One of my favourite Duran Duran songs!  Exquisite cover!  :) 

such a cool production man! love that beat, and the overall dark feel.

I gotta check out the Duran Duran one. I loved that band back in the day. This is off to a trippy 'larger than life' start.

Killer underlying beat. That is very powerful. Vocals are awesome too. Wonderfully futurized cover, my friends.

(Duran Duran; arr. Michael Ash Sharbaugh)
Carlos Carty [ https://soundcloud.com/carloscarty ]: Chinese dizi flute and "Canyon Quena"
Michael Ash Sharbaugh [ https://soundcloud.com/michael-ash-sharbaugh ]: vocals, drums and drum machine programming, synthesizers, and 'found sounds'
Composed and Recorded ca. 1982 to May 21, 2021.
sm71 [The Bold Bolero Master] [eM05] [24WAV].

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"Thank You for the amazing 'trackage,' Mr. Carlos Carty! I was extremely fortunate to have Your talents aboard this track!"

~ M A S

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"This opus was much less a cover of Duran Duran's original version, and much, much more a cover of The Sneaker Pimps' cover of this song."

~ M A S

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The Chauffeur [The Bold Bolero Master]

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"The Chauffeur" [a Duran Duran cover (1983)] - Michael Ash Sharbaugh [feat. Carlos Carty]

I made this for my little sister; it's a string of cameos about the town where we were born and raised - a suburb of Newcastle Upon Tyne.  Low income, but real world, real people, real troubles, real joy, real love, real communities, real humour, real music, real life.  All in gloriously rough 1960's industrial working class North East England monochrome.

For those of you not from that part of the world, lyric translations back to English are available upon request. :)

Started as a scribble, pretended to be a poem for a while, then I decided to noodle along and then.....  Ah, you know how it is.....in Byker town.
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Byker Town

Wallpaper of steam trains
Where the sweeping headlights sprawled
‘Cross the ceiling to the old piano
Up against my bedroom wall
In ‘67 the lid came down
Never played again so fair
I’m walking back to Byker town
I’ll meet you there.

Cross the bridge to get to school
Rope swings underneath
Bull’s eyes from the slaughterhouse 
Bombed out rail yard stark relief
Billy Smart’s big top’s coming down
But I don’t care
I’m walking back to Byker town
I’ll meet you there.

Stench of old men in the Raby Arms
A bottle of dog to take back yem
Dominos and baccy tins
Were all that mattered way back then
Every retail product to be found
In Ernie’s shop just six foot square
I’m walking back to Byker town
I’ll meet you there.

Quayside Sunday mornings
Champion, just the job
A week of meat to feed the bairns
For only fower bob
Scranshins from the chippy van ‘round
The side door of the Mayfair
I’m walking back to Byker town
I’ll meet you there.

Sent out on the Wednesday
In Charlie Shepherd’s finest rags
Over to the smokies
To get free broken kippers by the bag
Dad got paid when Thursday came around
Treats for us to share
I’m walking back to Byker town
I’ll meet you there.

Front step full of babbies
Grazed knees on skinny legs
Back lane rows of nappies
Her face is full of wooden pegs
He’s on the dole no work to be found
Torn bookie slips by his chair
I’m walking back to Byker town
I’ll meet you there.

Nets twitching down the road
Never washed in years
Kids with mucky faces 
Almost clean behind the ears
Never seem to have a frown
Owning only what they wear
I’m walking back to Byker town
I’ll meet you there.

Give up all the baggage I’ve got now
Of life in disrepair
I’m walking back to Byker town
I’ll meet you there.

Byker Town

Wax And Wane In Fixed Orbits

Well ….. synths, composition

https://on.soundcloud.com/n1u9HxZB74wW7FYv6

Surfers like Us ….. guitar, co-composition

Our next journey is unusual, but necessary. And each of us should make it in our hearts, and then invite other people to join us on this journey - a journey to world peace. The problem is still very relevant!!!
    This piece is our tribute to the victims of the nuclear attack in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. It is also a cry and an appeal for world peace!
    Artur: „When I got this intriguing synth track from my friend (Well) to record my guitar part, I was looking for the key to this song. Everything became clear after watching the film "Oppenheimer" by Christopher Nolan. I was deeply moved! May such a tragedy never happen again."
    Håkan: „I made this synth track and sent it over to Artur, hoping he could use it. He envisioned this theme and everything fell into place.
   Let us all hope that this never will happen again. Join us in our quest for world peace”.

    Release day: 21th Nov. 2023

Forgive us, Hiroshima! Forgive us, Nagasaki! (w/Well)

Final Destiny

The Sea Goat (Jan. 2024)

Synth Vibration

DRUMAX No. 43 // SPACERACE // Who will be the fastest?
@docfritz // Composition, Arrangement, Soundscapes, Drums, Artwork, Mix & Production
@joerxworx // Fabulous soprano saxophone and wonderful EWI synth
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DRUMAX No. 43 // SPACERACE

Time And Room

01 - UVI - FALCON - Rain Falls
02 - SA - ORBIS - Pads - Blade Running
03 - SA - WE - Movement Pad
04 - NI - STRAYLIGHT - My Darkness Approaching

Orbis - Woodwind Pad

POP | SPACEROCK | AMBIENT | EXPERIMENTAL

the PERSON, the SOUND : Michael Ash Sharbaugh is a composer of music and poetry, a lead vocalist and synthesist who hails from Philadelphia, PA. Since 1985, Michael has released hundreds of recordings, but known primarily for his atmospheric pop ("Give Yourself Completely"), jarring spacerock ("Dying in the Killing Jar"), and ambient-experimental works ("Infrastructure," "point65c," "Three Aimless Clouds").

Michael's sound is a synergy of 'darkwave-y' electronica and 'trip-hop-y' psychedelia: bass-laden rhythms form the gravity for his own breathy vocals and his soundscapes of dizzying synths and 'found sounds.' His ambient and experimental musics are soothing, and somewhat 'alien' to the ear: they float and shimmer, meander, and -- more often than not -- haunt.

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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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"The Chauffeur" [a Duran Duran cover (1983)] - Michael Ash Sharbaugh [feat. Carlos Carty]

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