Welcome to The Hollywood Arcade - a concept album set in the neon lit corridors of the most entertaining place in the universe. The ultimate video arcade, an intravenous drip of nostalgia; The Hollywood Arcade. The album tells the stories of the games contained within, the people that play them and the characters that inhabit them. 
Central to the story is the tale of DC, a video game character who falls in love with the girl playing his game. 
What will happen when the lines between fantasy and reality become blurred?

The Hollywood Arcade

NEON SIGNS

Neon Signs

Gravity

Starfox Select

The image operated before this mad muterialisation! https://www.instagram.com/p/CgwZfteIGCy/

Two further Operators are busily operating  too ...

https://soundcloud.com/r-salchaks-mood-exhibit/muterial-operator-mood-exhibit-copilot-mix

https://soundcloud.com/ollora/rapid-operator

Operator

WOW.... What a crew. Stephen aka TexMex Shaman and guitarist and  Producer extraordinaire and responsible for the awesome artwork, Janine Levinson with a voice that melts my heart, Uziel who is so courageous in her exquisite creations, and Jo Richter(Sonic Structures and Silent Stretches) Poet laureate and Sonic Naturalist all teamed up to make this little poem of mine into an Amazing Song. I am sending out big Love and Respect and Thanks to You all, and to EVERYONE else, out there In the Soup.

lyrics
Wretched light so aptly said libra ish in their balanced dread
Wretched light of another day ln the soup out there
the falling down and getting up, it's "Showtime" Fossi said
As he popped amphetamine in the shower scene
Or so it's said by some writer of his dreamy technicolor happenstance
That made the cut.

Could it be scorcery that I see
Through jaded glasses full of gin
Or just a conjury of collected clarities'

So sweet the experiential meat
Dark or light the gods prefer
Is not what we do not do for us
But them.

The guillotine of thoughtless bliss
Takes the Serpent's head
And tiny lights appear around my bed.

Chase the monster south for 14 winters and a night
It grinned across the canyon with a monstrous delight
I thought I saw you yesterday up on the ridge behind my house
It might have been the way you turned your head to speak
But the wind you know it blew your words away
What you said I couldn’t’ say
You know it really doesn’t matter anyway

Know Ware--TexMex Shaman-Janine Levinson-Uziel-Jo Richter

I recall I wrote most of the melody of this song inside my head while travelling and on some pre-written lyrics.  However when I got down to the singing, I couldn't cope with some of the notes.  I'm so glad Terry came to the rescue and did a marvelous job here.    He also brought some very nice tweaks to the melody, lyrics & harmony arrangement.  Hope you like our collaboration.

[CREDITS]
Vocals / Organs – Terry Wigmore
Music / Lyrics / Programming – Michael C. Lynn
Sax Solo – Jack Stafford @Band-in-a-Box

[LYRICS]
Skies, inconsistent skies, bring uncertainty
Rain, incessant rain, keeps on pouring...(pouring down)
Hopes, elusive hopes,
Only keep us dreaming
Endless waiting is the saddest place to be

Oh I have tried so many times to do the best I can
Somehow it doesn't seem to matter at all
I ask myself what I'm gonna do when all's been done and fallen through
Now I'm standing with my back to the wall

(Chorus)
Life, everyday sort of life,
Living everyday through the rain and shine
World, this ruthless world,
Keeps on spinnin' in time
Empty days, and rocky ways,
Far too many for us to face
It's been one of ….......
It's been one of…........
It's been one of those days
It's been one of those days

Instrumental break

Repeat Chorus

It's been one of, it's been one of….
It's been one of those days

One Of Those Days (featuring Terry Wigmore)

Mirror Of my Soul (guitar solo)

"Dagverk" is our work song, from our upcoming album "En plats på solen". Remixes by Tangent Flow and Leonard Hummer.

Tangent Flow
https://open.spotify.com/artist/7vu6vMgUpimOpfNDd2NqxG

Leonard Hummer
https://open.spotify.com/artist/3Nwzm0DJ87vOj2pLrLQKIc

01 - Dagsverk

The great philosophical question: Why is not nothing? Can the answer be found in this track? Perhaps... you have to listen carefully! ...otherwise you can also dance well on it. Howsoever: enjoy it !!!

Created and conducted by Kapellmeister Krause

Why Is Not Nothing?

Written, performed, mixed & mastered by
André "pixelorb" Brandes © 2020

Image: pixabay.com (CC0 Creative Commons)

Instruments:
- Sylenth
- TAL U-NO-LX
- TAL Sampler
- The Legend
- u-he Repro-1
- fbm Tricent mkIII

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Rise Of The Orb

Electronic music artist since the mid-'80s.
I create tracks of different genres and moods.

November 2020:
After careful consideration, I'll say goodbye
to over-compressing my tracks.
Dynamic music is more important to me,
even if it´s less loud.

Thanks to all musicians and music lovers
on soundcloud who support me with likes,
comments and reposts. That motivates me
to record new tracks.

On SoundCloud since December 2017
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