I love this, the rhythms and variety of voicings take me on a journey as I listen.

These ol' men can truely shake their bones! :-) Very nice instrumentation in the percussions and also the accordeon

Beautiful lively and 'dry' ballet of skeletons...

Bursting with Iberian character and Klepper quirkiness

What a fine and imaginative piece again !

this track evokes a journey beyond the visible, a soulful flight that touches the boundaries between pain and beauty. Like wings unfolding in the sky of memory, the melody paints the image of a Frida who transcends suffering, finding strength in fragility and color in darkness. It’s a call to inner freedom, to the ability to transform scars into brushstrokes of art, urging us to soar beyond the shadows toward a horizon of infinite possibilities.😍

Frida's Wings – The Skeletons
November 2023
Duration: 2:40
Listen to the Playlist: soundcloud.com/bruce-klepper-1/sets/art-expressed-in-music-i
Painting: Frida Kahlo, Four Inhabitants of Mexico (cropped).  Frida pictures herself at 4, with a Judas, a pre-Columbian symbol from Nayarit, and a skeleton.
Music for Danse Etoile Ballet (www.danseetoile.org) who will be performing Frida's Wings, a ballet based on the life and works of Frida Kahlo, June 2024 in Colorado.
This piece will also be included in the upcoming “Art Expressed in Music” series.
Thanks to John-Marc Ventimiglia @john-marc-ventimiglia for creating the “rattling bones” sound library
Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self portraits and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico.  Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with fantasy. She is also known for painting about her experience of chronic pain. In most of her self-portraits, she depicts her face as mask-like, but surrounded by visual cues which allow the viewer to decipher deeper meanings. Aztec mythology features heavily in Kahlo's paintings in symbols including skeletons and skulls.  In the painting, Dream of The Bed, painted in the year of 1940, Frida expressed her feeling and interception of death, which depicts a skeleton on the canopy of her bed (as she had in her real life). Her husband, Diego Rivera called the Juda, Frida's lover, but Frida said it's just an amusing reminder of people's mortality. Frida Kahlo spent much of her life in pain.  As As a teenager she suffered a horrific bus accident which left her unable to have children and meant she needed more than 30 operations on her spine. Eventually her withered leg had to be amputated and she died at 47. She said in her diary: “Feet, why do I need you, if I have wings to fly”

For guitar, accordion, trumpet, violin, double bass, sound effects and percussion.

Art Expressed in Music - Frida's Wings - The Skeletons

Sunday daydream - Disteso all'ombra, ad occhi aperti sogno...

nobodies gonna hurt you.

https://youtu.be/xDY3nKnG3yI

sunrise (nobodies gonna hurt you)

Sunday Afternoon

Mixed and produced by Lee Childs, recorded with Tom Chadd, Alfie Bernadi, Mark Benton and Jools Owen. 
Lots of layers of dreamy guitars that wash into lush synths and pedal steel guitars, layers of vocal harmonies and a strong leading drum beat that lifts and builds throughout.

Shadows

this song is about my friend who had to do one of the most hardest thing's in his life,he had to give up the precious one he made his vow's to,( his wife ) on that special day when he said ,I Do, and he kelp those vow's, the way God planned it to be.  song written by: Gene Jumper / Co.writter / GW. Suddath.
Music by: NORM EVANS.

if you go home before i do

If You Go Home Before I Do/ Gene Jumper vocal,/ GW. Suddath, Drums,& song, Co. writer.

The new album with the theme “Blues” is now available on all well-known platforms. This album also features collaborations with very talented SoundCloud friends. Enjoy listening

Bluestastic

Lazy Bones

Lyrics by Clay Young
Music created with Suno AI

Dead And Dreaming

The Rose Theatre existed for only 17 years before its demolition in 1604. In the days of Shakespeare's tragedies this was surely a sad tale indeed. 
With 22 theatres in London at the end of the Tudor dynasty these bawdy wooden palaces were situated on the rough southern side of the Thames where cock fighting and bear baiting were also prevalent attractions. The remains of the Rose Theatre's foundations were discovered during recent redevelopment and are now a much heralded visitor attraction.

Track: Recorders / Soprano Sax / Flutes / Tenor Sax / Clarinet / Beats

Pic (c/o Pinterest): A re-imagining of the Rose Theatre on the south bank of the Thames (near the Globe Theatre) in cross section.

Tudor Rose Blues

Live Or Die (2020) Anthology CD3 Track 10

Music:  Little Man Project & Janne Hennie
Lyrics & Vocal: Janne Hennie
Instruments & Mix: Little Man Project

Lyrics:

Fighting against a system
That doesn't really care
They tell us we are voiceless
Can't see us
But we are here..
Want us to believe them
When they say they know best
We are just a number
An impersonal case...

Let's mess up the system
And laugh it away
Using our voices
Let's show them today!

They treat us as an object
Which shall not make demands
They think they have the power
But we will fight back!

Let's mess up the system
And laugh it away
Using our voices
Let's show them today!

Let's mess up the system
And laugh it away
Using our voices
Let's show them today!!

The System

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 - Frida's Wings - The Skeletons

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