Name: Narrow Minds by 𝐹𝓇𝒶𝓃𝓀 𝑀𝑒𝒽𝓁
Duration: 4 min 34 s
Description: Strongly influenced by Enigma's Sadness, for sure! I liked this drum pattern so much back then!!! And searching for this unique "overblown" flute I almost went insane (well...then little has changed in my state of mind 😆)

Enigma lässt grüßen. Genialer Part, lieber Frank! 👍

good track in the time of enigma i was in to snap  but i do love the sound and rhythm you have created

Some of you will be familiar with this tune, and indeed it has been modified to include a bit of audio which was the basis of the theme. This bit of audio is the original recording of Stephen around 1982. I had looked for that recording for decades to be included just before the start off this song. Also, most recently I had redoubled my effort to find it to play for my beautiful wife as  she lay on her death bed. But, alas, I was only to find it the very day after her passing.

As you might imagine, the old cassette tape was full of hiss. So, my good friend and mentor, Sander (https://soundcloud.com/wane-of-summer), volunteered to help subtract that flaw and render Stephen's little voice to crystal clarity. Well, that is very much part of Sander's trademark. Thank you, Sander.

And below follows the original description of the song:


This is a song from a child which has no voice of his own. Having succumbed to the side effects of a childhood vaccination, he was never able to learn the spoken word...though through some miracle he seems to have developed perfect pitch. 

How would I know? Well, if I pick up various objects which can make a tone if they are blown into, though he may have heard it only once before, he will sometimes sing the note as it is being picked up. Blow into that object and, sure enough, he is in tune with it.

He was only about 3 years old when we were trying in vain to get him to speak into a tape recorder. Instead, he came up with this tune, which I decided to just add accompaniment. The original recording actually had his voice on it, but it has been lost over the years.

Stephen's Song (REMIX)

Take a whiff of this one. With this track I put together a nice and weird scale that has a brighter and darker side to it. That steal-the-show bass line and digital waves on the Arturia MicroFreak. Melody on Izotope Iris. Chord progression on the Synthstrom Deluge. Compressed drums on Superior Drummer. Music video is on YouTube
https://youtu.be/uT6z0EeI53A

Marianas Stench

Drums

This is a song that started off as something else entirely different. Originally, it was a noodle that I recorded using a delay pedal. I gave it to Chris Maness, who put a killer bass lines on in. so, I went back and completely reimagined it as an actual song. I thought it sounded kinda swampy, so I thought of the most musical thing I could think of about a swamp. I remember the swarms of gnats that would form different patterns when I'd sing different vibrations at them. Hence, Dance of the Gnats.

Dance of the Gnats (with cgmaness)

Sequent B

art work: Victoria Borodinova via Pixabay

ひとふりの ナイフを友に与えたが 埃にまみれ わが下にある

I gave a knife to my deceased friend. But it was found in my room, covered with dust.

Sequent B

Strongly influenced by Enigma's Sadness, for sure! I liked this drum pattern so much back then!!! And searching for this unique "overblown" flute I almost went insane (well...then little has changed in my state of mind 😆)

Narrow Minds

Asian Daydream

My submission for the November 2022 Sim Selection monthly challenge of Benn Jordan's discord community.

No prompts, no keywords. Use the bass line played by Benn Jordan in any way you want.

Photo by Lerone Pieters on Unsplash

Night Train NYC

I made this track in 1996 for a performance by a fraction of the Oslo Industriensemble. Live, this track was overlayed by a violin and accordion duo. Sounded a bit different from this original track I would say.
Equipment used: A Garrard turntable, a piano and a blackbird. All mixed together on a Fostex XR-5 4-track portastudio.

Deaths To Die (1996)

My third lo-fi album.  This one focuses on a wide variety of moods for relaxation, studying, or just hanging out late night.

Synthpathy

The lovely Lady Janice was so kind to send me loads of samples to mess around with. Here's my first take, just messing about! Hope you like ...

This is also a lil Tribute to the wonderful Norma Jeane Mortenson aka Marilyn Monroe!

Vocals ( Remixed ) Janice Carter Slater
https://soundcloud.com/janiceslater

Also a special thnx to  Kirk Kadish for making such wonderful music
https://soundcloud.com/kirkkadish

Used bits and pieces from these tracks:

April Boucher - Strange Day
https://soundcloud.com/janiceslater/strange-day-april-vox-20091031

Arterial Flow - Strange Day
https://soundcloud.com/arterial-flow/strange-day-april-wright-boucher-2009

Bobbi Marchini - Critical Day
https://soundcloud.com/janiceslater/critical-day-bobbi-marchini-vox

Janice Carter Slater - Full of Thrills

Also used bits from the movie Gentlemen prefer Blondes with Marilyn Monroe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R_obqibKLo

Movie info:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045810/

Remixed by Lyrical Smirk.

A Diamond Tiara lasts 4ever - feat Janice Slater & Kirk Kadish

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.

Narrow Minds

𝐹𝓇𝒶𝓃𝓀 𝑀𝑒𝒽𝓁

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