A haunting acoustic ballad born from coffee-stained memories and whispered truths. The vocals interweave like shadows dancing on ceiling cracks, finding beauty in broken fragments of love. Cathedral builders with clay hands reaching for forever, discovering grace in the yearning. Sometimes the most powerful stories live in what we leave unsaid.

Coffee rings on yesterday's letter  
Ink still bleeding through the page  
Words we carved in whispered weather  
Now they're ghosts inside this cage  

Your shadow's dancing on the ceiling  
While I'm tracing all the cracks  
In the silence, I'm still feeling  
Every bridge we can't walk back  

And I'm reading between the lines  
Of everything we left unsaid  
All the truth that we disguised  
Is living in my head  

So I'll hold onto the fragments  
Of the light we used to make  
Even broken, there's still magic  
In the chances that we take  
And maybe we're just learning  
How to breathe inside the storm  
Finding beauty in the burning  
Of the love that keeps us warm  

Midnight conversations echo  
Through these hollow, empty rooms  
Every memory's a window  
To the garden where we bloomed  

But the seasons keep on turning  
And the colors start to fade  
Still I feel that old fire burning  
In the mess that we have made  

And I'm reading between the lines  
Of the person I became  
When you held me through the nights  
And whispered out my name  

So I'll hold onto the fragments  
Of the light we used to make  
Even broken, there's still magic  
In the chances that we take  
And maybe we're just learning  
How to breathe inside the storm  
Finding beauty in the burning  
Of the love that keeps us warm  

We were cathedral builders  
With our hands made out of clay  
Reaching for forever  
But forever slipped away  

Now I'm standing in the ruins  
Of the dreams we thought we'd share  
But I swear I still can feel you  
In the music in the air  

So I'll hold onto the fragments  
Let them cut me as they shine  
There's a story in the damage  
Of your heart bleeding through mine  
And maybe we're just learning  
That some love is meant to scar  
Finding grace inside the yearning  
For the light of what we are  

Coffee rings on yesterday's letter  
Ink still bleeding through the page  
But the words are getting better  
As I'm turning every page

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Loving,Nature,Traditions, Children And People In General. I love Music With All My Heart And I Admire All God🙏 Heavenly Souls Blessed With  Singing Voices. Moreover Will Forever, Sincerely, Faithfully, Heartily  Be  Amazed By The Magical Power's Of The Lord Almighty God🙏👑😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇 🙏 🌈💟💟💟💟💟💟💟💟💟💟💟💟💟💟💟💟💟💟💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖🌄🌄🌄🌄💖💖💖💖💖💖💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🌈🪘🪘🪘🪘🪘🪘🪘🪘🪘🪘🪘🪘🪘🪘🪘🪘🪘🪘🪘🪘🪘🪘🪘🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄💫💫💫💫💫💫💫💫💫💫💫💫💫💫💫💫💫💫💫💫💫💫💫💫💫💫💫💫💫💫💫💫💫🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🎤🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
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Xak Stahl: Alchemist of Sound, Architect of Emotion

Xak Stahl is a genre-blurring music artist, sonic storyteller, and relentless experimenter. Every track he creates is a new world—a kaleidoscope of indie folk, alt-pop, electronica, and global flavors—infused with raw emotion and boundless curiosity. Xak’s music isn’t just heard; it’s felt.

From Shadow to Spotlight

For Xak, music is metamorphosis. His journey began in the shadows, transmuting heartbreak and struggle into songs that glow with hope. Early anthems like “Neon Dreams” and “Rising Through the Darkness” invite listeners to find their own light. His newest project, Major Arcana, channels the mysteries of the Tarot—each song an archetype, each lyric a step along the path from the Fool’s first leap to the wisdom of The World.

More Than Music: A Multisensory Universe

But Xak isn’t confined to sound. As a visual artist and writer, he crafts immersive stories that spill across genres and languages—sometimes haunting, sometimes playful, always honest. Whether he’s conjuring lush soundscapes, weaving bilingual lyrics, or creating striking visuals, Xak’s art dares you to feel deeper and dream wilder.

An Invitation to Transformation

Join Xak Stahl on a sonic odyssey that blurs borders—between genres, between artforms, between you and the music. Each release is an invitation to explore, to heal, to become. For Xak, every song is a spell, every album a universe. The only question is: are you ready to step inside?

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[Summer 2025]  Produced "Foreign Land" 

[Feb 2025]  New album "Intensive Care Unit" is out on Feb 11th.  It has love songs, fun songs, and sad songs -- you can hear it on iTunes and anywhere digital music is played.  Pre-releasing some songs that will go on the next album, including "My City Is The Desert"

[Jan 2025] Pre-releasing three new tracks:  "Beverly" about unrequited love, "Best Show on TV" about the UFO scandal, and "Sand Castle" about life in the desert ... be the first to hear them.

[Dec 2024]  Finished new album "First Universe" ... follow me on "X" to join the CD release party and get a free copy.  Final version of Truth Teller getting done. It went through a lot of changes, and released a new one about the absurdity of shop-lifting in California... have a laugh and listen to Five Finger Discount.    Stay tuned...

[Nov 2024] Publishing new tracks "Injection 25" about medical freedoms, and "Slow Drag" about the tragic death of Kurt Cobain, who was one of my musical heroes when I was in high school.  Also, our new track "Insanity" is a musical kick to the face (the good kind).


[Oct 2024]  Writing new content with a little help from my Roland vocal transformer.  Contracting with Kung-Fu world champion Andrew Wilson to write a new song "Message from Above" to be used in his upcoming documentary film.  

[Sept 2024]  New track "Fight the Power" is out with the Headless ønes ... you're going to love it.  Instant hit.

[Aug 2024]  Released a piano instrumental version of "In Love Again" 

[July 2024]  I revisited "Truth Teller" to make some changes and additions. I have an updated version printed now.

[June 2024]  I'm recalling a chord progression I developed in my teen years and I'm putting together a new track called "Soul Sister".  Not done yet.

[May 2024]  "Truth Teller" got some major edits and a new version is now bumping across social media from my fans sharing it out.  You know who you are... thnx!  Also, former Kung-Fu World Champion (my friend Andrew Wilson) hit me up to compose another song, for his next documentary film.

[April 2024] Learning how to master my songs.  I'm going to revisit many of them, and I will be re-releasing some tracks after juicing them up.

[March 2024] - released "Truth Teller" and an instrumental version.  Made a few additions to "In Love Again".

[Feb 2024] So the inner conscience is a very weird thing.  I recorded a track titled "the Face of Darkness" exactly 2 years ago, forgot about it, and then last night, my brain reminds me to put it out, and won't let me sleep.  It needed some work, so I spent another day on it. Check it out, in all its shadowy uniqueness.

[Jan 2024] Just got a call from ASCAP, and found out that my music has been used internationally on radio and television shows.  They were trying to deposit money into my bank account, but I needed to update it.  No longer a hobby; officially a paid/professional musician.

Cleaning up my music files, I came across a two-years old demo of "My City Is The Desert" and it's time to do it justice.  Might add bass+drums.

[End of 2023] Whipped out "In Love Again" in under one day.  Sudden moments of inspiration.  Let's rebound.

[2023 - Dec]  Thanks to my "X Fam" and Lucius Knight for the advice, as I finished "A Hero Returns".  This features frequencies from the 11th harmonic, which are now proven to heal the body.  I'm not kidding.

HERE IS THE SOUND SCIENCE -https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0IkbDktUJX/

[2023 - Nov]  published "Injection 24" in hopes of waking up a few people, going into next year.  I kept the original lyrics, but added real guitar and checked EQ and instrument blends, to master the final product.  Possible alt lyric version coming.

[2023 - Oct] Reworking "Injection" and adding real guitar to sweeten the opening and various parts, other ingredients going in are confidential and you'll need to sign a waiver to find out what they are.  ;)

[2023 - Sept]  "Murder by injection" got a new formula, and published, now with only the warning label of "Injection" to simplify the title.
[2023 - May]   Some ideas still brewing... probably something to celebrate my mother

[2023 - April]   Developing a new piano comp "A Hero Returns"

[2023 - March]  Publishing new single "Insanity"

[2023 - February]  Publishing third album "Swimming With Dragons" and some new singles

[2022]  Finishing masterclass with music producer, Kygo, and releasing new albums and singles.  Mostly piano and vocals this year.

[2021]  Developing music studio in the desert.

[2020]  Too much work, setting up a new business... thoughts of suicide... definitely time to get back into music!

[2019]  Mostly work and no play.  Not good.

[2018]  Left my hometown of Los Angeles for a new life in the mid-west, got a pet lizard named "Baby Dragon" and she's amazing.

[2017] released "Love & Hate in Los Angeles" for digital distribution.  Hard copy CDs also available on www.CDBaby.com search for AJ Nicholas

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Multi-genre composer. Mostly old school, but lately some with ML. Influenced by Beethoven to Queen. Retired Radar/EW System Engineer. Hope you enjoy! LINK TO MY REPOSTS:

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XAK STAHL