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"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.

Radio Silence

Image created by me.
https://www.deviantart.com/leehon/art/The-Raver-And-The-Emo-1013462508

Where Dragons Make Love

Note: This is a re-upload (after 21 plays) you are listening to. Muterial was very kind and helpful in cleaning up some sections of the soundscape and nursing it through some of the mastering paces. With a deep bow, I say thanks.

Method: Allowing muterial's material to mutate into the pre-existing poem: https://soundcloud.com/muterial/off-the-rails?si=4a2ab77b50cb4c83b361f314cef3e061&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing There is a playlist with all the different alterations of his track: https://soundcloud.com/muterial/sets/off-the-rails-collaborations?si=c30eef3c590c478da58913eaaf27c23c&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing  muterial based his recording on slowed-down sounds produced by the sea. Drifts, waves, currents, tides in a fjord. Everything, though, is undergoing constant mutation in interrelation. Change creates time and unidirectional time lays down the sediments we call history. This is what we are looking at, what we are listening to, what we are wading through.The momentum of past changes forces on, creating, pushing 'the world' as well as this particular self into being. This is quite an immersive, all-encompassing experience. Any attempt at free choice would require a movement of consciousness and awareness. Several hardware and software effects have beeen involved in the processes that have taken place on my side of these sounds.

Narration: With historical persons, we not only tend to adopt the victor's stories - but even more the underlying narrative of 'completeness from the beginning'. Both - of course - is nonsense. Exactly that is why it is so joyful to give in to both of these urges - as in this poem - for it allows us to remain in the comfort zones of our preconceptions.

Lyrics / copyright jo richter:

As a young man in the fertile lands north
of the Atlas mountains, Hannibal climbed
a tree in the foothills and allowed his curiosity to
patiently focus on what really happened below.

Watching the incredibly slow, muddy
river called soil, restrained only by
the lay of the land, by forests, orchards
pastures and reeds, Hannibal understood
that it was the mountains he had to
rely on, for they stored deep history.

This is how you conquer an empire:
you shrink it to the size of the thin layer
of soil it inhabits. In his march on Rome, Cesar
will only cross a swifter river - nothing basic at all.

Picture: A self-taken snapshot of the public-space sculpture 'Mauerhocker' by Richard Emmans is included in the accompanying picture, apart from other photographic material taken by me. Here is a German newspaper article on this sculpture: https://www.suedkurier.de/region/bodenseekreis/markdorf/mauerhocker-ist-mit-gefaehrtin-zurueck-die-buntsandsteinfigur-ist-zurueck-auf-ihrem-platz;art372484,10843604

Ending: Somehow it has taken on a Dvorak, New World symphonic flair.... this happened unintentionally ... but I have to admit that I have grown fond of the allusion.... Here is the motive I had half-wittedly stumbled into in a Metropolis-like presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_1N6_O254g

hanno - based on material by muterial

White Owl (part 1) - (pinkdot & my antiques in my index #2 prod. by pinkdot)

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After the rain falls, not everything is cleansed

After The Rain

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Featured voice model and actress Katya Clover

She Moans So You Do Not Have To

Playing over a funky funky backing track using a new delay pedal.

Halo Funk

Rule The World

The Ambient Saxophone

The Eyes Were Blind

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...

---
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
---

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

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