ThingsAlwaysHear

My version of a classic Rush song from their 2112 album :)

Tears - Rush Cover

Gingerland

"Vino" out now, full EP "Sueños que Sobran" out in June via Nice Guys records.

vino

Sh*tfaced Again (M)

(Sharbaugh)
Michael Ash Sharbaugh [ https://soundcloud.com/michael-ash-sharbaugh ]: synthesizers and sequencer programming, sampler and sample editing, and 'found sounds'
Erokia [Jordan Dean] [ https://soundcloud.com/erokia ]: synthesizers and sequencer programming
Composed and Recorded April 29, 2023.
sm5 [eM 02] [24WAV].

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" ... just another 'exercise' to end-out the hallowed month of April [2023]. April always holds much promise for My creative musical output -- has since I was 17-years-old in '87. Cheers to April!!!

This tune utilized the chirps of tree frogs for its percussive background, and the simple, rambling twiddlings of dreamy synths and percussive accents.

In the [humourous] [paraphrased] words of a Friend ... : 'these sound[s] may or may not have been altered via stretching, scrunching, delaying, reverbing, panning, EQing, distorting, frequency filtering, layering, cutting, chopping, truncating, and altercaton via numerous, other sound-processing techniques.'"

~ Michael

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My pitch for Spotify radio:

"A meditative, calm, and soothing, ambient-electronic piece adorned with the hallowed sounds of nature, "Jaded" features Boards-of-Canada-ish textures and loops, yet tips-its-hat to nature, as it features -- for percussion -- the soft, rounded chirps of tree frogs and other night-time jungle beasts! It began -- like most of My works -- as an 'exercise; that is, I don't ever await inspiration to strike, but actually sit down intentionally to compose, audience to peaceful, inspiring 'randomness.'"

~ Michael Ash Sharbaugh, May 22, 2023.

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"Single Frog Chirp 'cluster'"
by Tom McLaughlin:

https://freesound.org/people/The_Sample_Workshop/sounds/631429/

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"MSfxp11 - 72 - (Synth Loop 100 BPM)"Check out Erokia on #SoundCloud [ Check out Erokia on #SoundCloud [ 
https://on.soundcloud.com/VDKnB]:

https://freesound.org/people/Erokia/sounds/664475/

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Jaded (feat. Erokia)

>>> DOWNLOAD <<<

"Jaded" - | - Michael Ash Sharbaugh (featuring Erokia)

Dark Star Approximately

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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