Improvisation

Mixed for Blank Shell Shutter

MegaMix  11.04.2024

"A.L.E.X." is a pop ballad about a young man choosing the wrong path of life. The title is both a name and an acronym standing for "all lies excused with ecstasy", though ecstasy is a pars pro toto image. Written in my teenage years, this song has a special meaning to me, because its songwriting, arrangement and instrumentation was years ahead of my knowledge and capabilities. I had to grow up first to understand the real meaning of the lyrics. It's not a song about drug abuse. It's a song about self-rejection, pretending a better self and ending in a desaster. After 15 years of hard work, we were able to finish this song even better than expected. I'd like to thank everybody for taking this unbelieveable journey with me and turning my draft into a gemstone.

This song is part of my album "Going My Way" which can be downloaded at Bandcamp.

Credits:
Nadine de Macedo: Composition, Arrangement, Production, Lyrics, Piano, Programming (Orchestra)
Roman Wreden: Vocals
Alex Pinheiro: Guitar, Solo
Chad Lenig: Drums, Bass

==== LYRICS ====

You were such a shy guy
but I can't keep watching you cry
I'm the only one who knows your truth
and the minds that you bemused

Narrator of so many lies
In fear of dropping your disguise 
cause you look like your ego who died

A.L.E.X.
All lies excused with ecstasy
still drowning in your fantasy
Are you searching for an answer
or for a better...

A.L.E.X.
All lies excused with ecstasy
your life has been a misery
Don't keep reminding those years
where you've been rejected 

You were such a silly boy
but they treated you like a toy
This was the reason for your weakness
shammed coolness turned to bleakness

Narrator of a broken dream
Your hope is vanishing like steam
See your blue eyes turning dark and grey

All lies excused with ecstasy
There's more in life than you have seen
Why have you stabbed the one you've been

A.L.E.X.
All lies excused with ecstasy
your life has been a misery
Don't keep reminding those years 
where you've been rejected

Still drowning in despair
waiting for someone to care
I said that you’d believe in you 
but you surrender

A.L.E.X
Why don't you leave your lies
release yourself from your disguise
There are so many things that
you can do without

A.L.E.X.
All lies excused with ecstasy
still drowning in your fantasy
Are you searching for an answer
or for a better...

A.L.E.X
All lies excused with ecstasy
life needn't be a misery

Going My Way

A.L.E.X.

I hope to someday finish animation I started years ago of flamingos in the rain dancing to this song.

Synth harp, guitars, clarinet, cellos, and bass set to hit hop, conga, and bongo beats at a tango’s pace of 70 bpm. Rain audio recorded live in December 2023.

I wrote an extended version of this track more than a decade ago during a time I was experiencing intense physical pain. As I fled inwardly into creativity to escape, this music narrated the discovery of a quiet harbor from pain.

Later I became amused watching a wildlife documentary of flamingos and their mating dance. As they marched together in step, abruptly turning their heads and beaks known as head flagging to an unknown beat accentuating their synchronized rhythm, I imagined flamingos dancing the tango. Initially I had ambitions to create an animated short with Tango In The Rain as the soundtrack. With time constraints, I leaned more toward the immediacy of digital music-making than animation and discovered pain relief in the process. And as a fan of old movies, this tune evolved into my fantasy score for a different Singin' in the Rain type of musical of animated dancing flamingos.

I hope the music takes you to your own safe harbor, hopefully a place of grace, comfort, and peace. My best wishes to you.

Tango In The Rain

U-Pluie de Sakura

W-Improv in Fine Rain

- Spitfire Audio - Spitfire Appasionata Strings - Violins 1 - Legato
- Spitfire Audio - Spitfire Appasionata Strings - Violins 2 - Legato
- Spitfire Audio - Spitfire Appasionata Strings - Cellos - Legato
- Spitfire Audio - Spitfire Appasionata Strings - Basses - Glancing Attack
- Spitfire Audio - Spitfire Appasionata Strings - Basses - Legato
- Spitfire Audio - BBC Symphony Orchestra - Viola Leader - Legato
- Spitfire Audio - BBC Symphony Orchestra - Oboe - Legato
- Spitfire Audio - BBC Symphony Orchestra - Flûte - Legato
- Spitfire Audio - BBC Symphony Orchestra - Harp - Gliss FX
- Spitfire Audio - Contemporary Drama Toolkit - Scratchy Pad
- Spitfire Audio - Originals - Cimbalon - Sustained
- Spitfire Audio - Originals - Cinematic Frozen Strings - Flautando CS
- Spitfire Audio - Fragile String Evolutions - Ambient Tratto
- Spitfire Audio - Angular String Evolutions - Close To Home
- Spitfire Audio - Hauschka Composer Toolkit
- Spitfire Audio - Blankfor.MS - Tape Synths
- Spitfire Audio - Albion V Tundra
- Spitfire Audio - LABS - Tape Piano - Felt Cassette
- BS - Era II - Vocal Codex - Contemplating
- Arturia - Augmented Strings
- UVI - World Suite

4/4, 120 bpm

En Résonance

Radio Silence

S-Zigzag Gig

K-Daffodil

W-Beautiful February

Y-Natrium

Dreama AB

Begin Again feat. Emily Coy
Vocals: Emily Coy
https://soundcloud.com/freevocals/emily-coy-begin-again-free-acapella
Backing Track Paploviante Burn
https://soundcloud.com/paploviante-and-friends/burn-open-collaboration-offer
Lillithe: adding…Sax, Beat, Synth,Vocals, Arrangement and Production

Begin Again feat. Emily Coy & Paploviante

MIDNIGHT IN PARIS.

Christmas is coming.
Gone shopping.

Check out the updated version at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/6oOIoMKJ07pnUJUXdLueKR


Lyrics

Santa is coming and
I dont know how long i can hold
Santa is coming and
I dont know where I can hide
Santa is coming and
I cant find my gun
Santa is coming and
he'll put me in line


Gone shopping - thats the spirit
I feel it - We all feel it

Gone shopping - you still have credit
and you feel it - We all feel it

Gone shopping - thats the spirit
you still have credit - We all know it

Gone shopping...


Santa is coming...

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EVerybody has them 
everybody needs them
got to buy them all 
Buy until you die
You deserve them all
Dont need no money
Just give us your soul

This one is red 
old is blue
New one is better 
the old is shit
buy it buy it buy it 
Buy Buy Buy BUy BUY
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Santa in his golden mercedes
Filled with twerking laydies 
Big fat smile

Got pockets full of everything but holes
greasy palms and a 
Big fat smile

Grabbing anything anyone
Finished his bottle and rudolf 
He got the moolah

Rudolf with his red nose 
knows better than to mess with mama Claus
from now on

Gone Shopping

We make soundtracks for scenes in movies we imagine.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWIZ4SP-uNA

Evasion

🐳Thank you for your support. It's very encouraging.🪼
🐱I do not use AI in my music.😊
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Y-Natrium

Sanshu Seiso [Experimental Artist]