Because the Spotlight itself only has 5 positions, this playlist is used as "honorable mentions" - Tracks are not exactly ranked, but higher up this list means I recommend you listen to first.

I do update this list regularly - this includes track orders.

Spotlight Alumni (recommended listens!)

Inspired by a rare occasion. 

Instrumental - kind of - it does have vocals, but no lyrics.

enjoy!

❤️ @Bandcamp

Flower Moon

Messing about with old equipment. Can you guess which device was used to create this?

Just having a good laidback time, nothing fancy.

Plus no lyrics so nothing to post here either.

This, however: https://youtu.be/s--vjlFYB90

Enjoy!

Chillbound

Presenting a new entry for the myth-wave catalog.

Hope you enjoy!

file v2.2

video: https://youtu.be/zc6GFrI11tw

Arachne

Reworked mix for the Overland album (https://ffm.to/overland)
and here's a lyric video: https://youtu.be/Bq5LZAaUcb8

This is a 2012 recording of a 1993 track - very early composition which proved pivotal the musical direction I would take. This track is a frequent revisit and I have recorded a later version, but the 2012 version is the rockiest of them all.

Retreated, remixed, remastered it almost sounds as new. Refurbished, if you will. All in 2021 for the release of the Overland album.
The earlier version of this track was already on my profile, but this one has now taken it's place.

lyrics:

fall ye through a wall of brick, could ye be such a heretic
yeah I know in your head you're sick but must ye be such a lunatic
so you say yes I am a freak as I kiss on your skin so bleak
let me dance upon your fire, let me feel your black and dire
and you say you are turning cold - let me see all your cards unfold
show me paths and then I could, don't lose grip now if I would be...

screaming in the haze... feeling little daze...
trapped in a maze... thrown away my face...

jump in front of the three eyed shadow of the night
maybe sing standing in the midst of the wailing tracks of never missed
there you were upon my fire over waves of desire
he told me so - a won't you try her - and I thought he was a liar!
I rather sing instead of talk,
I rather dance instead of walk
gimme gimme till I overflow
rather be high instead of low

screaming in the haze... feeling little daze...
trapped in a maze... thrown away my face...

you think I don't know you... don't I know you?

Thrown Away My Face

Thrown Away My Face (2021 remix)

2023-08-23 about time I got this public :)

album on Bandcamp

Blazing Away (2021 remix)

Track consisting of 1 bass, 1 guitar, 1 drum and heavily processed vocals, this is arguably a bit of an album filler. Started out jamming and it turned into this, didn't really go ahead and polish it (like, making the drums more interesting, and so)

I remixed it in a functional/minimal style this year to be included on the Overland album, and now making it public here on the Cloud as well to bridge the time until I can actively work on new material again.

I like the lyrics, mostly:

grinding out the foresight
moon is up and fullbright
feeding back on the insight
burning taste of the mind

final words are spoken
prayers of dead and omen
giving hell a token
of passing by, unbroken

save for skies on fire
narrowing the wire
slowly fade the choir
angels too expire

Angels Too Expire (2021 remix)

I made a Vampire Movie in a glitchy moviemaker program. This is the soundtrack. The thing from the thing can be viewed here:

https://youtu.be/Y_uC-Q5CQdI

"Professor Von Diggelen receives a vision of an active Vampire Lord. He proceeds to hunt him down."

🎥 watch the movie

Vampire Movie Soundtrack

An all fresh and new experimental bit, even though it's technically a new take on a pre-millenial song of mine. Here's the video that we are pretty stoked about: https://youtu.be/NODyGroE2D4

it's kind of an atmospheric piece.

lyrics:

give me love to kill the hate
give me hate to kill the lie
won't you dare to change your sides
turn the darkness into light

when it's fierce and then it comes
change will twist and turn it on
find a mind - declining heart
push and pull until it's gone

this I know is mine
the song of six to nine
we could but spill the wine
run further down the line

here, now, mine, so fine

can you hear the death bell ring?
can you feel the scorpion sting?

here, now, mine, so fine

Love Hate Lie

Having to create distraction from current world affairs...

If for myself then also maybe for others.

To carry a message of peace, and love... 

Be more human - be more than this, world.

https://youtu.be/TxRLNbsb0Tg

lyrics:

love will only care for
the freedom tasting of more
the peaceful offering
removes all suffering

human senses rated
never thought it faded
don't believe it's wasted
or till the end it waited

ancient retrospects
forward lead the tracks
in honest interaction
and spirits that will last...

never thought it faded
don't believe it's wasted
or till the end it waited

RE: Solve

From Lebo's very final drum session, as it sadly turned out -
Taken from live session 2021-11-05 at Tjarda, room 5

Tom - guitar and voice
Peter Paul - bass
Lebo - drums

free download 🌹

Laybow - House of Spirits

Myth wave version of "Patterns" of which the original remake can be heard here: https://alicedeeper.bandcamp.com/track/patterns-1996-remake

So, yeah, that myth wave album is definitely coming.

Patterns (Myth Wave version)

Fall sessions demanded to do remakes of a bunch of tracks that just ask for it.. again.

lyrics:

all the devils and the beasts now have gathered for the feast
behold the naked human meat - surely they won't eat the least
but the angel's left outside though this hell is opened wide
to her mercy long has died, escape the darkness she has tried
now she sees her dying moon - see her dancing in the gloom
through the mist and through this room
watch the angel's flower bloom

where the streets are shades, where the demon waits
the angel turns out to be strong, she embraces the angel song
and the calling from afar, see the rationale at war
feelings that were, feelings that are - bound together in a star

she is here for you to see, she is here for you to be
she holds the love that we all seek beneath the black, beneath the bleak

she is breaking through the glass - follow the footprints on the grass
float with the smoke through the sky - a-where the angel hides
and right here, up above, she's still crying out for love
she is sick of all the lies, she is sick not knowing why

and no, I can't believe - all the visions I receive
but the truth it must be real, I taught the angel to feel

here it is and here's it plain, now the angel's not the same
she knows now that she can see, I taught the angel to feel

the angel - feel

The Fall EP @BandCamp

Angel (fall session)

mix version 2, this might be adjusted

Sacrifice
All the time
Never lie
Head up high

Visions unfolding
Pathways reopen
Neural control
Break through the wall

Demonized
Inner child
Let it out
For a while

Passions rekindled
Never it dwindled
Spiraling flight
Transformative light

✴️ free download here

Bear No More

From the Laybow demo recording sessions

Lebo - drums
P. P. - bass, backing vocals
Tom - guitars, vocals

Laybow - Resolve

Lebo - drums
P. P. - bass, backing vocals
Tom: guitars, vocals

Laybow - Chaotic Disorder

A new entry for the Myth Wave collection.

now has a video: https://youtu.be/OgFfGesONrA

check out the entire collection here:
https://alicedeeper.bandcamp.com/album/myth-wave-the-ever-growing-collection

edit: I realize that Dead Can Dance have a track with the exact same name. This is not a cover, though - DCD is an absolute inspiration and I can only recommend checking out their work to the fullest.

Myth Wave here

Dance Of The Bacchantes

I had this tune in my head for quite a while, and now I finally recorded it. It's always fun to take new approaches to the recording process. It's certainly not as clean and polished as it could be, but there is another version in the works with the Laybow-legacy studio project. 

lyrics:

look, it's the sun that's coming back to shine
even the rain has never felt this fine

and the trees turn back to green
all the colours that you haven't seen for a long time
this past time, fading
to make place for a new day
a new scent is calling
and I will be falling in love again

look, there's a new bird in the sky
circling upward like it never got that high before

and the flowers in the street
so many faces new to meet
all our paths that intertwine
like the bees back to the hive
build another piece of life
like the bird that got so high
it's the only way to fly

always in springtime
a new scent is calling
I will surely be falling
in love again

v2; some vocal corrections

A Song For Springtime

Another one for the Myth Wave collection. I got me some African djembes on the local flea market today, completely unplanned and by surprise, and some African shakers too, and my housekeeper had brought me a souvenir from her hometown earlier this week - a mouth harp. So I went ahead and recorded some music today.

It turned a bit darkly, as I filled in the openness with a ghostly synth, so I named the track after the illusive greek goddess of night - Nyx.

The Myth Wave collection can be found here: https://alicedeeper.bandcamp.com/album/myth-wave-the-ever-growing-collection (for free)

Myth wave collection

Children of Nyx

Another track for the Laybow legacies demo, finally ready for release:

Tom - guitars, vocals
Peter Paul - bass
Lebo - drums

Alan Watts samples

Laybow - Decry

Slipping into dream...

Arin is my new singer. She does a hell of a Lisa Gerrard impression --- !!!

Pasithea

This was the first track of the demo sessions that we mixed, and as such turned out very different from the later efforts. So we decided to re-do it, and properly this time around.

Lebo - drums
PP - bass
Tom - vocals, guitars

Laybow - Polaroid (2024 mix)

A song about the shifting of seasons... and life

gothic wave version is here: https://soundcloud.com/puppetxeno/welcome-the-fall-goth-fashion

original music and lyrics,
AI vocal performer "Cassandra Rekkt"

lyrics:

Welcome the fall
The falling leaves
The wind is blowing
All the dreams away

We welcome the fade
Wish it was over soon
Wrapped up in shadows
Under the harvest moon

Days are getting colder
Crimson skies above
Seasons turning over
Changing what we love

The colors burn bright
Then they drift away
Trees stand naked
In the cold of day

Life keeps on spinning
Round and round again
Cycles never ending
Gotta face the end

Days are getting colder
Crimson skies above
Seasons turning over
Changing what we love

BandCamp

Welcome The Fall (the fade version)

A song about shifting seasons, and life;

The typical goth version of https://soundcloud.com/puppetxeno/welcome-the-fall-the-fade-version

original music and lyrics;
AI vocal performer "Cassandra Rekkt"

lyrics:

Welcome the fall
The falling leaves
The wind is blowing
All the dreams away

We welcome the fade
Wish it was over soon
Wrapped up in shadows
Under the harvest moon

Days are getting colder
Crimson skies above
Seasons turning over
Changing what we love

The colors burn bright
Then they drift away
Trees stand naked
In the cold of day

Life keeps on spinning
Round and round again
Cycles never ending
Gotta face the end

Days are getting colder
Crimson skies above
Seasons turning over
Changing what we love

Welcome The Fall (Goth fashion)

Reworked version of "Glitchout", 

lyrics:

Were you someone, I have to be asking
grew up serene, away from the struggle
and strife now presented that never did touch you
but words of deception that make you believe
that the world was on fire, injustice abound
right at your doorstep to take all your freedom?
but just close your eyes, there was never a real threat
other than the ones of split tongues and venom!

wired up, side on break the violence
fired up, ride on, hear the silence

tell me again who you were once ago
when the future was open and dreams were allowed
think of exactly who told you the difference
between cats and dogs and the hits that were misses?

the tales that were spun on a landfill of gaps:
all cognitive bias we need to unlearn!
projection, reflections, deflections, the point is
we all want our freedom and peace with the world

wired up, side on break the violence
fired up, ride on, hear the silence

Glitchout (wokey wokey version)

Experimental rework of early track "Patterns"

"all these patterns in my head, so much as if they never end
I see flashing in my head through the patterns green, black and red"

Patterns (trace and cut version)

O boy has life become a hectic mess, squeezing in moments to create music seems to become more difficult by the day. But: sometimes things can get done, so here we are!

also, video: https://youtu.be/oXXYIJsPLuA?si=LWkD9HFfspzw08YA

Work Up, Wake Up

re-imagining of Iced/Mantra in neo-classical celtic style
the original is here: https://on.soundcloud.com/Fu7WQ9GS6dw4nILnaB

This is one for my funeral.


lyrics:

Even when the rain comes down
Even with the skies torn open
I will still be here tomorrow

Even when things falling down
Or when every heart is broken
I will still remain tomorrow

I'll be there for your best side
Hurtling up the open wide
Nothing here was meant to mourn for

Though your life was blown away
And the right words you couldn't say
You did never pass unnoticed

Though the skies keep falling down
and reality lies underground
there is so much yet to learn for now
its the thunder, its the same
too much trouble, too much pain
at least all this is taken all away

When The Rain Comes Down

When The Rain Comes Down (aka Iced/Mantra) (Wyche version)

lyrics:

Hey, what, for the love of
Get the light in your mind on
look around, where you're at,
this is your world
that's all it said

come on now,
is there a little love to give
isn't there a little thing to share
just a moment if you dare
and don't let yourself be robbed
don't let it bleed away
this is your world
not fade away

and how often do you dream
that the moment was turned
just a bit askew
and you would have felt anew?


check here

Come Full Circle

Cover of the The Velvet Underground classic song.

For the love of...

Venus in Furs (Velvet Underground Cover)

Sunny Day - some people find it uplifting. It is not a complicated song or subject matter.

This track has the most plays of all my songs on here, but no likes at all :)

Funny how it simultaneously is my most positive happy-vibe song. What does that say about all you hypocrites out there?

Sunny Day

Cover of the The Sisters of Mercy song. Plucked from the archives!

Singularity One

Alice (The Sisters of Mercy cover) club mix

You saw it coming... And it came, glitching...

pure guitar music, yeah?

That Creature From Outer Space

Tom "Puppet Xeno", core member of the Alice Deeper music project.
Grungegoth, Myth Wave, Eclectic experimentalist -

Songwriter, producer and session musician for spoof (witch)punk band The Cacklettes.

Alice Deeper is on Spotify, Bandcamp and Youtube. Check the links below to connect. We aim to make it worth your while 😸

PuppetXeno

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