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The inhabitants of a small town in the Wild West overcome their fears and join their sheriff to defend their homes from bandits.

Little miniature that I've conceived yesterday to welcome new Heavyocity free Foundations VST: Staccato Brass. I also first time used their Nylon Guitar from the same series, so it seems it's a welcome for it also :P

I've used:
DAW Ableton Live Standard
Kontakt Player: Heavyocity Foundations: Staccato Brass, Emotive Choir, Nylon Guitar
Kontakt Player: ProjectSAM: The Free Orchestra 1

Thank You kindly for listening and I hope You'll like it a bit :)

You Can Count on Us

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When exercise in mixing bass changes into track ;) It's a kind of medieval/celtic triphop track. I've again returned to Irish Harp. Now there are 3 of them ;)

Imagine.... A medieval castle town stretching around the defensive walls. The girl around 18, with long hair getting out from home. She grabs basket and a shawl and runs outside. It's an early morning, the light is cold and it is a bit misty... she goes down the street close to the wall, she has the tight dress with more open bottom. She begin to dance... This is modern dance. Something between classical and jazz with modern additions of head and hands movement. When she dance more and more girls join her dance with simultaneous movements...

It's an anachronism like in "The Knight's Tale" dance scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv_E86eJELE 

I've used
DAW Ableton Live Standard
Kontakt Player Irish Harp
Soundpaint – 1928 Steinway Piano
Ableton Live - Drift Synth - 808 Pure Bass
Spitfire Originals Epic Strings
Spitfire Originals Cinematic Percussion
Spitfire BBC Symphony Orchestra Discovery FREE - Trumpets and Oboes
Spitfire LABS Cello Moods

Two MIDI percussive loops were used:
from "Mood Reel" - Bins and Barrels Kit - 105 bpm
from Core Library - Shaker Chance 128 bpm

Thanks for reviewing and lot of good advice go to:
Nynke @wichita-nynke, wejfi @wejfi and kavvka @grzegorzkawka.
Also special thanks go to °Roach @dj-roach-1 for a lot of technical advice.

Thank You for listening and I hope You like it at least a little bit 😊

Picture from Freepik by stockgiu

Dance of Lonely Maidens

Happy Halloween Everyone! 🎃
All the fears are in our psyche 🧌👀👻😱😉

It's my first collab with my Friend, kavvka @grzegorzkawka, who made all guitars sounds design and melodies that were played by lead guitars. Also he gave me a lot of good advices and ideas to make this track better. I've made all the rest including guitar solo at the end.
It was very difficult month for me, that's why I was silent so long. This track is my katharsis.

We've used
DAW Ableton Live Standard/Lite
Kontakt Play Series Duets
Ableton Live Instrument Rack
Kontakt Factory Selection
iZotope Stutter Edit 2

Samples used:
FX Sweep Distant and Metal Riser SP from Ableton Live's pack "Build and Drop"
FX Impact 06 from Ableton Live's pack "Mood Reel"
Riser White Noise from Ableton Live's Core Library
MIDI drums loop used:
64 Pads Penelope Kit groove 01_108 bpm from Ableton Live's pack "Drum Essentials"

Cover art by Engin_Akyurt from Pixabay

Psyche

Psyche 🎃

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My next track for Halloween 🎃
This time created using only free Spitfire LABS VSTi's.
I hope you will enjoy listening to it, and that it will even please you a little.

The story behind the music:
Devastated by the loss of his beloved, the Scientist, working on creating a brain-computer interface, desperately longs to return to those moments of happiness that defined their love. In an attempt to revive his memories and rekindle the feelings buried deep within his soul, he embarked on the creation of a system that would enable him to travel through time within his own mind, exploring those fleeting fragments of happiness.
After a successful initial attempt, however, a system overload occurred, causing a glitch that eluded his attention. In his subsequent endeavor, instead of immersing himself in blissful memories, the Scientist found himself in the dark labyrinth of his worst nightmares, lurking in the deepest recesses of his subconscious. He ended up as a shadow of a deranged soul, tormented by phantoms and obsessive fears, imprisoned within the macabre dreams he had inadvertently crafted.

Copyright for the story: R.U.R.

Picture: blackrabbitkdj from Pixabay

Dream Diver

Dream Diver 🎃

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🎄 Merry Christmas Everyone! 🎄

Why this title? In the area of ​​Poland where I live, there was a custom that Christmas Eve began when the first star appeared in the sky. So fasten your seat belts and I invite you on a melancholy journey back to childhood, when we were all waiting for that first star.

I hope You'll like it at least a bit.

This is a piece I composed in December 2022, but I didn't post it because I couldn't finish it in time. Now I finally finished it, and even improved it a bit, and here we are...
Thank you @grzegorzkawka for some advice and for being my "test driver" this time.

I've used:
DAW @ableton Live 11 Standard
The main heros of this track are @nativeinstruments Massive synth and @spitfireaudio BBC SO Discover with some additions of Originals: Epic Choir, Epic Strings and Media Toolkit - Piano.
Drum and Bass MIDI Loop: Chekov Kit groove 02_114 bpm from Ableton's Drum Essentials
and some percussive one shots samples.

The thumbnail photo was taken by me in Poznan at Plac Bernardynski.

Waiting for the First Star

Waiting for the First Star 🎄

I am very grateful for the over 1,700 plays of this very personal track. To think I was hesitant to even post it... Thank you so much! ❤️

In our lives, we are granted the opportunity to witness the departure of our loved ones. Some depart through doors, never to return, yet still exist somewhere. Others leave suddenly, unexpectedly. Yet some depart when we are somewhat prepared, for their age predisposes them to it. However, there are also departures more challenging... when we observe the tree of the mind of a beloved, from which memories' leaves fall, and even the freshest, youngest cannot hold on to it. We cannot help, we can only watch how they fall...

Composing this little piece was very personal. It was combined with the realization of a fact from my immediate surroundings. I left all imperfections of my playing because of how I felt at that moment. It wasn't an improvisation, it was an interpretation of a theme that I've developed few minutes earlier. All done on Autograph Grand from Spitfire LABS free libraries collection @spitfire-labs
https://labs.spitfireaudio.com/packs/autograph-grand

Cover picture by A.I. Dall-E (through Microsoft Copilot)

The Last Falling Leaf

Free Download / Buy

I have been watching movies recently.
I tried adding drums, but they interrupted the emotional harmony coming from the instruments, so I kept it this way.

"Echoes of Souls"

Thank You so much for over 1000 plays! ❤️

This time, I return to the realm of fantasy, where my characters, upon arriving in the North, found themselves in the dwarven mines. There, they are to meet with the Dwarf King's son, who will task them with aiding in uncovering the mystery surrounding his father's death, slain in a goblin ambush. However, before this occurs, they take part in a funeral ceremony.

To craft this piece, I utilized only the free VSTi's by ProjectSAM @projectsam: Free Orchestra 1 and 2. I've begun working on it 2 months ago... It's one of my over 30 projects in development ;)

Thanks goes to my friends and test drivers: kavvka @grzegorzkawka and Alexander Stratonov @ephtrackx

Picture generated by me in Leonardo.ai

Funeral of the Dwarven King

OK. I've reverted to unmastered file... In my opinion that what automatic mastering done was horrible... Nevertheless, you can listen to it here and form your own opinion:
https://on.soundcloud.com/4FZJcJWpyocL1aPx7

No A.I. involved. Only me, keyboard, recently bought sustain pedal, free Soundpaint Piano with built-in shimmer reverb, some compression and Ozone 9 Elements on master channel set to jazz.

Little theme I've conceived on evening May 27th after watching the last episode of "The Devil's Hour". Simple melody and chords... a draft. Let's say it's a version 0.5 ;) Half improvisation, half interpretation of something that came to my head 30 minutes earlier. Lots of hesitation, a bit mistakes, two edited notes on ending of first part... and the double ending ;) I'm still human, and a bad keyboard player ;) Recorded in one take.

Picture in thumbnail from Freepik
https://pl.freepik.com/autor/freepik

The Longing

The Longing (Unmastered)

Music by Alexander Stratonov from "Inglorious Officers: Russian Torturers in Kherson" investigative documentary soundtrack.

240 people have been recognized as victims in the case of the torture chamber of the Kherson Temporary Detention Center. On March 9, 2022, the Russian occupying forces seized the facility and turned it into a place of illegal detention of Ukrainians. People who passed through the temporary detention center say that the screams of people being tortured during interrogations could be heard around the clock. Outside of interrogations, prisoners were physically and mentally tortured by guards. It took journalists more than 14 months to identify them. The documentary tells what happens when convoys and police officers from Russia are sent on a business trip to the occupied territories and given freedom of action.

For the full story, watch the investigative documentary "Inglorious Officers: Russian Torturers in Kherson": https://youtu.be/Sp0bg_4GdNI

Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbUjLLHnIC0NLS0rEgYTJtKURe956zuOs

Listen on BandCamp: https://ephtrackx.bandcamp.com/album/inglorious-officers-russian-torturers-in-kherson-original-documentary-soundtrack

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Thundering At The Gates

Так довго, як...(vtroo instrumental).wav

I'm an experienced video, audio and everything in between specialist with 18 years of experience in television, radio broadcasting, motion design, video production and media composing. I currently work as the Head of Production of the Investigative Documentary Department at UA:PBC (Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine).

I started making music in the early 2000s, mostly in the trip-hop genre. I played bass guitar in alternative rock band "acloneofmyown" (2005-2015) and electric guitar in post-hardcore band "The Sky is Red" (2006-2009).

Since 2022 I've started producing solo music and soundtracks for documentaries in various genres - from piano and neo-classical to electronic ambient.

If you want to support my work, just buy me a cup of coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ephtrackx

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