you make the best synthwave songs ever, i wonder how well you can make a cover/remix of an undertale song?

Gravity is a piece about letting go and embracing change. Musicians always tell you that their latest music is the best they have ever written, so this might be unusual to hear, but this track is simultaneously my most and least favorite piece of music i have written in recent years.

A few months ago i had some pretty traumatic experiences that made me unable to focus on any creative work. When i finally sat down to make something, i didn't wanted to write anything significant or important, i only wanted to experiment with some new sounds and ideas. This piece was almost finished in a few hours. I wanted to widen the palette of the sounds i'm using, introducing new bass instruments, a new approach to create drum tracks and also trying out a i - bVII - i - ii chord progression, which i believe is extremely rare to find.

First i was hesitant to even share this one because i feel it is very generic and predictable in many ways, yet somehow it captured perfectly my state of mind after the wounds of last year. Sometimes you just have to accept that things change around you and stop hold on to your hurt feelings, so your mind and body can be at the same place again. Far from the place that pulls you down.
I am listening to it for weeks now and somehow feel better every time. It is a very strange adventure to me, but there you go...

Gravity

You N Me

As we find a way to survive, our little space opera goes into Space. We have depleted the planet, its resources and it is now inhospitable. We will find a new home? What awaits us in the depths of space? 

Odyssey is a piece, metaphorically, about the journey to find oneself and how difficult it is to reach your destination. 

Enjoy.

Odyssey

Here is the next song for our album, The Windmill of the Year. It celebrates Lughnasadh, a Celtic festival that takes place at the beginning of August which honours the sacrifice and death of Tailtui, mother of the Irish god, Lugh, and the last High Queen of the Fir Bolg. 

I find the music created for this by @APi_ZZ to be quite enchanting, nostalgic and towards the end, moving, as he once again reaches back to remind us of an age that Time forgot. 

Words and vocals by Annie Dieu-Le-Veut 
© Copyright Annie Dieu-Le-Veut, May 2024

Music and artwork by APi_ZZ 
© Copyright APi_ZZ (Andreas Pirner) May 2024

Words: 
Children are playing in stacks of hay, 
On this long hot day in Earth’s Paradise, 
With their bellies full of your goodness 
They've no knowledge of your sacrifice. 
Their days are spent in blissful content, 
Far from feeling the pangs of lament, 
They’ve no idea even that we mourn 
The last High Queen of the Fir Bolg, 
The Great Mother, the Grain Mother 
Tailtiu, womb of our cornucopia.

When they're older, they will know 
How you cleared the land of stones 
While your birds fertilised the ground, 
Before the ploughing and the sowing. 
How they found you, lying on the soil,
Your body stiff; dead from exhaustion, 
How the long days drew in their breaths 
And their curtains ...for your requiem, 
The Great Mother, the Grain Mother
Tailtiu, O how you did suffer.


 Lugh, who fought off Balor’s blight
And famine from the scorching heat, 
Is leading you through the Lion’s Gate, 
Below, reapers of the harvest meet
For the festival and crowd the pews,
But they never knew you, Tailtiu. 

As the Sun begins its fall, to journey south 
We humbly offer these first fruits to you, 
O Great Mother, O Grain Mother, Tailtiu. 
As we stand here, we give honour to you 
And your self-sacrifice on the altar of Earth.

Lughnasadh

Meditative

A personal prayer. 

Words and vocals by Annie Dieu-Le-Veut
© Copyright, Annie Dieu-Le-Veut May 2024 

Music by Paul Foss
© Copyright, Paul Foss May 2024 
Email: paul@paulfossmusic.com 

Cover art: Me via AI. 

Words: 

It is the best of times; it is the worst of times.
It is an age in which great wisdom and love is unfolding in the hearts of many. 
It is an age of great folly in which fools are itching to trigger Armageddon.
It is an epoch of belief, but a belief in what?
When all the theology has been twisted to create division, 
When all the science has been hog-tied by a lack of vision
When the most vacuous weep with passion over trifling affairs
When governments are locked in endless games of musical chairs....

No. It is the best of times because it is when I found You
In the Seven Rishis, the Seven Rays,
The Seven Churches, the Seven Sages 
The Seven Chakras, the Seven Planets,
The Seven Sisters of the Pleiades 
And a star for every day of the week. 

It's the time when you showed me the coding of Your purpose,
And so now as I sit here in Your three-ringed circus, 
Watching mountains of lies towering to incredible heights, 
And the black-hearted judges of the kangaroo courts 
Threatening to tie us all up with red tape and torts
As they tread the crimson carpets of the corridors of power, 
Soaked in the blood of human shields and cannon fodder, 
The band of this Titanic is striking up with “We’ll Meet Again!”
And “There’ll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover, 
Just you wait and see...”

And I can only wonder at a love so great to script this comedy
That pushed me to the edge, and beyond, to put into verse
How I’ve fallen,  once more, for your Beauty and Glory,
Found in every cell and atom of your multiverse.

Inspired by Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities.

On the Eve of the Apocalypse (a prayer)

This song is about giving a second chance. Not making the right decision. But know that and make a change. Be giving a second chance and not go down in that same lane again.
For this song I use audacity that is a free sound editor. Low budget equipment for recording. I write, sing and play guitar. I am an composer and compose everything by myself. I ride solo.

Back Again

COLD HEARTED

I've waited my whole life for this very moment. How about you?

Implement

Tranquillity

Jungle'0'Bummer

The late nights, watching the sunset, the flickering of candle light in the  window... and all she craves is ....his touch, his taste, his existence within her world.... no matter how forbidden it may be...These are the thoughts one is not meant to have... so music takes them away...

Undisclosed Desires

Hello, I am RetroRave. I'm a sucker for the 80s and I make electronic music - Disco, Retrowave or whatever starts playing into my mind. Thank you for listening to my stuff.

Newest release: Fever (live on all platforms!) and The Falling Sun (live on Soundcloud)

Odyssey

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