Track 2 of 2 of my submissions for the #maj7 2021 showcase, originally made for a 
2HB at BotB. My take on the type of music that plays during a Sailor Moon transformation sequence (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

Transform!

Composed and sung by @quarkimo
 Lyrics by Sam Aldape 
Tin whistle and vocals performed by Kion Heidari 
Flute and vocals performed by Juan Marroquin 
Violin and vocals performed by Kanoa Ichiyanagi

“bloom” is a celebration of human connection, the joy of the enrichment that people close to us provide.

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Lyrics:

It’s always so hard to start 
Each new face a stage to play 
Wasn’t sure what ‘clean slate’ meant 
Maybe a false self 
If I ever get through to me
 I’ll see the whole truth

One voice to another to find that space 
To share in one breath to make more time
 Speech like that always on the teachers’ mouths 
Easy words 
Pre-made warmth served to calm the fearing soul
 Bitter taste 
Smelled like forced handshakes and broken ice
 Senses blown

but then from time came time spent came feeling
 from meetings came breathless dinners came raucous screams
 from folded bed sheets came torn carpets came cemented memories
from devilry came a boiling point came a bond
Funny to think it was a straight path 
Funny to feel that old pit in my chest
 Easy to believe I’d be different just like that 
That I could be without silence as I sit 
but the dread’s here 
deep in my heart— 
sorry

I often find that void
 Shuddering
 Eyes focused on the fall 
Tears trailing
 But light offers a hand
 Spark divine 
Gleaming light of their love 
Unending

So I suppose I suppose
 I can face a new thought 
To mend the cracks in my eyes
 And see the whole truth

The unknown unknows a path
 I write and I wait
 My family not far behind
 I love and I thank you

roots

bloom

Edit 2023.03.31  52 years old.
A self-composed song imagining the prologue of the game.
Soundtrack style music is the first challenge. C2? or SA?

ゲームのプロローグを思い描いた自作曲。
サントラ風楽曲は初挑戦。C2? or SA?

[akiraDEMO] -prologue- 2023 [KORG Gadget]

my remix of SnugglyBun's wonderful track (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrg5gjzLfSo) for the 3rd iteration of the maj7 cover ring!

SnugglyBun - On The Brink Of Falling Apart (petet remix)

http://levelmusicmaxo.bandcamp.com

LEVEL MUSIC G + T in progress

Brown Boulevard (Level Music T)

Heavily inspired by Tee Lopes' Sonic Mania (as the title suggests)

The Mania

Elizabeth Bennet

1066 Ballade

In August of 2022, Irene, my wife and soulmate of so many wonderful years, passed away. The following years were the most difficult years of my life as I was devastated and overwhelmed by grief. Several years prior to Irene’s passing, I had started on a large orchestral work reflecting on our life together with our son, Peren, during his childhood years. This work is still in progress, but stylistically it has had a great impact on the composition of my Pieces of Love and Remembrance as it foreshadows much of what I expressed in Seeking Serenity, Part I. I started to write down ideas here and there during the more lucid moments of my grieving. Then in early 2024, I received an invitation from PARMA Recordings to write a short 5-minute piece for piano and orchestra. I immediately jumped at the opportunity, and Seeking Serenity, Part I is the work I composed for this occasion.

Although I do not generally, and did not with Seeking Serenity, attempt to tell a story or narrative of some kind, listeners of my music often reflect on how my music evokes in them certain feelings, images, or extra musical references. This was particularly true of Irene, and I so miss how she would relate to me about her feelings and impressions while listening to my music. Indeed, I am overjoyed to learn that listeners can get caught up in the emotions of my music as they follow their own unique journey guided by what they hear.

On a very personal level, I can identify with the piano solo which strives to find some point of repose or comfort, seeking this not in despair but in the hope of finding and rekindling love, belonging and the strength to continue on. The opening arpeggiated passages underscore the direction of this sentiment. The orchestra for its part is like, dare I say, Irene who is gently beckoning me on to find that place of repose and acceptance, full of color, bright sounds, and signposts pointing the way. By the end of Part I, the solo finds itself in a delicately balanced and restructured statement of motivic material alluded to previously, and in a high, bell-like register of the piano, echoed and enfolded finally by an orchestral texture not unlike wind chimes reverberating into infinity.

Journey to Serenity

Pieces of Love and Remembrance: Seeking Serenity, Part I

Edit 2017.08.21 47years old.
*2017.8.23 Remastering

雲ひとつない8月のイメージ。
今までの反省点（途中で飽きて上げちゃう）を踏まえ
忍耐強く細部を調整した結果が…出ているでしょうか？

An image of August with no clouds.
Based on the point of failure point so far (get bored on the way)
Is the result that patiently adjusted the details ...?

[akiraDEMO]-water- 2017[KORG Gadget]

This track is inspired by "Submission Plaza Theme", composed by Kazumi Totaka from Check Mii Out Channel (WII).

Cover art by Clara Horst (https://twitter.com/_icosa)

MASTER LIST OF ALL TAC STUFF: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19TZVuXT5NyoVM6lNIJ9JxiASxrXmNkYtajsi_h-dFgE/edit?usp=sharing

Thanks for listening!

Andromeda Channel

Music lover.
My dream is to become a composer in Neo-Venezia.

Elizabeth Bennet

Skyleo