"Tunturin kuruissa ja metsäjärvien rannalla  seisovat, suuret pyhät kivet. Harva enää hivelee kalanrasvaa niiden tummiin kylkiin. Harva vuolee hopeaa reikäkiven rakoon tai laskee poronsarvet pyhään kuiluun. Vanhat sanovat, että niiden laulun saattoi kuulla tyynellä säällä  läpi kairojen. Vanhat, jotka antoivat niille parhaat valkeat poronsa."

Seita (sieidi)

"Fatum: Elegy of Fate" was born from the question: what if destiny isn't predestined, but instead formed by moments, choices, and their consequences? In this piece, fate is not a passive force, but a living, breathing part of us.

Beneath the music lies a mysterious power that invites us to confront life's contradictions – beauty and pain, hope and despair, love and loss. For each moment has its own destiny, and this piece is an elegy for the journey that leads us into the unknown, yet feels so intimately personal and close.

Listen and let the melodies carry you into the river of fate, where music and words merge as one and guide you on a journey you never thought possible.

Fatum: Elegy of Fate

How Long Does It Take – written by Andrea Brennan – is a song that is especially close to my heart. When I first read the lyrics, I was instantly touched and deeply inspired. I’m incredibly grateful that Andrea entrusted me with this beautiful piece. 
Dear Andrea, once again, thank you so much for your trust. It was a true joy and an honor to set your words to music.

___________________________

How Long Does It Take


Love is the captor I welcomed to find
But now that you're gone, how my heart cries
I'm surviving on memories replayed in my mind

Our home now a house, the warmth faded and gone
Death is the poison nightmares feed upon
And it's cold as Hell, yet a fire burns on

How long does it take to heal this broken heart
Piece together my world that has fallen apart
To feel once more like I did before
How long does it take to heal this broken heart

Sweet remnants of you everywhere that I look
Slippers by the bed, pink robe on a hook
Reading glasses perched on your unfinished book

Things can't dry my tears and they can't hold me tight
Things cannot rock me gently through the night
And things cannot whisper everything will be alright


How long does it take to heal this broken heart
Piece together my world that has fallen apart
To feel once more like I did before
How long does it take to heal this broken heart


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Credits:
Lyrics: Andrea Brennan
Music & Vocals: Axel Menningen

How Long Does It Take

The broken heart of a girl sitting at the piano, trying to free the tears but nothing comes. The rain fills the air with comfort letting her know its ok to cry.

the Rain

So Attractive To Me (A collaboration with Fabien Aurajac)

Dans notre bar    (Translated under the French text )

Texte :        Josette LéonardCocquempot
Chant :        Karine
Musique  :  Alain Illos

Dans notre bar , je t'attendais
Yeux charbonneux , bouche cerise , 
les jambes gainées de soie grise , 
je t'attendais . 

Dans notre bar je t'attendais
Indifférente à ce garçon 
et à son regard polisson , 
je te guettais .

Anxieuse et un peu fébrile
Je pensais à ces turbulences
À ces nuages imbéciles
Qui menaçaient notre romance

Mai découvrait    ses blancs lilas
L’air embaumait le muguet tendre
Le garçon était toujours là
Et toi tu te faisais attendre .

Le temps passait imperturbable
Et l’angoisse en moi s’installait
Le verdict était implacable
Ton amour s’en était allé .

Dans notre bar je t'attendais 
Yeux charbonneux , bouche cerise , 
les jambes gainées de soie grise , 
je t'attendais .  

 Je n’allais pas te supplier
Il me fallait baisser les armes
A travers un rideau de larmes 
Le garçon me souriait

In our Bar

In our bar , 
I was waiting for you
Smoky eyes , cherry mouth , 
legs sheathed in grey silk , 
I was waiting for you . 

In our bar, I was waiting for you
Indifferent to this boy 
and his polite look, 
I was watching for you.

Anxious and a little feverish
I thought of the turbulence
To those foolish clouds
That threatened our romance

May uncovered its white lilacs
The air was fragrant with tender lily of the valley
The boy was always there
And you kept waiting .

Time passed unperturbed
And anguish settled inside me
The verdict was implacable
Your love was gone.

In our bar I waited for you 
Smoky eyes, cherry mouth, 
legs sheathed in gray silk, 
I waited for you.  

 I wasn't going to beg you
I had to lower my weapons
Through a curtain of tears 
 The boy smiled at me

Dans notre bar avec Karine

Indietronic Dance

https://youtu.be/dLLddlqKIHc?si=wT5hmEY_W3Fp5ZvI 

This is my attempt at performing this song in a single take with just me and my guitar (Taylor 114 ce)
Also to compare and contrast, here’s a  link to a more polished full band version of this song that I recorded with the help of the Eclectic Collective 
https://soundcloud.com/josh-clary-1/ai-sucks-the-eclectic?si=67d29d363d2a419dacbf860fa471165e&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
Many thanks to SoundCloud musician Michele Ansani  https://on.soundcloud.com/A24Cig19AVNqQmCk8 who's lyrics inspired me to write this song and collaborated with me to help bring this song to life.
***
Lyrics
When I was thirteen I picked up my first guitar
it was my mother's, it only had one nylon string 
I tried to play it like a rock star
I learned to play the Coca-Cola jingle
So I could teach the world to sing
When I was fourteen, I put on six new strings
I learned to play Beatles, I learned a Bob Dylan song
I sounded out of tune but I tried to carry on
At fifteen I wrote my first original tune 
So bad it sounded like it might have been written by a baboon
When I was sixteen, I got a new guitar for my birthday
The metal strings sawed through my fingers but I continued to play
And as the calluses formed and every day I learned a brand new chord
I was obsessed with that guitar and I never grew bored.
I wrote songs every day and most of them were a mess
But I believed that through hard work, I could achieve success
Malcom Gladwell wrote a book that said it takes ten thousand hours
To become and expert at your craft
And now all it takes is two commands and an enter
And in two minutes you have ten versions of the same damn new song,
You just have to choose the type
folk, rock, rap, pop, metal, jazz, trap or blues.
You don't even need to write the lyrics, 
your push a few buttons let the AI choose.
And people will think your songs are great 
even though you didn’t write or play a single note.
When I was 20, I did my first concert, it was time
it occurred in a village square
there were four cats all friends of mine
I was still using the plectrum and sometimes I got the chords wrong
at thirty I finally wrote what I thought was a decent song
It had a very well thought out structure and a catchy vibe and beat 
It was overly verbose but when I played it people tapped their feet
In my forties I stopped wasting my time
Work was more fun I was doing just fine
I had a steady paycheck that could feed me 
And the record companies didn’t need me
In my fifties once again my musical juices started flowing
I bought the necessary equipment I was eager to get going
I recorded all my strumming and saved it onto my PC
The internet and technology were advancing rapidly
I took those special songs I’d written of which I was most proud
Posted them Instagram, You Tube, Tik Tok and SoundCloud
I asked myself if a tree falls in the forest and no one’s around
Does it make a sound?
But now all it takes is two commands and an enter
And in two minutes you have ten versions of the same damn new song,
You just have to choose the type
folk, rock, rap, pop, metal, jazz, trap or blues.
You don't even need to write the lyrics, 
your push a few buttons let the AI choose.
And people will like your songs even though you didn’t write or play a single note.

AI Sucks Acoustic Live Version


https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq2drWkWKv0&feature=shared



https://open.spotify.com/track/3QhAuxV5tIjfKhaiSK025w?si=uLW2XlFETGS0MJAlwiK91w&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A1FYOehLD9zkpQE36dZxwYE


https://music.apple.com/it/album/confusione/1811511193?i=1811511194&ls



https://music.amazon.it/albums/B0F6X9WG7Z?marketplaceId=APJ6JRA9NG5V4&musicTerritory=IT&ref=dm_sh_FlfSh88SsNsnYkLVUHM6yiQHI&trackAsin=B0F6WYS2QC






Lyric and music by LinOnyx
 
CONFUSIONE
(Verse)
Sono tanto stanco, solo, triste.
Mi sento come in uccello chiuso in gabbia, prigioniero di un mondo
che non e’ piu’ il mio.
(Verse 2)
Ho nella mente un ricordo confuso,
sbiadito, come una vecchia fotografia ingiallita dal tempo.
(Chorus)
Ho sbagliato tutto Amore,
Potrai mai perdonarmi?
Solo con te stavo bene,
ed il tuo ricordo mi accompagna sempre.
(Verse 3)
Ma, non riesco a focalizzarla:
la confusione impera nel mio cervello  e
non riesco a mettere un po’ d’ordine alle mie idee….
(Verse 4)
Questa sera, nella solitudine
che ormai mi accompagna da tanto tempo, capisco di aver sbagliato quasi tutto.
(Chorus)
Ho fallito ancora Amore e
non e’ la prima volta sai…
Potrai mai perdonarmi?..
Solo con te stavo bene…
(Verse 5)
Mi sento vuoto, inutile e
dentro di me sento che qualcosa mi fa tanto ma tanto male.
 
 


Confusione.mp3

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2 BANJO JIGS

Haven’t been on the cloud much lately. Been travelling across the southern Australian coastline, to the beautiful and remote Kangaroo Island. Its beauty seemed strangely juxtaposed to the horrors going on elsewhere. The contrast can wreak havoc with your moods!

Haunting Moods of Change

I decided to take another stab at this song and play my guitars.
Guitars: (3 tracks): Taylor 114ce strumming and Fender Squire (strumming and picking) 
Keys: Logic Pro Session Piano  with sounds from Native instruments
Drums (two tracks): EZ Drummer 3 and PG Music (panned left and right)
Copyright 2025 Joe Stroffolino
***
Sea monkey’s are just brine shrimp
Easier to take care of than a pet chimp
You just buy a kit and that’s pretty much it
Much less work than a cat a dog or a pony
But those pictures that they put on the box are definitely phony
Sometimes it feels like we’re just a bunch of sea monkeys in a jar
Living on this great big rock orbiting a star
We pray to God for assistance but what if he’s just a little boy
And this world that we live on is just his latest toy
What if we’re living in some kid’s jar and the sun is a lightbulb
It’s not really a star
What if every time the human race takes it on the chin
There’s some kid looking down staring with a silly grin
Eight billion humans on the planet earth and we’re all trying to get by
I wonder if those sea monkeys knew the truth would they still even try
Did he sprinkle some eggs in the water and wait for the fun to begin
Did he watch he watch us fight our wars and root for the good guys to win
When the black death raged in the thirteenth century and good people started to die and he saw all that pain and and suffering did it ever make him cry
Eight billion humans on the planet earth and we’re all trying to get by
I wonder if those sea monkeys knew the truth would they still even try
Eight billion humans on the planet earth and we’re all trying to get by
I wonder if those sea monkeys knew the truth would they still even try
Sea monkey’s are just brine shrimp
Easier to take care of than a pet chimp
You just buy a kit and that’s pretty much it
You just buy a kit and that’s pretty much it

Sea Monkeys In A Jar

Stars Waltz

Tango Initial

Groove Machine

Take a load off and let your imagination take you to fictional beaches of Banjico.
Composer: S.Laaksonen

Banjko Beach

Welcome to my instrumental jukebox!
This is a journey into the world of my music, where uplifting trance, cinematic scores, and mystical tones converge. Each track tells a story, transporting you to another time and place – sometimes to the dance floor, sometimes to a calming meditative state.

My inspiration comes from nature, movies, and emotions that I want to share with you. You'll also find experimental sounds and mystical soundscapes. Put on your headphones, hit play, and let the music take you away! 🎶

You are most welcome.
sakarilaaksonen@gmail.com

Seita (sieidi)

Sakari Laaksonen ♪ ♫

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