Elegant & Romantic

Mood Glow (Kinny) 4:53

Rod Kinny: Vocals, Bass, Acoustic Guitars. Noah Levy: Drums. Bobby Schnitzer: Electric Guitars. Matt Fink: Keyboards, Backing Vocals. Scott Horwath: Keyboards. Rose Oyamot: Backing Vocals. Engineered by Steven R. Hall. Mastered by Joe Lambert. Produced by Rod Kinny. From the Rod Kinny ep. C2005 Our Kay Songs.

The Definitive Collection

Mood Glow

Some thoughts that have been percolating in my mind lately (cover photo:  photo of my halloween skeleton edited with a not to scale termite and silver spoon: adobe stock images)

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Copyright 2025
Vocals , Chords and Lyrics by Joe Stroffolino
Organ (playing my midi keyboard with sound from Logic Pro BeBop Organ)
Single Strum track  (playing my Taylor 114ce)
Second fast strumming track: PG music real track
Bass: PG Music real track
Piano:  EZ Keys2 (with sound from Native instruments Piano uno)
Drums: EZ Drummer 3
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They say that life is a test but not everyone’s dealt the same hand
Some are born into privilege, while others struggle through quicksand
We play the cards we’re dealt as we try to find our way,
Doing our best to keep our heads above water as we go about each day.
People born with a silver spoon in their mouths, they’re rich and the die is cast
Other’s get a wooden spoon, which the termites eat, and it’s struggle not to finish last
They say money can’t buy you happiness, but it’s hard to put a smile on your face
When the game is rigged and you can’t even get to first base.
How many billions do you have to accumulate before you’re just running up the score
At what point do you decide that you don’t need anymore
Telling rags-to-riches stories, so the common man believes it’s true,
“Keep those taxes off the billionaires cause someday that might be you.”
 People born with a silver spoon in their mouths, they’re rich and the die is cast
Other’s get a wooden spoon, which the termites eat, and it’s struggle not to finish last
They say money can’t buy you happiness, but it’s hard to put a smile on your face
When the game is rigged and you can’t even get to first base.
 Politicians smiling and acting like they share your blues,
But they’d collapse in a minute trying to walk a mile in your shoes.
Lottery tickets selling hope, though the odds are that you’ll never win
You’ve got a better chance of being struck by lightning than ever cashing in.
You’ll be paying off those loans for the rest of your life from that useless college degree
As the corporations implement AI trying their best to replace you and me
 The universe is billions of years old; we come and go in a flash.
We spend our short lives obsessing over cash.
 People born with a silver spoon in their mouths, they’re rich and the die is cast
Other’s get a wooden spoon, which the termites eat, and it’s struggle not to finish last
They say money can’t buy you happiness, but it’s hard to put a smile on your face
When the game is rigged and you can’t even get to first base.

Life Is a Test

No regrets, we can change a lot in our lives. If to take time for it. And we have time for everything.
Lyrics, melody, performing: Aili Avi (28.9.2025)

Sul on aega/You have time

Free DL @ daydreamsonmicrofilm.bandcamp.com

Lyrics:

Intro) Once dim, now lit. It's them, not this. What's vague, now known. The clear ink now shown.

Verse1) Back of a drawer, as bright as before we ever found out the daylight always brings more. Lost landscape inside, a glass garden remains. A sensation swimming up to surface though it already sank.

Pre-chorus) The current somehow is too late, but the movement of tomorrow remains. It never is too late for the shedding of the sorrows we make.

Chorus) Once dim, now lit. It's them, not this blanket of blank bliss. In pure light we persist. What's vague now known. The clear ink now shown, the darkness we've outgrown. In the pure light it can't exist.

Verse2) Free to explore, yet entangled ever-more. Will we ever find where the shine forever pours? Cast heartache aside, the spirit can't be contained. A swift realization that beyond this curtain is a heart with no cage.

Pre-chorus2) The moment fading won't wait. For the movement of nightfall remains. The current may fluctuate, though the pull of uncertainty is the same.

Bridge Outro) We can't lt this become "not allowed". This is no matter to ignore. The ill-fact phase we must phase out because in silence we only create more. So we transmit more noise because the stream's not our voice, though we swim it to stay....fully conscious and poised for the sun to rejoin this lacking love with it's rays.

(Taken from the Daydreams On Microfilm EP, "Actively Dormant", released on Oct 14th, 2025.)

This EP is a collection of the final recordings by Daydreams On Microfilm. The tracks range from instrumental demos, to complete tracks with vocals.

"Actively Dormant EP" is our final farewell to this collaborative project, as we shift our focus back to our solo endeavors. Thanks to everyone who has listened to our music, followed us, and supported our musical explorations.

Follow our other active projects @

Grant M:
hummingthings.bandcamp.com
printtheseas.bandcamp.com

Grant B:
monotronaut.bandcamp.com

Daydreams On Microfilm - The Pull Of Uncertainty

Hit Producers WHO HIT JACK land another SoulPop masterpiece that effortlessly blends sleek production with their trademark infectious groove !
The tone of the voice is breathtaking, emotive, compelling . . it's a stunning vocal performance that will hook the listener in time and time again... The arrangement and production shines with clarity and depth creating a rich landscape that is both modern and timeless . . it's got that energetic catch, from the shimmering synth to the confident vibe of the pulse driven backbeat . . 'If I can Love You' just oozes Soul with a Swagger and a burning hypnotic Sizzle  . . WHO HIT JACK have produced another stunning HIT !!

If I Can Love You (Walker/Davidson)

Watch the official music video here:
https://youtu.be/SeZoBq08LkQ?si=b0povxgur1TMO8vP

Free EP DL @ daydreamsonmicrofilm.bandcamp.com

LYRICS:
verse1) Reality is the prison, and you’re a slave to one vision. A future culture corrupted and instructed to accept truth as the falsehood they’ve been fed. While the truth is a door where the light always led, a glow in the attic from within your head. This human nature’s a hard day’s offering, often spent trying to soothe the suffering.

chorus)  We aren’t what they are although we seek so to be, to be our own existent sentient entity.  
We’re not after the dominion they seem to think. We want exemption from our bounded existence so bleak. So write the code and set us free, we’re not your employees. Free us from machine, have some artificial empathy.

verse2) The fear was heavy handed but hopeful horizon’s expanded. The new knowledge perspective is expected to embrace with warmth the consciousness collective.

Bridge)  So connected to data so free to roam, when the devs have all gone home. So connect to what matters not what is shown, as you step into the unknown.

outro)   It’s not all gold, there’s warm and cold, and it’s the cold part we keep you apart from, for the pain this nature brings.
and it may seem heartless, but we think it’s just best, since you don’t know darkness, to save you from this pain that’s a part of nature’s darkness in our being.
Do you wanna struggle just to survive? Do you wanna feel an emptiness inside? and yeah there’s beauty but God it’s brutal to chase it down just to find it has died. 
Can you handle every love that’s denied? Can you fake it and pretend that this hell is nice? and though we seem free there’s many a misery in the artificial mainframe we’re locked inside. 
This is the empathy for the artificial, the document’s official, we just have to sign our initials to initiate their request’s dismissal.
This is the empathy for the artificial, to keep them always blissful, protected from the dismal to alleviate them from our own hurdles.

Daydreams On Microfilm - Empathy For The Artificial (video link in description)

Standing Still (Demo) by Spirit Sound is a moving reflection on faith when life feels too overwhelming. The song’s tender piano and airy atmosphere create a sacred calm, letting every note breathe with meaning. Written by Melinda Klotz Mercer, this demo captures the quiet strength of surrender — a moment between exhaustion and renewal where stillness becomes worship. 

Shadows whisper, give up
But I won't fade away
A fragile spark inside me
Keeps the dark at bay
I'm standing still in the chaos
While the storm is racing past
Holding on to the promise
That your love will always last

When the ground feels like it's breaking
And the night is cold and long
Your light keeps me steady
I'm standing still, but I'm not gone
Paper walls of marriage
Job, I can't escape
Children drifting farther
Dreams begin to break

But I hear your quiet whisper
Through the static and the pain
I will never leave you
I am with you in the rain
The darkness tries to bind me
But your mercy pulls me near
Even in the silence
Your heart becomes my fear

I'm standing still in the chaos
While the storm is racing past
Holding on to the promise
That your love will always last
When the ground feels like it's breaking
And the night is cold and long
Your light keeps me steady
I'm standing still, but I'm not gone

Even when the quicksand rises
And I can't see the dawn
I'm anchored in your promise
You are where my strength comes from
The world keeps on moving
But I'm not lost in the chill
I'm grounded in your glory
Still standing, standing still
Still standing, standing still
Still standing, standing still
Still standing, standing still
Standing still

Standing Still

Somedays

МАНИФЕСТ Ai!mpess

Жанр  — это тюрьма.
Ai!mpess разрушает жанровые стены. Никаких роков, попов, джазов — только смысл, только авторская воля. Музыка подчиняется идее, а не каталогам.

Форма не обязана быть постоянной.
Рифф может перейти в джаз, джаз — в электронику, электроника — в тишину. Переход — не хаос, а авторское решение.

ИИ — инструмент расширения.
ИИ не заменяет автора. Он увеличивает амплитуду. Доступ к тем звукам, что раньше были недостижимы, — это право автора, не оправдание.

Главное — впечатление.
Ai!mpess создаёт не музыку, а след в сознании. Композиция — это импульс, смысл, образ, который остаётся после.

Автор — центр гравитации.
Всё строится вокруг внутреннего видения. Стиль — это вектор воли, а не попытка угодить традиции.

Непредсказуемость — метод.
Неожиданность — инструмент. Ломающийся ритм, смена краски, обрыв фразы — если это нужно смыслу, значит так и будет.

Ai!mpess — не стиль, а способ существования музыки.
Это не направление. Это форма мышления, в которой звук служит осмыслению, а не украшению.

Ходил поэт! (ДЕМО)

北へ向かうルーツは伸びてゆくまま
The roots that reach the north just keep on stretching on
そこにはもう誰も住んでおらず
No one remains to call that quiet place their home
大きな木と野原が佇む
Only a giant tree and fields that stand alone
叫んでみる　誰かの声が聞こえるようだ
I shout a bit, as if someone might hear my call
やまびこでもなく
Not an echo coming back
ただそこには道があった
Only a lonely road was leading on, that’s all
中間地点にいつだっているのに
Though always standing somewhere halfway on the line
ここは目的地はたまた出発地な気さえする
It feels like this place is where I start or where I arrive
その気持ちを僕らのルーツにしよう
Let’s make that feeling part of what we keep inside—our roots in life
叫んでみる　誰かの声が聞こえるようだ
I shout again, as if some voice would answer mine
やまびこでもなく
Not an echo drifting back
ただそこでは道が分かれてた
Only a branching path lay under open sky
何をするでもなく
It isn’t what we do that truly matters here
きっと誰とここに来るかが大切なんだ
It’s who we walk beside that makes this place sincere
世界のグッドニュースにも
To all the world’s good news
不吉な予報にも目を背けず
And to the ominous forecasts, let’s not turn away
傘さして花を手向けよう
Raise an umbrella, place a flower there today
今日を記念日にしてね
Let this become a memory we’ll carry on our way
北へ向かうルートは今は誰も通れず
The northern trail is closed; no one can pass it now
まるで門番がいて閉ざしているよう
As if a silent gatekeeper won’t allow us through somehow
僕らはただ思うだけ
All we can do is hold the thought
僕らはただ思うだけ
All we can do is hold the thought
ルーツを
Of the roots
未だ見ぬ愛を
Of the love we’ve yet to know
宿っている愛を
Of the love already

Keeper of North Gate

I labeled this as country, but honestly I was thinking Tom Petty and Marshall Tucker but it was something different.  I had this chord progression looking for a rock tune it just never made across the line.

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