2: Ethereal and Alternatives

This song is the second I’ve completed, about the 4-5th I’ve worked on, for what I’ll consider an upcoming album - probably in reality, more like 2026…. EEEKKKK!!!

Life’s a Carousel - Spinning slow, spinning fast

If I could say anything, it’s all about the ups and downs of life, and how life just keeps going, with or without you.

This song is in Bm - and even though there are different styled sectioned - the chords always go: Bm - G - D - A

1: The Great Exhale

I was working on a song called Cyclical Meloncholy - which also was shortened to Cm, to represent it actually being in C minor. This was something I had floating around since 2020, in some epic Pink Floyd type synth rock tune. It had a little melody and some words, but nothing sat right with me, so it was shelved for years and years - circling back to clean up sounds and eq, but never to add anything else or change it.

Talking to a friend, he asked if I still had any interest in reworking it, for the potential future release compilation of some stuff, but the hook, it had to have ska…. So, I sat a bit, listened to my 5 year old unfinished section, and the ska / upbeat part just clicked. Disclaimer: this is where I became the jerk, because I was so motivated with how it was progressing, I reworked the entire song structure, incorporating the ska, but also redoing all the lyrics and melodies - which mean cutting my original up into different sections and building all new.

It shifted then from Cyclical Meloncholy to The Great Exhale, and the first song of my TBD album is near finished - needs minor mixing and mastering…