✌️✌️✌️... Mixed & Mastered by Daniel Doherty at Darklands Audio

2026

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Hi folks 🐧

So a new song is out there!
While I'm still waiting for a new guitar that I ordered a long time ago, I thought to spent my time learning new synths... (I'm still a n00b in that field).

I first planned to make a song using the übercool LMMS only, but quickly switched to Reaper DAW (what else...) running on Linux.
I had a computer crash, tech and other problems and finally I didn't create the kind of song as I planned (as usual).
Near the end I couldn't resist to add a line with my old guitar, the urge was too big.
I hope you like the different parts of it. Find the whole song via your fav streaming platform & feel free to share it and add it to your playlist!

FYI, this time I used the free open source, cross-platform Odin2 synth from The Wave Warden and of course Hive from U-He (that goes without saying...)
Guitar FX are also fully open source with Mod Duo from Mod Devices

Penguin Win Situations

This is a remix of my first vocal offering which I originally released over 10 years ago. Some of the original (free) VST's have faded from existence so I worked with a few of my current favourites and one new one. By now I had switched to a Strat guitar and this is undoubtedly one of my better, more fluid leads. At the time, I was also experimenting with keyboards and was really just getting comfortable using two hands (rather than 2 fingers). Also at this time, I was getting comfortable using Cuckos Reaper. As for lyrics, they just came from the mood of the tune. Everything is drawn from life experiences, so a "cut and paste" of some old, but not forgotten, memories. I'm not sure why I chose the 3rd person to express these images. 

Broken Dreams
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[INTRO/SOLO]

You wake up from a nightmare ...
Or was that real?
Somehow you can't get out of bed
Fingers too numb to feel.

Sun coming through the window
But there's no heat.
Now, the silence is deafening
Not a sound from the street.

[SOLO]

Sweet smells from the pillow
As you turn in bed.
Memories of warm embraces
Filter through your head.

No matter now, the bed is cold.
The covers are all grey.
The memories still linger
Of a love that did not stay.

[OUTRO/SOLO]

:: Words and music copyright Rick Engler

Image courtesy of MS Word Clipart
Drum sounds courtesy of Free Studio Drum Sounds and 9th Wonder Kit
Microphones: Apex 185
Keyboards: Casio WK-110 with built-in voicings
Fender Princeton Chorus Amp
Fender Stratocaster Blacktop Guitar
Boss ME-70 Multi-effects pedal
Analog to Digital: Steinberg CI 1 USB MIDI Interface
Mixed in Cuckos Reaper on a PC
Remixed using Reaper with a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 and a Shure SM58.

Broken Dreams

Broken Dreams (Original)

Smash The Blond

Smash The Blond (DnB Mix)

The melody of that day was shining, blue and wild.
It's a story from the distant past.
* band arrange
* Voice memo: https://soundcloud.com/user-109612266-663984932/wild-blue-20230120-finalmix?si=59d824b98eb64e0abcad7d2081a51653&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Song & lyrics: Hiroyuki Ishimoto
Performance: Gatta

Lyrics:

In that silver-blue light
Dazzlingly, oh so dazzlingly, I recall
Wildly shining as I tilt my glass

That strangely nostalgic scent
I want to return to that nostalgic place
Talking about the past that cannot be regained

That melody shining in blue and white
I stood beyond your smiling face
Unable to see anything ahead
I didn't understand!

That dazzling brightness of the unseen events
In that shining blue city
Wildly shining, wildly brilliant

Oh, blue-silver world
The migratory birds are dazzling
Feelings that I ponder aimlessly
Wild blue

Wild Blue

Waste Makes Haste

"For My Lady" is a song written by Ray Thomas that was released on the Moody Blues 1972 album Seventh Sojourn. It was also released as the B-side to the single "I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band)"
The lyrics to "For My Lady" are about the singer's desire for true love.The lyrics may have been inspired by Thomas' recent divorce at the time he wrote the song.

Music journalist Geoffrey Freakes described "For My Lady" as an "uncomplicated, uncluttered and blissfully romantic song" that is "supremely elegant." Moody Blues biographer Marc Cushman felt that "the melody and heartfelt vocal performance convey a sadness despite the positive nature of the lyrics. Tampa Tribune critic Ralph Harold described the song as "an elegant love song, almost Elizabethan, although somewhat gimmicky with a cymbal sound of ocean waves and a nautical harmonica and organ background.

At one point Justin Hayward plays a guitar note that had some listeners thinking that the guitar string broke. But according to Hayward that it was not a broken string but merely an emphasized pluck to accompany the lyrics "and slowly bow her head."                          Wikipedia

Mastered Track: Distrokid Mixea

For My Lady - The Moody Blues (Cover)

flying saucer

RESPIR RODRIG

Buy on bandcamp

KOOL JAH - RESPIR RODRIG

WRITTEN, PRODUCED, MIXED, MASTERED AND PERFORMED BY: BRUCE CONOVER 
ADDITIONAL AD-LIB AND VOCALS BY: DOMINIQUEFRENCH

LIFE THE REMIX!!  CONOVER:  featuring DOMINIQUEFRENCH  11/19/17

Dreams from pre-birth of trees in blossom.

Dreams of Blossom Trees (remastered 2025)

I am a sickly thing burning out for the entertainment of dozens.
Eons ago the gods locked me up in here as punishment for my divine transgressions. 
I've been live recording, digitally producing, & blending both mediums for a long time. 
Thank you for stopping by.
Be safe on your trip.

Waste Makes Haste

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