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Songlet — 28may25
28May25 | 07.43 CDT
© 2025
michael raven
c: 250528.0743
Photo by Anthony Roberts on Unsplash
I was trying to locate some old files to see if I could recreate a song that I never finished to… get around to finishing it.
The only problem (if I could find the files) is that they were possibly recorded using an obsolete DAW (digital audio workbench): either a much older Cakewalk or via Sony Acid (which I abused and made into a DAW when it was really just a loop manager) file. It was a song that was mostly done except for the vocal tracks and some management of song structure, but it might be lost and I’ll have to recreate it from scratch if I can figure out just what the heck I did ten or more years ago [Update: Found it! It is only six years old and I have the compatible files. Now I just have to decide if I want to modify it or keep it as-is.]
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tagged:
ancient history, DAW, experimentation, music exploration, old school goth, post punk, songs of two minutes or less
filed under:
listening, songlets
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Songlet — 28may25
desert undressing
27May25 | 13.37 CDT
© 2025
michael raven
c: 250527.1337
Photo by Dave Hoefler on Unsplash
```
desert undressing
her dune shifting sand
under night chill waxing
painted in badland tone
she slips beneath shadows
of her whispered song
longing to hold you
to her heart
```
tagged:
poetry
filed under:
poetry, writing
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desert undressing

c: 250526.2204

all at grindylow
and howling moon
with the wind
bash this smash this
burning head
towards the in

my fingers spark
flint like iron
my heart burns
at blood within
all at grindylow
and howling moon
with the wind

tagged:

betwixt and between, poetry

filed under:

poetry, writing

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all at grindylow

regret in rear

26May25 | 03.06 CDT

michael raven

c: 250526.0306

regret the mirror ugly
spider cracked look back
past pig gaping jaw
to claw that face off
fade skies out black
we break everything
until there is only empty

tagged:

melancholia, poetry

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poetry, writing

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regret in rear

full song | “again” [updated]
25May25 | 20.56 CDT
© 2025
michael raven
c: 250525.2056
Photo by Peter Herrmann on Unsplash
NOTE: It seems that iOS dislikes most audio files. I have replaced the audio file with one coded in .MP3, so let me know if there are still issues on your platform of choice.
Happy Sunday evening (or Monday morning) to you all.
Quite possibly against my best interests considering that I am coming out a bit with a truly frightening prospect for anyone who knows: a full song recording that I’ve been working on with some bloke I know named Michael singing. He’s not the best singer out there, but hopefully his contribution to this composition was at least serviceable.
As you know, when time permits, I’ve been working on trying to work on getting a few music snippets out that play with a modified 80s-era post-punk sound influenced primarily by early Cure and Joy Division, with hints of all of the other bands from that era to more modern bands like The Eden House and Kælan Mikla. More than just playing around with sound, I felt I should finally commit to making a full song.
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tagged:
again, darkwave, full song, music exploration, post punk
filed under:
full songs, listening
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full song | “again” [updated]