A performance pieced together from a workshop with the first year undergraduate string orchestra at the Royal Academy of Music. Conducted by Chris Austin

Music For Strings

This week we did something super special for Vol. 1-4-3 of our cypher <3

We linked up with @143is and reached out to talented vocalists to give us special a capella's of them covering their favorite Slow Jam/R&B songs, and then released them to the world to remake. Hope you love it as much as we do.

Mya - Smilin' (cover by @maribellemusic)
Craig David - Fill Me In (cover by @ankasings)
K-Ci & JoJo - All My Life (cover by @soundsbynoah)
Dru Hill - Tell Me (cover by @YOUKNOWPHABO)
Musiq Soulchild - Love (cover by @bobby-saint)
Silk - Freak Me (cover by @silkin)
Erykah Badu - Tyrone (cover by @1STVOWS)
The Dream - Can't Wait To Hate U (cover by @iamtribes)
TLC - Creep (cover by @jnnamusic)
Missy Elliott - Hot Boyz (cover by @ankasings)

Producers on this week’s cypher:
0:00-1:30 Daphne
1:30-2:59 @soupandreas
2:59-4:46 @brandonkawashima
4:46-6:00 @sakehands
6:00-7:30 @castmusic4u 
7:30-9:00 @rotate1
9:00-10:20 @ellwhy
10:20-12:00 @briimusic
12:00-13:00 @grrrreatdane
13:00-14:30 @vuurdokter
14:30-16:10 @dullspoon
16:10-17:45 @colesmithers
17:45-18:50 @awe
18:50-19:40 @tkdoeswerk
19:40-21:05 @jabair
21:05-22:30 @jackson-king
22:30-24:20 @sdzzle
24:20-25:30 @deffiedeff
25:30-26:50 @michaeltoland
26:50-28:00 @taijitunes
28:00-29:20 @pagesmusic
29:20-30:45 @dustablanks
30:45-32:20 @aabo-music
32:20-34:00 @thisdemello
34:00-35:10 @auralponic
35:10-36:40 @1stVows
36:40-38:15 @okokko
38:15-39:35 @Penthouse-Penthouse
39:35-41:50 @samobmusic
41:50-43:20 @emes_la | @kianfuertes
43:20-44:40 @happydoghouse
44:40-46:10 @daedelus & For-lorn
46:10-47:50 @goodnightcody
47:50-48:55 @samnezz
48:55-50:20 @joenoraa
50:20-51:35 @thatoldtooth
51:35-53:10 @cashiomovin
53:10-54:40 @flextheninja
54:40-56:10 @devingrove
56:10-57:20 @ghests_il
57:20-58:25 @its-jpaw
58:25-59:35 @kavsko
59:35-61:10 @wearebyus
61:10-62:35 @frankwasjusthere
62:35-63:50 @valentinofficial
63:50-64:50 @nalepa
64:50-fin @playerdave @recipemusic & @jaygonza

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Vol. 143 (The Slow Jam Cypher)

Composed September 2016 to February 2017 and workshopped by the Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra conducted by Christopher Austin.

I found the idea for Yggdrasil from a breif obsession with scandenavian mythology which lead to me purchasing a copy of the Poetic Edda. In the Old Norse poem I stumbled across this Tree, the image of which immediately captured my imagination:

'There stands an ash called Yggdrasil,
A mighty tree showered in white hail.
From there come the dews that fall in the valleys.
It stands evergreen above Urd’s Well.
From there come maidens, very wise,
Three from the lake that stands beneath the pole.
One is called Urd, another Verdandi,
Skuld the third; they carve into the tree
The lives and destinies of children.'

Fundamentaly this image expresses a concept of time entwined with destiny. The Well of Urd represents the past tense, the reservoir of completed and ongoing actions that feed the tree and shape its growth. In this way Yggdrasil represents the very present, what is realised at every pasing instance. Finally the water corresponds to future, intention and necessity. It permeates the image flowing up from the well through the tree and descending as dew, returning to the well. So time is cyclic, the present returns to the past altering it and inturn influencing the new present.

The piece is characterised by a returning fanfare figure. This shard of material remains unchanged whilst the surrounding musical context shapes the way it is perceived. The stillness of the opening is quickly upset by an earthy restlessness which gradualy builds momentum and gains energy culminating in a climax where the energy ultimately consumes  itself, evaporating completely. 
A performance lasts approximately 7 minutes.

Yggdrasil - for Orchestra *Excerpt

Happy Birthday to one of the greatest to ever touch the mic, MF DOOM
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Mary, you make me wanna eat you
Every time I see you, it's like the first time I meet you
Fragrance like a flower, subtle and sweet too
Seductive and whatever, it might as well be see through
Like my genie in a bottle
Miss could get me rich like a magaziney model
Before you know it, he have her on a stroll
Fresh and ripe, perplexin' like Acapulco Gold
If I had to guess, just right, not a day old
Like a cradle robber, copped her off, shop a trailer load
Know the right number, you can get her
And hit while you would've sold to the highest bidder like
Fruits and berries, bring daddy loot in a hurry
Just be cute and don't worry
Type to make a nigga hallucinate and admit it
Then she started losing weight, lettin' everybody hit it
I like Ally, sometimes she gets bitter
Always kept me happy, never had a problem with her
She used to let me use her, back when I was looser
Respect her to this day, and never did abuse her
I told her I'll be faithful, but she don't believe me
I probably coulda been, if I never meet Eevee
She make me feel all fuzzy inside, it's loco
You won't get nowheres near her if you're broke though
Kept a shorty, can't find 'em much thinner
If caught I get mad time just for touchin' her
Knock wood, so much for hymens
So fly, she should be in the sky with diamonds
Little young thing, she likes to do the tongue thing
At times, she would play hard to get, grunting
Or something, she made me feel like the number one king
Run into her now, and we still catch a fun fling
Met her at Central Park this one time
Had the God mentally sparked, reflectin' sunshine
She said, you need to stop messin' wit that white girl
She fuckin' wit ya head and got ya heart in tight curl
We messed around once or twice, but she don't know me
She helped me get money at the Dutch price OT
Plus she from Columbia, so she really Spanish
Cookie known to make a cat bank account vanish
And Miss Hazy, all the women mature black
Every time she sees me, I end up gettin' pulled back
All she want me to do is blaze it crazy
The only one complaint is, she make me too lazy
Sugar mommy laced me with the butter Navy Avi
Just her way to makeup for the headaches that she gave me
It's all gravy, when I'm done getting my mack on
Ally is always there to help me get back on

MF DOOM - My Favorite Ladies (Cantor & Suede Remix)

1st SINGLE ON THE B.O.M.B. (LP)
RELEASED ON MY BIRTHDAY (8/31)

MIXED & MASTERED BY ELIJAH PARK AND JAMES ALCOTT @TROPICANABWOY
@ELIJAAHPARK

COVER ART BY CHI IGBOKWE
@1QUEENCHI

Israelite (God Bless America)

Israelite (God Bless Amerikkka) (prod. Obleeque)

Made this remix a while ago when I was stuck in a bad spot creatively. This one kinda pushed me over it because I forced myself to try something new.

Its short, kinda unfinished and of course I can't get a hold of the official acapella but I like it a lot and I hope you do too.

Felix

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Childish Gambino - 3005 (Felix Palmqvist Remix)

Baby Shusher: White Noise and Brown Noise (Looped No Fade)

Pink Noise (looped sleep sound)

Placid Sound for Relief and Sleep

Pink Calm Noise for Sleep

Crickets in the Nature

Tinnitus Help Outside Cricket Sounds

Cantor & Suede: 
Mike Cantor & Jon ‘Suede Fingaz’ Albertelly
Basically Denzel is 
Anna Cantor, 
Jenn Harley 
and Porchea Tipton

MF DOOM - My Favorite Ladies (Cantor & Suede Remix)

Cantor & Suede

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