Year of COVID: A 2020 Soundtrack

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1.	Miraz Musik Intro / Fanfare 00:10	lyrics	buy track
AHHHHHH....
2.	Year of COVID (Main Theme) 03:00	info	buy track
3.	IT BEGINS! March 12th, 2020 04:55	info	buy track
4.	Parking Lot Stance 02:33	info	buy track
5.	Disenfection 05:36	info	buy track
6.	First Night (of Many) 02:29	info	buy track
7.	Quarantine Blues 04:03	info	buy track
8.	Fire season 07:34	info	buy track
9.	Forlorn Hope 02:50	info	buy track
10.	Shortwave Report 00:24	info	buy track
11.	January 6th, 2021 01:42	info	buy track
12.	The Sum of Fears / Gun is cocked 03:48	info	buy track
13.	Bear Divide. March 12th, 2021 01:38	info	buy track
14.	Ghostown / End Titles / It's not over. 01:58	info	buy track

about

This album is about all the COVID-19 craziness that happened
to ALL of us last year. It is based on what my wife, Sarama and I went
through but can pertain to most anyone. In fact with all of the
events of 2020 it led us to having a reinvigorated creative
resurgence. A soundtrack to 2020? A sonic chronicle you
would say? With all of the situations we went through it was
as if we were in some science fiction movie. My gosh, we
were! We were in that film. Living it. So here it is the soundtrack to that movie...

The album begins from March 12th of 2020 and ends on the
same date a year later. The compositions are in the Ambient
and 80's Synthwave vein.

The Equipment used from our studio in these recordings
were mostly of the vintage type. An ARP Omni and ARP String
Ensemble, Korg DSS-1, Moog Liberation, Oberheim DMX and DX Drum Machines, Paia Vocoder, Roland S-770 Digital Sampler, Roland V-Synth, Yamaha CS5, Yamaha DX5 with a BC-1 Breath Controller ( For those CS-80 Moments) and a VERY brooding Yamaha TX-816. They were recorded using a Emerson VHS 4 head HI-FI recorder and then fed into our Open Labs NEKO OpenSynth utlizing Reaper and Steinberg Nuendo DAW with a Steinberg Huston Control Surface for mixing.

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released May 28, 2021

Miraz: Guitars, Bass, Shortwave Radio, Cassette Tapes, VHS, Devices, Television, Analog and Digital synthesizers, Samplers, Field Sounds, Found Sounds
Sarama Esmaili: Photography and Inspiration

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Miraz Los Angeles, California

Been working with Synths since 1983.

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