@andonion: Thank a lot, my friend! This my early recording, the drums and background keyboards are  synthesized from a midi-file I created, so it seems midi sounds are being generated mostly on  defining frequencies, so background clarity is rather good and despite my lack of skills mixing was easy. Now when I'm trying to re-mix this song with samples of real hammond B3, bass and good acoustic drumkit, I face all the mixing challenges :-)

Cool track, gorgeous moments about here !!

Very well enjoying giving this another blast this morning and I love the detailed description you have too my friend...

Excellent song mate and very well enjoyed again my good friend...

Best of Igor  (Collaborations and original)

mp3zen.net

RADIO TAPOK - Черный октябрь

Celebrating my 1st year on SoundCloud with this amazing collaboration!

My music from 1997 meets with words from 2013

Jenny Dyer - https://soundcloud.com/jaydee25 - lyrics, consulting
Debbie Deijkers - https://soundcloud.com/thingsfromthepast - composition of vocals part and singing
Lee Lucas - https://soundcloud.com/lee-lucas - consulting
Igor - composing all the music, all the  instruments, idea to use the line "What doesn't kill you..." as a start line in lyrics, mix and  production

I invented the main riff and the chord progression in 1997. In 2008 I had started recording it as an instrumental. The main idea at that time was 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 :-)

I put it on a shelf until Jun 2013 when I rediscovered it and was excited with its sound myself. So I started asking people here on SC for opinions and help and that led to this great collaboration. I asked Jenny if this should be a song starting with a line "What doesn't kill you makes you stronge"( I read it in a fantasy book). 

Unexpectedly, Jenny came up with a lirics which she wrote in 1 night! And I believe this was the first time when she wrote lyrics when music already existed. I contacted Lee Lucas and he was very helpful, had been reviewing many intermediate versions and made many invaluable suggestions how to improve the music. Finally Debbie composed so brilliant vocal part over my music and with such a freedom have sung the lyrics.

Many thanks to Jenny, Debbie and Lee for making this possible.

== Actually, the third part of the recorded material remained edited out and unused: banjo, melody theme whistled like in Sergio Leone movies, surfing guitars: on some step the demo had a wild west feel and looked like "box full of surprises" - something new were constantly popping up. I plan to create another intro and someday release unused material as a short instrumental.==


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What doesn't kill you makes you stronger

You've got to hold it together 
Ride out that stormy weather
If there doesn't seem to be an end
Just be patient my dear friend
No one gets out of the world alive
We're all gonna die
We have to make the best of what we've got
Good things will come out of this bad lot

What doesn't kill you 
Makes you stronger
You just have to wait 
A little longer
Believe me
I should know 
Been so far down 
You wouldn't want to know

I've been on that sinking ship
I was loosing my grip
Just going through the motion
Battling waves in that big ocean.

Made myself get out of bed each day
Go about things in the normal way
Prayed for my life to turn around
I got back on solid ground

Oh, What doesn't kill you 
Makes you stronger
You just have to wait 
A little longer
Believe me
I should know 
Been so far down 
You wouldn't want to know

You've just got to hold it together
Ride out this stormy weather
You've got to hold it together
Things will get better

What doesn't kill you 
Makes you stronger
You just have to wait 
A little longer
Believe me
I should know 
Been so far down 
You wouldn't want to know

Lyrics copyright Jenny Dyer June 2013
Music copyright Igor Maximov 1997 - 2014
Vocal melody copyright Debbie Deijkers 2013

What doesn't kill you (Fuzzy Logic). Collaboration with BigmamaDee and Jenny Dyer

Bamboo Wedding Bells

Folkybluesoul

„Songwriting Projekt zur Nachhaltigkeit“ ist ein Projekt im Rahmen des Programms PUSH DICH! der Baden-Württemberg Stiftung.

Lyrics: 
We‘re The Solution

We‘ve got to hurry
cause time is flying.
We‘ve got to worry
cause the planet is dying.

You may think 
you can leave us crying,
but we‘re trying
to change things up.

Be the solution
to all the pollution you see. 
Unfortunately, we‘re the problem too.
Both me and you.
So sad but true.

No plant B,
Lakes are drying out,
Millions of seabirds are dying out.
It makes me
wanna cry out loud,
We‘re going down!

It‘s up to us to rearrange.
All of Europe needs to mak a change.
Planet earth‘s no longer the same.
We‘re going down, down, down.

Be the solution
to all the pollution you see. 
Unfortunately, we‘re the problem too.
Both me and you.
So sad but true.

We‘re the solution!

We’re the solution
to all the pollution, but we,
unfortunately, we‘re the problem too.
Both me and you.
So sad but true.

We’re The Solution

"Conexión"

Esta es una colaboración con el gran artista y amigo LuisetozA de Venezuela, alma noble, si las hay, ya que, además de dedicarse a la Música, es colaborador de UNICEF, donde realiza una loable labor.

Originalmente, esta obra se publicó en inglés, "Connections", LuisetozA compuso la melodía y Rose Alaimo la letra, su compositor y yo la adaptamos en nuestro idioma.

Mi voz fue grabada por el genio de Ezequiel González Españón para Estudio Nómade, en Bell Ville, Córdoba.

Conexión

Christmas swing (Django Reinhardt)

Brainpan

Full album "THE MYSTIC OPERA II" available on:
- Apple  https://music.apple.com/it/album/the-mystic-opera-ii/1617105476
- Spotify  https://open.spotify.com/album/50S1unYxcj0SDWPmQPnBDV
- Amazon Music  https://music.amazon.it/albums/B09X11CB13
- Bandcamp https://davideangelini.bandcamp.com/album/the-mystic-opera-ii-full-instrumental-album-2022
- You Tube Topic  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mh4ZAzgqJqtrYyyervE42x-2Mi8RCZeOY

Title: MAGENTA
Written, arranged and produced by Davide Angelini
Album: THE MYSTIC OPERA II
Publishing: 2022
(p)&(c) 2022 Davide Angelini

The Mystic Opera II

Magenta

Bandcamp

MAGENTA - (instrumental)

Song written and performed by Martin l.

arrangement and production: Andreas Goldmann ( https://soundcloud.com/andreas-goldmann ) and Martin L.
additional guitars: Michael Leonhardt

Lyrics „New Isolation“



Isolation
Is killing me
There s no serenity
There s no more space to be

Frustration
Is thrilling me
The same insanity
There s no more space

Losing my senses
There ll be no defenses
I`m falling again on my knees
Looking from high above

It s the saddest part of me

Some days ago
My point of view has changed
Frustration s gone
My mind is re arranged

But there s no hope
To keep this state of mind
There ll be no space

Losing my senses 
There ll be no defenses
I`m falling again on my knees

Looking from high above

The saddest part 
Inside of me
Is killing me
Silently

The saddest part
Inside of me
Is killing me

So softly


The saddest part inside of me 
is killing me
is killing me

New Isolation

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.)

This track has been possible thanks to the help of artists from USA/Russia/Germany/France on the base of a simple base track with leading ideas of giving tribute to French authors/composers Maxime Leforestier and Claude Nougaro's wonderful melodies (see links herebelow) supporting awareness on important issues at their time ...and nowadays still it seems .... Further melodic routes were found by all through musical interactions ... 
I feel I owe so much recognition to these great artists who understood my first musical ideas ...and pushed them to a height I would never had imagined :)

@kat330 for her singing (I love her idea of evoking native americans incantations)
@joerxworx whose sax is so soulful and who plays so well with other instruments (clarinet in particular which he understands and plays very well ;-)
@project-managers-trio : (Igor) for his amazing satrianesque/pagesque guitar solos 
@jules-keys-1 : for his amazing duduk play (armenian oboe)
https://soundcloud.com/johnbodi : for fantastic classic/jazzy colors added with the piano
Wonderful graphic image from : JT Lindroos


I'm the one behind all this, I play all other real (including rythmic guitar and my brother's old trumpet ! ..) or vst instruments ..; I  have been so happy to mix everyone's inputs 
Steph
@ddjohn

Places we were born : 
-  in the village of Salem in a land called Indiana (Kathleen "kat330" )
- in the small town of Nizhnie Sergy,  South Ural mountains area (Igor)
- In Köln, one of the major European metropolitan areas, located on both sides of the Rhine River, in southeastern Westphalia (Jörg)
- John was born in Szeged, the "city of sunshine", in the Great Southern Plane, on the banks of river Tisza.
- Stéphane was born  in Lyon, between Paris and Marseille, in the Rhône-Alpes region,  where the Rhône and Saône rivers converge 


 OUR sources of inspiration : 
Claude Nougaro : 
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n63woek9vzc 
Maxime Leforestier 
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8dJQEF4cSk
Led Zeppelin : www.dailymotion.com/video/x3ed98_le…n-kashmir_music
The Beatles
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVf5Cr4M-F8
Joe Jackson (at the very end ! !)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oDAkmfoAgA
Joe Satriani 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c0WVU3tXBE

and my SC friends Barry and Chris !
https://soundcloud.com/chris-pendergraft/love-star-ep-ft-the-inconsistent-jukebox

Born Somewhere (Né quelque part)- feat Kathleen, Igor, Jörg, John &  Julien

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)

Composed in cooperation with https://soundcloud.com/osteopat
Andrew and Igor: composition including "canonical" solo in the middle
Lyrics: Igor

This track is arranged, performed and recorded solely by Igor  in ~2008

This is a song from a year 1993 when 2 young cadets of a military academy were spending all their free time including night time in barracks playing cheap acoustic guitars and creating advanced guitar solos and songs based on riffs. They dreamed about starting their own hard-n-heavy band.

I used to call our style "Hard-n-Soul" for some reason, maybe from emotional point of view :-)

Here is some line-by-line translation:
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In the shadow of things, among candles
By the behest of the heart and sadness
There are like a reflection of crossed swords
Your eyes, calling through the paths of despair
Once again the circle of fate is broken 
On the coast of the sea of dreams
I was left, and suddenly saw a dream
Where born, died love ...

But the silence was pierced by my cry
As a white trail in the far sea
And the pain subsided only for a wink
Where the ships of the past burned down

Stop worn path!
Your temptations chase us down to fall
I was beckoned by the shores of the waves   (comment - Russian wordplay “the waves” vs “elements“ vs “poetry and shores”)
And whisper of the evening rolling swell
Forget me “hard fate” (comment - Russian wordplay “hard rock” vs “hard fate/doom”)
Your cross is not for my shoulders at all
And below the line I am reckoning up
The scorching days, the mysterious nights ...

But the silence was pierced by my cry
As a white trail in the far sea
And the pain subsided only for a wink
Where the ships of the past burned down
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В тени вещей, среди свечей
По повеленью сердца и печали
Есть словно отблеск скрещенных мечей
Твой взгляд, зовущий сквозь пути отчаяния
И вновь судьбы разорван круг
На побережье в море снов
Остался я и сон увидел вдруг
Там, где родившись, умерла любовь...

Но тишину пробил мой крик
Как белый след в морской дали
А боль утихла лишь на миг
Там, где последние сгорали корабли

Остановись истертый путь
Твои соблазны гонят нас к закату
Меня манят стихии берега
И шорох волн вечернего наката
Забудь меня тяжелый рок
Твой крест совсем не по моим плечам
И за чертой я подвожу итог
Палящим дням, таинственным ночам...

Но тишину пробил мой крик
Как белый след в морской дали
А боль уихла лишь на миг
Там, где последние сгорали корабли

In the shadows of things (with translated lyrics)

lyrics Οδυσσέας Ιωάννου

What do you think will when you leave?
What do you imagine you will find there you go?
Always back to the beginning will end up.
Always in the same water will quench your thirst.

Who do you think you will find to escape in?
What fire will be lit to keep you warm?
How many lies will save you from the lie,
if you do not have a truth to tell?

All your cards on the table,
and all options open,
Let the game to play you,
Do not hold your cards, hidden.

Where you dream to find what you're looking for?
On which beach do you think you will come out?
You fixed your boat from stones.
but a stone ship can't travel

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Αφετηρία (Starting terminus) - Song In Greek

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

In the shadows of things (with translated lyrics)

Igor Maximov

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