I can aopreciate the vibe- sounds good.
But personally not a fan of that kind of lead gtr

Great vocal duo- the background vox  are giving me an axel rose  vibe

Divinity is a great composition!
Dig that gtr😊

Wild Christopher Lyrics & Vocal
Lydia BG vocals
Mike Music & Production
“Fool’s Gold”

Look into our future
Truth be told
Our love still shines
Though the tarnish grows
I’m seeking shimmers on the ocean’s floor 
Oh, what the hell you only live once you know

Not coming up for air today
(You’re) still digging in 
Yeah… I think I’ll stay below

Fool’s Gold
But I’m still holding on to hope
To hope for your treasure down below
Below but I know…  I know…  I know… 
It’s nothing but Fool’s Gold

Your love I can’t hold

Sending out a Save Our Soul
Though I know our chances are low
Deeper and deeper and deeper we go
But all we have to blame is -- this hope

Sinking deeper into the cold
What do I have to give up? My soul
 
Fool’s Gold
But I’m still holding out for hope
To hope for your danger down below
Below but I know…  I know…  I know… 
It’s nothing but Fool’s Gold

It’s a fool’s goal
I know…  I know…  I know… 
Your love I can’t hold
   
<Breakdown>

Fool’s Gold
But I’m still holding out for hope
To hope for your treasure down below
Below but I know…  I know…  I know… 
It’s fool’s gold
 
Your love I can’t hold
Your love I can’t hold
Your love I can’t hold

Lyrics written by Chris Barnett for Questionable Enterprises LLC. © 2022

Fool's Gold

1] "Fall Again, Rise Again"
(Sharbaugh)

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2] "Linnaeus' Lovely Day"
(Sharbaugh)

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3] "The Last Stand"
(Sharbaugh | Sobel)

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4] "Divinity"
(M.T.W.D. | Sharbaugh)

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Michael Ash Sharbaugh [ https://soundcloud.com/michael-ash-sharbaugh ]: vocals, drums and drum machine programming, synths and sequencer programming, and 'found sounds' (all songs)
Mike Sobel [ https://soundcloud.com/mikesobel ]: [acoustic] guitar ("The Last Stand")
M.T.W.D. [ https://soundcloud.com/mtwd ]: drums and drum machine programming, and synths and sequencer programming ("Divinity")
womb_affliction (Katarina Rose) [ https://soundcloud.com/womb_affliction ]: vocals ("Fall Again, Rise Again")
Adrian W. Hallam [ https://soundcloud.com/adrianhallam ]: [dubby] guitar ("Divinity")

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Composed and Recorded ca. 2013 to 2023.
Remastered ca. February 29, 2024.
sm5 [non-stop] [RAW] [32AIF].

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A FORMER COMMENT:

"This EP has been released, and making Me very pleased. ;)"

~ Michael
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A FORMER COMMENT: "This uploaded track is a brief glimpse into My newly completed, brief, 13-minute [ + or - ] EP, "es|tu|dios." Although slated for release in April of this year, I invite You, My SoundCloud peers, to judge, and to criticize it prior to its release."

~ Michael [Ash Sharbaugh]

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es | tu | dios

>>> DOWNLOAD <<<

EP: "es|tu|dios" (2024) | [non-stop] - Michael Ash Sharbaugh (feat. Mike Sobel + M.T.W.D.)

recorded on June 3rd, 2024, in the morning,
in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal)

I will probably come back to clean it up, levels, parts to remove if any, etc.  When I do I will keep the same file name but will remove the "Raw" part.

Unfortunately the truck had left by the time I came back to take the picture,
so don't go scrutinizing the photo looking for it, it's not there, lol.

Siphon Truck at the Stadium 2

Siphon Truck at the Stadium - 2 (Raw)

piano + casio JIG noodle ft z-h1 & z-h4

D-Cold Ballad

The original track here - It's heavy af:
https://soundcloud.com/thebeautifuldark/in-the-sim

Originsl behind the track here:
Tuning 417Hz
Tempo 123 bpm
Timing 4/4

Roots G / A

Lyrics

"Why Why Why Mr Anderson,
Why do you get up?"

Is this the matrix?
Sure seems perfect
Who's the Merovingian?

Strung up by cortex
Real gone vortex
Not yet more intelligence
So are we alone?

Ok, see our radio waves
Small circle since their time invade
Not many stars out run...
In the sim?
Your alone!

But it's all so perfect
Overlord leisure?
An old AI's space treasure?
Well, sounds like we came together

Strung up by cortex
Real gone vortex
No oracle
No oracle

So what's morphing us?
Is it the trinity touch?
All Neos burst
Saying, I'll save me first

Strung up by cortex
Real gone vortex
My oracle
My oracle

So what's morphing us?
Is it the trinity touch?
All Neos burst
Saying, I'll save me first

So, I'm gonna to save me first

Ahhhh, space treasure 🌍

Looking at whether or not we are in a simulation!

Ok so here we have a tune about whether I believe or not that we live in a simulation. For the record I don't... I believe this is the beautiful reality the majority of humans believe and have believed we live in. The actual Universe and it's way better then any matrix!

The song is matrix themed as that for me paints the most amazing picture of this imagined reality! Oh speaking of reality. Meet Professor Richard Dawkins youtube.com/@poetryofreality?si=irmH9O6mNT57zlNX If you want a good solid taste of a beautiful reality... I'd suggest you subscribe and after watching him you'll be thanking you're existence he exists! He's lining up a good few ducks!
Also...A Short History of Nearly Everything g.co/kgs/bY1rdCE In my opinion the best book a human has produced yet on Earth. Bill Bryson makes an hilarious shot at reality here...

The universe is so damn nuts we will probably be able to build a matrix soon for the Merovingians of the world that want to be there...

Note... Something which I think is very significant to thinking about all this properly is what has happened human radio signals since they were first switched on. The 23rd of December 1900. So since then those waves and subsequent broadcasts have been travelling away from us at the speed of light. Today those first ones have traveled 687 trillion kilometers... The Milky Way, Our Galaxy is 950,000 trillion kilometers wide. So we really have broadcast ourselves to a speck of a speck of space so of course we haven't found other life yet. This I believe is a central argument to simulation theory advocates... 'Where are the aliens then?'.... They're further out that's all I think... Or my guess is there are already beings around us which we are not advanced enough yet to interact with.... But that's just a hunch. I also believe they respect the workings of whole systems and will await our advancement to enjoy the universe with us... For this reason I don't believe any super intelligent entity like that would want to control us. They would want us to evolve and make the whole Universe a more evolved and balanced one...

I'm my opinion if you believe this reality is a false reality then your mind is stuck in a conspiracy! Think critically & honestly to yourself. It's the only shot we have at explaining what on Earth we see.

If you do believe it... sure you might be right. if it's made properly your never meant to find out. So why then not try and discover the other scenario better and forget being lost trying to escape reality in the unknowable realms. The real scenario is where you can actually do what you like and it's way more fun.

In the future lots of the unknowable stuff will become knowable and we will evolve with that new intelligence. For now we all have to just.keep the head down and keep asking questions. Proper questions 🎧🎶🌿🧘🏻

In the Sim

In the desert

File Uddated @ 17:46 GMT
Added gallop like bass and continued developing the vox line. Very strange singing about this mountain... It's not that the mountain makes me emotional but the moments growing up that it was the backdrop for are just so deep

This is about the mountain I grew up on the side of as a kid, Carraig Una (Carrigoona) in the Wicklow/Dublin mountains, Ireland. A powerful place. My brother and I used to walk the hills most days rolling down the ferns and making little mini avalanches in the rocky patches. There are amazing views of the Wicklow mountains and Irish coastline around Bray and Dublin bay looking east. Such amazing memories and so lucky to have grown up in a place like this. Mountain man. Schweeeeeet The view from Carraig Una's peak is the banner on my profile. Bray is the town you can see and Dublin bay is off to the left 🪉

Another thing to note is... This is barely even classified as a mountain. It's 172m at peak and you'd be hard pushed to find it in a list of Mountains when researching it. For me though it's the best mountain in the world and the most powerful one ever. I'm a boy again when I drive past it and now I'm a boy again every time I open SoundCloud and see this gem haha. The mountain everyone in the area would connect to most is off to the left and towers above Carraig Una, It's called The Sugar Loaf. Another rock beast and Caraig Una if effectively a shoulder of that larger mountain... But Sugar Daddy ain't got nothing on our Carraig Una. Our house shared a name with the mountain too 🏡⛰️

I think this is why I'm not really drawn to city life. I'm much too sperated from nature and it feels weird. I have vivid memories of coming home from holidays and the whole drive home from the airport being alien... Then appeared the mountain! Home

Thinking about these mountains in the light of their age of 400 million years. That's 350 million more then the Himalayas. That's lots of thinking time for a mountain getting rained on and weathered for its entire existence. I'd say it has some stories to tell us. Got of a few off him and he is quite the Druid ⛰️🐕

We moved from here to Bray a few kilometers away. We brought our dog Diego to the new house and he dug his way out of the new garden and went home. We found him a day later back on the mountain. We agreed with our old neighbours that they would feed him and he lived out his days as king of Carraig Una. Diego Maradogga 🫶🏽🔆

Lyrics

Carraig Una
Carraig Una

Dear Mountain,
You moulded me.
We lived on your side
Walked your trails regularly
Caledonian power
Pure unbiased
On your fern filled sides we rolled
Your pleasure paths held our hearts up highest

Your rocky patches show physics lessons
Those cheeky avalanches sums' best
Mountainous imagination sessions
Permanent impressions
They saw many millions of years
They saw Pangea before human fears

Carraig Una
Carraig Una

Flanked by Bray Head and Sugar Loaves
The big two find the crowds
Carraig Una was ours
Keeping us real, giving us good hours
Tuned to your rock and force filled powers
Neuroplastic love finds eternal pathways of flowers

Carraig Una (Demo)

Songwriters : Richard Carpenter & John Bettis \ ISWC : T-070.185.263-2
Released : December 1981
Publisher : Almo Music Corporation \ Sweet Harmony Music INC \
Universal Music \ WC Music Corp
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This cover was arranged in November 2013, but remained unfinished...
At the time, my voice had a higher key than Karen Carpenter's,
but I couldn't sing it well. Even today, with the same key as hers,
I struggle a little...
I like this song, its slightly country vibe.
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Vocal : Anh
Arrangement (Yamaha PSR 3000 - PSR XS900) : Phong
Recorded : July 12th 2025
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Those Good Old Dreams - Cover (Carpenters)

Photo by Valeriia Ruban on Unsplash
made with Wurlitzer spinet piano - -to be tuned/voiced in september :D
and h1 zoom mic, NCH edit software
speed is one golden ratio faster
didnt use echo pr revrb this time

chaos spider piano

Alfred Wegener
Is moving round the furniture
On a teal sphere
Is everybody here

For the massacre?
I'll bet you wish you were
Back in middle school
Boning up on algebra.

Someone's after you
They're up and down the stairs
Hiding in the living rooms
The Killing fields are back again my dear
So grovel at the hurricane
And lie about the atmosphere.

What's appropriate
To consider here
Ain't a twist of fate
It's just a twist of fear.
So considerate
And drink your lemonade
With a slice of life
And a hand-grenade.

And the noise won't stop
And we're breaking up
Lose the signal in the storm
And the noise won't stop
And I'm waking up 
To someone else's dawn.

Alfred Wegener

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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#duranduran #theweeknd #blondie #depechemode #billyidol #stevestevens #deadcandance #siouxsieandthebanshees #air #tearsforfears #johnbarry #lesliebricusse #claudedebussy #mauriceravel #frederickchopin #eriksatie #brianeno #thecocteautwins #abba #beegees #joemeek #chameleons #octoberproject #patbenatar #haroldbudd #lindseybuckingham #nakedeyes #aha #ceefarrow #omd #thismortalcoil #stonetemplepilots #aliceinchains #baroque #renaissance #earlymusic #theweeknd #skeler

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