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[timwoodruff]

Let's make space for silence Too many things are said in haste We rush to fill the void And are afraid to think Afraid to hear the stillness Afraid to just be seen Afraid that we'll be noticed If we lower our defense Words are a mask We cover insecurities Words are a shield We cover our thoughts Let's be real So few of us are Let's be genuine And earnest There are wounds that only heal When we are able to be seen There are problems only solved When we are free to express ourselves When my heart can be real When I can really be understood I am able to untie the knots That I've twisted my mind into Our collective consciousness is a mess A collective train wreck With no collective conscience Sometimes we struggle to know how to be ourselves We know so many people Yet we know no one All we see are caricatures Fun-house mirror people Exaggerated projections of who others want us to think that they are When they themselves are feeling Like no one understands them We all long to be understood Yet we're all afraid to be understood Everyone wants to be left alone but No one wants to be alone Where silence is not an enemy Not an awkward panic to be escaped But a sense of comfort A warm embrace To be with someone Who makes you feel like you're not alone Even when words fail Maybe this is where I belong

#free verse #poetry #poem

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I Won't Let You Go - Live on all streaming services

"I Won't Let You Go" is live on all streaming platforms now!

Great reception already!

#music #synthwave #electronic #alternative #spotify

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117 plays on the first day?! 🤯 My new song "I Won't Let You Go" went up today and it's already had 117 plays on YouTube before I could even post the announcement.

Thank you so much for your support!

#music #synthwave #electronic #alternative #Youtube

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I have a brand new song releasing with Only The Label on January 3rd! It's called, "I Won't Let You Go", and it's a response to my other synthwave song "Hold Onto Me"

#alternative #synthwave #rock #songwriter #new music #producer life #music

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Holiday Sale!

I've dropped the price on "Keeper Of The Forest" CDs on Bandcamp to $10 + shipping, just in time for last minute Christmas shopping. Grab my ambient concept album at the link below.

CDs available - Keeper Of The Forest

I now have CDs available for "Keeper Of The Forest".

Order through Kunaki to have them shipped directly to you: https://kunaki.com/sales.asp?PID=PX005PVR3Q&pp=1 Or order directly from Bandcamp: https://timwoodruff.bandcamp.com/album/keeper-of-the-forest

#Bandcamp

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I'm now a part of the "OTH Presents" record label. Thrilled to be a part of this awesome roster of artists, which you can check out over at the label's BandCamp account:

othpresents.bandcamp.com

OTH Presents is run by @onlythehostmusic, a visionary musical artist who runs a YouTube streaming show featuring awesome music from indie artists of many genres, which runs daily. Only The Host also takes submissions to the show daily, from all independent artists regardless of label.

#music #alternative #onlythehost #independent artist #indie music

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CDs available - Keeper Of The Forest

I now have CDs available for "Keeper Of The Forest".

Order through Kunaki to have them shipped directly to you: https://kunaki.com/sales.asp?PID=PX005PVR3Q&pp=1 Or order directly from Bandcamp: https://timwoodruff.bandcamp.com/album/keeper-of-the-forest

#newmusic #indie music #lofi #electronic #synthwave #dungeon synth #ambient #chill music

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New Song: I Feel Fine

This song is dedicated to the days when you don't feel like smiling, but feel like you need to. Here's to better and brighter days, and to the people who warm our hearts.

#music #ambient #indie music #alternative #rock #new music #Bandcamp

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Looking for a spooky track for your Halloween Playlist?

Well I've got the song for you.

(It's the 3rd track off of my synthwave EP, Odyssey)

Check it out on BandCamp and Spotify or wherever else you stream music:

#synthwave #electronic #music #outrun #spooky #happy halloween #Bandcamp #Spotify

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New Song: "At Winter's End"

It's been a while since I released any music, because life has been extremely busy.

Here's a instrumental piano ballad that I've had in my collection for quite a while, "At Winter's End". I'm aware of the irony of releasing this in early autumn, but hey, it's new music! :D

Enjoy. Pay what you want this week only. Only on Bandcamp... for now.

#music #ambient #orchestral #piano #calmness #Bandcamp

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If you want to check out my music on @Bandcamp, today is a good day to do so. #BandcampFriday

#bandcamp #ambient #electronic #chillwave #synthwave #rock

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I wrote a deep dive into the stories and lore behind my ambient concept album "Keeper Of The Forest", and I've partnered with Only The Host to share it exclusively on his blog.

Read the full article here:

#music #synthwave #ambient #electronic #stories #behind the scenes #behind the music #synthfam

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Hi. I'm Tim, a music producer blending the best of my favorite #music, to create something really unique.

Each album is it's own world: - Odyssey is a space-y #synthwave EP - Keeper Of The Forest is an #ambient instrumental concept album - upcoming #rock and dark synthwave albums

You can find all this on timwoodruff.bandcamp.com, or any streaming platform.

I'd love for you to check out my music and tell me what you think.

#music #synthwave #ambient #electronic #bandcamp #darkwave #outrun #chillwave #chillsynth #producerlife #rock #alternative #alt rock

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Coming Back To You has been out on streaming a little over a week and has received 42 stream already on Spotify.

Thank you everyone for your support.

#music #rock #alternative #coming back #missing you #long distance relationship

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I love hearing bands evolve and change their sounds and explore new territory.

I absolutely love how clearly you can hear the progression of ideas, confidence, and access to equipment operating so clearly when listening to Radiohead's albums in chronological order.

Starting way back with Pablo Honey where they were little more than an above-average guitar & drum indie ensemble with summer catchy song writing.

Then the opening bars of Planet Telex on The Bends hit, and it's like, what the balls? There are feedback loops, phasers, flangers, filters, echoes and delays all over that. I don't know what sort of gear they used, and feel like looking it up would remove a little of the magic, but it seems like the kind of stuff you could fairly easily do with access to little more than a decent console, a reel-to-reel recorder, and a larger collection of guitar pedals than they had before, and I choose to hold on to that headcanon.

The album as a whole frequently veers back into familiar live ensemble territory, but there are all these little touches here and there that show them starting to branch out into new (to them) techniques, and I like to think they knew exactly what they were doing when choosing the heaviest showcase for all of that as the opener.

Then comes OK Computer. The use of layering really shines here; they're clearly getting comfortable with using the studio to "perform" as a much larger ensemble than they really are. Again, every track is littered with these little touches of filter sweeps in the background, haunting one-off appearances of things that might be sampled vocals, might be theremins, might be synths.

And of course the vocals on Fitter Happier.

Then a three year gap. Which isn't actually as large as I remember: there had been two years gaps between each of the previous three albums, but this one will always feel longer to me because I didn't discover them until the OK Computer days. It was actually the first time I started paying attention to contemporary music; up until that point I'd payed recorder in school (as in, I was the nerdy one who could actually play and kind of enjoyed it, in a class of kids who had it forced upon them and didn't care, as was the done thing in British schools of the era), liked the idea of classical but didn't really love it, had a singular played to death Kraftwerk cassette (The Mix), and knew I didn't care for what I was hearing on radio or TV.

Kid A. What a rollercoaster. Does the opening track, Everything in its Right Place, contain a single acoustic instrument apart from Thom's voice? Again, I think they knew exactly what they were doing putting this one front & centre. It's synths, but it's not synth pop in any way, shape or form. These aren't the cheesy FM presets of the 80s. They were a medium different from the guitars and drums that had come before, but the message is still unmistakably Radiated. To anyone who'd been paying attention, anyway: people fucking hated it. Even I didn't know what to make of it at first.

Then they doubled down a year later with Amnesiac, like a massive middle finger to all the haters who just wanted them to keep doing what they'd been doing.

Which, ironically, is exactly what they were doing: but what they'd been doing all along was growing and evolving, they just took a bigger step this time.

Years later people have come round; to Kid A, at least. But they took their time. Amnesiac still gets little love, but go back and give it another chance. Pyramid Song. Knives Out. Dollars and Cents. Even the meandering two-minute one guitar, one synth noodle that is Hunting Bears. It's not the monument people wanted, but I maintain that it IS a monument.

I could go on, but I won't. It's a shame that Radiohead as a band barely exist any more; they've all started various side projects, the gaps been albums are getting longer. A Moon Shaped Pool came out seven years ago. But sadly it makes sense, given that their whole thing was always about finding new ways to express themselves.

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One thing I'm finding with lyric writing is that it's not about having a grand moment but just writing a little every day.

It doesn't have to be scheduled. Just drop ideas into your phone notes as they come.

When you have a collection, work out common ideas to a melody.

#songwriting #music #lyrics #producerlife

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Thank you to Rogue FX for including Saturn Landing in your scifi sounds playlist.

Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6eKNTrYUs2hLImt7V88m0X

#synthwave #electronic #synthpop #retrowave #scifi #80s #music #space