This track is indeed an "EXCURSION" from most of the tracks I've posted on SoundCloud, as it incorporates a swinging contemporary jazz feel, most of it in 7/4 , along with the sampled sounds of an upright bass and drums.  THEMIS NIKOLOUDIS performs outstandingly on this track, and it is my pleasure to present this track with his soaring violin sounds.
This composition is another one picked out of my archive of older and mostly forgotten pieces that for some reason I thought was not worthy of finishing and publishing.   But here it is... finally... and hopefully, for your enjoyment!

TIMELY EXCURSION (Audric Jankauskas/Themis Nikoloudis-2016)

Please see the Head of Hydrus Songs page https://soundcloud.com/headofhydrus
Everything that touches my heart is able to come into this area:)
And I will repost only songs  that blows my mind the most:)


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Raphael Stein (RaySteinMedia) is an electric violinist/keyboard player/multi- instrumentalist/vocalist/songwriter/producer/engineer..with BMI (Broadcast Music Incorporated)..All rights reserved by RSM RaySteinMedia 

I am one of 5 musicians in the family of SBM SteinBrothersMusic..I was inducted in March of 2010 into Kansas Music Hall of Fame along with my brother Eric Stein..All of us are involved in all aesthetics of the Music Industry and Fine Arts organizations at it's BEST in Southern California for the last 30 + years. All of us have individually involved ourselves in the Rock, Funk, Hip-Hop, EDM, Pop, R &amp; B, Jazz &amp; the Smooth Jazz market, etc..We are all about playing any kind of music that is required to be done, production, composition &amp; recording, etc..YOU NAME IT &amp; WE'LL DO IT!...Whatever it takes to make it happen!!! Individually and as a group, The Stein Brothers have performed, toured &amp; wrote Hit Songs with some of the Major Legends..The biggest Names in the Music Industry, both on Camera/Film, Albums/CD's &amp; in Major Recording studios as well including Ray Stein Media Studios...Here is a short list of some of the Legendary Artists we have worked with from the past to the present - Andrea Miller, Frankie Valli, Michael Jackson, Chaka Khan, Whitney Houston, Rapture, Jim Bond, Kenny Lee Lewis, Dawayne Bailey, Larry Lingle, Wolf Marshall, Jerry Hahn, Quincy Jones, Rick James, Mariah Carey, Kenny Loggins &amp; Jim Messina, Kansas, Tata Vega, Andrae Crouch, Lamont Dozier, Billy Preston, Tommy Funderburk, Sherwood Ball, Mike Finnigan, Sonny Bono, Ray Charles, Alanis Morissette, Sheryl Crow, Faith Hill, Joe Cocker, David Benoit,"Hot" with Gwen Owens, featuring the Hit Single, "Angel In Your Arms", John Lithgow, Cirque du Soleil, Plain Jane(Kansas), Pagan Ballet(Kansas), The San Diego Symphony, The Pacific Symphony in Orange County...Just to mention a few.

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Jazz/ World/ Fusion violinist
Themis Nikoloudis was born in Athens. Since 1998 he has been collaborating with many distinguished musicians and composers (Michalis Nikoloudis, Audric Jankauskas, Haig Yazdjian, Babis Tyropoulos, Vasilis Rakopoulos, Giorgos Maglaras, Nikos Sidirokastritis, Giorgos Palamiotis, Nikos Kapilidis, Vaggelis Karipis, and others) playing the violin in concerts and several recordings.
At the same time, he has been performing as a violin member in many music bands with Eleftheria Arvanitaki, Dimitra Galani, and Lavrentis Macheritsas, playing in concerts all over Greece and Abroad.
He began his journey in music by studying modern guitar. Later he turned to violin studies and after years of elaborating on violin technique, he got his autonomy and continued elaborating his study independently in music theory, ear training, and solfeggio also he kept learning by playing next to great and very experienced musicians.
Jazz music will always be his vehicle for improvisation.
He maintains the melodic and lyrical essence in his tone and stirs it with some rhythmical elements inspired by the Indian konnakol. A system that allows the composition, performance, and communication of rhythms. He twists it with some chopping (a new percussive technique specific to bowed string instruments that allow the violin sound to resemble rhythm guitar and electric bass with the slap techniques.)
For the last five years, he is most committed to his compositions and musical
arrangements projects, studio session work, and teaching the violin.
He is a member of the Frog String Quartet.

Thank you to all of my past, present, and future listeners and followers.  

Your support and comments mean so much! 

I will continue this into the future as my third career.

Thanks again for listening and commenting.

WELCOME ALL to my SoundCloud page!

It's always a pleasure to discover through SoundCloud the wealth of wonderfully talented and creative musicians out in the world... all sharing their own distinct and artistic creations.  I'm very happy to be a part of this amazing, creative, and supportive community.

My main instrument is the guitar (mainly electric... sometimes acoustic). I also play on occasion bass and keyboards (strictly for recording on my own compositions).  Most of my music tracks on SC are created, recorded, and produced in my home studio.  Recently, I've been making good use of midi sequencing to ultimately produce tracks that I otherwise would find almost impossible to do by other means. 

Fusion (my mix of jazz, rock, funk, soundtrack, etc.) is the best way to describe most of the music that I produce these days.  I've enjoyed playing and recording many styles/genres of music in the past, and all these past musical experiences influence me today in the way I compose and play.

You will find here on my SC page samplings of new and older works of mine.  The track picture icons more or less help identify what tracks belong to other associated tracks. And I will try to present some extra information for the individual tracks for those that are interested as well.

Thanks for reading... and I hope you enjoy listening! 
Audric Jankauskas

Visit the CALAMINUS MAIN PROFILE for more recent releases: http://soundcloud.com/calaminus-music
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Calaminus was a one-man-project from Germany, producing original works of groove-orientated instrumental music between 2009 - 2021. 
Its main focus was on genres like Funk, Fusion, (Acid/Nu)Jazz and Groove Pop, sometimes enriched by diverse ethnic influences of our Worlds' Music.

All original tracks - performed, arranged, recorded, mixed & mastered by myself - are still available under Creative Common License (CC-NC-ND) for free non-commercial use.
If you want to use my music for any media projects commercially, please contact me. You can purchase a licence of your choice then.

I also released  5 ALBUMS  you can listen to for FREE as well:

"Filet de Fonque" (2010)...  http://www.archive.org/details/Calaminus-FiletDeFonque/ 
"On the Trail" (2012)...  http://www.archive.org/details/Calaminus-OnTheTrail/ 
"Grooveyard" (2013)... https://archive.org/details/Calaminus-Grooveyard/
"To Another Place (2014)... http://archive.org/details/Calaminus-Another-Place/
"No Lament" (2015) ... https://archive.org/details/Calaminus-NoLament

For even more releases feel free to visit my side project https://soundcloud.com/quipmusic/ 
which expands the Calaminus stuff in a proggy, multigenre way.
Some music tracks of mine, that aren't represented on this profile anymore are there as well.

If you like my music, spread the word, leave me a comment & share the groove with your friends... Or simply ENJOY :-D
If you don't like something, please feel free to criticize constructively...
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PLEASE NOTICE:
As mentioned already above, all albums and my whole music catalogue can be downloaded for private non-commercial purposes without any costs.

BUT: if you want to use it in any media project of yours, please contact me first. Commercial usage of my music is strictly prohibited unless otherwise expressly agreed!
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Respected musician friends on SC,  I had the honour to make music with and/or I can really recommend to you:

- https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind
- https://soundcloud.com/danarchx
- https://soundcloud.com/jules-keys-1
- https://soundcloud.com/michel-martineau
- https://soundcloud.com/roysmith
- https://soundcloud.com/stringburner
- https://soundcloud.com/simon-reich
- https://soundcloud.com/tunesma
- https://soundcloud.com/audric-jankauskas
- https://soundcloud.com/4pickupguy
- https://soundcloud.com/aleckrand
....
THANK YOU for your music.... and for the moments we shared!
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Some artists beyond SC whose music inspires me and influences my works:

Incognito, Maceo Parker, Nils Landgren Funk Unit, Steely Dan, Soulive, Lettuce, Jamiroquai, Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, Victor Wooten, Bruce Hornsby, Toto, Sting, Beady Belle, Bill Evans, Derek Trucks, Joshua Redman, John Scofield, Adam Holzman, Dave Matthews, Iona, Snarky Puppy, Raw Stylus, Tribal Tech, Spocks Beard, Robben Ford, Ron Spielman, Sceaming Headless Torsoes, Brooklyn Funk Essentials, Yellowjackets, Weather Report and many more...

Thank you for your inspiration!
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And now, last but not least: 
have fun(k), enjoy the listen & share the Groove!

Cause ALL MY MUSIC during the years WAS MADE FOR YOU
and I enjoyed creating all the tracks for your pleasure!

Music is my passion there's nothing else to say, I mainly repost Jazz and Blues Tracks sometime Pop, I am not particularly interested in House Techno Hip Pop,etc.

Jazz/Fusion keyboard player, composer and producer.  Marketing, advertising, publishing and sales career.  Originally from Chicago, where I developed a strong appreciation for the blues and classical, and moved to New York, where jazz and the fine arts are so deep.  Key musical influences include Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Zawinul and Weather Report, Chick Corea and Return to Forever, John McLaughlin and the Mahivishnu Orchestra, Stanley Clarke, Scott Henderson and Tribal Tech, Jeff Beck and Jan Hammer, Mike Stern, John Scofield, Pat Metheny, Emily Remler, McCoy Tyner, Bill Evans, John Coltrane, Jimmy Smith, Joey DeFrancesco, Larry Young, Buddy Guy, Santana and Earth Wind & Fire.   Former classical clarinet and piano player.  Unless noted, my music on SoundCloud was composed, recorded and performed using only keyboards.  An avid photographer.  Many covers here are my shots.  To see my photography look for Herbiejazz on Instagram or search for Herbiejazz on Google.  And a big thumbs up to SoundCloud and the SoundCloud community, and so many friends who have joined me to create.  Thank you all.

Grüße,
ich bin ein Musiker aus Halle (Saale) und lade hier alles hoch, was ich in meinem kleinen Zimmer aufnehme. Von kleinen Impros und Ideen bis hin zu Songs und Filmmusik ist alles dabei. Viel Spaß beim Durchstöbern :)

Greetings,
I'm a musician from Halle (Saale, Germany). On this channel I upload everything that comes to my mind:
small pieces, improvisations, songs and soundtracks for movies. I hope you enjoy my content :)