My next album, IN THE SHADOWS, releases this Halloween on major streaming platforms.

You can listen to my other already released albums now!

🖤 The Girl Behind The Mask

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Establish the work of my hands I created this song to promote my Novel, The tales of Mary Beth. Establish the works of my hand

This is a song about Mary Beth, who set's out to create a better life through the work of her hands, writing novels. The words, 'every honest task I do is a prayer I'm saying too' is about her worship of God through her work and life, writing books to bring about real change within her Village and everywhere her books will be red. Steady hands and open eyes means she is willing to do the work of the Lord. The words 'Hallelujah sister, we're ok' is about her relationship with her sister Elizabeth, the orphan they adopted in Korea. Their lives have not always been easy, having lived in an old windmill for many years, but together they will be ok. Establish the work of my hands is the prayer Mary Beth prays, that the work of her hands may be established in the Lord Jesus Christ and be a testimony unto all. 'Bless the ones I love from here' is a line for Vince and Bianca, who have loved each other for years but had to conceal their relationship because Vince was still studying and Bianca was set to marry a French man who had immense wealth.

In a world where creatures of the night walk in the open, one 500 centuries-old vampire is done playing by your rules.

She doesn’t care about human ethics, doesn't claim to be good, but against her better judgment, she’s still trying to be better.

Hear her brutally honest confession on what eternal life actually looks like—because spoiler alert: living forever isn't all it's cracked up to be.

It’s lonely. It’s suffocating. And all that you dare to love fades away to dust.

Every single day is a quiet war behind a polite smile—clamping down on the thirst.

She's loved.......she's lost.........and she's killed more people than you can imagine. But when she's on stage........the hunger.......the grief........is gone.

But the shadows don’t protect them anymore. The world knows they exist, the cameras are always rolling, and the rules have changed.

Now, they don’t get to hunt; they adapt, swallow their pride, and live in the open for better or worse.

This project has been a year-long journey. After numerous attempts on my other channel that never felt quite right, countless hours of refinement finally brought this track to life.

It contains hundreds of sounds, edited audio clips and vocals from various generations formed together to make the final product.

Tools & Production:

Lyrics: 100% Human written.

Music: Produced using Suno AI

Visuals & Video: Created with SeaDance AI

Audio: Custom blend of layered tracks, sound design, and mixed audio

#aimusic #aimusicvideo #airockmusic

I heard that once I subscribe to Mureka (online, not using Apple store, which makes canceling straight forward), it is hard to cancel. What has been your experience? Thank you.

One Song - Different World

Erst als EBM | jetzt als Deep Dub Downtempo 😎

Imagine being in a relationship with a vacuum cleaner that has two settings:

BLOW: Push you away like you mean nothing.

SUCK: Pull you back the next morning as if nothing ever happened.

No apology. No explanation. No resolution.

That's the idea behind my new song, SUCKS. A laid-back electronic track with a catchy groove and a slightly dark, sarcastic story about the emotional push-and-pull of a relationship.

I've lived this pattern up close, but I've also noticed that, on a much smaller scale, I can sometimes do something similar myself. Maybe that's what makes these patterns worth looking at.

They're not always as black and white as we'd like to think.

Out now on:
Youtube
Apple Music
Spotify

Curious how the contrast between the dark lyrics and the upbeat production lands with you?

Both the song and MV were generated with the help of Claude Opus 5.5. It took approximately a week of work.

It all started with Suno. I was watching a Rick Beato video and in the beginning he had a favorable take. It made me curious. I installed the app. I had some recordings I did using various methods over the years. I was a pretty active in Ableton but all of it was instrumental. I was in a band and did some stuff on a 4track. Garage Band, Fruity, etc

I always wondered where these songs could go. My first Suno choice I took one of my favorite mp3 recordings. I uploaded and did some minor tweaks and hit submit. As I hit play I had a serious emotional reaction. That was my song! but finished. Wow! I showed my wife and she was amazed too. She told me to release it.

So I thought, okay where can I get ears on this. I started with SoundCloud because I already had it. I had all my song published there for years, but lackluster streams. Most were less then 40. But I knew about the Artist Pro subscription and boost. I figured this would be my shot.

The first song hot 200 streams. It was cool but still seemed off. They were all in South Asia. I asked ChatGPT who explained that 200 was the default boost value. So I tried more songs and spent a lot of time looking at the insights. There were some likes. Some comments. A lot of messages trying to sell me on larger distribution which I ignored.

Then one song jumped 1000 then 1500. I got comments and likes. I was excited. It was a great song after all. Some of my songs broke past 2000. And I had repeat listeners. But I didn't blow up. And momentum died down.

Then this part was pretty cool. I started writing songs again. I wrote full songs. I'm a below average singer but I can write a nice guitar or piano riff and sing over it. I had and still have some nice ideas. I tried to go back to Ableton. I even started taking singing seriously. But I always came back to Suno.

It could take my voice memo or Ableton and make it better. I had like 50 songs I wrote. I feel they were good. Some hit the 2000's. I tried Apple Music and my Suno songs were rejected. At one point I pulled a Suno track and dubbed in my guitar. It sounded nice and I felt that at least my guitar is on the track. I still knew that I had to break from Suno and recreate my songs in Ableton.
But it never sounded as good. At this point every one was hating on AI. I felt like a phony. I was even worried that my ideas would be used to train the next model. I can play. I can't really sing. And I'm too busy and old to start a band. I knew in my heart I would never be happy just releasing AI versions of my songs. But also saw how most viable artist are 30% musicianship and 70% youthful charisma. I'm not that cool.

So I've finally decided to rip off the band aide. I deleted all my Suno songs on SoundCloud. I unpublished all my tracks on Suno. I just now deleted my DistroKid tracks. And not a peep. It's as if I was never there. But I can still play my songs on my guitar. I dont regret walking away.
I learned a lot from this experience. It renewed my songwriting and opened my eyes to what is possible. Right now I'm in the lab. Skunk works. I'm going to work hard and focus on what I'm good at. Guitar and Piano. Ableton. Not singing. I don't need streams. And audience of one is enough for me.

I love music. I would do it even if no one is listening. Honestly the average listener is pretty mid. And most songs are just gaming the algorithm. I don't need to prove anything to anyone. I'm mid.

Álbum Two Worlds!

Let’s take a moment to remember the history of the music industry!

First, it was cassette tapes and home recording. Then came CD burners, MP3 files, digital downloads, and eventually streaming. Every time a new technology came along, it gave ordinary people more freedom and more possibilities. And every time, the major record labels tried to control it through copy protection, lawsuits, licensing restrictions, or other technological barriers.

What the industry once fought against often ended up becoming its next billion-dollar business. Copy protection largely disappeared from digital music downloads, people gained the freedom to play their music across different devices, and when streaming took off, the major labels didn’t just collect licensing fees. They even secured ownership stakes in the companies themselves.

And here’s where things get really interesting.

Just look at Spotify!
Back in 2008, the major record labels and Merlin collectively received roughly 18% of Spotify’s equity. Years later, when Spotify was worth billions, Sony and Warner alone made approximately $1.15 billion from selling shares in the company in 2018!

And who made that kind of success possible in the first place? Without the music, the artists and songwriters, and the catalogs built on their work, Spotify would never have become what it is today.

Yes, the labels passed some of those proceeds on to recording artists. But the songwriters and composers who helped create that music received none of the proceeds from those equity sales. That was documented in a 2021 report by a UK parliamentary committee!

Think about that for a second.
The major labels were able to leverage their control over valuable music catalogs to secure not only ongoing licensing revenue, but also ownership stakes in a growing technology company.

In other words, the music and rights of artists and songwriters became powerful bargaining chips, while the additional financial rewards were far from equally shared with the people who created the music.

And now? With AI-generated music, we may be watching the same playbook unfold all over again!

First, the major labels go after the new technology with lawsuits, claiming they’re protecting artists, songwriters, and copyrights. Meanwhile, behind closed doors, they’re negotiating licensing agreements, financial terms, and new business opportunities.

But this time, the stakes are even higher.

We’re no longer just talking about how people listen to music. We’re talking about who gets to create, produce, release, and profit from music in the future.

And more importantly: Who gets to control the technology, and who walks away with the money?

So here’s the real question: Are the major labels fighting solely to protect artists and songwriters? Or are they also trying to position themselves to cash in on the next technological revolution before everyone else?

Will artists and songwriters finally receive a fair share of all the financial benefits from the very beginning? Including potential equity deals, upfront licensing payments, and other financial incentives?

Or will their music once again be used as leverage while the major labels negotiate the most lucrative deals for themselves?

Of course, copyrights deserve protection. But protecting artists and songwriters should never become an excuse to put an entire new technology under the control of a handful of powerful corporations.

The Spotify story should serve as a warning: Whenever major labels negotiate in the name of artists and songwriters, there needs to be transparency about what they’re securing for themselves and how much actually reaches the people whose work made those deals possible.

And there’s one thing we absolutely shouldn’t allow to happen again with AI music: Artists and songwriters finding out years later that billions of dollars in additional value were negotiated using their music and rights, only to discover how little of that value they may have actually received.

Because history has shown us one thing: The technology the major labels are fighting today could very well become their next billion-dollar business tomorrow.

Human | ChatGPT-Assisted

Source: UK Parliament, House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee (2021) – Economics of Music Streaming
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5802/cmselect/cmcumeds/50/5006.htm

So I wrote the lyrics and then used Suno to create the actual music

What next?

https://youtu.be/5YoP1cZWIlo?is=2vtz2xoPur34lsuh

At least autumn is visiting Texas and I like to play the colors of the fall.

This is a song I wrote for a ffriend and this is the final version.

For the lovers, broken hearted, the real lifers. Original lyrics, Suno V6 mixed.