Song inspired by a photo of my great grandmother. Simple memories make simple songs

Je sais que tu as écrit ta chanson pour ta grand-mère et ça fait 2 mois que je n'ai pas vu la mienne. C'est bon de l'écouter, il y a beaucoup de paix dans en toi et ça me fait du bien

sleep

Reckoning Song

From A Basement On The Hill

Memory Lane

Recorded in the quiet of the night on my upright piano>  A gentle, reflective piece ;)

'Nightsongs' - Album out May 4th. 2018

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/3F6DEwiwbwJ8HwNHNrUeye?si=VgUp_dd0Qv2XkPWuaQt3-A

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Night Song

Luciferian Towers

Bosses Hang, Pt. I

It belongs to Smyang Piano.
Original link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw9bKWd5dP4&t=11s

youtube.com/watch?v=Qw9bKWd5dP4

1 Hour Relaxing BTS Music Box for Sleeping and Studying

All songs written and recorded by Guillaume Ducommun 
Mixed by Jay Vonlanthen at Zeela Prod 
Mastered by Grégoire Pasquier at Studio de la Fonderie 
Artwork pic by Jean-François Ducommun 
Artwork by Guillaume Ducommun 

I'm lucky to play live with Jay Vonlanthen on drums
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After all a bunch of thrilling adventures in different projects more incredible than each other, I decide to step back to mature an old dream of a solo project. Personal and introspective in my writing but also in my approach, I start recording a first EP by playing all the instruments and recording independently. 

We are in June 2019. Learn to play and tune a drum kit, learn how to choose and place the mics, use a recording program, prepare a mix cession. Lots of help and advice. They lend me equipment, I have never been surrounded as much as by doing a project alone! Lots of test phases, my pre-prod is on its way. Try dozens of guitars in dozens of amps, find a sound for this project. Then learn to write with myself. 

It's under constraint that we are most creative, and it is in integrity that we really find ourselves: set simple rules. 
- Integrity will always have the last word 
- Seek the present moment and the life of the song, keep the faults, no editing 
- Doing something current in the background as well as in form will never be appropriate 
- Each song can be played guitar-voice without being limited to this formula 
- Everything will be played with fingers 
- Pieces will fit on the play and not on heaps of arrangements 
- Take time, live things, work in pleasure 

The project is taking shape, the drum naturally takes an important place. I'm going to need a live drummer! Someone i know very well, someone with whom I can share these precious and personal things without restraint. Someone emotional. Jay Vonlanthen, a longtime friend, is the first person I think of, he accepts. 

And let's mix this EP together! Step filled with many emotional moments, Jay works at lightning speed following the same rules: do not distort things, favor identity over efficiency, just like for the final mastering where Grégoire Pasquier from the Studio de la Fonderie goes through analog to color and let the sound live. 

I don't really know what comes out of it. Need steps backwards, too many emotions invested. 

I told what I had to say in all humility and I will take out this EP with my head held high. 

Intelligence, sound design, music business or what we are supposed to do today do not interest me. I'm just going to share this project with the people who will be there. And I'm very lucky to have so many people around me.

Scraped And Blooded Knees Are Easier To Heel

Drunken Hero

When I was a child my dad had built a photo lab in the cellar. Sometimes he scans some and send them. 
I met again this one of my great grandmother, Simone Casamajor. We said so many things the last time we met. Everything has been said, everything has been lived. No need for more words, just sober songwriting and fragile fingerpicking.

Simple memories make simple songs. 

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releases January 31, 2020 

All songs written and recorded by Guillaume Ducommun 
Mixed by Jay Vonlanthen at Zeela Prod 
Mastered by Grégoire Pasquier at Studio de la Fonderie 
Artwork pic by Jean-François Ducommun 
Artwork by Guillaume Ducommun 

I'm lucky to play live with Jay Vonlanthen on drums
__________________________________________________

After all a bunch of thrilling adventures in different projects more incredible than each other, I decide to step back to mature an old dream of a solo project. Personal and introspective in my writing but also in my approach, I start recording a first EP by playing all the instruments and recording independently. 

We are in June 2019. Learn to play and tune a drum kit, learn how to choose and place the mics, use a recording program, prepare a mix cession. Lots of help and advice. They lend me equipment, I have never been surrounded as much as by doing a project alone! Lots of test phases, my pre-prod is on its way. Try dozens of guitars in dozens of amps, find a sound for this project. Then learn to write with myself. 

It's under constraint that we are most creative, and it is in integrity that we really find ourselves: set simple rules. 
- Integrity will always have the last word 
- Seek the present moment and the life of the song, keep the faults, no editing 
- Doing something current in the background as well as in form will never be appropriate 
- Each song can be played guitar-voice without being limited to this formula 
- Everything will be played with fingers 
- Pieces will fit on the play and not on heaps of arrangements 
- Take time, live things, work in pleasure 

The project is taking shape, the drum naturally takes an important place. I'm going to need a live drummer! Someone i know very well, someone with whom I can share these precious and personal things without restraint. Someone emotional. Jay Vonlanthen, a longtime friend, is the first person I think of, he accepts. 

And let's mix this EP together! Step filled with many emotional moments, Jay works at lightning speed following the same rules: do not distort things, favor identity over efficiency, just like for the final mastering where Grégoire Pasquier from the Studio de la Fonderie goes through analog to color and let the sound live. 

I don't really know what comes out of it. Need steps backwards, too many emotions invested. 

I told what I had to say in all humility and I will take out this EP with my head held high. 

Intelligence, sound design, music business or what we are supposed to do today do not interest me. I'm just going to share this project with the people who will be there. And I'm very lucky to have so many people around me.

The Last Time I Saw You

All songs written and recorded by Guillaume Ducommun 
Mixed by Jay Vonlanthen at Zeela Prod 
Mastered by Grégoire Pasquier at Studio de la Fonderie 
Artwork pic by Jean-François Ducommun 
Artwork by Guillaume Ducommun

I'm lucky to play live with Jay Vonlanthen on drums
all rights reserved

After all a bunch of thrilling adventures in different projects more incredible than each other, I decide to step back to mature an old dream of a solo project. Personal and introspective in my writing but also in my approach, I start recording a first EP by playing all the instruments and recording independently.

We are in June 2019. Learn to play and tune a drum kit, learn how to choose and place the mics, use a recording program, prepare a mix cession. Lots of help and advice. They lend me equipment, I have never been surrounded as much as by doing a project alone! Lots of test phases, my pre-prod is on its way. Try dozens of guitars in dozens of amps, find a sound for this project. Then learn to write with myself.

It's under constraint that we are most creative, and it is in integrity that we really find ourselves: set simple rules. 
- Integrity will always have the last word 
- Seek the present moment and the life of the song, keep the faults, no editing 
- Doing something current in the background as well as in form will never be appropriate 
- Each song can be played guitar-voice without being limited to this formula 
- Everything will be played with fingers 
- Pieces will fit on the play and not on heaps of arrangements 
- Take time, live things, work in pleasure

The project is taking shape, the drum naturally takes an important place. I'm going to need a live drummer! Someone i know very well, someone with whom I can share these precious and personal things without restraint. Someone emotional. Jay Vonlanthen, a longtime friend, is the first person I think of, he accepts.

And let's mix this EP together! Step filled with many emotional moments, Jay works at lightning speed following the same rules: do not distort things, favor identity over efficiency, just like for the final mastering where Grégoire Pasquier from the Studio de la Fonderie goes through analog to color and let the sound live.

I don't really know what comes out of it. Need steps backwards, too many emotions invested.

I told what I had to say in all humility and I will take out this EP with my head held high.

Intelligence, sound design, music business or what we are supposed to do today do not interest me. I'm just going to share this project with the people who will be there. And I'm very lucky to have so many people around me.

The Number One

Walk Barefoot In The Snow

"Your Life, Your Call", from upcoming self-titled Junip album, out this Spring on City Slang in Europe and Mute Records in North America.
VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYvKXVoAXmg
Buy on Amazon: http://smarturl.it/39tkqo
Buy on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/ylyc

www.junip.net
www.mute.com
www.cityslang.com

Lyrics:
She's over you
Boy you know it's true
But you can't stay here
You had it coming for years

Pull yourself together
And draw the line
Pull yourself together
Can't stand to see you crying

It's your life, your call
Stand up or enjoy your fall

It's over now
You've been taking your time
But you can't stay here
Boy dry up your tears

No point in looking back
Over your shoulder
Leave your worries behind 
For a while
You'll forget everything
As you get older

Buy on iTunes

Junip - Your Life, Your Call

New piano track recorded on my upright piano

Felt Improv No. 4

New piano piece recorded on my upright piano

Felt Improv No. 7

Music by Max Richter 
you can watch the masterpiece (Official Music Video by Yulia Mahr)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWrc6ihmaE0

Max Richter - Mercy

A requiem inspired piece, for us invisible hands, the future era's savages. Let's just own it, we'll be perfect when we're dead!

Lacrimogen

After all a bunch of thrilling adventures in different projects more incredible than each other, I decide to step back to mature an old dream of a solo project. Personal and introspective in my writing but also in my approach, I start recording a first EP by playing all the instruments and recording independently. 

We are in June 2019. Learn to play and tune a drum kit, learn how to choose and place the mics, use a recording program, prepare a mix cession. Lots of help and advice. They lend me equipment, I have never been surrounded as much as by doing a project alone! Lots of test phases, my pre-prod is on its way. Try dozens of guitars in dozens of amps, find a sound for this project. Then learn to write with myself. 

It's under constraint that we are most creative, and it is in integrity that we really find ourselves: set simple rules. 
- Integrity will always have the last word 
- Seek the present moment and the life of the song, keep the faults, no editing 
- Doing something current in the background as well as in form will never be appropriate 
- Each song can be played guitar-voice without being limited to this formula 
- Everything will be played with fingers 
- Pieces will fit on the play and not on heaps of arrangements 
- Take time, live things, work in pleasure 

The project is taking shape, the drum naturally takes an important place. I'm going to need a live drummer! Someone i know very well, someone with whom I can share these precious and personal things without restraint. Someone emotional. Jay Vonlanthen, a longtime friend, is the first person I think of, he accepts. 

And let's mix this EP together! Step filled with many emotional moments, Jay works at lightning speed following the same rules: do not distort things, favor identity over efficiency, just like for the final mastering where Grégoire Pasquier from the Studio de la Fonderie goes through analog to color and let the sound live. 

I don't really know what comes out of it. Need steps backwards, too many emotions invested. 

I told what I had to say in all humility and I will take out this EP with my head held high. 

Intelligence, sound design, music business or what we are supposed to do today do not interest me. I'm just going to share this project with the people who will be there. And I'm very lucky to have so many people around me.

The Last Time I Saw You

I Was A Child

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