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

A track from the last century, rescued from 4-track via minidisc, sharing for a bit of fun elsewhere.

Daniel 20250528

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
***
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

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)

Somedays

On a long, sloping path, the sunlight beating down,
I placed my hand in yours—
It felt like we could go anywhere.
We who can’t become birds
Look up to them with longing,
But birds who can’t be like us
Take off into the sky, crossing borders,
Heading south—
Back to their homeland.
In the height of summer, pecking at berries,
Thinking we’ve gotten everything we wanted,
Yet still we look up at the sky today.
We who can’t become birds
Look up to them with longing,
But birds who can’t be like us
Take off into the sky, crossing borders,
Heading south—
To the ancient city they once called home.
From a rooftop in the skyline,
I looked out across the world,
Trying to find the direction
Of the place I belong.
Ah, ah…
Ah, ah…
We who can’t become birds
Look up to them with longing,
But birds who can’t be like us
Take off into the sky, crossing borders,
Heading south—
Back to their homeland.
ah  ah  ah
oh  oh  oh
.ah  an  oh


atmospheric, dreamy, synth-driven バラード　おしゃれ　現代　ポップ　優しく軽やか　バンド　Unplugged session　タイトなリズム　ギターのリフ　ソロ

Birds-Toward the South-

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)

おおうなばらへ漕ぎだした
赤い円が線に溶けるまでに
見たいものがある
君のこと思い出す テーブルには
レモンとオレンジが並ぶ
I set out on the ocean.
Before the red circle melts into a line,
There's something I want to see.
I think of you.
Lemons and oranges are lined up on the table.
Sky is like blanket
好きにやってみよ
大きな道選んで歩いてみよ
波や嵐に不安にもある
入江で少しただすむこともある
I'm worried about the waves and storms.
Sometimes I just sit in the cove.
Sky is like blanket
信号も交差点もないほどあてのない
そんな旅でもいいや
Sky is like blanket.
Even a journey as aimless as there are no traffic lights or intersections is fine.
no no nh
ahhh ahh
Sky is like blanket.
Do whatever you want.
Take the high road and walk.
Sky is like blanket
Sky is like blanket
信号も交差点もない　あてのない
そんな旅になること知って
Sky is like blanket
好きにやってみよ
大きな道選んで歩いてみよ　　
Sky is like blanket
ok ok   year  no 
Sky is like blanket
好きにやってみよ
大きな道選んで歩いてみよ
no no yes uh....
Sky is like blanket
Sky is like blanket
uh......
Sky is like blanket.

Folk,Funk,Blues,Country,Jazz,hiphop,pop
Chill ,lo-fi ,meditation,healing, ギターソロ.リフAmbient,美旋律,リズム,bpm 141

Sky is like blanket

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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Welcom.Thank you for visiting our Land.Please chill and Dance and listen. I hope you have good time and good life!!!

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