Name: APRILMENTE by TMM - toninhomusicmachine
Duration: 4 min 21 s
Description: aprendo la mente il mattino di un giorno di aprile

Nice keyboard. Love the tempo and atmosphere

Fantastic song, beautiful playing, absolutely breathtaking

such a good vibe i like that piano on this beat

I like the instrument combinations, big vibe

"Obsidian Reflections" serves as a symphonic fresco, encapsulating the essence of obsidian chrysalis within a modern orchestra. Inspired by the dual nature of this intriguing rock, the composition unfolds as a singular journey, transitioning from somber reflections on ecological challenges to an optimistic embrace of transformative potential.
The music, devoid of distinct movements, seamlessly progresses from dark, mysterious tones to luminous and hopeful harmonies. This symphonic narrative reflects the metaphorical journey from shadows cast by environmental concerns to the intrinsic human ability to find light amidst darkness.
Obsidian, with its smooth texture, serves as a metaphor for resilience and transformation, echoing qualities within both the natural world and ourselves. "Obsidian Reflections" is a continuous musical dialogue, exploring the delicate balance between despair and hope. It invites listeners to reflect on our interconnectedness and inspires a shared commitment to nurturing a brighter, more sustainable future.


Using Dorico 5 and BBC Symphony Orchestra Library.

Obsidian Reflections - BBC Symphony Orchestra Library (Pre-Release Version)

Ain't Gonna Hurry Chill Pickle is a song about choosing to enjoy life rather than run in the rat race. Based on a true story. Get your chill on and enjoy!

Man said you better hurry up
He said, “it won’t last long!”
I laughed right off the top of my head
I didn’t care if he was right or wrong

Ima slow down
Take my time
Ain’t gonna be in no hurry
I’ll watch those clouds roll by and pretend
I ain’t got no worries

I don’t care how fast the world goes by
Or how fast time wants to fly
All we have is right here right now
Don’t want to let it slip by

Ima stroll down
Paddle out 
And cruise a few little peelers
I’ll let you run back in 
To that fast track
And all those wheeler dealers

Why you wanna run in a race for rats
Don’t make sense to me
Run yourself right of the edge
Then where will you be?
Runnin faster
Goin nowhere
Even faster than before
This crazy world made by men, crazy men
will never stop asking for more

I look up and the sky is blue
And the waves look clean
You know those life choices
Aint as complicated as we make it seem

To surf or not to surf
That is the question
To be noble in your surfer mind
And shirk all your responsibilities 
And go down into the ocean
And feel alive

So yeah Im gonna take my time
And just chill right here
And when I get done chillin out
Gonna have me an ice cold beer

In spite of all our best efforts
The world’s capricious and its fickle
All the more reason to hang out
And spark up a big chill pickle
And we can act like we just don’t have a care
And feel the wind blow back our hair
Even if its just for a while
And smile

Ain't Gonna Hurry Chill Pickle

Ain't Gonna Hurry Chill Pickle- Defiantbutterfly

Part of the album "Die Umrandung des Nichts".

Die Umrandung des Nichts

Tomorrow

aprendo la mente il mattino di un giorno di aprile

Aprilmente

APRILMENTE

GUARDIANES DEL BOSQUE ENCANTADO
Music by Noela Sabba & Overdrive

Check out the promo videos on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/p/C3edrbmgvUB/
https://www.instagram.com/p/C3efkRqg2iT/

This is my reinterpretation of the original song "Guardianes Del Bosque Encantado", written and performed by the talented singer-songwriter Noela Sabba. The song incorporates several elements of mystical folklore and is a perfect example of the New Age genre.

The New Age movement had a strong influence on my musical education from the mid-1980s onwards, mainly because of its magnificent loop-structured songs, one of my favorite musical techniques. 

My first contact with New Age came from the works of Irish singer-songwriter Enya and had a profound impact on my appreciation of female vocals and Celtic music. The chord progressions of songs like Caribbean Blue and Orinoco Flow became deeply ingrained in my songwriting process and to this day I'm a big fan of songs that work like loops, in which layers of complexity are added one after the other on top of a simple structure that repeats endlessly in the background. If you've just arrived on this planet and have never heard of Enya, here's a good example of this phenomenal singer's work:
https://youtu.be/Jl8iYAo90pE

Some time later, I discovered the work of Canadian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Loreena McKennitt, who drew my attention to the fantastic musical structures of the Middle East and to world music in general. She further reinforced my passion for loop-structured songs and is my favorite artist of the New Age movement, for her impressive compositional genius, mixing medieval instruments with synthesizers and making violins converse with guitar solos. Her song Bonny Swans still gives me goosebumps, even 30 years after I first heard it. Check out this masterpiece:
https://youtu.be/X1WakK6Axmc

And finally, this was the time when I came across the music of Lisa Gerrard, formerly member of the band Dead Can Dance and known for her unmistakable vocals thanks to the unique technique she created called glossolalia, in which there are no lyrics, just phonemes chosen for their musicality. Once again, the looped composition technique is used masterfully in most of her songs -- as, for example, in "Cantara":
https://youtu.be/wZMloK5W1W8?t=127

The looped structure of "Guardianes Del Bosque Encantado" immediately caught my attention and I decided to revisit my New Age origins in this extremely pleasant collab.

Noela's music was also responsible for a radical change in my process of creating promo videos for Instagram. AI-generated videos never appealed to me, because the images morphed endlessly and that spoiled the experience, in my opinion. However, the lack of realistically portrayed fairies on stock footage websites forced me to try Runway Gen-2, an AI tool that generates videos with pretty decent results. AI-generated footage of realistic fairies was alternated with footage of real forests to create a unique atmosphere. Check out the promo videos on Instagram (links at the beginning of this text).

Also, check out the original version of "Guardianes Del Bosque Encantado":
https://soundcloud.com/noelia-ramirez-sebastian/noela-sabba-guardianes-del

Noela Sabba's incredible work is well worth checking out too:
https://soundcloud.com/noelia-ramirez-sebastian

The cover art is inspired by the work "Haunting Faerie", created by graphic artist William Bailey with Midjourney. The impressive design is very reminiscent of the work of Dave McKean, the famous graphic artist responsible for the amazing Sandman covers. Check out this and other works by William Bailey on his Redbubble page:
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/125854589

The banner art is an illustration from the book Faeries, by Brian Froud and Alan Lee, available on Amazon.com:
https://www.amazon.com/FAERIES-Twenty-Fifth-Anniversary-BRIAN-FROUD/dp/B009AJAXNG/

Hope you enjoy the song.

Guardianes del Bosque Encantado (ft Noela Sabba)

Echoes Of The Awakening

Soft, saline.
I was getting tired of running circles.
All the maybes.
A-keeping up with all of my lunar cycles.
Black Jack hang about.
Wanting the scene.
Black Jack wants you to remember his name 'cause he's lonely.
A travesty that the only one for me.
Has left me, hanging clean and rolling.              
Snake eyes out in a dream.

Ever such a  soft, saline.
Grabbing onto any hold they offer.
Warm, sunbeams.
Hit the dust as you're waking from your slumber.
Black Jack sink them down.
Take in the scene.
Black Jack wants you to be part of the team 'cause he's...
Lonely, salubrious, and hungry.
Meticulous and 'ornery.
Hanging free and rolling. 
Snake eyes out in a dream.

Soft, Saline.
The sum of many portents cast asunder.
Peachy keen.
Beaten down by wasted time on wonder.
Black Jack hit the town.
Wasted the dream.
Black Jack only wants to skim off the cream.
But, he's lonely, an incubus arriving.
Catching us in the mocking, waking scene of a nightmare.
Snake eyes out in a dream.

Saline

This tune started with a basic backing track that I added more drums/cymbals to and a 1976 Gibson Les Paul Deluxe lead guitar.

Ron Snyder - BEA FLATE BLUES (Instrumental)

Translation above

Je t’aime déjà en souvenir

Je sais que rien ne dure toujours
Et que tu partiras un jour
Sur les ailes d’un courant d’air
Et comm' je ne peux rien y faire
Je t’aime déjà en souvenir

J’ai vu trop de passés pareils
À d’infinies fins de soleils
Pour qui j’aurais donné tout l’or
Du monde, mais en vain, alors,
Je t’aime déjà en souvenir

Refrain :
Tu vas partir, ma fille, tu vas partir
Pour te construire un avenir
Mais dans tes beaux jours à cueillir
Garde-moi dans ton souvenir

Bien sûr, pour l’instant c’est l’école
Et, de bonnes grâces, tu t’y colles
Mais dans tes beaux yeux qui pétillent
Je vois s’allumer des brindilles
Tu m’aimes déjà en souvenir

Si nos chemins en parallèles
Avancent sur la même échelle
Mes barreaux sont plus fatigants
Et plus proches du firmament
Chacun gravit ses souvenirs

Lorsque je tutoierai le ciel
Tu auras déployé tes ailes
J’en sourirai, mais pour l’instant
Dans le silence des yeux j’entends
Qu’on s’aime déjà en souvenir.

Refrain :
Je vais partir, ma fille, je vais partir
Et te laisser à l’avenir
Mais dans tes beaux jours à cueillir
Garde-moi dans ton souvenir.

Myckaël Marcovic, le 15 février 2024

I already love you in memory

I know that nothing lasts forever
And one day you'll be gone
On the wings of a breeze
And there's nothing I can do about it
I already love you in memory

I've seen too many similar pasts
To endless ends of suns
For whom I would have given all the gold
Of the earth but all in vain,
I already love you in memory

Refrain :
You're going to leave, my daughter, you're going to leave
To build a future for yourself
But in your beautiful days to gather
Keep me in your memory

Of course, right now it's school
And, with good grace, you stick to it
But in your beautiful sparkling eyes
I see twigs light up
You already love me in memory

If our parallel paths
On the same ladder
My rungs are more tiring
And closer to the firmament
Each one climbs his memories

When I reach the sky
You'll have spread your wings
I'll smile, but for now
In the silence of the eyes I hear
That we already love each other in memory.

Refrain :
I'm going to leave, my daughter, I'm going to leave
And leave you to the future
But in your beautiful days
Keep me in your memory.

Myckaël Marcovic, 15 February 2024

Je t'aime déjà en souvenir

The Icelandic winters are long and dark, sinister shadows lurk and after months your mind messes with you. The new track from Icelandic post-rock band Laxá A Friend Of Darkness captures the mood. 

Equal parts harsh and melodic at 8 minutes long the pieces captures the almost interminable harshness at the same time being a post rock instrumental that fills the blackness.

Laxá & Heima Kvartett are:
Jussi Siglarson - Guitar
Bjarne Guðjohnsen - Bass
Matthias Helguson - Drums
Mike Taylor - Keyboards
Lisbeth Heima - Violin
Sif Árnadóttir - Violin
Natasha Guðmundsdóttir - Viola
Ída Sigurðardóttir - Cello

A Friend Of Darkness by Icelandic post-rock band Laxá

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Magdalene

TMM toninhomusicmachine è una delle varie maschere che nel tempo ho raccolto, non ha età, rimane ferma a ricordare le scelte che tutti i giorni facciamo. Spero che il mio parolibero Toni Longobardi accenda la vostra curiosità sopita dal ritmo della vita e che le poche note messe qua e là vi portino lontano dalla quotidianità. WeAreMusic!!!

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