Mysterious, a little unsettling but gorgeous. 👏👏

beautiful composition with a rich and original musical texture. Congrats Bruce !

A truely vivid and diverse composition - from the dark intro to the delightful Spanish guitar tunes. You really impressively show your rich skillset here. And truely a cool idea to "translate" painters styles into music. Although I would consider music (and in particular one that is so skillful as yours) also as art, which makes the series title a bit intricate to understand. For me something like "Imagery expressed in music" would maybe work even better :-). Chapeau to that track!

very beautiful orchestration and your composition travels me to the past❤️

Photo : Marielle Lemaire - Ariège - France

Marcher, c'est des captures d'images, des sentiments qui se composent, se transforment, se ruminent en de douces pensées. Dans l'enlacement continu du parcours, cette source de satiété physique offre une richesse grandissante à l'esprit. La pérégrination ancre nos sens dans cette réalité.

Walking is capturing images, feelings that are composed, transformed, ruminated in sweet thoughts. In the continuous embrace of the journey, this source of physical satiety offers a growing richness to the spirit. The journey anchors our senses in this reality.

Ce projet se compose d'un prélude, d'une pièce principale, de cet interlude suivi de son postlude.

3 - Sur Le Chemin - Avec Franck Douvin

My imagining of B's awesome track. 

The Original

https://soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim/giant-bones-and-inscriptions-in-stones?si=c6c55ffbccc44a61887128c80d0ba225&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Inscriptions In Stone

Inscriptions In Stone Belial Pelegrim ---- COtu RMX

Purple Pansy Flowers

Because the old world is really going insane, we need a new one!
Voices were recorded in hostels in South Korea (Seoul and Gyeongju) with companions from Korea, Taiwan, Belgium, Germany, England... Thank you all!
This track is an extract from our upcoming EP: Time Zones, to be released in January 2024! 
Painting by Malka (detail).
Free Palestine!

Time Zones

A New World

https://youtu.be/ZaTwNLZFfSQ?si=qQl6eDhBoCMbQOrT

une funambule

Pierre Bordetti productions (c) 12/2023.
Composed, arranged, performed, and produced by:
Pierre Bordetti

I wish you all a Merry Christmas, an.d the best for the coming year

Let's stay optimistic!!

Joyeux Noël et le meilleur pour l'année à venir.

Restons optimiste !!

-------- Passage to 2024 ---------

Only a few moments left,
a few days, a few hours,
we end this beautiful year of shit,
we start the countdown,

A year too dry,
A year too wet,
a year with too many wars,
too much hatred,
too much selfishness,

Before the passage,
the new promises,
new hopes,
of happiness,
health,
but above all peace,

the passage,
towards crazy hope,
of a better world,

the passage,
towards crazy hope,
of a better world,

Passage to 2024

Passage To 2024

Brian Butts - Guitars, Drums, Bass, Keyboard, Master Mix
Bastacho - Recorder

Morphometry

Bandcamp

Downfeather (feat. Bastacho)

Art Expressed in Music – Goya's Visions
January 2024
Duration: 3:30
Listen to the Playlist: soundcloud.com/bruce-klepper-1/sets/art-expressed-in-music-i
Remix of Córdoba, by Isaac Albéniz, with original composition.
Painting: section of the Pilgrimage to the Fountain of San Isidro (completed 1821 – 1823), painted on the plaster walls of Goya's house and later transferred to canvas.
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (March 30th, 1746 – April 16th, 1828) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker  He is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.  His paintings, drawings, and engravings reflected contemporary historical upheavals and influenced important 19th and 20th century painters. Goya became a court painter to the Spanish Crown in 1786 and this early portion of his career is marked by portraits of the Spanish aristocracy and royalty.  Although Goya's letters and writings survive, little is known about his thoughts. He had a severe and undiagnosed illness in 1793 that left him deaf, after which his work became progressively darker and pessimistic. His later easel and mural paintings, prints and drawings appear to reflect a bleak outlook on personal, social and political levels.  In 1807, Napoleon led the French army into the Peninsular War against Spain. Goya remained in Madrid during the war, which seems to have affected him deeply. Although he did not speak his thoughts in public, his feelings can be inferred from his “Disasters of War' series of prints.  Other works from his mid-period include the “Caprichos and Los Disparates” etching series, and a wide variety of paintings concerned with insanity, mental asylums, witches, and religious and political corruption.  His late period culminates with the “Black Paintings” of 1819–1823, applied on oil on the plaster walls of his house, the Quinta del Sordo (House of the Deaf Man) where, disillusioned by political and social developments in Spain, he lived in near isolation. Goya eventually abandoned Spain in 1824 to retire to the French city of Bordeaux. Following a stroke that left him paralyzed on his right side, Goya died and was buried on April 16th, 1828 at the age of 82.
For piano, guitar,oboe d'Amore, english horn, heckelphone, bassoon, virtual voices, tubular bells, timpani and percussion.

Art Expressed In Music - Goya's Visions

Music by Kontra Sz & Val Akey.
- Kontra Sz: plays rythm guitars, lead guitars;
- Val Akey: drums-, bass- and keys programming (mixing and mastering) + cover art.
Many thanks Kontra Sz for the fantastic guitar play! https://soundcloud.com/kontra-sz

Release date:
12 January 2024

Captive Of Time (Kontra Sz & Val Akey collab)

Tired of cold short days? Me too. Let's party!!  I haven't posted anything new in a while so here's a 10 year old tune that will be new to some of my peers, and those who've heard it have already gotten over the shock. This is an exercise in licentious sexual innuendo and lewd, funky sounds. It's what happens when an otherwise innocent childhood is spent listening to Jimmy Castor Bunch, New Birth, Slave, James Brown, Funkadelic, etc, and there are some biblical metaphors thrown in for good measure. It can be downloaded in case I decide to run for Governor and need to quickly hide all scandal.

OK where does this nonsense come from? 

"There's a primordial dread and fear of the power of the Feminine expressed in the feckless desire to dominate and control a situation that the poor fool just oughta accept as way beyond his own meager forces."  -- Carl Jung

James Brown --  Hot Pants (use what she got to get just want she want)
https://youtu.be/lehBlK2MrD8
James Brown -- Just Look at Those Cakes (yeah he got away with this stuff)
https://youtu.be/7fMNganQ-z0
Jimmy Castor -- Trogolodyte (that bass tho')
https://youtu.be/n0zfdptxQvY
P-Funk -- Undisco Kid (the girl was baaad)
https://youtu.be/o38j7m3ZMWE
New Birth -- Got to Get a Knutt (sorry their title not mine)
https://youtu.be/2HQsslSYDbA
Ohio Players --  Skin Tight (ditches britches stitches, delicious)
https://youtu.be/5Smb9DkYDr8

TASTES LIKE CHICKEN
I went down to the melon patch 
gonna find myself a big 'un
it was Saturday morning and the sun was shining 
and I was ready for diggin'

there she was alone with her hands around a vine
sunlight shining through her summer dress I said my my my

my name is Daisy hope you don't mind
that I'm down here pulling on your vines
now if you please may i keep on pickin?
and one more thing I taste like chicken

she was in my melon patch already picking
and now she tells me she tastes like chicken
this could be the thing that I've been missing
now here's a girl that tastes like chicken

she followed me home with a couple juicy melons
I said baby where you are from but she wasn't telling
now something about her story just wasn't clickin'
I know a lotta girls don't none of them taste like chicken

back in my kitchen I cut the rind
it was pink and juicy on the inside
she said baby just a minute
I need to step outside before we get in it

she went outside behind a big old tree
I was following close behind but I didn't let her see
then I heard something that blew my mind
she was talking alien on a radio line

she came back in through the front door
wearing nothing but a smile
I know she's an alien
but I'll let it go for now

now I'm not sure how it's gonna all work out
I still got my extraterrestrial doubts
but man she looks good standing in my kitchen
and she tastes like chicken

Tastes Like Chicken

Introducing 'Concerto for Piano Etudes 8: Freshly Forged', a piece that breathes new life into the classical genre. Completed just two hours ago, this composition dazzles with innovative techniques and emotional depth, reflecting a fresh perspective on traditional piano mastery.

Concerto for Piano Etudes 8: Freshly Forged

Mysterious, Magical, Music is Wonderful!

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I studied music composition in the 1970's and received a degree in music composition and theory. I wrote music for many years but decided never to  make a career of it.  In 2014, I retired from business so I could devote myself to my true passion, composing music.  I am currently involved in writing music for Danse Etoile Ballet (www.danseetoile.org) and collaborating with other musicians on SoundCloud.

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Art Expressed In Music - Goya's Visions

Bruce Klepper | Composer

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