Like the soul of a river - always moving, full of hope to that unknown destination. On its way making the acquaintance of heartbreak, loss, change, tumult, joy, love, and peace.
River Soul - the ever-changing, fickle nature of life - which place to better represent that than Berlin? Deeply inspired by my home town my new EP River Soul travels into neoclassical and ambient music, into the playful and melancholy charm of Berlin.
The EP 'River Soul (Songs For Piano, Wind & Water) was funded by GVL & Neustarthilfe Kultur.

A Fragile Path To Peace is the first song of the EP.

Enjoy the music videos accompanying the EP here: www.youtube.com/c/ValeskaRautenbergMusic
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released May 20th, 2022

Written, produced and performed by Valeska Rautenberg
All tracks mixed by Thomas Lemmer except for
A Journey Through The Particles - mixed by Ramin Tehrani
Mastered by Chris Pavey

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Valeska and the River - A Fragile Path To Peace

HEARTBLOOD is the solo music project of Berlin-based singer/songwriter Christine Roseann. 

Originally from California, the Filipino-American pianist has lived in Germany for almost a decade. She is currently working on her debut album collecting raw, cathartic instrumental and vocal tracks composed when she was a troubled teenager. Dusting off these exiled fragments and holding them under a light, she faces the trauma of memory with honesty and tenderness.

"The Soundtrack to My Innermost"
Hi there! I am Valeska, and I am a musician and music coach with all my heart.

My vocal music lives in the realm of Indie Pop and Electronica, and you can find it under my name,
Valeska Rautenberg.
For my instrumental neoclassical and ambient music, you can listen to
Valeska and the River.

Join me on my journey as you explore this page and take a listen!

Weaving acoustic elements and storytelling vocals into electronica and field recordings and thereby creating landscapes: Traveling into indie, alternative, electronica, neoclassical, trip hop, and beyond.

Songs that are alive and breathing. Songs that hold the wisdom of feelings. They know more than I do…

A music-addict. 
baturo@m4musico (twitter)
baturo@bandcamp
Fav.Genres: Post Rock, Math Rock, Experimental, Modern Classical

A small note on my own behalf: I have noticed that my playback figures have dropped dramatically. The statistics show that the number of playbacks has dropped from 2000 per week to just under 200.
On the one hand, this is frustrating, as everyone sees this as an indicator and confirmation of their work. On the other hand, figures are not particularly important, but one wonders what is wrong. In my opinion, SC has changed a lot, uploading tracks has become more complicated and constant security queries are annoying.
In addition, great artists are disappearing from the platform, partly by their own choice, partly because they have been banned, the algorithm has “recognized” them as spam and mercilessly deleted their account. I'm still a paying member, but my attitude towards this has changed...

Please let me know your experiences and impressions.

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When I don't have the time to actively listen to my favorite artists on soundcloud, I just leave the stream running...while washing up in the kitchen, for example 😆

By the way: this user-92853963 was my old link address and leads to the empty.... I AM NOT A ROBOT!

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A long, long time ago, there was an organ in the Christmas-decorated living room in his parents' house, where Frank grew up. Originally bought by his father for his two older siblings, they showed no interest in playing the organ. Frank, however, did. White and black keys and giving off strange sounds. 

So at the age of 9 he began to let his fingers circle on this instrument, searching for the right keys like on a typewriter. And another 9 years would pass before he could buy his first own instrument. Already at the age of 13 he made notes about the then current synthesizers, bought one magazine after the other and visited music fairs in Frankfurt, Germany.

His first keyboard was the Yamaha DSR-2000, which he bought in a music store near his hometown Biebertal. In installments! Finally he could develop himself further - away from the limited tonality of the small organ. The built-in 8-track sequencer helped him to reach unimagined heights. 
Little by little his equipment expanded and his ambition to create music like that of Jean-Michel Jarres came closer. Influenced by this and countless other musicians of the time, his interest grew, but he taught himself everything. Not even having attended a music school or being able to read music at all, he wrote one song after another and recorded them on the only medium available to him at the time: audio cassettes.
Many of these recordings are unfortunately lost forever, because cassettes are and were not the best recording medium. He has to try to play many of his songs from memory. 

In 2007, he fulfilled a long-awaited wish: to buy a KORG. He had always wanted to own one, but with the latest synthesizers at the time of their release having a purchase price of over 6000 D-marks (the currency of the time in the 1980s and 1990s), that dream of owning one was far away. So in 2007 he bought a used KORG 01W/FD at ebay. And as before with the purchase of the Yamaha keyboard, a completely new world opened up to him.

In addition, there were expanders and sound modules from Kawai, Roland and Yamaha (K1m, SC-55, QY10). Six years later his enthusiasm for making music ebbed and rediscovered his hobby (which it always was and still is). In 2018 in April he decided to present his music to a wider audience and uploaded his first song on the platform soundcloud. Since that time, thanks also to the ever-evolving software, he continues to evolve, experiment and relive his times through music.

MOON AND ARIES is a genre-defying, retro-futuristic music duo creating emotionally immersive soundscapes that blur the lines between synth-pop, chill electronica, cinematic soul, trip-hop, and jazz-infused lounge. Combining poetic lyricism with lush production and smooth vocal interplay, their songs feel timeless - yet unmistakably modern. 

Driven by their shared passion for storytelling through sound, Moon and Aries deliver music that connects on a deeply human level. 

Their catalog explores universal themes: 
transformation, empowerment, longing, healing, and spiritual awakening. Whether it’s a quiet moment of self-reflection, a triumphant personal shift, or a love scene that needs to glow from within - Moon and Aries provide the perfect sonic companion. 
Each track is built with sync in mind: strong emotional arcs, memorable melodic hooks, dynamic instrumental sections, and vocal textures that range from intimate whispers to anthemic declarations.  
With a sound often compared to artists like Sade, A-ha, Portishead, Depeche Mode, and Massive Attack, Moon and Aries offer a sonic palette that blends nostalgia with new-world 
optimism - ideal for storytelling that needs depth, mood, and meaning. 
All songs are 100% one-stop and available with full mixes, instrumentals, stems, and lyric sheets.
 
Genres: Retro-Futuristic Pop, Synthpop, Trip-Hop, R&B/Soul, Chill Electronica, Cinematic Soul, Electro-Jazz, Electronic, Retro wave, 80s 

MELODY MEETS MEANING! www.moonandaries.com


Musicphile , Cello lover
Exploring the therapiutic power of Sound  as Music Therapy , ASMR , Healing music , Meditation and . . .
l like Dark Ambient ,Prog Rock & Post Rock genres More .

Gezeitenstrom Musikmagazin - A German online magazine about neoclassical, alternative, post-rock & atmospheric soundscapes (since 2011)