(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

A simple orchestral dance in 3/4 time— a wistful echo of the lightness of days, of carefree joy, of dance and warm companionship. This episode is a classic waltz, borne by the strings, adorned with the whimsical grace of woodwinds. It shares a final dream of that light-hearted time, just before the suite draws us with the next episode (No.05) toward the twilight of life.

Pandemic Suite – 04. Danse Noble

City of Angels

LDSR 21o - ckswanecamp - GET BACK TO HER

Will you dance with me my love

String Quartet No.1 Op.37

Variation mit einem Bösendorfer.
Die drei Gymnopédies sind Klavierstücke des französischen Komponisten Erik Satie. Sie entstanden um 1888 und zählen zu seinen bekanntesten Werken.
2023 hab ich das Bild gemalt, welches ich als Track Art verwendet habe und finde es passt hier ganz wunderbar zu den Kompositionen

Variation with a Boesendorfer.
The three Gymnopédies are piano pieces by the French composer Erik Satie. They were written around 1888 and are among his best-known works.
I painted the track-art picture in 2023 and I think it goes very well with the work by Satie.

Variation avec un Bösendorfer.
Les trois Gymnopédies sont des pièces pour piano du compositeur français Erik Satie. Elles ont été composées vers 1888 et comptent parmi ses œuvres les plus connues.
J'ai peint cette image de track-art en 2023 et je pense qu'elle s'accorde très bien avec l'œuvre de Satie.

Gymnopédies

Gymnopédies (1 - 2 - 3) - Bösendorfer

the other shoe

Please check official music video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcWF7VWeFbQ

Zoe Story (ft. Zoe)

Libretto

Io ho le serrature...
Ho io le chiavi...
A lui, gli allarmi...
Facile non sarà...
Due sensori là...
Ferri e chiavi!...
Ma ci vorrà anche... del Prosciutto e del formaggio

Niche humour. About a daring diamond robbery in Antwerp. Carried out by objectively brilliant Italian criminals. Almost the perfect crime, but for the fact they left a ham and cheese sandwich behind for the police to find.

I have the locks...
I have the keys...
He has the alarms...
It will not be easy...
Two sensors there...
Tools and keys!...
But we will also need... some ham and cheese.

La Scuola di Torino

Dopes to Infinity | Monster Magnet Interpretation

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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