I'll Die Smiling (instrumental version)

Original track describes a search for that place of belonging, a search for the truth and bliss that can only be found in love, and a hunger that lasts until the day we die.

[ tags: piano guitar ballad dramatic ] [ genres: instrumental *none* ] [ info: wav ccbysa2.5 ]

I Created (instrumental version)

Original version playfully manages to ponder the meaning of life within the context of religion and love.

[ tags: acoustic playful headbobbing ] [ genres: acoustic instrumental ] [ info: wav ccbysa2.5 ]

Running Wild (instrumental version)

Original version of "Running Wild” features Abscondo’s more acoustic style with a song that was written hours after his daughter was born.

[ tags: ] [ genres: instrumental acoustic ] [ info: wav ccbysa2.5 ]

Different Future (instrumental version)

Original version describes the positive future that will eventually follow the financial and systemic crash that has already begun.

[ tags: dark dramatic uplifting ] [ genres: instrumental rock ] [ info: wav ccbysa2.5 ]

Victory in a Landlocked Sea (instrumental version)

Original version is the epic metaphorical title track. The song illustrates the insignificance of both our fear of the unknown and our desire for security by offering up the simple idea that “each moment is the only thing that ever means anything to me”. As if to prove this point, the album’s next few tracks sweep us away from ideas and into the moment.

[ tags: beat piano epic dramatic cinematic guitars ] [ genres: instrumental *none* ] [ info: wav ccbysa2.5 ]

Consciousness (instrumental version)

Original version describes an uneventful Saturday that is filled with the comforts and joys of love.

[ tags: acoustic piano uplifting joyful optimistic ] [ genres: industrial *none* ] [ info: wav ccbysa2.5 ]

Truth Is (instrumental version)

Original version is a more upbeat rock song celebrating the unique bliss that can only be found in a relationship that achieves both full honesty and unconditional acceptance.

[ tags: bells rock electric beat ] [ genres: instrumental *none* ] [ info: wav ccbysa2.5 ]

Forbidden Curiosities (instrumental version)

Original version reminds us that, even in the best relationship, this state is often temporary. It is easy to slip into moments of misunderstanding and loneliness.

[ tags: piano instrumental downtempo ] [ genres: instrumental *none* ] [ info: wav ccbysa2.5 ]

Lost in this Town (instrumental version)

Original version acknowledges the feeling that we are all alone in a world where we don’t always belong.

[ tags: instrumental piano acoustic drum ] [ genres: instrumental *none* ] [ info: wav ccbysa2.5 ]

The Frost (instrumental version)

Original version of “The Frost” offers a dark, dreamy soundscape that explores the pain felt by an artist who vividly perceives art and beauty just as real life relentlessly attempts to cloud that perception.

[ tags: dark acoustic ] [ genres: acoustic *none* ] [ info: wav ccbysa2.5 ]

Books Fall Apart (instrumental version)

Original version is a playful, melodic song celebrating how rare moments of beauty, love, bliss, and sunshine can so quickly and easily change all of our life structure and all of our life plans.

[ tags: piano ] [ genres: pop *none* ] [ info: wav ccbysa2.5 ]

86 Reasons Instrumental

The original version describes the scene at some Abscondo solo performance in a smoky bar

[ tags: acoustic drum melow ] [ genres: acoustic *none* ] [ info: wav ccbysa2.5 ]

Running Wild

The song I wrote the day my first and only child was born.

[ tags: acoustic baby child ] [ genres: acoustic indie ] [ info: wav ccbysa2.5 ]

The Frost

Downtempo acoustic track about an aging artist.

[ tags: acoustic artist ageing ] [ genres: acoustic indie ] [ info: wav ccbysa2.5 ]

Books Fall Apart

Lyrically-driven song backed by piano. This track describes the joy and beauty of change in our lives.

[ tags: piano singersongwriter ] [ genres: vocal *none* ] [ info: wav ccbysa2.5 ]

Truth Is

Celebrating the bliss that comes with complete, unconditional honesty in a relationship.

[ tags: happiness truth honesty joy ] [ genres: rock *none* ] [ info: wav ccbysa2.5 ]

Consciousness

Tender love song about an uneventful Saturday.

[ tags: ] [ genres: acoustic indie ] [ info: wav ccbysa2.5 ]

I Created

Upbeat song about life meaning, touching on the topics of religion and love.

[ tags: ] [ genres: acoustic indie ] [ info: wav ccbysa2.5 ]

Victory in a Landlocked Sea

Dramatic, metaphorical song about life, experiences, and the limits we too-often impose on ourselves.

[ tags: piano acoustic water sea sailboat ] [ genres: indie *none* ] [ info: wav ccbysa2.5 ]

86 Reasons

Smoky, drunken bar...drinking song describing a solo concert.

[ tags: numbers love drunk smoke romance bar ] [ genres: acoustic indie ] [ info: wav ccbysa2.5 ]

Forbidden Curiosities

“Forbidden Curiosities” reminds us that, even in the best relationship, the state of bliss is often temporary. It is easy to slip into moments of misunderstanding and loneliness.

[ tags: dark piano slow sexy ] [ genres: pop indie ] [ info: wav ccbysa2.5 ]

I'll Die Smiling

[ tags: life reflective serious nostalgia ] [ genres: pop indie ] [ info: mp3 ccbysa2.5 ]

Lost In This Town

“Lost in this Town” acknowledges the feeling that we are all alone in a world where we don’t always belong.

[ tags: piano acoustic lost catchy ] [ genres: pop indie ] [ info: wav ccbysa2.5 ]

Different Future

“Different Future” describes the positive future that will eventually follow the financial and systemic crash that has already begun.

[ tags: piano acoustic colorful pleasant ] [ genres: pop indie ] [ info: wav ccbysa2.5 ]

Strangled Into Gray

An anthem about the personal struggle against the forces of conformity.

[ tags: teachers preachers doctors anticonformist ] [ genres: acoustic indie ] [ info: 3:40 mp3 ccbysa2.5 ]

Tattoo Angel

A seductive song about a woman whose tattoo is taken as a symbol of her fleeting youth.

[ tags: fun cafe youth tattoo passion carefree ] [ genres: acoustic folk ] [ info: 3:04 mp3 ccbysa2.5 ]

Midnight Snow

This is the title track from the album "Midnight Snow". This track is about the pain that inevitably follows many of life's most beautiful experiences, symbolized by the departure of a lover.

[ tags: rain pain love loss snow beauty ] [ genres: acoustic orchestral ] [ info: 3:49 mp3 ccbysa2.5 ]

Buyer Beware

A song that celebrates giving in to someone despite the fact that there can be no tomorrow.

[ tags: seduction relationship affair ] [ genres: acoustic indie ] [ info: 5:00 mp3 ccbysa2.5 ]

Candle Glow

Intimate, quiet song about those dark, sacred, beautiful nights set to perfect music and candle-light. Candle Glow is about finding the courage to embrace such experiences in the midst of, and despite of, our daily struggles.

[ tags: candle flame intimacy bliss pleasure ] [ genres: acoustic downtempo ] [ info: 4:03 mp3 ccbysa2.5 ]

Morning Rain

A melodic song about waking up to a dreary, gray morning of routines and responsibilities. "Morning Rain" celebrates our individual struggles against those necessary aspects of life which tend to leave us forgetting to notice life's beauty and inspiration.

[ tags: rain alarm clock work boredom struggle ] [ genres: acoustic folk ] [ info: 3:04 mp3 ccbysa2.5 ]

Beneath The Lies

A laid-back, soft, melodic rant against the forces of oppression and the forces against basic human dignity. A reminder that we all want the same basic freedoms and we all know what's right.

[ tags: human freedom rights dignity respect ] [ genres: acoustic indie ] [ info: 2:30 mp3 ccbysa2.5 ]

Footprint

An ambient yet rhythmic song about how frustrating and sickening it can be to understand the damage we are doing to the planet as cancer-like humans.

[ tags: green environmental anticonsumerist ] [ genres: acoustic ambient ] [ info: 3:41 mp3 ccbysa2.5 ]

Dreamscape

A melodic rant against ignorance, conformity, and oppression which suggests the importance of finding one's own voice and space in the world.

[ tags: anticonformity antioppression anticorporate ] [ genres: acoustic folk ] [ info: 3:37 mp3 ccbysa2.5 ]

Sentiment

[ tags: sentimental memories longing ] [ genres: acoustic folk ] [ info: 4:17 mp3 ccbysa2.5 ]