@svetlana-kononova: WOW you've made my day Svetlanika with your wonderful compliments on this song, I am really happy you enjoyed this piece so much

Sweet melody! Nice solid sound! I like really your highs!

John, You are amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

how is it that whenever I listen to your music I realize that I can breath deeper, see further and feel stronger?....thank you, John, this is a glorious track and a splendid gift i'll cherish xxxx

@ruud-lockefeir: Thank you so much Rudi, I am really glad you enjoyed this special song for me so much :-)  

@ruud-lockefeir: That's a very big compliments for me coming from you Rudi

Darrell Heath/My Dog  Spike

Welcome to our version  (experimental )  on Ennio Morricone’s  “Once upon a time in the West (theme)”
We wanted to do an experiment, make a piece in complete free hand (free motion) without metronome, starting to create choirs first to make them sound as realistic as possible, and then create an orchestra around those tracks.

We split up the song in 2 parts, as by hearing the original soundtrack has 2 different rhythms / tempo’s, and we worked on those 2 parts separately, without consulting each other as we normally do by Skype, email  or telephone.

As we all know people hear and experience different things in music, and we just wanted to see how close our creations would come together in the pre-production, when all the tracks were completed,  I cut all the tracks in bits of 1 second, and I allowed myself to make slight changes within parts of 0,125 second on all tracks to make both Matt’s and my instruments sound as smooth as possible, keeping the Ennio’s main theme sound recognizable for everybody, and still give it our own signature at the same time, because we don’t  want to sound like copy-cats.

Most musicians and composers will say that’s impossible, as we also thought so ourselves ( especially as Matt lives in England and I in Holland, so we can’t sit next to each other ), but we did it anyway, another prove that collaborating and creating music together for almost 3 years, makes us a solid team, and we understand each other almost blindly, and I am very proud of Matt what he has accomplished through the years, and honored to work together with him.
Although this may not sound exactly like the soundtrack most of you know it, we hope you will enjoy our version too.

We are planning to do the “final” of Ennio’s composition (which is longer) later this year, with real voices.

Composer:  Ennio Morricone
Arrangement:  John Styles & Matt Baker
Instruments & voices:  Matt baker & John Styles
Producer:  John Styles

All your comments and advices are very much appreciated as always, all the best for now, John Styles & Matt Baker 


John Styles & Matt Baker - Once upon a time in the West

Hi There and welcome to the latest release from NEON MONLITH, 'Love Masquerade'


Lyrics, Composition, All Instruments, Arrangement, Vocals & Production: Matt Baker

Comments and feedback most welcome

Thanks for listening

Peace, Love & Respect

Matt

Love Masquerade - NEON MONOLITH

Hi there and welcome to one my latest compositions for Music For Brains, 'Arduinna' 

This track is inspired by the Celtic Goddess of the Forest. 

Arduinna, Gaulish Goddess of Forests and Hunting is one of the many Celtic Goddesses who is associated with a particular region or body of water.  She was worshipped in the heavily forested regions of the Ardennes, located in what is current day Belgium and Luxembourg with small portions found in France and Germany. She was also associated with the Forest of Arden in England. Her name has its roots in the Gaulish word “arduo” meaning “height”.

I like the thought of the Ancient association with deities that influenced the passing of time and the more basic needs, harvest, forests, hunting, fertility etc, before the world was as complicated and fast paced. 

In this track I imagine wondering through an ancient woodland on a spring morning with the sunlight tracing beams through the woodland canopy, casting pools of light across the forest floor.

Composition, All Instruments, Arrangement & Production: Matt Baker

Recorded in Yew Tree Studios Liverpool

I hope you enjoy this track and a short rest to reflect upon the wonder of nature.

Comments and feedback most welcome

All the best for now, Matt

Arduinna - Music For Brains

Hi there and welcome to the latest release from NEON MONOLITH, 'Nostalgia'

This track is potentially going to be the title track of a new album of NEON MONOLITH track I plan to release soon. It is a homage to growing up in the 80's when listening to the radio, or a cassette of the hit parade (top of the pops, or the charts back then), was all that you lived for. Going to your friends house with your box of single or cassette, sitting in your bedroom, with posters on the walls, talking about things and writing songs.

Dreaming of a day when you may have a 4 or 8 track recorder, a sequencer, drum machine and a synthesiser. I used to buy melody maker magazine just to look at the adverts for gear.

Lyrics, Composition, All instruments, drum programming, sequences, melodies, arrangement, vocals and production: Matt Baker

NOSTALGIA by Matt Baker 2025

Woke up to a picture frame
Smiling faces, can't recall their names
Neon lights and distant songs
Echo where my heart belongs

Static on the radio
Takes me where I use to go
Every beat a flash in time
Dancing in the fading light

Nostalgia pulls me back in time
Flashing scenes race before my eyes
Moments lost, but still alive
In the reaches of my mind

An old cassette a worn out track
Plays the dreams I can't get back
Like shadows on the silver screen
My broken heart a teenage dream

Voices from the hit parade
A pumping beat a serenade
Every steps I take today
Reminds me of yesterday

Nostalgia pulls me back in time
Flashing scenes race before my eyes
Moments lost, but still alive
In the reaches of my mind

Times an illusion age a disguise
But nothings lost behind those eyes
In the mirror I still see
A trace of who I used to be

Nostalgia Play it one more time
Bring me back to feel my prime
Hold me close but let me free
To be the person I used to be

To be the person I use to be
To be the person I use to be
To be the person I use to be (static on the radio, takes me where I use to go)
To be the person I use to be (static on the radio, takes me where I use to go)

End

Thanks for listening

Comments and feedback most welcome

Peace, Love & Respect

Matt x

Nostalgia - NEON MONOLITH

Written, arranged & produced by Ralf Reichelt
05.2025

Solang mein Herz noch weiß ist ein Lied aus der Stille.

Es erzählt von einem Leben im Rückzug – von Tagen, an denen selbst das Atmen schwer wird, vom leisen Verblassen im eigenen Raum.

Geschrieben aus der Perspektive von ME/CFS-Betroffenen, nähert sich der Song der Erschöpfung mit Sanftheit, nicht mit Dramatik.

Und doch bleibt da etwas: ein Funke.
Hoffnung. Erinnerung. Ein Herz, das weiß, was war – und was vielleicht wieder werden kann.



Eine Jazzballade für die, die kaum gehört werden. Und für die, die trotzdem weiter fühlen.

Solang mein Herz noch weiß

Hi there and welcome to my latest INNER FIRE track, 'Under the Stars'

This song is written for those of us who live with challenge of long distance relationships, when you are far away from those who you love and cherish most, but sadly can't be with. This hardship can be very difficult to bare, but I imagine all of us look to the sky at night and wonder if we are looking at the same bright star.

Lyrics, Composition, All instruments, vocals, Arrangement & Production: Matt Baker

Comments and feedback are most welcome

I hope you enjoy it and thank you for listening

Peace, Love & Respect

Matt 

Under the Stars - INNER FIRE

Welcome to our latest release, 'Wall Between Us' By INNER FIRE



Walls Between Us - INNER FIRE

Hi there and welcome to the latest release from INNER FIRE, 'When the Piper Comes'

This track was written during the summer but had remained unfinished until recently. Its a slightly different style to our other tracks, but we were keen to explore a track with a bit of story telling behind it.

All Lyrics, Composition, Instruments, Vocals & Production: Matt Baker
Arrangement: Matt Baker & Joe Kennedy

We hope you enjoy our creation, comments and feedback most welcome.

Peace, Love & Respect

Matt & Joe

When The Piper Comes - INNER FIRE

Hi there and welcome to latest release from NEON MONOLITH, 'Christmas Memories' 🎄

I hope this track brings you joy and a moments happiness at this special time of year. With so many happy memories of Christmas's long ago, the true gift is the family and friends we share this special time of year with.

Wishing you a fantastic Christmas and all the very best for 2026

Please, Love & Respect ❤️

Matt

Christmas Memories - NEON MONOLITH

Hi there and welcome to my latest release, 'A Christmas Carol'

Every year I try to write a few different Christmas tracks.  I really enjoy the challenge of writing Christmas tracks as it helps me reflect and gets me in the mood for this special time of year. I really hope one day that one of my tracks will attract the attention of someone that wants to use my music,  either for a stage productions, as short film or perhaps a Christmas concert. 

In this track I hope to portray some of the themes I feel could work for 'A Christmas Carol' This track took a lot of work and there are 50 or so instruments in total. I am really please with the finished track, but do wonder if I may need to create a part II to continue the story.

I hope you enjoy my creation and that it helps you to get ready for Christmas.

Comments and feedback most welcome

Thanks for listening

Peace, Love & Respect

Matt

A Christmas Carol - Matt Baker

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My Dog Spike  a story about my first Dog !!even though in ended in tragedy Spike will never be forgotten  for he was my best Dog.....

My Dog Spike/ DARRELL HEATH

I am strong enough to fight each battle, and I can handle all troubles that comes on my path, but I can't handle and fight against "The tears in your eyes", they hurt me more then anything else in the world.

When you wake up out of a dream with a strange inner pain, but you don't know why or what for, and then look at your beloved one, and she has tears in her eyes while she sleeps, believe me they hurt you more then anthing else.

This is the second pre-release, and I thank all my loyal listeners for writing me also, and yes you're right this song is created out of 2 songs "No Secrets" and "The tears in your Eyes" and I merged them together because to me these two songs has questions and answers.
I just want you all to enjoy this beauty, it cost me a lot of tears making it, and because of that I really think I gave it my very best shot.
This version is already  the 3th release, so enjoy my dear friends and loyal listeners of my music. 

If you want to listen to the original "The Tears in your Eyes" (single version) go to:

http://soundcloud.com/john-styles-projects/john-styles-the-tears-in-your

Composed, performed, arranged and produced by John Styles

John Styles - The Tears in your Eyes (Extended) Part 2

My first puppy and the story behind...My Dog Spike !!!

My Dog Spike

Story about my first puppy... My Dog Spike

I am John de Bruijn, born in Holland in 1956, since 1972 I'm a songwriter, composer, producer and arranger by the name John Styles, and I recorded several songs within different Projects also with other groups.
I wrote a lot of ballads in the past also for other artists, when i started working within Projects, I started into making background / theme-music for docu's, movies & commercials, and I still do.

For more then 9 years I work together with http://soundcloud.com/matbaker1970, we composed and co-writed together for Themes / Scores / Soundtracks for Films and Docu's, we hope our music might one day be featured in a Film, Docu or Commercial.
We released a charity album: https://soundcloud.com/onevision-crossworlds/love-hope-forever-preview
Our latest projects: https://soundcloud.com/feng-shui-music and we're now working together on Music4Brains Project, in which we're creating music for people with brains enjury, anxiety and overstimulation problems to help them to coop with their dayly problems accepting different types of sounds & noice. 

Our band: http://soundcloud.com/euphoriqa includes Hemmo ( http://soundcloud.com/age-r ) and Ralf ( http://soundcloud.com/bingzhu ) were making covers for fun, we also compose / write songs, which could be used as soundtracks or themesongs too.
With https://soundcloud.com/quenya-projects we ask other musicians to join us to collab on NewAge, Celtic and Folk / experimental type of music.

I also collaborated with many artists over the years, We found the right way to work together, talking on the phone or skype discussing what or how we want things to be build up, and keep sending tracks back and forth till we're all satisfied.
The nice thing of working into those Projects is that you can help new talents on their way, and working with them also gave me other chances, and I became a allround songwriter / composer within all styles and types of music.
I traveled all over the world to scout for new talents, which made me a more fulfilling person, and I feel rich (not moneywise), being so close to so many cultures I learned so much, and I also make Therapy Music for about 10 years now.

I am very happy that my music helps so many people all over the world, and that I can use my talent to help others, so that my God's given gift can be spread out and touch others, I'm blessed to be able to reach so many hearts and souls.
Music is my drive, without it I wouldn't feel alive, it's also a therapy for me, and luckily my family supports me all the way, that makes me a very happy man, and hopefully you'll be able to hear and sense that within my music, ENJOY my music!!!!!

I have collaborated with:



http://soundcloud.com/bingzhu
http://soundcloud.com/age-r
http://soundcloud.com/matbaker1970
http://soundcloud.com/euphoriqa
http://soundcloud.com/quenya-projects
https://soundcloud.com/oliver-papke-freier-piano-k-nstler
http://soundcloud.com/megsmusicjourney
http://soundcloud.com/the-wilburys
http://soundcloud.com/dkouglas
http://soundcloud.com/booback
http://soundcloud.com/moore_jeep
http://soundcloud.com/costas-christodoulou-1
http://soundcloud.com/padruna
http://soundcloud.com/luck4ever
https://soundcloud.com/ma56
https://soundcloud.com/achazia
https://soundcloud.com/debhenriksson
https://soundcloud.com/rustystringz
https://soundcloud.com/studiorivy
https://soundcloud.com/aprilgibsonmusic
https://soundcloud.com/the-orchestra
https://soundcloud.com/ice-requiem
https://soundcloud.com/a-multitude-of-one
https://soundcloud.com/a-live-music-project
https://soundcloud.com/donna-murray-1
https://soundcloud.com/koenjanssenmusic
https://soundcloud.com/fivosvalachis

When you are also interested of collaborating with me or join a project, please visit:  http://soundcloud.com/john-styles-projects as well and leave a message there.

If you want to collaborate or use my music in remixes, just ask me by writing me a message, don't just use it, cause then it's stealing, let's be fair all together.

John Styles - The Tears in your Eyes (Extended) Part 2

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