Welcome to the October Community Showcase!

As usual if you want participate to the next showcase, join our server: https://discord.gg/chillhop and just send your discord tag and your SoundCloud link here: https://gleam.io/CDLXR/community-showcase

Here is the track list and timestamps

0:00 @graude-chillin - iminlovewithlofi
2:44 @stuffbysib - Everything Is Going To Be Okay
5:35 @cloudowlmusic - Sleeping Fish
8:03 @microlag - Apart
9:23 @mhankus - I Don't Want To Wake Up (but not in a morbid sense) [Feat: @tsedrek]

The Community Showcase

Optimistic

05. See You Again

lyrics:


i just wanna sleep…..

I see no reason tryna sleep,
if i just wake up,
these cycles, they just repeat themselves,
and i’m just as stuck,
and i’m just as stuck,

 but maybe it’s bearable,
with you by my side,
cause you have such warmth that i,
can’t deny,

the only time i wanna sleep,
is when you’re there,
cause i wanna savour this moment,
all night,
will you spend the night?

i can finally sleep now,
with you by my side,
you keep me safe at night,
let’s do it all, the time,

i don’t know what i would’ve done without you,

i can sleep,
i can sleep,
i can sleep,
i can sleep,
i can sleep,
i can sleep,
i can sleep,
yes i can.

you help me sleep

This track is about my struggles with self doubt and insecurity, and trying to seek validation through a relationship but never truly feeling seen or understood in it. In terms of the actual production of the track, my creative process has definitely changed a lot since my last release. Whereas I previously started songs on my computer with a lot of sound design and experimentation, this started as a simple acoustic guitar riff over a drum machine. I find the limitation of having to play things physically or programming them on a physical synth or sampler to be incredibly useful for my process. Often when I could make everything as layered and complex as I wanted in my DAW I found it hard to know when to stop, but now along with having to do everything with physical hardware and instruments, I purposefully limit the number of parts I can use so it can easily be played live, which has been super inspiring.

Three Corners

Spring Day Drive

Spring Day Drive (Acoustic) (feat. Jasmine Goare)

2/4

This song was a big undertaking for me. It also introduced me to shoegaze/dreampop/diiv which became importnat genres & bands for me. Sharing my WIP music led to these comparisons which led to inspiration and something to study. I was merely layering stuff and drenching in reverb because that was the only production skill i had at the time. I buried my vocals cause i didn't like them then. 

Anyway enjoy this song.

Everything done by me.

Lyrics:
Let's talk about how you want to converse/confess with one syllable words, faces and closed endings

Cause I don't Know what else I can still propose, there are so many issues that you won't disclose, to anyone

Let's talk about how you advertise, your desire to speak , well you aren't talk to me, or anyone at all

Should I pester you a little bit more, keep pushing for an answer, or just keeping asking more
cause we're getting nowhere

Cancelled dates and dynamic states
Searching for an anchor to bring you out of this
The hopeful shift

That slides it all back into place
Gets you out there and brings you face to face with your evasions

then one day you'll take off from this, desperate, tired and over this
of all the things you said you'd do
I didn't think this one you'd choose

I think helped you choose

every conversation
an interrogation
mere frustration
self isolation

an adoration
for contemplation
an aspiration
for devastation

meander around, lost and found without this
stumble around, lost and found without this
until i've taken care of that
hopeful shift

The Hopeful Shift

Production, house, bass, beat, arturia, logicpro

Feel me

Trash

Pick Up (BETTER)

Tapping One

https://linktr.ee/hankus

We are a one piece band from the realm of Ontario, Canada.
Not limited to genres or labels, you'll find shoegaze, chillhop, folk and synthwave. 
Enjoy! 
DM to connect

The Hopeful Shift

HANKUS

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