Une année qui commence fort, cool !!! (francis)

I wrote this tune on the piano today to express my feelings of having happily arrived at the other side of a major spinal operation after a 19 month wait.  I’d been thinking of imagery lately of a calm sea, lapping at the shore, then rising into a storm and then ebbing away again.  This is how I feel.  I started the tune with what I think might be a Bb6 but I can’t be sure! I heard the chord on a James Taylor song and thought it’s a great place to begin.  I hope you enjoy it and that it becalms you too!  Thank you for listening. X

Relaxing Piano. After the Storm

(Free WAV Download available here under '••• More'; and eventually as part of my next BandCamp solo album)

Greetings my wonderful SC friends. I hope you’re enjoying October as much as I am. I adore all the -ember and -ober months. As seasons go, this is my happy space. It’s a great time to reflect, and a great time to reset.

Creatively speaking, this song caused a peculiar reaction I wasn’t expecting; enough to make it the topic for my liner notes. The reaction was... nostalgia. The world instruments made me pine for the experiences of my Scottish (clan Mackay) ancestors. And some of my other synth choices sparked happy feelings of being a teenager in the 80s. 

Even now, I’m strangely comforted by this song (a sort of mother’s love/lullaby effect). It makes me yearn for what I imagine to be easier, simpler times… and I couldn’t be more wrong. 

I know my Scottish ancestors had quite a brutal and destructive history. And if I’m really being honest with myself, I never expected to survive the Cold War in the 80s. In fact, I actually adopted a very dystopian view of the world because of it. So why do I (or any of us) have such a strong desire to return to ‘the good old days’, when almost all evidence points to those times being worse for the majority of us?

I’m reading a book right now that puts all of this into sharp perspective. It’s called ‘Enlightenment Now’ (by Steven Pinker); and it has less to do with being enlightened, and more to do with using reasoning to help us rummage through the inaccuracies stored in our minds. I’ll be the first to admit… I struggle with a lot of the concepts (because my ego loves the drama of believing it’s all going to hell). But truthfully, we have never seen a time when so many people were experiencing such a decent quality of life, and Steven has the analytics to prove it. For example:

On the topic of life…. The average human lifespan is now 71.4 years. In the 1700s it was 35.

On the topic of sustenance… Premodern Europe suffered famines every few decades. The typical diet in France in the 1700s was comparable to Rwanda in 1965 (the most malnourished nation for that year). Today, India’s billion people get an average of 2,400 calories a day. Hunger hasn’t disappeared entirely. But it’s nothing like what our ancestors experienced.

On the topic of wealth… the average preindustrial European was fortunate to own a quality garment only a few times in their lives. And it was not uncommon for clothing to be stolen off a dead body during an epidemic… thus continuing to spread the epidemic. Now we have to store our winter clothes to make room in the closet for our summer attire. And we order these items on our smart phones, to be delivered tomorrow.

On the topic of equal rights… Consider Michelle Obama’s quote from the 2016 National Democratic Convention, “I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters, two beautiful, intelligent black young women, playing with their dogs on the White House lawn.” That is a hopeful indicator of how far we’ve come toward achieving racial equality. And there are people still alive today who were born before women had the right to vote. Now women can run for President. Another great indicator we are heading in the right direction. We definitely have a long way to go. But again, it is much better than it was.

These are some of the simplest examples pulled from the book. If you need a booster shot of positivity, I highly recommend it. It’s one of the best researched, most logically presented perspectives I’ve encountered in a while; and it is unapologetically hopeful. It reminds us… the ‘good old days’ weren’t really that good; and the best days are now. So let’s focus on what we need to do next, and maybe park those fond (but faulty) memories.

I hope you enjoyed my latest musical offering, ‘Nostalgia’. :)

Vox Populi

Nostalgia

Iron Dies Last

An honour to work with such brilliant acapella Vocals provided by talented singer Jacobi.
https://www.looperman.com/acapellas?mid=Cobivocals


Produced in the ARAPA Music Studio, Sydney - Australia

ONE IN A MILLION (Feat. Jacobi)

open for collab…

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only the real 140bpm #frawstakwapella…

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🛠 - Made with MOOG & Modular / Multi-tracks
🎹 - Composed, arranged, performed, produced by Pier WILL & Studio 4H09
🔲 - Artwork - Pier WILL
🙏 - Acknowledgements - Ableton, Arturia, Audacity, Cantabile, MSI, Focusrite, Korg, M-Audio, Sony, SoundCloud, Teac, Techniks, Yamaha.
⚙️ - #Ambient #Movies #Electro #Experimental #Minimal #Space
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❤️Love, 🕊️Peace, 🙏Respect

Surprise Pocket

01. THE BEGINING

Night Trip

23Mar23

My naviarhaiku481 submission;
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/03/22/naviarhaiku481-travel-home/
:D

travel home [naviarhaiku481]

Lost on Earth

Another great collaboration with Olivia (O.C.A), where she sang
stunning vocals that intermingle so well with the guitars. Thanks
again Olivia, making music with you is so easy and rewarding.

Hervé Louradour: Acoustic Guitars
Vocals, mix: O.C.A

Music: Hervé Louradour
Lyrics: Hervé Louradour/O.C.A

Lyrics:
Je survis et pourtant
J’ai l’âme d’un enfant
J’ai laissé mon épure
Dans l’Azur clair et pur

J’ai marché dans les plaines
De l’Oural à l'Eastern,
Traversé les déserts
Bu dans les lacs amers

Chorus
Angel Dust
I’m just an Angel Dust
Spread over the Earth
Angel Dust

J’ai si longtemps lutté
Harassée, mutilée
Je ne doutais de rien
Je regardais au loin

Loin du monde d’avant
Je chevauche les vents
Car je ne voyais rien
Poussière je deviens
Poussière je deviens

Angel Dust
I’m just an Angel Dust
Spread over the Earth
Angel Dust (X2)

Angel Dust - featuring O.C.A on vocals

Je suis un musicien autodidacte. 
Mes références musicales sont hétéroclites, cela va de groupes tels Genesis,Yes, Led Zep, Deep Purple, à J.M. Jarre, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, Pink floyd, etc. Mais aussi la musique classique, et parfois (rarement) les variétés. 
 Je ne crains pas d'enchainer un concerto de Mozart avec un morceau de Mickael Jackson ou des Ramoneurs de Menhirs!
Bien que je recherche la simplicité dans mes productions, j'apporte un grand soin à créer des sons, des textures et des ambiances originales, en tentant de sortir un peu des sentiers battus.
J'espère captiver votre attention à l'écoute de mes créations, et Qu'elles vous plairont !

Night Trip

Chris Beaufort

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