Some instrumental covers of Sting and Police's best tunes!

Sting and Police

One of the best Police tracks from the 80's

Police - Wrapped Around Your Finger

I produced this version before I listened to the original and think it is a worthy cover. I hope you enjoy it!

Sting - Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot

24 Feb 2022: Restless tonight due to the Ukraine war and the bugger-all help that the West has provided, I put this together as an "emotional vent".

There is also a grown-up video that accompanies the music. The image is a scene from it based on recent news coverage. 

https://vimeo.com/681880187

The chanting at the end of the track is from newsreel of the brave, but too few, Russians protesting against the War in Moscow! 

Please pass on either the music on Soundcloud or video on Vimeo if it strikes the right chord . .. . actually and metaphorically!

Sting - Russians

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.

Sting - Fragile

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

Sting - An Englishman In New York

With musical references to Stevie Wonder's I was made to love her, this is an interesting track in 12:8 time.

Funkinova

Sting - Brand New Day

Police - Bring On The Night

Police - Don't Stand So Close To Me

Classic Police track; the most successful of 1983 also sampled a few years later by Puff Daddy for "I'll be missing you" which also got to number 1 in the US.

Police - Every Breath You Take

Classic Police track bout a story of a castaway on an island, who sends out a message in a bottle to seek love. A year later, he has not received any sort of response, and despairs, thinking he is destined to be alone. The next day, he sees "a hundred billion bottles" on the shore, finding out that there are more people like him out there.

Police - Message In A Bottle

Sting - Fields of Gold which he wrote, even though it sounds like a traditional tune.  Covered by many including Eva Cassidy who was a beautiful singer and whose life was just too short.

Sting - Fields Of Gold

One of Sting's lesser know classic songs!

Sting - Desert Rose

"Shape of My Heart" was released in August 1993 as the fifth single from the album Ten Summoner's Tales. It was used for the end credits of the film Léon starring Natalie Portman, and within the 1993 film Three of Hearts.

The song has become a pop classic and one of Sting's works most closely associated with his solo career. It currently has more than 127 million plays on the streaming platform Spotify.

Sting - Shape of My Heart

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!