Quel talent. Voilà à nouveau une song magnifique avec de beaux effets. Du joli travail Franck. Big bravo.

Terrific work, Franck! Love the electronic bird.

Magnificent. Brilliantly original contemporary composition.

a wonderful birthday gift and dedication, Franck. The interplay of piano, flute and blackbird is feelingful.

Exceptional composition and performance!  Bravo! :)

Zeitgeist - Spirit of the times. [lyrics at the bottom]
When I was very young I wrote rock and pop songs. Finally after many years of instrumental music I returned to composing a song with the help of @Xian3 who wrote beautiful lyrics and provided a great vocal interpretation and whom I thank for his willingness and enthusiasm.
It's apparently a love song but it also speaks of existential restlessness, of fear in its double value of paralyzing or strengthening the life force.
The collaboration had only one difficult moment when, due to a linguistic misunderstanding, I misunderstood a joke and thought Xian was a Lazio team fan (I swear it's all true)... We came close to an international crisis!!! :)))
As you can listen, to make the collaboration more "thrilling" he decided to write the first part in German, which I don't speak. He assured me that the meaning is more or less similar to the second part in English... But who knows... Let's hope so! :))
[If anyone who speaks German reads anything suspicious against Roma team, please let me know, thanks.] :))))

Zeitgeist

Im toten Winkel, da haust
Ein Schatten, der mich immer wieder verfolgt
Jedes mal, wenn ich arbeiten will
Ein Seufzer des Zweifels
Fällt in mein Ohr
Das ist nicht immer unbedingt schlecht,
Doch es macht nervös,
Sieh,

Kann nicht ohne dich sein
Kann nicht ohne dich leben,
Du tiefste Angst
Kann nicht ohne dich gehen,
Du tiefste Angst

Behind the blind spot there lurks
A shadow that is always following me
Everytime i want do my work
A sweet sigh of doubt
Just drops in my ear
This is not necessarily bad,
But It bothers me,
See

I can’t live without you
I can’t live without you , now
My deepest fear
I can’t leave without you, now
My deepest fear

How i wish, you were not here
I would not shed a single tear
I would
I would

Can’t you leave without me ?
Can’t you just let me sleep in ?
My deepest fear
Would you live without me, now
My deepest fear
Would you ?
Wouldn’t you ?
Would you, please ?
Would you, please ?

Lyrics: @Xian3
Composition and all arrangements: Francesco Cartocci

Zeitgeist

Zeitgeist - with Xian3

A past lover keeps showing up in my dreams and reminding me of my failures.
From my new LP " Low Profile". My best tracks from 2023. Thanks for listening!

Lyrics:
I get my melancholy straight from the IV drip
A Xanax, a red eyed flight on the sky ship
That's when you appeared
I'd been gorging myself on 
Televised violence
It's like synconized swimming
You were grinning while the plane was rapidly descending
(You smiled all the way down)
The atmosphere was colorless
Odorless
Void of all surface and all texture
I'm reveling in my psychosis
You reminded me I never finished my
Junkyard magnum opus
You still show up in my dreams

We were entering into 
An impressionist painted landscape
With a language that we just didn't understand
You reminded me that I'm a big believer
In blindly believing
And I need to start drinking in
A little bit more in what I'm seeing
We're like suburban dadaist
Coming in, out of the rain
My mind was racing
Like those 808 beats
There all the same
Well, that's the way the Goddamn wheel rolls
You headed off into the night
You never told me to change the angle of the light
You still show up in my dreams

"You never even had it even when you had it your hands"
You've got to bring it right down
To where the sideways ends in the light
I'm digging down deep
I'm digging down slow
I'm striking oil 
Or the fires down below
You still show up in my dreams

You Still Show Up In My Dreams

Why?

Ambiguous

Marco Lucchi : samples (hyper bass flute) and tape
Henrik Meierkord : cello
idematoa : synthesizers (- Spitfire Audio - Abbey Road Orchestra: 1st Violins Professional - Legato Portamento- Spitfire Audio - Fractured Strings - 4 Celli Statements Up (Same Note)

Marco Lucchi, Henrik Meierkord & idematoa - Warum

A song to wrap up my thoughts & feelings about the covid pandemic.

Art courtesy of Vogue0987 and 愚木混株 Cdd20

https://pixabay.com/users/vogue0987-13058963
https://pixabay.com/users/cdd20-1193381

Your Enthusiasm Is Contagious! (covid closure song)

On a park bench sat an old man all alone
Working the daily Sudoku
I didn’t really want to bother him
I asked if I could sit and rest a minute or two

He said life’s not so simple lad
Even with the modern advances we have made
They only seem to make you lazy and dumb
The young they will not work, yet they still want paid

With a nod of my head, I was on my way
Thinking of the things this old man had to say
It’s probably something that the generations voice
Was he speaking truth or only making noise?

Do we make life difficult in the choices that we make?
Or are our journeys left to chance?
Either way it’s not so simple what we choose
We still keep going forward; to the music we dance

Instrumental Bridge

My thinking soon got the best of me
I went back to the bench but the old man was gone
He left his paper and the puzzle on the bench
I could see that every space he filled was completely wrong

It’s not so simple running the rat’s race
It’s not so simple, looking through the wall
Does it really matter if the old man’s right or wrong?
We’ll settle in our old pine box and in the ground we fall

Not So Simple

Peace Message

Winterflies

At a Dead Party

Here's my new piece « Eurythmia » My new piece for flute, piano & electronic- Opus 70 - (Time ≈ 3') dedicated to my wife Yasmine for her Birthday.
I began writing on Saturday, March 23, 2024 then it was completed on Sunday, March 31, 2024
My performance on Tuesday, April 4, 2024 at the Abbey of HauteCombe in Savoy France
Franck Douvin © 2024 Contemporary Chamber Music
Thanks for listening & sharing 
I hope you'll enjoy !

« Eurythmia » My new piece for flute, piano & electronic (Time ≈ 3')

I am a flute teacher, concertist flutist, composer and software engineer.
I have taken back the study of piano since May 2018. I am a member of the Sacem in Paris and of the Swiss association Archebole located in Lausanne.
My flute teachers were :
Jacques Lévêque
Maurice Beugnon
Alain Marion
Michel Debost
Pierre Lambert
Robert Hériché and
Shigenori Kudo 
My composition's teacher was :
Lucian Metianu
I'm on Facebook since 2017 : https://www.facebook.com/franck.douvin
You can follow me on my website : https://www.franckdouvin.com and on the composers's  plateform : https://www.soundcloud.com/franckdouvin
If you want to support my compositions and recordings posted on my YouTube channel : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq-H2y_Kg_7ftLiY4n3qxSw or simply support my activity as a musician, you can donate to me via Paypal : 
https://www.PayPal.me/franckdouvin
Thanks, Franck

In my music, I try to inspire me different forms that are in the nature, where microcosm and macrocosm intertwine closely.
It is really pleasant to be able to share our musics through our passions and ideas...
I currently have 67 Opus and all scores are available. 
Thank you for listening, comments and reposts !

Je suis professeur de flûte traversière, flûtiste concertiste, compositeur et ingénieur software.
J'ai repris l'étude du piano depuis Mai 2018. Je suis Membre de la Sacem à Paris et de l'association Suisse Archébole dont le siège est à Lausanne.
Mes professeurs de flûte traversière furent :
Jacques Lévêque
Maurice Beugnon
Alain Marion
Michel Debost
Pierre Lambert
Robert Hériché et
Shigenori Kudo 
Mon maître de composition était :
Lucian Metianu
Je suis sur Facebook depuis 2017 : https://www.facebook.com/franck.douvin
Vous pouvez me suivre sur mon site internet : https://www.franckdouvin.com
ainsi que sur la plateforme compositeurs : https://www.soundcloud.com/franckdouvin
Dans ma musique, j’essaie de m’inspirer des différentes formes qui se trouvent dans la nature, là où microcosme et macrocosme se mêlent étroitement.
C’est vraiment agréable de pouvoir partager nos musiques, nos passions et idées...
J’ai actuellement  à mon actif 67 Opus et toutes mes partitions sont disponibles.
Merci pour votre écoute, commentaires et reposts !

Si vous souhaitez soutenir mes compositions et enregistrements postés sur ma chaîne YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq-H2y_Kg_7ftLiY4n3qxSw ou tout simplement soutenir mon activité de musicien, vous pouvez vous me faire un don via Paypal  :
https://www.PayPal.me/franckdouvin
Merci, Franck

« Eurythmia » My new piece for flute, piano & electronic (Time ≈ 3')

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