another superb work from a great couple of aces !!!!

A wonderful mix. The piano sits so organically in the middle of the other instruments, great work, in particular since the piano is so notoriously hard to mix with its rich overtone spectrum.

you fellas seem to be in tune with the energy the other is moving with, feeling your way along. Est quod id est...best way to describe improvisation! Marvelous work, gentlemen! Thank you for starting off 2024 with this! Good to the last trill and upward thrust!

Ah Gary, this is indeed music for the soul, so uplifting and (as someone else below said), there's a wonderful freshness to the work. And I love the chords, and chord changes, you used for your scintillations :). Great work all round.

Nice relaxed collective improvisation, Gary!

music so light and uplifting...beautiful piano and guitar...

How freeing to break through scheduled life to those moments when a dazzling sunset or a beautiful song with a beat arrives unexpectedly, tapping you on the shoulder to take a pleasure trip of heart and soul. To become wonderstruck if even for minutes can color an entire day or more.

Sometimes, when the quiet space between thoughts widens and the mind becomes speechless at the awesome beauty of the heavens, a touch of melancholy dances with the splendor, perhaps a fleeting regret for having not previously stood still long enough to experience the wonder of it all. So there’s an easing of something too tight — perhaps a dance shoe? — before the goosebumps, before the eureka minute, to trip the light fantastic.

Synth guitars, pianos, keyboard, clarinet, and bass — all set to hip hop beats at a wonderstruck 60 bpm.

© Copyright 2023 SUNNYBECK

Wonderstruck

Please visit the following link and listen to the latest collaborated version.
https://soundcloud.com/david-marconi-917184705/a-shade-of-blue-revisited-collaboration?si=f76ff153884b45738e4f2c6cbd97742d&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Just me having a little fun playing the blues.
Guitar instrumental by David Marconi

Aroused from Slumber

A Shade of Blue - Legacy Demo Version

Let´s Share A Smoke

Here’s a jazz swing track for 2024 !
It’s a rearranged version of an old composition. In this track I used piano, acoustic guitar, B3, Rhodes, brushed drums and upright bass.
Thank you for listening !

Composition: Julien Apelian
Recording studio: Audio Colors
December, 28th, 2023.

Maximum Swing

Here's one of the first improvisations Tim and i got up to in this New year of 2024.

I'm on the ancient Upright Piano and he's playing his Attila Custom electric guitar... and all we can say is, it is what it is.  :)

© Gary Courtland-Miles & Tim Elliot 2024
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles  & Tim Elliot 2024

Scintillations

Well this is another with Greg Willis from Wales on Sax , it's got a Northern Soul sort of sound , hope you like it ! On a similar theme , on the 5th of March me and Charlotte ( Charlie and the Fox ) have a 60s Wall of Sound song out , I tried to get the Spector sound , we'll see whether I succeeded or not ! Greg is on this one too , I can't seem to leave him alone Ha ! Renowned Lyricist Tony Harris ( from Alabama ) and I got together for a lovely song which is out on the 15th of March . After that a new one from me and Gaz Brownie . Thank you so much for giving us your time !

No Album

Different Melody ( feat. Greg Willis )

Different Melody ( Fox and Willis )

Aresquiers

Thank you for liten to Stina . appriciate it <3
more creations :)
Muic/vocal/voice/instrumentals/mix/master/compose/production and producer :Stina Crow 2024

Lyrics
Nobody is no longer very nice
Nobody is no longer ya friend
Nobody is no longer  give you advice
Nobody is no longer so nice

Ahh so yet another lie
Ahh so yet another lie
Ahh so yet another lie
Ahh so yet antoher lie...

"ah ahpeople hate their guts
 ah ah people hate
 people hate their guts ah ah 
 ah ah people hate their guts

 nobody very nice
 nobody is not very kind
 nobody will ever give u advice
 nobody is not fucking nice

Ahh so yet another lie
Ahh so yet another lie
Ahh so yet another lie
Ahh so yet antoher lie...

Nobody is no longer very nice
Nobody is no longer ya friend
Nobody is no longer  give you advice
Nobody is no longer so nice

Im Nobody

Jo invited me to add some condiments to his Audible Zeppelin Feast much to my delight--

This is a version of the song with the added benefit of Stonerjazz' guitar, drums and bass - and what a contribution that is ! - although you might want to hold me responsible for mixing and production. Thank you, Jeff!
To hear more, lease visit: @user-911083679

HEADPHONES OR GOOD SPEAKERS ARE RECOMMENDED, as usual

The original version can be found here: Sonic-textures – Zeppelin-flyby-parts-i-iii

Original liner notes:
method: synth sounds, pedals of course, voice, post prod in Samplitude
narration: "On approaching the other it has lost its own self, since it finds itself as another being; secondly, it has thereby sublated that other, for this primitive consciousness does not regard the other as essentially real but sees its own self in the other" (G.W.F. Hegel) (for a brief overview see here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%E2%80%…ndsman_dialectic, for a close encounter see here: archive.org/stream/phenomenolog…0F%20Hegel_djvu.txt )
image: a Zeppelin NT in full flight, high above Lake Constance, copyright jo richter

poem (copyright jo richter):

the rulers lived above our heads
masters thrived and servants bled
bombs keep dropping on the dead
hegel's words remain unread
to hail a leader is to be misled
the earth accepts the chains you shed

ZEPPELIN FLYBY with guitar-- In collaboration With Sonic Structures and Silent Stretches

Help me see
Written by TJG March 2024


Rhythm Guitar: Gibson ES 335
Lead Guitar: Fender Jazzmaster
Guitar Amplifier: Vox AC15….set as clean I can get it. 

Fender pedal board: Line 6 delay; Fender clean boost



Mics: a pair of Royer r10 ribbons on guitars
Mics: AEA R44 vocal 
Mic preamps: API 312
Mixer: API 24 channel summing mixer (8200/7800)
Stereo Bus processing (API EQ and API compressor)
Final mix down to a MARA MCI JH110 1/4inch 2-track at 15 ips using ATR Master Tape.

Basement boiler/heater – adding all kinds of unwanted noise 😉

Someday I will add drums and bass – but wanted to go for this raw guitar/vocal sound for now. 
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Help me see

I can’t see the stars tonight
Shining down or in your eyes
I can’t see the stars tonight

I can’t find the words tonight
Written down or in my mind
I can’ t find the words tonight

I can’t see the stars tonight
Shining down or in your eyes
I can’t see the stars tonight


Shining down or in your eyes 
I can’t see the stars tonight
Help me see 
Help me see the stars tonight

I could live a simple life
Slow it down or take a flight
I could live a simple life
I could live a simple life

I can’t see the see stars tonight
I can’t find the words tonight
Shining down or in your eyes
Help me see the stars tonight

I can’t find the words tonight
Written down or in my mind
I can’t find the words I like……

Help me see

(apologies for being away from SC for a while, looking forward to catching up with all your latest creations...)

Well, I finally finished the full version cover of one of my all time fave songs, In Your Eyes, by Peter Gabriel (previously uploaded only up to the first verse). This is a straight up cover that's as faithful to the original as I could get. It's definitely the most time and meticulous effort I've spent on a song trying to do it justice. All instruments are played by me on keyboard, as well as the live talking drum and spotty singing, and then some backing synth pads and the vital backing vocals by @remnant60 (https://soundcloud.com/remnant60). Bill was also instrumental in giving feedback and offering suggestions, and providing the mastering duties. I'm very grateful for his help, and since we both agree PG's original song is a masterpiece, we have a bit of a surprise remix version coming up that highlights all the layers of sounds that go into this song. Can't wait to share it with you!

Song written by Peter Gabriel

(image is a mash-up of my face on the album cover, done in Photoshop)


Here’s the ‘cluck’ version by acarboni:

https://on.soundcloud.com/RVCa1PY1HgvriWsE7

In Your Eyes  (cover)

There's no doubt about it, Music animates my Soul, and as an enthusiastic student of Life and a passionate Improvisational Pianist &  Composer,  as far as I'm concerned,  our lives would be impoverished without it ! :)  Composing is all about 'Sharing the Joy, Passion and Angst' we experience in Life, as well as connecting up with Musicians and 'Creatives' worldwide. This makes it even more wonderful!  That willingness to engage in whatever way makes SC an ever-expanding Movable Feast that nourishes and inspires on so many levels. 

Music Communicates the Emotional and Informational Content and Context of Heart, Mind, Spirit, and Soul. And 'Letting it Flow' is 'Where Its At' as I hear it!  

Over the past few years since becoming part of the SoundCloud Family, my 'Joy in and Passion for' Creative Musical Expression has increased exponentially as has my appreciation of all the wonderfully passionate Musicians and Creatives worldwide who have devoted themselves to Letting It Take Form! 

Here's a bit of a bio, if anyone is interested.  

Somehow, my MUSE got my attention at a tender age. About the time I was completing my Royal Conservatory training. 

My memory being poorer than most, I began improvising in the passages I had forgotten. And while the audience seemed unaware, my teacher chastised me indulgently, saying, "it appears I have a budding composer on my hands"!  And thus began my Odyssey into the wonderful Vibrational world of Sound!:-) In-deed, I have been an ardent, attentive and appreciative acolyte of my Muse ever since. 

During the early 1970s I had the pleasure and honour of a three year friendship and Master Class with the then Octogenarian Composer Manoah Leide-Tedesco , one of Tone Poem giant Richard Strauss` favorite pupils and friend of Maurice Ravel and other 20th century composers such as Stravinsky (whose music he helped popularize). Since then, whether Improvising, listening, studying composition or devoting myself wholly to the visual arts for years at a time, I have been deeply aware that sharing my musical insights , teaching, and or mentoring young aficionados came with the territory!   I love it, although I am afraid that as my consciousness expands...that I know less and less each year! :-)  

The Tonal Oasis called SoundCloud is a fine and wondrous place in oh so many ways.  And with your support and appreciation, I de-Light to share my music with an ever widening audience. I call what i upload ' Sound-Seeds'.  Most of these 'bed tracks' call out to be fleshed out by passionate soloists who somehow Resonate with my Soundz and Ideas.  So please drop me a line, as i am most interested in letting them bear more fruit through collaboration, interpretation, re-mixing or use in other media.    

And on a personal Note, a Huge Thank-You to each and all who listen, inJoy, and Re-Post onwards what finds it's way thru me! :) Bless y'all.  It's my Joy to simply 'Let' the Creative Spirit find expression through this instrument of Body, Mind, and Heart!  I hope you will find some peace, joy, and rest, in at least some of my improvisations, compositions, or soundz. 

Insofar as playing, and composing  ... as you continue on in Your journey into  the infinite 'Cave of Wonders' we call Music, I wish you all the very best in all Your creative endeavours. 

So Be Kind to yourSelves and one another. Be Audacious, Ready to Play, and above all, share the Joy of being able to express whatever you're feeling. 

In-deed, may The Muse continue to 'Sing on and Play on' through each of us !   For this is one way this 'ol world is lifted up, and Changed for the better - note by note, and smile by smile .  

 Yes, may we simply Let our Creativity flow forth without concern for results.
                                   Peace

                                    Gary *+*

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                       Pluto's atmosphere as seen recently by Horizon Spacecraft

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