deCompress

an old piano improv.
the last ten seconds were previously used in this song here https://soundcloud.com/lil-spaceman/slezterp
all music by andrew salvner (aka lil' spaceman)

coda

Rasta Mouse

Depiction of the weather in rural Mid Wales.
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Me: drums, keys, guitar, bass

August in Wales

Echoes From The Swamp

SOON to move to Bandcamp as an album - in the meantime, you can also listen in sequence here: soundcloud.com/sonic-textures/sets/scalar-fields
instruments: Jeff Gardiner and jo richter
modulation, arrangement and all that: jo richter
image: Jeff Gardiner in collaboration with jo richter
for a change and despite the title, this one is instrumental only

scalar fields pt 11: vocal beads - with stonerjazz

The mix is all over the place but I'm not concerned, lol
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FoF: drums, bass, guitar, keys, professional count off

To whom (me!) it may (yes, me!) concern (that's me, yes, it's me!)

King Cursor

Check out joerxworx on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/McPzP0woIt4cxsdhD2
Shout out to Jörg for the VST recommendation. This is my first time using this world of wind instruments.. I got it to have a Duduk!

www.taqs.im
SOLO: World Synth
Worked out at $79.20 if you use their current coupon code of SOLO20 (This is on the banner of shop webpage)

Check out mistermark on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/qpwbEE5UQkS9ulANjP
Shout out also to Mark. Very lucky to work with our Canadian friend through EC and musical collabs, but Mark seeded this whole idea with a comment about going to the dark side with music


Check out Neowakan (Aileen Asatouri) on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/074OShLpTu1QmocXBq
Also shout out to Aileen who introduced me to Duduk properly last year

Here's the Duduk Jedi Master...
Listen to Djivan Gasparyan, a playlist by The Beautiful Dark on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/TSydG2253pnWCrOvQs




The whole idea of embracing melancholic music as a package for me is an incredible therapy and has been since I was a very young. Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber, Inspector Morse Theme Tune by Barrington Pheloung and Gabriel's Oboe by Ennio Morricone would be the three big examples that come to mind. The first two in particular... Then a more popular example from that period of my life would be All by Myself by Eric Carmen. That sits up there as a brave wtf song that's just incredible in it's vulnerability. More recently Id put Exit Music for a Film by Radiohead in a similar beautiful mind bending melancholic box.

The song image is a picture of a sunrise over my back wall and in the foreground is the micro world we never really see. It's moss growing on the wall and for me it represents visually, perspective is everything. We can't see the world like an ant does unless we get in amongst the weeds and get close to look. Even then it's difficult to share the same point of view an ant has.
I guess that can be an analogy of where your soul goes in the land of melancholic music. Although it can invoke feelings of sadness I think that's therapeutic for our overall beings. I think maybe psychologically, like a poem can do also, we are reflecting our emotion with something words as plain language cannot fully explain but where sound and poetry maybe can do a better job of helping them materialise for you. So they become a solidarity of sorts for those hard to understand feelings we all feel from time to time in our lives. A safe reference that maybe forces you to feel them instead of oppressing the feelings


Instrumentation

43bpm
Tuning 440Hz A
Key A minor (A hat tip to Armenia where Duduk is from)
-Mellow Duduk 1 low drone run and 1 melodic run played on keyboard
-2 x runs of Tremolo Acoustic Guitar (Ovation)
-Airways pad in Logic mirroring Duduk drone played on keys
-Middle Eastern Kit with roots rock beat
-4 vocal runs - Two Low & Two mid
-Piano played on Keys
-Electric Guitar Lead


Melancholy of Mystery

Good meandering mind
Knead this mystery
Warm sound sine waves
To cool great history

Sad for some
Tranquil for this one
An aide to not fear pain
Through music and sum

From mountain flutes of finest native
To slow bent strings move contemplative

Dawn drama drowns a mind afraid
Good mind prepared through sounds that save

These sounds are sage
'Fill in true meaning
Soothe honest zen
With deep thought streaming

Heart pounds a rush
Thrill of uncertain
New found feeling
On fear we pull a curtain

Good meandering mind
Knead this mystery
Warm sound sine waves
To cool great history

Sad for some
Tranquil for this one
An aide to not fear pain
Through music and sum

Dinnseanchas of history
Melancholy of mystery
Filling true meaning
Mellifluous streaming

Melancholy of Mystery

method: the reface dx is an amazing device
narration: understanding does not happen because it claims to have already happened 
copyright for the poem, the image and the composition: jo richter

im sinklicht lehnt sie
ihren leib zurück, drängt
die adepten ihres sonnenichs
nun die strahlen nachtfest

zu verzurren - fühlt sich
blickdicht verwobenes nicht
schmaler an als
schlafspliss-katzenzwirn

interlinear translation: amathia // in the lowering of the light, she / leans back her body, demands /from the suitors of her sunlight self / to tie down the rays // for the night - don't / blackout textures feel / thinner than / sleepfrayed catyarn

amathia

Flap Your Fishtail is a music collective from Dublin , Ireland. Fergus Cullen Meets French Radio Constellation ina Mu Stylee.  Recently also a merging of For This Dock You 3 Star for upload space