My favourites from @ian-rutter-144739802

Updated Nov 2024

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May Friends

[UNDER CONSTRUCTION]

Fantaisie track (courte) series no. 450

infinitely open ... except for the beat, no beat, or not enough to call it a beat, or too many of them either in succession or concurrent.

creation: 2024/05/27

These tracks were uploaded to SC in April and May 2024,
except for the following, older ones:
. . .

[TO BE COMPLETED]

Happy listening!

* Soundcloud time: 1 year = 12 - 23 months.

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2015 Anthology CD1

Song that I and Lawrence made in late 2016 and one of my favorites of the songs that we made together. Hope you enjoy and we thank you for listening!

Lawrence Farr: Vocals, lyrics, bass, drum additions
Me: guitar

Same Old...(with Lawrence Farr)

Taken from the LP compilation " Leva Leva: Litany of the Portuguese Fishermen"  (FLEE004) out on the 16.09.2022 worldwide. 

With its new project focusing on the working songs of fishermen in Portugal, releasing a book together with a record, the art collective FLEE brings together an in-depth anthropological research together with a contemporary hybrid and artistic reflection on an important facet of Portuguese social and cultural history. Using work songs from the 1940s, 60s and 80s recorded around the Portuguese coast, the initiative attempts to document the history of these fishermen, the nature of their hardship and often exploitative conditions, as well as their progressive encounter with important economic and political transformations, which affected the country in the 1970s. 

This project aims to celebrate the memory of the Portuguese fishermen, their culture and their music by the means of a compilation with original recordings of chants and inspired modern-day compositions by artists like João Pais Filipe, Romain Baudoin, Filipa Cordeiro, Nandele and s1m0nc3ll0. Along with that record, a 160 pages long book in Portuguese and French is available featuring contributions from regional experts and artists to contextualize the tremendously rich theme that is pearling and its music.

Buy: Vinyl: https://fleeproject.com/order/004
Digital: https://flee.bandcamp.com
Follow FLEE: 
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fleeproject 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fleeproject 
Website: http://www.fleeproject.com 

© FLEE 2022

Leva-vaga - Filipa Cordeiro

Quiet Space

12 Days (12) - Rejoice

Ring In The New

Skippy

Florida

Heart Tugs

Drumming recorded by me with sd200 Simmons ekit!

Snowfield

Fun tune about the peace loving folks of Planet Trillium and their excitement and ultimate dismay upon discovering Earth and all it's troubles. Inspired by the artwork of Wina Obake who was kind enough to do an original cover art for this song

Planet Trillium

Dust dancing in the universe

Glommy / Paploviante 
Paploviante: Lyrics (with Computer Speech) , E-Bass, Composing, Arrangement, Mix and Mastering 
Free Download

Glommy - Paploviante

John Stone: lyrics, lead vocal, backing vocals, piano
Alfredo Salvatori: music, backing vocals, guitars, bass, synth 

Produced by Alfredo Salvatori 


Runaway 

She was born in a town on the border,
Raised for the fourth of July,
She knew within 
She didn’t  fit in
Don't know why. 

She didn’t go looking for trouble,
But trouble was always round,
It was always the same,
No-one to blame
Was what she always found. 

Runaway and maybe you’ll find somewhere, a place,
A place to stay and feel that  you’re safe in your own space. 

She moved to a part of the country,
That soon didn’t want her around,
It wasn’t long before she’s moving on
Southern bound, from town to town to town. 

Met a young man by the roadside,
She just couldn’t run anymore,
He listened to all that she said
That no-one ever listened to before. 

Runaway and maybe you’ll find somewhere, a place,
A place to stay and feel that you’re safe in your own space,
But if the demons that you are running from are strong,
Then in your head you’ll find that they’ll follow on and on. 

She thought about all he had shown her,
And sensing her journey’s end,
She realised the safest place
Is where you finally find a friend. 

So don’t runaway and maybe you’ll find somewhere, a place,
A place to stay and feel that  you’re safe in your own space.



Copyright 2024 All Rights Reserved 

Runaway

Runaway (Alfredo Salvatori + John Stone)

This track is part of my Anthology series 2015 CD1 track 01

Above And Beyond (2015) Anthology 2015 CD1 Track 01

This week's #disquietjunto prompt was: "Record something, slow it down, and then record over it."

I love how slowing things down to half-speed and adjusting the pitch at the same time changes the transients and timbres, so I knew immediately I wanted to explore that some more in this project. 
I made a quick, short beat at 180 bpm over the weekend. 180 feels like a d&b tempo, so I copied that iconic drumbeat (with a weird little "skip" in the second half of the beat that the steady hi-hats seem to smooth out).
I experimented with slowing down the output, and it seemed the quality of the mix had a huge impact on the character of the slowed-down version, so I made a few more attempts than usual at mixing the underlying beat.
Then, I recorded it direct to cassette on my dictaphone, recorded that back into Ableton, and dropped the pitch by an octave and slowed it down by half.
The result was pretty good - the mix seemed to work, and it turns out a 180 d&b drumbeat at half speed morphs into a West Coast 90's hip-hop drumbeat? At least to my ears.
Then I added some new material over this slowed down version. I wanted to add some accordion or melodica (I thought the sustained and reedy tones would add a nice contrast to the muffled, lo-fi rhythm) but it was a little late at night and I'm not sure my neighbors wanted to hear that, so I ended up using some reedy synths: a sample of my accordion, Ableton's "accordion pad," and some sounds from Arturia's Pigments. 
The result is a little weird, but, to me, interesting!

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More on the 645th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Speed Trap — The Assignment: Record something, slow it down, and then record over it — at https://disquiet.com/0645/ 2

Slow Coast (Disquiet0645)

black lake

This is the second track in CD1 of Anthology 2015

Mars Storm (2015) Anthology CD1 Track 02

Another track from my up coming Anthology 2015 series

Was It A Dream (2015) Anthology CD1 Track 03

Arctic Traveller (2015) Anthology CD1 Track 04

Reporting For Duty (2015) Anthology CD1 track 05

Latest Updates: 
From 1st June 2025, celebrating 10 years of KORG KRONOS music with lots of brand new music showcasing the wonders of this iconic workstation in all it's glory. Also as a nod to the release of the KRONOS 3, which will take KORG into the next generation.
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Have recently taken a short holiday to recharge my batteries and top up my creative juices. Thank you to all my followers for your continued support and encouragement, means the world to me.
Over 10K minutes uploaded, over 1500 tracks - am sure there is something in there for everybody to enjoy. I love making music. Hope it matters to you.
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New year, new start. Back on the search for good music and inspiration. Will be featuring a lot of my older work remastered this year, seems like a long time since I began my composing journey back in 2000.
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Finished remastering up to and including 2023 now. Has been a mammoth task but well worth the effort. Next year I shall be working on a remastered series of my pre KORG days 2000 to 2008, in 8 volumes, as well as celebrating in style my 10 years of KRONOS magic, can't wait for 2025.
Have now amassed over 1000 tracks on SC (that's over 8000 minutes of music) and it has been a blast sharing them with you all. Next year 2025, marks the 10th anniversary of the start of my KORG journey.
Am currently putting together a remastered Anthology collection of all my best tracks from 2015 onwards. 2015 consists of a 3 volume set (Now available on Bandcamp). 2016 consists of a 4 volume set. (Also available on Bandcamp). 2017 consists of a 4 volume set. (Available on Bandcamp) 2018 consists of a 4 volume set. (Also available on Bandcamp). 2019 consists of a 4 volume set. (Now available on Bandcamp). 2020 consists of a 3 volume set (now available on Bandcamp).
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Am spending a lot more time on my music now since retiring from work in July 2020. Always learning new techniques and honing my craft. Am comfortable now with all chord sequences throughout the scales and loving improvising with the help of my mighty KORG still. Am still trying to give my full support and encouragement to all SC users and some latest (you know who you are), are developing nicely. Be good to one another, be gracious to others, leave your ego out of your life and above all else remember there is always someone worse off than yourself. 
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