Maniacs

Walking In Turbulence

dried bones

Good Bye Written And Performed By Uwe Lauterbach 2023

Good Bye

After the rain falls, not everything is cleansed

After The Rain

Pulling on Heaven’s Heart Strings

Is anyone still out there?
Well hello there if you are taking some of your valuable time to read this! As the lyrics to this (probably)final song say, its been a long while……
The last time I checked into Soundcloud was maybe last December, wow…. 
I packed up for a holiday in Hawaii, ran the Honolulu Marathon, watched a volcano erupt, cast my dog’s ashes into a lava field and drank a tropical island's worth of cocktails while watching the sunset with my wife. And then returned a few weeks later decidedly unenthused about the Cat and my collaborator.
Gina had been making noises about returning to an on again / off again musical partner. That wasn’t unexpected and was actually a bit of a relief as I hadn’t been enjoying this for a while. Our last few songs had been tortuous to finish, including this one which was finally finished I think way back in October 2022.
Cat Came Back was always a lot like an arranged marriage - nothing at all in common but we kind of made it work 3 minutes at a time. But by late last year, it had become very hard work. And as you fellow Soundclouders know, outside of personal satisfaction, the rewards for all of that hard work are not very large. So, if the personal satisfaction is gone, there’s not a lot left to motivate oneself. 
In addition to that, there were a few rather large elephants in the room regarding my collaborator that I won't go into but nevertheless constantly weighed very heavily on my mind throughout our time together and I was finding these increasingly difficult to continue to ignore for the sake of making music together.
So anyway, when I returned a perhaps brief hiatus accidentally turned into this - silence for what, 7-8 months? Haven’t picked up an instrument in all that time and they currently sit in my garage gathering dust. Took up Chess, what a rabbit hole that is! Continued running. Listening as always to a lot of old jazz. Continued seemingly never ending renovations to my house. Spent a lot of time with my lifelong friend, William Styron’s Black Dog, as a matter of fact he's here sitting right by my side now. 
So what now? I sat down a few days back and listened to a few things that were unfinished as of late last year. Maybe its time to start again. Find a new collaborator or two? Anyone know anyone who might be a match?
In the meantime I’ll dip my toe in and check out what some of my favourite Soundclouders have been up to while I was away. I'm sure I've missed out on some really great stuff.

Minor Exotica (Turned To Black)

https://youtu.be/iI1jWXRF-7U?si=KaN6vhVI3uK_31UW

doubledose

"Unfinished Story "Shane Beck(The Last American Poet) & Loo(p)cy

Buried under 2,000 unfinished projects and a decade of FL Studio files, I finally found the one that got away. My new EP is officially out of the archives.

Enya Said Blue (Remastered)

Valve-Strength of the roots

What happens when someone who has produced electronic music for most of his life falls in love with playing piano? This track is the answer. A melodic acoustic house production built around piano and calming strings. The melody is inspired by the sensation nature itself and the floating water and twinkels around us. I hope it lifts you up :)

Interfluvial

I have another site on Soundcloud: user-567048595 'Naked Tree' where I post more conventional 'songs'. Here I indulge in my interest in Ambient / Shoegaze /Jazz Fusion... and anything else that sparks my imagination. Thanks for listening.

dried bones

A Palette of Greys