Lyrics by Mikhail Lermontov, 1841, English and French translations are below
Composed by Elizaveta Shashina, 1880 (?)
Vocals by Igor
All the instruments are selected and sampled  and mixed by Igor using the midi-file with orchestration in traditional style  from 1940s-50s(?).  I found it as a midi-file in the Internet.
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M. Lermontov (translated by Vladimir Nabokov)

I come out alone upon the highroad;
Through the mist the flinty way gleams far.
The night's calm. The wilderness is harking
To the Lord, and star speaks unto star.

In the heavens all is grave and wondrous;
The earth sleeps, by bluish radiance lit.
Whence comes, then, this painful, irksome feeling?
Expectation? Heartache? What is it?

Yet from life I'm now expecting nothing
And I don't regret one bit the past.
== All I seek is freedom and repose == 
All I want is dreamless sleep at last.

Let it, though, not be the tomb's cold slumber;
I would wish to slumber in such wise
That in me life's forces would be dormant,
That my breast would gently fall and rise,

that all day, all night, in lulling accents
A sweet voice would sing to me of love,
that a somber oak-tree, ever greening,
Would incline its rustling boughs above.
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Выхожу один я на дорогу
Сквозь туман кремнистый путь блестит.
Ночь тиха. Пустыня внемлет Богу,
И звезда с звездою говорит.

В небесах торжественно и чудно!
Спит земля в сиянье голубом...
Что же мне так больно и так трудно?
Жду ль чего? Жалею ли о чём?

Уж не жду от жизни ничего я,
И не жаль мне прошлого ничуть.
Я ищу свободы и покоя!
Я б хотел забыться и заснуть!

Но не тем холодным сном могилы...
Я б желал навеки так заснуть,
Чтоб в груди дремали жизни силы,
Чтоб, дыша, вздымалась тихо грудь,

Чтоб, всю ночь, весь день мой слух лелея,
Про любовь мне сладкий голос пел,
Надо мной чтоб, вечно зеленея,
Темный дуб склонялся и шумел.

1841

I come out alone upon the road( lyrics by M.Lermontov, 1841) (Выхожу один я на дорогу)

:-)Guess what is my favorite movie?

@harmonicajack - harmonicas
Igor  - whistling!!! Composition, all the music, all the rest instruments, mix and production
Lee Lucas - @lee-lucas - idea to apply harmonica here

I invented the main riff and the chord progression in 1997.

The main idea is a duel between 2 guitars using 2 famous fuzz pedals: DoD FX32 Classic Fuzz (the best fuzz pedal ever) and Ibanez L.A. Metal (which also a fuzz and the worst fuzz ever according to HarmonyCentral.com reviews). As you can see L.A.Metal is not so bad :-)

The second idea is to demonstrate how banjo nicely lays over fuzzed guitar. That part was recorded a year ago and it seems this idea is becoming a trend on SC.

When the song https://soundcloud.com/project-managers-trio/fuzzy-logic-version-2 was released, too many good materials with Wild West flavor which really excite me: banjo, whistling and "surf"-like guitars were edited out.

So I remembered Lee's idea about harmonica and asked Jack for help. The key of C#m is not very convenient scale for a harp and Jack did a astonishing job nicely fitting to Spaghetti Western feel of the composition.


Fuzzy Logic: Wild West instrumental(with harmonica, banjo, whistling). Ft. Harmonica Jack

Gave a try to open collaboartion invite https://soundcloud.com/megsmusicjourney/strings-improvisation-open-collab-invite

Original track by Megan McCarthy - strings
Guitar part by Igor M. - (no edit)
A bit of mixing/mastering by Igor M.

Many thanks to Megan for this wonderful lovely music.

For some reason I thought that I had to improvise too, so after one or two runs along the original track I recorded it. 

Hope I'm not much out of original tune, but at least it has culmination  :-)

And probably I will made another, "mature" take.

Here is a playlist of all the participants in this open collaboration:
https://soundcloud.com/megsmusicjourney/sets/strings-improv-open-collab

I haven't listened to them before I made my record.

Fallen tears of μετάνοια (Strings Improvisation by Megan McCarthy, guitar improvisation by Igor M.)

Original music by https://soundcloud.com/eddytimmermansmusic  https://soundcloud.com/eddytimmermansmusic/on-the-way-to-tomorrow-new
Guitars added by Igor

Thank you, Eddy, for this fantastic and inspirational music.

Mother and Father, Daughter and Son (collab of Eddy Timmermans and Igor M.)

by Igor

Another long term project.  It's started in 1992 as a short poem which unexpectedly fit to my 2008's attempt to compose something using each step of E minor scale in both directions: downward and upward. After that it has grown up a lot :-)

Please let me know if there any flaws. Your feedback is very appreciated.

1993 - lyrics
2008 - music
2008 - 2015 Recording, arrangement, production, etc.

==============    LIRYCS   ============================
scandals and gossips, tittle-tattle,
will diversify insipid life 
The sounds of breaking tableware
Are ringing like church bells

Chorus:
Why gloomy dreams
and low flight of lust?
What hopes for and expectations?
It was before and it will pass

And if on the live air
I listen to a song about you
I will join it with my lyre
And I will grief about the fallen joy

Chorus:
Why gloomy dreams
and low flight of lust?
What hopes for and expectations?
It was before and it will pass

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Скандалы, сплетни, пересуды
Разнообразят скудный быт
Звон разбиваемой посуды
Как колокольный звон стоит
Зачем унылые мечтанья 
И низкий похоти полет,
Зачем надежды, ожиданья -
Все это было и пройдет.
И, если я в немом эфире
Услышу песню про тебя,
Я подыграю ей на лире
О падшей радости скорбя
И шорох сонных мух по мокрому паркету
Вдруг остановит, выведет на след
И, смешивая горе с солью,
Намажет тусклым ножиком на хлеб
Огонь, вода, трамваев трепетанье
Слились в одно единое дыхание   
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Down And Up (lyrics inside)

Fivos Valachis: original composition, piano performance
Igor M.: Symphonic Rock arrangement, orchestration and lead guitar

Actually, there are stories from that Age much more appealing to me, such as a story about Adrian and Natalia or  about a woman named Wisdom with her daughters Creed, Hope and Love, than the story about Antinoos and Emperor Hadrian. 
 
However, my friend Fivos composed a compelling and inspiring music. So, thank you, Fivos, for this wonderful opportunity to participate in such an international project. 

I would like also to devote my arrangement as a humble tribute to Jon Lord whose works "Concerto For Group and Orchestra", "Sarabande" and "Gemini Suite" are one of my most important musical influences.

Well, imaging a stage with maestro Fivos Valachis on the pianoforte with Project managers band nearby. All of them surrounded by Symphonic Orchestra (basses, celli, horns, tromboons, various percussion) and let's Rock!  

Please also check other works in this open collaboration project - 
https://soundcloud.com/fivosvalachis/sets/antinoos-project-request

Triptych of Love - Pathos (By Fivos Valachis, Symphonic Rock arrangement by Igor M.)

My attempt to enter to a new genre :-) A bit of bassa-nova and salsa(as I undersand them) over my acoustic song. 

Everything is by Igor
The song composed with lyrics in 1999
Arranged and recorded in 2013-2015

The first guitar solo is absolutely spontaneous played with an index finger while recording the rhythm guitar part. The second solo is just a second take.

===== Translation ==========

What I remember about you? 
Now you are looking with coldness 
What I will take with me? 
And what will return back?

Let pour the cup with bitterness
And gulp down all the pain
The dawn has turned into midnight
And I've played my role

Now you are too tired to love
And I'm alone again
And there is no one to blame
Our way is unique

Disintegrated the thin thread
That has bound us
I just can't be with you
When you are looking with coldness 

...And they lived happily ever after


What I Remember

What I Remember (with lyrics)

New composition by keyboard player and drummer Maxim K.

As soon as I add my guitars to this track it will be re-union of Project Managers :-)


Old Friend (by Maxim K.)

Megan McCarthy https://soundcloud.com/megsmusicjourney - original piano improvisation "Sadness" (Open Collaboration) == Thank you, Megan, for this wonderful melody!

Igor - orchestration, guitars, production, enhancing the piano sound.

In memory of 224 passengers and the crew of Metrojet Flight 9268 heading from Sharm el-Sheikh to Saint Petersburg and disintegrated by a bomb above the northern Sinai on 31 October 2015. Also in memory of recent Paris events and all the victims of recent "hybrid" wars.

I believe there is an evil power at work in the world deliberately overthrowing stable countries one after another and turning them into bloody chaos. And that chaos spreads over borders further and further. Lives of millions of people means nothing to those who make such schemes.

For a year and a half I have this feeling deep inside. On the surface I can smile, can live normal life, but I feel it. There is no hope for peace. Only grief.

Grief.There is no hope for peace. (Contemplation over Megan McCarthy's piano piece)

Just picked up a wonderful acoustic piece https://soundcloud.com/ddjohn/no-words-just-chords by my friend Steph and added spontaneous solo guitar. Evening relaxation.

Also I enhanced original track with my mastering, so Steph's acoustic guitar sounds brighter and drums really rock.

Flying away! (Collaboration with DDJohn)

Please welcome Arina Maksimova, a 7 years old classical composer. Debuting here with a strings etude.

(c) music by  Arina Maksimova

Solo works

In the thicket

In the thicket (strings poem by Arina Maksimova)

Original composition long time ago: 
Andrew (@osteopat): chord progressions, riffs, intro guitar solo, vocal melody, arrangement for guitar
Igor:  Lyrics, arrangement for guitar
 
This track (c) 2017-2019:
Maria Smailova (@insinistra): performed vocals
Andrew (@osteopat):  composed and performed 2nd and 3rd guitar solos;
Igor: arrangement of orchestral, piano, base and drum parts , symphonic intro and outro sections; performed rhythm guitar part and intro guitar solo, mixing and mastering;


  
It started a long time ago when 2 cadets of a military academy were spending all their free time playing cheap acoustic guitars and imagining advanced heavy arrangements. So, we dreamed of starting our hard-n-heavy band. This song was a pure electric guitar piece with Andrew on vocals and guitar "duels" in the middle as in Power Metal style.

A couple of years ago I decided to re-arrange it as a Symphonic Metal piece and, maybe a bit, re-worked vocals part to fit female range following modern fashion. It was not an easy task to find a vocalist, but finally, Maria Smailova - soprano and composer of Insinistra band - contributed her amazing  vocals into this project (Please check their pure and dark Sympho-Metal style tracks with lyrics in English on their SC page @insinistra and their exellent collection of acoustic covers on thier YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwGXJx49UkjujJKygLCLjSg). 

It's also really amazing that Andrew found time and performed 2 freshly composed solos for the middle section. In the style of our old guitar duels. And we haven't played together for almost 2 decades.

So, thanks a lot to both Andrew and Maria for making this song happen in a new form. Another example of our song from that early era is here https://soundcloud.com/project-managers-trio/in-the-shadows-of-things

Verse 1:
With the scarlet signature of dawn,
The world's been crisscrossed.
Over the hills there, in the distance,
Again a purple feast is ongoing

Two waves've come running
They are armor-clad
All the spaces and worlds 
Have been put to fire

Chorus:
Ah! How beautiful is the battle for life
The battle for life bursts into the sky
Like a whirlwind a lightning beam 
Rips it up
Between the torn clouds

Verse 2:
But like a reflection
Between the walls of houses
The battle is ongoing between us
For thousands of centuries
The rivers of blood ruin again 
The shores of life
Everyone sees a new enemy
In a friend

Chorus:
Ah, how terrifying is the battle for life
It's a roar of the battle for life
The eruption of evil has shaken the earth 
As an autocratic judge
Is the Battle for Life

Куплет 1:
Красным росчерком зари
Перечёркнут мир
За холмами там, вдали,
Вновь багряный пир -
Две волны сбегаются
Вжатые в броню
Все пространства и миры
Преданы огню

Припев 1
А-а, как прекрасна битва за жизнь
В небо врывается битва за жизнь
Вихрем её разрывает молнии луч
Среди разорванных туч

Куплет 2:
Но как отражение 
Среди стен домов
Бой идёт меж нами
Тысячи веков
Реки крови снова рушат
Жизни берега
Каждый видит в друге
Нового врага

Припев 2:
А-а, как ужасна битва за жизнь
Это грохочет битва за жизнь
От извержения зла содрогнулась земля
Как самовластный судья
Битва за жизнь

Battle For Life (Битва за Жизнь) ft.Maria Smailova and Andrew Barokho. Lyrics translated

Music by Igor
Chord progression had been composed during a few days before the recording.
Both lead parts are improvised while recording them.

Just 3 takes on the spot: rhythm guitar, a first lead and a second lead. 
Editing: deleted a few  extra notes. No compression and mastering at all. Only blended 3 parts as they were.

Gave a try to a birthday present: a Fender acoustic guitar

Winter Night Petersburg

Medieval Medievil Medigood

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita........
Je meurs de soif aupres de la fontaine......

Songwriter. Kitchen guitarist with inclination for orchestration and arrangement. Poet in the past.

I occasionally post solo works of "the other manager", my friend, drummer and self-taught keyboard player Maxim K.

My spotlight :-)
https://soundcloud.com/project-managers-trio/when-i-come-home-to-you

Igor Maximov

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