Beautiful orchestral piece in honour of Hokusai, Bruce!

Calming and reflective ...... a beautiful piece, wonderfully scored!

This is a beautiful track Bruce, lovely arrangement as usual, the exotic insturments add just the right flavor to this gently moving (and moving!) piece :)

You got this spot on.  Perfect languid pacing and immaculately intertwined instrumentation

This might be a new favorite series of yours. I'm liking the complexity and diversity. :)

Great work!  … 🌍☮︎👍🐞🍀2024

@novembersoundmusic Too funny!  Always a pleasure to hear from you Bill!

The latest songs from the Fantastic Artist's/Bands on Soundcloud.

AB Playlist 124 Part 1

Julie

Pictured above is the song author/musician keeping a low profile.
Lyrics:
You know she's an exhibitionist
She likes to talk about her business
And she talks about it loud
10 million followers on the internet
She's an exhibitionist
That's not what I do
When I walk into the room
I am real smooth
You know, if you know me well enough
I like to keep it cool
I like to keep it loose
With a low profile (3X)
I like to keep it loose, I like to keep it cool

Yeah, an exhibitionist
Talk about our business
Talking about it loud
Get those likes
Don't forget to hit that button to subscribe
That's your life, it's not mine
With a low profile (2X)
Keeping it cool
There's are things you're gonna think, but I already knew
With a low profile (3X)

I like to keep it loose
I like to keep it cool
You know, that's what I do
When I walk in a room
I keep my low profile
Sometimes you just think I'm in the ether
Like I was never there at all
But watch me be just real smooth
And exit this song
With my low profile...

Low Profile

Sun And Rain

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

To my dear HyLGZ22, this dark ambient experimentation around repetitive patterns, enlightened by saturated melodies and seducive voices.

Sweet Polyphony Of Desire

LEVEL 3

Above Dreams

Above Dreams (DEMO)

Art Expressed in Music – Hokusai's Immortality
November 2023
Duration: 2:40
Listen to the Playlist: soundcloud.com/bruce-klepper-1/sets/art-expressed-in-music-i
Painting: The Inume Pass in Kai Province from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji 
Katsushika Hokusa.(1760 –1849), known simply as Hokusai, was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, active as a painter and printmaker. He is best known for the woodblock print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, which includes the iconic print The Great Wave of Kanagawa,  In addition to his woodblock ukiyo-e prints, Hokusai worked in a variety of mediums including painting and book illustration. Starting as a young child, he continued working and improving his style until his death, at 88. In a long and successful career, Hokusai produced over 30,000 paintings, sketches, woodblock prints, and images for picture books in total. Innovative in his compositions and exceptional in his drawing technique, Hokusai is considered one of the greatest masters in the history of art.  At the age of seventy-five Hokusai defiantly referred to himself as ‘the old man mad about painting” as he railed against his mortality by declaring that he would live past 100 years and in so doing, achieve artistic immortality. “From the age of six I had a penchant for copying the forms of things, and from about fifty, my pictures were frequently published; but until the age of seventy, nothing that I drew was worthy of notice. At seventy-three years, I was somewhat able to fathom the growth of plants and trees, and the structure of birds, animals, insects, and fish. Thus when I reach eighty years, I hope to have made increasing progress, and at ninety to see further into the underlying principles of things, so that at one hundred years I will have achieved a divine state in my art, and at one hundred and ten, every dot and every stroke will be as though alive.” Told by Gakyo Rojin Manji (Old Man Mad About Painting). 
For strings, shakuhachi, koto, english horn, bass clarinet, piano, vibraphone, cloud chamber bowls, virtual instruments, sound effects and percussion.

Art Expressed in Music - Hokusai's Immortality

Even feat. Alley / Paploviante
Paploviante: Bass, Music, Composing, Arrangement, Mix, Picture and Mastering
Vocals and Lyrics: 
Alley from Ghosthack www.Ghosthack.de
- Verse One -
I’ve tried everything
My minds been racing round a track
But I’m getting numb to the feeling 
Of forcing myself to love you back
- Pre Chorus -
I should want you more 
On paper you’re the perfect man
But there’s a lingering 
Deep inside that tells me 
You’ve been wrong since we began
- Chorus -
I’d never ask you to change 
But what I need 
You can’t give me 
I won’t say an apology
You’ve been sweet
But it’s time to leave
It’s time to leave
I’ve lost feeling
I need to breathe, feed this aching
What part of this aren’t you getting
- Verse Two -
I’ve tried everything
Nothing gets through to you
I’m numb to your loving
And I can’t change
That I’m through with you

Even - feat. Alley / Paploviante Music

This was a total snafu on my part.  Last evening I uploaded this thinking it was only for myself and a very special friend with whom I share music.  Evidently it was set to "Public." It seemed too late to take it down because when I discovered it I already had notifications.  So.....ready or not.  By the way, I didn't lose any sleep over it.
A HUGE thank you to David Dunham for mastering this for me after the fact.
I owe you, David.
@david-dunhamuser589535203

Sleepless

Unless you’re living in a cave, you know that our most recent former president here in the US is now a convicted felon, guilty of 34 counts of tearing the tags off of his mattresses.  His political & media critics, of course, can't contain their excitement, breathlessly awaiting his sentencing on July 11.  Hell, even our current President is giddy about it – he’s just not exactly sure how to express that kind of emotion.  

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For this one, I rounded up my fantasy band, the Famous Texas Men Of Note, to perform at the imaginary Seven Sisters Dance Hall, just west of Austin in the heart of the Texas Hill Country.  The crowd wasn’t huge that night, but it was plenty raucous.  Needless to say, we brought the house down.  We always do.
                                  
LYRICS
Finally bagged the prize,
Event commemorated with a photograph,
A delightful list of crimes,
Got ‘em prancin’ with the lawyers down the primrose path,
The scribes down in the court,
Breathlessly report,
With a glee they can’t contain,

Oh they’re giddy….

Giddy like the rats that swarm the sewage slag,
Giddy like the vultures, feasting on the rotted culture,
That has spawned them from its womb,
And they tell us all how grateful we should be,
Cause they’re doing it to save democracy.

Yeah all fortitude & grit,
Our protectors wouldn’t quit,
On this noble quest,
There would be no rest,
Staged sudden raids, drew dossiers,
Tried Russian links, threw kitchen sinks,
To cage the dreaded pest,
Damn the proper form,
They’ve snared Le Bete Orange,
Slam the gavel, bring the charge,

And now they’re giddy…..

Giddy like the buzzards circling o’er their prey,
Giddy like the varmints, chewing on the hated target,
While the judges hold him still,
Giddy like the frantic hawks, flailing with their shrilly squawks,
The fear they just can’t kill,
Damn the coming storm,
Now they’ve booked Le Bete Orange,
Slam the gavel, bring the charge,
Hey, the law may be applied unequally,
But it’s the only way to save democracy.

I beg you Lovely Lady, turn your head away,
Away from the shame, away from the pain,
America, America, how did we let it get this far?
We are your sons, what have we done?
What have we done……….

Ah but giddy doesn’t last, when the vengeance & the wrath,
Shred the piers that bear the load,
No it won’t be so hysterical, when even Heaven’s miracle,
Can’t keep our father’s code, 

Oh but decision day is nigh, & the beast is still alive,
And far too many still believe…..

So arrest the Monster!...show it on TV,
Silence him & anyone who won’t concede,
There’s no time for constitutionality,
When the mission is to save democracy.

Giddy (now with lyrics)

Recorded in Modesto, Ca.   Featuring Hammond B3 Organ solo. Gibson 335 Electric Guitar solo. Acoustic Stand-up Bass. Drums, Full Drum kit. Percussion Tambourine, Zildjan 22" ride & crash Cymbal. Hammond B3 Organ Rhythm.

Smokin

Bluez House

“Dancing in the distance”

おくつきは並びたれどもうつし世に相ひ逢はざりし吾子三人はや
木下利玄 (1886-1925)
出典：『木下利玄全歌集』五島 茂 編　岩波文庫

The graves of three brothers and sisters are side by side. They have never seen each other in this life.
Rigen Kinoshita(1886-1925)
Source: “Complete Collected TANKA(Japanese Short Poem) by Rigen Kinoshita: editing by Shigeru Goto”　Iwanami Shoten Publisher

Art work: RondellMelling via Pixabay

Dancing In The Distance

Respite Of The Bothy

THE DAYS THE WEEKS AND THE YEARS
Written, Performed, Produced & Mastered
by Andrew Borderick Copyright 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWJtWEi-2zM

ANOTHER WORLD

THE DAYS THE WEEKS AND THE YEARS

THE DAYS THE WEEKS AND THE YEARS (see info for video link)

Hello Soundcloud, thanks for the Listens, Likes and Support. Im from Melbourne Australia, I have been playing guitar for many years now and played in two bands during the 80's & 90's (STOLEN CAR original) & (STORM cover),both bands never released any material. Since 2010 i have been writing songs and tunes and recording them in my music room (3rd Bedroom), i play Guitar, Bass, Keys, BFD2 Drums(programmed)and Vocals on all of my songs which i class as Demo's, I love all types of music but Hard Rock, Rock to Alternative appeals to me most.
ALL SONGS POSTED ARE SUBJECT TO COPYRIGHT.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED BY THE OWNER.
Thanks again to everyone listening out there in the world, always looking forward to new material on Soundcloud,
Character Picture By, Rianna Borderick 2017
All artwork by Andrew Borderick
CONTACT : andrew@netec.com.au
Regards 
Andrew Borderick. (March 2017)

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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 - Hokusai's Immortality

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