'Signature Grin'
ML Ruubz
From my upcoming sophomore album, 'Chasing Summer'

'Signature Grin' is the first lead single from my upcoming album, 'Chasing Summer', out early 2023!

It's a fun and silly pop-fusion track about accidentally bumping into an ex lover / former flame... but there are still sparks between you 😘✨💖

I've also got a little extra surprise for anyone who loves our sound! If you like what you hear and you just can't wait until next year for the full album to drop, I'm offering early access to 4 more unreleased songs that will appear on 'Chasing Summer'. All you have to do is either follow me on Spotify or YouTube via link below and it will send you the early access link:

Spotify unlock early access to 'Chasing Summer': https://show.co/phNWbr2

YouTube unlock early access to 'Chasing Summer': https://show.co/VS3q3lG

Happy listening! ❤️❤️❤️

Hope you enjoy it 😊

----- Lyrics -----

It was a good day.
A really good day.
Erring, perhaps,
On the side of 'too good to be true'...
It was a good day,
A really good day, yeah.
Perfectly normal,
Perfectly fucking good.

Then I saw you again.
Oh yes, I saw you again.
One step in, and
There you are with that sunny grin.
That s-s-signature grin.

Aren’t they sneaky?
So very sneaky.
Moments like that,
So damn serendipitous.
Did you not see me
Falling so sweetly?
Hoping, perhaps,
For another chance at us...

And then I saw you again.
Oh yes, I saw you again.
One step in, and
There you are with that sunny grin.
That s-s-signature grin.

Yes, that
Stupid, sunny,
Silly, sorry,
Super stunning —
Shit, he saw me! —
Serious,
Mysterious,
Self-possessedly
Oh-so-sexy,
Same old s-s-signature grin, yeah.
That s-s-signature grin.

----- Credits -----

Composition, lyrics, & production | ML Ruubz
Electric piano, vocals, & backing vocals | ML Ruubz
Organ | Johann Rodricks
Guitar | Cam Ellis
Bass | James Vinciullo
Drums | Ryan Daunt
Co-production, engineering, & mixing | Rob Agostini
Recorded at | Soundbaker Studios, Perth
Mastering | William Bowden, King Willy Sound
Artwork | Jen Datu
Graphic design | Angelyne Wolfe at Bling Design

----- Links -----

Instagram: www.instagram.com/mlruubz
Facebook: www.facebook.com/mlruubz
YouTube: www.youtube.com/mlruubzmusic
Band Camp: www.mlruubz.bandcamp.com
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0LSvPjjk1x22WzaG9Gvy5J
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/1232001606
SoundCloud: @mlruubz

Chasing Summer

Signature Grin

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Ladies & Gentlemen... I give you my heart and soul.

For a FREE download click "Buy"
Apple Music: https://itun.es/us/KL1Qab?i=1084971680 
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/1Omncyui45EGTEZvOlEmt4


This song has been ranked on SoundCloud's top 15 Experimental tracks and #1 on The Artist Union's Experimental charts for months. This track has also been supported by: 
- Florida International University's Student Media division
- @theartistunion
- @chillandvibe
- @the-fx-six (http://www.thedeafnerfx.com/the-groove-combine-fall-2015)
- ...and various others around our world. (Thank you!)

This is the 3rd episode on my ongoing concept tape series: D.A.H. Warm Up. Find others songs from the tape here: https://soundcloud.com/dahtrump/sets/d-a-h-warm-up-beat-tape

⚡️ FREE DOWNLOAD ⚡️

Heart & Soul

My latest is another collaboration with the legend, Bruce Conover. He invited me to add some horn to his recent recording, Trickle-Down Day. I've added a melody at the beginning, doubled up using two different mutes, as well as a solo towards the end. 

Check out Bruce's other works: https://soundcloud.com/conover

Here is a link to the original track: https://soundcloud.com/bruce-conover/trickle-down-day

I have made this track downloadable in high-resolution. 

Melodyne notes: Using Melodyne Studio, it was easy making touch ups on the melody at the beginning. There are two different trumpet tracks where I recorded the same part with two different mutes. Being able to see both tracks overlayed together makes it easy to tighten up the timing. Super cool. =^]  

Photo manipulation art by Styrmonix.

Trickle-Down Day

TRICKLE - DOWN DAY - CONOVER & STYRMONIX (Free DL)

Jamie Rhind invited me to collaborate on this recording which was amazing as these guys are solid. With Jamie as the bandleader directing the show, the result is fabulous and funky. =^]

Jamie Rhind: Keyboards, Arrangement, Mixing
Styrmonix: Trumpet and Voice
Stephan "Pinner" Lipinski: Rhythm Guitar and Guitar Solo
Scott Nelson: Guitar Solo

Check out their music:
https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind
https://soundcloud.com/pinner
https://soundcloud.com/scott-nelson-364333064

Photo manipulation art by Styrmonix.

BA BA DE BAP

BA BA DE BAP - Jamie Rhind / Stephan Lipinski / Scott Nelson / Styrmonix

Singer: https://soundcloud.com/duela 

Lyrics:
See we all feel it
But we can't be sure
Don't understand it
But we cant ignore
But what they won't tell you
I'll reassure
Cause I feel it too
There's something more


I wish you well 
I wish you learn to fly 
I wish you heaven 
I wish you never die
You'll live forever
See you on the other side
We'll fly together
I won't be hard to find

And this heart of mine/
Beating from the ancient to the modern times
And I don't mind
If I gotta go cause I'm on God's time
And I been here before, I'll do it again
Same soul but I'm in different skin
Im so indefinite
Infinity beyond
Dig up my tomb see these lyrics on the wall
I remember like I never died
In the physical but live like it's the otherside
In this pivotal moment 
I choose to live in the moment
Though I know I'm still existing in other times
Do you remember me?
Don't have a familiar energy
I was born in your thoughts through your instincts
Twas a short lil divorces did you miss me?

Many lifetimes many many lifetimes
I been at this music for many lifetimes
Played on them planes where they aint got no planes
But there aint no complaints
Cause the wings in your minds eye
I put plenty in their right mind
I tell them life and death is just like day and night time
Just because its dark doesnt mean it aint the right time
There is beauty in death like there's beauty in the night sky
Do you remember me?
Do you really think you did this independently?
Does looking in my eyes jog your memory?
Tell me what your feeling is it meant to be?
When we was other side you fly beside me
Our souls intertwined you the light inside me
The synchronicities will lift the blinders
She asked me "what took you so long to find me?"

If you feel it inside you
Then let me remind you
Thoughts they travel
Feelings they travel
You may be feeling what I do
So that feeling is real
But they don't know they won't there
But we are aware
We'll be live forever
I'll see you again

Untitled (by Apollo Main X Duela)

Your Lips feat. Debra.mp3



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Feel II

A track as delicate as it's title.

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Hanakotoba (花言葉)

Here's a swinging version of Summertime, George Gershwin's classic.  I'm on Hammond organ on the right channel and playing to a Jamey Abersold backing track.  

Thanks as always for your generous time, for your comments and for your shares.

Summertime

Vocals & Lyrics: Clerida, @apollomain
Production: Moo Latte
Mix & Mastering: Brian Massaka
Artwork: Debra Brown Baez

Lyrics:

I never seen a reign so long
I swear I never wanted to make this song
I never seen the fam so hurt
I swear I never wanted to write this verse

As a man i dont understand it/ im a parasite to the planet/ where paradise was apparent/ im a pair of dice to the paradigm/ its a gamble what you inherit/ cause black lives will vanish/ if i take back im a bandit/ when the earth storms im abandoned/ as the earth clease realize im the dirt/ cause I get washed and I get hurt/ then im stepped/ by the other man/ but the brother man get above the rim/ above the goverment/ raise above against/ the ones that come against him/ but the dark abyss make it hard to banish that curse/ sometimes we make matters worst/ 

You may be grown
You may feel crazy
But you still Gods little baby
Baby... baby
Please don't be what you see

You may feel old
And forgotten lately
Your still Gods little baby
Baby... baby
Please don't be what you see


I know your hunger kid
I know they hung your dad
Burned your mama crib 
I know that hurt you bad

I love living atrocious/ I love living it broke and cinnamon toast for dinner with roaches/ love hideous clothes/ denim with holes and dingiest loafers/ I wanna live in a hole where women are hoes and niggas are volchers/ I wanna sit on my throne and depend on my own/ while hitting them corners/It's the adrenaline of no benevolence living in hell with the cobras/ and I'll remember it like imma elephant/ that I'm a innocent hopeless/ and imma settle for loading the metal and blowing your head off your shoulders/ and imma prey I make it to heaven when under these heavy emotions/ cuzz I'm on a level with all of the Devils so can not tell who's the culpret/ and so for the hell of it put on my helmet holding my head imma soldier/ and I'm gonna stand cuz I'm a real man don't dare put your head in my shoulder/ cuzz when I am alone and I had no home/ you won't let me sleep on your sofa/ so when I got dough I'm gonna reload and you gonna reap what you sowed up/ cuzz I don got cold while living in lows looking for heat to warm up/ I wanna go and I wanna float but I'm so deep in the water/ that I can breathe it's over/ 

Cuzz it's too late for a brother like me
Before I'm born you dug a grave for a brother like me
Won't lend a hand but you just prey for a brother like me
Don't understand so degrading a brother like me

Spotify

God's Little Baby - Apollo Main feat. Clerida (Prod. Moo Latte)

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'Chasing Summer' album out now!

'Segue on the Beach' album available at https://mlruubz.bandcamp.com/releases
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