Name: 1981 Roland Jupiter 8 by alex.ball
Duration: 1 min 26 s
Description: Some of the music from "Land of the Rising Sound: A Roland Retrospective"

gorgeous anthem so reminiscent and evocative yet modern

No ACB DSP crap can touch this. Gorgeous richness.

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Kulix

Made for the Nova 2018 Mixed Genre Streaming Compo

Started out as a jam session on Ableton Push.  Also I managed to find the resonant frequency of all the fixtures and fittings inside the party hall.

Nova 2018

Hoffman - Half of the Time

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/WydFoiq0uA8

Music: Anders Enger Jensen, Kristine Frøberg
Vocals: Kristine Frøberg
Lyrics: Gina Evjen
Saxophone: Børge-Are S. Halvorsen
Bass: Tom Erik Antonsen
Guitars: Mats Haugen (Circus Maximus)

Verse:
My life has been such a busy thing, with everyone telling me, what to do, to think, to, to feel.
Suddenly I realise I no longer remember the song that I used to sing.

For many years I've been practicing, living my life without bringing life to it.
Loving with my heart in an absent manner, all in all it made me forget the song that I used to sing. (I used to sing)

Bridge:
What is real and what is not, what's important, what’s not?

Chorus:
I have lost a song, that I used to sing. (I have lost a song)
I have lost the love it used to bring.
And suddenly my words, don’t mean a thing. (Suddenly my words)
I have lost a song, I have lost a song I used to sing.

Verse:
The right words and the special sound, the magic string.
I’ve been searching for it everywhere (Everywhere)
I just can’t find it anywhere, it’s oh so silent, a song long ago.

Bridge:
What is real and what is not, what's important, what’s not?

Chorus:
I have lost a song, that I used to sing. (I have lost a song)
I have lost the love it used to bring.
And suddenly my words, don’t mean a thing. (Suddenly my words)
I have lost a song, I have lost a song I used to sing.

Sax solo

Chorus:
I have lost a song, that I used to sing. (I have lost a song)
I have lost the love it used to bring.
Suddenly my words, don’t mean a thing. (Suddenly my words)
I have lost a song, I have lost a song I used to sing.

Retro Grooves Vol. 3

A Song Long Ago

Distance: Original Soundtrack is now available!

Bandcamp: http://refract.bandcamp.com
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Twitter: twitter.com/torcht

Learn more about Distance:
http://survivethedistance.com

Embers

Repulsion

Video: https://youtu.be/NYFjj8N7Evs

Written and composed by Alex Paulee Bow
Vocals, guitars and some synth parts: Alex Paulee Bow
Arranged, mixed and mastered by Anders Enger Jensen
Cover art: Reno
Lyrics:
It’s 5 past 9 in the holding pen
The local class bully making rounds again
[You’re fat, you’re ugly, spotty, you are such a geek, you’re thin, you’re speccy, coward what’s the matter, freak?]
He patters down the line of  the soul defenceless.
Dishing out the shame on a cold life sentence,
Some of them may carry it for years and years,
Some of them may end up in a tarn of tears

And the bully has probably, bullies of his own... his vengeance is keen, as his parents demean him at home...

Shame... nobody ever seems to own it they just pass it on down the line...
Shame... you could be anything you wanted, till the hatred internalised
Shame... and then they put you on a drug for what you brain cannot synthesize
Shame... makes you feel unsafe in another’s eyes
Shame... makes you feel unable to go outside
Shame... shame is only lies!

People laughed at me for the longest time
I thought it was my fault for the longest time
I couldn’t shake it off for the longest time
I couldn’t shake it off for the longest time
All the time I’ve lost, it’s such a shame.

Cast off the shackles of shame, baby!
Cast off the shackles of shame.

Shame... nobody ever seems to own it they just pass it on down the line...
Shame... you could be anything you wanted!
Shame... and then they put you on a drug for what you brain cannot synthesize
Shame... makes you feel unsafe in another’s eyes
Shame... makes you feel unable to go outside
Shame... shame is only lies!

Shame (Single)

Shame

Shame [Feat. Paulee Alex Bow]

Some of the music from "Land of the Rising Sound: A Roland Retrospective"

1981 Roland Jupiter 8

Some underscore from the documentary "Land of the Rising Sound"

The Roland Corporation (SH-7, CR-78)

Do I smell synthesizers?

https://www.alexballmusic.com
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1981 Roland Jupiter 8

alex.ball

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