Name: CoSine - Instrumental by The Day Afters in Related tracks: Faded (What a Day)
Duration: 5 min 13 s
Description: Inspired by Blade Runner & the TI-84 - this is the instrumental version of a track recorded last year. A slow unraveling. Synth textures and reverb-soaked guitars curling around each other like smoke. Best for driving alone, somewhere between the last gas station and the edge of the simulation. Bass by @zengazer

The synth textures and guitars float beautifully - - - Nice!

Related tracks: Faded (What a Day)

Baltic Tribute

A quirky little number!  This is the first initial trial instrumental mix for our new song Mirrors.  There's a way to go yet but we're working on it... :)

Mirrors

“St. Anger is my favourite Metallica album. For this song I had so much fun being creative and leaning into the sound and spirit of that record. The lyrics are inspired by an experience I had following a caffeine detox; I accidentally ordered regular instead of decaf, which led to an afternoon of the shakes and shivers. st. caffeine = frantic.” 

st. caffeine = frantic. 

Adrenaline right to the heart
I’m circling the pain 
Sweating and blood rush
Attention electrified 
Meeting my match and feeling my pain 
An earthquake inside

A shot takes me
It makes me sick
A devils kiss from from this hit
(caffeine = frantic.)
A puncturing wound from the mud
Hanging on to its grip 
caffeine = frantic.

Holding it inside
I won’t go back again 
Caffeine intake
My shell here remains
Pollution
So toxic
A torture
A lesson from my mistake
This wrong order 

© heart house and the new kindness. 2025

Written, performed, recorded, produced and mixed by heart house and the new kindness. 
Mastered by DOLBY

st. caffeine = frantic.

Offical video for this song: https://youtu.be/4oGesFRIZIA?si=F_fDGoDRGx79HHhL
Watch me perform this song live on a recent livestream: https://www.youtube.com/live/wqFFBKk25gU?si=JMNkgDrdKqsHBphn
time stamp 2:08:37
I wrote this song in late July 2025 while preparing for my oldest daughter's departure to college. 
Get comfortable pull up a chair I got a feeling that we're gonna be stuck down here for a long time
So much has happened all throughout our years the days passed like lightening through the atmosphere as it flies by, rock a bye bye
Searching to find looking for you across the hay field down to the bungalow blue
She said it looked like someone else's tattoo because it's been there forever and time will never catch up to you
So keep on running just as fast  as you can
Chase after something that might never happen
The drive is more fun than the destination 
Search and Find then desire something new
The dust has settled and the smoke has cleared we're still down here staring at a rope and stairs that we won't climb, and I don't mind 'cause I'll always be loving you
So keep on running just as fast  as you can
Chase after something that might never happen
The drive is more fun than the destination 
Search and Find then desire something new

search and find

Inspired by Blade Runner & the TI-84 - this is the instrumental version of a track recorded last year. A slow unraveling. Synth textures and reverb-soaked guitars curling around each other like smoke. Best for driving alone, somewhere between the last gas station and the edge of the simulation. Bass by @zengazer

CoSine - Instrumental

New Song here, finally.  A slower version than what I'd like.  Hope you enjoy it.

Egg And Chicken

The influence

Nihilist film noir existential jazz fusion detective dance music for our AI future  days.  Human music.
From the Album: "Curiosities Of Outsider Art" (Sept 2025)

Lyrics:
Another dark night in the promised land
Experiencing the universes empathic crushing hand
There are people today creating symphonies
With well worded prompts
You know me, I'm staying out of sight
At  late night haunts

I'm investigating black markets
Where people sell off all of their free will
They said you were gonna love me
But I could never ever seem to get my fill

The people out here 
They don't believe in nothing
No God of any kind
You said you were gonna love me
But I could not give you the reason why

You learn to live... (The AI prayer of life)

Another stoned day in the promised land
Experience randomness
And technologies charismatic helping hand
Hypothetical lovers through the screen
She said she was gonna love us
But circuits don't know what I mean

A whispered dream
Asato Ma Sadgamaya
(Hindu Prayer: Lead me from the unreal to the real)
Like a primal scream

Alter your creative spirit
(change the configuration)

Alter your consciousness
(change the configuration)

Alter your soul
(change the configuration)

Alter humanity
(change the configuration)

I'm like a primal scream
How docile we've become
I love how docile we've become...

Asato Ma Sadgamaya

A slightly different mix of a track I have posted already. This one has the drums coming in a little earlier in the song. I'll have this mixed properly and mastered at some point.  Lindsey Kay Scott, my daughter,  is singing the lead on this song.

© 2024 Lyrics & Music By Brenda Doss (BMI) and Lindsey Kay Scott (ASCAP)
Another version with the lyrics are here: 
https://on.soundcloud.com/HlK8AfD7cum2rXkYeX

My Home - Remix

My Home - Remix - ft. Lindsey Kay Scott

Cette chanson parle des nuits blanches que les accidents de la vie nous font passer . Quand notre lit devient trop petit pour ces sombres pensées et que l'on va dehors pour essayer d'oublier...
This song is about the sleepless nights that life's accidents cause us to endure. When our bed becomes too small for these dark thoughts and we go outside to try to forget...

Composer/Keyboard : Régis GAUBERT https://soundcloud.com/rob-spirit/tracks musicoman@wanadoo.fr
Arrangements/Guitars : Philippe SEGUINARD
Lyrics/Singer : Guillaume DULER

Quand on marche la nuit
On change le décor
De ces choses que l'on fuit
Mais elles s'accrochent fort
Le jour est endormi
Les heureux rêvent encore
Quand on marche à l'ennui
On se traîne du corps
Quand on marche la nuit
Sous des lumières fanées , blessées
Faux soleils prisonniers
Notre ombre est une amie
Un peu désorientée
Et comme un chien elle nous suit
Fidèle et obligée
Si elle avait une vie
Elle resterait couchée
Quand on marche la nuit
On voit mieux les silences
On contemple les bruits
On regarde leur danse
Un instant on oublie
Notre désespérance
Que le jour que l'on fuit
Réveille nos souffrances
Quand on marche la nuit
On entend nos pensées (bis )
Elles sont comme des cris
Qu'on retient prisonniers
Et la Lune en amie
Paraît nous écouter
Peut être qu'elle luit
Pour mieux nous consoler
Quand on marche la nuit
On croise le hasard
Il nous parle de lui
Mais c'est bien notre histoire
On se voit dans sa vie
Comme dans un miroir
On connaît tout de lui
Il a notre mémoire
Quand on marche la nuit
Au rythme des pourquoi ( bis) 
Que nos pas ont suivi
Des traces d'autrefois
On laisse démuni (bis )
Quelqu'un qui pleurera
Qui marchera la nuit
Les jours où ça va pas

When we walk at night
We change the scenery
Of those things we flee from
But they cling on tightly
The day is asleep
The happy ones still dream
When we walk in boredom
We drag our bodies along
When we walk at night
Under faded, wounded lights
False suns held captive
Our shadow is a friend
A little disoriented
And like a dog, it follows us
Faithful and obliged
If it had a life
It would stay lying down
When we walk at night
We see the silences better
We contemplate the noises
We watch their dance
For a moment, we forget
Our despair
That the day we flee from
Awakens our suffering
When we walk at night
We hear our thoughts (repeat)
They are like cries
That we hold captive
And the Moon, our friend
Seems to listen to us
Perhaps it shines
To better console us
When we walk at night
We encounter chance
It tells us about itself
But it is really our story
We see ourselves in its life
As in a mirror
We know everything about it
It has our memory
When we walk at night
To the rhythm of the whys (repeat) 
That our steps have followed
Traces of the past
We leave helpless (repeat)
Someone who will cry
Who will walk at night
On days when things aren't going well

© Régis GAUBERT/Philippe SEGUINARD/Guillaume DULER  Septembre 2025

Quand on marche la nuit ( Regis GAUBERT & JIM ) TRANSLATED

With Feline, Tree, Bird and Human Power. Let's get that Peace for the planet. Please and Thanks 🔆 Oh and a Spider Mite showed up on the page at one point. Mite power too ❤️‍🔥


Instrumentation
-Live Run of Acoustic and Vocal
-Additonal Acoustic run
-Piano played on keys
-Additonal Vocals

Make Peace with Love

Good memories heal
All memories teach
Food for our souls
Greater good we can reach
Measured discern
Spread butter for spirit
Make peace with love
Listen
You'll hear it

'Aint no point in crying over spilled milk
Save your worries and woes
For survivalist silk
Concern is control flying with wings of dove
Our chance is to change
And make peace with love

Make peace with love

Just call on your soul
Talk to your spirit
Human quality control
Listen
You'll hear it
Clean up together
Spread the load
Make peace with love
Historic future is told

Make peace with love

The gauge is your family
Great spirits at rest
Potential in code
DNA left of best
Biological verve
Inside fits like a glove
All known moral ground
Make peace with love

Make peace with love

Listen to caring
Listen to honest
Hear those who qualify
Good truths upon us
Hone wonderful answers
And feed that new known
Make peace with love
Light of Lennon is known

Make peace with love
Make peace we own
Light of Lennon is known
Make peace with love
Peace we own

All life is precious
Systematic and synced
Let's protect it and grow
Good future of think
Locked to our moment
No below
No above
No pedastal proud
Make peace with love

Make peace with love
Make peace with love
Make peace we know
Light of Lennon we own
Peace we own
Make peace with love
Inside fits like a glove
Make peace your own
Make peace we own
Make peace we own
Peace we own
Make peace with love



Make Peace with Love

Super impressed by my buddy @dough-factory 's rhyming skills on here! This one started out as a beat from Ryan, I added trippy synth, organ and guitar noodling then sent back to him. He mixed, arranged and added the killer vocals as well as some record skips that add a nice touch.

Faded (What a Day)

Cast of Characters:

The Beautiful Dark -- @thebeautifuldark -- Carl -- vocals, lyrics, Ovation acoustic guitar, and composition
J.J. Terrell– @j-j-terrell – organ and upright piano
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)– @josh-clary-1 –Josh – Warwick fretless four-string bass and Collings mandolin
Mistermark-- @user-432503709 -- Mark –- VST fiddle
Llanpsych -- @llanpsych -- Tez – Fender Stratocaster electric guitar
K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara –Ken -- drums
TexMex Shaman– @texmex-shaman –Stephen — Earle Scruggs custom banjo, production, mix, and mastering

This is the latest in our series of songs Carl has written about us. Being as both Tez, a lifelong, and to a lesser degree, Carl are Manchester United fans, Carl siezed on the opportunity to celebrate their shared fandom. Although the lyrics are a little inscrutable to us Americans, we love that football (soccer) fans from across the pond will know exactly what he's talking about. 
  Carl wrote this song on his acoustic guitar, and upon sharing it with us, we weren't sure as to the direction we wanted to take it. JJ threw down first, adding his good-time-sounding upright piano and strikingly beautiful organ to the mix first. Enchanted with Carl's composition, Josh next added his bass and mandolin both in the same recording session, without even closing his DAW. Mark was in right after, adding his friendly fiddle solo as well as fiddle fills throughout. Being as the song is about him, Tez came along shortly after and added the tuneful intro and outro on his guitar. Then, as it was just about to sit for a while, Ken added his very tasteful, perfect drums to the mix, thus completing the rhythm section. 
  Before we put a bow on it, though, Stephen made it back from his week in the Colorado wilderness in time to add his magical banjo to the mix. Speaking of mixes, now it was time for one, and we turned it over to him, our in house pro, to do the honors.
  We all really enjoyed working on this one. It is an example of Eclectic Collective taking one of Carls songs and having our way with it. Always a team effort getting it over the line, but we always manage to do it. We hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we enjoyed creating it.

Original lyrics by The Beautiful Dark:

Division Two Champs, '75
Small consolation for '74 cries
Fan wow land psyched
True Red Devil in this life

We fell to Leeds
Last Division 1
We had the Irish
Man, I followed them
McGrath didn't train
A different breed
Golden era
Boozed up greats as seed

Then, we mostly won
But still, these moments to memories shone
Keane's end at Juventus
His team's power won
Beast perseverance
2-3 semi so they march on

Teddy & Ole
Broken Bayern lines
Videos with no YouTube
In sport mad mind

Great from great, Cantona
Flying curve ball martial artist
Old Leeds leech
A la French finest

Man Utd before Glazier fud
Old Trafford dreams
Red Devil blood
A fan forever no matter loss
Good grinding Fergie
Our hairdryer boss

True Red Devil
Hughesy's volleys
Arsenal disheveled
Good Giggsy speed
End to end
Back of the net
Great teen we get
Front of our dreams

True Red Devil
Scars from Aguero
And Barce's better
New cycles please
We've been Malcolmed
Bought like shop
These greedy Glaziers fucking up
Our theatre of dreams

If only for Fergie time
We'd be doing just fine

True Red Devil-Eclectic Collective

Original Lyrics by Tony Harris that inspired Mike.
Vocals, instrumentation and mix by Mike Fox.

HE GREW UP BACK IN THE DAY
WITH TWO GUITARS IN THE HOUSE
ONE WAS SPECIAL TO HIS MOM
NOBODY KNEW HOW TO PLAY

IT BELONGED TO HIS UNCLE
THEY CALLED THE GUITAR MAN
THAT WAS KILLED IN THE BIG WAR
NEVER GOT TO PLAY IN A BAND

(CHORUS)
HE WROTE THIS SONG
ABOUT THE GUITAR MAN
HE NEVER GOT TO MEET HIM
OR WRITE A SONG WITH HIM
PRAY HE'S UP IN HEAVEN
PLAYING IN A BAND

HE CARRIED HIS GUITAR 
EVERYWHERE HE WENT
ALWAYS HAPPY TO PLAY
HIS PLAYING WAS HEAVEN SENT

(GUITAR SOLO)

THEY ALWAYS SAID HIS UNCLE A. J.
WOULD BE A STAR SOMEDAY
BUT LIKE SO MANY OTHERS
HE HAD A BIGER PRICE TO PAY

HIS MAMA GAVE THE GUITAR AWAY
CAUSE NOBODY KNEW HOW TO PLAY
IT WAS JUST COLLECTING DUST
WISHES HE HAD THAT FLAT TOP TODAY

(REPEAT CHORUS)

2025 (C) Lyric by Tony Harris

Playing in a Band - Collaboration by Tony Harris and Mike Fox

Check out joerxworx on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/McPzP0woIt4cxsdhD2
Shout out to Jörg for the VST recommendation. This is my first time using this world of wind instruments.. I got it to have a Duduk!

www.taqs.im
SOLO: World Synth
Worked out at $79.20 if you use their current coupon code of SOLO20 (This is on the banner of shop webpage)

Check out mistermark on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/qpwbEE5UQkS9ulANjP
Shout out also to Mark. Very lucky to work with our Canadian friend through EC and musical collabs, but Mark seeded this whole idea with a comment about going to the dark side with music


Check out Neowakan (Aileen Asatouri) on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/074OShLpTu1QmocXBq
Also shout out to Aileen who introduced me to Duduk properly last year

Here's the Duduk Jedi Master...
Listen to Djivan Gasparyan, a playlist by The Beautiful Dark on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/TSydG2253pnWCrOvQs




The whole idea of embracing melancholic music as a package for me is an incredible therapy and has been since I was a very young. Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber, Inspector Morse Theme Tune by Barrington Pheloung and Gabriel's Oboe by Ennio Morricone would be the three big examples that come to mind. The first two in particular... Then a more popular example from that period of my life would be All by Myself by Eric Carmen. That sits up there as a brave wtf song that's just incredible in it's vulnerability. More recently Id put Exit Music for a Film by Radiohead in a similar beautiful mind bending melancholic box.

The song image is a picture of a sunrise over my back wall and in the foreground is the micro world we never really see. It's moss growing on the wall and for me it represents visually, perspective is everything. We can't see the world like an ant does unless we get in amongst the weeds and get close to look. Even then it's difficult to share the same point of view an ant has.
I guess that can be an analogy of where your soul goes in the land of melancholic music. Although it can invoke feelings of sadness I think that's therapeutic for our overall beings. I think maybe psychologically, like a poem can do also, we are reflecting our emotion with something words as plain language cannot fully explain but where sound and poetry maybe can do a better job of helping them materialise for you. So they become a solidarity of sorts for those hard to understand feelings we all feel from time to time in our lives. A safe reference that maybe forces you to feel them instead of oppressing the feelings


Instrumentation

43bpm
Tuning 440Hz A
Key A minor (A hat tip to Armenia where Duduk is from)
-Mellow Duduk 1 low drone run and 1 melodic run played on keyboard
-2 x runs of Tremolo Acoustic Guitar (Ovation)
-Airways pad in Logic mirroring Duduk drone played on keys
-Middle Eastern Kit with roots rock beat
-4 vocal runs - Two Low & Two mid
-Piano played on Keys
-Electric Guitar Lead


Melancholy of Mystery

Good meandering mind
Knead this mystery
Warm sound sine waves
To cool great history

Sad for some
Tranquil for this one
An aide to not fear pain
Through music and sum

From mountain flutes of finest native
To slow bent strings move contemplative

Dawn drama drowns a mind afraid
Good mind prepared through sounds that save

These sounds are sage
'Fill in true meaning
Soothe honest zen
With deep thought streaming

Heart pounds a rush
Thrill of uncertain
New found feeling
On fear we pull a curtain

Good meandering mind
Knead this mystery
Warm sound sine waves
To cool great history

Sad for some
Tranquil for this one
An aide to not fear pain
Through music and sum

Dinnseanchas of history
Melancholy of mystery
Filling true meaning
Mellifluous streaming

Melancholy of Mystery

When you let your guard down who knows what will happen!

Giving In

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Original music written & produced by The Day Afters 
-=Oceanside, CA=-
& Previously Unreleased Material from Baltimore's Soma Holiday
(Bob Maddox, Chuong Pham, Ian Wilhelm, Amit Trivedi)
Featuring @ZenGazer on Bass

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