I wrote this song for the one that got away. 
As I started penning it, my lyrics closely resembled 'Always Something There To Remind Me' by Naked Eyes.   
I reworked the lyrics and the title 'If I Could Rewind' magically came to me.

A song about rewinding & reliving a love affair.  There's some 80's music and nostalgia here. I still have not heard from Gary Numan.

If I Could Rewind, lyrics:

The night we met
You sang to my cassette 
Our kiss was magnetized
The sky turned electrified 

We died as we swayed 
Gary Numan on the stage
Neon lights fell on your face
We escaped that crowded place

If I could rewind
Play it a second time
I'd never hurt you 
Never-ever desert you
If I could rewind
Turn back our time
My memory loves you
It asks me about you all the time

There's no way back to you from here
I always remember that first night
There's no way back to you from here
I'll see you in the next life
See you in the next life 

If only I could rewind

Words & Music by Holden Helm

If I Could Rewind

A little bit humorous to me... 
When we recorded the vocals, there was a freudian slip, and she sang "Sweet Dreams Survive" instead of "Some Dreams Survive."  In honor of the Eurythmics we decided to keep this take.  It can be heard on the last chorus of the song.

Some Dreams Survive

Nightcrawler

A Far Cry From Tonight

The Grid

Kyle Reese

Right As Rain

10 days ago I was invited to write lyrics & sing to a song. 
 Immediately upon hearing the demo created by Samuel Larsson, I was captivated by its mysterious sound and groovy arpeggiator. 

I started by writing melodies over the top of the demo, and then searched for a theme for the song.  I landed with the title 'Bewildering' and wrote the lyrics. ~Holden Helm

Bewildering

Pale Rider is about AI's end to "Music of the soul"

I wan't sure what I wanted to title my new Electro, Freestyle track.  All I knew was I wanted to talk about a current issue that electronic musician's face. That's when a grim reaper meme came across my feed, slashing writing, art and music.  The tile read "He's coming for you"  

Inspired by all my talks with friends lately about AI's possible effect on music, I penned the lyrics and sand them into my vocoder.

Pale Rider

The Hollow Men

This track started in my sampler.  I ripped it all down and rebuilt it in my DAW.  I had just seen Thomas Dolby in concert the night before, ...you can here some of that influence.

Voice-Activated

Come Back, Come Back

In A Dark Time

No Angel is one of those songs that just flowed onto the paper.  Once I had the Chorus, the 3 verses poured right out of me, sometimes that's a sign of a good song.

No Angel

In Slow-Motion

Strangers Passing in the Night

Unheard Echos

"Escape the fall, when we all come slaving in, an innocent place in the world, we can only imagine"   Starting in E minor and modulating through various minor keys, mechanical beat, arppegiator, new age bells, airy strings, moog bass line.



Holden Lee Helm © 2016

Escape the Fall

Escape The Fall - Holden Lee Helm

"Their love is vast as the sea. wild as the wind, fighting the wolves that be, never will they fall to the dominion, nights of equestrian."

A story of valor.  Passionate strings, arppegiating rhythms of night and the howl of the wind.

Holden Lee Helm © 2016

Equestrian Nights

Equestrian Nights - Holden Lee Helm

My Heaven's Below -   Holden Lee Helm

Dark and lush melodic synthesizer rock.  Future-retro genre. Blind with emotion, bent with suspicious notion.  Intelligent sequencing, Moog bass and mechanical rhythms, analog and digital synths. Love is blind. 

"I'm glad it's night
You do not look at me
For I'm as much ashamed of my exchange
But love is blind and we lovers do not see
The pretty follies ourselves commit"

Music and lyrics by © 2017 Holden Lee Helm

BlindLovers  - Holden Lee Helm

EarthMovers composed by Howard Lee Helm. Slow driving beat like heavy machinery, earth movers clawing away, rotating slaves of steel, as the desert dusk glares warm. Electronic music imagined by, Holden Lee Helm

EarthMovers ~ Holden Lee Helm

"Branches arched over like two lovers dancing, in the arms of one another, winter arrives fancy. Crystalizing shimmering bright, mesmerizing beauty tonight."
An elegant darkness becoming a kaleidoscope of color. Trembling arpeggiator, darken moog bass, ethereal pads on Crystalizing. Imagined by electronic music artist, Holden Lee Helm

Crystalizing (Remastered) - Holden Lee Helm

Lush space, blissful strings and elegant melodies make 'Unfailing Love' A NEW RELEASE by Ethereal Music Composer, Holden Lee Helm, a sacred place to dwell.

Unfailing Love ~ Holden Lee Helm

The Nighted is a synthpop-ambient project imagined by Holden Helm.
   
Originally from Los Angeles, resides in San Francisco, California, Holden Helm is an electronic music producer, songwriter and synthesizer virtuoso. 

The Nighted is inspired by: Enigma, Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk, Gary Numan, Schiller, Chvrches, Clan of Xymox, Tangerine Dream, Jean Michel Jarre.
Fans of Synthpop, Synthwave, Darkwave, Synthesizer, Trance, Downtempo and Ambient will be overcome by the darkness of the The Nighted.

Popular tracks by The Nighted ~Synthpop Electro Ambient