(Hallam | Sharbaugh | The NME)
Adrian Hallam [ https://soundcloud.com/adrianhallam ]: guitar and lead and background vocals
Michael Ash Sharbaugh [ https://soundcloud.com/michael-ash-sharbaugh ]: synthesizers, 'found sounds', and background vocals
The NME [ https://soundcloud.com/thenmebeats ]: drum and synthesizer programming and production
Composed and Recorded ca. September 2013 to February 2014.
("String of Pearls [Lollipop Swirl III]" [mix 3] [LANDR master])

A collaboration with:

Adrian Hallam: https://soundcloud.com/adrianhallam
The NME: @thenmebeats

Deepest thanks to these artists for their contributions!

The work that inspired this piece can be heard here:
Thenmebeats – Free-beat-live

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dressed in white with a string of pearls
city lights they rule your world
drapes of gold in a window pane
hear your song playing again

just a gem in your Daddy's eyes
hosting parties to socialize
had a trust fund before you were five
gave you what you want whenever you cried

(and you play it again)

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String of Pearls

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"String of Pearls" - Michael Ash Sharbaugh, Adrian Hallam, and The NME

The music: Tangent Nine is an ambient rock and pop duo made up of Michael Ash Sharbaugh from the United States and Adrian Hallam from Australia. Both are synthesists; both play guitar. The music they create surges with unique creativity: it bubbles with contemporary folk, avant-garde, and electronic influences, and is available for your listening pleasure here, on this page.

Kats Bartok  composed and sing in   projects electro with musicians  and labels recording léo kats son label...and Ben sharpa!collaboration diverses during their concerts under the Jarring Effects label. and slams She founded the Black Orchid project with DIFFÉRENT MUSICIENS released several albums on bandcamp and collaborates with NIKO X Mat et Matik   on his latest Ep xood in unlimited label Sweet Sinners EP, the experimental trip hop, playsand albums sleepy bass recording  keyboard SONY and composes his own projects or in collaboration and prepares overheads lives shows with a song written for Ben Sharpa qur its tri X albums and collaborated with MONO STONE JOHN ERIC KAUFF DAVID V OTTO PRIMS Mat et Matic Napoléon solo Vox sleepy bass recording and tree 5 albums

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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This is for you Bri, with love and thanks from us all.   We miss you. (Gary Reeves)

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is a lot like automatic writing for me. I have also done that, just as I have created images by kinestetic compulsion, not only freehand, but autonomous of a
conscious eye. While there are some few genres I have spent little time with, I have a particular but very eclectic taste, because what happens with music is a translation of time
into a space which is bounded by other rules than by the hands of the clock, the ticking of the seconds on a digital chronometer. While music is universal for our species, it
is also in many ways one of the most subjective thing we have, our preferences determined by experiences which sometimes evade plain language.
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