I saw the One Synth Challenge last year, and I wanted to participate, but last year was a "serious album attempt" kind of a year, so I gave it a miss.

This year I have mostly been goofing off participating in various "exquisite corpses", so it seems like a good opportunity to give this Challenge a try. As the track title suggests, I used Cubase Pro 11's "Retrologue 2" analogue synth plugin, and lots of it.

A lot of polishing was needed, so this took quite a bit longer than I expected.

Crying Daisy (A Story In Song)

This song is for all people who are fed up with role expectations. A neoclassical death metal ragequit with a haunting harpsichord and heavy guitars. I am very happy to turn these important lyrics into a song with an international and diverse band. 
Happy women's day! 

Nadine de Macedo: composition, screams, keys, solo, lyrics, arrangement, production
J. P.: guitars, solo
Rin Greywolf: bass
Peter Watkinson: drums

Cover design: Nadine de Macedo (typography), y.ersinia (photo)

Where to find us:
https://nadinedemacedo.bandcamp.com
https://hollowwoods.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/yers.iniaspictures

==== LYRICS ====

To the highborn 
Raise your horns
Thy hope forlorn 
Thy borrowed plumes adorn

Don't wanna be a princess
I'm not damsel in distress
Slave to the hierarchy
Is not who I want to be

Your descendants
Preach untruth
Fake transcendence
Psychological abuse

Don't wanna be a princess
I'm not your f*cking hostess
Slave to the hierarchy 
Ain't nothing for me

Don't wanna be a princess
I'm not damsel in distress
Slave to the hierarchy
Is not who I want to be

Slave to the hierarchy 
Ain't nothing for me

Princess

Lemonbrew: composition, arrangement, production, keyboards
Lionwolf: guitar, bass, drum programming, composition, arrangement
Flinn: lyrics, vocals, melody
Danke an Nadine de Macedo für die Unterstützung!

Lost In The Melody

Art Expressed in Music – Picasso's Brilliance
March 2024
Duration: 3:05
Listen to the Playlist: soundcloud.com/bruce-klepper-1/sets/art-expressed-in-music-i
Painting: Les Demoiselles d’Avignon 
John-Marc Ventimiglia: jagged shards sound effects 
Visit: @john-marc-ventimiglia
Pablo Picasso (October 25, 1881 to April 8, 1973) was a Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most-influential artists of the 20th century.  The enormous body of Picasso’s work remains, and the legend lives on—a tribute to the vitality of the “disquieting” Spaniard with the “sombre…piercing” eyes who superstitiously believed that work would keep him alive.  Picasso's output, especially in his early career, is often periodized.  The most commonly accepted periods in his work are the Blue Period (1901–1904), the Rose Period (1904–1906), the African-influenced Period (1907–1909), Analytic Cubism (1909–1912), Synthetic Cubism (1912–1919), Neoclassicism to Surrealism (1921-1937) and Post-War Work (1937 – 1970s).  Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, from his African–influenced period, marks a radical break from traditional composition and perspective in painting. It depicts five naked women composed of flat, splintered planes whose faces were inspired by Iberian sculpture and African masks. The compressed space they inhabit appears to project forward in jagged shards.  Picasso unveiled this monumental painting, that precursors Cubism, in his Paris studio after months of revision.  Picasso said the ethnic primitivism evoked in these masks moved him to "liberate an utterly original artistic style”.  The Avignon of the work’s title is a reference to a street in Barcelona famed for its brothels.  Exceptionally prolific throughout the course of his long life, Picasso achieved universal renown and immense fortune for his revolutionary artistic accomplishments, and became one of the best-known figures in 20th-century art.  Picasso died on April 8, 1973, at the age of 91, from heart failure, reportedly while he and his wife Jacqueline were entertaining friends for dinner.  Considered radical in his work, Picasso continues to garner reverence for his technical mastery, visionary creativity; paralleling the entire development of modern art in the 20th century.
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