Best Of SoundCloud V

Smack bang in the middle of a pandemic after almost a year of no gigs, Lachy Doley decided to get all his favourite people together and record and film something really special.
On his 43rd birthday they played 2 big sets in front of an audience of 20 at Sydney’s iconic Studios 301. A four piece horn section, three piece vocal section, his brother Clayton guesting on piano, two feature lead tracks one by Mahalia Barnes and one by Karen Lee Andrews. All together a killer 14 piece band and a new highlight of Lachy’s career.

Musicians:
Lachy Doley - Hammond C3 Organ, Whammy Clavinet, Lead Vocals
Joel Burton - Bass
Jackie Barnes - Drums
Karen Lee Andrews - Lead Vocal (Track 5) Mahalia Barnes - Backing Vocals, Lead Vocal (Track 11)
Clayton Doley - Piano (Track 5,8,14), Lead Vocal (Track 8)
Franco Raggatt - Guitar (Track 7,9,11,14)
Ray Cassar - Trumpet
Matt Keegan - Tenor Saxophone
Anthony Kable - Trombone
Andy Bickers - Baritone Saxophone
Juanita Tippens - Backing Vocals
Bek Jensen - Backing Vocals
Vincent Sebastion - Percussion

Studios 301 Sessions

I'm A Man

This track was originally published and featured on my "Audric & Friends" SC site in 2020, during the era known as the "pandemic lock-down".
With the help and mutually shared inspiration of a small handful of LOCAL musician friends of mine, approximately a dozen fun and creative instrumental tracks where published within a half-year time frame.
I refer to this special group of tracks collectively as the "JamTune" series.

For this track, I was so happy to have my friend HARRY JACOBSON join me adding his outstanding and phenomenal guitar work, in which we both weave in and out playing guitar on this awesome version of a "classic" funky jazz-blues original from my old fusion band Spontageous.

Now, just for fun… I urged everyone to dance to this tune, or simply try tapping your foot to the beat.
Try it. You’ll understand why this tune is titled “Dag Nabit”! 
OR... just sit back, listen, and enjoy!

NOTE> I plan to eventually transfer all the "JamTunes" over to this SC site (my primary SC site), in which eventually my  satellite SC site of mine will be closed.
https://soundcloud.com/audric-and-friends

DAG NAB IT ("JamTune" Audric Jankauskas/Harry Jacobson-2020)

Out by Midnight: Live at the Iridium

Seuss Pants (Live at the Iridium) [feat. Jason "JT" Thomas, Wes Stephenson & Daniel Porter]

Copyright 2023 Brian James McDonald (ASCAP)
Copyright Hoon Toons Publishing (ASCAP)
All Rights Reserved Worldwide

Alchemy

Sometimes we lose those we've loved the most. As I write this (in October/November 2023) it's beyond painful to witness the scenes of grief and loss countless others are experiencing in our world in wars, seemingly, without end - where the powerless always suffer the most. It makes any attempt to give voice to one's own personalised sense of loss seem self indulgent. But in the hope that one grief observed, though only a drop in an ocean, can add something to the pool of human sympathy at a time when it's so sorely needed - a song of farewell:

"And so the final scene
Where fancies all are slowly stripped away
Who knows what might have been
Had fate been kinder to our dreams
But no regrets - our hearts were true
And in the end it's all that matters
Old friend adieu - I'll wait for you
Somewhere beyond the blue" 

With many thanks to:
Carolina de la Muela (lead vocals)
Yann Marc (cello) Jovana Krazic (violin)
Simon Gibson - Abbey Road Studios (Mastering)

And not least, a little inspiration from J S Bach (BWV 998) -  a never ending font of inspiration, is old Bach. Vielen Dank JSB

Music Vid Link: https://youtu.be/GSX2YRUfGPY?feature=shared

Somewhere Beyond The Blue Dave

Copyright 2023, 2024 Brian James McDonald (ASCAP)
Copyright Hoon Toons Publishing (ASCAP)
All Rights Reserved Worldwide

Coatbridge, Scotland 1901 (Piano Improv)

Jonas Brogren: keyboards & production
Dan Boissy: tenor sax
Luke Markham: drums
Jens Fredholm: guitar
Karl Hugosson: bass
Magnus Brogren: percussion

Fuse

Run Your Race

A smooth chill out track with wonderful keywork from Feddo.

Artwork unknown

She's Perfect

Some more fun with Pinner to start the new year.  Check out and follow all his guitar goodness - https://soundcloud.com/pinner  we've recorded over 100 tunes together and always a great time.\:  https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind/sets/smokin-with-stephan-stephan

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares

Rain Dance - Stephan Lipinski / Jamie Rhind

.... cosmic invitation to play the flute - fabulous backtrack by @cosmic-ratzzz ! Big thanks Hendrik !!!

Lunatics 124 / Alien Invasion 🚀 👽 👀 🖖  Cosmic Ratzzz & joerxworx

Gear-by Paploviante  @paul-racle
Paploviante: Bass, Composing, Original track: https://soundcloud.com/paploviante-and-friends/gear-paploviante
Lou Osiavo (IPG1) Remix

Thank you Paul Superb track, thank you for the collab!

Gear- Paploviante And Lou Osiavo

Grooving a little more

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares

That's Not Right - Jamie Rhind

Australia is back in the building... Opening the new year in the proper funky way here at Breakbeat Paradise Recordings, we proudly present a new collaboration release between&nbsp;Pecoe and BoydexIt's not the first time the duo finds common ground producing tunes in collaboration, and their latest work together, "Have Faith EP" adds 4 new tracks to the collection now. The funk flows through tunes like "Bring The Heat" or "Go" having breezy funky guitar licks and vocal-samples in proper use. While the rest of the EP leans towards the disco edge of things with songs like "Disco Fever" or the title tune "Have Faith"; both of them featuring Sully Sax on live saxophone instrumentation.
Boydex,&nbsp;the man from Melbourne had dropped his first ever releases on ?????? and also been working with a nice pack of other labels recently.Pecoe, hailing from Perth has kickstarted his career at Doctor Hooka's Relative Dimensions label a decade ago, yet he's much more on fire than ever before!Their new common work, "Have Faith EP" perfectly reflects their faith shared together in tight beats and a solid bass-lines.
More info about Sonale: https://soundcloud.com/pecoehttps://soundcloud.com/boydexhttps://open.spotify.com/artist/4ZAZPd4g0R8DrnKp1IZHd8?si=tK_H9BomR-O9Sf7u1RwBMwhttps://open.spotify.com/artist/3z9RYOuSFLjOOrDf4mxXrf?si=1NQ4zjR2TPGSK94mmTGVhQ<br />Delivered using <a href='https://www.promo-cloud.com'>Promo-Cloud.com </a> 

Pecoe & Boydex - Bring The Heat

For those that like to learn about the story behind a music track they may find enjoyable, I would love to share my story!

So… a most extraordinary experience happened to me sometime during the summer of 1980, in which I woke up out of a VIVID DREAM. Unlike most vivid dreams, which are rare by any measure, this particular dream literally had no visuals to speak of. Instead, I found myself enveloped in what I can only describe as an immense surround sound like experience, listening to, and 100% engaged in an amazing musical soundscape that lasted for several minutes.  The music went through several stages and was incredibly detailed, even regarding the sonic characteristics.  

Like all dreams, this experience could only be remembered upon waking up immediately afterwards.  Vivid dreams, tend to be even more impactful to our conscience memory. 

So upon wakening from this vivid dream musical, I was truly stunned. Somehow my subconscious, in a dream, literally created and arranged an entire piece of music in my sleep!  Knowing how something like this was indeed a very special and rare event, I was determined not to lose or forget any of it.  I immediately hopped out of bed, totally disregarding my usual coffee and breakfast, and headed directly to my simple equipment on hand to play and record everything that I had just heard in my dream. At the time, I used an Oberheim DX drum machine, and a Sequential Prophet 5 keyboard synth, to duplicate as best as I could the music and sounds of what I had just heard 10 minutes earlier in my sleep. I recorded it all within a couple hours onto a Teac 144 Cassette 4-track machine, in which I eventually mixed down onto another standard stereo cassette tape.  
I did not share that piece of music with too many people, because it was indeed conceived in such a remarkable way, and I felt it was oddly out of character with the type of music I was into at the time.

A couple decades later, for the purpose of preserving these old works, I transferred much of my older music from tape to digital, including this vivid dream creation, which for the lack of a better title I simply called “Dream Tune”.

Well, as many of you know, I’ve been pretty busy over the past couple decades creating and producing all sorts of original music.  But every once in a while I would come across and visit that old recording of “Dream Tune”, naturally recollecting the extraordinary birth of that piece.  In a way it haunted me… almost requesting me to resurrect it from the inherent poor sound quality it always possessed from recording originally on cassette tape.

I know this is a long read for many, so thank you for reading my story up to this point.
SO NOW… I’m happy to say I finally got around to redoing this piece of music in its entirety, but using today’s technology to produce a high quality sound. Also, my goal was to retain the original music, arrangement, and sonic details, just as I heard them in my vivid dream 43 years ago!
In full disclosure, regarding this updated version, I did a lot of extra detailed embellishments throughout to enhance the overall track. But, literally 95% of it is just like the original. 
The final adjustment made was to title it “Cloud Dreamer”,  reflecting on my interests in the skies and weather.

Thanks for listening and reading this! 
Audric

CLOUD DREAMER (Audric Jankauskas-2023)

  Thanks to Francesco (@francescocartocci)
for the wonderful interpretation of the guitar part ( this brought life to my initial digital sketch),  and for the skillful mix.
Our other collaborations:
@soundcloud.com/rosindust/sets/grazie-francesco


Summer Tram - with Francesco Cartocci

Just Around The Corner

My arrangement for this great Arvo Pärt piece.

Vater Unser - Arvo Pärt

The great Elvin Jones use to drive music with his cymbals and power behind John Coltrane and McCoy Tyler.   Joining me here again on a 12/8 modal groove to celebrate the sound of Trane is Cologne's Georg Boehme, a superb Bari Sax and woodwind player.   https://soundcloud.com/georg-boehme. Together we remember these great moments from the 60s

Here's a playlist of our recordings together:  https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind/sets/grooving-with-georg-boehme

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares

Step Out - Georg Boehme / Jamie Rhind

Ruby LaRue

Kokomo Joe

Jazz/Fusion keyboard player, composer and producer.  Marketing, advertising, publishing and sales career.  Originally from Chicago, where I developed a strong appreciation for the blues and classical, and moved to New York, where jazz and the fine arts are so deep.  Key musical influences include Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Zawinul and Weather Report, Chick Corea and Return to Forever, John McLaughlin and the Mahivishnu Orchestra, Stanley Clarke, Scott Henderson and Tribal Tech, Jeff Beck and Jan Hammer, Mike Stern, John Scofield, Pat Metheny, Emily Remler, McCoy Tyner, Bill Evans, John Coltrane, Jimmy Smith, Joey DeFrancesco, Larry Young, Buddy Guy, Santana and Earth Wind & Fire.   Former classical clarinet and piano player.  Unless noted, my music on SoundCloud was composed, recorded and performed using only keyboards.  An avid photographer.  Many covers here are my shots.  To see my photography look for Herbiejazz on Instagram or search for Herbiejazz on Google.  And a big thumbs up to SoundCloud and the SoundCloud community, and so many friends who have joined me to create.  Thank you all.