Some FAVs - Instrumental / Classical

The best track I've listened in March 2024 on SoundCloud. Their order does not matter and is only a result of the order in which I came across these songs.

Best of SoundCloud March 2024

Shock the Algorithm

Sleep assist

On Giacometti

Spring

Struggle

Morning

Allegra

Stampa

Absolutely happy to be able to record with my daughter 

Mia Monterde: transverse flute.
Gaspar Monterde: guitars & keyboards.

impermanence

Video link https://youtu.be/jLB0zbM3dBw

Each winter here in the UK, small birds enact one of natures great spectacles. Each evening flocks ranging from a few hundred to over 100,000 individual Starlings form up into a single flowing entity swirling above their communal roosting sites. 
Why they do this is not fully understood, with theories ranging from a strategy to distract predators, to a grand display designed to draw more birds to the flock for the purpose of maximising the body heat being generated by the mass of the flock in the roost. 
Whatever the purpose of this behaviour it creates a unique and magical aerial display of great beauty.

The track began with the repeating mallet sequence, then the strings and lastly the piano. I'm finding myself increasingly drawn to improvising around basic chord progressions at the moment and this is another product of this approach. I'm  resisting the temptation to quantize or mess around with the midi in post, so it's all as played and of the moment. 

Thanks for listening, it's really appreciated. 

Murmuration

Spring time (Guitar solo)

We did another piece , so maybe we will keep doing it 

Aporia is
Dani Kirby: piano
Bruce Musser: guitar
Dane Renshaw: drums
Mat Ward: electric bass

Aporia #2

Taken from the upcoming STA debut album "Rock and Roll Kills" (2024)
Youtube link: https://youtu.be/1drueM8F0Hc

lyrics:
butterfingers
---------------

I heard this story a long time ago
i heard it before, and now i am long gone

I faced my demons and now i'm back strong
not headstrong, at some point i was wrong

butterfingers, we lost control
we slipped away and run away

i cross my fingers, we won't mess it up 
again this time, i hope you'll be fine

you were so sloppy and gave it up
i hope you remember, that i was your crutch

next thing you know, was to lose control
and now you crawl, to save your soul
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(c)&(p), all rights reserved, STA 2023.

Rock and Roll Kills

butterfingers

This is my version of the wonderful Opening by Philip Glass from Glassworks. It largely follows the piece as written, but I've added a a few bits of my own and not followed the structure exactly, hence slight rework.

This is one of the first pieces that caught my imagination when I began learning to play piano and it's taken till now for me to get to a point where I'm ready to share my take on it. I'm still very much a late starting learner with the piano, but hopefully there's enough here to get across the beauty of this piece of music.

A slight rework of Opening

Epic, Cinematic and Orchestral Music
Picture Deviant Art - Asymoney
Franck C Production
Music by Franck Charles ©
ASCAP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4QL-bbI0P4

The Last Warrior

Reflections In Blue

Yunaversal/Wild Honey

Azzuris (World of Tomorrow)

In the shadowed alleys of a metropolis plagued by corruption and despair, lurks a figure shrouded in mystery, known only as Trapezoid.

Trapezoid

A QUOI SERT-IL CET USTENSILE
EN QUOI NOUS EST-IL UTILE?

C’EST JUSTE UN DEAL
UN PEU DÉBILE
UNE ARNAQUE MERCANTILE

COMBIEN ÇA COÛTE ET QU’EST-CE QUE ÇA RAPPORTE
PRENDRE LA ROUTE CLAQUER LA PORTE  
COMBIEN

QUEL TEMPS FAIT-IL À NASHVILLE
ICI IL NOUS PLEUT DES TUILES 
ET DE MÉNILMUCHE À BELLEVILLE
DE NOS AMOURS QUE RESTE-T-IL

QUOIQU’IL EN COUTE ET QUOI QUE ÇA RAPPORTE
CLAQUER LA ROUTE PRENDRE LA PORTE
COMBIEN ?

JE PRENDS LA ROUTE JE CLAQUE LA PORTE
MARCHE AVANT TOUTES ET QUE LE DIABLE M’EMPORTE
AU LOIN
COMBIEN ?

OUAIS MOI JE FILE JE ME DÉFILE
SOUS UN CIEL INDÉLÉBILE

DE VILLE EN VILLE
SANS DOMICILE
DIRECTION BLUEBERRY HILL

COUTE QUE COUTE SE FOUTRE À LA PORTE
TAILLER LA ROUTE Y’A QUE ÇA QUI RAPPORTE
COMBIEN

LE TEMPS NOUS FILE ENTRE LES CILS
EN LARMES DE CROCODILE

A QUOI SERT-IL CET USTENSILE
EN QUOI PUIS-JE VOUS ÊTRE UTILE?

ET LOIN DES VILLES HORS DES CHEMINS
FINIR TRANQUILLE VIVRE SA FIN
ENFIN

USTENSILE (Lyrics)

Had my lovely acoustic piano tuned recently so felt like it was time for some song writing there. 😊❤️

Thanks to my lovely BF Sander for this wonderful mastering job. @wane-of-summer for his fabulous music 😊🎶❤️🎵🎼🎹

Love Me And Leave Me (with acoustic piano)

Thank You so much for over 1400 plays! ❤️

This time, I return to the realm of fantasy, where my characters, upon arriving in the North, found themselves in the dwarven mines. There, they are to meet with the Dwarf King's son, who will task them with aiding in uncovering the mystery surrounding his father's death, slain in a goblin ambush. However, before this occurs, they take part in a funeral ceremony.

To craft this piece, I utilized only the free VSTi's by ProjectSAM @projectsam: Free Orchestra 1 and 2. I've begun working on it 2 months ago... It's one of my over 30 projects in development ;)

Thanks goes to my friends and test drivers: kavvka @grzegorzkawka and Alexander Stratonov @ephtrackx

Picture generated by me in Leonardo.ai

Funeral of the Dwarven King

The Road To Promise

We're late starters, hence the name.  Andy started playing and learning how to use a DAW to keep distracted during the covid lockdown, while Helen finally realised a long held ambition to have a go at singing, and is now both writing and performing.
We love the community on Soundcloud, where we can share our music with like minded souls.

Andy & Helen

A slight rework of Opening

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