Sam 22

Guitars, vocals and backup vocals by myself.
Bass, keyboards, drums, flute, strings, Mellotron are MIDI tracks.
Recording, mixing, synth effects and MIDI rendering: Garageband (Mac), BBC Symphony Orchestra Discover plugin (https://www.spitfireaudio.com/bbc-symphony-orchestra-discover).
Setup: Lag Sauvage guitar with Ernie Ball Everlast strings, Yamaha TR5A amp, Shure MV88+ mic.

Opeth - To Rid the Disease (cover)

Opeth - Bleak

An acoustic guitar part by one of my absolute favorite bands kept calling out to me. So I decided to answer. 

Oath Robed in Twilight

opeth riff

Track Description:

“Kobanî (Daughters of the Fire)”
This is not a song.
It’s a fracture in time.
A howl echoing through burnt soil and rusted breath.
Where the daughters of the mountains stood—not as myth, not as martyr—but as memory sharpened into steel.
Against a death cult cloaked in god’s lies, they didn’t kneel.
They didn’t pray.
They became the storm.

Broken meters mirror broken homes.
Odd time signatures like fractured lullabies from mothers who buried their children with their own hands.
The guitars don’t play—they testify.
The drums don’t keep time—they interrogate it.
This is progressive metal reconfigured as ancestral vengeance.
A hymn for every voice silenced in the rubble.
A curse against every empire that mistook silence for surrender.
And in its core: a whisper, barely audible—
"We are still here."

Joe Qasso - Kobane

“Low Life” is an instrumental exploration of the human condition — stripped of names, flags, gods, and inherited masks.
No lyrics. No doctrine. Only sound.
A slow-burning descent through identity’s hollow core, where a single candle flickers in the fog, and a raven watches — not as omen, but as witness.

This is a rejection of the cages we were born into.
A requiem for forced belonging.
Music for the ones who feel like strangers in every homeland.
You don’t need to understand it.
You just need to feel it.

JoeQasso - Low Life

When the Silence Spoke
by JoeQasso

It didn’t end with a scream.
It ended with weather.
Cold air. A look avoided. A language unlearned.

This piece doesn’t ask questions — it remembers the silence that answered them.
Somewhere between a dream that stopped returning and a coat pulled tighter,
a voice faded… not because it was weak,
but because it knew no one was listening.

Everything else is just reverb.

JoeQasso - When the Silence Spoke

Ice for Dead Hearts
by JoeQasso

An AI-generated instrumental odyssey — part djent, part dream.
Built like a galaxy: fractured rhythms, glowing synths, and aching harmonies.
No words. Just gravity, pulse, and the cold beauty of something you'll never quite reach.



JoeQasso - Ice for Dead Hearts

They Called It Jihad, We Called It Genocide
by JoeQasso
(Remix cover of "Low Life" by Their Dogs Were Astronauts)

An instrumental scream carved from silence and memory.
Built on the bones of Low Life — reimagined in the aftermath of March 6,
when blood soaked the western lands of Syria.
When verses were louder than mercy,
and graves were dug faster than names could be spoken.

They filmed.
They cheered.
They preached.

We remember.

This is not a remix for movement —
it’s for mourning.

It is for the Alawite civilians butchered in their villages,
burned under God's name,
forgotten in the noise.

This song is for them.
For every child who cried beneath a takbir.
For every mother whose silence became a grave.

For the Alawites 
may the soil remember what history tries to erase.

JoeQasso - They Called It Jihad, We Called It Genocide

top line guitar melody is an improvised vocal melody if i ever expand on the track

Erase You (without vocals)

“The Last Will and Testament: Variations” is a reimagined journey through the most iconic instrumental passages of the original album. These extended edits isolate and expand the emotional DNA of key intros, bridges, and outros — turning fleeting moments into immersive, standalone compositions. Grafenberg exposes the raw soul of the work, magnifying its silences, distortions, and spectral textures.

§7 (Extended outro variation)

§4 (Extended bridge)

§7 (Extended intro variation)

§5 (Extended bridge)

BEFORE THE FALL

The air is thick with what you’ve done
Ashes of children, blood of sons
You carve my name in poisoned stone
And wonder why you ended up here

(Burn it all)

Burn, Crawl, and see the void
Kingdom’s built on bones and noise
Embrace your agony
Before the fall

Blinded, you avoid the light
Your suffering is from the dark
Enjoy it before the fall

Skulls beneath the towers rise
Concrete prayers to deadened skies
All the seeds planted in lies
will choke the truth buried to die

(Burn it all)

Burn
Burn it all

Burn, Crawl, and see the void
Kingdom’s built on bones and noise
Embrace your agony
Before the fall

Blinded, you avoid the light
Your suffering is from the dark
Enjoy it before the fall

Before the Fall

Atypical

OPETH - HOPE LEAVES (COVER)

After deejaying from pumping techno to minimal underground, i started to collect hundreds of ep's from beloved artists who has deeply influenced me since twenty years. It was than a natural and organic step to start producing my own music. My first Ep on Traumwelten is a testimonial of my love for their work, my love for deep techno music and cheesy moogy's things. 
I found with this label the ideal creative framework to share my world, my dreams & feelings !

1/2 of Wolf Helvetica Transwoman, singer, sometimes-rapper, mediocre guitarist, the person that ate all the churros, & bound to make my first million.

Welcome to Avia Music Lab.

Thank you for listening !

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