were inseparable 
I can't believe that all your love was only fictional 
I gave you took like the IRS 
But all I got from you was words of hate and disrespect 

I kind of wondered in the back of my mind
If you were thinking about creepin one more time 
But I dismissed it cause I couldnt believe you could be so unkind 

(chorus) 
Well Im so glad I stood my ground
And protected all the best of what I am
And I will never let go no never let go 
feels like a weights been lifted 
Im feeling room to breathe and spread my wings again
and I'm never going back.
Cause I'm alive for the first time and I got back my youthful mind this time

(Verse 2)
i left behind the world I knew to share the one you had
I was committed to it all no matter good or bad 
Sacrificed my life my home my time. 
I had no reason not to think that we were doing fine. 

But then as time went on your started acting differently 
Whatever things you put inside you started hitting me 
We used to be everybody's favorite pair 
Till you started acting like you didn't even want me there 

I never wondered never questioned never had a doubt 
Until you shattered everything I ever cared about 
Until you ripped the rug from underneath my feet and went around behind my back and changed my whole reality. 

(chorus) 

(Bridge) 
Fool me once shame on you
fool me twice you and I are through
If it wasn't bad enough you put the blame on me
But it's not like Ididnt know
thats the way it was gonna go all along
I only asked you to give what I gave
how could that be so wrong?

(chorus)

Youthful Mind - Featuring Junior

Finally free
Words and Music by Mark Magram (2021)

(v)
When it all went to hell
I wasn't so innocent
I played my role
The story's been told
No point in retelling it
Can't even cry if I try

(ch)
I'd say I've been broken hearted
But I just went numb when the end of us started
Now I live a new life
And you don't exist

(v)
Could be much worse
Just look at my resume
My long long career
Of living in fear
And self fulfilling Prophecies
That all came to pass

(ch)
I'd say I'm drowning in sorrow
But all I've got left is a better tomorrow
I did my time, I paid my debt
And now I'm finally free

(br)
The color of pain
Washes out in the rain
The more i go through
The less that it stains
And my inner child
Has been dying to come forward
And paint the world
With any color I want to use.

(v)
Fell from great heights
But I'm still alive and well
I played my roles
A new tale unfolds
Wherever it goes
I'm finally in control my hands are on the wheel

(ch)
I'd say I've been broken hearted
But I just went numb when the end of us started
I'd say I'm drowning in sorrow
But all I've got left is a better tomorrow
I did my time I paid my debt
And now I'm finally free

Finally Free

My Younger Dreams
Music and Words by Mark Magram (2021)

(verse 1)
when i …was …just …a kid
i dreamed id find a perfect love
oh yes i did
woke up with emptiness
realized my mind just made her up
what a nasty trick

(chorus 1)
but now 
i see what I had done
way back when I was young
defining my ideals
and everything I wanted to feel
when I found that love for real
ive always had a basis for comparison
cuz I met her in 
my younger dreams

(verse 2)
its not ….so …obvious
that I’d be wiser then
without experience
but heck, in retrospect
when I was in that place
i wasnt jaded by a love misplaced

(chorus 2)
and now
ive been trying for a while
to bring back my inner child
so i can talk to him
and once again
remember what I wanted then
and I’ve
been burned and bruised by life
but i drew a map to reach my destination
cuz I met her in 
my younger dreams

(bridge)
i must have gone astray
between back then and today
life made me cynical
i gave up for dead
but when I was naive
I knew better what I’d need
without the heavy chains I wear around my neck now

(verse 3)
i dug….my…self….a….grave
to burry all my sorrow in
so I can try to redefine what I want 

(chorus 3)
now
and no longer disavow
what my younger self nailed down
in fantasies
I created in my sleep, when she came to me to show me what I want
and what happiness would feel like when it came
i will re-clarify her likeness in my brain
cause I already met her in
my younger dreams

My Younger Dreams

Honesty
Music and Words by Mark Magram (2021)

(v1)
Sometimes love is right before us
But we don't want to see the truth
We do our best to just ignore it
Good friends are always hard to lose

you might assume your heart a liar
too scared to tempt the hand of fate

(ch)
Honesty
doesnt come so easily
when it comes to love we hide the truth
we're afraid to lose
what we dont have, so we hold back

(ch2)
Honesty
can seem like such a trajedy
when a friendship can be torn apart
by a love-sick heart
we get shy, fail to try


(v2)
Sometimes it just comes down to timing
a perfect love can pass you by
we might have grabbed it and embraced it
but felt the risk was just too high


we tend to fear the worst of outcomes
and so we put up our facade


(br)
wouldnt it be so nice
if every time two hearts collide
we gave off signs and signals
we could see with naked eyes
but we're all flying blind
and we cant read each others mind
you wonder just how many times
true love can pass us by

(ch)
(ch2)

Honesty

Uden Titel

Drengens Sang

Dejó pasar días y dejó pasar años, pero no hubo manera de esconder la rabiosa fragilidad de Elena Carat, que se expande desde la primera nota para desatar "El Nudo", el primer single que abre la nueva era de la joven artista y compositora, que brilla como cuando uno encuentra una gema brillante en una esquina en la que casi nadie estaba mirando.

Tras debutar hace más de dos años con "Madrugada" y compaginar sus días entre su carrera solista y ser la vocalista de la banda Patronato, Elena Carat tenía guardado un cancionero brillante, llamado a reescribir la historia de un riot de autor que bebe tanto de PJ Harvey, Feist, Sahron van Etten y Waxahatchee, como con cierta conexión con referentes estatales como Christina Rosenvinge, Tulsa y La Bien Querida.

La primera piedra es esta "El Nudo" con la que inicia una nueva etapa en solitario, a tientas entre el rock alternativo (con aires por momentos noise, por momentos dreamy, por momentos shoegaze), pero siempre con un poso autoril, entre melancólico y rabioso, que le da una fortaleza e identidad a la propuesta y os obliga a seguir muy de cerca a Elena Carat.

La canción, que ha contado con la co-producción de David Baldo (que ha trabajado con artistas de la talla de Aiko el Grupo, Repion, Carlangas o Fee Reega, entre otros) viene acompañada también de un videoclip dirigido por la realizadora Laura Meixús.

Elena Carat - El Nudo

Hand Me Downs

Fever Too High

Written and produced by Oscar Lemmond

Arrangements by:

Colin Bracken - Bass
Jacob Dsouza - Guitar & Vocals
Oscar Lemmond - Guitar & Vocals
Nikhil Soares - Drums

Recorded at Dreamhouse Studios:

Calvin Hartwick - Lead Engineer
Jeri Haylor - Engineer
Corbin Mendell - Engineer

Additional recording by The Harriets at home. 

Almost Gone

Aarktica's 10th studio album merges transcendent atmospheres with darkly danceable rhythms,
expansive analog synths and layers of tape-echo guitars. The result is an immersive sound that pays homage to classic darkwave and art-rock, with hypnotic ambience and a lyrical embrace of the bittersweet.

Purchase on Bandcamp

Destination Paradise

Original music & lyrics: Rob van Berlo
AI production assistant: Rob van Berlo
Cover art: Rob van Berlo

This album is a scam. Or isn't it?

In 1992 and 1993 (as a 22 yr old) I recorded a lot of my own songs on cassette. Just me, my acoustic guitar, bass, and sometimes percussion or even borrowed drums. In my head, the songs sounded like the indie guitar bands and the grungy vibe that was in fashion at the time. Most of these tracks were left unfinished, apart from a few re-recordings and later releases.

Now, AI technology makes it possible for these songs to finally sound the way I roughly imagined them back then. Complemented by two songs I wrote in 2013 (at 44). All song structures, melodies and riffs are mine. AI just gave them a new skin. Sometimes it sounds like the band I never had in '93; other times it feels like a modern reinterpretation of that era’s sound. And I love it. Although it’s also a little frightening.

The songs were once sung by a younger me, but this time I let a woman’s voice carry them. I love the contrast: understated, emotionally contained vocals against harder sounds.

These 90's songs, together with the two later pieces (Day Upon Day, Red Moon) form a bridge between who I was and who I’ve become.

This project isn’t a gimmick. It started with curiosity. But turned out to be a conversation between eras. I fed an unfinished past into the system, and what came out feels both intimately human and eerily pristine. That friction between artefact and upgrade is where Repetition Is a Sound finds its soul.

For me it feels like the songs finally found their balance. Like a dialogue between presence and distance, noise and tenderness. Red versus Blue.

Some song snippets of the original 1993 demo are bonus track on Bandcamp: https://redvsblue.bandcamp.com/track/bonus-sketches-93-demo-snippets-2

Red vs Blue: Circle

LYRICS

[Verse 1]
Stop
Wait a minute
What could it be
Another visit?
It’s no good
But I listen
You’ve packed your bags
And moved into my mind
Fall into line
It’s by design
Time after time
You’ll find

[Chorus]
She calls ‘round three
But it’s all the same
Load me up, laundry
She doesn’t even know his name
Oh, haunt me
He got too close and he burnt his hand
But who lit the flame?
(You lit the flame)
I can’t go on
It’s all the same

[Verse 2]
Girl don’t tell me that I’m acting too sweet
(I'm acting too sweet)
That’s just how my mama raised me
(How she raised me)
I’ve got the door and I’ll be sure to pull out your seat
Spin you ‘round
Dvd

[Pre-Chorus]
I wanna hold your heart ‘till it’s mine
So I’ll hold on tight
You’re holding on for the night

[Chorus]
She calls ‘round three
But it’s all the same
Load me up, laundry
She doesn’t even know his name
Oh, haunt me
He got too close and he burnt his hand
But who lit the flame?
(You lit the flame)
I can’t go on
It’s all the same

[Outro]
Another cycle of laundry
Leave me out to dry, laundry
It’s just the way you taunt me
That’s got me folding like laundry

Laundry

A song about someone who takes work and school too seriously that they slip away from the purpose of life

What You Wanna Do Radio Edit

OLDER

I Can Feel It
Music and Words by Mark Magram
Performed by Ray Prim
Bass - Ethan Magram
Guitars - Aaron Magram

[05:12]
Produced by Mark Magram
©2020 MagramMusic

I just emerged from a deep dark place yet another time
but I persevered 
and yes I'm still here

Took some time for me to realize that I'm doin just fine
and I'll make it through
its what I always do

When things hit bottom that's when I tend to really respond
sometimes I dont even know how I do

but I can feel it
my time is finally here
I can feel it
I know that there are better days to come
cause I'll make em that way myself.

(vamp for 4 measures)

For some reason I look for help in family and friends
and theyre always great
they help carry the weight.

but in the end there's only one person on whom I can depend
and that person is me
think by now I would see

all your friends and your family will tell you what you want to hear
cause they love you and thats what they want you to feel

but only you can make you feel it
my day is finally here
I can feel it
all the clouds have dissappeared
I can feel it
I have crawled out from my hell
I can feel it
I know that there are better days ahead
cause I'll make em that way myself.

[Bridge]
I just need to have a little faith
Just look how far I've come
I've done it on my own


Well I can feel it
My Time has finally come
And I can feel it
I can see how far I've come
I can feel it
I know what I can do
I can feel it
I know that there are brighter days ahead
because I'll make em that way myself.

mmm mm mm
Just look at how well I've done so far....so far
Look at how far I've come so far....so far
mmmmm

I Can Feel It - Featuring Ray Prim

We Made the World
Music By Casie Luong and Mark Magram
Words by Casie Luong

We used to be a masterpiece, 

But now we hanging in abandoned malls, on the walls

When the love was strong 

They came to see us, photographs that made the people talk, off the walls


Everything I do, swimming being used, acting like a fool 

Don’t matter when it comes to you, 

Everytime they stare, l lose my freaking air, forget the world 

I swear, why it always come back to you


All the simple things, 

Made the world so easy 

I just call you up and you’re with me, you come with me

All the simple things, 

Was safe and easy, when you’re with me 


Well our story lives beyond a trace 

We’re like the kid who flew to outer space, unafraid

Can’t get enough of heartache pain, I trade it in for lidocaine

And pray, pray it’s ok 


All the simple things, 

Made the world so easy 

I just call you up and you’re with me, you come with me, baby

All the simple things, 

It was safe and easy, when you’re with me, it’s so holy no worries babe

When you’re with me, it’s so easy baby 

We made the world so easy

Finally Free

Mark Magram

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