This is a concept album about the detrimental effects isolating yourself and bottling up your emotions

Listen to Me

Depths

Abyss

Allison (Your Love is Unconditional)

Catharsis

Aqualung (the Ballad)

A hard to describe synthtastic moody piece... 

The World Outside Seems Strange

Whispers through the haze of time,
Ashes fall where hearts once shined,
The desert breathes, the silence speaks,
A shadow moves where light once leaked.

Hold on, hold on, love’s not gone
Even in the dark, we carry on
Hope is a fire, burning slow
Hold on, hold on – don’t let go!

Shadows fall, but I still breathe
Your light is the thread that’s pulling me
Through the noise, through the ache
I hear your voice – it keeps me awake!

Hold on, hold on, love’s not gone
Even in the dark, we carry on
Hope is a fire, burning slow
Hold on, hold on – don’t let go!

The Angel knows the space we keep,
In the interval where the senses sleep.
It measures miles of silent dread,
The unlived life that we have fled.

We seek to be a thing unseen,
A root in earth, profoundly keen,
For in the darkness, truth is bred,
A new beginning on the dead.

Hold on, hold on, love’s not gone
Even in the dark, we carry on
Hope is a fire, burning slow
Hold on, hold on – don’t let go!

And I will not be bent by wrong,
Where I am curved, I am a lie.
I live my life in circles strong,
And seek the last before I die.

The great singing must swell and rise,
Till our God appears before our eyes,
No longer guest, but Heir and Son,
The unlived life completely won.

Hold on, hold on, love’s not gone
Even in the dark, we carry on
Hope is a fire, burning slow
Hold on, hold on – don’t let go!

Hold on, hold on, love’s not gone
Even in the dark, we carry on
Hope is a fire, burning slow
Hold on, hold on – don’t let go!

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Arrangement and vocals: Volker Redder, Udio, GarageBand
Loops and samples: Volker Redder, GarageBand
Editing and sound design: Volker Redder, Ozone 11, Sound Studio, GarageBand
Lyrics: Volker Redder, translated with the help of Google Translate
Cover design: Volker Redder, Photoshop, FLUXpro

Hold On

Out Of Nowhere

a folky, jazz fusion of 5/4 beat, guitars, slide - vocals - hard to explain - 
ⓀⒼiƞk 
seems to be a fitting for the times - Ruthless to the end -
this might be just a step - it's hard to determine when a song begins or ends. 
i like this 5/4 groove i wanted the basses to be simple and in fact one follows the orchestra part. This was mixed LOUD & may have lost things - but also gained a bottom end - what's popular today. 
 vocals are always tolerable - but when the slide guitars come in 
a nice enhanced feel - this one kinda wrote it self - as many - where trial and error spark ideas that i had not thought of. i had to rethink the guitars to go along with the feel - not being so independent. That's hard for someone that avoids to much repetition. That's the reason why my interests go into progressive rock, space rock, from the 1960 to today! It's one thing to have that basic sound a soloist can achieve - (unlike a live band) underground in a garage - but then to make it unique - this 5/4 idea came from another idea trying to be simple but no predictable using pop, folk, jazz, blues, psychedelic, experimental, old school mellow progressive folk, electronic, using 2 to 5 guitars, trio of vocals - fusions - i add vocals - just so more people will listen. Just like all the tunes here & many published collections. Headphone Music - 2025 all rights reserved.

Ruthless

2025 ⓀⒼiƞk All Rights Reserved. #kgink #KGink ƘƓiƞk KGiNK, kg ink, known by many names - all leading to the same well - plenty better than this lifelong musical diary of one. town idiot, court jester, among the disappointed enough to create their own!
working on 'the next'.  #ⓀⒼiƞk

i'm into musicians - far beyond singers without instruments - people that LIKE to play/record REAL instruments - played by various lips & limbs with intention - practice - improvisation on themes, ideas.
So here in wealth's commerce of sales it's an invisible compelling option - making music - not for a dime - factoring in the time, effort, costs - instruments, electricity, computers, microphones, audio inspirations - 
Thank you for listening & if u can relate - for saying so!
Just another musician in USA trying to survive. Very concern for the direction of my country and world.  Always thankful to such a chorus of artists that i just want to add my own. Thanks for all that amazing LIVE music STILL out there. 

Thanks to defenders of Human Rights, Social Rights, Secularism, Animal Rights, equality, arts of hope & talent & the hopeless untalented one's too, civility, peacemakers, humanitarians, explorers, listeners. most of all those poor art makers, like Chopin, unknown, obscure, meaningless, trying to drowned out all the violence, commercialism, weeping, anguish, poverty with anything beautiful they can create by hand or voice - but also into modern synth & creating my own home made loops, seeing art in different ways in a modern world, not copied or used but intentionally made to be different, unique, one of a kind. 
 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaKQIPGKlbetkPGTNrEa0OQ (youtube page)

https://music.apple.com/us/artist/kgink/16701785 (Apple Music Page)

https://www.amazon.com/music/player/artists/B0012BG13Q/kgink (Amazon Page)


just be honest
if you like it - great - if not - well maybe next song?

&if i, we&so many others - make music or explore crafting our own arts.
use our time to make our own designs in arts we enjoy - not for & FAR from! any money or fame but to cultivate personal desires/visions - looking for an audience - to know that someone listens/likes not paid. 
Lets hope that it helped to make us better people - not only hearing & appreciating talents but in trying to be better in all the fields

Alt rock with a bit of prog, post rock, noise rock, shoegaze, etc.

Enjoying learning about all things music.  Every song teaches something

"Redder" is a palindrome. Like "racecar" or "level". These pieces of music ain't.

My name is Volker Redder, online I go by "docredder." It all came about because I studied biology and computer science for a long time and received my doctorate as the crowning achievement of my academic career.
As a child, I sang Bach in the church's „Knabenchor Unser Lieben Frauen“ because my mother thought it was good for my soul. And it was, until, thanks to an excellent teacher, I realized that music is like mathematics. After that, I loved not only music but also mathematics and all sciences based on mathematics: physics, biology, chemistry, computer science. So, I went straight into the natural sciences and engineering. Yes, I studied a lot. However, a university career wasn't for me. I wanted to monetize the findings of the various sciences (you can't live on air and love alone) and founded over a dozen companies. Because who wants life to follow a clear formula? I certainly didn't. In addition to adventurous entrepreneurship, the subsequent career in politics (German Bundestag), and a growing family, I was constantly picking up the guitar or keyboard, which is what you do when you want to escape the chaos of everyday life.
Should I say I'm a virtuoso? No. That would be a lie. I'm just too lazy for that. Laziness, or in modern parlance, "efficiency," is a principle for me. And so I founded my "own studio," consisting of a lot of electronics and software. The hipsters call it DIY. I call it "not wanting to act like a big shot and book expensive recording studios." I'm a one-man orchestra, a chef-d'oeuvre who spends all day producing pop, rock, indie, and ambient mishmash until he finally finds it he likes. My menu? Pink Floyd, Genesis, Supertramp, Muse, Zappa, Miles Davis, and many more. Yes, all at once. I told you: mishmash.
There are guys who write music to become famous. Then there's me. I write music to keep myself from going crazy. Sometimes it's funny, sometimes there's melancholy in it, sometimes it's stories from literature or something sci-fi. Or from Tinder dates my daughters have told me. I mean, who hasn't wondered what "being in Tinder light" is? Exactly. I wrote it down. I use everything I can get my hands on: GarageBand, samples, my voice, AI voices, Udio, VirtualDJ, everything! I don't care if purists say it's no longer art. It doesn't matter, the main thing is that my music feels like a window you can look out of and discover something new again and again.
Every song becomes a little adventure. Sometimes I start with a line, sometimes with a feeling I can't shake. It's like an escape from reality, except in the end, there's no escape. And that's a good thing. This is how I stay grounded. Okay, grounded isn't the right word either. Let me put it this way: I've stayed true to myself. And I'm grateful for everyone who listens, shares, or comments.
It makes me feel like I'm not completely alone in this madness. So if you also like songs that don't follow the rules, I'd be happy if you joined in. After all, the world is crazy enough.
You have to fight that with music. I mean, that's logical, right?

New tracks tagged #Progrock