This had me from start til end. The warrior will sleep easy with this playing in the wind ❤️

Rhodes and Sax duel very smooth 😁.Great track

Really nice production, beautiful jazz. Nice work 👍👏

Wonderful premise for this stylish track Alan. Many different sections that merge seamlessly - you do transitions exceptionally well.

Spectacular composition Alan...brilliant performance and production...worthy of the wonderful Isle of Arran!

WOW! What a groove! enjoyed it immensely! Smokin keyboard work..Hypnotic & mesmerizing..catchy & hypnotic..very nice orchestration..fantastic work..love the grooves..excellent mix & recording production!

wonderful piece of music. 👏👏👏👏

Sometimes a timeout is necessary, to pause, regroup, and refresh if only for a few minutes. Put up a Do Not Disturb sign. Open a window and let a pleasant distraction offered by songbirds calm the mind. Then resume forward march when ready. Hopefully, time is on your side. If not, seize a moment when you can. 💙

Jazz with songbirds
66 bpm

Audio files of bird chirps recorded live October 13 and 15, 2024.

DAW Apple Logic Pro X
MIDI Akai MPK Professional  
E-instruments:
Concert Grand
SoCal Ballad Piano 
Vibraphone
Clarinet Solo
Studio Upright Bass
E-percussion used:
Shadow Zone Clave
Studio Brush Kit 
Drum ’N Bass Remix
Latin Kit


Cover art is a derivative illustration with additions and alterations to the following photo:
A Neon Closed Sign above a Window by Jeffrey Czum at pexels.com 
https://www.pexels.com/photo/a-neon-closed-sign-above-a-window-4118958/

Windows

“It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed. If I’d known, maybe I’d have kept tighter hold of them, and not let unseen tides pull us apart.”

Never Let Me Go

Tulips, bicycles, canals, history, fine art, DJs, and most of all the Dutch people make Amsterdam and the Netherlands a place I could easily call home. 

But Amsterdam is more than a place to me — it’s a symbol of the joy of finding community, of sharing and thriving with people who support one another. Hopefully you can do that right where you live. Or here on SoundCloud. We are "stronger together" is more than a trite slogan because it is a mathematical fact. So let’s take a joyful trip and dance as if everyone applauds your moves.

With a toast 🥂 to Mick and Karin 

60/120/60 bpm

Begins with a classical treatment and electro, then electro, house, and techno music. 

DAW Apple Logic Pro X
MIDI Akai MPK Professional
E-instruments:
Ballad piano
Concert Grand
Clarinet Solo
Bassoon Solo
Cinema Strings
String Basses
Trombones
French Horns
Synths:
Focus
Ghosts
Momentum
Ethereal Mallets 
Ambient Lead
Buzzy Pluck bass
Deep Round Synth Bass
Minimal Techno Pattern bass
E-percussion used:
Timpani
Xtra Timpani Tremolo
Orchestral Kit Kick & Lg. Taiko Drum
Paris House Remix
Tech House Beat
Euro Dance Remix
2-Step Remix Overdrive
Latin Kit

COVER IMAGE is a composite created in Photoshop using my personal photos

Amsterdam

Happy New Year to all my Soundcloud friends..✨

DON'T TURN AROUND.  🎧

Video; https://youtu.be/JaiTBakK-og

Made in #Ableton (January 2025)

Genres;
#Dance
#EDM
#Electronic

Above Dreams

'Wishful Thinking' is is a mixed genre track of easy listening, ambience and soundscape. I've called it Ambient Fusion for the sake of a Genre.....

The Three Ps

Wishful Thinking

time slips away

'Sharpen The Pencil' is an 'alternative jazz fusion' track.

Sharpen The Pencil

yeah, so here is another piano I made for you, an ambient..
and I tried to sync on 60bpm..
forgive my mistakes as it's Live

Live Reflexion#028

yearning for learning how to get better at finding common ground while sharing differences

Disagreeing Agreeably

'Sleeping Warriors' Inspired by a mountain range in the Isle of Arran in Scotland, that when viewed from the mainland, the mountain range looks like a "sleeping warrior" and this is exactly what it is referred to.
Also the "sleeping Terra Cotta army" in China is a strong inspiration. Then of course there are the real life "sleeping warriors" who become awake in times of extreme hardship in their relative countries. So then here is the track to contemplate if you may be a "sleeping warrior".
Alan

Sleeping Warriors

Now retired from a life 'on the road' as a freelance keyboard player, I compose and record in my home studio, situated in the Carrick Hills in Southern Scotland. My music is mainly instrumental in nature and is a reflection of my life experience, sometimes real and sometimes imagined.
My influences are many and I have quite probably been shaped by listening to the very many "giants" of music, both players and composers. From classical to contemporary jazz and everything in between. My main instrument is the keyboard, whether that be piano, organ or synth. But I also play banjo, flute and percussion. I have a special relationship'with bass, whether upright or electric and use virtual and synth basses from numerous sources, but mainly Trilian by Spectrasonics.


https://music.apple.com/us/artist/alan-hamilton/119498445/see-all?section=full-albums
https://open.spotify.com/artist/2j38dJ8YVPX2nVQcUjaAYx
https://music.apple.com/us/album/time-travel-and-other-journeys/1651782098

Sleeping Warriors

Alan Hamilton

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