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Frankie Beverly and Maze-Before I Let Go.mp3

This is a 1975 ballad by the Moments who later became Ray, Goodman & Brown 
I had to dance up one of my all time favorite gems.

Look At Me (I'm In Love) Written by  A. Goodman* H. Ray

The Moments Look At Me ALBERT CABRERA REWORK [Finale]

Theme From 'Shaft' - Isaac Hayes

The bells - the originals

Baby I'm For Real (The Originals)

Herbie Hancock - Chameleon

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

Solo and Rhythm guitars - Russ Hewitt
Rhythm and Harmony guitars - Alfredo Caceres
Drums - "Wally" Walfredo Reyes Jr.
Percussion - Rafael Padilla
Bass - Bob Parr
Guitar - Larry Carlton on 'North of Home'
Guitar - Ardeshir Farah on 'Persian Sky'

written by Russ Hewitt


Cielo Nocturno

'Serenidad' from "Cielo Nocturno"

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

A Charlie Brown Christmas [2012 Remastered & Expanded Edition]

Linus And Lucy

Frankie Beverly And Maze Smooth Jazz Tribute

Before I Let Go

Smooth Jazz Tribute to Last Night's Glee

Gold Digger (Made Famous by Kanye West & Jamie Foxx)

21 Channels and still work in progress but Take 1 had a laggy thing going on when I listened on someone else's ipod player.

Will go back to the drawing board for Take 3 but I have proven the technology !!

ADIEMUS Take 2

Simon And Garfunkle - Bridge Over Troubled Water

Grover Washington Jr - Mister Magic (1975)

So it is never quite clear why one cover track might get a few thousand plays and others just a few. So I thought I would put this that I produced around three years ago back in the spotlight to see if it can get some more plays this second time around.

As one of my earlier tracks it is one of the first where I gave it a treatment that didn't try and be too close to the original.

2018 V1

David Bowie - Space Oddity (Instrumental)

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

After 20+ years in the business they produced their best track in 2005!

Depeche Mode - Precious

Instrumental rendition of 2011 hit by French DJ David Guetta and Australia's Sia

David Guetta - Titanium

On The Ocean -K'Jon

Nee mathram Mathi

The Stylistics - You Are Everything

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!