Love it, I sit in my lounge for early morning coffee with nylon string and develop the musical motifs that become bigger songs for my "mostly synthetic instrumental band"

a well structured track with great movement and produstion

Really nice sound and atmosphere, a pleasure!

this has such a nice atmosphere! Nice work

this is what I'm talking about  , great guitar sound and movement. Fantastic !

Around twenty years ago I came up with this idea that I should start a project called Bleak Guitar - an instrumental "band" that would bring together all my preferences for shimmering guitars, dream pop, goth, postrock, folk etc. It never happened - until now. Some of the tracks I will publish here on SC are based on old sketches that have been with me for quite some time. Some tracks have been used in other previous versions for plays etc., and some tracks are of a recent date. Maybe it will end up as an album one day? Enjoy!

Bleak Guitar - Ave Atque Vale

Hermitage Castle At Dusk

FUNKY SATELLITE // what's actually going on out there?
@docfritz // Soundscapes, Drums & Percussion, Mix & Production
A special thanks goes to the extraterrestrial Anonymous Allstars ;-)
© 2024 // composed, arranged & performed by DOCFRITZ

Funky Satellite

V-Life is not in Vain

Band 4

A Bossa Nova tune about a dreamy trip. Hope you enjoy!

All The Stars

This song was recorded as a collaboration between two home studios. My friend Greg Bartlett played drums. My friend Dean Constance played bass.

The Serpent & The Bellman

Project RESIDUE (As the Crow Flies)

Play the piano with your son.
See the coloured birds that brings the spring.

Alegría

The Lantern Fouling the Brittle Air, Listening to the Dog and the Echo

method: first, I created a shaman-monk-version (mostly ‚Gregorian‘ voice and jaw harp) on cassette tape (this is where some of the noise - especially in the first section - derives from) and zoom r20 with a vacuum-tube pre-amp for the voice ….. all of which I then treated like a field recording sample in Samplitude - sculpting it with vst instruments and effects. 
narration: it feels like I have sonified this poem a million times before …. which might be the case because I have lived through it that often - I and others I dearly care for …. but then again … I might have actually done so. it is also part of the cycle SONIC CASCADE published in  A SINGLE LOOP OF FORTUNES. Alternative titles are ‚TWO-PLACE‘ and ‚04s SAMPLE‘. For this publication, I simplify the title to  ‚SAMPLE‘.
Image: copyright jo richter. you see some of the instruments used in the shaman-monk-version, arranged with a bracelet as though displayed in a museum. 

poem / copyright jo richter:

two-place sleeps on the ground
and still doesn‘t know where it is -
all of its strings sound sound
in heaven-hellish bliss -
nothing, it says, goes amiss
that doesn‘t want to be found

Bleak Guitar - Ave Atque Vale

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