Journey Back is Via's second album.  Like "Journey's End", these songs were recorded on a Tascam 4-track cassette console, but Via learned about midi for some of these tracks.  This allowed for some more interesting mixes.  Still 'home demo' quality, we think the songs still stand up.  But boy, we'd really love a chance to record in a studio one day:-)

Journey Back

Via is proud to be working on our third album.  Since we do not do this professionally, the process takes a while.  But we are selecting songs from our sketch library and writing new tunes to eventually make this a full length album.  This is what we have so far.  Thanks for listening.  Oh, and still no 'real studio' time.

Journey Continues

The Covers / Tribute Songs

First demo tape from Via, 1989, all recorded with four track tascam tape deck, very little natural skills but alot of enthusiams.  These are 'not for radio' quality, but still contain the essence of the original songs.  Thanks for listening.

Journey's End

Life Without You (Is Just Me)

This demo is that basic feel good pop song you like to hear after meeting someone new and special.

Sentenced To Love

This song asks that age old question, will this ever be down to just you and me?  Or will other things keep just getting in the way.

Down To You And Me

Shocked By Love

A cover of a song from my first favorite band, Chicago!

The Covers

Colour My World

Not a 'loved and lost' song, but more of a 'loved, but you never really loved me back' song.  However, she still made you feel special.

Let You Go

The opening track of Via's first demo album, Journey's End.

Venus In Your Eyes

Fists At The Sky

Arc Song

Psalm 121

Follow Evermore

Not Mocked

This song reminds America that she can be beautiful again!

To The Republic

Love Of A Lifetime

Covers and Tributes

The Ghost In You

Via Intro For Soundcloud

This demo track is a bit bassy, but if you can get past it, you'll hear a rockin' song in there.

Video Voodoo

Yesterday's Time

One of our first favorite bands, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, from their second album, this is Enola Gay.

Covers and Tributres

Enola Gay

Singing is never easy for us, so we tried to take extra time on the vocals.  I think they are good enough to not be distracting to the song.  We hope you enjoy.

Coming Home

This is one of our early midi attempts.  For those James Bond fans, can you name the movie that the original version of this song is from?

Bond '77

Invader Of My Dreams is one of the first songs written by Via back in the late 1980's.  And we think that 80's sound comes through.  This was recorded in our basement on an old 4 track tape deck with very few skills.  Though this recording is not 'radio ready', we think you can still hear the essence of the song.  Thanks for listening.

Invader Of My Dreams

Another demo track from the early days, this is the closest Via ever got to playing live.  Thanks for listening.

Melancholy You

After Tomorrow was the fourth track on the home demo entitled, "Journey's End" from 1989.  Yet another recording done in the basement, we thought this one could also be shared despite it being far from radio ready.  Thanks for listening.

After Tomorrow

One of our favorite Bond movies along with one of our favorite Bond songs.  Hope we did it justice.  Thanks for listening!

The Living Daylights

Via are two guys who are not accomplished musicians, singers or performers. We do not desire to be the next American Idol and would not qualify to be on any of the talent shows. We are simply songwriters. The irony is not lost on us that God gave us the desire to write music but not the skills to play it. If we wanted to give these songs life, we’d have to do it ourselves.    Thus, we set out to record the 60 or so songs we've written ourselves. Our first wave was in the late 1980's. As two guys with little or no musical or singing talent, we produced songs of varying quality, everything from extremely embarrassing to only moderately embarrassing. Nonetheless, we were able to unleash these songs onto the magnetic medium we used to call the cassette tape. Full of hisses and buzzes, muffled instruments and toneless singing, we created about 4 hours of music that was, if nothing else, our own! And we were proud of that. Unfortunately, and perhaps fortunately, we had the self-control and the self-awareness to not share this with the world. Our songs were sort of like ugly babies, difficult to show off, though we loved them dearly.  Wave 1 ended in the early 1990’s.

Flash-forward to today, we find ourselves older and wiser, yet our self-control begins to wane. Maybe it's the "I don't give a crap" attitude people develop with age. Or maybe technology has cut us some slack to boost our confidence. And by “us”, I mean all the people that have music trapped in their brains and no dexterity or talent to release it. For us, we discovered the digital audio workstation and wave 2 had begun.  Controversial to the music industry, it basically turned our computers into music word processors. With lots of study, practice and patience, Via could now produce songs that far exceeded our actual skill level. It still falls short of the current standard of music production, but each year, we get a little better.  So, we are finally able to share some of our songs with you. Taylor Swift or Harry Stiles, we are not. Nor are we Barry Manilow or Tom Jones. We’re Via, two songwriters just wanting to be heard. And to those that are listening, we humbly thank you.

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