DD Reggae/Funk/Pop/New wave/Jazz/Fusion/Chill ...wizz !

A  thoughtful jam (kind of a recreational  re-creation !:)) thinking of Serge, with a mix of recent influences (Grand Tourism ...)



En pensant à Serge ...

Just played the Bass over it... this nice composition is from DD John ;-)

Collaboration with DDJohn... playin Bass over his "Javelin Spear it" song

An exploration in reggae universe with my old clarinet  ;-)

Clari-Reggae

A few notes in mind this morning ...a big trip at the end of the WE ;-) ! Going further into mixing genres ...Hoping you like it :)) Have a very nice day :)

Clari-Fusion

A celtic ballad on a universal theme ...with special thoughts for BB, 80 years old today...and our very dear Beatles  :-)- Please visite Wullie's page ... amazing Beatles reminiscences with a personal touch (https://soundcloud.com/w-paterson-1-1)
 Lyrics / vocals / lead folk guitar / Bass / tambourine:  Patersongs (https://soundcloud.com/w-paterson-1-1)
With very kind and great inputs from Conover   (https://soundcloud.com/conover)
(very little of the) Lyrics/wind instruments (except bagpipes!)/ additional Folk guitar (open tuning)/final mix : DDJohn
Scotland-USA-France very nice and fun collaborative work (with a really nice contribution also  from Switzerland  ! :)(https://soundcloud.com/alexis-roche-2)

& With the courtesy of freesound
- Bagpipes (https://www.freesound.org/people/Robinhood76/sounds/106570/#)
- Single beat war drum (https://www.freesound.org/people/Matt%20Namer/sounds/93750/)
- Rolling drums (https://www.freesound.org/people/qubodup/sounds/166540/)

Why is this love still haunting me
Reflections that echo through time
The girl I loved from yester-year
I knew she would never be mine

Can see the sunlight in her eyes
The wind it blew through her hair
My mind I see her haunting smile
For me she would never care

I cant let her go 
She seeps through my soul
Like wine spilled on the floor
This ghost from my past
Her spells been cast
Makes me want her more amour

I gave away my love too soon
Nieve I played like a fool
I showed her every card I had 
Instead of playing it cool

Lost Amours - Patersongs/DDJohn collaboration (SCO-FRA)

Tenderness (Music and theme by Pierrou)
Basse & Guitars : @pierrou
Clarinettes : @stevee101

Tenderness (Pierrou & DDSteph)

Update 04/02/2017
Bruce released a wonderfully mastered version from Abbey Road studios  of his original track !! Really worth a check ;-))
https://soundcloud.com/conover/driven


This beautiful track from Bruce Conover (https://soundcloud.com/conover/driven) took us way back  ...  down under ... to  Australia  ... Hope you like this little  dreamtime imagined with the complicity of Alexis (@alexis-roche-2):)
This is another (!) remix of Bruce Conover's  really great track 'Driven' :)

Music, lyrics, vocals, all instruments except guitars, didge and clarinets, arrangements, production: Bruce Conover (@conover)
Reversed electric guitar: Barry Snaith (@barry_snaith)
Acoustic guitar: Alexis Roche (@alexis-roche-2)
Slide Guitar, Didge, clarinets, additional "soundscape" effects (from freesound: fire, australian birds and nightlife ..)(@stevee101)

Previous remixes of this beautiful song may be found here:

https://soundcloud.com/barry_snaith/driven-conover-the-inconsistent-jukebox-remix-feat-echocosmic

https://soundcloud.com/alexis-roche-2/driven-conover-pashtoon-edit-feat-the-inconsistent-jukebox-and-alexis-roche

Driven

I have been a driver
And I have been Driven
And I have come across this road before
I am not a Holy man
But I have been taken
to the promised land before

This has been the longest road
that I have traveled and I wound turn back now

Driven ...down under... (remix of "Driven"  by Bruce Conover) (USA SWI  ENG FRA)

All this wonderful music except clarinets : https://soundcloud.com/m-a-i-n
Claris : DD
Peace, Love and Reggae ;-)


DDJohn Meets M.A.I.N. - Brilho (BRA-FRA)

Beautiful music and photo of Montmarte by Paploviante @paul-racle
Clarinet and little guitar riffs here and there : Steph (DDJohn)


70erFunk (Paploviante/DDJohn) SWI-FRA

Lyrics : Arnaud Tranquil (@arnaud-tranquil) - ( Thanks Arnaud for your great ideas and lyrics ! ;-) and DDJohn (Steph)
2nd mix.
Vocals/All instr. : DDJohn (steph) with the help of Cubase (drums, double bass, accordeon) and freesound (wolf/train/second female voice)
This track is about the joys of transports in Paris :)
Hope you still enjoy a visit in our beautiful capital ! :)
Inspired from the following French artists :
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n63woek9vzc
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jCh-JXq3PU
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZi3k3LeP_g
original music idea derived from 
Conover – Highway-man-splintered-finger-conover

*** Paroles ***
Regarde la ma Ville 
C'est pas vraiment bidonville
Mais il y a quelque chose qui va pas 
(*2)

Pourquoi, Pourquoi ?
Regarde la ma Ville 
C'est pas vraiment bidonville
Mais il y a quelque chose qui va pas 

Look look out 
We're in "the city - light"
Look out look out
But something's not really right ...

Pourquoi, pourquoi...
Tout ces gens là...
Les yeux hagards ..
Dans le métro du soir ...

Regarde la ma Ville 
C'est pas vraiment bidonville
Mais il y a quelque chose qui va pas 
Pourquoi, pourquoi dis moi ?

Why ...
So many people 
Left out on the road ...
Is that a way ...
Is that a way ...

(Arnaud's  :)
et pour un tour, c'est reparti 
dans la fadeur d'un matin gris
ou comme des sardines, huilées, moites, 
chacun se tasse dans une boîte

triste rengaine au quotidien
transport et déprime en commun
ou chaque jour bien souvent
en souterrains on s'entasse nonchalants

dans des rames sans âmes qui du matin au soir
transportent des ombres d'hommes
dont le mal-être se lit dans les regards
ternes et fuyants, la vie déconne

Regarde La Ma Ville - (Paris Transports blues ) - Remixed

HAPPY NEW YEAR  !!  :)
Thank you for your kind listening and support :))
***
Compo/All instr/mix : DDJohn (Steph) with the help of Cubase (Muted trumpet, drums, base, synths).
***
Made with very special thoughts and love to my very dear musician brothers :))


Let Your Dreams Show The Way

Just a little Friday evening jam idea  playing with some well known  melodic lines :)
Any feedback welcome :)
Feel like adding a few bars/ enriching the instruments palette   in this groovy chillout spirit? Just do it ! I'd be more than happy to mix in your stem !
Special thanks for Jean-Michel George for finding a great title for this jam !!

Rhapsody in a Blue-Bolero

Inspired by :
Le soir (Django)
A beautiful djanguesque version here :  https://soundcloud.com/hottigaeru-trio/le-soir-django-reinhardt
AND ...just a bit of fun ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q__RO4pKJZk
Hope you enjoy :)
All Instr/Lyrics/Vocals/Mix : DDJohn (Steph)
(real clarinets and guitar, all the rest, real fingers !)

Ah que j'aime flâner
Le soir, le long des quais
Tout Paris s'illumine et me sourit 

Je remonte la Seine
Comme Django ou Verlaine
Le soir à Paris c'est l'Espoir



Variations Sur Le Soir (Django Reinhardt) Avec Sophie Daumier Et Guy Bedos

Riddim: Jon K.T Lindley (soundcloud.com/jon-lindley)
Lyrics, vocals : https://soundcloud.com/arnaud-tranquil
Clarinets : DDJohn (Steph) : https://soundcloud.com/ddjohn

Et Après

Et Après nous, man, que restera-t-il ?
quand nous ne serons plus que des poussières inutiles
bien malgré nous, man, souvenirs futiles
d'une vie souvent rasoir et vécue sur le fil

Deviendrons nous, man, de vieux fossiles ?
quelques mots dans l'histoire oubliée d'une ville
mais ne crois pas , man, que cela est facile, 
quand la vie choisit pour nous des routes si fragiles

Et Après nous, man, que restera-t-il ?

Et Après ....(Arnaud Tranquil) - Riddim from Jon K.T Lindley

My little tribute  to Michel Fugain ...
from ...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2UhQAhLc2Y
with a mix of different influences :
Django ...Les yeux noirs ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua-MWLJvGvMf
  https://soundcloud.com/lucylunegillespie/mind-soul
Hope you enjoy :))))
All instruments played by DD John (Steph) :))

C'est Un Beau Roman ..

Let me present you those awesome musicians who have participated at this Reggae Jam!
Bass: Mirko Borach @soundcloud.com/stringburner
Steel drums: Jamie Rhind @soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind
Clarinet: DD John @soundcloud.com/ddjohn
Djembe: Apha Roots @soundcloud.com/alpha-roots
i played the melodica, the organ solo, rhythm guitar, reggae keyboard bubble and drum programming.

Back To Roots with Mirko Borach, Jamie Rhind, DD John and Alpha Roots

St Louis Blues, a jam with:
DDJohn at Clarinets (https://soundcloud.com/ddjohn)
Fingerstyle playing Banjo (https://soundcloud.com/fingerstyle_guitar)
Jamie jam session with Trombone (https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind)
Pierrou Bass and Guitar (https://soundcloud.com/pierrou)

St Louis Blues (Jam with DDJohn, Fingerstyle_Guitar, Jamie Rhind & Pierrou)

Just a little bluesy friday spontaneous  jam ...heard too many good Jimmy covers/inspired tracks on SC lately ...had to try a little version with old soulful clarinet and jamming guitar :) Hope you like it :)

Little Wing ...

Just having a little sunday evening fun treat ...built a base track in a few clics (merci Cubase !) after discovering Martin Léon (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDjM-3a9Jw8) ...an old melody from Yves Montand came by ...(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoHjQs6C4UY)
and here we go after a few clarinet takes :)
I dunno how to tag this one, it's just for a quick fun !
Hope you enjoy my little sunday quick cuisine :)
Very Kindly
Steph

A Bicyclette (Yves Montand)...façon Klezmer :)

(Written by Terry Reeves)
Recorded and mixed at the TLSS studio, Homerton (May-Oct. 2015
Terry Reeves: Vocals
Steph Laporte: Clarinets
Nik Paravatos: Guitar / Bass / Synths /Effects and Noises
Gary Reeves: Drums

I have always enjoyed being a Dad but things do change so incredibly fast.  One moment you’re getting them ready for school and in seemingly double-quick time, they’re all grown up, with all of the problems the transition into adulthood inevitably entails.  They acquire ‘significant others’, some of whom you like and some you’re pretty sure are never going to make the cut.  From a distance, you look on with increasing interest, watching them struggle with the intricacies of romantic involvement.
This song involves the machinations of my youngest son’s relationship with one particular girlfriend, who seemed to have an issue with any form of commitment.  Sometimes she’d show up out of the blue, wanting to spend every moment with him, then disappear into the ether and not contact him for days.
He and I had quite a few Father to Son conversations about her, primarily because we were both concerned about her mental wellbeing.  He’d try to contact her to check if everything was alright, often without success.  Then, without warning, she’d be back on the scene, the whole merry-go-round starting all over again.  I did my level best to help but she truly was an enigma and I was never really sure if what I had to say was helping the situation.  As with many such tricky equations in life, no obvious solution came to light and things slowly ground to a halt.  To this day, though, he says she was one of the most confusing people he ever met.
As is my habit, I decided to write a song about her, calling it ‘Take’ because it was an anagram of her name (by all means have a guess…), hoping to delineate the complexities of the things she both said and did.  Gal really loved the song and going through a marriage break-up as he was at the time, asked if he could contribute a few lines to the lyrics as a way of describing the bewilderment he was feeling, which proved an interesting window into his thinking.
Our brilliant engineer Nick thought slowing it down would give it a kind of Massive Attack feel, an approach that suited it to a tee.  But we needed something else, something magical in the mix, so Gal suggested asking our good friend Steph Laporte (‘DDJohn’ to his SC friends) to record a lead break along with some additional, extra-slurpy licks on his clarinet.  Steph is a wonderful player and as I’m sure you’ll agree, his contribution proved exactly what was needed.  It’s a real favourite of mine - so different from anything we’ve done before.  By the way, anyone worked out that anagram yet?  (Terry Reeves)

Would like to thank Gordon (https://soundcloud.com/gordon_m) for his invaluable help.  I sent him a copy of the penultimate mix and he was good enough to return a detailed list of possible adjustments, all of which were entirely spot-on and made the job of getting the final mix completed in the allotted hour very achievable, something in some doubt but for his assistance. 
(Gary Reeves)

You can say what you like but don’t say what you want to
You can think what you like but don’t think like you need to
You want to like how you look but don’t look how you like to
You never see in the dark ‘cause the darkness is inside you

Guarded observations unexplained
Is there any need?

You like to hide from the truth but the truth always finds you
You want to stay out of sight when you’re always in full-view
How can you look to the past when there’s so much behind you?
How can you be brand new with those voices to remind you?

Redundant complications unexplained
Is there any need?

You never sing out of key when the music suits you
How can the melody change when the words serve to mute you?
You laugh so loud when your good friends entertain you
You don’t understand that the real joke is about you

Another conversation unexplained

TAKE (Cripple Club collab with DDJohn) *download

Involved in different local music associations with my clarinet  (in classic and jazzy mode) ,  I also  love to play the guitar, I love to try to create and produce music with Cubase and different other instruments at home. I love all forms of music. 
Thank you reading these lines, for your kind words , listens and all forms of appreciation and support, I'm always happy to explore,  discover new sounds  and collaborate on this unique platform with wonderful musicians  !!

2022 Collabs, Jams and Chansons :
https://on.soundcloud.com/pkz71
Proud to be inducted  in 2022 as an Official Lunatics after this:
https://soundcloud.com/cosmic-ratzzz/lunatics71-skyline-cosmic-ratzzz-ddjohn?si=aa7c346eca754497a8e4168605590197&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
Still so happy to listen to this one with my french SC buddies in the memory of Georges Brassens on this one :
https://soundcloud.com/ddjohn/les-copains-dabord-george-brassens-with-le-hot-club-de-soundcloud-quebec-usa-fra?si=ec03fb2f0b8b42b1b57522bf07221d14&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
...and loving to play with friends in the marvelous style of Django Reinhardt
https://soundcloud.com/ddjohn/sets/collabs-with-lami-bjp

Album/EP featurings @ the clarinet :

https://soundcloud.com/mountain-songs/take-cripple-club-collab-with-ddjohn-download?in=ddjohn/sets/2015-1/

https://open.spotify.com/album/2XfVKVx3ZE1qUBwoUojmfW
.... and @ the guitar :
https://chrispendergraft.bandcamp.com/track/aint-seen-the-worst-of-it-yet-tribute-to-jimmy-page