This has a very sinister edge to it.  Playful in a scary sort of way.  Really tight percussion.

great track,i like the dark vibes behind the clown.

Brilliant sound creation and exciting story.. Fantastic work Bruce !!!

Imaginative, intense, immersive. Distinctive work

amazing drama atmosphere, tense and an oppressive , very good job Bruce!

A playful piece with a little uneasiness - great depth and beautifully composed :)

rip lou schoen. awesome that you kinda honour him, but this track here might cause some damage to some listeners haha. im glad i dont have a clown phobia....

With Pat's passing, I wanted to post this version of Ode with us doing a little brainstorming on the creation of the song. 
I witnessed a miracle--at least I would call it that.  A beloved rose that was a regular bloomer(pictured) fell victim to the incredibly harsh cold spell we had in February of 2021.  By April when the rest of the roses were waking up, this one had not a sign of life in it, just a brown stump.  I watered, and fed, and waited, and waited.  Nothing.  I dug out the stump.   For Mothers' Day my daughter had bought a rose to replace the one that had perished...or so I thought.  Within a week of planting the new one, the old one put out a shoot just a foot away.  I guess the digging, watering, etc for the new rose stimulated some remaining root of the old.  It has since received lots of love and care, and has at least a half-dozen buds ready to bloom in a couple of weeks.  So this is an ode; to a beloved rose and all things miraculous.  
Special thanks to Pat Howell for the initial inspiration and his fine musicianship and sweet additions with mandolin and octave.  Please check out his page for more fine music @patrick-howell-786748109

Ode To A Rose (with new intro and outro 7/23/23)

The Siren

Original Composition / Performance / Production : Bonetender  https://soundcloud.com/bonetender
Lyrics / Vox / Mastering : Chris Dargay

If You Wanna ... *ft Bonetender

Psycho Island

REKHA - Lyrics and Vocals
music and lyrics by Rekha Iyern Fe for Socan
Jeff Roberts - Bass and various percussive flavorings, quality control :) 
TexMex Shaman - Arrangement, Guitars, Talkbox, Drum programming and overall production


Intro:
Oo Yeah
Ahn Yeah
Hey Hey
Hey Hey

Give it up Baby
Never say maybe
Cuz' you know
It makes me
Totally crazy
And

You want
To give me
All of your love
You know it's true
You do me so
You do me so good
Baby I need
Your love

Give it up, Baby
Never say maybe
Cuz' you know it
Makes me feel
Totally, crazy good-good
Oh, Yeah-Yeah

You know you want to
Give me, your love, love, love
It always, makes me feel
So good, good, good
You touch my woman

Ahn, Eh
Hey, Hey
Hey-Hey
Hahn, Oh
Ho, Ho, Oh

Babe, I need
Your good love
Your man-man in my
Woman-hood
Oo-Oo-Yeah

Give it Up (Badass)

YouTube

Give it Up (Badass) - with REKHA and Jeff Roberts

https://youtu.be/rceuZvj-Xik

VPS Avenge
French Violin
LABS
BBC Orchestra
Free Orchestra  - Kontakt Player
Vocals - Black Octopus
Grand Rhapsody Piano - Waves

Hug Me

The Clown
August 2021
Duration: 2:15
Loosely based and developed from Bartok's Mikrokosmos VoI. VI, 140
Photo of Lou Schoen, my girlfriend Heidi's father, who passed away 40 years ago. Lou was an energetic musician with a contagious smile who was very enthusiastic about life, especially when he played the role of “Bozo the Clown” for the neighborhood children.
For strings, woodwinds, brass, piano, timpani and percussion

The Clown

Musik: DaFlash
Text & Gesangsmelodie: Gabriel Thomas
(wenig)zusätzliches Keyboard: Gabriel
DaFlash auf Soundcloud: @user-494125290
ENGLISH TRANSLATION
OF THE LYRICS CAN BE FOUND HERE:
http://www.dieziemlichguteband.de/dieziemlichguteband-mondmaedchen.htm

Mondmädchen

I found myself scribbling furiously in my little spotty book.  

Messed about with a couple of simple chords and picking patterns and thought I'd grab a quick one-track take to see if it all hung together.

I was quite chuffed - it seemed to fit - got all the way through on one live take too, albeit with plenty of clangers, twangs, tangled fingers, buzzing strings and missed chord changes.  That's pretty darned good going for me.

Every subsequent attempt to improve was, of course, rubbish. 

So here you have before you my flash/bang song writing and recording effort in the raw - no edits no eq.  If it was beer or bread, then over here it would be labelled "artisan" and would command a price premium.

That's my story and I'm sticking with it.

Enjoy.  :)

The End of Time

Not far now, for us to go.
Down our evolutionary road.
Lights flickering out, truth be told.
Not far now, for us to go.
Crawling slowly to the certain end.
Following the neon signs ahead.
Grip my hand for comfort, ancient friend.
Crawling slowly to the certain end.

But when stars coalesce to one celestial diamond,
When infinity’s ticking clock calls midnight’s chime,
When my spirit meets its own event horizon,
I’ll be smiling there, to greet the end of time.
	
Gauge our progress on the ground.
Bible parables everywhere are found.
Pestilence, poverty, injustice all abound.
Gauge our progress on the ground.
No archangels lead our cause.
The thieves that rape the game steal ever more.
With their plague of fixers, liars, cheats and whores,
No archangels lead our cause.

But when stars coalesce to one celestial diamond,
When infinity’s ticking clock calls midnight’s chime,
When my spirit meets its own event horizon,
I’ll be smiling there, to greet the end of time.

Lay our morals down and quit the fight.
Can’t defer the descent into night.
Close our eyes, imagining the light.
Lay our morals down and quit the fight.
Nowhere now, for us to go.
They’re digging up our evolutionary road.
Lights have flickered out, it’s turning cold.
Nowhere now, for us to go.

But when stars coalesce to one celestial diamond,
When infinity’s ticking clock calls midnight’s chime,
When my spirit meets its own event horizon,
I’ll be smiling there, to greet the end of time.

When our universe collapses back to elementary birth
When truth, faith, hope and charity intertwine
To fuse a light too bright for any darkness on this earth
I’ll be smiling there to greet the end of time.

Photo by Usukhbayar Gankhuyag on Unsplash

The End of Time

The return of Mr Hulot - Short Movie main theme. Now on Fetchflix

Jacques Tati created in 1953 Mr Hulot, a lightly neuro-atypical, non-pathological character, defined by heightened sensitivity and human warmth, used as a mirror to expose the absurdity of modern society.

This short movie transport Mr Hulot from 1953 to 2026 to show what modern life does to people. Computers, SmartPhones, Social Medias, ATM, Artificial intelligence, Autonomous driving Cars and so on will overwhelm him big time and show how insane things are getting. 

“This story is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental. And for those who did not get it, Fetchflix TV is also fictitious.”

Music: Syrel
Photography: Meta AI

Musical Note: I am not sure but I think my inspiration on this one came from Bernard Herman and Vladimir Cosma. Let me know exactly which movies.

The return of Mr Hulot

Pic by Geoff Descartes

Published on SC 1 August 2021

In the comfort of your own mind

Reality is optional

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Bruce Klepper is a Colorado based composer. Klepper writes music in a number of different styles, including contemporary classical music, jazz, soundscapes using field recordings, ambient music, and ballet music.  Klepper has been composing music for Danse Etoile Ballet (www.danseetoile.org) since 2016. Klepper has been collaborating with Parlando School of Musical Arts (www.parlando.org) faculty Britta De Groot and Sergei Govorov, composing and arranging new music for the dynamic piano and saxophone duo to premier around the United States. Klepper's music premiered in Carnegie Hall, September 2022.  Klepper's music can be heard on all major streaming platforms, including Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, and SoundCloud. 

Klepper studied music composition in the 1970's and received a degree in music composition and theory.  After writing music for many years and starting a tech company based in Colorado, Klepper retired in 2014 from business so he could devote myself to his true passion, composing music. 

NOTE: there is no compression added to the tracks in order to preserve the full range of dynamics. You may want to listen with headphones or increase the volume on some tracks for the best listening experience.

The Clown

Bruce Klepper | Composer

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