Country acoustic meets hip hop meets techno bass meets a chill 65 bpm in an atmospheric instrumental soundtrack for a foggy ferry crossing.

When fog rolls in, people are happy that the old ferry captain knows the river crossing very well. Thick fog doesn’t stop arrivals and departures on the Fog Bottom Ferry, a fictional name for a ferry that, as a passenger, I also knew very well.

The image of the ferry deck in my cover art doesn’t look like the ferry I took. My Fog Bottom Ferry served a small river town that carried about a dozen cars. To me, its engine sounded similar to a tugboat motor, and was the inspiration for the hip hop beats.

Hope you enjoy a little atmospheric instrumental countryhop 🤠

65 bpm

DAW: Apple Logic Pro X 
MIDI: Akai MPK Professional keyboard
E-Instruments: 
Concert Grand piano  
Steel String Acoustic guitar  
Acoustic Guitar  
Dobro Guitar  
Space Harp 
Deep Round Bass Synth
 Underwater Temple synth 
Atmosphere At Dusk synth 
E-Percussion: 
Atlanta Electronic Drum Kit
 Acoustic Bump

PHOTO CREDIT: The image is a derivative of a photo by Burak the Weekender at pexels.com:
www.pexels.com/@weekendplayer/

.

Fog Bottom Ferry

空の彼方へ

FUSION

Jazz 07/12/24

There are many versions and different traditions of the story of the Magi and about their journey. And about their origin. Pictured on the cover is a drawing found in the 'Catalan Atlas,' a map of the world dated to the late 14th century. Pictured here are the three kings. The caption reads: “This province is called Tarshish, from which came the Three Wise Kings, and they came to Bethlehem in Judaea with their gifts and worshipped Jesus Christ, and they are entombed in the city of Cologne two days journey from Bruges.”
But where was the city (or the country) called Tarshish (Tarsis, Tharsis), whose king was already mentioned in Psalm 72?
No one, exactly, knows.

----

I recorded the guitar part in 2018, when bought a Guild (my Washburn had become mute ...), so the track has a lot of noise and imperfections. Then there were several attempts to organize the piece and arrange it. This could be the last one. It came rather long and slow. But long and slow was also that improbable (and hardly true) journey - perhaps one could imagine it by closing the eyes and listening to the music.

----

Composed by Michele Ansani (2018-2024).
Bansuri is courtesy of Aaroh; female vocals of Function Loops.
posted on SoundCloud: 2024, December 31

Traveling from Tarshish to Bethlehem * 🎧

A twist on the 'Appearance Medicine' phrase.

APPEARANCE MEDICINE

Tripping round some corridors
Nothing but neon lights
Floor polish and hidden voices
There you are before my eyes
It’s appearance medicine
Like a hormone injects in a vein
It’s appearance medicine
A face that lights a flame
S O B and tachy heart when lightning seeds a body start
That jumps a gate to permeate my actual need 
For you with me - today

This hospital’s a restaurant
Medicine is the menu
God’s own surgeon shaped the face
That walks me to the moon
It’s appearance medicine . . .

Ah-huh Ah Huh da da da da da da da da
It’s appearance medicine
It’s appearance medicine

Everyday it’s much the same
Going on that ward round
Floor polish and hidden voices
Soon my heart it’s on the pound





Appearance Medicine

Video; https://youtu.be/OIH-kBOh1Ao

Made in Februari 2025

Genres;
#Ambient
#Electronic

Forbidden Ruins

Only Just Wednesday tells the tale of a lad who is waiting for his pals Vladimir and Estragon. No one knows if Godot ever showed, but this is about Vlad and Estra. And its only just Wednesday, so now you wonder who is the lad. Check out the play written by Samuel Beckett, "Waiting for Godot".

Only Just Wednesday

l'art pour l'art - Profundium
March 2025
Duration: 3:00
Listen to the Playlist, l'art pour l'art: https://soundcloud.com/bruce-klepper-1/sets/lart-pour-lart
Cover art painting: Carol Klepper
Cover art lettering: John-Marc Ventimiglia
For voices, harp, organ, virtual instruments and percussion

l'art pour l'art - Profundium

pain

Recorded after a day of traveling to Berlin and back. Free improvised music on my piano. A very intense one. Lots of thoughts to express. Hope you like it. Please enjoy. 

Improvisation_100525_Relief

is time discrete or continuous ? Also is it only a relative realm, or does it exist as unique, static and monolithic, and the things and beings pass in an illusory manner while it does not change at all ?
Who can say that time exists in any way other than intangible ? If this exists, can it be judging or helping in any other way than philosophically ....................................................
real music half composed with mouse, keyboard, mind and heart (No generative AI involved) and half played with my hands, in the case of keyboards and some synths.

Jazz 07/12/24

Fabien Auréjac