„In my restless dreams, I see that town.“

Please check my video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1dAxO8K9WI

Written, performed, mixed & mastered by
André "pixelorb" Brandes © 2021

Image: pixabay.com (CC0 Creative Commons)

Instruments:
- AAS Lounge Lizard EP-4
- AmpleSound "Taylor 714CE"
- AmpleSound "Gibson Les Paul 1958"
- Toontrack EZdrummer2
- TAL U-NO-LX
- u-he Diva
- Lennar Digital "Sylenth 1"
- Synapse "The Legend"
- FL Studio Sytrus

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Mary's Letter - Inspired by Silent Hill (link to video inside!)

Little ode to nights out with music to dance to that we are all missing!!
Got a new bass guitar so thought I might give it center stage and have been playing with a new Amp Sim from Neural DSP. So just some little blasts of fun 😃

Short Sharp Shots

Joshua M Norton's Album

Among the Missing III

Written by Kym Turnbull and Damon Brown
Produced by Richard Brown



Lyrics:

Hello, are you there?
There's a mirror in the bathroom 
and a blanket in the lounge room if you care....

Where is the sunset that is mine?
Where are the colors in the sky?
If there's a mountain I can climb,
I'll watch the sunset with these eyes.

Hello, are you there?
there's a key left at the back door,
come right in and make yourself at home....

Where is the sunset that is mine?
Where are the colors in the sky?
If there's a mountain I can climb,
I'll watch the sunset with these eyes.

Where is the sunset that is mine?
Where are the colors in the sky?
If there's a mountain I can climb,
I'll watch the sunset with these eyes.

It's all the Same (Damon Brown Collaboration)

Marco Lucchi : piano and samples

30 marzo 2021

pic by Ines Rastig

Die ewige Wiederkunft des Gleichen

Mega Distribution

Inspired by the wonderful series "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan and Steven Soter from 1978-1979, I am trying to dedicate a piece of music to every single episode of the 13-part series; partly based on the theme tune by Vangelis, but also my own ideas. I hope you have fun with it...
Carl Sagan opens the program with a description of the cosmos and a "Ship of the Imagination" (shaped like a dandelion seed). The ship journeys through the universe's hundred billion galaxies, the Local Group, the Andromeda Galaxy, the Milky Way, the Orion Nebula, our Solar System, and finally the planet Earth. Eratosthenes' successful calculation of the circumference of Earth leads to a description of the ancient Library of Alexandria. Finally, the "Ages of Science" are described, before pulling back to the full span of the Cosmic Calendar. Note: the revised version of the series adds an introduction by Ann Druyan to this episode, recorded after Sagan's death, in which she discusses some of the changes that occurred in the years after its broadcast.

Cosmos

Cosmos Part I - The Shores Of The Cosmic Ocean

Passion & Possession

Original score inspired by the Collin Armstrong novel Polybius

Home Video World

Star above the peak -
a silk worm-breeding village
silently asleep
 

Mizuhara Shuoshi was a 20th century Japanese poet. Shuoshi rebelled against the principles of emotional detachment in haiku, which he thought limited his ability to emotionally express himself through poetry: he started a magazine called Staggerbush which focused on a more romantic, lyrical type of haiku.

haiku by Mizuhara Shuoshi

silently asleep [naviarhaiku613]

Ambient Dreamscapes for you to enjoy. Relax, unwind, meditate and chillout

DARK AMBIENT - IN SHADOW

A small note on my own behalf: I have noticed that my playback figures have dropped dramatically. The statistics show that the number of playbacks has dropped from 2000 per week to just under 200.
On the one hand, this is frustrating, as everyone sees this as an indicator and confirmation of their work. On the other hand, figures are not particularly important, but one wonders what is wrong. In my opinion, SC has changed a lot, uploading tracks has become more complicated and constant security queries are annoying.
In addition, great artists are disappearing from the platform, partly by their own choice, partly because they have been banned, the algorithm has “recognized” them as spam and mercilessly deleted their account. I'm still a paying member, but my attitude towards this has changed...

Please let me know your experiences and impressions.

😮‍💨😔


When I don't have the time to actively listen to my favorite artists on soundcloud, I just leave the stream running...while washing up in the kitchen, for example 😆

By the way: this user-92853963 was my old link address and leads to the empty.... I AM NOT A ROBOT!

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A long, long time ago, there was an organ in the Christmas-decorated living room in his parents' house, where Frank grew up. Originally bought by his father for his two older siblings, they showed no interest in playing the organ. Frank, however, did. White and black keys and giving off strange sounds. 

So at the age of 9 he began to let his fingers circle on this instrument, searching for the right keys like on a typewriter. And another 9 years would pass before he could buy his first own instrument. Already at the age of 13 he made notes about the then current synthesizers, bought one magazine after the other and visited music fairs in Frankfurt, Germany.

His first keyboard was the Yamaha DSR-2000, which he bought in a music store near his hometown Biebertal. In installments! Finally he could develop himself further - away from the limited tonality of the small organ. The built-in 8-track sequencer helped him to reach unimagined heights. 
Little by little his equipment expanded and his ambition to create music like that of Jean-Michel Jarres came closer. Influenced by this and countless other musicians of the time, his interest grew, but he taught himself everything. Not even having attended a music school or being able to read music at all, he wrote one song after another and recorded them on the only medium available to him at the time: audio cassettes.
Many of these recordings are unfortunately lost forever, because cassettes are and were not the best recording medium. He has to try to play many of his songs from memory. 

In 2007, he fulfilled a long-awaited wish: to buy a KORG. He had always wanted to own one, but with the latest synthesizers at the time of their release having a purchase price of over 6000 D-marks (the currency of the time in the 1980s and 1990s), that dream of owning one was far away. So in 2007 he bought a used KORG 01W/FD at ebay. And as before with the purchase of the Yamaha keyboard, a completely new world opened up to him.

In addition, there were expanders and sound modules from Kawai, Roland and Yamaha (K1m, SC-55, QY10). Six years later his enthusiasm for making music ebbed and rediscovered his hobby (which it always was and still is). In 2018 in April he decided to present his music to a wider audience and uploaded his first song on the platform soundcloud. Since that time, thanks also to the ever-evolving software, he continues to evolve, experiment and relive his times through music.

Cosmos Part I - The Shores Of The Cosmic Ocean

Frank Mehl