Name: One Step Ahead by The Rolling Slowdowns in Tunes Without Words
Duration: 5 min 32 s
Description: Then there's this funky little number. The drums are on a 15 beat loop and the song is in 4/4, leaving one less drum beat each time around. It's an odd beat, you see, and it creates perpetual variation its interplay with the other elements. Oh, I should mention, this is electronic music, except for the guitars, played by yours truly. Here, instead of talking, let me demonstrate...

Tunes Without Words

Inspired by Rain washing away smoke from wildfires in Washington State.

Beyond the Haze

Rainforest

Ain't That Blue?

Horse Heaven Hills

Then there's this funky little number. The drums are on a 15 beat loop and the song is in 4/4, leaving one less drum beat each time around. It's an odd beat, you see, and it creates perpetual variation its interplay with the other elements. Oh, I should mention, this is electronic music, except for the guitars, played by yours truly. Here, instead of talking, let me demonstrate...

One Step Ahead

Inferno

Dream Horse

Oh, the summertime has come
And the trees are sweetly blooming
And the wild mountain thyme
Grows around the blooming heather
Will you go, lassie, go?

And we'll all go together
To pull wild mountain thyme
All around the blooming heather
Will you go, lassie, go?

I will build my love a bower
By the cool crystal fountain
And round it, I will pile
All the flowers of the mountain
Will you go, lassie, go?

And we'll all go together
To pull wild mountain thyme
All around the blooming heather
Will you go, lassie, go?

I will range through the wilds
And the deep glen so dreary
And return with their spoils
To the bower of my dearie
Will you go, lassie, go?

And we'll all go together
To pull wild mountain thyme
All around the blooming heather
Will you go, lassie, go?

If my true love, she'll not come
Then I will surely find no other
To pull wild mountain thyme
All around the blooming heather
Will you go, lassie, go?

And we'll all go together
To pull wild mountain thyme
All around the blooming heather
Will you go, lassie, go?

And we'll all go together
To pull wild mountain thyme
All around the blooming heather
Will you go, lassie, go?

Wild Mountain Thyme (cover of the version by The Corries)

This song is about love and lost and the emotions of going thru that.

I Think I Remember You

In this track I used piano, electric guitar, Korg Minilogue, Rhodes, electric bass, drums and djembe.
Thank you for listening !
Composition: Julien Apelian
Recording studio: Audio Colors
December, 13th, 2024

Thrive

Winter Bossa

Falling down

You lead a merry dance
Spin me round and round
'Til we all fall down
Falling down

And when I try to follow
I'm always falling down
My feet can't match the music
I feel like I'm a clown

Sometimes I catch your rhythm
I feel on solid ground
Then we all fall down
Falling down

You march to a different drummer
You hear a different sound
So we all fall down
Falling down

And when I try to follow
I'm always falling down
My feet can't match the music
I feel like I'm a clown

Out of Step

Deep Inside Of You

The villians roam unchecked across the prairie.  A damsel is in distress.  Then a hero emerges and . . . spaceships?

One Step Ahead

The Rolling Slowdowns

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