it seemed like a good ryhme in my head......

Brian Wes' bes...t

CBGB

jazzvblus

painting

SoundCloud Blues Weekly

Kiss - feat. Neli Coko

Back To Black

Wake Up Alone

Gris Gris

Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya Ya

I present my second arrangement of an original song by James Rivas. 

Don’t hesitate to visit his fine cloud at @j-rivas

James Rivas: Vocals
Dirk Radloff: Orchestra-arrangement

Instrumentation: Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Violoncello, Bass, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horns (2 voices), Trumpets (2 voices), Trombones (2 voices), Tuba, Timpani, Cymbals, Tam-Tam, Triangel, Harp

Jimmy came up with this song in a stripped down version with Keys and vocals and the song immediately stroke me, when I heard it the first time and I also knew, that I would like to create an orchestra-arrangement for it like I did with „You and I“. „Here comes the rain“ is very dramatic and romantic song and a great example of Jimmy’s songwriting-talent. 
I developed the arrangement in the Sibelius notation software with a lot of reharmonization and independent contrapuntal voices and I extended the song with a long instrumental outro-section. Then I went on with the production in Logic. The topic „rain“ inspired me to use some pizzicato-sections, tremolo and Triangel to paint a musical picture of rain. At the end you can even hear some musical lightnings. All in all the result seems to be a blend of european classical music around 1900 and american broadway-tradition.

Recording notes: I was never totally happy with the brass of my VSL Special edition, so I purchased a few months ago brass-samples from Samplemodeling.

http://www.samplemodeling.com/en/index.php

This song features a combination of both products. The brass is generated with Samplemodeling, while all other sounds are from VSL Special edition. Maybe you ask yourself, why I am not recording the violins myself. Well I tried years ago to achieve a violin-group with multi-tracking and the experiment failed. It’s not possible to recreate an ensemble-sound with just a single instrument. Each player plays slightly different. Each player has another violin, which sounds different. In an usual orchestra you have a group of twelve first and twelve second violins, so you would have to use twentyfour different violins and I am sure it would still not sound like a group. A single violin is very different. In this case the samples are (Thank god) not as convincing as the real player.
This is my third attempt to produce for full orchestra after „Deacon Blues“ and „You and I“ and I am still learning regarding Sample-libraries. 

All rights reserved 11/24/2016 by James Rivas ands Dirk Radloff

Youtube

Here Comes The Rain (with J.Rivas)

After The Rain

I Am The Blues

Improvising on the spot it's a moment in time for better or worse. 
I just keep hacking at it until it's right there...
I like the freedom of it, keeping it pretty minimal.

NothinButDaBlues 2018

A Moment in Time

Instrumental: https://soundcloud.com/bwesbeats

Black Coffee

Monsters

Jimmy and I are indebted to Martin Jones @Ver2xif for bringing this great Tyrone Davis song to our attention and for showing us how to sing it right.  We also thank the great Chuck Weirich for gracing this track with his improvised melodic ideas on fluegelhorn.

Rivas/Weirich/Rand: IN THE MOOD

Resister Reprise

Sesame Syrup - Cigarettes After Sex: https://cas.lnk.to/sesamesyrup

from Crush single: https://cas.lnk.to/crush 

website: https://cigsaftersex.lnk.to/web

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recorded December 2015 in Brooklyn, NY

Written by Greg Gonzalez
Greg Gonzalez - vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar
Phillp Tubbs - keyboards
Randy Miller - bass
Jacob Tomsky - drums

Recorded by Greg Gonzalez
Mixed by Rocky Gallo
Mastered by Robin Millar

Cover photo by H. Fugo
Cover design by Randy Miller

Lyrics:

Staring at your Kate Moss shower curtain
Lying on the bathroom floor naked
Hiding coke inside all your orange pixie sticks
You take a rail & spread it on your tit

You’ve had a long list of lovers, 
But none of them matter to you except me
I’ve had a long list of lovers, 
But none of them matter to me except you

Sesame syrup
I heard it a long time ago

There’s a small black notebook that you keep hidden underneath your bed 
I’ve seen before
It says every dirty thing that you did with every single boy
You’ve ever been with…

& we fall asleep to the scent of long stemmed roses
Always dreaming of sex on the ceiling
& we sleep to the scent of long stemmed roses
Always dreaming of sex on the ceiling...

Sesame Syrup

Single, taken from album "All This Noise"

Video: 
https://youtu.be/f7OYaV6PV54

All This Noise

Backstroke

Cold & Snow

Jassbusters is Connan Mockasin’s third album and first in five years. An unclassifiable, unconventional album that neither picks up from nor abandons the modes of 2013’s widely-embraced Caramel or its 2010 predecessor Forever Dolphin Love, Jassbusters foreshadows a five-part melodrama film titled Bostyn 'n Dobsyn, created by Mockasin. Jassbusters soundtracks the unpredictable narrative of the film in eclectic, electric ways. 

Whether bending genres or collaborating with artists like James Blake, MGMT, and Charlotte Gainsbourg, Connan Mockasin has always maneuvered in mysterious ways. After touring with the likes of Radiohead and Neil & Liam Finn (Crowded House), the R&B surrealist continues assembling a cult around his theater, nay spectacle of life with Bostyn ’n Dobsyn screenings and Jassbusters performances throughout October and November 2018.

Cold & Snow

B. Wes