Oh man, this is so great stuff! Really nice groovin' rock with a little classic rap-vibe on the vocals.! Really nice slide guitars!

intensely gripping and raw Hank; would be killer live!

this is pure rock and roll. really digging this powerful guitar structure

Did You know? There`s a korean word for a special kind of rain, so fine and soft, just like mist. They call it MongWoo. 

And as I can confirm, cause I`ve seen that on tv, this rain falls preferably when asian supermodels meet the king to play a round of go.... don´t question it 😁

MongWoo

Hank Rusch goes for the throat with this stripped down raucous rocker about a fugitive from injustice called The Innocent.  Hank creates a raw precision with his spare but loud use of only drums, bass, guitar. Sweet but grinding like frosting on a cake with a file inside Hank give us just desserts with his slide guitar work. Hank's voice brings an authentic dimension to the song as he recounts the first person story of a man wrongly convicted, escaped, on the run.  Hank's screaming falsetto in tandem with his high slide guitar ends the song like a war cry... as if to say, Today is a good day to die, but I will fight for one more.

The Innocent
I went down to the River
I saw somethin' no one ever should see
The law did somethin' bad
They pinned it all on me

On my way to Leavenworth
the train it left the tracks
Everybody broke their backs
But I walked out without a scratch

So they put me in Joliet
on a back to back 30 stretch
But me and a road dog found a way
to put a hole in the fence

We ran and ran in our prison stripes
til' we found a old garage
We put on mechanics uniforms
and hot wired the owner's Dodge

We put some miles between Joliet
We drove without the lights
I wished the darkness would never end
It started gettin' light

They caught my partner and they made the Dodge
he went down in a blaze of bullets
I watched it all from the café
as I stuffed my hungry gullet

I slipped out of town on a mail truck
your letters might be a little late
'cause they shot it full of lead
I crawled into a sewer grate

I met a woman in St. Paul
She liked me and she took me in
She believed I was innocent
as long as I gave her good lovin'

But I saw her sittin' in a G man's car
I could tell from the government plates
They had the goods on her for somethin' else
She gave me up and turned states

I've been runnin' for five year now
I've used every alias
What I saw the law do that night
they'd hang if I was to witness

Listen to my story
I got to tell it before I'm gone
I swear to you I'm the innocent
There's more where I came from

I'm The Innocent, I'm The Innocent
Lord have mercy on my soul
I'm The Innocent, I'm The innocent
Don't try to give me your back door parole
I'm The Innocent, I'm The Innocent,
If I stop runnin' I'll never get old
I'm The Innocent, I'm The Innocent
Lord have mercy on my soul

The Innocent

Greatness Can Wait’ is an ode to procrastination. Sometimes as artists and humans, we beat ourselves up for not being “productive” or on the road to our “greatest” selves at all time. Sometimes, we want to everything but. Sometimes, that’s OK.

Greatness Can Wait

Y'a des grillons qui crient tout autour de moi
De l'eau coule si fraîche le long de mes bras
Je vois la lune sourire à travers les arbres
Et un feu d'artifice, explosion de couleurs
Explosion de joie avec toi, Oksana

J'entends les lucioles, elles me parlent de toi
Je garde les yeux fermés pour mieux te regarder
L'eau est un peu froide mais tu me souris
Le sable dans ma bouche m’empêche de parler
Mais tu es là avec moi, Oksana

Oh Oksana, viens plus près de moi
Viens on va danser on va chanter pour oublier
Oh Oksana, viens plus près de moi
On va rêver que c'est encore l'été et que tout çà n'est pas vrai

Les grillons se sont tus, je n'entends plus la nuit
Je repense à nous deux dans les champs infinis
J'ai de plus en plus froid et j'ai peur de dormir
Tout mon corps est gelé et j'ai mal quand je respire
Serre moi dans tes bras, Oksana

Oh Oksana, viens plus près de moi
Viens on va danser on va chanter pour oublier
Oh Oksana, viens plus près de moi
On va rêver que c'est encore l'été et que tout çà n'est pas vrai

OKSANA (ft. Tamago☆)

Nocturnal (The Primary Phase Principle Remix) (2025) – Epic trance for night owls
With its powerful beats and orchestral-inspired melody, Nocturnal creates an unforgettable musical journey through the night. It captures the essence of uplifting trance while adding a symphonic twist and key changes. Listen to Nocturnal, if you enjoy cinematic soundscapes and pounding beats
This remix from The Primary Phase Principle turns this trance classic into a dark and inspirational journey through dark wave and post-industrial with a hint of soundtrack music.

You can find this song on all streaming portals and on Bandcamp:
https://too.fm/ndm-nocturnal
https://nadinedemacedo.bandcamp.com/album/nocturnal

This song is part of my album "Nightflight" which will be available on all streaming platforms and Bandcamp.
https://too.fm/ndm-nightflight
https://nadinedemacedo.bandcamp.com/album/nightflight

Nadine de Macedo: composition, mastering
Eric St-Onge: arrangement, synthesizer, sound design, programming, production
Photography: Jonatan Pie / Unsplash

Where to find us:
https://www.youtube.com/@nadinedemacedo
https://tppp.bandcamp.com

Nocturnal

Nocturnal (The Primary Phase Principle Remix)

🎥YouTube Video here (will we ever have the time and resources to make a full video by 2080?😂): https://youtu.be/2vwP1ndf0O0
**🌧 Rain 🌧**  
Here we are again with a track we started recording months ago but never finished!
Finally, we’ve completed it and, wouldn’t you know it, while we were finishing the production, it rained nonstop here, with hail and everything!
It's a journey through rain and melancholy, where wet streets reflect memories and unfulfilled desires. The city's heartbeat blends with the sound of the rain, as unanswered questions fade into the storm. A track wrapped in dark atmospheres and intense melodies, for those who can hear the sound of solitude.
At the moment, this track is exclusively available on SoundCloud.
Released on March 28, 2025.
©2025 Beating Edge

Lyrics:

People walking in the street grey mist on my face
Loneliness is a city rain falling in its place
All the lights buzzing glowing in my eyes
Memories of the past haunting no goodbyes

Rain keeps pouring down no end in sight
Fear and desire tangled in this night
Footsteps echo like a distant cry
Here in the silence I can't tell you why

Under hard rain we're all looking for a sign
Falling with the drops we're lost in time
Cold hands reaching out but nobody's there
In the heart of the storm we breathe despair, but why?

Silver streets wet reflections now
Every raindrop a lost vow
Lurking ghosts inside our souls
Endless rain taking its toll

Thunder rolls distant lightning flickers low
Memories dissolve with each falling blow
Hope wears thin like the rain on glass
Questions unanswered time won't pass

Under hard rain we're all looking for a sign
Falling with the drops we're lost in time
Cold hands reaching out but nobody's there
In the heart of the storm we breathe despair, but why?

Rain

Music Video

Here we are with something that shouldn’t even exist, just as an interlude between Rain (https://soundcloud.com/beatingedge/rain) and our next real song, which will definitely be much better, trust us! 😅 
OK, let's make one thing clear right away: don't even consider this one of our songs! 🤣 We mean, we didn’t exactly put much effort into making it! Simply put, Mary (the guitarist) had shouted out this word (with no meaning, it’s just the sound a zombie makes in an old video game), which in Italian sounds a bit like "Udò!" (we transliterated it as Oodaw in English, especially because it contains the word DAW🤪), Mauro (the keyboardist) had sampled it and from there, he started messing around with it, and everyone else followed suit!🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦
And here it is, in just a few minutes this 'thing' was born! 🤪 Tom’s final comment (the lead singer, who luckily doesn't sing in this... thing!) and Mary's heartfelt response, with Mauro’s evil laugh in the background, we decided to leave it in (obviously in Italian, so no one can understand, which is better🧏🏻‍♀️), just to completely ruin our reputation! We’re clowns on SoundClown (we're sorry SoundCLOUD, we’re sorry! 🤗). 
Enjoy torturing your precious ears! 🎧😬
At the moment, this track is exclusively available on SoundCloud (and it will probably remain that way forever because it's an April Fool's joke🤣).
Released on April 1, 2025.
©2025 Beating Edge

Lyrics:

Really? 😳 OK! Here's the song's lyrics!

Oodaw!

Oodaw

I gave Suno an extract from a poem by W.B. Yeats entitled "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven", and then spent hours and hours going through innumerable iterations with different prompts about instrumentation, style and genre until I was ready to give up, when I finally reached this one... which I instantly loved. 😎

Words: 
O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes, 
The poets labouring all their days 
To build a perfect beauty in rhyme 
Are overthrown by a woman's gaze 
And by the unlabouring brood of the skies 
And therefore my heart will bow, when dew 
Is dropping sleep, until God burn time, 
Before the unlabouring stars and you. 

Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

Cloths of Heaven

Mastered by A7 Recording Studio
Thank you Glenn for rocking the lead vocal on this one!
Asking for help in 8 different languages.

Lyrics: 
Hey there, aidez-moi, pomóż mi, my friend (French, Polish)
Hey aiutami, (Italian)
I know you’ll understand.
Hey there, aidez-moi, pomóż mi, my friend
Hey aiutami. 
I know that you’ll understand.

Help me – you know my brain is really hummin’
Help me – yeah, my pants are fallin’ down
Help me – you know the trouble’s started comin’
And I’d love to have you hangin’ around.

Hey voíthisé me (Greek)
Hilf mir, if you can (German)
Bāng wǒ, it’s no joke, (Mandarin)
Meree sahaaya-ta karo. (Hindi)
Hey voíthisé me
Hilf mir, if you can
Bāng wǒ, it’s no joke,
Meree sahaaya-ta karo.

Help me – you know my brain is really hummin’
Help me – yeah my pants are fallin’ down
Help me – you know the trouble’s started comin’
And I’d love to have you hangin’ around.

Sometimes in the early early mornin’
When my head’s not very clear,
That’s the time when my soul needs some warmin’
And I need to have you near.

Hey there, aidez-moi, pomóż mi, my friend
Hey aiutami. I know that you’ll understand.
Hey there, aidez-moi, pomóż mi, my friend
Hey aiutami. I know that you’ll understand.

Sometimes when it’s late in the evenin’
And I’m feelin’ just a little bit of fear,
That’s the time when I don’t want you leavin’
And I got to have you near.

Help me – you know my brain is really hummin’
Help me – yeah my pants are fallin’ down
Help me – you know the trouble’s started comin’
And I’d love to have you hangin’ around.

Help me – you know my brain is really hummin’
Help me – yeah my pants are fallin’ down
Help me – you know the trouble’s started comin’
And I’d love to have you hangin’ around.
You know I’d love to have you hangin’ around.

Aiutami!

A song about being addicted to the city and trying to get over it.

Clean

This tune was released by Ava Max in 2020. Performed by me on my Yamaha PSR-SX900 arranger keyboard.

Can you "Name That Tune"? I have a website that contains my complete collection of tunes with their titles revealed at: www.harveytwyman.com

Name That Tune #580 by Ava Max

I'm Hank Rusch.  I am a musician who writes, sings, plays lead guitar.  this is my Soundcloud site where I feature my solo releases featured at www.hankrusch.bandcamp.com  I also act as producer, lead guitarist, co  writer, back up vocalist, for the powerhouse band Smokin Rock that can be heard here or at smokinrock.bandcamp.com 

Smokin' Rock, a powerhouse rock group that delivers high-octane, unfiltered rock music right to your eardrums. Join them at www.smokinrock.bandcamp.com to hear all their music. Formed by the brilliant minds of Hank Rusch and Bob Dannewitz, these visionary musicians craft electrifying anthems fueled by their passion for cars, epic concerts, and, believe it or not, the captivating allure of a certain mysterious "C". Prepare to be captivated as Smokin' Rock takes you on a sonic journey through the fast-paced world they know and love.

The Innocent

Hank

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