Ein Song der schon lange in meiner Schublade liegt. Bisschen was zum Nachdenken.

Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drums : Matthias Ahrens
Keyboard.  Jonas Ahrens

Feather in the wind

Soundcloud is dead. Rock is dead. Most of my main listeners have vanished. Where I use to get 500 plays a week, now I'm lucky to get 50 no matter how hard I try to promote or support other artists. The interest has died and honestly that's killed my drive to want to spend time making more music for not even a quarter of the attention for what it used to get. I'm deleting this profile and all the music at the end of the year so listen up while you can. What a waste of 8 years just for this platform to die off. I've made all the songs downloadable for anyone that's interested.

Psych sounds, dub vibes and a whole bunch of FX in operation
SoundCloud collabs most welcome. Remixes, guitar bashing, conceptualising (a big word for a guitar player, I know) or whatever you have 😎

Member of the transatlantic music machine that is The Eclectic Collective

Member of Mid-Wales’ premier cheezepunk band The Recursives - watch us get down and boogie!!

https://youtu.be/f0CnN7FsIzM?si=4yCzlCMsylbIjKLx

https://youtu.be/E_tYwc83XPs?si=MjmQbwNeRpNXRhQS


Logo and cover art by Marianne

You may wish to check out my older dub based stuff here 
https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/TwJYv9QgWsDdKNvu9

Rare Elements is an eclectic alternative rock project lauched in the early 2010s from Tampere, Finland. Today, RE-project is progressing led by Harri Sarpavaara. Joel Kuortti (and Harri) is most often responsible for the lyrics. Harri is responsible for the music (vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, bass guitar, keys, synths, drum machine, drums programming, composing, arranging, recording, mixing, and mastering). Rare Elements’ music is produced in its own studio in Tampere.

Feel free to contact: harri.sarpavaara@gmail.com

https://open.spotify.com/artist/3jGSxbCRMnvR0gi8V7tO4F?si=A2cWNIm_QZSe0Tlv0qCoWw

Website: https://rare-elements.webnode.fi

A small note on my own behalf: I have noticed that my playback figures have dropped dramatically. The statistics show that the number of playbacks has dropped from 2000 per week to just under 200.
On the one hand, this is frustrating, as everyone sees this as an indicator and confirmation of their work. On the other hand, figures are not particularly important, but one wonders what is wrong. In my opinion, SC has changed a lot, uploading tracks has become more complicated and constant security queries are annoying.
In addition, great artists are disappearing from the platform, partly by their own choice, partly because they have been banned, the algorithm has “recognized” them as spam and mercilessly deleted their account. I'm still a paying member, but my attitude towards this has changed...

Please let me know your experiences and impressions.

😮‍💨😔


When I don't have the time to actively listen to my favorite artists on soundcloud, I just leave the stream running...while washing up in the kitchen, for example 😆

By the way: this user-92853963 was my old link address and leads to the empty.... I AM NOT A ROBOT!

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A long, long time ago, there was an organ in the Christmas-decorated living room in his parents' house, where Frank grew up. Originally bought by his father for his two older siblings, they showed no interest in playing the organ. Frank, however, did. White and black keys and giving off strange sounds. 

So at the age of 9 he began to let his fingers circle on this instrument, searching for the right keys like on a typewriter. And another 9 years would pass before he could buy his first own instrument. Already at the age of 13 he made notes about the then current synthesizers, bought one magazine after the other and visited music fairs in Frankfurt, Germany.

His first keyboard was the Yamaha DSR-2000, which he bought in a music store near his hometown Biebertal. In installments! Finally he could develop himself further - away from the limited tonality of the small organ. The built-in 8-track sequencer helped him to reach unimagined heights. 
Little by little his equipment expanded and his ambition to create music like that of Jean-Michel Jarres came closer. Influenced by this and countless other musicians of the time, his interest grew, but he taught himself everything. Not even having attended a music school or being able to read music at all, he wrote one song after another and recorded them on the only medium available to him at the time: audio cassettes.
Many of these recordings are unfortunately lost forever, because cassettes are and were not the best recording medium. He has to try to play many of his songs from memory. 

In 2007, he fulfilled a long-awaited wish: to buy a KORG. He had always wanted to own one, but with the latest synthesizers at the time of their release having a purchase price of over 6000 D-marks (the currency of the time in the 1980s and 1990s), that dream of owning one was far away. So in 2007 he bought a used KORG 01W/FD at ebay. And as before with the purchase of the Yamaha keyboard, a completely new world opened up to him.

In addition, there were expanders and sound modules from Kawai, Roland and Yamaha (K1m, SC-55, QY10). Six years later his enthusiasm for making music ebbed and rediscovered his hobby (which it always was and still is). In 2018 in April he decided to present his music to a wider audience and uploaded his first song on the platform soundcloud. Since that time, thanks also to the ever-evolving software, he continues to evolve, experiment and relive his times through music.

FRIENDS & [MNRO]
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7vheLqFfKV7SLtHGtIX7C5?si=TU6Xua7-SVGXk16Xgl3Tzg

Portland, OR
Eliot

Also [SEE]:

https://open.spotify.com/artist/7vheLqFfKV7SLtHGtIX7C5?si=TU6Xua7-SVGXk16Xgl3Tzg

http://www.reverbnation.com/open_graph/artist/7422582

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7qnNM6bRW0Quy1FbvHSkS0?si=OSpsrMeSTPqiccVJaB1BEw&pi=7zy_3z7CTqKsk

kmonroepdx@gmail.com

Thanks for [LISTENING]

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Many thanks to you. 700 mark cracked. The name wispy clouds is derived from the band name clouds over eden. But since the beginning of the pandemic hardly any bandlife can take place, i startet to realize my ideas myself with my own studio equipment. I play all the instruments except the keyboards myself. At the keys, share the job with my son Jonas Ahrens, also as "lens flare" on soundcloud.(He can do this much better than i). Musically i´m inspired by bands like Yes,Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Eloy, Marillion, IQ, Neal Morse or Pineapple Thief. 
I´m happy to have found here a way to make my music heard.
I don´t like liking without a comment.
Please comment on my songs and i will listen to your songs in return and comment on them as well.  This is the only way we can all benefit from it and grow.

https://www.facebook.com/wispyclouds21

All songs composed and also all lyrics by Matthias Ahrens

We use:
Millenium MPS-850 E-Drum Set, Ibanez Guitars and Bass, Micro: Countryman
 Isomax H, SM-58,  M-Audio Keystation MK3, Nord Stage 2 EX
Software: Studio one Artist with Presonus USB96 & Studio 68C Interface 
Greetings
Matthias und Jonas




Feather in the wind

Wispy Clouds