11/17/2025

I've Said It All

In this track I used harmonica, electric guitars, Rhodes, synths, B3, congas, shaker, drums & electric bass.
Thank you for listening !

Composition: Julien Apelian
Recording studio: Audio Colors
November, 26th, 2025

On the Road

This is the first track with me and my dear son together.
He made this beautiful music and mix, I made lyrics and vocals
Thank you so much, EffAy (Fredrik),  you are awesome!
🫶
(Sounds best with ear phones)

I'm  floating on a wave...
Flying in the wind...
I'm dancing to the light...
Breathng the air of life....

Floating

Qualquer coisa que faça quase sentir

The Vision of Awakening

Not by faith
Nor by words alone
But by seeing the truth 
Within your own

You’ll know these truths 
In threefold way
To know 
To do 
To be 
Each day

I saw the Truth 
Of Suffering clear
I knew it must be 
Understood here

I saw the Truth 
Of Cause appear
I knew it must be 
Abandoned, dear

I saw the Truth 
Of Ending near
I knew it must 
Be realized, sheer

I saw the Truth 
Of Path sincere
I knew it must 
Be followed
No fear

Only when all 
Twelve lights aligned
Did I awaken 
Beyond space and time

Only then did I proclaim
The deathless is found 
The unbinding flame

---

© tantrikas.com 2025  
All rights reserved.  
🎶 Explore more music and lyrics at [tantrikas.com](https://tantrikas.com)  
🎶 GitHub - tantrikas-lyrics-published

------------------------
🔹 Meaning Behind “the Twelve Lights”

In Buddhist philosophy, twelve nidānas (links) describe how ignorance gives rise to suffering and rebirth.
The phrase “twelve lights aligned” symbolizes the illumination of these twelve causal links — seeing clearly how each arises and ceases.

They are:

1	Avijjā — Ignorance

2	Saṅkhāra — Mental formations

3 	Viññāṇa — Consciousness

4	Nāma-rūpa — Name and form

5	Saḷāyatana — Six sense bases

6	Phassa — Contact

7	Vedanā — Feeling

8	Taṇhā — Craving

9	Upādāna — Clinging

10	Bhava — Becoming

11	Jāti — Birth

12	Jarāmaraṇa — Aging and death

When the Buddha saw their dependent arising and cessation — the full turning of this wheel — he attained enlightenment.
So the “twelve lights” = twelve insights illuminated simultaneously.

The Vision of Awakening

This piece was inspired by a particular Shakespeare sonnet.

                      Sonnet 106
          
When in the chronicle of wasted time
I see descriptions of the fairest wights,
And beauty making beautiful old rhyme,
In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights,
Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty's best,
Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow,
I see their antique pen would have express'd
Even such a beauty as you master now.
So all their praises are but prophecies
Of this our time, all you prefiguring;
And, for they look'd but with divining eyes,
They had not skill enough your worth to sing:

For we, which now behold these present days,
Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.

Descriptions Of The Fairest Wights

Well  (Håkan) ….. synths, beats and co-composition
https://on.soundcloud.com/ar1bZ5l5jRJSHsLJke
Surfers like Us  (Artur) ….. guitar, mix and co-composition 

The cover image - Milky Way - downloaded from Pixabay

Hi Everyone!
This is another joint track by our duo and the first one after a slightly longer break. 
We invite everyone to take a ride on the cosmic highway through the Milky Way. For now, it's all happening in our imagination, but one day... in the future... who knows?
We refer here to our previous songs (especially “Winter Trip”) and surf-ambient sounds, but we also try to add new elements and textures. 
We hope you enjoy our new project! 
Have a nice trip! 🌔

Milky Hi-Way (w/Well)

I have acquired a new hobby of keeping a fish tank. I only have mostly aquatic snails in it, but I become totally absorbed as I watch them. This movement is not about an aquarium per se, but it does describe the peace of mind I discovered in the recent days.

Wind Quintet, First Movement

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everybody! I hope everyone is enjoying a safe and happy Christmas this year! This is my new Christmas song for this year, I wrote it during the summer like all great Christmas songs!😂 Of course, Love is appreciated all year-round but it's really important during this time of year! I know some people get depressed during the holidays and I wrote this song to cheer everybody up because "Love Is A Holiday", am I right? It's understood and it makes you feel so good! So let love lead the way! I was very depressed during the holidays after my divorce and I felt abandoned and very alone for several years and then guess what? The magic of love returned and the joy of Christmas filled my heart once again that very first Christmas after I met Anita. It's been almost 20 years now and Christmas has been wonderful ever since! Ho-Ho-Holy Moly, I think I'm going to cry!🥺👀😂
     I recorded this song by myself and kept building on it over several days! If I had a choir it would be singing this song with me! It's one of my feel good songs and I hope that feeling infects everyone that listens to it this Christmas. It's very much a sing-a-long, Fa-La-La-La-La type of song with 2 special treats attatched to it!!! 

VIDEO - https://youtu.be/OQnsHTkGS8s

     In the video during the ending credits, I added Sharri Hobbs singing "The Christmas Song" back in 2002. Then after that song, I attached a Christmas Bonus Video of the very first Christmas song I ever wrote back in 2000 called "Have A Very Merry Christmas"! This video also has Sharri singing it and me and Charlie singing back-up vocals and was originally directed by Anita and one of our first videos. I enhanced and remixed it a bit this year and remixed the audio too! All in All this video is super long because of the remixing I did and the bonus material, it's about 8 minutes long, but it's my Christmas gift to everybody this year!  This video will drop on Dec 15th on YouTube so don't forget to come back and watch it!🎅☃️🎄
     I don't know how much longer I have left but I will try to make the whole world sing in perfect harmony as long as I can! Love and music unites us all and we need unity more than ever now! So let's all grab a cup of Christmas Cheer and invite the Christmas Spirit to fill our hearts and love one another right now! MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY and please remember "Love Is A Holiday"! Cheers!🙏😎✌🏼🎅🧑🏻‍🎄🤶🥂😍🥰😘🥳🤗🫢🎄⭐️🌟✨☃️❄️👍
 
“LOVE IS A HOLIDAY"

LOVE IS A HOLIDAY, LOVE IS THE ONLY WAY,
IT’S UNDERSTOOD, IT MAKES YOU FEEL SO GOOD, 
LOVE IS A HOLIDAY,

I’VE BEEN DEPRESSED SO LONG,
FELT LOVE HAD DONE ME WRONG, 
THEN YOU TURNED MY LIFE AROUND, 
IN OH SO MANY WAYS, YEAH,
LOVE IS A HOLIDAY,

LOVE IS A HOLIDAY, LOVE IS THE ONLY WAY,
IT’S UNDERSTOOD, IT MAKES YOU FEEL SO GOOD, 
LOVE IS A HOLIDAY,

LOVE HAS ITS UPS AND DOWNS,
SOMETIMES IT’S LOST THEN FOUND,
IT CAN BE VERY HIT OR MISS,
UNTIL IT FINALLY GOES YOUR WAY, YEAH, 
LOVE IS A HOLIDAY,

NURSING A BROKEN HEART, 
IT ALWAYS HURTS TO LOSE,
LOVE CAME INTO MY LIFE, 
AND CHANGED MY POINT OF VIEW,
NOW MY HEART FEELS BRAND NEW,

LOVE IS A HOLIDAY, LOVE IS THE ONLY WAY,
IT’S UNDERSTOOD, IT MAKES YOU FEEL SO GOOD, 
LOVE IS A HOLIDAY, 
LOVE IS A HOLIDAY, OH YEAH,
LOVE IS A HOLIDAY.
         
BY JIM VALDES © 2025

"LOVE IS A HOLIDAY" (Video - https://youtu.be/OQnsHTkGS8s)

A new track from me and my son  EffAy  (Fredrik)
He  played the guitar and made the mix
I made lyrics and vocal
Thank you once again, Fredrik. So glad you will make music with your mum ❤️

Thank you so much for listening 🫶

Lyrics:

The morning dew is here
Old memories come through..
The taste of coffee, makes me think
I used to drink it with you...
I see your face in the morning dew..

The morning dew is here
But slowly the sky turns blue
I drink my coffee, look around and smile
The sunbeams dance around you
And chase away the morning dew...

Morning Dew

Composed and played on my Macbook Pro keyboard using Orchestral Tools and Strezov choirs.

Approaching Storm

I’m a song-writer who enjoys creating music of any genre.

My son recently introduced me to A.I. and taught me how to do covers of my previously released non-A.I. music. Since I've never considered myself a performer (except playing with worship bands at church or solo-piano at a rehab center) using A.I. is right up my alley.

Since I've  exhausted using my previously released music for A.I. covers, I now compose music in a DAW, rip to a wave file, and make an A.I. cover of this wave file. I then write lyrics to the A.I. music. It takes around 100 A.I. iterations to complete the lyrics and get a style I'm happy with.  

Brief Bio: Lived more than a quarter of my life overseas (Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkiye, Italy, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan). Each country gave me an appreciation for different types of music plus probably why I get bored easily in sticking with one genre or another.

Approaching Storm

Mike Krath