instrumental: mediafire.com/file/1ou46w7egc0i5tx/swim_%2528instrumental%2529.mp3/filereplacer + koa - unicycle groove [ponies at dawn: blossom]replacer2024-05-15 | Thanks Koa for unicyclin' with me. We worked on the song here and there between November 2023 and February, and then in keeping with that spirit, also collabed on the artwork!
Almost off the bat, we agreed on aiming for something disco-y featuring Izzy Moonbow. I dusted off one of my rough demos and we shared production roughly equally. We discussed splitting lyrical duties but in the end Koa took care of business.
Lyrics: [Verse 1] Hi friend! I hope you don’t mind me stoppin’ by Just thought You looked a little misty in the eyes If it’s okay I’d like to help you out today What do you say?
[Pre-Chorus 1] Let’s suss out this rusty-dusty mess Seems like you got a block up in your head (It’s true I’m just a little blue Stuck in a rut, don’t know what to do) I can think of a couple things To bring back the bling, if you know what I mean (I’m really not sure that I do) Well, let Izzy walk you through:
[Chorus] Oh – fluff out the feathers Get in the flow – shake out the glitter Lettin’ it go – splashin’ the color We’re gonna break that cycle Ooh – stitch in the sequins It’s up to you – craft out your feelin’s Doodly doo – a new kind of healin’ Get in the u-ni-cycle Groove
[Post Chorus] Get in the groove Show me ya moves Get in the u-ni-cycle Groove Get in the groove Show me ya moves Get in the unicycle groove
[Verse 2] (Hey, so Not that I don’t appreciate it, but I’m not The most experienced with all this stuff What if what I make Amounts to nothing more than a mistake? What if it breaks?!)
[Pre-Chorus 2] Well, then We’ll pick up the pieces, work together To make something new, ‘cause it’s whatever You don’t need to fret, it’s good to make To make for just creation’s sake (I only wish that I could trust That I’m not gonna mess it up!) There’s nothing wrong at all, my friend With happy little accidents!
- Who's that pony? It's Star Sapphire! She's a character of mine. If you know my music then you already met her, here and there. She was a bit nonplussed about Happy giving her a nickname.
- Is this going to be a thing? It might be! I've got a setting/AU in mind for these chars (ancient Equestria) which could be nice to spend more time in.
- Is this song about an artist called Saphy? Nope, it's just a funny coincidence, but shout out regardless saphypone.carrd.co
So I wanted to push myself a bit on this and arrange the song with a bit more of an edge than I might have done in the past with a composition like this. There's a lot for me to learn about electronic production, but I think I made it work.
Lyrics: hey Saphy, don't you know that sound? this world is gonna spin around hey Saphy, don't you know that sound? this world is gonna spin around and when you're lyin' on the ground it's gonna turn around with you and one day you'll be cyan next you'll be flyin' in the blue
hey Saphy, don't you know that sound? this world is gonna spin you round hey Saphy, don't you know that sound? this world is gonna bring you down and when you've hit the ground I'm coming back around for you and when I see you cryin' I'll take you flyin' in the blue
hey Saphy, don't you know that sound? this world is gonna spin around and when you've hit the ground I'm coming back around for you 'cause you won't know the answer and then you'll be cryin' and you're gonna lose until you're tired of tryin' and then you'll laugh and I'll take you flyin' in the bluereplacer - pink lemonade [ chiptune | jazz | v1.1 ]replacer2023-11-17 | originally on Ponies at Dawn: Pandemonium poniesatdawn.bandcamp.com/album/pandemonium
I've made a few adjustments and tightened up the mix a little. Hope you enjoy!replacer - star sapphire in space [synthwave]replacer2023-10-19 | From ASoS Doughnut album astateofsugar.bandcamp.com/album/doughnutreplacer - by the mirror pool [generative ambient]replacer2023-09-19 | just a little analog synth bath for your ears. A bit different to the usual (even for this channel) but you might enjoy regardless :)
originally released here: balloonparty.bandcamp.com/album/everfree-park-after-hoursreplacer - where the trees dare not grow [dark forest waltz]replacer2023-09-07 | My submission to Balloon Party 5! 'Everfree Park Rangers: Woodland Guide' is about a collection of strange things you might find in the Everfree Forest.
Lyrics: should you stray from the path whisper the stars
where blue flowers softly glow and the trees dare not grow
wait silently here enchanting and clear try not to fear
the old world drawing near the ancient well of seers
under moonlight so much older magic so much colder that the scars still remain alicornic and arcane
shadows play on the hill music holding you still you'll take your fill
from the cracks they spill reflections of the willreplacer - rainbow lemonade [lofi/chill]replacer2023-08-13 | Originally released on VibePoniez: Downtown vibeponiez.bandcamp.com/album/downtown
From my submission to P@D: Zenith in May 2022. This track was a bit of an exploratory thing I guess, looking for ways to improve and develop. At the time I was interested in keeping drums to a minimum, which made the arrangement kind of floaty and surreal.
The title is a callback to 'Just A Dream' on my Birdhorse EP, so I decided to make the artwork similar too.
Lyrics: you know there might be trouble looking over my head don't like the struggle i'll pick another instead
you're so hard to follow i don't really know what i'm breathing there's something hollow over the edge of my wing i see a new thing
you're telling me all of it's allowed you have to blunder through somehow let me help you show yourself around with all these colours that you found
don't you think it's hard to know what's wrong when you're still not playing where you belong it's something in the harmony leading me round to another adventure sound
my heart keeps running away with me
now we're a little fire a little further astray could be a little higher why do you pull me away
you're gonna see me one day
i'm telling you all of it's allowed you have to blunder through somehow that you may continue to astound with all these planets that you've found
don't you think it's hard to know what's wrong when you still don't see the place you belong it's something in the harmony leading me round to another adventure soundreplacer - always meant to know [baroque pop]replacer2023-05-22 | Ponies at Dawn Aurora: poniesatdawn.bandcamp.com/album/aurora
From november 2021; at the time I was really pleased with this song's chord progression and stately pace. I used a little bit of vocal synthesis to add some subtle harmonies under the vocal melody, and did my best to imitate the sound of a theremin. I enjoyed painting this twily to go with it also, and I don't mind the result too much, feels like I've got a chance to progress a lot more from here
Lyrics: step by step by step uncertainly you have to make it all go perfectly prick your ears and peer internally beneath the fading light so tenderly
it sparkles around you like you've never known it what can you see now waiting down below it who might you hear then, daring you to show it
things that you were always meant to show that may not seem inviting till you go
and then you'll grow to see the reason for your love you were always meant to glow you were always meant to know
spell by spell there's no denying it because of you the earth has light in it you anxious hero of the sciences who works too hard and sulks defiantly
as voices about you call for concentration instruments lost in your imagination magic requires your full participation
seeing how all the threads are meant to flow they may not seem exciting till you go
Another song from a while back. Chords and bits of melody written by me; lyrics and most of the production by Oricorn; famitracker stuff by me. I made this animation by shoving the song through an x/y oscilloscope and then faffing with geometry nodes in blender
Lyrics: lets go out grab a pasta dinner for two talk about you and I it's do or die
feelin something deep, tell me what do I do [wanna be the one for you] i was healing in my sleep, i was cut into two [question the things that i knew] i wanna tell you why you mean the world to me [think about all the things that i like about you (yes i do)] so I think about your love
(and i really want)
[more more more ma-more] i just want more give me more [ma-ma-ma-ma-more] i just want more give me more [more more more ma-more] i just want more give me more [more more more more more more more more more!]
like the way you take control like the way you always know just what to say keep the bad thoughts away [make me take it slow] but that's not the way that i'm wired you just suck all the o2 out of my fire
[it's a new dawn it's a new day and I]
(and I really want)
[more more more ma-more] i just want more give me more [ma-ma-ma-ma-more] i just want more give me more [more more more ma-more] i just want more give me more [more more more more more more more more more!]
feeling so warm and so lost and it's nice sometimes pulling me all into pieces and makin em better and i'm so alive with the wind in my hair no idea where we're going now and i know that i can't keep playing much longer i'm shaking and there's only one word i can say anymore
more more more more more i just want more more more more more [i just want more i just want more i just want more]
i just really want more i want more give me more i want more give me more i want more give me more
i just really want more i just want more give me more i just want more give me more i just want more give me more i just want more give me more yeah i just want more give me morereplacer - someday [v1.1] [chiptune instrumental]replacer2022-12-06 | poniesatdawn.bandcamp.com/album/oceansong Download this version at replacer.bandcamp.com/track/someday-v11
My track from Ponies at Dawn: Oceansong (2021), but it's newly mixed with some small tweaks and additions. Artwork drawn by me in clip studio paintreplacer + oricorn - the looking glass [ remastered | animation ]replacer2022-10-29 | hi i'm back
Oh dear lots of catching up to do here. To make up for the hiatus, here's an animation to go with this song, which you may have heard on A State of Sugar last year. The song itself has also been given a fresh coat of paint by my collaborator oricorn, aka juice box
Produced by replacer and oricorn Mixed by oricorn Lyrics by replacer and oricorn Animated cube texture by oricorn, using Max4live Cube choreography and mirror maze by replacer using blender and an rtx card
Lyrics: take a look, what do you see?
it's a little late to say good night (little late to say goodnight) never goad your friends from such a height (make sure that they're alright) did we to go to sleep or go to war? (what did we do again?) looks like we split the difference completely, and woke up on the floor
so now, it's getting hard to look away who's in the looking glass today? is there somebody you should know that you'd like to meet some rainy autumn day?
when you're alive, it can be lonely (...) everyone's tired when you look closely (take a closer look) do what you can, say what you need to (do it by the book) and if you want, we will believe you ('cause i got faith)
so now, it's getting hard to look away who's in the looking glass today? is there somebody you should know that you'd like to meet some rainy autumn day?replacer - A Sorceress Girl [sgap cover]replacer2020-12-21 | um, yes. replacer.bandcamp.com/album/a-sorceress-girl-sgap-cover
Lyrics:
many a waltz spun awkwardly out of the rain she was an anxious refrain
taking your time with the imperceptible beautiful myths of becoming-animal wasp to orchid, orchid to the winter regress to move towards lesser difference
memories of a sorceress girl endless fascination with the secrets of the world dreams of the youth, those cute little movements darling, emit and combine particles - signs that transform a body into flame
so tell me that this love is all we are this simple story, this carousel we're on a little magic, a different kind of spark our glassy essence just floating in the dark it's how you taught us to conjure up a little kindness to take inside our hearts our will to power, together not apart trace of the Other - a truly modern art!
all that you are and all that you'll be is harmony darling, walk with me
a kind voice, a gentle face a friend who vanished without a trace a blue body, an illusionist on stage
twitcha-twitcha, can you stop a moment? what does Hegel mean by Absolute Spirit? so much love, you are!
this is the place for us, the place for us make this the place we love or learn to love to join our separate lines, to seize and multiply endless assembly line extracting from you
comb your hair, smooth your dress, tidy up smile for us clear your throat, take a breath, giddy up smile for us
Virgo, go on and on a herdsman and the hunting dogs Leo, Andromeda Equuleus and Pegasus
memories of a sorceress girl endless fascination with the secrets of the world
this one's a chemist this one's a friend of mine this one's an actress this one's named Pinkie Pie this one's for kindness this one can really fly this one's my favourite
closing upon our mutual love it'sreplacer - high & dryreplacer2020-12-05 | Okay well as if this year wasn't enough, rumour has it there's another whole year starting right after this one... but you're gonna make it c:
LYRICS i've been watching you i think i've seen your soul before it was not in tune and the sound was not delightful and we were lying on the cellar floor nothing easy to describe but we took things another way inside the tide
seems as if something's not turning out it's hard to know what you never recorded look in the mirror ready for nothing do you see something under the water would you go slowly if you go faster ready or not you better take notice be understanding go when the weather's dry we'll get high and dry in the sky
i've been doing more was there something i was digging for how do i stop the fire you may be thinking i'm a liar but it's possible i'm just in time and nobody would believe that there's another way that we can be entwinedreplacer - season infinityreplacer2020-05-30 | therestofourlives.bandcamp.com
did you talk to me? i always had trouble with speech. i guess i don't mind you hovering...always hovering somewhere, just out of reach, on some other side...on some other side? chasing butterflies under pearlescent skies, gazing through me with glowing blue eyes fixed on episode three, season infinity, darkening all you can see - always a puzzle to me. or were you singing? (i know that we're bound to descend) i bet you'll be good at it soon, or maybe you could start to pretend! pull against the tide...pull against the tide? strap in for the ride, seldom demoralised. oh, i could accompany you, if you can hear the sound. claiming your section of the frequency spectrum with a robot like me...it's a reasonable fantasy. but no one and nothing is free. chances are, it'll be just fine, to be.30.5.2020 | The Rest of Our Lives [compilation album]replacer2020-05-26 | therestofourlives.bandcamp.com/album/the-rest-of-our-lives
on 30.5.2020 at 6PM UTC !replacer - passing by [VIP]replacer2020-05-24 | This was a special track I put together fairly quickly for Ponies at Dawn: Echoes, and I thought it would be nice to spend a little more time on a unique version to put here. Whether you prefer the more spontaneous feel of the original or this slightly more intricate version is up to you :)
simple little idea that ended up being kind of complicated to execute. sent it in a little while ago to the ponies at dawn album which came out last week c: been a little busy so it's taken me longer than normal to upload here. if you're reading this, thanks for being here!
LYRICS: don't awaken me there's no hurry nowhere to go let me stay here
here in this room full of secrets where i can play i'd be approving
if i can stay by the window and be in harmony with myself
that would be nice very peaceful i like the view why should there be
somewhere to be so early i don't agree with this notion
stay in my house i don't quite remember
way out above the house beyond the hill there was a pegasus boy who used to sing of the absurdity of his mind and so reluctant to be confined to something serious
and he would laugh and venture down to sit inside the gallery hall stay by the wall and try to paint what he couldn't see and accidentally conjured me by some coincidence
and how I was alive and how my soul came crashing out of the void I didn't question it, I thought it would be unkind it's just the way that I was designed, that's why I went with it
don't awaken me we're still flying
and all the creatures there below us may be dying
don't say a word i won't listen
down in the atrium that pegasus is trying
to slip away does this all the time
i know i'll see him when his business is concluded
happy to wait here that will be fine
and when it's over there will come a sudden moment
when i will gather all the poetry and painting
and all the waters will go quiet and remarkably clear
that's how i know that i can stay unreservedly undefined, forever far away
oh the days of silence a still and soft defiance is still in here within me hills and plains so windy
the salt and shape of seabirds another shade of blue another playful moment that i don't quite remember rememberreplacer - pony is dead, long live ponyreplacer2019-10-09 | poniesatdawn.bandcamp.com/album/eternal ⬅ download This album is also available on CD with beautiful artwork by Holivi :)
Lyrics: bring it up, bring it up as you do takin your time to wake up work out a time to make up
is nothing dragging on you you were in school for real didn't you know the deal
don't you lose your head lyin in your bed thinkin pony is dead
don't you lose your smile let the code compile make it worth your while
giddy up racehorse number five wing by those sunset skies for ever you better do something clever 'bout dreamin' on
oh, old faded blue you've got to get it together cause you can see yourself and you're so badly drawn
don't be in your head bake a cake instead be a quadruped
break into your song do the whole thing wrong be a place to belong
some trace still lingers in the air and speaking softly you can hear the wonder in your lonely voice you are presented with a choice
a dash of colour in your eye flash of magenta in the sky tells you as words fall off your pen your time will come along again
reality is coming all undone but maybe you can save someone if you learn how to have some fun in your own world and raise the sun
so pegasus, keep singing that old song a splash of colour and it's gone but not for you and not for long
don't you lose your head lyin in your bed thinkin pony is dead
break into your song do the whole thing wrong be a place to belong
you know it's gone but not for long
so long as you remember the magic there’s something that never ends there’s life it doesn’t have to be perfect as long as you have your friends and take good care of you as you go on your adventures and don’t be afraid to smile your time will come along again come along againReplacer - Never Diereplacer2019-04-27 | It's ponies at dawn time! Download: poniesatdawn.bandcamp.com/album/skyward
This was completed prior to my (surprisingly recent) previous upload, and was a bit of a palate reset for me after the big weird project that Soul turned out to be. Chancing a look backwards as we wander into a world of unknowns...
Lyrics: There's someone that we knew Before we all grew older And never far from you She's resting on your shoulder She taught us how to fly And to paint the world in colour And to look them in the eye And be good to one another
If ever you're in need of help Look up into the sky The magic travels on and on And light will never die You don't need her to save you now As you remember why The elements of shadow pass you by
She doesn't want to go Though times are ever changing But she will have you know Her colours are not fading And she always will be there Look up into the sky And if ever you're in need of help The light will never die
CHORUS (The light) Don't lose your light The moon is bright May it light up your night And make you feel alright Don't lose the light Don't be afraid to just be you And don't believe the lies And do the things you do Don't lose the light
(on and on and on..)
There's someone that we knew Before we all grew older And never far from you She's resting on your shoulder And she always will be there Look up into the sky And if ever you're in need of help The light will never die
CHORUS
Look up into the sky The light can never dieReplacer - Everything Is Donereplacer2019-04-21 | Inspired by twitter.com/dogbomb1
Lyrics: everything is one, look at me all those days are gone, hopefully fade into the blue, seems to be everything is fine, don't you see always there in time, eventually even something new, luckily
do it all over again even taller and faster and wider till
everything is done (oh how you'll go on) hope that you have fun and smile when you think of me running on the seashore and sleeping in the sun until everything is done
every day is new, watch for me so much more to do, seems to be glowing all around, hopefully everything is fine, suitably waking up in time, don't you see all the stuff I found, wants you to
live it all over again even taller and faster and wider till
everything is pure (like never before) and maybe find the cure I think that those gentle waves that I feel around me are rolling up the shore and it's just a moment moreReplacer - Soulreplacer2019-02-04 | DOWNLOAD: replacer.bandcamp.com/album/soul
So I'm excited to finally present something I've been tinkering with for some time, in fact this was begun immediately after Still No Words with the intention of following reasonably close on its heels but I got stuck trying to figure out how to turn the idea into a full song in a satisfying way, so it ended up on the backburner for a while. Eventually I was able to figure out some kind of shape for the whole thing, which turned out to be kind of huge. I was even considering making it into some kind of EP release, but settled on just having it be one big song. Please do let me know what you think! I hope it takes you on an adventure as fun as the one I had trying to get it done.
LYRICS: Do you feel the endless motion Far beneath the earth while you are sleeping Dream if you want to Let your eyes grow dull and heavy You may peer into the darkness Gaze into the endless motion
There is something in the moonlight High above your head and all around you Sing if you want to Time will call you back and back again Are you sure you know the melody Stay in everlasting motion
Enrobed in light and full of splendour A further course now shall you take You may venture into darker atmospheres And you will know us when you wake
But you have to play your role It’s understood the things that you’ll do Cannot be foretold But nonetheless a great many things Are in our control And if we were to show you them all It could make you whole If only you’d give us your soul
Inside a dusky palace courtyard She tries to find a melody She tends to think she’s all alone there And wishes somebody could see
The heat is wearing down the piano keys The strings are rusting as the sand comes in It’s like a dream how fast the music changed The story can’t be heard above the wind
But something’s there behind her eyelids A sense of darkness in the air And voices singing deep inside her head Too late to help but not to share
The regent asks too many questions The servants drink and talk of bills to pay And in the courtyard there is happiness For she has lived to dream another day
Used to be so cold And now the measure of the secrets you know Is something to behold Do you wonder how the life that was hers looks so dim and old you only need to do one more thing To let it all unfold You just have to give us your soul
We thank you for your contribution It’s very luminous and warm You’ll be prepared for more instructions And bring the rest into the swarmReplacer - Still No Wordsreplacer2018-09-29 | poniesatdawn.bandcamp.com/album/enigma - fantastic as always, go get it
Trying a few things out here. Thinking about surf rock and that slightly spaghetti western vibe (which I've dabbled in a little bit before) but just blending it with a post-apocalyptic wasteland type of ambience...Thinking of doing more of this cause I did enjoy the process. Also drew my pone in a vault suit just cause. Thanks for listening, stay excellent 💙Replacer - Hello Commanderreplacer2018-04-27 | Downloads: replacer.bandcamp.com/album/hello-commander-single
Say hello to the commander in your life today!
Lyrics: hello, commander can you hear me i'm reading you loud and clear it's been a long time you've got to get yourself in gear
oh hello i know that you missed me but i haven't been feeling well i'm sorry i'll have to be strong do you still look up to me we'll have to see only time will tell
keep on turning, don't know if we're learning anything at all but I think that we will be alright it's a trial, been waiting for a while just to hear from you but I think that we will be alright
i'll be like you we'll be good friends whatever we do
hello, commander reading you loud and clear hello, commander there's no need to live in fear
hello, commander it's a nice day it's really safe to go outside we could get together we won't know till we've tried
oh hello i wish i could see you now if only to wish you well it's funny this feels so much better it's been an honour you know where shall i go only time will tell
oh well, commander maybe next timeReplacer & P1K - Sky Blues ☁️replacer2018-03-04 | It's that time again!
Had a blast working with P1K on this, I think we worked really well together and came up with something neither of us would have done working separately. I wanted to do something bluesy and he came up with 'sky blues' in reference to the fact both of our characters are blue and we went from there :P
Thanks again to the P@D crew for putting together a great album as usual and taking me along for the ride ^^
Lyrics: the night falls hard on sunken dreams the sorry splendor rots and gleams patrons bark and angels jeer the band plays loud and they don't hear
all they love is black and white don't see the color of the light lost their spirit and bled their souls with crimson shovels digging holes
oh you know I don't really wanna live in this strange world I need somebody beside me to live in this strange land I need somebody to hide me away from these cruel times don't tell me to hold out for a miracle I've been here for so long somebody just come and take me where the skies are blue when you just want to fly away it's the sky blues
men and horses line the street corrupted lives left incomplete afraid of shadows on the wall cast by the fingers of the tall
suits of power, white and black bring velvet ruin on their backs and through the laughter and the moans it’s just the thieves that feel at home
oh you know I don't really wanna live in this strange world I need somebody beside me to live in this strange land I need somebody to hide me away from these cruel times don't tell me to hold out for a miracle I've been here for so long somebody just come and take me where the skies are blue when you just want to fly away it's the sky blues
I need to get higher high above and far away keep the clouds so dark and grey below me
I need to get farther and find a place to start again to laugh at jokes and play pretend I wonder where you are
I'm empty and floating like I'm deep in space away from every kind of place come find me
but sadly the feeling ends, I'm falling now I'm fading back into the crowd I've only come so far
the band is tired, their throats are dry but still they play, I wonder why they see those shadows on the wall the cracks run deep as pieces fall
can we divine a better end and be a better kind of friend if not I doubt we shall survive I just want the truth to come alive
and I sure don’t really wanna live in this strange world I need somebody beside me to live in this strange land I need somebody to hide me away from these cruel times don't tell me to hold out for a miracle I've been here for so long somebody just come and take me where the skies are blue when you just want to fly away it's the sky bluesBlue Christmasreplacer2017-12-25 | If you're reading this, chances are this year took a bit out of you. Thoughts going out to everybody who's having a blue christmas, whatever the reason, and wishing you all the very best for 2018.
A forgotten story of many eons ago, when the Elements were still unrefined. Through them a different sort of order was kept in the land of Equestria, but there were some who clung to the truth, however briefly.
LYRICS: For over thirty years just to keep us living peacefully They made us all wear the same smile that was never there Came to one afternoon, discovering my mind was free That was when she found me, the very first to learn to care
We trust the paper lady and we're giving it hell But every day there's less of us evading the spell
Chorus: We heard the paper lady gave you something to do Guess it means you're gonna be a ladybird too I need to ask you something, will your answer be true We don't know what to make of what they said about you
Seems they were hearing something in your voice on the phone That drew them to the elements for reasons unknown We're hoping you're remembering it's your job alone To stop the senators of starlight taking you as their own
We'd tried so many times to get our hooves on the elements, Six unholy gems born of the alicorns of yesteryear No one but the paper lady knew where the senators Were keeping them, she got us in, we took them and we brought them here
Another falls to the senators' peace The whispers in my head are never going to cease Sitting looking up at the stars every night Now I don't quite remember why I wanted to fight
Chorus
I volunteered myself to take the elements home Turned in the paper lady, did it all on my own Now I know for sure that things are how they should be, I can surely say the senators of starlight are weReplacer - Blue Zooreplacer2017-06-24 | Grab P@D Guardians here: poniesatdawn.bandcamp.com/album/guardians
Well P@D always manages to drag me out of hiatus mode to get new music out. Huge thanks to them as always! So this is just a silly instrumental I started one weekend in a rare fit of desire to test my limited facility with the guitar, after listening to a lot of Esquivel songs. I think it is the closest I've come to making electro swing, and this pleases me greatly.New P@D Album Promo [Releases June 23rd!]replacer2017-06-20 | I'm appearing on P@D again! (even if I do nothing else it's definitely tradition at this point for me to put something up for each P@D album) Official words follow:
Ponies at Dawn presents our 11th album, Guardians! As usual, all donations go towards the artists who helped to make this album a reality.
This album was thematically based upon ideas of war, peace and standing up for what's important, which we hope is reflected in some of the music available. It's incredible how strongly our community came together for this album, and that shows in the sheer magnitude and quality of the music available.
The pre-order price of $1 will revert to a pay what you want (including free) model much like all our other albums once it has released.
There will be a radio premiere through PonyvilleFM on Friday the 23rd of June starting at 5PM EDT/9PM UTC (this will translate to the 24th of June for some timezones). The album stream will go for around 5 hours, with the album being released towards the end of this period.
We will be periodically uploading a few pre-release tracks in the lead up to the full album release, so make sure to check them out on our partner channel, Cider Party: youtube.com/c/CiderParty
Original song by The Microphones and written by Phil Elvrum. I was asked to do a version of this a fair while ago and it took way too long but I'm glad it's done and I'm pretty happy with it. I wasn't familiar with the song before and it's definitely a different kind of music than I would normally attempt
Lyrics: I drove up to the city at night and found the place where you grew up and then where you stayed and we walked around and stayed up late under city lights. I spent the night next to you in the house where you grew up, next to you, I miraculously woke up. In your parents' house, I laid in bed with you. I went back to feel alone there. I went back to wipe it clean. I took the lights and radio towers out of my dreams. We went all the way up to the small town where I'm from with foggy air and the wind and the mountain top. We clung to rocks and we looked off. You held my hand. You almost got to start feeling me. I finally felt like I was breathing free. Under swaying trees we fell asleep and we had the same dream. The stars were bright. We dream the same every night. On my island home I spent some time with you. I went back to feel alone there. I went back there by myself. I gave up on everything that we'd felt. We found a precious place in the sand right out in the wind and we laid under a blanket and heard the furious sound of roaring waves, the pounding surf, two bodies on the earth. It was intense just getting to be there next to you. You were trying to get me then, and I was happy to let you in. I went back and wished I hadn't. I went back and felt regret. I went to the beach and I just stared west. Every night when the sun went down in the town where we lived the empty streets were lit up by reflected light from a distant sun bouncing off a glowing ball of rock. We just laid on the roof and watched the moon. The moon! The blue light of the moon. We didn't talk and silently we both felt powerful and, like the moon, my chest was full because we both knew we're just floating in space over molten rock and we felt safe and we discovered that our skin is soft. There's nothing left except certain death and that was comforting at night out under the moon. I went out last night to forget that. I went out and stared it down. But the moon just stared back at me and in its light I saw my two feet on the ground.LutariFan - Where the Heart Is (Replacer Remix)replacer2017-01-21 | Get Ponies at Dawn - Amity here poniesatdawn.bandcamp.com/album/amity
Took a little longer than usual to get this uploaded, but better late than never I guess? Thanks to LutariFan for providing the beautiful melody for me to twist out of shape lol
Thanks also to the P@D crew for this remix project, it was really great to be a part of and great to see my own stuff getting reworked too - there's this cover of Handbag by Plum Creek Rhythm Section which can be heard at youtube.com/watch?v=imc02-4EjHc as well as when you download the new album - and this sweet remix by Progressive Element soundcloud.com/progressive-element/sets/ponies-at-dawn-amity both really awesome and different.
It's just an ordinary pencil, I can write it all down when I come across whatever on my travels down town, gonna try to wake up early and I'm gonna brush my hair then I'm heading over west and I've no doubt that you'll be there, let me put you in my car and we'll drive real slow and I'll take you to a movie unless you don't want to go I've got two tickets to a political rally cause I can feel a change coming and we're right on the beat oh yeah
don't you know don't you know don't you know don't you know don't you know don't you know no no no
I've got some dumb ideas and my very best clothes, someone else's horoscope and some directions on my phone and whatever doesn't work I'll take and put it somewhere else because the only thing I have to fear is melody itself and when I put you in my house and we jive real slow there's a whole stack of papers sitting on my gramophone I've got two tickets to a political rally I see the message in the movement building under my feet oh yeah
don't you know don't you know don't you know don't you know don't you know don't you know no no no
I'm pleased to present my contribution to the latest Ponies@Dawn album. I really liked how this song came together and I think it reflects the title of the album fairly well. For the first time I also tried making an actual moving animation in After Effects, nothing too amazing but better than a still image (or blackness like how some of my older songs ended up :p ). The P@D assets proved useful on that front. More to come!
LYRICS: I don't feel silent any more I know where I'm supposed to be crushed my enemies long ago the last one left to go was me
but you were cold enough to burn I kept my feelings out of view you held my head against the flame and made me give my crown to you
lead of spirit but lucky all the same sweet taste of empires crumbling in the gloom napkin men with metal hearts surround us drawing nearer, bodies fill the room
ah, talking heads parade their faces every day showing us the way to think and feel helping us to understand the rich man's point of view they said it on the news and now it's real
Hey I'm back with new material at last. The new album from Ponies at Dawn just dropped, it's called Celestial Planes and this song is on it! Thanks for picking me!
LYRICS: we're out of time and out of money what made me think this was the land of milk and honey it's time to go and no more dreaming walk in the rain under streetlight pavement gleaming
I'm kind of blue but I'll be okay I wasn't looking for a fairy tale anyway "hello my name is Happy, let me sing to you and maybe we can be friends?"
the peace and laughter came to such a savage end
but that's alright that's alright
it's alright it's not for her she was taken with a strong disinclination she's in your head you wrote her resume she's gonna find herself another occupation
take out a loan enrol in classes
you're working nights and now you can't afford new glasses
"maybe together we can break it down, and build something new"
a flash of colour and she's gone the one you hoped to pursue you'll never know if all you had to say was 'I love you'
I love you too but that's alright
[instrumental]
and when you're done they say you're pretty you've got another small apartment in the city
it's only words no real story no eucatastrophe and no hidden allegory
go for a walk no destination stay off the train there'll be no one at the station
"I'm gonna see you on the other side I'm counting on you today"
and fearless promises will only fade away but that's alright
I wasn't sure what, if anything, I should do for a Christmas song this year, until I remembered this song and so I spent a few days whipping up this cover. Have a safe and happy Christmas, and here's to a great 2015.
Artwork by http://shyshyoctavia.deviantart.com ! 'White Wine in the Sun' words and music by Tim Minchin, who donates all proceeds from the sale of the original to the National Autistic Society (NAS) during November, December and January, go so go support :)
Feel like I've been making this forever. Megabyte Brony commissioned me to come up with a tune for some lyrics he'd written and I knew fairly rapidly what I was going to do. Big thanks to him for also supplying almost all the guitars, as well as moral support
Massive thanks to KnifeH for the sweet artwork too. I guess since I'm the one singing, I get to be shipped with Fluttershy. Yup that must be how it works.
CREDITS: Original Lyrics by Megabyte Brony (youtube.com/user/megabytebrony) Additional Lyrics by Replacer Guitars by Megabyte Brony Vocals by Replacer Composed, Arranged and Produced by Replacer Artwork: KnifeH (http://knifeh.deviantart.com)
LYRICS: Well my girl ain’t nothing but a butterfly With soft and delicate wings. And every now and then she will flutter by And turn the jokers into kings. My world ain’t nothing is she gonna cry? Don’t act like it’s for separate things Maybe you should wake up to the truth And not just the beauty she brings.
She floats through the air like a lullaby Like a cradle in full swing The weather shines through and i'm cold inside And she turns winter into spring So for deep and loving for all the while Never let me have its sting Maybe you should wake up to the truth Not just the beauty that she brings.
Well maybe all I really need is just a little bit more time To find my way back home, to the one I love, my Fluttershy Well maybe all I really need is just a little bit more time Until I find my way back home, to the one I love To the one I love, my Fluttershy
Protecting how she feels behind her smile She knows I do just the same Together we pretend that it’s worth our while And in the end we share the blame She thinks I don’t feel and I’m full of guile Wants to make me bear the shame I would go so far as put my love on trial If she would kiss me once again
Well maybe all I really need is just a little bit more time To find my way back home, to the one I love, my Fluttershy Well maybe all I really need is just a little bit more time Until I find my way back home, to the one I love To the one I love, my Fluttershy
Take my hand, I’ll take you anywhere So trust in me, I’ve got so much to share with you I’ve got so much to share with you
Well maybe all I really need is just a little bit more time To find my way back home, to the one I love, my Fluttershy Well maybe all I really need is just a little bit more time Until I find my way back home, to the one I love To the one I love, my Fluttershy
This is a collaboration with a talented musician by the name of Howard Herrick and it's been in the works for a pretty long time. I'm very thankful I got the chance to work on it; I haven't done anything quite like it before and I would love to do more of the same kind of thing. I hope you like it too ^^
CREDITS: Original Composition by Howard Herrick (http://www.howardherrick.com) Lyrics by Howard Herrick Additional Composition and Lyrics by Replacer Arrangement by Howard Herrick and Replacer Vocals by Replacer Mixed and Produced by Replacer Artwork by Feather (http://feather-ponyart.deviantart.com)
LYRICS:
Wishing for something to wake my soul And excite my senses Beautiful pictures fill up my brain and explode Squirrels run tiptoe atop these old White picket fences Amid the croaking of self-satisfied toads
Ride pony ride
The world is a canvas your mind is a painter imagination will colour the spaces between whatever it needs to be it's up to you, you see show off your masterpiece in places unseen
Fishermen fish on long lonely piers In burning sunlight Angling for something that they know they'll never catch Poor dog lies on the path close to tears His eyes shine so bright No one is there to come undo the big latch
Ride pony ride
Mossy old trees with Arms and with faces Vines growing up from The palms of my hands And seagulls in wind gusts fly And glorious days go by The world turns fast enough to change all my plans
Time to go home, and sit by a fire Leaving all the worries of tomorrow behind Tuck her to sleep by the rusty fence wire I smile and hope that tomorrow won't mind
It is with great pleasure that I find myself adding another digit to my sub count :D Thank you ever so much to all 10,000 of you who have clicked 'subscribe,' it is an absolute honour.
CREDITS: Composed and performed by Replacer Lyrics by Replacer & Evdog Lead vocal: Replacer Backing vocals: Evdog and Poni1kenobi Artwork: http://shyshyoctavia.deviantart.com
Special thanks: DannyBrony
LYRICS:
Hey Daring Whatcha gonna do Daring
Hey Daring Whatcha gonna do Daring
Please oh please will you let me follow you
Talk to me Daring Don't you leave me blue Daring
Talk to me Daring Don't you leave me blue Daring
Oh don't you know I love you Daring Do
I wanna be loyal like I'm supposed to be So I don't really mind the way you're driving me crazy I'll never leave you hangin' even if you mistreat me Cause I only care about you
Look at me Daring I'm as daring as you Daring
Can't you see Daring I'm as daring as you Daring
Please oh please take me with you Daring Do
I have been an element of harmony And I was one of those who stopped the world going crazy So take another look before you say you don't need me Cause I only care about you
Stay with me Daring Tell me what to do Daring
Stay with me Daring Tell me what to do Daring
I'd be glad to do anything For you
Can't you see that you and me will be best friends Cause I know all your stories from beginning to end Every single chapter that has ever been penned Cause I only care about you
Hey Daring Whatcha gonna do Daring Hey whatcha gonna do Daring hey whatcha gonna do Daring
Princess Celestia sings her sister to sleep after banishing her to the moon.
ABOUT THE ALBUM: "Revealed by the light of the moon, through the rolling depths of night comes 'Moonlight Vapours', the second album by Ponies at Dawn. Born from the shadows, Moonlight Vapours features work from many of the greatest brony artists in Australia and worldwide. Created after the success of 'Hold Your Rainbow' with the goal of surpassing it, the album strived to bring together both a higher quality and larger variety of music to the community. With a more organised team, Moonlight Vapours brings the music bronies love at a professional standard you would expect from the mainstream music industry."
LYRICS: Sleep little sister of mine One thousand years out of time I know that you'll be okay This will be over some day
Dear little sister of mine Everything's going to be fine Already miss you today How could I send you away
All our days will fade to black And memory will fade away That is why I'll need you with me till the world has finished all it has to say I'm so sorry for everything I wish you could stay
Sleep little sister of mine You're going to live a long time We'll be together one day Once we have shown you the way
The 'Tree of Harmony' from episodes 1 and 2 of the new season of MLP seemed to me like something straight out of the flower power era...I could almost imagine a tree radiating tranquillity and good feeling like Avendesora from the Wheel of Time books. This song was the result.
Won't you come and see Hey come along with me And find a piece of shade beneath The Tree of Harmony And shelter from the rain And you can bring your cane And everybody's singing songs Of better days still yet to be
So won't you come and see Hey come along with me And sit down in the shade beneath The Tree of Harmony And shelter from the rain And put away your pain And everybody's singing songs Of better days still yet to be
Although the road was wide We've had a bumpy ride So many ventures came to nothing No matter how we tried The obstacles were too broad Yet we are all extraordinary Creatures and we've made it here And here we will reside
And I will be your friend So take some time to mend And then we'll go and change the world And the song will never end And we will be safe and warm Far away from the stormy weather
It's time for you and me To let our minds run free Sitting in the shade beneath The Tree of Harmony And shelter from the rain And don't forget your cane And everybody's singing songs Of better days still yet to be
And that's the third and final track on the Birdhorse EP. In this set of slightly abstract and mostly wordless songs, I've tried to bring along everything people have liked about my previous work into new and maybe surprising territory. Huge thanks to everyone who has bought the album!
Birdhorse EP contains 15 minutes of music downloadable from Bandcamp for only $3!
The second song on my three track EP 'Birdhorse.' In this set of slightly abstract and mostly wordless songs, I've tried to bring along everything people have liked about my previous work into new and maybe surprising territory. Thanks to everyone who bought the album so far! :D
Birdhorse EP contains 15 minutes of music downloadable from Bandcamp for only $3!
I'm back! This is the first song from 'Birdhorse,' a three track EP I've been working on. In this set of slightly abstract and mostly wordless songs, I've tried to bring along everything people have liked about my previous work into new and maybe surprising territory. I hope it brings you joy.
Birdhorse EP contains 15 minutes of music downloadable from Bandcamp for only $3!