great introspective song and great construction

Reminds me of OMD with just ten years of age ;-)

this is awesome. I'm going to snuggle down this weekend and listen to all your songs.  love.

lallalalalaalalalaalalal wooooshhhhhhhhh nice, thick cut marmalade sort of song

Great atmosphere. Etheric. And I like the percussions!

(Hallam | Sharbaugh)
Michael Ash Sharbaugh [ https://soundcloud.com/michael-ash-sharbaugh ]: vocals, synthesizers, sampler, drums and drum programming, and 'found sounds'
Adrian Hallam [ https://soundcloud.com/adrianhallam ]: guitars and bass synthesizer
Composed and Recorded ca. July to August 2, 2013.
sm9b [CB HH + Bass mix] [24WAV].

Ambient samples from Hawkdream and Manny Leigh’s “The Sun without a Sphere”:
https://soundcloud.com/brian-brown-16/the-sun-without-a-sphere-1

Percussion sample from OBH Beats’ “Scene without Colors”:
https://soundcloud.com/obh-beats/scene-without-colors


Warm and special thanks to Hawkdream, Manny Leigh, and OBH Beats for allowing us to sample their works!

You can hear more of Adrian Hallam's (Blue Room Green's) music here:
https://soundcloud.com/blue-room-green

Venusian Smile

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"Venusian Smile" [Michael Ash Sharbaugh and Adrian Hallam]

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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