A coffee in Paris

Composing & Arrengement : Ilire Avdiu
Recording (live) : Sedat Elshani
Mix & Master : Driton Bejta
Art Cover : Violand Shabani

Accordion - Gent Rushi
Acoustic Guitar - Driton Bejta
Dobule Bas - Fatlind Ferati
Clarinet - Ilire Avdiu

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Our Land

Una Parte de Mi

De Paseo Por Nueva Orleans

had to let the jazz side of me come out with this track! Written, produced & recorded by me 💘 available in all digital stores 😉

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Felt The Rain

Marie Earth Heart Cover's Shirley Horn's Jazz Classic" Here's To Life.
Recorded December 15, 2017.

Watch "Here's To Life-Live  On You Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbJUp8gC1E8

Here's To Life

Here'sTo Life

This is a jazzy sketch for tenor sax, made with love in dorian mode and quartal harmony.

Door to Elsewhere

Lyrics:

Been livin' in a galaxy
my minds a cloud of dust among the stars
And with every single breath I take
I feel like I am floating down to Mars
Somewhere down in Nebula you can find me blowin' smoke rings in the air
You can try and search for me
but not even myself will know where

Try and catch me floating through the air
a particle that's lost among the breeze
And I'm always flying here
this world can't bring me down upon my knees
Just let me keep on floating here and I will see you all again some day
I'll be down in Nebula, galaxy and planets far away

Been livin' in a galaxy
my minds a cloud of dust among the stars
And with every single breath I take
I feel like I am floating down to Mars


Dusboblaze worked his genius with this track and wrote some killer lyrics.  He sings them with perfection.  :)  I absolutely love the way this track has turned out!!  It's super chill.  Check out @Dusboblaze if you haven't yet; you won't regret it.

This track starts off with a cool, spacey sounding synth loop called SoundWave Synth.  You can hear Dust do some background vocalizing around this time too.  I liked the sound of the synth loop so I took this loop and built the song around it.  Next you'll hear some arpeggios come in, but they are hard to make out because the guitar is heavily processed using the Cascade "plug-in" from Garageband.  It gives it this really scattered, processed sound.  Anyhow, the whole song has arpeggios processed like this in the background, it adds to the spaciness, for sure. This song is written in G# Minor, C# Minor, and (maybe) F# Minor.  It starts in G# Minor.

After the first four bars of the opening arpeggio, you'll hear the signature riff of the song, which I wrote to fit the Soundwave Synth.  With the second play of that riff you'll hear the guitar chord progression come into play, it is G#m - B - E (the same as the arpeggios, which is a consistent pattern throughout the three keys.)  The progression is only played twice though before modulating into C# Minor at 0:50.  It is an abrupt shift, but the synths I used in the background help the transition and give it a dreamy feel.  This new progression, both chord and arpeggio, is C#m - D#m - C#m - B.  After playing this progression twice, the song switches back to G# Minor, with the lead finishing up the second riff by landing on G#.

The song stays in G# Minor for 16 bars and then modulates to F# Minor at 1:40 (perhaps, I'm not really sure,) again pretty abruptly, no real planning.  But it seems to work in this song, whereas others I need to play dominate chords in the new key, or "like-chords" between the two keys to set up for it.  Here, it just seems to work, I believe that to be part of the appeal of this song.  The new progression does have a G#m though.  This progression is F#m - B - G#m - C, which is why I'm not sure what key it's really in.  Actually, listening to it again, I think it may not even modulate, but stays in G# Minor.  That’s my best guess, except it’s weird to start and end on accidentals and they don’t really sound accidental.  I need a piano I suppose, but I play the F# Harmonic Minor scale in lead over it and it seems to work.  The B should be Bm in F# Minor and the C, C#m, so I'm not sure.  Could go either way and the lead helps nudge toward F# Minor?  But anyway, after 8 bars in "F# Minor," we modulate again, this time back to C# Minor.  After being in C#m for 8 bars again, the song finishes in G#m with the beginning riff and the Soundwave Synth finishing the song out.

Guitar Fusion

Nebula feat. Dusboblaze

This song is centered around 7th chords.  It starts with an Amaj7 arpeggio played several times with a riff from the A Pentatonic scale and then slides into a D7 arpeggio for a few more bars until the first chord progression starts.  Interestingly, even though Dmaj is in the key of A, once I starting playing the D7 arpeggio, the scale I was riffing from sounded much better being played in D Major.  The progression that follows is in D Major as well, starting with D7 and it looks like:  D7 - G - E - Em - E - C.  The last time through this progression we go quickly from the C to an E7 chord to finish and this helps the shift into a very dark sounding (thanks to synths) F# Phrygian section. 

The section that starts with F# Minor is dissonant and a bit frantic, especially towards the end.  It is a somewhat weird chord progression and that probably contributes to the dissonant tone against the backdrop of the F# Harmonic Minor scale.  The progression is really still in D Major, with the exception of C, but that seems kinda a common exception in D Major.  (See Guns 'N Roses Sweet Child O' Mine for a good example.)  It goes:  F#m - Em - C - D.  So if the scale is played in F# and the progression starts on F#, but is more D Major, that is why I think it’s really more F# Phrygian.  It definitely contributes to the eerie dissonance found in this section, without it just sounding plain off key and terrible.  It is also interesting to note that this section begins right after the aforementioned E7 chord, but there is no Amaj chord to resolve the tension, so it just builds.  The progression switches to F#m - C - D - E as the tension mounts.  At the climax of the tension, I play another E7 chord in place of the last E, along with some down-sweeping synths.  This is then followed by, finally, our A chord as a new progression starts back in the key of A Major. Finally that resolution our ears had been waiting for!

The final section begins with a new progression (A - D - Dsus4 - C#m - A5) in one of my favorite keys, A Major.  After the earlier dissonance, it feels like we are now just floating along in A for several  bars until we gently modulate back to D with the D7 arpeggios and then we're back into the progression that started with D7 and then gently back into the Amaj7 arpeggios that we started on at the beginning.

Fathoms Deep

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TRACKLIST:

[INTRO] Eds - 1 Love [https://soundcloud.com/djeds/1-eds-1-love]
Soaky Siren - Dope Boys [https://soundcloud.com/soakysiren/dope-boys-2]
Yung 'n Usls ☁ - Don't Leave Again [https://soundcloud.com/yungnusls/yung-n-usls-dont-leave-again]
Dima Zago - Leave This Place [https://soundcloud.com/dimazago/leave-this-place-original-mix?in=dimazago/sets/the-one-ep]
***CHART RUNDOWN***
K.F.M. - Missing [https://soundcloud.com/kfmsounds/missing]
wknder - Love Mechanics [https://soundcloud.com/thewknder/love-mechanics-wk]
Adrien Cardenas - HOW WE DO IT [https://soundcloud.com/stayswerving/how-we-do-it]
***INTERVIEW WITH KAMIHAMIHA!***
Kamihamiha! - Shark In A Shotglass [https://soundcloud.com/kamihamiha/sharkinashotglass]
N-jay.52 - Weekend [Prod. By THAIBEATS] [https://soundcloud.com/n-jay-52/weekend]
Rob Level - Built Like This [https://soundcloud.com/roblevel/built-like-this]
Power Death Panther Claw - School Is Out Forever [https://soundcloud.com/powerdeath/amok-d22]

Re-Ex Podcast Episode 21: with Kamihamiha!

Memories of Sherbrooke and Mirror lake

Master of Clarinet 
Clarinet Teacher / Composer 
Albums: A night in Pristina, Response, A Coffee in Paris.

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