An old demo loop I'd made, using free drum loop online, piano and percussion. Mixed with instrumental tracks on Garageband.

Mop It Up [demo loop]

A short film soundtrack, 2 short pieces, I composed for a friend's student film on knife crime in London.

Stop Knife Crime In London - Student Film Soundtrack

Haven't uploaded anything for a while, so voila.
Something I've been working on, still in very very initial stages/drawing board phase at the moment. Some ideas for the verse and middle eight/instrumental sections.

Composed on GarageBand. Sitar Apple loops used. 
HEADS UP! 
Pic is from a production of Beckett's 'Happy Days', a big inspiration.

Head's Up (Drawing Board Stage)

Backing track - potentially for a song or left as a plain instrumental, not decided yet. 
Playing around with a couple of ideas with how to make a piano sound 'menacing' and using that sweeping cymbal sample, and came up with this.
Apologies for going mad on the Clavinet patches in advance.

Listening back, I may have been more than a little influenced by Supergrass' 'Mary'. 
All tracks/vocals : mine. 
Except African King Gyl 1 Sample: Apple Loops. 
Made on GarageBand. 
Photo: dotigabrielf on Pixabay.

Oh You're So Good! (instrumental)

The middle break from 'Open Sesame [Part 2]' (Kool and the Gang) vs. the opening vocals on 'Future Heat' (Trilok Gurtu) - enjoy! Always wanted to put these two together, as they sound like they were made for each other.
Hope to upload longer version soon [update: alas, the software I used is broken at the moment, but I'm hoping to get something better soon to finish this off] 

Open Sesame [Part 2] (Kool and the Gang) vs. Future Heat (Trilok Gurtu) [Edit Remix]

Some very Bootsy spaced out space funk, with some random vocals thrown in. 
Are you simply lost too? 
PS. I had a cold while recording my vocals - does it show?

All vocals/tracks done on Garageband.

Are We All Simply Lost?

Bit of an eccentric experiment dating from my University days - where I wondered if Indian classical/folk would blend with disco. Voila, la resulte! 

Samples:
Chic - Everybody Dance
Nitin Sawhney - Nadia
BBC Radio 4 News Broadcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKBWsy5A2bA
Sarangi track - Unknown [will provide link if I can locate it]

Everybody Dance [Chic] (Sarangi/Eccentric Eastern remix)

I can't lie - just something I knocked together at 4.30am. 
Time to party!

Image: Luis Llerena @ Realistic Shots

Brief Party

Piano [and a bit of bass] demo of part of a track I've been working on for some years. 
All lyrics and vocals: myself
All parts: recorded on Garageband. 

Image: Pixabay

So Much So [Piano Demo]

Watched the Bollywood action thriller 'Vodka Diaries' all about a series of murders which take place inside a club of the same name. 
Decent flick, in general. Later on, was fooling about on Garageband and came up with a piano riff that sounded straight out of Hair, Salvation, Jesus Christ Superstar or any of those other late 60s musicals. Which got me thinking... 

Here's two little Jams from Dokafirla's alternative soundtrack to 'Vodka Diaries'. 
All vocals and instrument parts my own. 
Composed on Garageband.  
Photo 'Pour Vodka Karenza' By 99mimimi on Pixabay

Dokafirla's 'Vodka Diaries' Alternative Soundtrack:  My Fate was Sealed/Girl, I Need You

Recording something bigger. Thought I'd do something with the scraps and takes I hadn't used.

Fragment (#1)

Backing instrumental loop for something bigger. About heartbreak, obvs!  
Image courtesy of buy_me_some_coffee from Pixabay.

She Left Me [Backing Instrumental Loop]

Doka + Firla 
(from the Marathi expression - 'tumaza doka firla ka?' - 
Have you gone crazy, lit. have you cracked your mind?)

...But your mind can be cracked in so many ways, not just negative ones. Aha! 

Original recordings and edits posted up whenever I can.
Funk/soul/world/ethnic-inspired with a '70s edge. 
Keyboard player, vocalist, body percussionist, tabla boll-ist.

Dokafirla Davé

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