The sun returns above the horizon for the first time in three months!


Winter - First Light

As the Aurora Borealis flows across the night sky so the Shaman begin their chants.


Winter - Shaman

Twilight in the depth of winter gives the landscape a blue glow that lasts a few moments before darkness returns.


Winter - Blue Moment

Kaamos is the time of darkness inside the arctic Circle in Lapland.


Winter -  Kaamos

The first frost of winter blows in and then the snow arrives.


Winter - First Frost

The Cover image is of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, Germany.  Although I composed this with my own fading memories in mind, I think it is just as appropriate for the many events in our recent human history we should try not to forget. Even though they may be fading for some of us.
That goes for both the good and the bad.

Fading Memories

An improvisation recorded in one take. I played this after returning from England just before the COVID lock-down began in March 2020.


Tranquility

Passing Through
A mood piece to help you relax and clear your mind. The piano-like improvisation is backed by orchestral strings.

Passing Through

Endless Peace
An ambient track with some choral and orchestral elements.

Endless Peace

Dancing with Wolves

Dancing With Wolves

Cosmic Sails Drifting in a Solar Wind is the full title of this piece. I have re-mastered it and shortened the title. :-)
The inspiration for this piece came from hearing a loose sail flapping in the wind on a yacht in the local lakeside harbour.

Synth: Arturia Pigments 3.5
DAW: Presonus Studio One (original) re-masterd using FL Studio 21

Cosmic Sails

Originally released in August 2023 with just a Synth lead.
 A week or so ago I bought a Virtual Instrument called Small String Gestures, from the Crow Hill Music Company, and added them.
I think they give the piece a bit more depth.

Cover Artwork: L E Bojkovic

Synth: Vital
VST: Small String Gestures from The Crow Hill Company

Early One Morning

I composed this in 2019 but it wasn't until a couple of years later I realised I had subconsciously been writing it for my father, who died in 2012.
When he was young he studied the French Horn but then World War 2 arrived and his life changed. The synth sound I designed here is, at times, reminicent of a French Horn, which is probably why I thought of my father each time I played it.

Cover Artwork: L E Bojkovic

Synth: Arturia Pigments 4.0

Eternal Winds

An improvisation around a minor scale with some Eastern European and Slavic influences.

Accidental Memories

Improvisation after a walk in the forest.

Afterwards

Recently my oldest friend died. I sat down at my keyboard after hearing the news and began playing from my heart. The result is this piece which is more or less a first take.

Absent Friends

An ambient piece depicting a close encounter. When something not seen but felt, is getting closer but then passes you by. As it fades away you are not sure whether or not you were in danger. Only that whatever it was, it was massive. Like a Blue Whale passing under a rowing boat.

Tech Notes. FL Studio 24. Arturia Pigments Synth, FL Flex Synth, Crow Hill Small String Gestures.

A Close Encounter 1

An improvisation around Celtic and English traditional melodies.

Recorded in one take on my Korg Krome Music Workstation in July, 2024.

Dancing Runes

This began as an improvisation on piano to which I later added some strings using Crow Hill's Small String Gestures plug-in. The idea came from a restless night I had and a vague dream that included the sound of a  piano. A piano being played in a cavern.

Blurred Dreams

I composed this to help comfort me and get me through a sad time. I hope it will help others too.

Solace

I think of this piece as the kind of music you can close your eyes to and just drift off into your own imagination.

Drifting

Listen to the Wind is an ambient woodwind-like piece to help you relax for a couple of minutes.

Listen to the wind

Autumn comes early up in the far North and the first hint is in the wind.

Autumn in the Wind

Many years ago, I spent three winter months, 200km inside the Arctic Circle, in a small village in Finnish Lapland.
I think I heard the Northern Lights sing on more than one occasion. But then again, it could have been the vodka! ;-)

Arctic Voices

We can spend a lifetime waiting for a sign not realising that it is within us.

Waiting for a sign

The first hints of Autumn are beginning to show in the trees and morning mist arrives and sometimes lingers till noon.
As I was doodling with a sound I had designed this melody popped out.

Autumn Lament

As I am now closer to the end than the beginning of my life. It is time to put aside those dreams of my youth, that will now never be realised.
Not with sadness but, with quiet thanks that I at least had them.

Requiem for Lost Dreams

The inspiration for this track was raindrops and plucked violin strings.

Raindrops

Autumn is fast moving into early winter and the days are getting shorter. Even after living in Finland for over 50 years I still dread November. It's the darkness that gets me, before the snow arrives.

The inspiration for this piece comes from my love of composers such as Erik Satie and Arvo Pärt.

The Cello I added after I had played the piano part. I had just bought the sample pack and the tone begged me to let it play with the piano.

I would like to thank Spitfire Audio LABS+ for creating the Ultra Soft Piano as well as the Emotional Cello sample libraries. Without them "Soft Landing" would not have happened.

Cover Art: I took th photograph in Málaga two years ago.

Soft Landing

I composed this to help me relax. It works best if you set your player to loop it.

Cover: Photo taken in Oggiono, Italy.

Floating Above

I am retired and while away my time composing music, writing flash fiction and taking photographs.
I live in Lahti, Finland.

Arco Polaris Music

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