A very beautiful piece. Very beautiful piano, orchestration and video!

Such a beautiful composition Eric and Fabian! I love the orchestration and the emotional performance. One of your best pieces. 🎶👏👏

Our tunes don't get the attention they deserve, perhaps that may change one day, so I'm determined to keep our candles burning!

WE BENEFIT FROM POSTING ON SOUNDCLOUD THE MOST WHEN WE FOLLOW BACK, LISTEN AND LEAVE FEEDBACK

Who should we follow back? The Soundcloud users who don’t just follow us they actually listen and leave feedback, makes sense, right. So why does it make sense, because they are the ones actually supporting your music, they are the ones that raise your profile and feedback is FREE hype, it advertises your product, it tells new arrivals to your page that your music is worth listening to, that’s what I mean when I say we ALL benefit.
These platforms actually end up failing BECAUSE we don’t maximise their potential in this way, a follow serves no purpose if we don’t follow through, and if we don’t follow through others don’t follow through either, we all become wary of giving support because we know only a very small number will do the same for us.
So how does this affect these platform, activity slows down eventually grinding to a halt, once that happens platforms like Soundcloud could end up going out of business, eventually there will be no platforms left for us to FREELY post on, the day will arrive when the ONLY way to post our music is to PAY FOR THE PRIVILEGE, so you see being PROACTIVE not only benefits you and I it ensures the survival of platforms like Soundcloud; ok, so it doesn’t deliver in some of the ways we’d like it to, and including reaching an actual audience, but it’s a whole lot better than nothing at all!

THANK YOU TO ALL SOUNDCLOUDERS WHO HAVE SUPPORTED AUDIOBAKE/GOTHIC FUNK COLLABORATIONS 2

Poem Emily Jane Brontë.
Torbjørn Vagle https://soundcloud.com/tobbenv: Instrumental composition, 
guitarharp, piano, el.piano, synth and bass
Oddrun Eikli: Vocal and vocal composition, photo.
Ad Van Nederpelt https://soundcloud.com/ad-van-nederpelt; Orchestral composition, strings,  mix and mastering,
Coverlayout: Vetle Vagle
Thank you so much Torbjørn and Ad, thank you from my heart.

This music was written and finished before the outbreak of war in Europe. We feel deeply for the people who are suffering in the war.
Despite the cruelty of the war, we share this music today, 
....."let us sit and watch the while
The blue ice curdling on the stream ".....
This poem by Emily Jane Brontë takes us out into nature, where we can for a moment, move away from the painful and brutal world.
The poem focuses on the healing ability of nature. 

Emily Jane Brontë (30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. She also published one book of poetry with her sisters Charlotte and Anne titled Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell with her own poems finding regard as poetic genius.

How still, how happy! Those are words
That once would scarce agree together;
I loved the plashing of the surge -
The changing heaven the breezy weather,

More than smooth seas and cloudless skies
And solemn, soothing, softened airs
That in the forest woke no sighs
And from the green spray shook no tears.

How still, how happy! now I feel
Where silence dwells is sweeter far
Than laughing mirth's most joyous swell
However pure its raptures are.

Come, sit down on this sunny stone:
'Tis wintry light o'er flowerless moors -
But sit - for we are all alone
And clear expand heaven's breathless shores.

I could think in the withered grass
Spring's budding wreaths we might discern;
The violet's eye might shyly flash
And young leaves shoot among the fern.

It is but thought - full many a night
The snow shall clothe those hills afar
And storms shall add a drearier blight
And winds shall wage a wilder war,

Before the lark may herald in
Fresh foliage twined with blossoms fair
And summer days again begin
Their glory - haloed crown to wear.

Yet my heart loves December's smile
As much as July's golden beam;
Then let us sit and watch the while
The blue ice curdling on the stream -
Emily Jane Brontë

How Still. Torbjørn Vagle. Ad Van Nederpelt. Oddrun Eikli.

Music Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzCby1rceCc

Cello lines heroically performed and composed by Fabian Boreck of the Oldenburg State Philharmonic Orchestra. @fabianboreck_cellist

Valleys Of Eden (Eric Heitmann and Fabian Boreck)

So this poor Rhodes has been having a hard life with me... not very compatible with tramway and train, standing in a room where normally nobody is, having been used as a stand for all sort of things... and the cat has been doing crazy stuff with it, too.

Digged it out, cleaned it, fidgeted with this grrr sustain pedal for some hours, welcome back my friend!

The Liberation Of Rhodes Island

A remaster of an oldie...

Composed, arranged, performed and produced by:
Leon Pajer

orlando51music © 2014 / (p) 2023

Distant Footsteps Nocturne - (remastered)

A fun track I made about a weird potato I found at work

Spudfoot

Music In Motion

Music In Motion - With AnandaTuk

Rabbit Rock

Hiya Peoples! 😊

As seeds, budding plants, shrubs and bears awaken from the depths of winter in the Northern Hemisphere and Spring comes, we're delighted to finally Release a New Track for Spring of 2023! 😎  
   
We call it 'Awakening'. 

And thank goodness that as usual, the fingers of Tim Elliot are on his Telecaster and mine on the ancient Upright Grand Piano .

and together, they work their magic as we continue to explore the sonic landscape together through Improvisation.

Of course this can only happen within a space of Deep Listening.  A place Musicians can go in their totally individual inimitable ways.                      
                                                                                                                               
In our case, we almost immediately found ourselves being 'Led' into a Tonal Awakening....
Subtle grooves that were an outer manifestation of the Joy we were experiencing as we explored the spaces in between the notes.  😊  

Of course, the very best kind of Awakening is to one's own inimitable Truth, no matter the noise and apparent confusion all around. And sure... there's all kinds of negativity and nonsense in this ol world, but who needs to Awaken to that? It's more than obvious!
 
Far better to explore and express one's unique Creativity! To share the Love one feels for whatever they're passionate about, through their Music! 😉

May you enJOY what Tim and i have been up to lately. 


© Gary Courtland-Miles & Tim Elliot 2023
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2023 & Tim Elliot 2023

Arranged and MiXed by Anomon

Awakening *

An Epic Vocal Fantasy collaboration with the incredible vocalist and composer Amy Wallace (https://soundcloud.com/user-793594172)

Music Video Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_4ZuL_NlKw

Warriors At Dawn - Eric Heitmann and Amy Wallace

Special Upbeat-Version (Percussive) https://youtu.be/sYIae-WtI7k 👈🏼

Special Version 🎦

When The Sun And Stars Align

This is another composition to follow up one of my other compositions of the Marionnettes, such as "L'Histoire d'une Marionnette", of which you'll be able to watch it via this link

https://youtu.be/TYr2UgdWrt4

My sincere thanks go out to Agnès and Dusan for letting me use their picture of  "Les Marionnettes de Yorick" which they have created....

I hope you will enjoy listening...

Les Marionnettes dansent encore...

https://youtu.be/qaN2PYYiBzE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN1bGuqcYXc
In the song I used a poem by the Polish poet Leopold Staff - To Love and Lose - read by Sławomir Maciejewski.

text :












To love and lose, to desire and to regret,

Fall painfully and get up again,

Screaming "go away" to your longing. and beg "lead!"

This is life: nothing, and yet enough...

 

To run down the desert after one jewel,

Go into the depths after a pearl of miracle beauty,

So that they remain only after us

traces on the sand and circles on the water.

Circles on the water

Finally, this is "Stay Strong (Extended Collaborative Version B)" that completes our joint album "Again and Again" (2025), containing extended collaborative versions from tracks in my own most recent album "Again" (2025). I composed my part, "Stay Strong", improvising on my Akai MPK mini keyboard connected to Logic Pro, outside in my garden in the warm evening of 12 July 2025, and arranged, recorded and mixed my track the same evening. Roberto B proposed this version B on 13 July 2025 (arranged and mixed by him in MAGIX) of what we also have as the suggested by me version A, published here earlier. The collaboration was released here on SoundCloud in the late evening (in Europe) on 11 September 2025. The whole album, Again and Again will be released in seconds here (in the reverse order of the tracks that have been appearing over the past year here on SoundCloud).

The artwork cover for our album "Again and Again" (2025) and all tracks in it uses a painting by Roberto B titled "Horloge - Le Temps" of 20 November 2024 annotated by Alex M in Mac OS Preview on 21 February 2025 - in coordination and agreement with Roberto B.

Duration: 7:32 minutes

Stay Strong (Extended Collaborative Version B) - Roberto B & Alex M

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This is a collaboration with a talented guitar player Luc Finella (https://soundcloud.com/luc-finella-779993052-new).

Mastered by Houman (https://soundcloud.com/houmans).

Breath Of Nostalgia (ft. LUC FINELLA)

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GOTHIC FUNK & AUDIOBAKE collaborations.
Negative Fluency Effect isn’t looking to win any popularity contest, we’re all about RUBBING SOCIETY’S NOSE IN ITS OWN FILTH!

Musicians who don't give a crap about public or music industry approval write lyrics like these! I've been anti-establishment all my life, unlike the phoney, pretentious, preachy, I’m your saviour, Bono types out there with their MORAL POSTURING and STRATEGIC SURVIVAL tactics! No fame, no fortune, no recognition, but we’ll leave this world with our truth to power authenticity and integrity intact!

A former San Francisco 49er Offensive Lineman, Eric now composes and produces music in the epic, cinematic, and ambient genres. His compositions are, by design, ultra melodic and follow a hybrid orchestral style similar to film composers Hans Zimmer and James Horner, and epic cinematic artist Two Steps From Hell.

Eric lives in Austin, TX, with his wife Emily and their two young daughters, both aspiring musicians :) 

Thanks for listening everyone!  Such a wonderful community here on Soundcloud!

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