Music for Departure
Music for Departure is a personal, unflinching Macabre Musings chapter on suicide prevention, mental health, and recovery. It’s a reminder that help works and no one has to carry the dark alone.
Albums
Rat Pack Redux
Rat Pack Redux: Live at The Sands (1964) is a fictitious live album of 16 original swing songs written with reverence for the golden age of Vegas. Beneath the tuxedos, its final track, “I’m The Man,” exposes the lonely cost of the “strong man” myth and invites us to imagine a better future together. Stream or download the full 45:52 set free.
A Night on the Town (AI Gen)
A Night on the Town – Full Album (4:04:16) Free MP3 Download (320 kbps – 559.1 MB) Where Jazz, Love, and Cultures Meet A Night on the Town, A Story Between the Songs The club is dim-lit, the kind where shadows have their own rhythm, and where even silence carries a bassline. Smoke curls upward … Read moreA Night on the Town (AI Gen)
Sierran Specter: A Haunted Journey Through Music, Memory, & Mountains (AI Gen)
Sierran Specter – Full Album (1:38:55) – 🎧 Recommended Free Downloads: Full Album (192 kbps MP3) – Drifting Between Worlds – Short Story Adapatation (PDF) Process: Human, ChatGPT.com, Meta.ai, Riffusion.com, Suno.com, Kits.ai, Moises.ai, Audacity 3.7.4, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat, Linux) Mastering: Flat EQ, Normalized to 0 dB (Less is more, kids, except for this project’s … Read moreSierran Specter: A Haunted Journey Through Music, Memory, & Mountains (AI Gen)
Ember Under Glass: The Warmth That Would Not Die
When frost takes her lover, one woman keeps his last ember alive under glass. Ember Under Glass is a ghost story and grief song about memory as the final warmth, with a spoken reading, the song “Her Afterglow,” and a Deep Dive podcast.
“The House I Couldn’t Leave” – A Binaural Beats-Infused Multimedia Ghostly Story (AudAI™)
Thaddeus Wren haunts the house he can’t leave, until a locked room opens and the woman he silenced becomes his jailer. A first-person ghost story with a hidden 4 Hz binaural beat, loosely inspired by A Ghost Story (2017). Free MP3.
Penthouse Blue: A Jazz-Noir Love Story in 1960 St. Louis
A fight, a candle, and a slow dance under blue neon. Penthouse Blue is a free 3-hour jazz-noir album and love story set on a 1960 St. Louis rooftop, with vibraphone, upright bass, and muted trumpet.
Velvet Trap: All The World’s a Stage
Velvet Trap: All The World’s a Stage is a 2 hour, 35 minute retro-modern alt-rock album with a companion story in a prologue, five chapters and an epilogue. A musician’s obsession with Sera, an openly trans woman, becomes a stage where everyone performs and everyone deceives. Free 320 kbps MP3 download.
Blood in Stereo: Womxn Rising
Blood in Stereo: Womxn Rising is a free, 99-minute feminist punk album from TATANKA, created with AI-assisted tools and a human editor. Rooted in the Riot Grrrl tradition, it takes on patriarchy, bodily autonomy, queer identity, eating disorders, and corporate “pink-washed” feminism, while imagining a more sustainable, sisterhood-driven future built through DIY sound.
(AI Gen) Ana Volkova’s “Ночная Переправа” (Nocturnal Passage): A Darkwave Odyssey
Ana Volkova’s Nochnaya Pereprava (Nocturnal Passage) is a nearly four-hour darkwave odyssey from the fog of St. Petersburg to Tierra del Fuego. It blends cold wave, post-punk, and minimal synth into ghostly vocals, spectral memory, and rebirth. It is a free stream and download, and an ideal Halloween soundtrack.