Some of my Soundcloud favourites #2

𝐹𝓇𝒶𝓃𝓀 𝑀𝑒𝒽𝓁 Piotr Sikoski @IanStokesMusic @AnomonRA David Dunham Richard Hellgren @MagitmanMusic The Journey Rachel May Alverie Tristan Case No Entropy @olga_misty @SteveAllenMusic

Origin And Decay Farewell #3773

Some of my Soundcloud Favourites #3

Frank Mehl

The station | Randomized

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Farewell

The Path

When those we are now joyfully developing take inventory and count out by "were you good?". Christmas times very different with a built-in malfunction!

Small robots for children were placed under the Christmas tree. Now it is the robots that rule us. The Christmas tree is already electric in many places!

a not entirely serious story  ;) 😉

Merry Christmas to all who supported me so far, listened to me and read. Stay healthy and creative!

Frank Mehl
Christmas hasn't been what it used to be for a long time....

Malfunction At Christmas

WATCH OUT! https://youtu.be/nECHfNiXOuM

Destruction is absolutely no guarantee
for building a better life.

Zerstörung ist absolut keine Garantie
für den Aufbau eines besseren Lebens.

🎦 Video

Critical Demolition

Composé, réalisé par Jacques Lemaire alias idematoa, Décembre 2021 via Studio One.
Free Download  https://idematoa.bandcamp.com/track/horizon-2022
Un grand merci à DarkWaterBlue (Douglas)https://soundcloud.com/user295849933 pour sa patience et ses retours sur mes brouillons musicaux !

Horizon 2022

Infinity Love

Happy 2022 everyone 🥳! Hope it’s a great year for you. 

Was listening to Porter Robinson's song "Something Comforting" and Keane's "Somewhere Only We Know" and thought to myself, 'I would love to combine two of my favourite songs from two of my favourite artists together with a sprinkle of Decan Usmic'. 

You might not like this due to the different genres of these artists… But I hope you like it and thank you as always for listening and for your support.

Somewhere Comforting: A Porter Robinson, Keane and Decan Usmic Mashup

℗ © Copyright Ian Stokes. All Rights Reserved
Recorded and mixed using Logic. Mastered in Soundcloud
Guitar played: Taylor 714 CE in DADGAD Tuning (all tuned down a half step and capo'd at the 7th fret.)
Photography: Thanks go to Nigel and Libby Hume at Hume Photography

I wrote this his song imagining the days when travelling large distances by foot was normal and the hardship encountered by a traveller on a long journey when the winter weather closes in......
Lyrics:
The light was fading fast
A traveller far from home
Snow fell hard unyielding
Winter striking its blow

From far upon the hillside
He looked down on the valley below
Searching for a sign of 
Shelter from the cold 

Down there in the distance 
A glimpse of candle light
A window through the darkness 
On this bitter night

The prospect of a haven
On this lonely road
A simple roof and walls of stone
With shelter from the cold

Come inside, there’s safety now
There’s warmth here while you rest
There’s room there by the open fire
Beside the chimney breast

Here’s food to give you comfort
a warming cup to hold
Gather up your strength
While you have shelter from the cold

I know not how to thank you
There are no thanks to pay
The sun will rise tomorrow
And you’ll be on your way

Such kindness I shall ne’er forget
This story shall be told
A kind and gentle stranger 
Giving shelter from the cold

Shelter From The Cold

Brian Butts - Guitar, Drums, Bass, Keyboard
Chris Dent - Guitar, Master Mix https://soundcloud.com/user-663569023?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Retrodiction

Bandcamp

Travel Journal (feat. Chris Dent)

Here's a lovely tender-hearted Piano improvisation in Three Parts from several years back that I found in my 'musical vault' today. It's kind of a hymn to the wonders and beauties of Nature. 

The 1st part goes til 2:53.
The 2nd one begins at 2:54 and moves through to 5:31
The 3rd proceeds to the end, (and the Beginning).  :)

 Don't know how it got lost, but so glad to have found it again. :)

I'm pretty sure it was an homage to one of my favorite streams and its surrounds, as the experience it evoked within washed over me.
May it also awaken something lovely in you, dear Listeners. 

© Gary Courtland-Miles 2021
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2021

An Ode to Nature's Beauty

And children grow up with deep eyes,
Who know of nothing, grow up and die,
And all men go their ways.

And sweet fruits grow from the bitter ones
And fall down at night like dead birds
And lie a few days and perish.

And ever the wind blows, and ever again
We hear and speak many words
And feel lust and weariness of limbs.

And roads run through the grass, and places
Are there and there, full of torches, trees, ponds,
And looming, and deadly withered . . .

What are these built for? and never resemble
One another never? and are innumerable many?
What alternates laughter, weeping and palliation?

What do we care about all this and these games,
We who are great and eternally lonely
And wandering never seek any goals?

What does it matter if we have seen many such things?
And yet he who says "evening" says a lot,
A word from which profundity and sorrow run

Like heavy honey from the hollow combs.

Und Kinder wachsen auf mit tiefen Augen,
Die von nichts wissen, wachsen auf und sterben,
Und alle Menschen gehen ihre Wege.

Und süße Früchte werden aus den herben
Und fallen nachts wie tote Vögel nieder
Und liegen wenig Tage und verderben.

Und immer weht der Wind, und immer wieder
Vernehmen wir und reden viele Worte
Und spüren Lust und Müdigkeit der Glieder.

Und Straßen laufen durch das Gras, und Orte
Sind da und dort, voll Fackeln, Bäumen, Teichen,
Und drohende, und totenhaft verdorrte . . .

Wozu sind diese aufgebaut? und gleichen
Einander nie? und sind unzählig viele?
Was wechselt Lachen, Weinen und Erbleichen?

Was frommt das alles uns und diese Spiele,
Die wir doch groß und ewig einsam sind
Und wandernd nimmer suchen irgend Ziele?

Was frommt's, dergleichen viel gesehen haben?
Und dennoch sagt der viel, der "Abend" sagt,
Ein Wort, daraus Tiefsinn und Trauer rinnt

Wie schwerer Honig aus den hohlen Waben.

'Hugo von Hofmannsthal'

Origin And Decay

Cyber Atack

Interstellar Wind

East And West

We humans would finally become more aware of infinity if we would think more often about the fact that for millions of years, with every last breath, a finiteness in the infinite has come to an end.

Die Unendlichkeit würde uns Menschen endlich bewußter, wenn wir öfter darüber nachdenken würden, daß seit Millionen von Jahren mit jedem letzten Atemzug eine Endlichkeit im Unendlichen zu Ende geht.

A Brief Eternity (Forever)

Ein Zauberkünstler ist ein Mann, der Dinge von dort wegnimmt, wo sie nicht sind, und sie dort hinstellt, wo man sie nicht finden kann, weil sie nicht da sind.

A magician is a man who takes things away from where they are not and puts them where they cannot be found because they are not there.

Un prestidigitateur est un homme qui enlève des choses de là où elles ne sont pas et les met là où on ne peut pas les trouver parce qu'elles n'y sont pas.

la magie est en vous (magic wand)

Music: Jan Schonander

Another Friday night sitting as it were, but this time developed over a little time. I played this for my wife and she said it made her think of blue fireflies in the night and hence the image. Took a while to find the first Fm/C/C7 progression then I just carried on from there. Although I thought about adding complexity in the end I decided that less was more in this case. 

The piano piece itself is not very difficult to play, but as I do not own a Steinway Grand the challenge was finding a digital instrument that did the trick in terms of tone. I started out with my Korg SV-1, even changed the keyboard bed but there was something about the sharpness of the high keys (always been an issue on the Korg) that just didn’t sound right. I then tried the Ravenskraft VST, highly recommended in reviews, and found that the overall sound was too dull for my liking.  After years of thinking (not about this piece) this prompted me to finally bring a Nord Stage 3 home. Initially I was disappointed in the piano engine but after a while I learned to set it up to my liking as well as got used to the feel of a different keyboard. This particular piano is the fully mapped Royal Grand 3D with a little bit of reverb and the bass turned down a smidgen. The violin is also a native Nord sample with some delay.

It also turns out that bouncing a pure unprocessed piano track from Logic Pro X sounds a lot better than trying to improve it with the various algorithms in Izotope Ozone.

This is a single take piano performance without any edits.

Past Midnight

Morning Walk

FLIGHT GARUDA - Music by REKHA - IYERN [Fe] | LIVE Hardware Synth Jam

Music, Recorded & Performed, Composed & Produced, Mixed and Mastered by REKHA at IYERN [Fe] RECORDS in CANADA

Cover Art: Photo & Graphics by REKHA - IYERN [Fe]

FLIGHT GARUDA M2 - REKHA IYERN FE

Trailokya

FLIGHT GARUDA

FLIGHT GARUDA - Music by REKHA - IYERN [Fe] | Live Synth Jam | Electro Space DANCE Pop

Recorded in Modesto, Ca.  Featuring Dobro Guitar solo. Gibson 335 Electric guitar solo. Baritone guitar Rhythm. Fender Electric Bass. Dobro Guitar Rhythm. Gibson SG Electric Guitar Rhythm. Godin Slide Guitar Background. Roland 880 Synthesizer Bass. Jaw Harp. Hammond B3 Organ Background Rhythm. Trap Drum set. Percussion Cowbell, Timbales, Djembe, Zildjen Crash Cymbal.

Still Kickin'

Bayou Swamper

amazon

Take Me to Another World

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.