I played a tune on my electric guitar and painted some loops and samples around the tune to make a backing track that sounded good or okay enough at least. There are some nice tunes in my guitar and some of them come forth here, I think. But all in all the track is too long.. 6 minutes seemed okay in the seventies, though!

Strange Thoughts

A lead guitar plays nice melodies over a simple backing track (drums, bass, keyboards). Vocals are so last millennium, this is the modern nice music were the guitar speaks to those who know how to listen. Play it once, why not play it again?! Four times you listen to this and then you want to listen to it again. As they used to say back in the day: turn on, tune in, drop out!

The Really Nice Guitar Speaks

Based on loops and a big sound with a simple but still complex set of patterns that sounds soothing and relaxing till the break wakes you up and still takes you back to the land of calm. A journey through soundscapes meant to take time and still these 8 minutes pass quickly enough.

The Ninth Visit to the Nice Soundscapes

A relaxing pop song to make you feel nice and be cool. There are loops and samplings and something else, all put together to make you feel a bit relaxed through this short journey of nice and melodic guitars and other stuff. Hope you enjoy this.

Silent Lament

A little pop song made on my dead mother's birthday, memories of emotional times passed, instrumental because no words could describe my mother, sometimes music lessens the pain inside and I hope this may help other who miss loved ones.

For those we loved and lost

This is the result of me doing a live performance in my own room/studio, just playing my electric guitar over a backing track made with bass and keyboards and no drums or drum machines. This is music you play when you want to stress down and relax a bit. I think it is quite beautiful some places, but obviously the track is way too long for almost everybody these days. Back in the seventies it would have been considered 'normal'. Music meant to be nice, be nice everyone, okay?!

Time is an illusion

Time Is An Illusion

This version of a way too long instrumental track was released 6th of September 2022, one week after the first version due to seriously quiet mixing. I am very happy to see that so many people like this thing - a track without any drum sounds at all! I play the guitar this way due to having never been taught anything, just playing for days on end from the start of my teenage years and 50 years later I have a sound that is a bit special, but I am not trained in music and it has been many years of meeting mixolydian scales and variants of other scales and by pure luck getting it right some few times. As some has noted, there are quite a lot of bum notes way out of any tuning here. I am not a machine, that should tell you. Yes.

Time is an illusion - radio edit

Time Is An Illusion - radio edit

Some 6 minutess of an electric guitar swooping over a very easy and calm backing track (drums, bass, some keyboards). Recorded live on a Smartphone by my assistant (or wife) whithout telling me that she was recording. This music came into being when I played it in September this year (2022), I just play something and it so happens that sometimes sheer luck may cause a piece of good music to be recorded. Not here, though.

Almost no time left

Almost No Time Left

Kind of simple melodies from my guitars sometimes heavily treated by effects, backed by drums and bass mostly from samples or loops. You may like it, you may not. (This could be the same main guitar tune as heard on Strange Thoughts, in a very different version - but I am not sure, it could be another improvisation starting on the same theme...)

Thoughts of what may have been (For Roger McQuinn)

This is made on the Podium Free DAW, a digital studio I never really understood well, but anyhow this is me playing several guitars, basses, rythm-programming (or a box?), keyboards, I even sing three verses of this song I wrote ages ago. To me this track is interesting because of the about 4,5 minutes long freely improvised lead guitar that sometimes just sounds very nice and more 'planned' than other jams I've made. You might like it.

Hideaway (MASTERED)

Lyrics about the calm seaside at nights and the stress of daytime, the singer just wants to hideaway from it all. I really think I played a remarkable although mostly imrprovised guitar solo on my guitar. The bass ain't too steady and a cheap rythm from a Yamaha keyboard completes this atrocity,

Hideaway

Just an old rythmbox (from Roland) laying down a beat that a quick, tidy bassriff fits over, and then these two guys plays guitars - this was actually a 'band' called Tonedeath, where this young and going up guitarplayer flings off more notes in a second than most do in a minute - Kyrre Trohjell at the age of 18/19 and this old geezer who steered Badtripp into the abyss, Geir Arne Moi, at that time 32/33 years old. We did not plan songs, we just played them as they came. "Motorbass" is Moi mostly on bass and Trohjell doing the lead guitar. Recorded on a Teac 1980-cassette based 4-track 'studio'. Copyright Tonedeath 1991.

Motorbass - MASTERED (thunder 100%)

Traditional rock track with verses and choruses and a verse with lead guitar, but this track goes on way too long and should have been cut into a song half as long, but I do not have the master tapes or the 4-track cassette mixer/recorder any more since this song was written and performed by one person exactly 30 years ago, in 1992. Do not expect quality at any given place here. There is a Roland machine doing its thing, and one bass and 3 guitars and one vocal on top of the Roland. I played and did my best at singing, I even wrote the song... The sound of one man trying his best doing things he barely knows how to do...

Do It Again (Annie Teardrop) MASTERED

Just me on my guitar jamming to bass and drums doing Em - D forever. The opinions are split upon this track: I like it - and people who wants to borrow money from me say they do too.  Most of the ohers say they like the part at the end when I stop playing. Definitely split opinions, yes.

A quite short hunt for a melody

I am playing my guitar while the app ChordPulse plays drums, bass and some keyboards in the background. Someone recorded this while I was playing, unknown to me. Yes, one might wonder why. Still, this is more than 6 minutes of me jamming in the traditional E - D - C - B chord circle.

A longer search for more melodies

This is actually filmed live and the live sound from the mixer goes straight into ..a smart phone. Here, as you might notice, is only the soundtrack. It me - G.A.Moi - playing guitar over bass and drums and some keyboards. Very nice music, this is well played improv over themes that also are well known. So it is.

Idiot  I Said

Just playing with samples and here I made a short piece of sample-based 'music' that many people actually say they like to listen to. Well, 'many' should be understood in the context of a not perfect musician with great misgivings to my tracks and whether they are songs people should be spared for - what you don't hear you cannot get traumatized by--! Give the track a spin and see what you think.

Toadrip

If my memory serves me well, this is a track with gentle melodies and sometimes it seems that the track gets a bit lost, stops up and look confused. Or maybe that's the way I look while making this stuff. I don't think you'll love this track, but it is kind of easy to like... if you got a Kind Mind!

Kind Mind

Driven by samples and live mixed by me who barely understand the concept of sampling, although I am trained in live mixing. I usually play everythig myself (my band members back in the 1980ies have kind of disappeared as I moved around a bit, but all counted more than 12 musicians have at one time or another played in Badtripp. I do guitars and bass, some singing, produce the thing and even add keyboards some few places. Many people would say that I really should not make music this way, or any way. But you know, I just have to make music. Learn to live with my weird habits!

TimeMosquitos

I played some electric guitar into my DAW one day and set about to find stuff that could be used as backing track for my superquick slow motion guitar. That's about as irrational way as possible to make a track... so I won't tell you any details from that once in a lifetime ordeal. The result may well be almost ...music, but I don't know. This could be a hit in Kirgizistan.

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