Name: Lightness of Being by Serge Smulders
Duration: 3 min 31 s
Description: A light frivolous piece. Now it's finished (15-2). Let me know what you think of it....and/or your connection with this is....

ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL,, THIS IS A PEICE OF MUSICAL ART!

Beautiful composition, perfectly titled!  Lovely performance.

Really beautiful playing and composition, superb.

Beautiful composition!! Caught my ears right away👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

"Let's Face the Music!" 

YouTube video: https://youtu.be/0rumOoxeGHc

A song I made & played only with my Yamaha Motif ES8 and Yamaha Montage 8, played through their Lo-Fi effects. Every instrument part was played by me as audio one or two at a time on top of a Motif  stock drum beat and recorded straight into Montage's audio recorder on a USB stick. However, all but the electric piano & lead sound part were recorded as short one minute audio clips which I then mixed & sampled together etc. 

I first laid down the drum & bass lines (the bass comes from Motif and the pad sound is Montage's "PWM Ensemble" FM-X patch). I then overdubbed some Prophet style horns from Motif ES8 and an awesome "DX Designer" patch from Montage. After that I overdubbed two layers of vocals through some Motif's patches & effects and Montage's Vocoder after which I recorded the keyboard part using Motif's "Chorusdyno" patch and the background lead sound using Motif's "Singleline" patch layered with Montage's "Chillin' Ibiza" FM-X patch. 

It all started only as a short one minute jam exercise and I wasn't meaning to make a song out of it, but then one thing lead to another.. and I decided to try to make it into a song. Kind of "groundbreaking" for me was that this is the first song were I finally got to sing a bit (although through Vocoder effect:) and also that now I mainly recorded everything as "live" without any midi sequencing (except for the drum part). 

Everything was run through Motif's and Montage's Lo-Fi effects and especially through UADx 1176LN Rev A & E compressor and ValhallaVintageVerb plugins and iZotope Neutron & Ozone. Mixed and mastered in Cubase Pro with significant help from iZotope Neutron & Ozone.


The chorus could go something like this: 

Let's face the music 
Beneath the moonlit sky
Let's face the music 
Beneath the moonlit sky
I see it in your eyes
Only you and I 
... 

Right here in my arms
You make my world go 'round
Let's face the music

Here are links to the last of the "making of" videos on Instagram and YouTube: 
- https://www.instagram.com/p/DFDAnXTyEMu/ 
- https://youtube.com/shorts/tCO_HOzuBck?si=7cnZ16Gymv6kGbS-

Lets Face The Music

A light frivolous piece. Now it's finished (15-2). Let me know what you think of it....and/or your connection with this is....

Lightness of Being

Composed by Debra Buesking

Piano: Debra Buesking
Additional Piano Melody: Stefan Kraft
Synth Programming: Stefan Kraft


Thank you again to Stefan Kraft for his wonderful orchestration.  This wasn't an addition to my piece, but rather a completion in my opinion.  
Listen to more of his beautiful music @stefan-kraft-123647156.

Reverence (Remix)

I’m hugely grateful to the incredibly talented Franck Charles for the beautiful orchestration that he’s added to my solo piano composition! It's been a great honour and joy for me to collaborate with Franck once again.

You can find more of his marvelous orchestral music here: @franck-charles-676082884

Thank you so much for your listening, we really hope you will enjoy this piece!

Credits:

Composition & piano performance: Anastasiya Ihnatovich
Arrangement & orchestration: Franck Charles

Again (Ft. Franck Charles)

Dedicated most especially to L.K.A.--our new little grandson so freshly arrived from the face of God.

Oh, that all children were loved.

Thank you, dear Oddrun, for the color and depth of meaning you bring to my music.  
Thank you, Arne, for your help and encouragement.



Melody composition, poem and voice: @Oddrun-Eikli
Piano and Composition: Debra Buesking (Inspired by Bach's "Sheep May Safely Graze") 
Studio Mix: @Arne-Hiorth


Let Nature Embrace you.

Wrapped in red, orange and blue
The little baby in mothers arms
Tiny white jasmin growing in her garden
Mother Nature dressed in spring
From magic skies of mint
Every color spins new
In future clear as aquablue

Let Nature Embrace you
Gently
So gently

Life`s colors flow from gold to umber
In crocuses, Petunias
In Asters and in Pansies
A thousand shades of reds
In yellows and in brown
From Magic skies of mint
Every color spins new
In future clear as aquablue




May Nature Embrace you
Gently
So gently

Gently: Oddrun Eikli and Debra Buesking

In collaboration with Francess Harris. She played the piano composition and I did the composition of the orchestral arrangement. Thank you for listening and enjoy. Any comment is appreciated always.

Collaboration Timothy McGuire / Francess Harris

Hibernia

Hibernia (feat. Fr. Harris)

charlotte

This little piece is about change. Starting with a minor chord turning to major. Making it some sort of a reverse listening. It makes sense after a few bars. Then a nice refrain. It's short but like this well rounded up, I think. Hope you like it... Now on all streaming platforms!

Change

louisville 9.6.25

A Waste Land Companion is, as its title implies, an addendum to Boris Rogowski‘s
album The Waste Land which was released in February 2023 on Piano and Coffee
Records. A meditation on the infamous eponymous 1922 poem by T.S. Eliot, The
Waste Land traces its psychological journey through a barren world in search of lifegiving
water as well as its physical journey through London on the zenith of
Modernism.

During the recording sessions for the album—whose sound is characterised by the
interplay between a string quartet, flute and a collection of specifically created,
deeply warped and tape-weathered samples—over 20 pieces were recorded.
Rogowski had originally intended to use all of them in chronological order, beginning
with the famous part about April being the „cruellest month“. However, it turned out
that a shorter playlist and a strictly musical order worked better for the album.
Rogowski decided to focus on the string-centred pieces to give the album a dreamlike,
hypnotic pull. However, as he valued the shorter, piano-based pieces just as
much, the idea for a companion (mini) album was born almost immediately.

It was a most sensible decision: Chamber gems like „The Hyacinth Girl“ and „A
Wicked Pack of Cards“, mixing English folklore with nods to Richard Wagner’s Tristan
and Isolde, might have gotten lost between the dark, monolithic soundscapes of the
album. Here, however, framed by works for solo piano and harmonium, they are
allowed to shine. A Waste Land Companion begins and ends with two piano pieces
only loosely connected to T.S. Eliot’s poem: „Dear Jessie (to Jessie Laidlay Weston)“ is
an ethereal miniature in reverence of the brilliant English medievalist whose book
From Ritual to Romance, a historical examination of the King Arthur legend, greatly
influenced Eliot while working on The Waste Land. „Universe on a shoestring“ is even
serener, a kind of exhalation after a long and arduous journey. It was the last piece
Rogowski composed during his concluding writing session in the mountains of the
island of La Palma. Here, close to the GTC, the world’s largest optical telescope, the
universe seemed closer than anywhere else on earth—and the grim world of The
Waste Land already a distant memory.

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Dear Jessie (To Jessie Laidlay Weston)

one direction - one thing, slower ballad piano

My music has cinematic angles, classical influences, often strong melodies and ambient soundscapes. Piano is my main instrument, which I've been playing for decades now. Lately I'm more into composing music for listening and experimenting with sound, harmonies, rhythm, emotion and space. Follow me on spotify for that. My commercial music is used in video, broadcasting, TV/Radio, for media campaigns, film, advertising, documentaries, websites and probably for lots more I'm not aware of... This music is produced under various names. Most of the music is available with a royalty free license and you can purchase it in High Quality Audio format on several marketplaces and my own website(see the links). I'm working on getting the piano pieces available on sheet music. You can buy them at my website.
Thanks for listening, commenting, liking, purchasing or sharing !!  
Send me an email for a special music request.

Lightness of Being

Serge Smulders

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