A percussion-only track made as an attempt to capture the spirit of the hypnotic rhythms of drum circles I've been part of. 

If you like it, feel free to use this track, DL should be on, and I offer it free under a creative commons attribution license. Please credit me (Jeffrey A. Trott) if you do use it. Contact me if you'd like a more raw and uncompressed version.

I'm only about 95 percent satisfied with the mastering, so I may re-master this in the near term.
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TriFour

TriFour - World Drums

Dynamic and narrative instrumental built around a simple piano hook and counterpoint. It's one of a few pieces that spun out of "Pianolo" a free form piano song. Piano, Brass, Electric Guitar, swirling Airy Synth bits and Thunderous smashing drums.

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Pianolo Song 1 Loved

Pianolo [Song 1] - Loved

Can a vintage computer voice program be used to "sing" a song? I don't know, but I set my mind to finding out, and this track is the result. 

Normally I avoid overwhelming listener's subwoofers with [EXCESSIVE SUBS], but for this track to "work" properly it just has to be. Why? Because I want your face to vibrate when you listen on speakers, and your brain to vibrate on headphones! So, if you want to play it in a club or on a  system with massive low-end, you might need to use a low-shelf or high pass filter.

If you listen hard, and have a bit of synesthesia, the ending fadeout tastes like metal. 

Vintage Computer Voice Synthesis - Bouncing Synth - Electronica Ironica

[Ver. 23_BAKED_03]

The World You Change

This one was started in 2016, and back-burnered 'til now. Strong synth groove and unexpected trappy percussion give it a tangible sense of drive and movement. Not related to the artist/singer AViVA in any way. 

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Aviva

WARNING: CONTAINS EARWORMS.  This track refused to stay quiet on it's hard-drive. It's infectious and oddly timed melodic layers continually looped in my head for weeks. Calliope like synths create a web that captures the flying guitar riffs, then drained by the spidery rhythm for your pleasure or torment.

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Lulling

I hope you all like this one, it's been brewing since 2020. Written as one of a pair with "To Confess - Vocal" which are both emotional story songs. I haven't sang in decades, so these tracks represent a renewal and a new direction. They've inspired me to craft a new vocal rock anthem based on the track "Aviva" and that one's coming down the pipeline soon.

Some unusual production techniques were used here. The vocal is reinforced with synthetic backup formants and harmonics, and the only "effect" used on the real vocals was doubling produced by performing multiple takes. No Melodyne, autotune, or saturation effects were used.

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Instruments:
4 Contrabasses
Piano
Lead Violin
14 Violin Section
Nylon String Acoustic Guitar
Voice
Synthetic Voice (Alter-Ego)

Taiko Drums
Ride Cymbals
Brushed Snare Drum
Snare Drum
Buzz-saw (literally, it bled into the vocals) 

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Amuse (2020 - Jeffrey A. Trott)
Lyrics: 

I wanna love all of you 
Everything you want to do 
To feel the sun of holding you 
To be the one you're turning to 
be the one to carry you home 
carry you home 

You're on a way to something new 
Experience you never knew 
Can I be the one you're turning to? 
Let me make a love with you 
and maybe it will carry us home 

How do we get, to there from here? 
Where is there, is it somewhere near? 
Will you take my hand, and still be amused? 
Just who are we, and who is who's? 

Can I be your angel? 
Will you be my muse? 

And all we'll feel is right 
Like sapphires in a satin sky 
Tonight (Your eyes) 
Your eyes so bright 

Warm and snuggled down by my side, 
For seasons come, through ebbing tides 
We'll rise (Alight) 
So wise your eyes 
Alight

There's somethings I should say to you 
You're someone I'm so afraid to lose 
Can we take the paths the other choose? 
Entwined to be a better two 

I wanna love all of you 
To feel just what you're going through 
You mean the things I say to you 
Though I don't know what you see me through 

Eyes of gray or eyes of blue 
Eyes of gray or eyes of blue 
As if we were ever new 

How will we know when we reach there? 
Is there something here, that is good and fair?  
In your shining eyes and flaxen hair 
I can see an angel, who could, who would be my muse 

And chasing down a dream 
That's partly blind 
and all obscenely fine 
[sapphire shine] 

This world has been turned upside down 
Let me be the one, to right you son 
Re-bound 
Sun found 

I wanna love all of you 
(be your angel) 
It's precious and it's old and new 
(my precious muse) 
Will you let me fall in love with you? 
(and you with me) 
Maybe make a dream come true 
Maybe we can dream a way home 
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Amuse

Amuse - Vocal

Pop anthem offering a message of power and hope in the face of oppression through an inclusive and pluralist perspective of the world. This track was really special to me and I hope some of you will hear what I hear in it, or feel what I felt. 

Inspired by an instrumental electronic track I released a few months ago. Be sure to check out that track "Aviva", which has a similar vibe but very different components and production. Not related to the artist/singer AViVA in any way.

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Lyrics:
Aviva V (Copyright 2024 Jeffrey A. Trott)

It's plain
There's a way
To convey 
	what we feel is insane
	 
Vita zeine 
To the gray
We have lived for this day

To remain
To retain the life we can change

Aviva is the light of our flame

As we rage
And we dream
	through our screams
	like the words on our page

Where we see
To be free 
	of this creed
	we must read
	all the signs
	we defied just to find our own stage
	And to find life outside of the cage

We've now
Nothing more
Just to prove, alive, that we are 
Some how 
Something for
The force of light to bring out

To contain
To restrain 
    the darkness in our names

Aviva is our season of rain

Aviva
She will lift
Every voice that's adrift
Singing out
Singing proud
    for the gift of the days
	     we're allowed

A refrain
To engrain
    The song we have made

Aviva is the music we've played
Aviva is the prayer we have prayed
Aviva is the rights of our way
Aviva is the love we have laid

[Ver. AvivaVoc_101_SL_25]

Aviva V

Aviva V - Vocal

This instrumental track is wonderfully ambiguous and magically rhythmic. The first version was released when I was working as Sonoxia (in 2015). This new remix and remaster brings back this uplifting song and polishes her with modern amenities. Positively in my top 5 tracks that I've composed or produced.

ChordOne

[WARNING: Contains UNEXPECTED CONCUSSIVE SOUNDS like warfare. IF YOU SUFFER PTSD FROM MILITARY BATTLE OR ARE SENSITIVE TO AUDIO CONCUSSIONS, SKIP OR LISTEN AT A LOW VOLUME.]

This song is for everyone fighting against the culture of cruelty. 
I hope that it can serve as both emollient and armor.

This is a protest song. This is my fight song and battle cry. This is a song of defiance. I'm calling the genre Melodic Punk, but the theory is that we tried to scream the words and they covered their ears, so we will make sounds they want to hear and we can change their minds in a way they won't ignore. 
   
I feel strongly about the message of this anthem, so I offer this track free for download and re-distribution here. Please share it with anyone who will listen.


A complex soundscape expands out of an unusual arrangement (Voice, Arturia's Augmented Mallets, Piano, Electric Guitar, Analog Synth, Mellotron, Choir, Taiko Drums, Timpani and other percussions.) 
 
Lyrics:
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Anaesthetic (Copyright 2025 Jeffrey A. Trott)

Let's see what we have to go do
    or let's make something new
Let's be who we want, to be true
'Cause we won't be anaesthetized by you

Let's believe we don't have to be
Inside their dark schemes maligning our dreams
Let us conceive the force to be free
'Cause we won't be deceptualized, you'll see

You'll see, Ahh you'll see, you'll see
Oh, you'll see

Let's dream we'll be the change of the sea
     'Cause there's something wrong
          with not seeing beneath
     There's something gone wrong
           if we think money is speech
               'Cause it means that the meek
                    can't actually say a thing

For free, ahh nor sleep, for free,
Oh, no thing, is free anymore

Let's go to see what we have to do
     and we'll overcome it 
     like it's something we knew
We'll overrun our fear
     in our pledge to the truth 
'Cause we can't be
     uncivilized like you
     anaesthetized like you
     re-contextualized by you
     as compromised as you

Your Jedi mind tricks 
     will not work on me
Impervious am I 
     to your fantasy
Betrayer I am
     of all that is greed
(And) No money can be made from anarchy

Let's build a world
     that's focused on truth
And unfurl the furled flags 
     of reason and proof
Let's hold the pearl
     of this world we could lose
     Close to our hearts
     Not splintered beneath our shoes

Your Jedi mind tricks
     will not work on us
Oblivious you are
      to our lack of trust
Purveyor you are
     of hate and money and lust
     But we won't be drained
          strained
          or turning into your dust

And this thin glass cage will bust

And we won't be anaesthetized by you
And we won't be anaesthetized by you
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Anaesthetic

Anaesthetic - Vocal

Summoning Dirty Max (featuring Dirty Max)

Behold (The Belly Dance)

Mixed. Remixed. Twisted. Burned. Reborn.
This is not an album, it’s a ritual.
I'll drag you through smoke, spells, and sub-bass straight into the fire with this cursed collection of sex-drenched, Arabic-dubbed, satanic sleaze. Crafted with occult precision:
✨ Numerology
✨ Kabbalistic formulas
✨ Backward-masked demons
✨ Blood-stained loops

And just when it couldn’t get filthier, Dirty Max showed up to spit blasphemy on a track and left the studio in flames. This is a feat of mess. A ceremony of chaos.
🔺 Play it backwards.
🔺 Play it loud.

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