Excellent Covers and Remixes

"I Play Well with Others" [Various Artists (featuring Michael Ash Sharbaugh)]

Ethereal cover version of the beautiful "Sacred heart" by OMD (B-side to "Souvenir") Vocals courtesy of Ali E

Sacred Heart    [OMD Orchestral Manoeuvres - cover version]

My cover of Everyday I Die from the Gary Numan album Living Ornaments '80.
I played, programmed, performed and produced all using Cubase 6.5, GForce Oddity, NI Pro53 and Arturia Moog Modular V2.

Everyday I Die LO80 (cover)

First mix of a cover version of "Are 'Friends' Electric?" from 'Replicas' by Tubeway Army.

Are 'Friends' Electric? STUDIO (PKH cover)

my version of the classic Ultravox track from the Vienna album.

Astradyne     [Ultravox Cover]

(Hallam | Sharbaugh | Weber)
Adrian Hallam [https://soundcloud.com/blue-room-green]: guitar and drum machine programming
Michael Ash Sharbaugh [https://soundcloud.com/michael-ash-sharbaugh]: synthesizers and found sound
Christofferson Weber [https://soundcloud.com/christoffersen-weber]: vocal
Composed and Recorded ca. 2013 to March 17, 2016.
sm5 [LANDR].

C. W. (Christofferson Weber): https://soundcloud.com/christoffersen-weber
Adrian Hallam (Blue Room Green): https://soundcloud.com/blue-room-green
Michael Ash Sharbaugh: https://soundcloud.com/michael-ash-sharbaugh

This song is based on two previous releases:

"Galaxy No. 9" by Blue Room Green: https://soundcloud.com/blue-room-green/galaxy-number-9

... and ...

"Galaxy" by Cam-O the Chameleon and Blue Room Green: https://soundcloud.com/christoffersen-weber/galaxy

Galaxy No. 9 [C. W.'s Reprise]

Buy on iTunes!

"Galaxy No. 9 [C. W.'s Reprise]" [Blue Room Green, Cam-O the Chameleon, and Michael Ash Sharbaugh]

Collaborators:- 
Drums - Pete (https://soundcloud.com/midipunk) 
Rap and Rap Lyrics - Marquis (https://soundcloud.com/couch-king-presents)
Synths, Lasers and Wobbly bits - Michael (https://soundcloud.com/michael-ash-sharbaugh)
Loops, Bass, Guitar, Vocals, Lyrics and Stuff - Russ (https://soundcloud.com/russell-sinfield)

Mixed and Mastered at the Chaos Cookhouse

I'm loading my laser gun
Aiming at you, cos there's no time to run
Now I got you my sight
It's time for you feel my might

Chorus

Picture me I'm dressed to kill
I even give myself a thrill
don't resist, soon you'll adore me
Amuse myself, until you bore me

Adjusting my power from 1 to 11
Megawatt smile to take you to heaven 
Pulled into an orbit, a shinning star 
Try to escape you'll not get far

Repeat Chorus

Over to you Capt. Aquatic A.K.A. CKP!

My laser's set on stunning 
My tractor beams got you running 
To my rocket ship of loving 
Sonically I got you coming (danger crash zone!)
Around and around and around and around 
Call me the banshee of getting down 
My X-factor makes me fantastic 
The Nightcrawler who is charismatic 
If you prefer we can get aquatic 
The motion of the ocean is hypnotic
Go down in my submarine Explore what's deep and in between 
I'm The King

Picture me I'm dressed to kill
I even give myself a thrill
My gun will fill you with delight
But please don't ask to stay the night 

Space jam time, light the joss sticks :-)

Inspiration - Mick The Laser Dick [you probably think this song is about you :-)]

Capt. Aquatic and the Love Laser Jam Band

I dedicate this song to the art of collaboration and cocreation. May we all inspire and take each other to new destinations and heights.  

Ang Kerfoot: Lyrics and Vocals 
https://soundcloud.com/angelakerfoot
https://soundcloud.com/dana-dau-ang-kerfoot
Blankets: Guitars
https://soundcloud.com/allergeist
Michael Ash Sharbaugh: Synths
https://soundcloud.com/michael-ash-sharbaugh
James Fenwicke: keyboard riff
https://soundcloud.com/plantain
Couch King: Production, Arrangement, Mixing, Mastering
Wind: wind chimes
Ill / Wizardshoes: Final Master
https://soundcloud.com/ill-dub-productions
https://soundcloud.com/wizardshoes

Lyrics:

The Skeleton 
she rests upon 
the bloods Lagoon
Here eyes are waves of dust
blink Sea faring moods
Sits thin among the
wind as it causes her bones to groove like sand...
blows her down the thirsty stream
the arrowheads of ancestors
gleam 
in the slivered 
moons faint steaming
the rain in outer space
burns up bits of her marrow
she bandages with rocks 
along the trails of gypsum guarded by sparrows
her heart it beats it bleeds on
through her timid ribs
you can see the valves
like locamotives trying to
hold onto blood shes got no skin
to keep it all in
if the wind dies down it'll all fall out
for the breeze is holding her into a piece

Ang Kerfoot, Blankets, Michael Ash Sharbaugh, and the Couch King - Rambling

Don't look back - Telepopmusik - Rastovich (Tristan Bres) RMX  (Free Download)

(Joe Melson | Roy Orbison)
Esteban G. Anastasio [ ]: guitars
Michael Ash Sharbaugh [ https://soundcloud.com/michael-ash-sharbaugh ]: vocals, synthesizers, piano, recording, production, and found sounds
Recorded ca. 2000.
Crying [HURTme_m63-T1].

I was all right for awhile
I could smile for awhile
But I saw you last night
You held my hand so tight
As you stopped to say, "Hello"

Oh, you wished me well
You, you couldn't tell
That I'd been crying over you
Crying over you

When you said, "So long"
Left me standing all alone
Alone and crying, crying
Crying, crying

It's hard to understand
But the touch of your hand
Can start me crying

I thought that I was over you
But it's true, so true
I love you even more
Than I did before

But, darling, what can I do?
For you don't love me
And I'll always be crying over you
Crying over you

Yes, now you're gone
And from this moment on
I'll be crying, crying
Crying, crying
Yeah, crying, crying
Over you

"Crying" [a Roy Orbison cover (1962)] - Michael Ash Sharbaugh and Esteban Anastasio

(Sharbaugh | Juncherre Beatz)
Juncherre Beatz: sampling, arranging, mixing, electronic doves, and drum programming
Michael Ash Sharbaugh: original composition (synthesizers and piano)

https://soundcloud.com/juncherre-beatz

"Ladder" [preview] (Juncherre Beatz feat. Michael Ash Sharbaugh)

POP | SPACEROCK | VAPORTRAP | TRIP-HOP
AMBIENT | EXPERIMENTAL

the PERSON, the SOUND : Since 1985, Philadelphia-born Michael has composed and released hundreds of audio recordings, and published dozens of [erotic] poems.

His 'sonic-sojourn' began suddenly when he was just a teen -- feet splashing rhythmically through puddles leftover by a seaside rainstorm. Having just parted ways with the then-love-of-his-life, Michael composed his first ballad [and first song] ever -- "Tina." He rushed to his beach-side home to record his visceral 'awakening' on a tiny micro-cassette recorder, and vowed -- from that day on -- to create art for the rest of his life.

He began zealously amassing used music equipment, and had built a modest home recording studio by age seventeen, all the while crafting simple pop, ambient, and experimental works that HE had wanted to listen to -- that HE had wanted to hear, affectionately emulating the works of his then-idols, Duran Duran and Brian Eno.

Now, decades later, he has relocated to a small village outside Atlanta, Georgia, and continues to voraciously attend to his dream as a young, heartbroken boy -- to create and release music that he, himself, wants to hear.

Although no longer sequestered to pop and ambient musics, Michael's signature sound has merged the two, having integrated the R&B, hiphop, and psychedelia he has grown to love as a older gent -- having absorbed the edgy rhythms and dreamy soul of the southern United States (Atlanta and Miami).

Michael still puts forth ample amounts af ambient musics, but his recent 'sound' hovers elsewhere -- somewhere amidst the genres of vaportrap, spacerock, and trip-hop.

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the INFLUENCES : Duran Duran, The Weeknd, Blondie, Depeche Mode, Billy Idol + Steve Stevens, Stone Temple Pilots, Dead Can Dance, Siouxsie & The Banshees, This Mortal Coil, Air, Naked Eyes, Tears for Fears, Alice in Chains, John Barry, Leslie Bricusse, The Chameleons [UK], Brian Eno, The Cocteau Twins, ABBA, The Bee Gees, Claude Debussy, Frederick Chopin, Guillaume de Machaut, Early Music, Renaissance music, Baroque music, and Joe Meek.

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