I love it..it really is Expansive, and unfolds beautifully, Max!

Very nice mysterious-suspenseful and at the same time soothing mood. All thumbs up.

fantastic composition , the opening celestial world !

Can't believe I missed this one, beautiful ethereal synth work and a wonderful mood

A mighty soundtrack you've created Max. This frees the imagination.

This is the Space-PL!

Yes. Pure Space - Tracks. Artists who craft exciting Space-Tracks , no matter if its hardn heavy, or more ambient , i will try to collect those and send them straight into the next Wormhole! 

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH!

DAMN!

Yours
Cmd. SF

From Space Age to Meteor Rage

This is a total break from anything I have tried before.
Always, I would endeavor to work within some type of harmonic framework.
So, wouldn't it be a No No
to select instruments, which for the most part were detuned,
and even some that were clear expressions of dissonance...
and how about all those artifacts? 

But here you have it,
where artifacts rule the day.
...

To begin this SoundTrack,
an audio clip was taken from
The Falcon Rumble:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImoQqNyRL8Y&t=289s
beginning at 3:37,
and using LOGIC's FlexTime to stretch it out,
deepening the rumble.

...

Artwork by: Pascal Beekmans
https://www.behance.net/gallery/33500655/BRevenge

While this magnificent space craft may little resemble
the one envisioned by its author,
this image, nevertheless, 
put me back in my early years of Science Fiction binge reading.

...

From the Science Fiction author, James P. Hogan.
[Giant's Series:   
[..... Inherit the Stars                  
[..... Gentle Giants of Ganymede
[.....  Giant's Star

The Ganymean Ship, Shapieron, 
has returned from a runaway flight, which trapped its crew 
in relativistic time dilation for 25 million years, local time.

After regaining control of the ship, 
it was slowed to reenter the solar system...
only to find their home planet destroyed 
and a new breed of vertebrates occupying Sol's space lanes.

Shapieron

Dig a path in the snow, Dig a path and go and go  
out into the field with Hawk Hill to the North
the winter night when stars and moon are so bloody bright
and frozen snow so deep, sparkles like a trillion diamond lights.
The fence posts all but gone.

And then there was the big red dog who had a bell and bounded all about.

Waiting patiently for the Witch to arrive wearing cape and cowl 
embroidered by some elven folk who live on down south..

And it's so cold my beard is white..
I meet her in the trail half-way and we embrace, i turn and walk back to our little place, up in the draw, where the stove is cherry red.

The Witch the dog and me. Absolutely free...

The Witch the Dog and me (remastered)

One of the tracks from my new album, 'The Unsettled Dust', now out on the great Triplicate Records.
https://triplicaterecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-unsettled-dust
Cover art by Bryan Kraft @bvsmv

Starfire

A happy collaboration with SuZanne Ledwith and Nic @nic_nic_nic: 

Lyrics, main vocals and additional guitar: Suzanne Ledwith
Demo, rhythm guitar, bass and additional vocals: Nic
Someone once said, he felt trapped in a horizontal line and I thought that was really great song line.

In Happy Dreams (with @nic)

I had to have an operation on my left hand, which has meant I haven't been able to play guitar for a couple of months now. 

Anyway, it's on the mend although I still don't have much feeling in my little finger and the side of my hand, but it's getting better, so my guitar is coming home, not fast enough, but my baby's coming home. 
Here she is...

@rick-4-1 Drums
@phil-mcwalter The Other Stuff

My Baby's Coming Home

Spotify

My father passed away today 18th Feb 2022. The last few months were particularly hard for him and he just wanted to die.  This song is one of a few I wrote as catharsis. Sometimes we can live too long when quality of life has gone. 

Sometimes there's no justice
There's no need to try
You just need to trust us
'Til it's your time to die

It's painful to watch you
It's not living at all
Just waiting the days through
For that hammer to fall

I know you really want to go
There's nothing I can do
I want you to know

I feel so helpless
Impotent and scared
It's all so hopeless
But cannot be repaired

I know you really want to go
There's nothing I can do
I want you to know
I know you really want to go
There's nothing I can do
I want you to know

A Thousand Cuts

into the night

The Points In Between

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This is the first track I've created after wrapping up my new album “aes.thet.ics”. There is always uncertainty as to what I want to work on after releasing a collection of material. (or if I need a break)It's a combination of relief/fulfillment, mixed with self imposed pressure as to needing to come up with ideas for future work.

Going back to minimal piano remains a comforting direction. For me it's always a rewarding emotional release. 

**more tracks to share soon from "aes.thet.ics"

Mood Exhibit - Klid

vandrarhem

gutted himself under the flickering light of the bathroom

Sunday Ambient - 31

[Beginning of document]

Volume 347, Chapter 8, Subchatpter [sic] 16,  of the Historical records of Her Majesty's Royal Space Navy

To the Esteemed Board of Historical Research for the Slack Babbath and Prudas Jiest Galaxies, and the learned body of lettered elders haling from the Dob Bylan Belt and the neighboring realm of the Rou Leed Nebula, the following epistolary cover sheet from Vice Commandant Dubois of the SS Budapest to Admiral Krank of the SS Belgrade is submitted:

Gilded, Ruffled, but Never Bested Prestigious Space Gentlemen,
I offer up the latest concoction from the burning pit loins of the SS Budapest. As you may recall from your Space Navy History mandatory readings, Partition 26, Balance T, Section 4, there is a lesser known story of one Cadet Ramshackle who disappeared under strange circumstances some 758 years ago, when time was so... well, untraveled... A recording of Cadet Ramshackle's came unexpectedly into the possession of our dessert chef, Luftenant Grangier of Marla Maples, whilst he was cleaning the cabbage farmed from Jipplestock Realm in Warezz Place. We submit this song for your precision analysis. Help us determine the source of poor Ramshackle's malaise. 

Forever in your service,
Vice Commandant Dubois

[End of Document, Nothing Follows]

Bravo and The Cosmonauts

Cadet Ramshackle En Bosse

This started when I was messing around with some softsynth VST's I hadn't used before and landed upon a sound I liked using one called Prodigious Synth.  I laid down a bit of an upward melodic progression with the pianoroll and that became the basis for the song.

Somewhere along the way I threw in some radio clips from the Apollo program and kept tinkering with it the last few weeks until it has become a sort of series of set pieces hinging around the same melodic cues.

I had some fun messing with some pictures of the Apollo 11 moon landing to make the track art as well.  You can see the full resolution image here: https://i.imgur.com/3xaHWcX.jpg

Back To The Space Age

Download is enabled and the track is free to use for non-commercial works.  Enjoy.

Cosmic Crisis

Moonrise

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++++. PROFILE NOTES ++++

Once a wannabe, not yet a has been.

It had been over a decade since I put together a song,
and for that matter basically walked away from music altogether.
Losing hope that I would ever have the time to put into music again,
I finally gave away my 3rd music studio.
I ran across SoundCloud around 2013,
and thought I might take what few songs I had recorded, 
and lay them to rest there.
And there they languished.

HOWEVER, around 2017 I went back to SoundCloud
and began listening a little more and a little more,
and actively taking a part in visiting the sites
of so many wonderful musicians and beautiful songs.
Also, more and more often I would discover that these artists
were blossoming everywhere around the world,
and most definitely worthy of high praise and compliments.

Then suddenly, these old dead soundtracks right here
began to have a bit of life breathed back into them.
From the kind words that began to come trickling in,
I thought, maybe, someday I might give this music thing a try again.

The thing that finally pushed me into action
was a particular SoundCloud artist…Sander Heerings,
AKA https://soundcloud.com/wane-of-summer
 

Not only was he encouraging,
but he began faithfully responding to a few questions,
then a barrage of them.

The final result seemed to be that after a couple of months,
the Old Grinder now has a 4th studio and, finally, a new song.
I hope there may be many more to come.

Thank you Sander, and to the multitude that have dropped in
to listen to these old songs, 
and most of all, for perking up my spirits.

Random Space-Ape Synth-Nerd somewhere out there!

Shapieron

Synthgrinder

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