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Fifth track of my album based on Robert W Chambers book "The King in Yellow" (1895).

The King in Yellow

In the Court of the Dragon

Colorful addictions

Apu (Quechua) = Spirit of the Mountain

This track is inspired by a mountain hike. (&mushrooms)

The indigenous people here in the Sacred Valley of Peru call this Mountain "Apu Ch'eqta Qaqa" which means "split rock". 

The story says that the stone was split in two by a thunderbolt.

Written and produced by: Francesco Vitti
Label: EKOS records
Mastering: EKOS records
Artwork: EKOS records

https://youtu.be/R0rvI1eP0y0

Never

NEVER

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Nocturne

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Escape From Surreality

Change My View

Bhoderemissive

I've been trying to make Jazz music by electronic means for a while now. It's been pretty hard.

So much about the ethos of Jazz is dependent on the traditional notion of musicianship: a group of people in a room, trading improvised passages. So much of its tradition is shaped by virtuosos. The thing is, even though I play 'real' instruments, I don't play them well enough and also (and this might be strange to admit) I don't even like playing them that much. I started playing the saxophone when I was 15 and then went for 20 years without playing, I got back into it last year, but I don't really enjoy the process. So I sold it. Now I have a clarinet (because it's quieter, cheaper and sweeter), but I also got a wind synth.

Yeah, the wind synth is not the same, but it's close enough for what I want, it allows me to literally breath some emotion into what I play without it being loud or overly hard to intonate and I have a lot more fun this way. This track features me playing the wind synth.

But another part of Jazz is the collaboration. So I invited the amazing producer and guitarist @ubo-music to contribute some jazz guitar improvisation and that changed everything. It brought a totally new life to the piece.

Overall, the process was: write a very repetitive pattern for the keys and the bass, then use that to play the virtual sax. I sent that to ubo, who send back this guitar part. Based on his part, I then re-recorded a big chunk of the sax parts. After that, I went back and played the keys again to add flourishes and variations, same for the bass. For the drums, I used Superior Drummer and made a bit of a collage of midi parts (I love doing this, it's like sampling, but for midi.)

In the end, even though nobody played together, I hope it still feels organic and if it does, it's because we did collaborate and traded passages, only they didn't happen in realtime.

Honestly, it's strange calling it Jazz. I have so much respect for the roots and traditions of the genre, but it has also evolved so much since the early days in New Orleans that I think I'm entitled, just like everybody else, to bastardize it in whatever way I see fit.

Jazz III (feat. ubo)

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<<< Infinity is not out there, it is within us >>>
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Mainly I make my music with various trackers like SunVox and most preferably with Renoise. It all started with the awesome TFMX (known by Chris Hülsbeck and his brilliant titletracks from Turrican) on the Amiga. Then over Protracker, OctaMED, Symphony, Camouflage, mline to the great DigiboosterPro2. After switching to Linux I stayed with protrekkr for a long time until I discovered SunVox. With Renoise I went back to the good old tracker roots. I use various free Syntheziser Vst's, samples and the ingenious Airwindows plugins. Besides i have here some analog instruments to record , like guitar, a lyre harp, didgeridoo, percussions etc as well as 3 old hardware synths gathering dust here, the Quasimidi 309, the Redsound Darkstar and the MC-303, with which i played some live music in the past, but built only a few real songs with it. (like e.g. nazca on https://soundcloud.com/defraq79 where I have a few of my old songs) I am happy about comments and likes, as well as criticism and suggestions. Have fun listening...

Alle Lieder erdacht & gemacht von André Christian Pieloth

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