Angeline The Baker

I was recently pleasantly surprised, as I rediscovered some pretty cool fusion style music I had produced over a quarter century ago. This old music marks the time I first got introduced to midi sequencing.
For those that want to know more, here's a few interesting details as to how this music came to be.
Just for context... at the time (1995), I knew absolutely nothing about computers, and the world of personal computers, including pc based DAW, was still waiting for me to discover a couple years later on.
So... besides my electric guitar, the only other musical "tool" I had at my disposal to produce most of my home-studio "desktop" music at the time was my one and only keyboard, a Korg T-3 "workstation". 
This exciting, and recently introduced keyboard offered plenty of great synth sounds, but also had built-in midi sequencing abilities. This feature interested me very much realizing the great potential it offered coming from a composer's viewpoint.
Working on and constructing full length multi-instrumented compositions and productions using the Korg T-3's built-in sequencer was not easy. A tiny screen and just a few push buttons to access all the editing functions made for a highly tedious experience compared to using the standard everyday DAW systems most musicians are accustomed to these days. What was even more crazy was I had just gotten rid of my old multi-track Tascam cassette recorder, as I was pretty fed up with all the technical problems associated with the old tape machine technology. So I was determined to do any future music productions using digital recording. In my case, after completion of my work of sequencing for multiple instrumentation for this particular tune, I was  also faced with the challenge of playing and recording my guitar parts straight through the entire piece without any overdubbing or editing, as I was recording directly onto a 2-track (stereo) DAT. Everything had to be pre-mixed as perfectly possible as it all would go directly onto a stereo recording. That means all T-3 derived sounds, such as drums, percussion, bass, keyboards, etc., had to first be mixed within the Korg T-3's own built-in mixer. Then my guitar had to be mixed and recorded in one pass, together with the T-3's mixed stereo output, going through a small audio mixer feeding the final mix to the stereo DAT machine.
Challenging and time consuming for sure... but some will understand... creative energy and inspiration has a way of overcoming these kind of obstacles, which is exactly what happened to me. Within two years I managed to finish off about a half dozen decent tracks in this manner, in which afterwards I finally realized I really needed a update to a full sized computer based audio work station in order to continue and advance in my creative endeavors.
That said... it was the lessons I learned from these first days of sequencing on my old Korg T-3, that helped me a whole bunch as I advanced into today's standard DAW technology.
I hope everyone gets a chance to enjoy some of this music that belongs to this special group of tracks, an "album" so to speak, which I titled "FusionRama".

GUMBO GIG (Audric Jankauskas-1995)

***Tribute to the people of Ukraine, who have lost their lives in the current 2022 power struggle for territory...Also to the Russians that have been killed, because they were forced to go to war & it was unnecessary in the first & worst place! 
May your suffering & injuries cause the world to put an end to this disastrous dictating. I hold you in my healing & comforting thoughts!

The Avenged Soldiers

The Instrumental Player says it all, from the guitar to the piano,  I recorded this track for my new album with Piano pieces on, I take joy from this instrument in the depth of sound and added colour to my mixes, it helps me to create new boundaries for my projects, I hope you enjoy this piece.

The Instrumental Player

garden

Music created for

NAVIAR HAIKU 432
"Spring blossoms fading
Magnolia petals fall
The world grows older"

Haiku by John Hinks, aka FlownBlue https://soundcloud.com/flownblue

Cover by Nelson Brodon

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Layering

Naviar Records

Nelson Brodon - Layering (NaviarHaiku 432)

Background voices stil got to sing the solo part

The photo is Dyon and me summer 2022

( know that  ☮️

The whole thing started with me recording in my living room ... the one with the big wall clock - always ticking. I learned to know eddyoffline a bit in a chat about the blues and planned a collab with him on slide guitar and blues harb (at least, this was my idea). Unfortunately shortly after our talk he really went offline from SC for some time, before this collab happend. So I went on with the idea by myself.
Fortunately @uliquitous sent me a recording of one of her older texts ("I don't understand your choice of my texts - why not take this one?").
Somehow that seemed to fit the idea of the ticking clocks and so my preparation of blues picking and clock ticking found new use.

But this is a project that was lying around unfinished for quite a while now. So the idea was to either rerecord the text (as Uli was not happy with that) or delete it - I hope rerecording was the better choice...

text: by Uli (@uliquitous) from www.growthbuddy.rocks
https://www.growthbuddy.rocks/imagine-there-would-be-no-past-and-no-future/

guitars (nylon, slide, rhythm, solo): me
voice: me
percussion: logic drummer and several recorded clocks
guest stars: rivers and flowing water and a bit of unwanted traffic noise

Cover Design with use of images by
- Shabu Anower
- Insung Yoon
- Jeremy Beck
on unsplash

Imagine Now (collab uliquitous)

EP available on bandcamp - https://veilofdreams.bandcamp.com/album/silver-hand
From my Veil of Dreams project.

Silver Hand (Veil of Dreams)

Some noodling with a hypnotic rhythmic TD reference… Please enjoy


09.07.2022
Image and Title reference Zelda botw ©nintendo

mean-time

Naydra

Space travelling with warp speed!... 
Warp speed is very well known to sci-fi lovers (especially from Star Trek!) Space: the Final Frontier!...

Photo: "Warp speed!" Special thanks to: blog.smartbear.com/geek/a-warp-spe…cience-fiction/
* You can find an interesting article about warp speed, also there (link above)


Astrofaros - Warp Speed! (Space travelling)

Ambient-electronic-space-soundscapes... 
All my music projects - releases (discography) are at my bandcamp music page: https://astrofaros.bandcamp.com/
Thanks for listening, commenting & supporting!!!