This is a song I've had with me for a while and I think I'm still working on it but I don't want to be sitting with it any longer as I need to keep moving now.  And besides I think much like the hero of the song, it needs to be out in the world to continue on its way.

Jude & Lucy

Here's something else that's quite new.  Hot off the presses for this January 2nd.  Happy New Year friends.

1Tango.24

JanTango2.4 Revisions and things.  It's a cold day in LA and I didn't get much sleep but I did get some good writing done in the morn' and the coffee was quite fantastic.  Hope you're all enjoying your January.

JanTango 2.4

This is a piece I originally composed in June, or something around then.  I've since remastered it that it's now all the more ready for some mood listening and contemplative tuning.  Happy Thursday, friends.  -Ren 1.11.24

Bigfoot On A Rainy Day In June

Kaspár

May it haunt the house pleasantly. Your friend, RM

Ghosts In The Garden

this is something new. original composition  I don't have the lyrics yet and it's a little rough around the edges, but this is phase 001_ also thinking about the 100th birthday of Marlon Brando and be it resolved this is Marlon Brando Day in Los Angeles and whereas we sing  "I only want to be with you" it's springtime in the city of Angels

Sunday Blues Proper  4:4:24

I am re-uploading this with a remaster and now Soundcloud has asked if I want to try their new BETA uploading and so trying that on for size and seeing what kind of difference it makes.  Here goes.  Happy Thursday friends.  Los Angeles.April 4, 2024

Sunday Blues Proper (PHASE 001)

This is something I worked on while on the road recently. Composed originally in Flushing/FLINT Michigan. Phase 001  xo REN

Allow For Openness  - 4524, 12.05 AM

checking out this new upload process again in the beta version looking for any distinguishing factors.

allow for openness (phase 001)

something a little chill in phase 001 for your Tuesday afternoon.  things are heating up.  cheers from Los Angeles

Everyplace I Go (Phase 001)

The Raven.Vine is where things get made.  And she has returned from the American night.

Flight Of The Raven - 41124, 4.29 PM

Happy New Year friends.  To be played with action.  Doesn't have to be loud, but steadfast and true.

Street Sonata in B Minor No. 1 real

Good morning.  This came from one of my dreams.

Grizzly bears in the arctic zone

night scene 001 
(raven poems) 

it’s 11 o clock in the evening
A light rain falls in the city 

the diner’s open 
they’ve just brewed a fresh pot 
of coffee
and there’s an open booth 
in the far corner, 
window seat 

whispering possibility 

-Ren

night scene 001

Coming in through the radio.  Everything has its appearance on the surface.  The city reveals itself at night.  In the darkness you can see a little more of what is underneath, even though it remains just a hint at most. 

A suggestion.  A feeling.

If something is knocking on the other side of what you can see, you hear it that much better in the night. Possibly because at night, you have it more to yourself.

002 Dark City

By Ren Michael

I walk the old town tonight
I know the walls remain hollow
I’m a prisoner, a rat in a cage
and the nights, they conquer every day
and I dreamt I broke free of this maze
I walked out into the night and I stayed
and for the first time I felt the grace of the falling rain

neath the light of the moon
I wait for my evening bus
to take me for a few, with you, through time and space
awake! Awake to the distant valleys of my dreams
until my eyes open to the morning and I regress to sleep

do my eyes cast a shadow over my soul?
as I write these checks and post my stamps?
oh to put it all down now and break through the wall
and you and me, we’d breathe in that promised land
close your eyes now. take my hand.

Dark City

here is lofi bleus 001 with more space in the beginning a d more space all around.

lofi blues slight extended

boxcar yards: a man with a guitar
wearing a suit and putting out pictures

he's talking films
from a cafe, secluded

in the shadows
over rainsoaked
streets in Vienna

a violin’s heard up the way
‘cross the river,
black and still
as night reigns
in the early 21st century

a new
_primordial dawn
fast approaching

on the move, songs capture the raw. main influences include cinema, the natural world and many sounds of the city. The songs are never done as each recording is a snapshot of life in constant motion.

for fun he walks (with his dogs) road trips and catches old tv shows, baseball games and comic books. 

POEM pieced together 25 August, 2022_

The idea 
for this SoundCloud 
soundstage is 
that of an open workshop 
where listeners 
will be able to listen 
to sounds 
images 
and concepts 
being worked on (shopped) 
and some of them 
may be finished 
while others may not 
but they are being born 
continuously and 
they can make of it whatever 
they choose, but 
may it haunt their houses pleasantly 
for the idea of creativity 
to me is that nothing 
is ever really done
but only constantly being made  
for the greatest thing about music 
is that it can’t be pinned down and is open 
to greater interpretation than the other forms 
and even lyrics written 
by the greatest lyricist 
can be altered and moved around 
to give it a more varied dynamic 

but anyway in talking about the occasional 
blood on the tracks 
I am getting slightly off track 

so what I really mean to say friends 
and newcomers alike 
is welcome 
we’ve got popcorn 
sandwiches 
beer, red wine 
and ice-cold water 
salud.

-

Your friend,
Ren Michael

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