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Ivvas is a progressive acoustic musical project consisting solely of songwriter RJM and showcases a very intimate experience between voice, guitar, and deeply heartfelt lyrics. Born and raised in El Paso, TX, RJM relocated to Austin and started to commence what would become his debut album amidst the surrounding elements of art and nature. Taking great influence from bands and musicians such as Antimatter, Anathema, Porcupine Tree, and a little bit of Ottmar Liebert thrown in for good measure, RJM takes the acoustic guitar and blends genres such as rock, classical, prog, and gothic music to create a foundation to build towards the future.
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by Ivvas
Released 2 years ago
Folk & Singer-Songwriter, Indie, Adult Contemporary
This is simply a song about seduction by way of the eyes of another lover as its spirit lures those who are willing inside for the taking.
- RJM
by Ivvas
Released 2 years ago
Acoustic, Folk & Singer-Songwriter, Beats & Instrumentals, Indie
This is the first track off my new album, PHOENIX and it sets the tone for the rest of the album giving it more of a medieval feel.
by Ivvas
Released 2 years ago
Acoustic, Folk & Singer-Songwriter, Indie
"As I began my journey with a little tune known as "Pretty" there was little to be known that this little tune would plant seeds inside my head of what I could accomplish. As I started really learning how to figure out how to really use the GarageBand App on my phone, I started recording music and releasing it individually while collectively naming it the 2018 Demo Series.
Now with this final release of the year and 8th song overall, I find it incredibly fitting that i end this journey by re-recording the very song that started it all for me. This time I filled it with words that came to me as a mantra of sorts dealing with the art of meditation and spirituality.
This contains almost every element I've added over the months with percussion, harmonies, dreamy guitar leads, as well as the return of the Koto and Erhu instruments that dominated my Koto instrumental. I use all these elements and I take it to another level, especially to where I am now experimenting with 3 part harmonies. I take this journey to its end, and in its end I have created a new beginning.
2019 will be something else..."
- RJM
LYRICS:
I was speaking of times
Of a restless time where I might be inclined to offer sympathy
I was speaking of times
Of a restless time where I might be inclined to find a remedy
I was speaking of times
Of a restless time where I might be inclined to live a memory
I was speaking of times
Of a restless time where I might be reminded of your beautiful eye
Of mine
You are my remedy…aye-aye
Oh mine
I keep singing in time
Of a mind that I am implied to be kind of my morality
I keep singing in time
Of a mind that I may find the design of my own destiny
I keep singing in time
Of a mind that I wouldn’t mind that in time within a melody
That in singing in time
I may find the design of my mind within sight of my own memory
Even if I could
Even if I should
Decide with my own fate
That I may one day say
That I was never
That I was never enough in my eyes
To decide on my own fate
Then I may find no mind
I was speaking of times
Of a restless time where I might be inclined to offer sympathy
I was speaking of times
Of a restless time where I might be inclined to find a remedy
I keep singing in time
Of a mind that I wouldn’t mind that in time within a melody
That in singing in time
I may find the design of my mind within sight of my own beautiful…
by Ivvas
Released 2 years ago
Acoustic, Folk & Singer-Songwriter, Indie, Pop
"Another love song. This one goes back to basics a bit. No percussion and just guitar, bass, and vocals. I'm channeling my inner Rush fan here a bit if i don't say do myself. I have a tendency to write in quite the poetic fashion and the lyrics to this song are no different. I suppose that makes me somewhat of a hopeless romantic...sigh..."
- RJM
LYRICS:
DARLING
What do I owe this pleasure of your visit my darling?
Is it not for the sake of your own grace, my darling?
Might I ask you to step inside my heart, my darling?
Is it not for the sake of my own craving, my darling?
I am wishing for what I may just find
I admit my defeat
To your love…To your love
Show me the grace of love divine
Hang me upon your sculpture of heaven’s gate
Free me of my desire to repent
That I may see my intentions
Feel me for I am shaking to my core
That I may feel the warmth of your love
….my intentions known.
Hold me, hold me.
Please believe me when I say that I will love you, my darling.
And I shall never drift away from your arms, my darling.
Bring me close for night shall bring the cold, my darling.
In my home you’re the sun to my own moon, my darling.
I am wishing for what I may just find
I admit my defeat
Free me of my desire to repent
That I may see my intentions
Feel me for I am shaking to my core
That I may feel the warmth of your love
Break me upon society and prayer
That it may be my cross to bear.
Should I become a victim at the stake
Then may I wish you from my pain.
…i embrace my own
…my intentions known.
Hold me, hold me.
by Ivvas
Released 2 years ago
Acoustic, Folk & Singer-Songwriter, Indie
"A love song with a hint of goth and folk influences. It has somewhat of a raw feel vocally and I felt that it was more human and less "robotic" and "polished." This song was originally a hard rock song that came to me in a dream. There still may yet be a time when i re-record this in its original form."
- RJM
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The sun may shine upon your face
In all its radiance I feel you within me
Heaven help me
For every day I’ve seen your face
The time in all the world still stops for you
Heaven sent you to me
The way you look
I can’t believe myself
How did I come across your way
And how did you come to love me?
How do I love you more?
After all I have to give
How do I love you more?
After all I’ve had to say
How do I love you more?
In spite of all I do
I still have yet to feel that I deserve you
I must not fail…
A summer’s touch and a winter’s heart
I felt that I would never reach a lover’s soul
Until I saw you
A life where I had only seen
The darkness of the world erased from my memories
Look at what you’ve done to me
The way you feel
I can’t believe myself
How did I come across your way
And how did I come to hold you?
How do I love you more, after all I’ve yet to do…
by Ivvas
Released 2 years ago
Acoustic, Beats & Instrumentals, Experimental, House, Indie, Meditation, Pop, World
"This song is an instrumental and it's interesting as I pretty much started from scratch. I had just downloaded the Japanese package for my Garage Band App on my phone and started playing with presets and chords. I pretty much let it be and then just started adding guitars and other instruments to it.
It's all centered around the Japanese instrument known as the Koto and I figured it would be appropriate to title the song as such.
There's no deep thoughts with this tune as most of my other material is. It's just a fun tune and I hope you get some enjoyment out of it."
- RJM (November 4, 2018)
by Ivvas
Released 2 years ago
Acoustic, Folk & Singer-Songwriter, Indie, Latin, Reggaeton
This song is a declaration of my spirituality towards a higher power while not essentially being linked to any one particular religious organization.
It can be argued that it is a declaration of devotion to love and the ever lifelong quest to be embraced by its majesty.
It also consists of many firsts for me in that this song is sung entirely in falsetto as well as experimentation with harmonies in my vocal ability.
LYRICS:
A loving temple within my heart
A simple kind of love inflamed in me
A loving temple within my heart aflame.
My intention
My emission
Desperation
Cure me of loneliness
Craving you holiness
Separation
I sacrifice my only heart and
Aggregation
Failed emotions
Salutation
Separate me inside
Fill me with all thy might
When in doubt I may
Shine as the light from the sun
Humbled by your
Touch within me
Speaking to me
Invigorate me inside
Giving all thy might
Inflame, inflame, inflame
A loving temple within my heart
A simple kind of love inflamed in me
A loving temple within my heart aflame.
Revelation
Within emotion
Meditation
Tearing my soul in two
Leaving just me and you
When did my heart
Become such a lonely place
Elevation
Liberation
Levitation
Lifting me higher in mine
Holding my soul to shine
Feeling for a time as one with the
Light of the sun
Humbled by your
Touch within me
Speaking to me
Invigorate me inside
Giving all thy might
Inflame, inflame, inflame
A loving temple within my heart
A simple kind of love inflamed in me
A loving temple within my heart aflame.
by Ivvas
Released 2 years ago
Acoustic, Folk & Singer-Songwriter, Indie
LYRICS AND LINER NOTES CAN BE READ BELOW!
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A WISTFUL OFFERING
Make me a wistful offer wandering
Fill me with sweetness lusting after
A melody I crave upon your canvas
Inside a frame of golden embers
Bring me a sight of your decor
I caress thy offering within my soul
Burn me a candle of our scent
With flames upon our sacred temple
Upon a sight of holiness within me
A match made in my own heaven
Bring me a sight of your decor
I caress my offering within my soul
Bring me a sight of your decor
I caress my offering within my soul.
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"The religious upbringing that I had in my childhood has always stayed with me for the tales and lessons that have managed to show themselves in mysterious ways even though I, myself, have changed dramatically from what I was 20 years ago. It is fate then that would have itself reveal its presence in my current endeavors to this day.
It is a poetic way of me offering all that I am with a yearning to be loved amidst a wave of melancholy that I have come to embrace as my own.
For better or worse...
A Wistful Offering indeed." - RJM
by Ivvas
Released 2 years ago
Acoustic, Folk & Singer-Songwriter, Meditation
I am in preparation for my second full length record and am creating demos as they come to me. I invite you to view my progress.
"Pretty" was created as an experiment using the Garageband App on my phone. Little did i know this would be the start of something special known as the 2018 Demo Series.
I present the first track in this series to you. I hope you enjoy it!
- RJM
by Ivvas
Released 3 years ago
Acoustic, Folk & Singer-Songwriter, Rock, Progressive, Gothic
The final track of the album has a reoccurring theme of evolution and the phases that are contained therein. Speaking of personal experiences and the frame of mind I was in during such times I have come to learn of my most keen desires and what I must do in order to obtain such things.
I once learned a very important phrase throughout my studies in music as life: An individual is like a tree in the sense that should the individual cease to grow, the individual ceases to live. To cease from growth is to regress from life and the journey to death is imminent!
In essence, I must GROW in order achieve such heights. But it is always important to know where your roots lie for if you lose your roots, you lose your direction and, ultimately, your zest for life.
- RJM
Lyrics are as follows:
When I was a child, golden eyed with wonder
I could wish upon a shining star
And I wonder how I would get my wish
To be whatever I could dream with my little mind
How else could I still be?
In every moment, I still am!
I am the heart and the soul shining through this body
I am the will and the way shining through this body
I am the sun and the moon... shining
I am the whole of the world... spinning
Around and around we go
We live for all for all is one!
In adolescent youth, bloodshot eyed
Filled with hate within my stars
And I wonder how I could feel so alone
No matter the love I take, there was none left inside
How else could I still be?
In every moment, I still breathe
For I am the heart and the soul shining through this body
I am the will and the way shining through this body
I am the sun and the moon... shining
I am the whole of the world... spinning
Around and around we go
And I am lost
Come rescue me!
From me!
Look deep into my eyes
Look deep into my soul
Understand that for all that I want
All that I want is to be found
Look deep into my eyes
Look deep into my soul
Understand that for all that I want
All that I want is to be loved!
by Ivvas
Released 3 years ago
Acoustic, Classical, Folk & Singer-Songwriter, Rock, Progressive, Gothic, Theatrical & Moody, Epic
This instrumental entails all that I've wanted to say musically speaking. Within this piece there are doorways to many embers within my heart from many years of life and experiences. All of which has led to this point!
This piece originated around 3-4 years ago in El Paso right before I moved to Austin and over time it really started to take shape. There was always one thing missing towards the end and about a week before I took this piece in to put to tape, the final part of the puzzle found its way to me.
All throughout those years struggling trying to find the right part and then suddenly it comes to me effortlessly. I learned right then to never tell the music what to do. The music will appear when it is ready to be revealed. All I need is to be receptive and open.
This nearly 10 minute piece was the first to be written and, indeed, the last to be finished. A fitting end for a beginning that shall be the foundation for all that I intend to achieve until the end of my days.
- RJM
by Ivvas
Released 3 years ago
Acoustic, Folk & Singer-Songwriter, Rock
As the album continues on there is a tiny instrumental break that sets the tone for the fourth song and has thus been grouped into a two-part song which is the most intense and energetic track of the album.
Lyrically this deals with imaginary inner voices fighting over your willingness to bend to either will. Again, it is a struggle many seem to go through on a daily basis. Should I or shouldn't I? What are the rewards and consequences of such a deed?
I've since read that within every action and reaction there is a space between. It may only be a few seconds or even a millisecond but you do still have that space to choose whether to react or respond. To react is to allow the outside circumstances to dictate your actions whereas to respond is to take action from within.
The choice, as always, is yours!
- RJM
by Ivvas
Released 3 years ago
Acoustic
As the album continues on there is a tiny instrumental break that sets the tone for the fourth song and has thus been grouped into a two-part song which is the most intense and energetic track of the album.
Lyrically this deals with imaginary inner voices fighting over your willingness to bend to either will. Again, it is a struggle many seem to go through on a daily basis. Should I or shouldn't I? What are the rewards and consequences of such a deed?
I've since read that within every action and reaction there is a space between. It may only be a few seconds or even a millisecond but you do still have that space to choose whether to react or respond. To react is to allow the outside circumstances to dictate your actions whereas to respond is to take action from within.
The choice, as always, is yours!
- RJM
by Ivvas
Released 3 years ago
Acoustic, Progressive, Folk & Singer-Songwriter, Gothic, Rock
This second track off of Ídryma is a straight forward acoustic rocker. Lyrically it can be deciphered as a tormented man speaking of a woman but it is also a metaphor for dealing with an inner demon.
It details an inner struggle one deals with in letting go of the past but not yet knowing how to do so. This is common in life as is in love. There is a solution involved but to think and to take action are entirely different entities altogether.
In love as in life there is a choice...always...
- RJM
by Ivvas
Released 3 years ago
Acoustic
This is the opener and is an instrumental at that. I really loved how Ottmar Liebert would open his album "The Hours Between Night and Day" and I had decided to take a similar approach.
It's quite a short opener but I really wanted to set the tone for the journey that was to ensue. It builds up but not to a point where it is directly in your face but rather a more subtle approach to assure a state of existence.
It is a smoothing track and "Calm" is certainly an appropriate title for such a mood.
- RJM