A new Synthpop track featuring the great Nigerian vocalist OloriAfrica - Music/Lyrics and Production by Kevin Bird

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OloriAfrica - Changing World

Notification
Bass and Mastering: Paploviante
https://soundcloud.com/paul-racle
Piano: Jeff Lorber
Sax : Jack Stafford
Tenor Sax: Keenlyside
Guitar: Jack Pearson
Vocals: Sophia and James
 www.Ghosthack.de
Lillithe: Mix, Arrangement, Production

NOTIFICATION  (Collab LIllithe & Paploviante)

Roland Effektgeräte-Test2 (summer feeling)

Rock with

#World #Festival #Saudade #Nights #Nova #Salsa #EDM #Dance #Latin

💃 Saudade Nights 🕺

Hanging On

The Ashoka Moment

Intro provided by Dr. Suneel Dhand ==> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Jt2CCNiW8&t=80s The following lines, many taken from the many fine comments in response to the above eye-opening video presentation.

BIG PHARMA, USA
Turn on the TV it’s an inundation
Turn on the TV it’s an abomi-Nation
Big Pharma, USA

A healthy patient is a lost customer
A healthy patient is a lost customer
That’s the American way

CHORUS
Work, pay your taxes, eat the garbage, take your meds
Work, pay your taxes, eat the garbage, take your meds
By the time you wake up, Devil’s made your bed

The cure’s always coming but never gets here
The cure’s always coming but never gets here
You can’t disregard the irony

You wanna know who controls this country
You wanna know who really controls this country
Hindsight is 2020, oh

CHORUS
Work, pay your taxes, eat the garbage, take your meds
Work, pay your taxes, eat the garbage, take your meds
By the time you wake up, Devil’s made your bed

[Music]

CHORUS
Work, pay your taxes, eat the garbage, take your meds
Work, pay your taxes, eat the garbage, take your meds
By the time you wake up, find yourself dead! 

They tell ya stay out ‘a the sun, eat less salt and fat
They tell ya stay out ‘a the sun, eat less salt and fat
Can’t get anymore backward than that, you got to..

CHORUS
Work, pay your taxes, eat the garbage, take your meds
Work, pay your taxes, eat the garbage, take your meds
By the time you wake up, Devil’s made your bed


Turn on the TV it’s an inundation
Turn on the TV it’s an abomi-Nation
Big Pharma, J00-$-A.. hey-hey-hey!

© 2025 Renee La Chapelle  - All Rights Reserved

BIG PHARMA, USA

If anyone is actually interested..... recording notes: 
- This was dumped from Logic onto a lightly used TDK-SA90 cassette from 85 or 86 before being dumped back into Logic for mastering. It is not a fully analog production and I am not claiming it to be. Dropouts/overload/etc are desired. Just wanted tape sound and went this route rather than using a plugin. This is probably best listened to on headphones for the full effect. Lot of things panning around, etc. 

- "Vlideliot" was split up into two tracks for the E.P. This gives the listener options.... I realize the intro is maybe three hours too long..... The single version is just one track. 

-There is a hidden track on the Bandcamp version. Perhaps not safe for work. It's a bunch of vocal tracks arguing. If I put it here it would not be hidden. In fact, forget I said anything. There is no hidden track.

1. Vlideliot (Part 1)
2. Vlideliot (Part 2)
3. Renemesaclont
4. Tregloth's Path
5. Tregloth

Personnel:
Jason: Guitar,bass,drum pads/programming,vocals,field recordings, tape machine, lawnmower, production.
Thanks.

"Tregloth" (Full E.P.)

Angel in me

My music reflects my real-life journey, every struggle, every victory, every emotion. I write from the heart so others can feel what I’ve lived.

Love Me More

cloudy days

“We Ain’t Shit (Part B)” is where the smoke settles — and the truth hits. Lyra Noel slows it down, exposing the guilt, the silence, and the scars left after the games. It’s darker, smoother, and more honest — where confidence meets confession.

This part of the story shows the aftermath: the late-night texts, the what-ifs, and the realization that sometimes, both hearts were wrong. Trap R&B meets soulful storytelling as Lyra flips pain into power and turns vulnerability into art.

shits complicated (1)

After our first collaboration - https://soundcloud.com/markjbennett/set-me-down-that-road-rplanesmjbennett - Rodolfo offered me a challenge in the form of a decades old song (in a folk/pop style, complete with tape hiss) that he was updating with a platform that is closer to R&B and my task was to come up with a new lyric. This original break-up song had an air of a happy ending to it, though initially I chose to write something less optimistic… however it became clear that with the new arrangement my words had to match the original mood. The added bonus to this is that I now have another break-up song lyric available for the future.
Singing a song that had already existed in another form meant that I had to find a very personal interpretation in order to make it truly mine. A huge thanks to Rodolfo for sharing his inspiring music with me.
Music: Rodolfo Planes (https://soundcloud.com/rplanes)
Lyrics: Mark J Bennett & Javier Rolando
Arrangements: Rodolfo & Mark
Engineering Support: Ruben Nievas (https://soundcloud.com/rbn-4)
Image (Caithness, Scotland): Courtesy of Douglas Corrance (https://www.facebook.com/DouglasCorrancePhotographer/)

I don't know what I've done wrong?
I don't know why you have gone?
Though I hope some day,
When I whisper your name,
We'll be together.
But today's too soon.
When I think of you, I dream.
Yet still, I'm a stranger,
Yet still, I'm a stranger in your heart.

Sometimes I feel like a fool.
Never knowing whether you'll,
Give me hope some day,
Still I call your name.
We'll be together.
Is today too soon?
When I think of you, I dream.
No longer a stranger,
No longer a stranger in your heart.

A Stranger In Your Heart (Rodolfo Planes/MarkJBennett)

Lillithe: Arrangement, Mix and Production
Vocal : www.Ghosthack.de
Lyrics:
Too many times
Did i sit here and cry
After  the lies
Can we say our goodbyes
Why are you playin
I'm tired of saying
You took it all
When you walked out on me
You're from the city
I'm from the sticks
You were so pretty
But you made love a bitch
Just go 
Take it all with you
Moonlight 
On the morning dew
I'm so sick and tired 
Of messin around
Of mucking it up
Every time that i'm down
I’m so sick and tired 
Of running away
I must be in love
Won’t you just stay

So Sick and Tired Messing Around (Mastering Paploviante)

Head in the clouds but it's ice cold / Paploviante 2021
Vocals: Omar from www.Ghosthack.de
Paploviante Music, Bass, Mix, Artwork and Mastering
Lyrics:
Catch me looking up when I feel down
Heart ice cold music too loud 
Said you was wanting something real now
You know that my heart is yours to steal now
Feet are on the edge
Messing with my head
Need something true instead
And I'll be just fine on my own
Head in the clouds but it's ice cold
Feet on the ground where the night go
Say no lies if you say so
Really don't know what you don't know
Head in the clouds but it's ice cold
Feet on the ground where the night go
Saying no lies if you say so
Really don't know what you don't know

Head In The Clouds But It's Ice Cold - Paploviante

Im The Future
Bleeding through beats.
Heart too full. Pockets too empty.
Still making flames from the mud.
I’m not next — I’m needed.
🎧 Mars.

( REPOSTS  are  routed to Synthgrinder [REPOSTS] )
( https://soundcloud.com/user-813544615 )


++++. PROFILE NOTES ++++

Once a wannabe, not yet a has been.

It had been over a decade since I put together a song,
and for that matter basically walked away from music altogether.
Losing hope that I would ever have the time to put into music again,
I finally gave away my 3rd music studio.
I ran across SoundCloud around 2013,
and thought I might take what few songs I had recorded, 
and lay them to rest there.
And there they languished.

HOWEVER, around 2017 I went back to SoundCloud
and began listening a little more and a little more,
and actively taking a part in visiting the sites
of so many wonderful musicians and beautiful songs.
Also, more and more often I would discover that these artists
were blossoming everywhere around the world,
and most definitely worthy of high praise and compliments.

Then suddenly, these old dead soundtracks right here
began to have a bit of life breathed back into them.
From the kind words that began to come trickling in,
I thought, maybe, someday I might give this music thing a try again.

The thing that finally pushed me into action
was a particular SoundCloud artist…Sander Heerings,
AKA https://soundcloud.com/wane-of-summer
 

Not only was he encouraging,
but he began faithfully responding to a few questions,
then a barrage of them.

The final result seemed to be that after a couple of months,
the Old Grinder now has a 4th studio and, finally, a new song.
I hope there may be many more to come.

Thank you Sander, and to the multitude that have dropped in
to listen to these old songs, 
and most of all, for perking up my spirits.

Angel in me

MARS

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