I love the super upbeat tone of this piece.  The piano bridge is delicious.  The production is excellent as always.

https://youtu.be/XdzS7emGyWs

So here now I present the ambient cello version of "Night Sky"!

Enjoy 🙂

🎞️ Video

Night Sky (Ambient Cello Version)

https://youtu.be/pudXZsBS5qs - First appearance!

It is better to have had something and lost it again than to have never had it.

Composed & Arranged by Frank Mehl.
Used Instruments:
KORG Triton - Patch "Gods Bathub"
NEXUS - "Blackhole Piano"
Vocalise 2 - Gravity Pack 04 - "Vocal Scapes (C minor)"
NEXUS - "Doomsday Atmo"
NEXUS - "Epic Action Scene 3 (Drums)"
Spitfire Audio - Contemporary Drama Kit - "e1 Vocals" (Vox Hmm)
Spitfire Audio - Originals Epic Choir - "Short Stacatto Syllables" (Sopranos & Altos)
NEXUS - "Concert Harp"
NEXUS - "Epic Brass Sustain Vel"
NEXUS - "Synaegian Strings"
Evolution Series - "World Colors/Clar-Duduk"

🎞️ Video!

Losses

Music composed, played, arranged & mixed by frank mehl 😃

"Listen" to the Video at https://youtu.be/3EtPeRihXR8 📹
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Childhood is a sweet dream - and at least it should be, but adolescence is the first awakening from it - a state between dreaming and waking, in which both are at war with each other, as it were, and the feeling of being only momentarily, but not permanently, enters consciousness.
Luise Otto-Peters (1819 - 1895)

Do you still see the heart that you carved into the park bench or the nearby tree at the edge of the forest back then? The heart you carved into the wood when you first wanted to immortalize it? Wood that has been exposed to the elements can still preserve that first, heavy heart. Is yours still as luminous?
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Die Kindheit ist ein lieblicher Traum – und soll es wenigstens sein, aber die Jugend ist das erste Erwachen aus ihm – ein Zustand zwischen Träumen und Wachen, wo gleichsam beide miteinander im Kampfe liegen und das Daseinsgefühl nur erst in Momenten, aber nicht auf die Dauer zum Bewußtsein kommt.
Luise Otto-Peters (1819 - 1895)

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I Was Here

Thank you for visiting this track.
Not everyone may be able to see inside their own hearts, but knowing who they really are is very important. 
Always keep bright light in your heart so that darkness does not creep in. Let go of your body and focus on the voice of your heart. 
A good day

Nobody Knows Inside

https://youtu.be/JA25Cl8A7Dc 🦅🧐

"What has wings, that flies, and had it been born in a mole hole."

I think I have succeeded here quite a beautiful song...🤔

In the video I use a "pimped" version of the song. I was missing a bit of the timpanis & rolls. Maybe I'll replace this one with the YT version 🤔 what do you think?

Video 📹

Upon Higher Wings

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Insomnia

Vox Angelorum

Spiel der Liebe

Celestial Flamebearers

Accompanied by a strange mix of relief and sadness, it is with great pleasure that I am finally letting go and releasing my fourth and final movement to my Symphony No. 4. 

It is also my pleasure to announce that Liz Dicker @Liz-Dicker is simultaneously  releasing her beautiful and moving performance of a piano piece I wrote based in part on this final movement.  If you would like to listen to it, please click on this link: https://soundcloud.com/liz-dicker/evie-by-christopher-larkins

I wish it was not the case, but as a result of COVID19, I have been able to invest more time into writing this Symphony than any prior composition. Thus, I think it is only fitting that I dedicate the whole work to the recognition of how much suffering people throughout the world has had to endure as a result of this terrible virus.  

Within the journey of this movement and the Symphony as a whole, there are numerous twists and turns, and just like life, it is far from all smooth sailing. I hope though, that you feel as I do, that there are many passages throughout the Symphony that celebrate life.  But to me, even though this last movement does lament what is lost, it is within the last few bars where the journey finally releases an unequivocal affirmation of the beauty and majesty of life.  

Whatever you glean from the work, I hope its was worth listening to.

The picture for this movement is taken from the exact same place that the picture for the 3rd movement was taken.   The 3rd movement's picture was taken shortly after my neighborhood had been ravaged by wildfire.  This picture was taken a few months later after we had rejuvenating winter rains in Southern California.  As you can see, the hillsides came rushing back to life.  Hopefully, the world will rejuvenate and recover very soon from the ravages of COVID.

As always, thank you for listening and do stay healthy.  
Christopher

Larkins | Symphony No. 4, Movement 4

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.

Upon Higher Wings

Frank Mehl

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