Released 2015

soul, jazz, rnb,

Funkinova - Complete Works Part 1

R & B

I love jazzzz

Willie Nelson - Ray Charles - Georgia On My Mind

Legendary 60's organist Jimmy Smith track. If you don't know his music, check him out!

Jimmy Smith - Chicken Shack

The original is really slow and melancholic, and as my student colleagues wanted to do a cover track (to the original tempo), I thought it would be fun to produce a Dance version. It actually turned out much better than I thought it would!  :-)

Radiohead - Exit For a Film (Instrumental Dance Mix!)

Just a gentle groove for a historic song!

Nelson Mandela. 

"I detest racialism because I regard it as a barbaric thing whether it comes from the black man or the white man."

Simple Minds - Mandela Day

This is an EDM  cover version of the Radiohead song "Exit for a Film" with vocals by Lia.

Exit For a Film

Exit fo a film (Dance Mix)

Exit For a Film (Feat Lia)

A bonus track to Funkinova's Tribute to Camel album that was released in May 2022. If you like crazy time signatures, this one's for you!

Camel - Lunar Sea

I Love You Baby - Frank Sinatra

These tracks were edited using the CVP705 and demonstrate the audio capability of the excellent keyboard. I am hoping that Yamaha will address the major weakness of having very limited free available memory after which I would give the keyboard 10/10. 

Beach Boys - Surfer Girl

Elton John - Song For Guy

Sade - Smooth Operator

Ray Charles - What'd I Say

Theme - Hawaii 5 0

When we were growing up, Otis Redding songs were always there and many are classics that live on to this day. I only learnt more recently that he died at the age of 26 in a plane crash. Wow, I knew abut the plane crash but he produced so many good songs in his time. This one was released after his death and was the first posthumous # 1, apparently.

Otis Redding - Dock Of The Bay

This is a track collected for the ‘Sunken Treasure’ segment of Monday Daily with Tim Higgins on 2SER.

In 'Sunken Treasure', we raid the dusty stacks of vinyl at a Vinnies in search of some forgotten classics. Workers or shoppers at the store then put on their best radio voice to introduce a track for us. 

Louis Armstrong - I Love Jazz

Remixed Midi's on the Yamaha Clavinova CVP705. I do not play them but produce the audio remixes using this great keyboard !

Prince - When Doves Cry

Ella Fitzgerald Louis Armstrong - Dream A Little Dream Of Me

My first old School R&B production which led this Album. Jackie Wilson was interesting because he started in the late 50's with classing rock n roll era tracks and was able to switch to more of a sixties soul groove to keep his career going in the 60's . .  also referenced in the early Van Morrison song "Jackie WIlson Said".

Jackie Wilson - Higher And Higher

Old School R&B. Classic Motown song by one the the label's leading groups.

Funkinova

Temptations - Just My Imagination

I do not own the rights to Unforgettable.
I did not create the original.

Unforgettable (Nat King Cole)

Ray Charles - I Got A Woman

RAY!

Mess Around

Billie Holiday- Ain't Nobody's Business if I Do (Live)

Ray Charles - Hit the Road Jack (Drum and Bass Remix)

Hi all, so from 2016 to 2024 I assembled and produced a large collection of covers of many of my favorite tunes as my own hobby (and many during COVID lock-downs!) and I have accumulated over 2,900,000 plays across the world which is awesome!

I am much more of a producer that a musician. These first 8 years of my music was mostly based on midi cover tracks often downloaded from the Internet but heavily reproduced and re-imagined variously on my two Yamaha keyboards (Clavinova and PSR 975), but also using PC midi editing & DAW software.

Towards the end of that period, I added some of my more original electronic music which I produced over the past two decades under the name of Funkleberry in order to consolidate my Soundcloud accounts. 

But in 2024 I got into AI music generation and I am now  a freelance songwriter and AI music producer. It's been a fun journey!

My first 4 AI Albums can also be found here:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4iZUxtVnHl09U3UJ0nbt2L OR

in Apple music (search Funkinova and/or AI Collective)

If you like anything you hear, please pass them on!