While working on my apps, I often take breaks from writing code or working through the user interface design and I wander over to my Yamaha PSR-S770 keyboard and play some original instrumental pop music (in an AꓭBA / Benny Andersson inspired style). Sometimes I come up with new song ideas, other times I play some of my older songs. I’ve been doing this for a long time and last year I reached my 100th original song! It is a very enjoyable hobby. I have tried to record my music to share with others as multi-track songs with a variety of instrument sounds in various ways through the years and never was quite satisfied with how the recordings turned out.
Last year I released my new album: “Journey” on SoundCloud with 10 brand new instrumental songs using some new recording and mixing techniques. It includes “Wonderful Memories”, “Journey”, “At The Fair”, “When I Think Of You”, “All My Love”, “The Story Has Only Begun”, “Standing In The Rain”, “Heartbreak”, “Lonely Nights”, and (my 100th song) “Give It My All”! I was so happy with how they sounded that I also went back and remastered, remixed, and re-recorded my 2020 and 2021 songs: “When This Is Over”, “Nowhere To Run”, “Autumn Breeze”, “Winter Night”, and “Solitude” using the new techniques. I also decided to finally launch a new Music section right here on my website to help people discover my songs. I hope you have been enjoying them.
This summer I dragged my Yamaha PSR-S770 keyboard into my office, connected it up to my iMac and fired up GarageBand to work on my 2019 album: “Wake Me Up” which includes 8 instrumental songs: “Wake Me Up”, “All The Time”, “Send My Love To You”, “Yesterday”, “Once Upon A Time”, “Long Ago”, “The Way To My Heart” and “Dreamland”. They came out so well that I decided to keep going on this project and also remastered, remixed, and re-recorded my 2018 album “Ancient History” which includes 10 instrumental songs: “Ancient History”, “After All This Time”, “Play That Song Again”, “Still In Love With You”, “Happily Ever After All”, “In The Blink Of An Eye”, “Falling Rain”, “Under The Harvest Moon”, “As Another Day Goes By” and “Through All The Years”.
Today I’m happy to announce that I am releasing the 18 songs (one per day) in reverse order going from 2019 starting with “Dreamland” back through 2018 with “Ancient History” joining the 2023 album and 2021 and 2020 singles for a total of 33 songs (a little over 2 hours of music). This has been such a fun project and I really hope that you enjoy listening to the songs as much as I have enjoyed working on them. I hope to continue to go back and do this with all of my previous albums and singles.
As always, it is your support and encouragement that keeps me going. If you enjoy my music, please consider hitting the Support button and sending any amount you can via PayPal (no amount is too large or small) and please share the link to my songs with anyone you know who might also enjoy them. Every bit helps and it is greatly appreciated.
I am continuing with my experiments on new and improved features for my Finance and iKeeper apps and I have already designed new app icon variants earlier this summer to support the new dark mode and tinted icons in iOS / iPadOS 18 - so that is ready to go whenever my next app updates are ready.
As with my music, if you know anyone with a Mac, iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch that could use my apps, please let them know where to find them either through my website or directly on the App Store. It is greatly appreciated.