Fantastic songs from excellent musicians - and some of my own compositions and collabs.
This time, I would like to wish both music fans and my dear fellow musicians a Merry Christmas!

Stunning moments - Outstanding tracks

Too Late To Dance

This is my Covid Project.
Up until recently I reckon I was the only person on the planet not to have experienced the dreaded virus!
Anyway, I finally caught it while trying to record this song. All fairly mild but it lingered a while, and affected my voice a bit. 
This song has been knocking around for so long now I haven't the heart to do any more re-recording :) So ........ up it goes.
PS all better now ....... eventually!

One Face in a Million

Thank you for listening!
A new collaboration with the very talented singer & songwriter Sarah Golding.
Check out the great work of Sarah: https://soundcloud.com/voiceofgolding/tracks
Lyrics and vocals: Sarah Golding
Photography: Trudy Simpkin

Lyrics:
See the southern cross, my little love?
Trace the shapes in the galaxy above
Tiny lights in the sky
Distant giant fires
Time will pass, and the stars will age
And my love for you will never fade
Never fade away.
No matter where, why, how far you fly
I’ll be by your side like a constellation
A constellation in the night sky
See the southern cross, my little love?
Trace the shapes in the darkness above
Burning bright in the sky
Distant giant fires
Time will pass, and the stars will age
And my love for you will never, never fade away

Constellation

Constellation (Feat. Sarah Golding)

WHAT'S IN YOU
Written, Performed, Produced & Mastered
by Andrew Borderick Copyright 2022 AB Music

IT'S ALL THE COIN YOU'VE GOT
AND ALL THE LOVING IN ONE HAND
THERE'S A CHANCE TO TAKE THE LOT
UNTILL YOU FIND THE KEY, IT TURNS TO SAND

IF I COULD UNFOLD THIS MYSTERY
THE OLD MAN SAID NOTHING COMES FOR FREE
IT COULD TAKE YOU LIFE, WITH WHAT YOU CHOOSE
THERE'S NOTHING I CAN DO

WHAT'S IN YOU

SOMEDAY YOU'LL WIN A TRICK IN A HAT
YOU BETTER WISH REEL HARD, IN ONE HAND
IS ALL THE TRUTH TO MUCH
MAY'BE  IT'S ALL, IN TWO HANDS

I GUESS YOU'LL NEVER KNOW WHAT IS TRUE
YOU'VE LOST THE BIGGEST PART OF YOU
IT COULD TAKE YOUR LIFE, WITH WHAT YOU CHOOSE
THERE'S NOTHING I CAN DO

WHAT'S IN YOU
(break)
IF I COULD UNFOLD THIS MYSTERY
THE OLD MAN SAID NOTHING COMES FOR FREE
IT COULD TAKE YOU LIFE, WITH WHAT YOU CHOOSE
THERE'S NOTHING I CAN DO

WHAT'S IN YOU

WHAT'S IN YOU

A calm piano piece spiced up with some distorted guitar. The guitars played, other instruments are programmed by Szabolcs Kontra.
Release date 13 September 2022.

13/09/2022

Towards Deep Space

Lovers' Quarrel

HARRY 
Backing track:  Paploviante 
https://soundcloud.com/paploviante-and-friends/rock-a-car-paploviante
Vocal : Emily Coy
https://soundcloud.com/freevocals
Lillithe: adding Beat, Sound Effects, Arrangement and Production

HARRY - Lillithe & Paploviante

Spooked (Instrumental) 92 Bpm

Monk's Journey

MUSIC FOR AN EPILOGUE.

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Composition started in July 2021.

Finished and edited in November 2022.

Last composition using KV331 and Synthmaster One, months before they deactivated the inter App function that I use on my ipad to use sounds.

It is fragmented into an intro, then a piano fragment to move on to another electronic symphonic section and end in an orchestral section.

It is one of my most complex music for which I have used:

30 tracks from Music Studio 2 with native and Xewton forum instruments.

2 tracks from Korg iM1

1 Prophet track (Arturia)

7 Synthmaster One Tracks

1 Track of Digital D1.

Made exclusively on ipad.

Mix in my car....perfectly parked.

Thanks for your comments and support. It is always a pleasure to read your messages and opinions.

Paco.

Music for an epilogue

Link to cool Youtube Music Video of the song here: https://youtu.be/XT0Gdy9s4lU
Link to my Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoY7Kh-Ok7KMue0NnNBRRjQ
Link to my Home Website: https://davidhusted.com/welcome

The lyrics seem to be about my general aversion toward the momentous amount of shitty events that took place in 2020.  Perhaps a psychoanalyst would see even more in them. The lyrics are a bit esoteric.  My sub-conscious was definitely spewing on this one.  I kneaded the words and phrases against the texture and flow of the driving pulse of the  musical content. What emerged is something special. A real rocker!  The song slowly builds, creating an incredible sonic vibe with many subtle aural sweet spots.

Lyrics
Chugging down the Qi
by David Husted

V1
Stained glass windows broken
The shit upon, plain folk, discarded and forgotten 
 The sea of swelling slogans
 And sky that always follows the long sleep of exhausted
Chugging down the Qi, waking underneath a park bench
Manhattan calves, a butterfly laughs at a snowflake

Ch 
Now where would you have me go?
And who is this I'm talking to?
Let's erase,  2020s face,
 this year's a disgrace I think I'm better off  without you          

{Verse bare}

Ch
Now where would you have me go?
And who is this I'm talking to?
Let's erase,  2020s face,
 this year's a disgrace I think I'm better off  without you        
{instr}

Bridge

V3
Lonely bird you make me smile
So smeared across the day I think I'm bending in straight spirals 

Come on mon, mop the ground
Out beyond the hobbit hill, I can prove the Earth is round

Ch
Now where would you have me go?
And who is this I'm talking to?
Let's erase,  2020s face,
 this year's a disgrace I think I'm better off  without you        
{instr}

Chugging Down the Qi

The Hobbit Hill

Chugging Down The Qi

Music written by Val Akey and Kontra Sz.
Kontra Sz plays all guitars.
Val Akey: drums, bass, keys programming in DAW (mix and master).

Many thanks Kontra for your wonderful guitar play and your contribution!
Please visit: https://soundcloud.com/kontra-sz
There is a great video created by Kontra Sz for this song. You can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqZ2lc2GHQ4

Release date: 18 November 2022

Slow River (Val Akey & Kontra Sz collab)

Another composition recorded before the war. I hope one day I will return to my home studio. Any support from you is much appreciated on these extremely hard times for our country, our family. 
I could have recorded much new music for the last 9 months... unless russians came to our yard to "save" us with their tanks, missiles, bombs and war planes at 4 a.m. on Feb 24th. And yes, they saved us from our house, from our normal life, from our dreams and plans. They saved my elderly parents from their home and peaceful life in retiring, saved my daughter from happy childhood, from school, from her friends and vacation by the sea. We'll never forget and never forgive it! I'm sure that russia will get what it deserves - each rocket they launch on Ukraine will turn to another 10 years of disaster for their cowardly people.
 Special thanks to Houman (@houmans) for mastering the track! Please check out his wonderful soundtracks.
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Gone

This one is played and recorded straight after sleeping in the late saturday afternoon. 
The guitar is cheap fan fretted 8-string electric guitar.
This is the first recording with it.
The signal route:
-FMR Audio RNLA7239
-Seymour Duncan Silver Lake Reverb
-Flamma FS07 Cab
-Tascam DP-006 Recorder

8 - String Improvisation 03122022

Texte Français et Google traduction

Le passé chante et se fait voir,
On ne s’invente pas une histoire.
C’était hier, plus à se dire,
Mais rien à faire pour  se maudire.

Tous ces défauts accumulés,
Se montrent trop à regarder,
Et chaque instant est une blessure
Dans le présent qui monte un mur.

De tout on parle et on s’explique,
Les verbes calmes s’en vont bien vite,
Pour laisser place à chaque fois,
A la menace du désarroi.

On a beau faire tout ce qu’on peut,
Reste la misère dans nos aveux,
Troubles questions pour des réponses,
Un clou de plomb que l’on enfonce.

Sera-t-on  jamais heureux,
C’est de la peur entre nous deux ?
Des doutes et peines qui s’installent
Pour nous refaire un peu plus mal.

On se la tend cette douce main,
Dans les moments de « mieux demain »,
Mais sans le voir tous nos reproches,
Repeignent en noir la moindre approche.

Ce mal de vivre, déjà donné,
Aux bateaux ivres les fait couler.
Un beau rivage que l’on dessine
Est loin au large quand on se mine.

Si tous les troubles qui nous menacent,
Faisaient voir double l’amour en face,
Sans inquiétude et pour raison,
Qu’une certitude n’a pas de nom.

Sera-t-on  jamais heureux,
C’est de l’amour entre nous deux ?
Des doutes et peines qui s’installent
Pour nous refaire un peu plus mal.

Sera-t-on  jamais heureux,
C’est de l’amour entre nous deux ?
Des doutes et peines qui s’installent
Pour nous refaire un peu plus mal.

WILL YOU NEVER HAPPY?

The past sings and shows,
We do not invent a story.
It was yesterday, more to say to himself,
But nothing to do to curse.

All these accumulated faults,
Are too much to watch,
And every moment is an injury
In the present that climbs a wall.

Everything we talk about and we explain,
The calm verbs go away quickly,
To leave room each time,
At the threat of confusion.

We can do everything we can,
Remain misery in our confession,
Troubles questions for answers,
A nail of lead that one sinks.

Will we ever be happy,
Is it fear between us?
Doubts and sorrows that settle
To make us a little worse.

We hold out this sweet hand,
In the moments of "better tomorrow",
But without seeing all our reproaches,
Repaint in black the slightest approach.

This pain of living, already given,
Drunken boats make them sink.
A beautiful shore that we draw
Is far off when one is mine.

If all the troubles that threaten us,
Show double love in front,
Without worry and for reason,
That a certainty has no name.

Will we ever be happy,
Is it love between us?
Doubts and sorrows that settle
To make us a little worse.

Will we ever be happy,
Is it love between us?
Doubts and sorrows that settle
To make us a little worse.

SERA-T-ON JAMAIS HEUREUX (Le manque de confiance amoureux)

I'll finish E-Ruizzo project with a conceptual LP album: 4 songs about 'Arctica Point'. I imagined it amid rotation axis, geographic north and magnetic pole, and located it on dry land !! Then I draw the cover art.

This opening track tells the decision of leaving this annoying present by travelling to that magical place. 

Translated lyrics will explain it with more detail:

EXPEDICIÓN (EL MUNDO SE HACE PEQUEÑO)  /  EXPEDITION (THE WORLD GETS SMALL)

Cansado de vivir en un mundo que se hace pequeño,  /  Tired of living in a world which gets small,
como ratas nos movemos en nuestro agujero.  /  like rats we move in our hole.

Cierro los párpados para no verlo,  /  I close my eyelids so as not to see it,
pero hay demasiadas cosas feas detrás de ellos.  /  but there are too many ugly things behind them.

Con los ojos cerrados veo mis recuerdos,  /  With my eyes closed I see my memories,
veo el presente que vivo y no quiero verlo.  /  I see the present I live in and I don’t want to see it.

Con los ojos cerrados no dejo de pensarlo,  /  With my eyes closed I can’t stop thinking about it,
tengo que ir a algún sitio donde olvidarlo.  /  I must go somewhere to forget it.

Partiremos hacia donde los recuerdos se olvidan,  /  We will leave for where memories are forgotten,
donde el frío congela el dolor de la vida,  /  where cold freezes the pain of life,
donde el hielo y la nieve nos protege del hombre,  /  where ice and snow protect us from mankind,
donde el cuerpo y el alma se purifican.  /  where body and soul are purified.

Tenlo todo preparado para nuestra expedición.  /  Get everything ready for our expedition.
Formemos una expedición ártica,  /  Let’s form an Arctic expedition,
Tenlo todo preparado para nuestra expedición.  /  Get everything ready for our expedition.
Formemos una expedición ártica,   /  Let’s form an Arctic expedition,
formemos una expedición ártica  /  let’s form an Arctic expedition

Ártica…  /  Arctica…
entre el polo magnético y el norte geométrico  /  between the magnetic pole and the geometric north
se encuentra el Punto Ártica.  /  is located the Arctica Point.

Partiremos hacia donde el reloj no gira.  /  We’ll leave for where the clock doesn’t go round.
Partiremos hacia donde el tiempo no pasa,  /  We’ll leave for where time doesn’t go by,
al lugar donde seis meses sólo duran un día.  /  for the place where six months only last one day.

Viviendo en un mundo que se hace pequeño,  /  Living in a world which gets small,
como ratas nos movemos en nuestro agujero.  /  like rats we move in our hole.
Con los ojos cerrados no dejo de pensarlo,  /  With my eyes closed I can’t stop thinking about it,
tengo que ir a algún sitio donde olvidarlo.  /  I must go somewhere to forget it.

Ártica…  /  Arctica…
entre el polo magnético y el norte geométrico  /  between the magnetic pole and the geometric north
se encuentra el Punto Ártica.  /  is located the Arctica Point.
entre el polo magnético y el norte geométrico  /  between the magnetic pole and the geometric north
se encuentra el Punto Ártica.  /  is located the Arctica Point.

Esperar no es lo único que haremos allí.  /  To wait is not the only thing we’ll do there.
Sabes que no es fácil sobrevivir,  /  You know it’s not easy to survive,
cuando no hay nada que te empuje a seguir.  /  when there’s nothing pushing you on.

ER25 PA01 RUIZZO ©1995 ®2019

Old raw jazzy piano trailer: https://soundcloud.com/esemanolain-ruizzo/unique-piano-session-2013

Expedición (El mundo se hace pequeño)

Hello friends..... this is my new track... I hope you like it
Better with headphones
Dmaj9-Bm9   115 BPM

Artwork_Free-Photos en Pixabay

Fly Like A Bird

Don't miss the video: https://youtu.be/2UHmsC965Vw

Para Lia
No Time For Butterflies
Album: Gone With The Flow
Image: from the video by Stelios Trichandiris / Angels PR / Athens / Greece

paralia.bandcamp.com/album/gone-with-the-flow
Vinyl / CD / Digital

What's the story behind this song and the album as a unit? Find it out: Visit the 3D virtual art exhibition, realized by SophisticatedApe, with the great work of Louis Renzoni and the music of Para Lia with a lot of background information here:
https://www.sophisticatedape.com/gone-with-the-flow-exhibition/
It is like an interactive visit in a gallery: Use your mouse and the left button to walk around, use the arrow keys on your keyboard or the W-A-S-D keys (forward, left, back, right, respectively). On mobile devices, touch and drag in the direction you would like to move.

words and music by René Methner
mix and production: René Methner
mastering: Thomas Heimann-Trosien, TurnstyleMastering, Berlin

Follow Para Lia on:
www.facebook.com/paraliamusic/
www.instagram.com/paralia.music/
twitter.com/para_lia_band

cold shivers have bitten the flowers in the garden's mind
and the fever trees try to lighten the hall of the blind
the blind faith in progress decided on how the world runs
and sooner or later the killing of eden is done
 
it's no time for butterflies
when the whore of babylon is on the way to the sky
no time for butterflies
anymore

the trees are sending s.o.s. from the roots into the crown
and the creation's crown explains it was all the time the same, an up and down
but this time maybe it's a little bit different
when the sea breathes plastic we're close to the start of the bitter end

it's no time for butterflies
when the whore of babylon is on the way to the sky
no time for butterflies
anymore

Gone With The Flow

Bandcamp

No Time For Butterflies

I nabbed this from another profile mainly because I wanted to try out the mastering. This is the first time I tried it; it cut the volume a lot. I was hoping to just cut the volume on the second half. Mainly for experimentation.

Weird Instrumental

I'm sorry. Misplay is noticeable ...
The right channel is particularly terrible ...
I remade the lock with a sense of speed.
I wanted to make a song that would make me feel better :)

Postscript：
Around 2013. This song was written when I was in a rock band.
At that time I was frustrated by the vocalist.
After discussing with the band representative, I decided to leave the band.
 I never played this song after that.

I composed it in 2013, but in January 2021 I reorganized almost everything.
I like this track more than at that time.
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Songwriter by KUZUESSENCE Gt

Guitars＝KUZUESSENCE Gt
【SCHECTER-Damian solo6(EMG85/85)】
【Amp Simulator:TAURUS-stomphead4highgain】=Line recording with hardware
【Gain booster:BOSS-OD-2】=Line recording with hardware

Drums, Bass/YAMAHA QY100 =Hardware

DAW=CUBASE SX Ver

【YOUTUBE】
https://youtu.be/oowhAvEen_I

【Compilation tracks】
Audiostock
https://audiostock.jp/audio/1266898
https://audiostock.jp/music_distribution/albums/4743
Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/album/6bkAknZ2De2LFX2hrJPPWh
LINE MUSIC
https://music.line.me/webapp/album/mb0000000002a19fbe
Apple Music
https://music.apple.com/jp/album/upbeat-rock-vol-48-instrumental-bgm-by-audiostock/1653934990

☮Let's Rock 【Demo sound track 2021-①】

A hobbyist composer/producer/musician. All tracks are original.
Please also visit our joint project with my friend Daniel Gómez: https://soundcloud.com/kheopslegacy
Thank you for listening!

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