The first time I’ve ever felt the blues

2025 was a sad year cause we lost our family dog, a lovely Havanese who was the goodest girl for 18 years.

The thing is that saying goodbye still hurts, so my wife and I tried to channel our pain through music with a little song that tells a story of how we imagine dog-heaven from the perspective of the dog itself, how it found new friends in the good boys that preceded her, and things like that.

Musically, we went for a modern mix between a hip hop-ish beat and Cuban son, and I took the opportunity to drop some bars in Spanish because, well, that’s what you do in 2026. I’m not very good at any of this but enjoyed the process nonetheless.

Finally, the production was far for refined as we basically just hit the red button and went for it, and I like that it gives the song a casual vibe.

Hope you enjoy it:

Stream Guardián by Lenest | Listen online for free on SoundCloud

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SoundCloud makes people log in, that will kill 99% of your listeners. Why not just put it on YouTube with some photos of your dog?

You can just X out of the login prompt.

Steve, great stuff! Did you program any of the percussion or record it all? It sounds fantastic.

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Thank you for listening. Just tried playing the song without signing in and it worked.

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@steve506 very nice song. I don’t speak Spanish, but I like your lyrics describing dog heaven

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Thanks man! I can’t take credit for the whole drum beat. I only added the latin groove to it with the magic of Ableton Live and its Latin Percussion expansion. It’s great for Afrobeats too!

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