A simple story: I once sat in a dusty room in 2010 in northern France and recorded some raw song outlines into my computer, to tap into a great love of guitar picking, its rich sound, and a love of quiet folk music (think Nick Drake, Simon & Garfunkel, and more recently Kings of Convenience).

After these sessions, I always knew many of these 'song lines' were only half way there. Some of the recordings were 3/4 of the way there (!)

FYI: Recording songs is a lot like standing on a chair naked in the dark trying to catch a firefly and put it in bottle. Most of them escape.

It didn't matter with someone like Nick Drake who was a guitar and musical legend and who recorded the entire album Pink Moon in one room (although with a solid producer). He was ready for recording. His voice and fingerstyle was his own style. (I actually met my future wife at a Nick Drake tribute concert, so I have a good deal to thank him for).

And I won't lie: getting me to my room in France had already taken a lot of time and guitar work, and a lot of guitar practice.

But... I also knew this didn't matter, that many of my outlines weren't yet ready (and I knew I probably would never get the chance to record them or even play them again, live or 'perfectly').

Besides, I didn't really want to go into any of that kind of 'performing' life. Guitar was tied to the nature of the songs, but was never an instrument I was properly trained in: It was more a means to make some songs, or to inspire some.

I've always believed there was some gold in those songs and outlines. Some are better than others, but some I had put some real time and soul into.

So, since those recordings, I've put 'Embertime' outlines on many a platform, including Soundcloud and Audius. They pull you in and after you have a nice profile you think you're going to get somewhere, maybe even an interested producer willing and able to make a remix, (which happened once on Soundcloud, and I really liked what the guy did with a humble song).

I also paid a couple of people to do a remix for me, and to be honest, they sounded interesting, but took me further from the songs than anything I'd designed in my head for them. I even tried making NFTs of the songs in that craze, to encourage people to 'own' the song and take them further. That didn't work... yet anyway.

Next, I worked as a manager doing a lot of long driving, I wanted something to listen to that wasn't the radio, that would help me concentrate and think of other things, and keep motivated. More accessible than buying equipment or recording, I soon found an app that cleverly allowed anyone to use samples and mix them up to create cool stuff. Soon I made some longer, interesting, unique electronica mixes: 'Embient' project (see 'Drinking the Roads'). I didn't even have to record (or capture) things directly.

You know, I put a decent amount of work into making those mixes, my favourite being 'Drinking the Road' which represents a love of 80s and 90s movies, film noir and other world music influences.

Both these projects are now online, and on Suno.com, and anyone can hear or remix the tracks there.

So now things are getting interesting...

The Ai generators at Suno can take any track or song outline and make new and interesting tracks based on whatever prompt of styles you want it to have.

It's hit and miss right now, just like any AI tool, but the 'hits' come quite often. And songs you upload as 'base tracks' are actually enhanced and made into new forms. The more recent Edit and Studio tools are for people who don't like hitting or missing.

But although I don't have patience for 'hitting' carefully anymore, I am still very selective or picky. And I can re-use prompts and styles and 'personas' for other songs with similar vibes.

So... this Suno site will be the last music I personally play around with.

But it's exciting: I've finally found something to serve out an easier type of justice to those dusty old tracks with glints of gold and soul in them, to shine through, stronger, than where they were laid down.

So both the Drinking the Road mixes and early Embertime guitar outlines will live there, also available for anyone to remix. But there were a lot of outlines, and I plan on being someone to remix most of them!

I will put some of the new Embertime tracks ('Generations' ) onto Spotify this year. I hope you like them as much as I do...

Suno x AI ... this is taking any inherent gold and helping me 'sow' them into worlds of style and sound. It's pretty amazing. And the seeds still come through.

What styles / prompts do I lean on? For the acoustic guitar songs and fingerstyle I've been enjoying applying:

- Acoustic folk songs (with hippy claps and deep basslines)
- Ambient chillout with spacey or cosmic fx
- Funk grooves
- Indie grunge pop
- Sci-fi dark ambient soundtrack

But I'm sure I'll do more experimenting.

It's a long road ahead still, for a gold miner.

It does really help however, to have a 'world of style' that you want to cover your musical recordings in. So have something in mind, if you're going to experiment.

You can also get the Ai generator to write any lyrics and add into songs etc, but I like to keep words sparse in my music, or I write these myself mostly.

I think there are a lot of similar song and music-makers out there in a similar position, with old bottles of musical gems in the attic. It could be time to blow off the dust. I hope this post finds you well...

Find Embertime Generations playlist on Suno.com (profile = adespress)

For remixing Embertime on Suno:
see playlist 'Songlines' (https://suno.com/playlist/8971e335-b453-444f-b279-6548a5a933ee)

Embertime Generations on Audius
Embertime on Soundcloud

Embertime on SPOTIFY (feat. the new tracks in 2026)

Disclosure: None of this post was written with an AI tool. Just me, reporting in on recent adventures in AI x music.

A simple story: I once sat in a dusty room in 2010 in northern France and recorded some raw song outlines into my computer, to tap into a great love of guitar picking, its rich sound, and a love of quiet folk music (think Nick Drake, Simon & Garfunkel, and more recently Kings of Convenience).

After these sessions, I always knew many of these 'song lines' were only half way there. Some of the recordings were 3/4 of the way there (!)

FYI: Recording songs is a lot like standing on a chair naked in the dark trying to catch a firefly and put it in bottle. Most of them escape.

It didn't matter with someone like Nick Drake who was a guitar and musical legend and who recorded the entire album Pink Moon in one room (although with a solid producer). He was ready for recording. His voice and fingerstyle was his own style. (I actually met my future wife at a Nick Drake tribute concert, so I have a good deal to thank him for).

And I won't lie: getting me to my room in France had already taken a lot of time and guitar work, and a lot of guitar practice.

But... I also knew this didn't matter, that many of my outlines weren't yet ready (and I knew I probably would never get the chance to record them or even play them again, live or 'perfectly').

Besides, I didn't really want to go into any of that kind of 'performing' life. Guitar was tied to the nature of the songs, but was never an instrument I was properly trained in: It was more a means to make some songs, or to inspire some.

I've always believed there was some gold in those songs and outlines. Some are better than others, but some I had put some real time and soul into.

So, since those recordings, I've put 'Embertime' outlines on many a platform, including Soundcloud and Audius. They pull you in and after you have a nice profile you think you're going to get somewhere, maybe even an interested producer willing and able to make a remix, (which happened once on Soundcloud, and I really liked what the guy did with a humble song).

I also paid a couple of people to do a remix for me, and to be honest, they sounded interesting, but took me further from the songs than anything I'd designed in my head for them. I even tried making NFTs of the songs in that craze, to encourage people to 'own' the song and take them further. That didn't work... yet anyway.

Next, I worked as a manager doing a lot of long driving, I wanted something to listen to that wasn't the radio, that would help me concentrate and think of other things, and keep motivated. More accessible than buying equipment or recording, I soon found an app that cleverly allowed anyone to use samples and mix them up to create cool stuff. Soon I made some longer, interesting, unique electronica mixes: 'Embient' project (see 'Drinking the Roads'). I didn't even have to record (or capture) things directly.

You know, I put a decent amount of work into making those mixes, my favourite being 'Drinking the Road' which represents a love of 80s and 90s movies, film noir and other world music influences.

Both these projects are now online, and on Suno.com, and anyone can hear or remix the tracks there.

So now things are getting interesting...

The Ai generators at Suno can take any track or song outline and make new and interesting tracks based on whatever prompt of styles you want it to have.

It's hit and miss right now, just like any AI tool, but the 'hits' come quite often. And songs you upload as 'base tracks' are actually enhanced and made into new forms. The more recent Edit and Studio tools are for people who don't like hitting or missing.

But although I don't have patience for 'hitting' carefully anymore, I am still very selective or picky. And I can re-use prompts and styles and 'personas' for other songs with similar vibes.

So... this Suno site will be the last music I personally play around with.

But it's exciting: I've finally found something to serve out an easier type of justice to those dusty old tracks with glints of gold and soul in them, to shine through, stronger, than where they were laid down.

So both the Drinking the Road mixes and early Embertime guitar outlines will live there, also available for anyone to remix. But there were a lot of outlines, and I plan on being someone to remix most of them!

I will put some of the new Embertime tracks ('Generations' ) onto Spotify this year. I hope you like them as much as I do...

Suno x AI ... this is taking any inherent gold and helping me 'sow' them into worlds of style and sound. It's pretty amazing. And the seeds still come through.

What styles / prompts do I lean on? For the acoustic guitar songs and fingerstyle I've been enjoying applying:

- Acoustic folk songs (with hippy claps and deep basslines)
- Ambient chillout with spacey or cosmic fx
- Funk grooves
- Indie grunge pop
- Sci-fi dark ambient soundtrack

But I'm sure I'll do more experimenting.

It's a long road ahead still, for a gold miner.

It does really help however, to have a 'world of style' that you want to cover your musical recordings in. So have something in mind, if you're going to experiment.

You can also get the Ai generator to write any lyrics and add into songs etc, but I like to keep words sparse in my music, or I write these myself mostly.

I think there are a lot of similar song and music-makers out there in a similar position, with old bottles of musical gems in the attic. It could be time to blow off the dust. I hope this post finds you well...

Find Embertime Generations playlist on Suno.com (profile = adespress)

For remixing Embertime on Suno:
see playlist 'Songlines' (https://suno.com/playlist/8971e335-b453-444f-b279-6548a5a933ee)

Embertime Generations on Audius
Embertime on Soundcloud

Embertime on SPOTIFY (feat. the new tracks in 2026)

Disclosure: None of this post was written with an AI tool. Just me, reporting in on recent adventures in AI x music.