World Gone Wrong

I saw a recent documentary about The Salton Sea. It is a remarkable place and an interesting story.

The Salton Sea

Come on kids you're going on a trip
A trip with Gran and me
Pack your swimming clothes
Your buckets and spades
We'll have fun I guarantee

Jump in the car, strap yourselves in tight
We'll have a jumpin' jamboree
Where we going Gramps, is it somewhere nice?
Are we going to Hawaii

No somewhere better, 
Where Gran and I met
We're going to the Salton Sea 

We're all going
We're all going
Swimming in the Salton Sea

Where are we going
Where are we going
We're going to the Salton Sea


Tell me Gramps, what's that funny smell 
It's horrible, phewee
Look there's a chair in the sand
and some rusty boats
Is this the Salton Sea?

Don't look miserable Gramps
It's very nice
I'm glad you brought us to see

Where Gran and you met
That's the best place on earth
and where I wanna be

The Salton Sea

Always some Superbowl leftovers to either enjoy or throw out the next day.   The wonderful Georg Boehme on tenor and bari saxes and Pinner on guitar join me.  Super bowl Leftovers rose to #5 on Soundcloud’s Hot and New in the Jazz & Blues category. 

https://soundcloud.com/georg-boehme
https://soundcloud.com/pinner

and some great playlists with Georg and Stephan...
https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind/sets/grooving-with-georg-boehme
https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind/sets/smokin-with-stephan-stephan


Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares

Superbowl Leftovers - Georg Boehme / Stephan Lipinski / Jamie Rhind

Vargan - percussion - soprano saxophone jam, each layer in one go ...
Enjoy ! ----------- artwork basic photo by Janmesh Shah on unsplash

stay on the move

Emerge

From Moscow to Siberia, people have taken to the streets in many Russian cities to demonstrate against the war in Ukraine. People chanted "No to war!". The anti-war protests had begun on Thursday after Russian troops invaded Ukraine. Hundreds of protesters have been detained daily since then. The protests appeared to be smaller than those on Thursday, when thousands gathered in Moscow and St. Petersburg. But the true scale was difficult to gauge...

No To War! (свобода)

I initially wanted to add crash & cymbals, timpanis and effects....but then I thought to myself, "Nope, I'll leave it like this!"

All composed and played and recorded by me, by the way. Influenced by many things. 

17 tracks
13 libraries
3 sample packs
1x Magix 

How this comes about?
No idea!

Undying Thoughts

Out of the Box April 2020
Experimental interlude of found sounds

Happy Daze

“Where Silence Blooms” is a cinematic reflection on the quiet moments where emotion awakens.
Led by the haunting tone of the English horn, the piece grows from intimate stillness into a luminous orchestral soundscape. Gentle synths and soft percussion add depth and motion, creating a sense of fragile hope and quiet transformation.

Inspired by the atmospheric storytelling of Thomas Newman and James Newton Howard, it captures beauty in restraint and warmth in simplicity.

Where Silence Blooms

(Morning) music, even for meditation or yoga

Shimmering Dawn

m83 OUTRO EXTENDED (Reimagined Epic Version)

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.

Undying Thoughts

Frank Mehl

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