Something Else

Oficina Príncipe dos Porquês

Classic

Jazz

experimental

Souh

TrickJazz - 04 - Blue

This is a late night jazz inspired compilation album of all my best keys numbers I've made over the past two years. I hope you like, cheers Mark.

If you feel the love you can buy the album or individual tracks over at Bandcamp here -- ( https://markyd1.bandcamp.com/album/soul-lounge )

Artwork c/o http://www.loungemasters.org/

~~Buy At Bandcamp~~

Soul Lounge - Soul Keys (album)

Trapped

Agent Undercover

This is a late night jazz inspired compilation album of some of best 'night drive' chillout numbers I've written and played this year. I hope you like. The HD audio version is available from Bandcamp  ( https://markyd1.bandcamp.com/album/night-drive )  if you feel the love :)   



Night Drive (album)

I've compiled all my best deep chill out numbers on an album called 'Still Waters' . I guess it's kinda music that makes you feel warm inside on a cold rainy day. 'Still Waters' -  calm, tranquillity and peace to you. Cheers Mark :)

If you feel the love you can buy it on Bandcamp ( https://markyd1.bandcamp.com/album/silent-waters ) or any of the individual tracks, all in 44.1Khz 16bit stereo CD quality.


Buy At Bandcamp

Silent Waters (album)

Dedicated to Michel Martineau who recently passed. Godspeed to you my friend. 

Michel's cloud page

484 - Sunny Side Up Samba (Dedicated to Michel Martineau)

Not sure if this track makes a political point...and let's face it, the way the Western media portrays things, none of us has a clue about what's really going on in Libya....I was just struck by the utter contrast in the way Western leaders and Qaddafi spoke.  But no matter whether one speaks with control or with passion, war is war.

I wouldn't kiss that Camel for all the Oil in LIbya, Dave McKeown with Colonel Qadaffi

I recorded these samples on a recent trip to Scotland...this track contains nothing else but Scottish water from Campbeltown in Kintyre and Uig in Skye poured into my Mac. There is no EQ added, just a little reverb and delay for depth, a touch of limiter for smoothness...this track mixed itself and is free of additives and artificial flavourings. Just water.

Music Made out of Scottish Water, Dave McKeown

day 23. 

feel better, mkay?

むら まさ

day 23: Have Faith In Me

i'll be alright (tonight)

www.muramasa.me

Buy: smarturl.it/sdsw 
Stream: smarturl.it/sdsws
Watch: smarturl.it/ewerkz

someday somewhere EP

Someday Somewhere

Firefly (feat. NAO)

shouts to @harlem_fetty

follow my twitter: https://twitter.com/oshimakesmusic

download

fetty wap - trap queen (oshi remix)

GO INS

(Free SIZE Download)

For more information on Steve and SIZE check out:
myspace.com/steveangello
http://tinyurl.com/angellofacebook
twitter.com/sangellolive
youtube.com/steveangelloofficial


STEVE ANGELLO - CHE FLUTE [FREE SIZE DOWNLOAD]

This is what my daughter and I got up to on Boxing Day.
Siobhan, aka <a href="http://soundcloud.com/shibby-shitegeist" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Shibby Shitegeist</a>, is a DJ and minimal techno is her thing. Her events at festivals and clubs across the UK go under the name Danzshlag and when I appear alongside I am known as Dadshlag....don't laugh!...I'm being serious.
Anyway, Siobhan made all the beats here and I played whistle, clarinet, read some words and helped with the mix. The words are fantastic and worth repeating here. The old fellow in the picture is Joe Cooley, a renowned accordion player of Irish traditional music. The words come from a fantastic book by the Belfast musician and poet, Ciaran Carson. These words are describing this very picture and the reel that I play on the low whistle goes by the name of Joe Cooley's Reel.
"The sleeve is Cooley's face and shoulders and the upper half of the box, the straps digging into his collar-bone, the Paolo Soprani radiator-grille Art Deco aluminium sound-plate-and-fingerboard on his right, the bellows on his left stretched in an elegant accordioned ridge. He has his jacket on. A floppy-collared shirt, a tie; a jaunty cigarette between his lips. It is a gaslight snap, blown up till all the grains show, till you are drawn in to reinvent the smile you imagine to be there behind the eyes in shadow, as you are drawn into the gas of the recording, of the mono LP hissing blackly and revolving in its shellacky crepuscular upon the turntable of an archaic Decca mahogany-veneered radiogram the size of a china cabinet, with its dog-sized speakers and dead mice inside them, after you foolishly abandoned them in the back room of the damp mouse-infested gardener's cottage that you left for where you live now".
 


davemckeown.co.uk

Jaunty Cigarette, Dave McKeown with Shibby Shitegeist

Bootleg del magnifico concierto que ofreció Sade en el Festival de Jazz de Montreux en 1984. Ese mismo año la banda liderada por la sensual Sade Adu lanzaban su primer álbum llamado Diamond Life que fue toda una revelación dentro del R&B el Smooth-jazz o el Jazz de aquella época. Los organizadores del Montreux no se equivocaron al invitar al evento a la banda Sade, dado que realizaron el mejor concierto que un servidor ha podido ver y escuchar de los que han realizado hasta la fecha.

El concierto comienza con Why Can't We Live Together un tema bastante suave pero con unas subidas y bajadas de voz de Sade Adu increíbles, el segundo tema es Your Love Is King que probablemente sea la mejor canción de la banda y se nota que gusta porque el público grita al comienzo de acto. En tercer lugar tenemos Hang On to Your Love un tema con un groove magnifico y que la banda se encarga de aumentar su calidad aun más en directo, seguido de este corte nos topamos con Sally un tema muy triste y melancólico, mucha atención al Saxo del señor Stuart Colin Matthewman dentro de este corte y en el resto del concierto.

En quinto lugar tenemos When Am I Going to Make a Living otro temazO muy meloso con la voz de Sade Adu, en sexto lugar topamos con I Will Be Your Friend un tema un poco más movido pero que mantiene el ambiente creado dentro del festival Montreux, en séptimo lugar aparece Cherry Pie un track muy Funky y que parece de películas de mafiosos. En octavo lugar otro temazO llamado Frankie's First Affair con un ritmo muy especial y con la banda ya crecida dentro del concierto. En novena posición tenemos la que posiblemente sea su canción insignia, hablo de Smooth Operator y que en esta ocasión la reconstruyen a ritmo de Jazz o Smooth-jazz, Sade Adu en este corte te lleva al paraíso, con esa voz hummmm y junto al Saxo de Stuart Colin Matthewman hacen que este tema sea algo muy grande.

Para cerrar el concierto lo hacen supuestamente con Love Affair with Life, que es como se llama el Bootleg en si, que hace unos días pude ver en Youtube el directo en vídeo y hay un tema para el cierre del concierto que no sale dentro del Bootleg y se llama Snake Bite, es realmente la despedida del grupo del festival de Montreux. Sade Adu va presentando uno a uno a los integrantes de la banda a medida que van tocando sin parar a ritmo de Jazz y la verdad que se lucen, tanto Stuart Colin Matthewman al Saxo, como Paul Spencer Denman en el bajo. Un concierto para tener muy presente aunque hayan pasado los años.

Setlist Sade - Live at Montreux 1984:

01 Why Can't We Live Together 5:22
02 Your Love Is King 4:34
03 Hang On to Your Love 5:46
04 Sally 5:36
05 When Am I Going to Make a Living 3:56
06 I Will Be Your Friend 5:11
07 Cherry Pie 5:56
08 Frankie's First Affair 4:43
09 Smooth Operator 9:20
10 Love Affair with Life 4:41

Sade Live at Montreux 1984 Bootleg

Here is a collaboration with Matthias, aka http://soundcloud.com/truehedonism, our contribution to the Soundcloud Collaboration Tombola. First of all, big thanks to the Rockshamrover boys for such a good idea, and especially to Barclaybunch Dave for all the hard work and fun he put into organising it.
I hadn't come across Matthias before but we've had a lovely time putting this together. The main musical ideas are all from Matthias. He developed a beautiful gentle electronic theme, both percussive and serene. It made me think of Japanese music so I added chopped up samples of Maria Callas singing from Madame Butterfly, (Puccini's opera set in Japan), some geiger counting hihats and BBC recordings of 9 year old Ayaki and her father Hitoshi who live near Fukushima. The words in English are
"We have a machine to measure radiation,
but it's in English, so I only used it at the start.
I don't really understand it
1.0 microsieverts is high and 0.3 microsieverts is a little bit high.
I check the levels in my room sometimes

The levels near grass and water are high, so we try to play on the tarmac
If I went over there I think dad would get cross. There are lots of trees and the radiation is probably high.
Dad told me to play in this car park so I only ever play here."

I found plenty of recordings of experts predicting one million Fukushima-related cancer cases in Japan over the next 10 years, or talking about the trillion dollar clean-up bill, but none of these were as powerful as a little girl learning how to measure radiation levels before going outside, and having to play in a car park instead of on the grass. Thanks again Matthias.

SCT, Playtime in Fukushima, Dave McKeown with True Hedonism, (translation in track description)

Sade
Is It A Crime?
Live
Bring Me Home
2012

Sade - Is It a Crime (Bring Me Home Live)

Single from my forthcoming album MAD LIBERATION set to drop September 4th!!

Love sharing songs that I get to play sax on and there is a heavy bit of that in this one! 

103 bpm mid-tempo electro soul future funk banger to get up on!!!

Available for download Sept 4th everywhere!!!

<3 GRiZ

DOWNLOAD FREE ALBUM

Smash The Funk

Here is a classy song from Anjù, with a little added alto saxophone for flavour. 

I just love the unique quality of Anju's voice….totally timeless, amazing control and very expressive in an understated way….a voice that sounds like it's seen a bit of life…. been there and done it! I only just met Anjù on the cloud a week or two ago. 

She's back in her native Germany  but I was gutted to hear she'd been living down the road from me in Devon, UK, for six months until a few weeks ago. Ah well…next time.

Do visit her page for more quality music.

Mmh-mmh, mmh-mmh, Dave McKeown with Anjù

Here is my submission for the Soundcloud Christmas Challenge. 29 hapless volunteers were given a random carol and a random genre, drawn from the hat…I drew Silent Night in a tribal style…I'd prefer to describe it as a Christmas party in some West African village…and I couldn't resist joining in on tenor sax. 

Special mention to a lovely website I found http://www.listentoafrica.com 
My beautiful ambient sounds were recorded by these intrepid cyclists on a two year journey through north and west Africa. It's a fantastic website and well worth exploring further.

And a big thanks to the incorrigible and indefatigable David Barclay (http://soundcloud.com/barclaybunch) who organised the challenge. The tracks I've heard so far have been massively entertaining and there's plenty more to come. I know we're all having problems navigating around the new soundcloud at the moment so you'll hear them at http://soundcloud.com/groups/soundcloud-tombola

Silent Night in Africa, Dave McKeown for the Soundcloud Christmas Challenge

Play Hard
David Guetta feat. Ne-yo & Akon

Hey, said us hustler's work is never through
We makin' it 'cause we make it move
The only thing we know how to do
Said it's the only thing we know how to do

Work hard, play hard
Work hard, play hard.
We work hard, play hard
Keep partyin' like it's your job

Work hard, play hard
Work hard, play hard.
We work hard, play hard
Keep partyin' like it's your job

Come on baby and drop this
Scrub that floor and just mop it
Show these gangsters how you cock block it
Don't care what you got in your pocket
I get the way that you rockin'
Flip that thang thang don't stop it
When I just bang bang and pop it
While the club crowded just watch you (work it out)

Got a gang of cash and it's all thrown out on the bar (now work it out)
And it's going fast cuz I feel like a superstar (now work it out)
And you may not have it, I might just broke the law (now work it out)
It's your time to grab it, now make this whole thing yours (now work it out)

Hey, said us hustler's work is never through
We makin' it 'cause we make it move
The only thing we know how to do
Said it's the only thing we know how to do

Work hard, play hard
Work hard, play hard.
We work hard, play hard
Keep partyin' like it's your job

Work hard, play hard
Work hard, play hard.
We work hard, play hard
Keep partyin' like it's your job

Some pressure that we can push
Ladies can't get enough
Got my fitness, I'm looking buff
And all my people with me, I trust
Holdin' down for my suit k
If they askin' you, I'm not guilty
All the thing that I'm guilty of is making you rock with me (work it out)

Got a gang of cash and it's all thrown out on the bar (now work it out)
And it's going fast cuz I feel like a superstar (now work it out)
And you may not have it, I might just broke the law (now work it out)
It's your time to grab it, now make this whole thing yours (now work it out)

Hey, said us hustler's work is never through
We makin' it 'cause we make it move
The only thing we know how to do
Said it's the only thing we know how to do

Work hard, play hard
Work hard, play hard.
We work hard, play hard
Keep partyin' like it's your job

Work hard, play hard
Work hard, play hard.
We work hard, play hard
Keep partyin' like it's your job

Hey, said us hustler's work is never through
We makin' it 'cause we make it move
The only thing we know how to do
Said it's the only thing we know how to do

Work hard, play hard
Work hard, play hard.
We work hard, play hard
Keep partyin' like it's your job

Work hard, play hard
Work hard, play hard.
We work hard, play hard
Keep partyin' like it's your job

Play Hard - David Guetta feat. Ne-yo & Akon [Download]

A-Punk Flute cover

I am a working full-time musician, teaching, performing, composing, recording and arranging, and my gigs in the last few years have included jazz combo, big band jazz, folk, Irish traditional, rock, soul, latin, klezmer, funk, orchestral, chamber, minimal techno, musical theatre and more, so, safe to say, I’ll have a go at anything. 

I'm a firm believer in demolishing boundaries between genres, cultures, languages and ultimately people, and Soundcloud is a terrific place where all this can happen.