Contemporary and Jazz Vol. 5 (starting 1/2022)

Painting by Marie-Jose Payannet
Music for Danse Etoile Ballet (www.danseetoile.org) who will be performing The Wizard of Oz January 2023 in Colorado.

The Wizard of Oz - Music for Danse Etoile Ballet

THE RANDOM YET ELEMENTAL POWER OF FRIDAYS

Best of the Cloud 2022 11 13

Soundcloud New Tracks Winter Session 2022

Funk Rock Town - Paploviante

Bruce Klepper Spotlight

6 bars of a cappella followed by 2 bars of saxophone solo. This is the only work that was completed and later stretched back and forth with drums, bass, synths, and so on. I think that there is nothing that appeals to the finished work just by struggling to complete it if I make it like this. I think I couldn't come up with any ideas other than making it this way. When I listen to the songs of the artists who follow me on SoundCloud, I get more and more locked up in my shell.
Is it okay to compose music in a genre where the degree of freedom is much more guaranteed than pop music? It was completed while hesitating. Hmm.

Neither the theme nor the composition comes to mind (work 156) 2021 - 10 - 17 0113

Korg N364 Workstation
Yamaha Saxophone
Monterey Guitar
A bit of faffing.

Marmalade: Best Before 10-Nov-21

Track 5 of the Album https://soundcloud.com/user-461764443/sets/the-firm-dark-orchestral-suite
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at the Firm Ascaridida had in 2019 the smart idea to have one of his laboratories in the Republic of Nicha to leak a virus in order to enhance his pharmaceutical businesses with new vaccines. Not only did it generate billions of dollars of new revenue but it also killed millions of people. The smart idea just backfired at him. Indeed, all his board of director and his own family died because of this virus leak. He is now alone to run this billion dollar firm having a footprint everywhere on the world. Will he be able to get The Firm back on its evil tracks in 2022? 
We shall see.
“This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.”
Music & Production: Syrel
Photography: Syrel (1988)
Music Note: French Horn line partially based on the French Christmas carol "The three shepherds".

The Firm

The CEO Lonely Christmas

The Swamp
Part of the Playlist Mystic Places https://soundcloud.com/bruce-klepper-1/sets/mystic-places
January 2022
Duration 3:00
Photo of a swamp in Madagascar at sunset
For bamboo flute, duduk, clarinets, marimba, digeridoo, field recordings from swamps and marshes in Africa and percussion

The Swamp

Chilled

The Wizard of Oz – The Munchkins
July 2022
Duration: 2:00
Part of the Playlist, The Wizard of Oz: https://soundcloud.com/bruce-klepper-1/sets/the-wizard-of-oz-music-for
Loosely based on Harold Arlen's music for the Wizard of Oz 
Painting by Marie-Jose Payannet
Music for Danse Etoile Ballet (www.danseetoile.org) who will be performing The Wizard of Oz January 2023 in Colorado.
For strings, clarinets, marimba, xylophone and percussion 
From the Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum: While Dorothy stood looking eagerly at the strange and beautiful sights, she noticed coming toward her a group of the queerest people she had ever seen. They were not as big as the grown folk she had always been used to; but neither were they very small. In fact, they seemed about as tall as Dorothy.... They wore round hats that rose to a small point a foot above their heads, with little bells around the brims that tinkled sweetly as they moved. The hats of the men were blue; the little woman’s hat was white, and she wore a white gown that hung in pleats from her shoulders....The men were dressed in blue, of the same shade as their hats, and wore well-polished boots with a deep roll of blue at the tops....“You are welcome, most noble Sorceress, to the land of the Munchkins"

The Wizard Of Oz - The Munchkins

The Wizard of Oz – Council With The 3 Munchkins
July 2022
Duration: 2:00
Part of the Playlist, The Wizard of Oz: https://soundcloud.com/bruce-klepper-1/sets/the-wizard-of-oz-music-for
Inspired by Harold Arlen's music for the Wizard of Oz 
Painting by Marie-Jose Payannet
Music for Danse Etoile Ballet (www.danseetoile.org) who will be performing The Wizard of Oz January 2023 in Colorado.
For strings, woodwinds, marimba, xylophone and percussion 
Dorothy meets the 3 munchkins and receives their advise on finding The Wizard of Oz.
From the Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum: “At the East, not far from here,” said one, “there is a great desert, and none could live to cross it.” “It is the same at the South,” said another, “for I have been there and seen it. The South is the country of the Quadlings.” “I am told,” said the third man, “that it is the same at the West. And that country, where the Winkies live, is ruled by the Wicked Witch of the West, who would make you her slave if you passed her way.” . . . The three Munchkins bowed low to her and wished her a pleasant journey, after which they walked away through the trees.

The Wizard Of Oz - Council With The 3 Munchkins

STRANGE LIGHT IN THE SKY

Hello All
We just wanted everyone who has submitted a track to know that Smirks is continuing to work on these. We are both proud and pleased to say that your response was simply amazing, with such brilliant pieces to work on and, because we want the finished product to be the best it can be, putting everything together is taking time.  Smirks also contracted Covid some weeks ago, which has laid him quite low for a time - another reason things have been held up.  But we wanted to assure you that the project is very much ongoing.  

So Smirks decided to put this together to give listeners a taster of what we want the end product to be.  He hasn't included any of your submissions because he didn't want to spoil the element of surprise for everyone involved.
There are many collabs currently being put together - even my brother Tel and myself are working on something - so it's a very complex entity, all things considered.  But rest assured, we are getting there.
Thanks to all for all your patience.  (Gary Reeves)

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Samples used ( to name a few )
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Voice Actress Jennifer Hale - Game - OVERWATCH - Ashe
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G6nWZ61j_w

MJ - Black or White
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTFE8cirkdQ

intro - ELDERS REACT TO DUBSTEP - 2012
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgII2gDY-Rw

Beats International - Dub Be Good To Me
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MnELifX3sQ

Gaming Music - Star Ocean 3 OST - Requiem For A Saint
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G28copkOp0

Faithless - Salva Mea
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON3PC7ApBB0

Opera - Maria Callas
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iwGIBewHPM

Movie - Gone with the Wind 1939
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja1fqOo4ukc

Movie - Scarface 1983
www.youtube.com/watch?v=35p6iA24_w4

Bobby McFerrin - Ave Maria
www.youtube.com/watch?v=14LcvpXmb74

Duo des fleurs - Sabine Devieilhe & Marianne Crebassa 2017
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1ZL5AxmK_A

The Doors - Light my fire
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbj1RFaoyLk

Dick Clark Interview - Jefferson Airplane 1967
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKtJ0XTwgTE

Indeep - Last Night A DJ Saved My Life
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtfZbj4J71A

Golden Earring - Radar Love
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRlSHG5hRY4

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye5BuYf8q4o

Queen - Another One Bites The Dust 
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwwaWVP2PGE

The Beatles - Love me do
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_ND5fVCEqI

Linda Ronstadt - Blue Bayou
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp9G0zkorio

Wild Cherry - Play That Funky Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHcYFxU4fMo

and lots more ...

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Soundcloud samples used
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Mountain Songs

Norman Chop Trio - Yes we are 1973
Mountain-songs –  https://on.soundcloud.com/Z3B7

Norman Chop Trio - The Quiet Joys of Brotherhood
Mountain Songs - https://on.soundcloud.com/y4ui

Vocals - Hippie Sara - Love me closer
Sara B Vocals -  https://on.soundcloud.com/96Lb

Cello - Rachael Lander
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM9bFD8pq28

TCP MUSIC
Teresa-Powell – Mist
TCP MUSIC - https://on.soundcloud.com/pBs8

ECSTASY OF FUMBLING - A Town Called Ghost
ECSTASY OF FUMBLING -  https://on.soundcloud.com/1Gfy

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Collab info
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Collab admin - Mountain Songs
@mountain-songs - 
Remixer - Lyrical Smirks
@user-820148039
@user-518378272

*New OBC
Mountain-songs – One-big-collaboration-revived-project-please-read-description-for-all-the-info -  https://on.soundcloud.com/fkXE

ONE BIG COLLABORATION UPDATE - Please read description...

(Written by Terry Reeves)
Terry Reeves: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Hans Albers: All other instruments, Arrangement & Production

I think it’s important to say that a lot more women than you think have had one or multiple miscarriages. It’s just that it is a subject not often talked about because of the very personal pain that the couple go through. The unborn life has no contact with anybody else except the mother and the emotions are often only remembered by the mother and father.
When Jo and I were expecting our second child we were very excited and looking forward to having another Reeves in our growing family. I will never forget the day that we were told we were going to lose the baby and once told, left sitting in an open A & E waiting area having to cope with all our raw emotions and the prospect of the impending loss amongst the rest of the other patients.
Jo had to go through a painful operation to terminate the pregnancy and it is a day she will never forget. We were a family of three planning being a family of four having now to plan being a family of three recovering from an invisible loss and explain it to our young son.
It was an extremely difficult time but we were fortunate that after a few years we did have two more children. Jo tells me that although it is difficult to explain the connection she had with the unborn child that the presence of life inside her will never be forgotten.
I felt I couldn’t let this moment in our lives pass by without acknowledging our unborn child in some way. The rollercoaster of emotions we shared at that time from euphoria at increasing our family to devastation and bereavement at our loss were felt intensely only by Jo and myself played it’s part in forging the strong bond we have had throughout our relationship. (Terry Reeves)

Two giving chance for more to love
Sharing excitement of a life that grew
Future moments by imagination
Holding tightly to a dream, not knowing who

The moment will always be there

No blessing from a hand of friendship 
Could change the feeling of love untried
A desperation of disappearing contact
Sixteen weeks of wonder with a life inside

The moment will always be there
Will always be there x2

Will always be there x3

It’s hard to share the tears of life unborn
Expectations waiting, true feelings strong
Growing three to four into a family together 
Not knowing where to be or why we belong

The moment will always be there
Will always be there x2

Many questions asked reasons who or why
Emotional growth but no name it’s true
An everlasting memory impossible to share
Changing 4 back to 3 kept just between two

The moment will always be there
Will always be there
Will always be there
Will always be there

FOUR TO THREE - CRIPPLE CLUB & HANS ALBERS

The Wizard of Oz – The Cyclone
September 2022
Duration: 1:05
Part of the Playlist, The Wizard of Oz: soundcloud.com/bruce-klepper-1/sets/the-wizard-of-oz-music-for
Painting by Marie-Jose Payannet
Bells sound library by John-Marc Ventimiglia @john-marc-ventimiglia
Music for Danse Etoile Ballet (www.danseetoile.org) who will be performing The Wizard of Oz January 2023 in Colorado.
For strings, flutes, celeste, bells sound library, field recordings and percussion 
From the Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum:
[Dorothy and Toto are caught up in a cyclone that deposits them and the farmhouse into Munchkin Country in the magical Land of Oz. The falling house has killed the Wicked Witch of the East, the evil ruler of the Munchkins.] “There’s a cyclone coming" . . . . wind on every side of the house raised it up higher and higher, round and round it went, until it was at the very top of the cyclone; and there it remained and was carried miles and miles away . . . .

What could the little woman possibly mean by calling Dorothy a sorceress, and saying she had killed the Wicked Witch of the East? . . . . “You are very kind, but there must be some mistake. I have not killed anything.” said Dorothy “Your house did, anyway,” replied the little old woman, with a laugh“. "See!” she continued, pointing to the corner of the house. “There are her two feet, still sticking out from under a block of wood.”

The Wizard Of Oz - The Cyclone

🌈 No need for guns, no need to fight 🌈

＊This work is made by overdubbing my guitar playing (mainly chord work) to winkandwoo and The Turtle Project(TTP) 's work "Hold The Line".Thanks to Winkandwoo and TTP for accepting my proposal.

★Key＝F
Lyrics and chord progression for this song:click below ↓
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jN2Q-y5isk2e0teErReV9RT94qiYEzLH/view?usp=sharing

 The reason why I worked on this work this time is because I want to sing and play with everyone.Therefore, I prepared a simple sheet music with lyrics and chords. There is a link above.

This work is probably one of the "protest songs". If I were to compare it to John Lennon's work, I think it would be "Give Peace A Chance." Yes, there are gems that confront discrimination, oppression, and prejudice, denounce injustice, and sing against war, and this is one of them. And not just to protest, but to sing together to "express your determination, clarify your way of life, question society, and lead to reform".

When winkandwoo released this work, I thought he was a great vocalist, singing a lot of important things and weights in the lyrics of "No need for guns, no need to fight".

And now many lament: "Ukraine is my country. Russia is my country. The country is killing my country." Hundreds of thousands of people have been forced from their homes, saying most people crossing the border from Russia don't want to kill people and don't want to serve this government. There is a movement to stigmatize this movement by branding it as a "traitor" and to use public power to contain it. I think protest songs play an active role here. Their lives and livelihoods are with us.

I hope that this song will help mankind break away from the "gun society" where mass shootings occur frequently, and that it will help all those who refuse military service in Russia. And I hope that this song will help unite Russian citizens against the invasion of Ukraine by Russian troops and all citizens who support the Russian Revolutionary Movement.
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【Palm Muting】Also, for those who are practicing guitar, I think that this work will be a teaching material for effectively playing scales using open strings while playing low chords. This time I'm playing Palm Muting all the way through. Below are some video examples that may help you. I searched on youtube. Use this technique to sing while playing the guitar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTEu0D4UtKg&t=243s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yTxf3vHYEM&t=496s

1)
Dm,Dm,B♭,B♭
F,F,C,C
2)
Am,Am,Dm,Dm
B♭,B♭,F,C
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In the 16 bars starting from Am above, there are three short guitar improvisations. I recorded each one as if it was played by a different type of guitar player. I would like you to listen to that part as well :)

Lyrics and chord progression for this song:click below ↓
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jN2Q-y5isk2e0teErReV9RT94qiYEzLH/view?usp=sharing

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winkandwoo  ---- Hold The Line - The Turtle Project (wink's karaoke mix)
https://soundcloud.com/winkandwoo/hold-the-line-the-turtle-project-winks-karaoke-mix
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THE TURTLE PROJECT ... https://soundcloud.com/turtle-project/hold-the-line
Wrtten arranged and produced by The Turtle Project.
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Charts: New & hot https://soundcloud.com/discover/sets/charts-trending:rock:jp
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Plastic Ono Band - Give Peace A Chance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftE8vr0WNus

winkandwoo - Hold The Line - The Turtle Project ft.JUNZO on electric guitar

winkandwoo - Hold The Line - The Turtle Project ft.JUNZO on electric guitars

The Black Hole
October 2022
Duration: 3:00
Part of Cosmic Soundscapes II soundcloud.com/bruce-klepper-1/sets/cosmic-soundscapes-ii
Direct image of a supermassive black hole at the core of Messier 87 
Bells sound library by John-Marc Ventimiglia @john-marc-ventimiglia
For strings, flutes, celeste, bells sound library, field recordings, virtual instruments and percussion 

On April 10th 2019, the world saw the first-ever image of a black hole, as an international team of researchers from the Event Horizon Telescope project released their look at the supermassive black hole. 

This black hole captured by the telescope lies 55 million light-years away, at the heart Messier 87, a supergiant elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo. At 6.5 billion times bigger than our sun, it is unimaginably supermassive—the surrounding circular field of electrified gas or plasma captured in the image measures about 30 billion miles across, or four times Pluto’s orbit.

Paradoxically, despite their light-swallowing capability, black holes are the most luminous objects in the universe. Material — gas, dust, shredded stars — that falls into a black hole is heated to millions of degrees as it swirls around the drain of doom in a dense maelstrom of electromagnetic fields. Most of that matter falls into the black hole, but some is pushed out, by enormous pressures and magnetic fields. How all of this energy arises and is marshaled remains unknown to astronomers. 

The singularity at the center of a black hole is the ultimate no man's land: a place where matter is compressed down to an infinitely tiny point, and all conceptions of time and space completely break down. And it doesn't really exist. Something has to replace the singularity, but we're not exactly sure what.

The Black Hole

(Written by Terry Reeves)
Terry Reeves: Lead Vocal
Gary Reeves: Drums / Drum arrangement
Hans Albers: All instruments, backing vox, arrangement & production

Cover art by Jooinn.

This is a totally stolen idea gleaned from another one of those phone conversations with my brother Gary. We talk to each other every few days and normally end up sounding like two old men sitting on a park bench putting the World to rights.

I’m sure a lot of what we say has been said many times before (what hasn’t?) but one day, out of the blue, Gal says to me “ Sometimes I find things too difficult to deal with. I would love the opportunity to step off the world for just one second and clear my head a bit...” At the time I just accepted it as the type of thing we say to each other but two days after the phone call the idea of stepping off the world to escape the pressures of daily life returned when I was playing my guitar. The words “I’m stepping off, I’m stepping off” fitted with what I was playing and the start of a new opus was born.

Once a song seems complete, I generally record a quick demo and send it off to Gal to see if it has any potential. If he thinks it has, between us we try to put a better demo together to send to Hans.  If he thinks it’s any good, he’ll work on an arrangement and more often than not sends back something back that sounds way better than what we’d imagined.  

We might chip in a few ideas here and there (as Gal did with a totally new drum arrangement on this) but Hans is definitely the one that gives it most of it’s final shape and sound.  I love every step of the songwriting process.  It provides a kind of therapy and the creative process gives every day purpose and interest.  You could say it’s my way of stepping off the world for a short moment.
(Terry Reeves)

I’m stepping off the world
To give myself a chance
For a moment of reflection
Avoid the need to dance 
One thousand miles per hour
Never firmly on the ground 
Gravity with no connection 
Spinning fast head going round 

Stepping off, I’m stepping off
I’m stepping off, I’m stepping off
I’m stepping off, I’m stepping off
Stepping off the world 

No New Year's Revolution 
Rotating much too fast 
Survival of the fittest
Fittest days are in the past
Step off every Monday
Not back until Tuesday week
One moment makes a difference
Like a lifetime so to speak

Stepping off, I’m stepping off
I’m stepping off, I’m stepping off
I’m stepping off, I’m stepping off
Stepping off the world

Don’t want to give a reason
Good feelings are oppressed 
Try different constellation 
Laying down has more interest
Stepping off a single second 
With no single past regret
Not a care for single thinking 
Avoid joining one single thread

Stepping off, I’m stepping off
I’m stepping off, I’m stepping off
I’m stepping off, I’m stepping off the world
Stepping off the world, Stepping off the world, Stepping off the world, Stepping off the world, Stepping off the world, Stepping off the world...

STEPPING OFF THE WORLD - CRIPPLE CLUB & HANS ALBERS

Rapture - Music & Vocal Improv's by REKHA IYERN [Fe]

Cover Art Design - Photos, Self Portrait, Solarium Lights & Graphics by REKHA - IYERN [Fe]

Compose & Produced, Recorded & Performed, Mixed & Mastered at IYERN [Fe] Reocords in CANADA.

A song about how the Queen is ever so proud and endlessly intoxicated...she is in a state of elated-ecstasy because of the miraculous fact that her King is a Good King, born to instil goodness on earth and beyond.  She will follow her Good King until the end of time...She has nothing but deep spiritual soul to soul devotion-admiration for her one and only beautiful King & of course the feelings dwell inside her, the passion fire never ending but rather only escalating. The almighty Lord Shiva says destruction will never win! One could believe that Shiva is King and his loyal goddess wife-is Parvati Queen. Hope you all enjoy this cosmic number!


Rapture - REKHA IYERN FE Ambient M7 Trk +4.0db Vol +0.0db WAV

Trailokya

RAPTURE

RAPTURE - Music & Vocal Improv's - REKHA IYERN [Fe] | Electro Space Dance

The Wizard of Oz – We're Off To See The Wizard – Three Variations
October 2022
Duration: 2:00
Part of the Playlist, The Wizard of Oz: soundcloud.com/bruce-klepper-1/sets/the-wizard-of-oz-music-for
Loosely based on Harold Arlen's music for the Wizard of Oz 
Three short variations that will be used throughout the ballet
Painting by Marie-Jose Payannet
Music for Danse Etoile Ballet (www.danseetoile.org) who will be performing The Wizard of Oz January 2023 in Colorado.
For strings, clarinets, marimba, xylophone, piano, celeste, hand bells and percussion

The Wizard Of Oz - We're Off To See The Wizard - Three Variations

Pierre Bordetti productions (c) 10/2022.
Composed, arranged, performed, and produced by:
Pierre Bordetti

---------- My Bubble -----------

Let the desire rise in you,
let your feelings grow inside you,

clear your mind of your nightmares,
and now open your soul and your heart,

get drunk with joy and good wine,
you will find peace and this great light,

build your bubble and stay by fire,
winters set in for a long time,

build your bubble and stay by fire,
winters set in for a long time,

My Bubble

Original Mix/lyrics & vocal: KOE / *English description below*
Une rencontre, une amitié... Barbara, une femme pétillante, pleine d'humour et de vitalité qui me redonne de l'espoir, de l'énergie et le sourire chaque fois que je la vois.
Le produit vitre sur l'image est une façon de dire qu'elle efface les pensées négatives par sa bonne humeur. Le flamant rose? Elle seule peut comprendre...😄
A meeting, a friendship... Barbara, a sparkling woman, full of humor and vitality who gives me hope, energy and smile every time i see her.
The glass product in the picture is a way of saying that she erases negative thoughts with her good humor. The flamingo? Only she can understand...😄

"Barbara" ©
when i'm with you
I don't care about anything
when i'm with you
when you are there
everything is clearer
we laugh at everything
when you call me
oui, c'est la vie
qui me sourit
c'est le soleil
a clearing
the world can collapse around me
when i'm with you...

*Published under license Creative commons license(CC BY-NC-ND)
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
& protected copyright © France*
Bandcamp: kidofearth.bandcamp.com/music

Barbara (Original)© See the description 😉

Another track done with the remarkable https://soundcloud.com/nakedverse soon to be featured on an unfinished E.P. we are working on. you will always hear it here first. This is a song , a positive outlook about the future of humanity.
Lyrics:-
Are we in the wilderness
As we search for happiness
Is confusion on the menu
As we choose our daily venues
We're bolder and older
And love is something else
The main thing's the right thing to do
It always helps

The twilight between times
Is something to embrace
Before change happens
And everything's replaced
Bye Bye, Bye Bye Youth
Bye Bye, Bye Bye Youth

When life seems to take its toll
And you can't get on a roll
There's a million different people
Having other such upheaval
Who told you , consoled you
That this is all you get
It's time to , define you
Think what you'll create 

The twilight between times
Is something to embrace
Before change happens
And everything's replaced
Bye Bye, Bye Bye Youth
Bye Bye, Bye Bye Youth

It's gonna be so good
Better than before

C'mon out the wilderness
You can find your happiness
With no confusion on the menu 
As you change your daily venues
We're bolder and older
And love is something else
The main thing's the right thing to do
It always helps

The twilight between times
Is something to embrace
Before change happens
And everything's replaced
Bye Bye, Bye Bye Youth
Bye Bye, Bye Bye Youth

Nakedverse/ winkandwoo 2022

Bye Bye Youth

Bye Bye Youth - Nakedverse & winkandwoo

Soft Power

Random sightings-Released: 11/07/22

Here we go with these lyrics ——chill out feel the hype 
this is what I’m thinking while I’m spitting— flames from the mic
It’s long overdue ———so hang tight ——-it’s alright
Some new sound bytes coming through——at the speed of light
38 degrees Celsius ——- converted to Fahrenheit 
That 100 degrees of heat——but don’t sweat it —-it’s alright
Explosive on contact——like——a falling meteorite
could be wrong ——could be right ——but—— I bet you’ll see Tha light (delight)

🎵No limits no hangups ———no safety nets 
think it—- plan and do it ——with no regrets 
not the last brushstroke —-cause the paint still wet 
creating something out of nothing —-is the art outlet🎵

If I gotta do it all ——-then I’m gonna do it my way
I can’t answer every call—— but I bet someone will pay 
seems like just another wall—- can’t say that’s OK 
Wreck em all big and small —-black and white is just all gray 
if I gotta take the fall—— gonna keep it real all day 
so don’t try to break my balls —-and that’s needless to say 

got the mic step on—-combination weapon 
let the legend get on—-data mining brainstorm
anytime I come on—-dropping gems is the norm
feel the vibe transform—-born to win —move on
———if I do it —-I’ve gotta do it my way
—-throwing—down as always——- it’s my mainstay
murdering tracks —with each word——that—— I —-say—-
dividends adding up——————————-for a big payday
maniac— —-————-floating —flowing—like a manta-ray 
—-and if———they love it ———-I guess that—I’ll stay
for a while—putting styles—-on display—-
not stressing rhymes ——cause the——-rhythm’s —hitting———all day

Random Sightings

Vision Of Splendore  - Rerelease

Friday Night Blues

A Collaboration with the multi- talented United Duality, Please go and visit his page if you are looking for inspiring natural and slightly theatrical songs :-
https://soundcloud.com/united-duality
LYRICS:-
If this world was to show you freedom
Would you take it if it shined like a light
Or would you choose to stay prisoner, captive
In this illusion of a life
Have you set your boundaries , borders
Do you know where your heart lies

Do we change the world 
With our hearts and minds
Can we make it better
Can we change perception 
Can we turn the tide

I only hope that we can come together
I see lots of hope but we don’t come together, no no no no

What do we need to turn the tide

Do we change the world 
With our hearts and minds
Can we make it better
Can we change perception 
Can we turn the tide

If this world was to show you freedom
Would you take it if it shined like a light
Or would you choose to stay prisoner, captive
In this illusion of a life
Have you set your boundaries , borders
Do you know what it takes to turn the tide



United Duality / winkandwoo 2022

Turn The Tide - United Duality Ft. winkandwoo

Dedicated to HAM and his banana pellet recompensation.

Space Is Just A Banana Pellet Away

Space Is Just A Banana Pellet Away    Collab NOXPOX

Funk Rock Town / Paploviante 2022
Paploviante Slap Bass, Music, Picture and Mix Mastering

The Wizard of Oz – Ding-Dong!  The Witch is Dead
November 2022
Duration: 1:00
Part of the Playlist, The Wizard of Oz: soundcloud.com/bruce-klepper-1/sets/the-wizard-of-oz-music-for
Loosely based on Harold Arlen's music for the Wizard of Oz 
Painting by Marie-Jose Payannet
Music for Danse Etoile Ballet (www.danseetoile.org) who will be performing The Wizard of Oz January 2023 in Colorado.
For strings, clarinets, oboes, bassoons, tubular bells, celeste, and percussion

The Wizard Of Oz - Ding Dong!  The Witch Is Dead

Another evening in the traffic
stucked for hours on the highway
and all that , just for a ghostly day
behind a cash register

she wanted to write
sad but beautiful stories
just to sublimate her memories
her own little secrets
and reinvent her future
made of special days
without anyone having anything to say 

she dreamed to write
that she was a fighter , a rebel 
able to avoid the worse
and never grow old 
she dreamed to write
that she was blonde ans sensual
just to give herself the right to lie
and go laughing 
to see her own name on a book 
her name on a book 

she wanted to write
eternal stories
of betrayed hearts and feelings 
words that talk of her 
about this love that kills 
and reborn even stronger
some romantic comedies

she dreamed to write
that she was a fighter , a rebel 
able to avoid the worse
and never grow old 
she dreamed to write
that she was blonde ans sensual
just to give herself the right to lie
and go laughing 
to see her own name on a book 
her name on a book

Elle Rêvait D'écrire (she dreamed to write) translated lyrics

Pierre Bordetti productions (c) 11/2022.
Composed, arranged, performed, and produced by:
Pierre Bordetti

-------- Simple comma of time ---------

with just a look,
from a simple view,
simple comma of time,
rest of the soul,
rest of the mind,
simple comma of time,

simple comma of time,
simple comma of time,

Simple comma of time

Simple comma of Time

The Pillars of Creation
November 2022
Duration: 3:10
Part of Cosmic Soundscapes II https://soundcloud.com/bruce-klepper-1/sets/cosmic-soundscapes-ii
For harp, piano, celesta, virtual instruments and percussion.
These towering tendrils of cosmic dust and gas sit at the heart of M16, or the Eagle Nebula. The aptly named Pillars of Creation, featured in this stunning Hubble image, are part of an active star-forming region within the nebula and hide newborn stars in their wispy columns.

Although this is not Hubble’s first image of this iconic feature of the Eagle Nebula, it is the most detailed. The blue colors in the image represent oxygen, red is sulfur, and green represents both nitrogen and hydrogen. The pillars are bathed in the scorching ultraviolet light from a cluster of young stars located just outside the frame. The winds from these stars are slowly eroding the towers of gas and dust.

Stretching roughly 4 to 5 light-years, the Pillars of Creation are a fascinating but relatively small feature of the entire Eagle Nebula, which spans 70 by 55 light-years. The nebula, discovered in 1745 by the Swiss astronomer Jean-Philippe Loys de Chéseaux, is located 7,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Serpens.

The Pillars Of Creation

The Cosmic Hourglass
December 2022
Duration: 3:10
Part of Cosmic Soundscapes II soundcloud.com/bruce-klepper-1/sets/cosmic-soundscapes-ii
Special thanks to John-Marc Ventimiglia @john-marc-ventimiglia for creating the “gliss” program that is used to create the outline of the hourglass shape and short glisses in this piece.
For harp, strings, flute, virtual instruments and percussion.
The James Webb Space Telescope  spotted a blazing cosmic hourglass filled with vibrant colors and hiding a fledgling star, or protostar, at its heart. The blazing formation within the Taurus star-forming region and the protostar within it has been hidden to telescopes by a dense, dark cloud of gas and dust.

The protostar the image centers around is hidden from view in the neck of a dark, hourglass-shape cloud of gas and dust. The dark line across the middle of the neck is a protoplanetary disc — dense gas and dust that could form a planet in the future — about the size of our solar system.

The Cosmic Hourglass

Song about love as a shelter against inclemency of life (translated lyrics below).

By means of some weather sounds, I oppose precise dark parts to more colored ones, with serious work till 3:25 when I had fun jamming, so you can skip to 4:20 & enjoy great outro !!

Clarinet was borrowed from my sister for summer practice. Reed & keywork managing is difficult for a beginner, & home cohabitance was set on serious risk, but with painful effort I got something presentable, or so I hope, as not willing to repeat soon...

Pic: edited eyefish photo taken by my other sister during one of my hard summer rehearsals.

LETRAS / LYRICS

ENTRA SIN MIEDO / COME IN WITHOUT FEAR

Fuera hay truenos; / Outside there are thunders;
entra sin miedo. / come in without fear.

Fuera hay viento; / Outside there is wind;
entra corriendo. / come rush in.

Soy tu refugio protector; / I am your protective shelter;
entre mis brazos estarás mejor: / whithin my arms you’ll be better:
ven a buscar mi calor. / come to find my warmth.

Dentro hay fuego; / Inside there is fire;
entra a verlo. / come in to see it.

Dentro te espero, / Inside I wait for you,
entra sin miedo. / come in without fear.

ER22HC02 - (C) Ruizzo 1995 - (R) Francés Records;) 2014

Entra sin miedo (No clarinet was harmed)

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Bruce Klepper is a Colorado based composer with thousands of listeners worldwide. 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. Klepper's music premiered in Carnegie Hall, September 2022.  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 for over a year now, composing and arranging new music for the dynamic piano and saxophone duo to premier around the United States. Klepper's music can be heard on all major streaming platforms, including Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, and SoundCloud. 

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The Wizard Of Oz - Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead

Bruce Klepper | Composer