(Sharbaugh)
Michael Ash Sharbaugh [ https://soundcloud.com/michael-ash-sharbaugh]: vocals, drums and drum machine programming, synthesizers and sequencer programming, sampler and sample-editing, and 'found sounds'
blazearmani [ n/a - 'https://freesound.org/people/Blazearmani/ ]: synthesizers and sequencer programming
Composed and Recorded ca. Novermber 13 to November 16, 2023.
sm15 [INST] [RAW] [32AIF].

WIP (ca. 2023): "Ever (Three Sheets To The Wind)" sm15 [INST] [RAW] [32AIF]

Aquí os dejo esta gran aventura musical entre mi querida amiga, Aida, y yo. 
No nos ha podido salir mejor. 
Cover de la canción, Uncomplicated, del grupo RORY.
Aida ha desplegado todo su potencial y....se nota.
Gracias amiga. Siempre es un placer trabajar contigo.
Manu.

Uncomplicated (RORY) Cover by AIDA DETURCK AND DELAFLOR

Mi última incorporación. Usando sintetizadores varios y samples de voces.


This Is My Time (manu305)

Space (Inst.)

Epic soundtrack with strings, piano, synths, cool action cinematic drumms, fx sounds & more

"Veil of Light" €PiC

with many thanks for the download funciton of Francisco, the base is by him, me on classiclal guitar

today Petrus waters the plants

Outside In

To Be Blessed

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What's Coming: Freedom in Frequency+ // 
Soul Maniacs live @ Damm, Zürich / Switzerland 
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music: 
two cover versions performed by the Soul Maniacs, a collective based in Zürich, Switzerland.
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Streetplayers are the pulse—urban troubadours weaving raw life into every beat and rhyme.  
They own the streets’ secrets and stories, turning the daily grind into art and anthem.  
More than performers, they’re navigators of culture’s undercurrent—voices of unfiltered truth.  
In every corner, their signal sparks connection: streetwise poetry alive and thriving.  

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Soul Maniacs- A collective soul & funk band

Soulmaniacs is a Zurich based band created in 1998. Through out the years, the band has become a collective featuring numerous musicians from the Swiss scene.

From streetplayers to one of the nation’s finest live acts, the Soul Maniacs now own every stage—in ever-shifting formations and set-ups. Why? ‘Coz they are a musicians’ collective, established 1998.  

Explore the Soul Maniacs here:  
online base https://www.soulmaniacs.ch / or 
Insta: https://www.instagram.com/soulmaniacs_zh or on 
youtube: https://de.soulmaniacs.ch/live-performance 
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This phone recording captured the Soul Maniacs live as a four-man (yes, no she’s on stage tonight) line-up at one of Zürich’s hidden gastronomic pearls— Damm, a true hideout close to everything, down by the river, on a beautiful Friday evening: July 11, 2025, around 7 pm Central European hot Summer Time.  

Explore the Damm (www.fuerdich.ch/damm)

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Additional storyline by: fictionalive

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dropped:  
Wednesday, July 30, 2025  
time: 9:33 pm  
Central European hot Summer Time  
today: not so so much  

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Fusion of it all—fictionalive with the popoems series and hyper media report  

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keep shining, live and direct  

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What's Coming: Freedom in Frequency+ // the Soul Maniacs live @Damm in Zürich, Switzerland

On a planet resembling Earth, in a Galaxy far, far away 
There were creatures resembling humans of two pigmentations: one red and one blue 
And the red ones instructed the blue ones that there is one word that THEY must never say. 
And they will be ostracized, subject to violence or otherwise harmed if they do. 

You see, one or two centuries prior, the blue ones held red ones enslaved 
And there was a word that the Blue ones would use to refer to the red ones possessed
And though they had long since been freed, in lieu of the justice they craved 
They insisted the blue ones should never again breathe that word, not even in jest

And the blues ones at first were quite gladly compliant, at first they completely concurred
But the red ones adopted this word as a term of endearment, not a hideous curse!  
And now and again some poor Blue would get loose with its tongue and then out popped that word! 
And red ones who heard it were given free license to beat the blue or something worse! 

Even the most rich and powerful Blue ones if ever that word did they say
Were forced to make public apologies, tearfully beg for forgiveness, repentant 
that’s just the trouble with pendulums swinging too wide can the pendulums sway 
What started as simply a politic gesture was simmering now as resentment 

Words are just noises you make to express an idea you may have at the time
Our primitive ancestors, warning of predators, made noises just to alert you 
Always remember the words that are used in that world famous nursery rhyme:
Sticks and Stones may break your bones but words will never hurt you 

Most Blues were fine with not saying the word, its insulting so why not refrain 
And all of that’s true but it’s rather short sighted and frankly it misses the point  
The point is that blue ones were forced to comply or else suffer the punishment’s pain 
And when rules don’t apply to both red and blue equally, blue noses get out of joint 

So small bands of blues started saying the word in their home and amongst other blues 
And the building resentment would over time lead to a war pitting race against race 
Only slaves are subjected to punishment over expressing unpopular views 
Free people use any words that they want to:  a warning from deep outer space!

The Word You Dare Not Say

That was assembled (put together from bricks of ready to use samples) for fun in DanceMachine software in late '90.

Free download enabled.

Dance Machine

Try to Dance (Free Download)

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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WIP (ca. 2023): "Ever (Three Sheets To The Wind)" sm15 [INST] [RAW] [32AIF]

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