What a sad song! Hope you are not a victim of this disease! [via https://sc.repostexchange.com]

I just love this track and the way you tell this story.

Folk & Singer-Songwriter

Echoes In Your Mind (Lyrics)

Son take my advice…you can turn the tide
Take a look inside, to the echoes in your mind

The sun is high and burning bright, the road is long but you're alright  

Step out of your head, face the day instead
Listen and you’ll find…the echoes in your mind

Life is only a flash in time, the night is dark before the light
The sun is high and burning bright, the road is long but you're alright  

Hard times…come around…
Hard times…come around…

Son take my advice…it’s all with your sights
Listen to what’s right…to the echoes in your mind…

Hard times…come around…
Hard times…come around…

Echoes In Your Mind

Pretty soon things will come undone
Despite the bounty we have won

Silver Screen

Biggie George Ft LemoGang, Liedz - Ma Niggah

Digme

Relembra a janela que és
pronta a receber o mundo
grata por inundar cada movimento teu
E a raiva que é tua também
veste bem a tua sombra
Basta dançar com ela cada movimento teu

Faz de ti a dança do Mundo
Faz de ti cada Movimento

Janela

Japan Blue

Nostalgia

EMU
Music by Overdrive
Lyrics by TN2

Check out the promo videos:
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EMU stands for "emulator" in Information Technology. The track is inspired by the cyberpunk culture of Japanese anime/manga, especially the classics Akira and Ghost in the Shell.

The idea was completely insane -- to produce an industrial/cyberpunk track sung in Japanese by a female vocalist with a very soft voice (to contrast with the dark atmosphere). The first time I verbalized this concept with someone, it sounded even weirder. So it's no surprise that none of the numerous Japanese female singers I invited accepted the proposal.

It's true that Japan is known for its innovative musical ideas -- like the death metal band Baby (with three little girls as singers); or the virtual singer Hatsune Miku (a hologram with synthesized vocals) and so on. But industrial music with female vocals is not a common occurrence. Björk and How To Destroy Angels are some of the few exceptions in the music world. And without a Japanese singer, the EMU project would never get off the ground.

Fortunately, Dreamtonics' artificial intelligence synthesized voices and its amazing Synthesizer V software are getting better and better, and I was able to use the sweet voice of Mai, a synthetic voice package created for J-pop (!).

This work wouldn't have been possible without the invaluable help of TN2 (Toku-no-2ri), group that wrote the lyrics in Japanese. Their extraordinary sense of musicality in the choice of phonemes during the creation of the lyrics proved to be a very pleasant surprise. Japanese kanji are famous for their ability to embed multiple meanings in their symbols and the first draft of TN2's lyrics was written in kanji (later rewritten in hiragana to feed Synthesizer V). The apparently simple verses carry several meanings that are unfortunately lost in the English translation.

TN2, or "Toku-no-2ri", is a psychedelic trance unit of "MASH" and "NORI". They had been inactive for a few years, but restarted the project in 2021. The group has formidable composers and I recommend checking out their incredible electronic music tracks available for free download on SC:
@user-160598336

Hope you enjoy the track.

LYRICS

ささやきにしげきされ
しょうどおがかけめぐる
やみにうもれたひびに
ひのひかりときはなて

だれもがゆめをみてる
さめることのないゆめ
とわにとらわれている
とわにとらわれている

[Ghost in the Shell narration]

すべてがまぼろしでも
あなたのねがいはなに
とわにとらわれること
それともめざめること

だからおしえてほしい
わたしがだれであるか
あなたがめざめるなら
わたしはうたをうたう

ENGLISH TRANSLATION

Stimulated by whispers
An impulse runs through me
In the days buried in darkness
Release the sunlight

Everyone is dreaming
A dream that never wakes up
Trapped forever
Trapped forever

[Ghost in the Shell narration]

Life is like a nodal point born in an overwhelming sea of information.

And life, when organized into species relies upon genes to be its memory system.

So, man is an individual memory system only because of his intangible memory.

And a memory cannot be defined, but it defines mankind.

When the advent of computers made the externalization of memories possible, you should have taken its meaning more seriously.

My code name is Project 2501.

I am a living, thinking entity who was created in the sea of information.

[End of Narration]

Even if everything is an illusion
What is your wish?
To be trapped forever?
Or to wake up?

That's why I want you to tell me
Who I am
If you wake up
I sing a song

EMU (ft TN2)

This song is just about feeling like no matter what you do it always ends up with some less than favorable unexpected result.

Karma Machine

Is this the right way home said the soldier boy?
As he was taking his toil back from the war, saddened no more.

Dancing Our Lives Away

Forever and ever (this song open for collab)

I am writing songs about old age that together will form an album about this theme. This song is about Parkinson's disease. Many people are familiar with the external (physical) symptoms of this disease, the psychological symptoms are less known. 'Into the Wings' is about what Parkinson's does to the brain, briefly summarized as 'stuttering' of thoughts. The lyrics are based on the experience of my good friend Henk, who has Parkinson's. Painting is by Alette de Groot

Into The Wings

Guardian Angel - m11nx

Xmasbagz

My second single still very new 
hope you enjoy

Right with you

Just lookin' to share some music, have a good time and maybe find a beach or two. Focusing on studio releases, at the moment. Concerts are a maybe, but Tours are a hard pass.

Robert Earle is a Singer/Songwriter/Pianist/Bass player with a wide and eclectic taste in music.

The Hamilton County Line is a band of different individuals at different times, depending on need and availability.

Artists interested in collaborating as part of the Hamilton County Line (or as a feature) can contact Robert Earle, on this account or check for ongoing projects on ProCollabs.com.

Pete Bregman is a singer-songwriter from Groningen, the Netherlands. He is the leadsinger of Honey Jar. On soundcloud you can listen to unplugged versions of his songs, and demo tracks.

Into The Wings

Pete Bregman

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