very interesting... Browie atmosphère but personnal style too.. 👍

I hear some Bowie and Murphy influence :) Good work! :)

Superb track, really cool you can put this together...great production!!!

great smooth voice with super synth work💪💪💪🤝✌✨⭐✨⭐✨⭐✨⭐

amazing piano carpet and progression♨️✅♨️✅♨️✅✅♨️✅♨️🌈🙋🍷

Great track Jan, such a rich arrangement and unexpected chord progressions

Magnificent track, Jan. Your vocal is stupendous and gives the track some grit. Love it!!

Rock Opera

MY PRAYER 4

Mare Tranquilitatis

The solitude of the journey nearly brought our protagonist to the brink of insanity (https://soundcloud.com/gunnarsletta/beyond-the-edge), but he finds peace of mind thinking of his home..

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Lyrics:

Deep in this mental maze, 
I'm trying to carve my way
out to a brighter state.
I need a new place to hold on to

I've been lost and too selfish to see
that no one's to blame but me.
I need to fight that feeling inside.
I need a new place to hold on to.

So I delve deep into my past,
through times that I have lived.
And it dawns on me..
I find what I need to hold on to.

Back to the place where I grew up,
to the place where I learned 
who I'm supposed to be..
The anchor that I can hold on to

A place where encouragement stayed
Rather than taking my chances away
A place to prosper and grow
In the sanctuary of my home...
x2

Though we are far away,
the memories are clear in my mind 
And it stands to me as 
A beacon that I can hold on to

I've been lost in this mental maze,
But now I have found my way out 
To a brighter state..
I've found what I need to hold on 

A place where encouragement stayed
Rather than taking my chances away
A place to prosper and grow
In the sanctuary of my home...
x2

-

Image by David Mark from Pixabay

Home

VANITAS (MORTEM)
Vanitas depict objects that remind us of our mortality and the transience of earthly pleasures.

picture
Public Domain
Vanitas by Antonio de Pereda y Salgado

composer : JUHAX

VANITAS (MORTEM)

High energy synth pop with an irrisistable 80's
dance  flare

Hollywood - Music & Lyrics by Peter Heckmann | Music/Main Melody, (Lead & Back) Vocals & Poem to song adaptation by REKHA - IYERN [Fe] New Nov Collab 2019

Cover Art Design by Peter Heckmann

Music Composed & Produced, Mixed & Mastered by Peter Heckmann
Vocals Composed & Produced, Recorded & Performed, Initial Mixing by REKHA - IYERN [Fe] at IYERN [Fe] RECORDS in CANADA

Peter Heckmann - https://soundcloud.com/peterheckmann

Hollywood lyrics below

Thank you so very much Dear Peter once again for making such glamerous music I truly adore...Your lyrics and booming sonic waves brought out this amazing 80's vocal expression I tried to deliver... I'm so happy to be part of your awesome Red-Hot-Hollywood 💟🔥🔥🔥💟

Hollywood 

Intro - Improv

As they walk on down
The boulevard
Of broken dreams

There's neither hope nor happiness it seems
Staring at the bright light flares
Turning slowly into nightmares
Moonlight cityscape, the fake acrylic
Becoming less and less idyllic
There the countless and the nameless
All drawn into the light
Where most will burn
Just burn, burn, burn

Hollywood yet a place of wonder
Where Gigolo and Gigolette
Can steal a kiss without regret
Without regret

Now it's me just walkin' down
The boulevard of broken dreams
Without a happy endin'
Without a happy end
In plot and schemes

Hidden plastic people
With stainless steel unbeating hearts
Silent silk, silent silk screened robots
Unpaid extras in some movie parts
Silent silk, silent silk screened robots
Silent silk, silent silk screened robots

Hollywood yet a place of wonder
Where Gigolo and Gigolette
Can steal a kiss without regret
Without regret

Now it's me just walkin' down
The boulevard of broken dreams
Without a happy endin'
Without a happy end
In plot and schemes

Hollywood yet a place of wonder
Where Gigolo and Gigolette
Can steal a kiss without regret
Without regret

Hollywood yet a place of wonder
Where Gigolo and Gigolette
Can steal a kiss without regret
Without regret

Now it's me just walkin' down
The boulevard of broken dreams
Without a happy endin'
Without a happy end
In plot and schemes

HOLLYWOOD

Hollywood feat REKHA | Music/Lyrics/Peter Heckmann | Music/Adap'n/REKHA - IYERN [Fe] | Dance 2019

Voix/vocals : Dominique Briand
Mix :  Peter Stevens (soundcloud.com/pwstevens)

Je vais t'aimer est une chanson de Michel Sardou sortie en 1976.  Écrite par Gilles Thibaut, composée par Jacques Revaux et Michel Sardou,

Un immense merci à Alain Guérin (soundcloud.com/user-233987240) pour tes encouragements et ton soutien indéfectible. 
Egalement à Tulipe (soundcloud.com/tulipe-records), Lukowig (soundcloud.com/user-407534243), Wypernet (soundcloud.com/laurent-toupet-930624560), Liz (soundcloud.com/liz-dicker), Myckaël (soundcloud.com/myckael-marcovic), Sunnidays (soundcloud.com/user-138663860)... votre gentillesse me touche profondément.

A huge thank you to Alain Guérin for his encouragement and unfailing support!
Also to Tulipe, Lukowig, Wypernet, Liz, Myckaël, Sunnidays... thanks for your wonderful kindness!

Je vais t'aimer (French cover song) Michel Sardou

Music & Lyrics, Vocal, Piano, Synths, Bass, Drum Programming: Jan Schonander
Waterphone effect by Daniel Simon

Inspired by a recurring dream I used to have about endlessly sinking in a deep ocean I came up with this ambient-ish track. Didn't occur to me to look up what a dream like that can mean until recently and it turns out there are both negative and positive interpretations possible if one is to believe all-knowing Google. 

On a desperate note "To dream of sinking represents feelings of slow loss, despair, or losing ground. You are feeling overwhelmed or unable to stop a negative situation from getting worse. A fear of unstoppable failure. Someone or something is dragging you down. You may be experiencing low self-esteem and confidence. Needing help that is either not available or that you are not being assertive enough about asking for. Feeling pressure to make a decision or change before total embarrassment occurs. A situation that is deteriorating. Feelings about your worst fears becoming a reality. Feelings about being unable to help others. Feeling that you can’t stop your life from getting worse."

Now, I can't remember ever feeling like that when I was having this dream - it's been over 10 years since the last one. But, who knows, maybe those were my subconscience feelings.
 
I prefer a more positive view "A dream about sinking may reflect an unpleasant stage of your life that is coming to an end. Problems or bad people that seem to be slowly going away on their own. Experiencing your enemies succumbing to humiliation."

That last sentence may be wishful thinking haha...., not that I can think of any enemies.

Feel free to comment about your own recurring dreams if you have any and enjoy the music. 

Some fellow Soundclouders have already shared their dreams with me:
- a professor showing up in class with no clothes
- teeth falling out and rattling 
- the gourmet chef
- reading a book word for word
- car crash savior
- pulling a moving earth together with a lifeline

DREAM REPEAT

Helplessly I’m falling
Needlessly I’m drowning

Endless depths swallow me
A faint light shimmering

It’s an endless sinking feeling
I’m not awake, I’m not asleep
I can stop, and then I start again.

It’s all over
We can look ahead
The danger is past
Our time is now
Fate in our hands
Your hands
My hands

It’s all over
All over
All over

Fathoms above crushing me
Creatures below beckoning

It’s an endless sinking feeling
I’m not awake, I’m not asleep
I can stop, and then I start again.

It’s all over
All over
It’s all over

Dream Repeat

Inspired by M. John Harrison's Course of the Heart and the film A Dark Song.

First comes the rose and then the salt lines
I'll speak an angel's name; Raphael, Gabriel, Michael and Uriel
Asteraceae compositae, lay a bed of tree bark
A rose cross concealed, lay a leaf on a ram's horn

Next the carved rhymes which lead to a pause
From the darkness to the light
What was silent now is sound

Slowly light a ring of eight white candles
Hand clap to each point
Cinnamon on the floor, that sweet money spice
Relight the palo santo
Cast out with smoke
Cast out by command

Silence the conscious mind's derisive monologue of doubt
All the while keep breathing
What was hidden has been found

Hermeticon

Well

Arvo Part-ish minimalist vibe. Ideal accompaniment for down-sizing, right-sizing, delayering, exfoliating or any other euphemism for firing people.

p.s. a bit of a Philip Glass vibe, too.

Published on SC 13 August 2020.

Organisation Restructuring

https://soundcloud.com/tengos-trail/sealed-off

Sealed Off - Tengo's Trail - Sunday Jam-Collab

Made on ipad.. i tried out the mastering tool they now have on soundcloud.. with a random setting..what do you think about the sound?

Techno Healer

Appears on my album "Wrapped In Darkness":
https://silentloverecords.bandcamp.com/album/wrapped-in-darkness

photo by wonderful Elseh
https://www.flickr.com/photos/187686180@N02

Esquimaux Black Swan Silhouette

A little while ago I was watching an amazing documentary on volcanos. So alien. So beautiful. So destructive.

Anyway, suffering from a shortened attention span due to pandemic lockdown, about half way through I turned off the volume and started messing with some synth sounds while watching. This is the result. Just some alien textures, a bit of trance without being trance maybe.

It is obviously very influenced by early 1970s synth musicians like Jarre, Tangerine Dream, Schulze, etc. I love that period of time. 

Unfortunately, I think the sound quality was much better before uploading to SoundCloud, but it is still OK. Maybe a bit quiet. 

Hope you enjoy

The East Village Vampire

Witness The New Land

Das Leben ist wie ein Puzzle; fehlt nur ein Teil zum Vervollständigen, dann ergibt der Rest keinen Sinn mehr!

Life is like a puzzle; if only one piece is missing to complete, the rest doesn't make sense anymore!

Missing Link

( REPOSTS  are  routed to Synthgrinder [REPOSTS] )
( https://soundcloud.com/user-813544615 )


++++. 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.

Thanks for visiting. This is a retro eclectic music mix with looming influences from among others Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Lou Reed & Jon Lord. Mostly I write about the human condition.

I am always looking for a guitar player that wants to collaborate. Would be fun to find a real drummer also.

A Gat is a cat in Catalan - it all makes sense if you’re me. The (s) stands for many collaborators.

I encourage everybody on SC to listen more and be less transactional.

Dream Repeat

TheGat(s)

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