R & B

A little bit of a funky groove to kick off the weekend.

Funkinova

Groove Theory - Tell Me

Tower of Power - Soul With A Capital 'S'

Marvin Gaye - Mercy Mercy/I Want You

It's summer, and I feel like a jam! (in the Southern Hemisphere, that is!)

Artful Dodger - Summer Jam

This is an academic exercise to practice my new-found Ableton sampling skills. No interpretation is intended, or should be implied, from this exercise which manipulates the two songs to combine into a single track.

Lets Get It On_Thinking Out Loud Mash-up

Also covered by the Go Go's in the 1980's the original version was far superior with backing from the Funk Brothers; Tamla Motown's backing band! 

A documentary on those guys is worth a look!

The Capitols - Cool Jerk

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. 

Ray Charles - What'd I Say

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

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

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.

Temptations - Just My Imagination

An Easter blues jam. Feel free to play along!

Funkinova;

Albert King - Born Under a Bad sign

One of the early soul tracks that kicked off the whole Atlantic Soul genre.

Sam & Dave - Soul Man

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!