Hey Andy… bis hier cooler lebendiger Track… die dunklen Beats hier sind aber auch nich von schlechten Eltern!

Die lebendigen Synthies sind das Beste… richtig cooler Track

Dusty Trails

sonic and rhythmic exploration of my noisy electric guitar solo.
visual: extract of one of my recent abstract painting in colors.

DANS L'OMBRE DE MA GUITARE  PATRICK PICAULT

Music by Kontra Sz & Val Akey.
- Kontra Sz: plays rythm guitars, lead guitars;
- Val Akey: drums-, bass- and keys programming (mixing and mastering) + cover art.
Many thanks Kontra Sz for the fantastic guitar play! https://soundcloud.com/kontra-sz

Release date:
12 January 2024

Captive Of Time (Kontra Sz & Val Akey collab)

Jellyfish Palace

Still enjoying the re-read of Asimov's Foundation series. I found the cover art in the retro futuristic section of Pinterest - I'm sure it's AI generated. Love the colours!

All the guitar parts were played on a Fender Telecaster with Texas pickups.

Foundation And Empire

Track in Progress!
Test for several new own Synth-Setup's.
I hope, my Friends, You like this Experiment?!
Best Regards
Andy

ᴛᴇsᴛғɪᴇʟᴅ ✇

My words are always wrong
I don’t know what to say to you
i’ve tried to put them in a song
i hope that it's a way to break through

I think we’re stronger than you know
More than you give it credit for
yeah,there’s a long long way to go
But first we have to open up the door

So we’ve had our share of tears
You think the dream has gone
We are fumbling through the years
We can find a way to carry on

How can you say that i’m not here
I’ve been right here all along
How can you say that i don’t care
When everything i do is for you, right or wrong

Look straight ahead, don't look back
We both know what we’ve been through
Please don’t mind those hard times
Because they led me here to you

I’ll hold on
And you’ll stay strong

Now it’s good to see you smile 
you haven’t felt like smiling for a while
And the feel of your hand in my hand
It makes everything worthwhile

we’ve had our own share of the dark 
But all of those hard times are gone
And the road ahead is long
But we don’t have to walk alone

Look straight ahead, don't look back
We both know what we’ve been through
Now i don’t mind those hard times
Because they led me here to you

I’ll hold on
And You stay strong

Looking Ahead

PS Perkins: Guitars, bass, lyre, vocals
Ron Thomas: Autoharps, Drums

Production notes:
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Very early on we wanted to use autoharps on this song to create a sort of swirling backdrop, reminiscent of the harps in Indian/Bollywood soundtrack songs of the seventies.

Right away there were challenges because the song is in B flat and is not wholly diatonic to begin with, utilizing a chord built on the augmented lydian scale in the choruses. So rather than transpose the song to a more amenable key (since the chromatic bits weren't going to work no matter what key we used) we instead re-tuned the autoharp. Moving through the strings one by one we tuned them either up or down a half step where applicable to bring them into key. Where the augmented chord hit in the choruses, we excluded those notes so that the autoharp was filling the diatonic parts of the chords and omitting the accidentals. It took us several tries to get it right. In the end we arrived at a chord progression that could be strummed on the autoharp and the modified chords could be played with existing dampers.

We also tuned the lyre so that the top half of the strings included the chromatic augmented notes while the lower register of the lyre was tuned using the diatonic, so the lyre could play the melody all the way through both parts of the song.

The inspiration for this song was essentially fourfold:
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First, H.P. Lovecraft's terrifying necromancer Joseph Curwen (from "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward") who masked his true identity in order to thwart suspicion from his fellow townsfolk. He has many secrets lurking in his underground catacombs where he performs acts of necromancy most foul, extracting the "salts" of the dead in order to raise them at will and learn the secrets of ancient eldritch deities.

Second, a poem by Rudyard Kipling titled "En-Dor" which was a warning against the rise of spiritualism and the cost of communion with the dead in the early 20th century.

Third, the biblical Saul who traveled in disguise to visit a witch at the city of Endor in order to summon Samuel from the dead and garner advice on defeating the Philistines, but who only prophesies doom for Saul. Saul dies later the next day in the battle of Gilboa.

Lastly, the story of Odysseus communing with the underworld where he enlists the help of Tiresias to have a chat with the dead and secure for himself a safe journey home.

They all seek communion with the dead for one purpose: to gain knowledge which only those who have crossed over between realms might possess. 

Lyrics:
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A mask may reveal what it’s meant to conceal
From those who are standing beside us
Armor of pride, so we learn to abide
By the monsters which hide deep inside us
The monsters which lurk deep inside us
Oh, how they scratch and they bite us
The monsters which lurk deep inside us

Only to know what the professor knows

Eating black bread, wearing clothes of the dead
The soil soaked in honey around us
For fear if we failed, leave the ogre unveiled
And it’s back in the grave where they found us
Back in the grave where they found us
Freed from the ties which had bound us
Back in the grave where they found us

Only to know what the professor knows

In the catacomb vaults, we extracted the salts
From cadavers to lengthen our youth
Chanting the names at the edge of the flames
And a mirror to show us the truth
A mirror which speaks only truth
See how it seeks not to soothe
A mirror which speaks only truth

Only to know what the professor knows

In the underworld maze, in the night of no days
Concocting the plan we’re devising
Much to endure on the road to En-Dor
And to snatch from Elohim arising
To snatch from Elohim arising
Snatch from Elohim arising
Snatch from Elohim arising
Snatch from Elohim arising
Snatch from Elohim arising

BARDS: Of the Shimmering Seraphs

The Professor

2024/2/26

Website

koyomi

Roar (or Get Up On Your Hind Legs)

An absolute blast “Passion” by the Flirts from 1982.
My version comes with 125bpm and 15 synthesizers.
It is created as a loop version...
Have fun listening.

DJ Hero Soft



Vocals: Hope Rayman (Red Hear), Andrea Del Conte (Blond hair), Rebecca Sullivan (Black hair)

Hero´s  Passion

DJ - Hero - Soft - 506 - Hero´s - Passion

👍 Good Luck and always straight Tones!! 😉
Every Track is an Experiment!
Big Thank's to all my Listener & Supporter!
Experimental Music (Fusion 80's/90's/Classic) to my Style "FutureBase ©"
For all who are interested!
"FutureBase ©" has a simple Meaning:
Each Track is the "Base" for another One in "Future".
DAW: LMMS 1.3.0A (Linux)

My first Attempts in Music, I made in the
80's, on an Amiga 500, the Soundtracker Pro
  and 10 Discs with Instruments!

I am NOT a Professional! Music is My Hobby.
Please forgive Me a couple of weird Tones! 😏
Cheers & Stay Safe
Andy

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👍 Viel Glück und immer gerade Töne!!! 😉 .
Jeder Track ist ein Experiment!
Ein großes Danke an alle meine Hörer & Unterstützer!

Experimentelle Musik (Fusion 80's/90's/Classic) in meinen Style "FutureBase ©"
Für alle die es interessiert!
"FutureBase ©" hat eine simple Bedeutung:
Jeder Track ist die "Basis" fur einen anderen, in der "Zukunft"
DAW: LMMS 1.3.0A (Linux)

Meine ersten Gehversuche in der Musik, machte ich in den 80er Jahren, auf einem Amiga 500, dem Soundtracker Pro und 10 Disk's mit Instrumenten!

Ich bin KEIN Profi! Musik ist mein Hobby.
Bitte verzeiht mir ein paar schräge Töne! 😏
Liebe Grüße & bleibt Gesund
Andy

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