"Musings, Ballads, and Paradoxes" is a collection of songs from three albums: "Love Songs For The Tortured Souls" (2007), "The Crooked Mile" (2008), and "Metamorphosis" (2009).

"Love Songs For The Tortured Souls" is a journal of heartbreak, self-destruction, and forbidden love. It sums up my angst-ridden mid-20's in Los Angeles. Writing and recording those songs helped me survive the darkness I was experiencing at the time.

A lot changed for me after finishing "Love Songs." Within the course of a year, I was married and living in Colorado. I realized what my life could be like if I came to terms with the demons in my soul. "The Crooked Mile" is an exorcism of these demons. The songs document my turbulent journey on the road to inner peace.

I started working on "Metamorphosis" immediately after I found out that I was going to become a father. The album is a narrative of my transition into pending fatherhood, with songs about commitment, sacrifice, and life-changes.

1. Tangled and Twisted (instrumental)
2. Last Good Sin (instrumental)
3. So Bad (instrumental)
4. Next Life (instrumental)
5. Our Time is Gone (instrumental)
6. Almost Dangerous (instrumental)
7. Dead Locked Eyes (instrumental)
8. Heart of Stone (instrumental)
9. Digging a Grave (instrumental)
10. Ready (instrumental)
11. Before the Fallout Comes (instrumental)
12. It's Over Now (instrumental)
13. Locked Inside With the Key (instrumental)
14. Lost Again (instrumental)
15. Paradise Is Fading (instrumental)
16. Wish I Could (instrumental)

Listen to: the entire album.

Release date: 8/14/2011
Shadows from the Underground lives in Colorado USA

Tagged as: Alt Rock, Other, Instrumental Rock, Electric Guitar

1. Music of Fernando Sor by Daniel Estrem: colorful classical guitar
2. Cancionero by Dufay Collective: instrumental and vocal music from the Middle Ages and Reniassance
3. Brave New World by Sterling: sublime and ethereal electronic music
4. Renaissance Lute by Ed Durbrow: Renaissance lute music.
5. 'Twas in the Moon of Wintertime by Steve Eulberg: smile-inducing, toe-tapping folkgrass
6. Courante by Edward Martin and Thomas Walker: French lute duets that represent the pinnacle of the High Baroque
7. Two Romantic Piano Trios by Women Composers by Streicher Trio: classical chamber music on period instruments
8. The First Gate by Eight Gates: charming folk pop/rock with a hint of electronica opening the gates to the land of the fairies
9. Switch On - Switch Off by Strojovna 07: techno.
10. Sick Songs by Electric Frankenstein: high energy punk rock & roll
11. Burgundy Rhymes by Suchitra Lata: Swirling Chillout, Ambient, World, Progressive Pop, Indian classical veena and much more in between
12. Dalliance by Emavision: the sound of trees falling between East n' West
13. Mobius Strip by Suchitra Lata: Swirling Chillout, Ambient, World, Progressive Pop, Indian classical veena and much more in between
14. Dreaming by Emma Wallace: angst-free modern ragtime
15. The Vision Of Enoch by Sulis: heavenly, healing, early music
16. Down the Rabbit Hole by Emma Wallace: angst-free modern ragtime
17. Sundowner by Sundowner: shape-shifting space rock sound of vast drifting guitar-scapes
18. Crowd of Reeds by Emmalee Crane: ambient, orchestral drone music
19. Among the Lasses, songs of Robert Burns (1759-1796) by Susan Rode Morris: early music delivered with a voluptuous voice and intensely focused delivery
20. Fever Dreams by Endless Blue: Trashy Beats, Melancholy Keys, Sultry Vocals

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