It's neither too late or too early for anything but darkness and a cocktail, as we reflect back on what might have happened and what could happen

Willow Beams - Sasha Vie

Nursing a cup of sunshine while dreaming of what is happening right at this very moment

Fireside Manor - Sasha Vie

Getting that jumpstart at the end of the day, or that final push through the long night into the next day

Bubble Dawn - Sasha Vie

Memories of a Taipei dance club in the early 1980s

Taipei Rush

Coming home
To nothing but monochrome
Between the seams
Lay threads of broken dreams
Go back out and...

Roam
Floating through the endless sky
Don't go...                                               [ so high and dry ]


Running late
From nights you can't navigate                            [ turn a blind eye ]
Beyond the signs                                          [ yet still deny ]
Tie up all storylines                                     [ let it go by ]
Then go out and...

Roam                                                      [ get by ]
Floating through the endless sky
Oh it's..                                                 [ so high and dry ]


Getting strange
Knowing to rearrange                                      [ do you imply ]
What always was                                           [ how you and I ]
Turns out to be self-applause                             [ we did not try? ]
Please step aside and...

Roam                                                      [ get by ]
Floating through the endless sky
Wait now...                                               [ so high and dry ]


Hold up, back up, line up, have you no faith in us?
Go on, be gone, so long, remember to fight for us!

We shouldn't have to defy                                 [ I testify ]
What the numbers say
It's all or nothing for now                               [ could not stand by ]
We'll find a way somehow

Standing next to the sign                                 [ to hear you lie ]
Wasn't what you thought? 
Instead it's calling your name                            [ and simplify ]
Ready set, aim...


Coming home
To nothing but monochrome                                 [ I do know why ]
Between the seams                                         [ I cannot cry ]
Lay threads of broken dreams                              [ don't want to die ]
Go back out and...

Roam                                                      [ good bye ]
Floating through the endless sky
Drop in...                                                [ so high and dry ]

You know why

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Roam

when i got the moog subsequent 37
i gave myself a fun challenge:
make an entire album using only its preset sounds

12 songs, 12 preset banks
each song = one bank (12 presets per bank)

the only other gear?
drums from the akai mpc one, with a little help from the roland sp-404 mk2

hope you dig it!

11 Standby for the Catacombs of Despair (Bank 11 Bm88)

Hard Knox Wife

“last call for the republic” is a concept album built around the jazz idea of the contrafact—new songs written over the chord changes of a standard. I used Autumn Leaves as the foundation, creating 12 original tracks in all 12 keys.

The sound isn’t straight jazz. It leans into synthwave and disco, with touches of 80s Japanese City Pop—grooves built for late-night drives, studying, or zoning out. Every track is instrumental, layered with analog synths (Oberheim OB-X8, Moog Subsequent 37, SP-404, MPC One), guitars, and bass, recorded through a hybrid analog/digital setup in my home studio.

i remember when

Sasha Vie