Big sounding uplifting instrumental composition. Leans classical with new age and pop roots. Double Bass, Piano, Flute and Drums. [Ver. 25b]

Shaded

Like sailing a boat that is skipping across the water in a Jacques Cousteau ocean exploration. Almost holiday song like chimes make a narrative which the strings reinforce.  Fun and happy. Maybe for a 'succeeding' montage. [Ver. 23]

Jingle Plex

Upbeat and kinda folky guitar and piano instrumental with a touch of psychedelia and latin vibes. Hard to confine to a single genre, Brass finish. [Ver. 50]

Quitar

Lively piano anthem playing amidst swirling sandy winds, lonely roto-toms, flutes, and booming thunder. [Ver. 53]

F to Am

F To Am

Large track meant to convey the struggle found in many Wagner and Beethoven pieces. A backbone of double bass, brass, thundering drums, and piano carry lighter instruments through a narrative journey. Cinematic, fine for a montage. [Ver. 75 Roth]

Lyrics:

We 
see the lies
through jade eyes
the truth was lost 
in compromise 

Now 
off to fight
wrong and right
We must (just to) protect
our sordid lives

He 
stands on side
above the rise
those without fathers
claim his pride
     Their decency was sacrificed

Low
graying skies
growing sighs
press us down
into the pile
     And all the while the weak comply

Heat
from burning pyres
from wild fires
from every match they'd thrown aside
     and every one once burnt replies

Glow
Fiery skies
Razing miles
Burnt 'til our ground is all outside
     From this ash no thing will rise

Nothing will rise (Nothing will rise)
From battle's cry (Nothing will rise)

CH:
They lost their lives
     they lost their lives
Been sacrificed
     they lost their lives

To battle's cry
     they lost their lives
To battle's cry
     we lost their lives

We lost their lives
     we lost their lives
To battle's cry
     To battle's cry

To Battle

An argument in three acts rises as growling and ooodling electric guitar voices. It's ok, they resolve the fight and make up by the end. Narrative, built around some fine melody bits and lush deep brass. [Ver. 86 Tilt]

Hand Say

HandSay

An environment of crickets at summer's end serves as background to the solemn and introspective guitar and bass. Pulls on the heart strings. Transcendent ending segment.  The only actual organic instruments used were crickets and a screendoor.[Ver. 19]

Ruder Alice

One of three versions of 'Joy'.  Staccato plucked double bass make the backbone of these songs. Add acoustic guitar, claves and swirling synth. [Ver.  36 BassCoat 02]

Joy - Bass Coat

Guitar and Mellotron create a groovy and somewhat psychedelic texture with punctuations of brass. More uplifting than down, tense chord progressions challenge and relieve. Skip to 3:48 for the contrapuntal epilogue. [Ver. 31]

Quitarettic

One of three versions of 'Joy'.  Staccato plucked double bass make the backbone of these songs. This version adds a synthesized voice slash saxaphone instrument and she sounds lovely. Kinda reminds of the Fifth Element. [Ver. 35 - Saxalist 11]

Joy - Saxalist

A thundering assemblage of drum rhythms with Bass and Sickly Grungey Brass. Cinematic, Dramatic, over the top. [Ver.23 Tilt]

Thunder

Instrumental slow song at a jazzy night club with rainy environment. Piano, Bass, Drums and Trumpet. [Ver. 11 Env]

One Night Stand

One of three versions of 'Joy'.  Staccato plucked double bass make the backbone of these songs. This version adds ear-splitting head blasting electric guitar. Still melodic, just harsher. Sounds a bit like bagpipes at times. [Ver. 36 - Grinder 04 Tilt]

Joy - Grinder

Bouncing synths are the moon bounce on which a soprano vocalist is performing. A bit Fifth Element, a bit Star Trek, and a few 'bits' I stole to make it grungier. Decidedly electronic. [Ver. 52]

Penwill

Dramatic thundering drums weave rhythms from another time. Primordial, primal. and intimidating. Cinematic like the movies. 

This track is also available for your use under a Creative Commons license. DL should be on. If you do use it in your work, please credit me (Jeffrey A. Trott).

[Ver.  23 - JustDrums]

Thunder - Just Drums

Thunder - JustDrums

Big sounding uplifting instrumental composition. Leans classical with new age and pop roots. Double Bass, Piano, Flute and Drums. Remaster was to tweak the airs with Roth-Air. [Ver. 25b Roth]

Genre-less track with roots in rock, pop, folk and world music. Big soundscape with thundering drums and deep resonant piano. More narrative than structured. [Ver.  43]

Forgiveness Act Three

Atmospheric, mystical and meditative. The plucking of strings. The rubber warbling of electronic bass. A stained canvas on which rushing winds and brushing paint are pushed by the sound of a distant drum echo. [Ver. 19]

Petal (Bandalant)

Petal (BandaLant)

Lively upbeat piano and guitar song. Makes me want to sway and move to the rhythm. This ver has no vocals. [Ver 26.]

To Confess

A journey of controlled chaos from back in 2017. The untamed character of this track made mixing and mastering challenging. Jangly Tar, Piano, Fretless Bass, Flutes, Marimba and Orchestral Percussion with spices. [ver. 93]

Solar

In a word; Dynamic. A difficult production because of the rapid changes to level and pitch. Uses just one synth instrument (Thank you Vital Synth-Matt Tytel, thank you Mr. Bill) with sampled Rototoms and Drums. Let it lift you. Let it move you. [Ver. 32 -Master]

Forgiveness Act Two

A rich complex of electronic textures woven around a central core of fretless bass. An active and invigorating rhythmic journey. This version is from the 16bit sources, I'll be remixing this with 32bit sources in the coming months. [Ver. 48b_BAKED_05]

Drikkaline

The vocal version. Haven't really sang on a track for about 30 years, so it was fun to play with a couple of mid tempo ballads. It was also lotsa fun to produce something with voice again. [Ver. Vocal 36]

To Confess (2021 - Jeffrey A. Trott)

Lyrics:

Pulled along
Drawn into you 
     like my heart's a cartoon

And I'm feeling this way
'Cause the words you relay 
     aren't what you do

Foolish song
Droning on and on

I'm strung up in you
     but the melody's cruel
'Cause you're so far away
There's no strings I could play
     would ever make you move

To me
Move to me
Would you please
Move to me

Cruelish truth
I'm all messed up in you

I have to confess
'fore there's nothing left 
For me to say to you

And I have to confess 
Before there's nothing left
That I'm in love with you

And I have to confess 
Before there's nothing left
That I'm in love with you

I'm in love with you
______

To Confess - Vocal

Listening to some Robyn tracks inspired this song. I wanted a hard synth pop vibe with a little bit of hell raising. Take a deep breath because this piece doesn't breathe at all. It's an audio onslaught from start to finish. 

...If you like ghosts... At the end of the track is what sounds clearly like a voice speaking, yet there were no mics, organic instruments or analog input of any sort. The voice emerged out of the conflux of late mastering decisions using compression and harmonic enhancers, but didn't appear until the final export. Truly strange! 

If you've experienced something similar, tell me in the comments. 

[Ver. 26 Baked 07 UAD]

Root Of The Floom

Made as a proof of concept using Plogue's Alter-Ego with the Bones voice. Man, that avatar can sing. And who doesn't love distorted Banjo? 

And Ye Shall Receive (Copyright 2022 Jeffrey A. Trott)

Lyrics:
All the things that you do
Things I know nothing about
Things that bring me to you
That we won't say aloud

All the dreams we've forgot
They are as hard as the sea
Was the work just for naught
Were those words just for me

All the things I could lose
Things I'd be nothing without
Things my dreams need to use
When my soul is in doubt

[Ver. 14_UAD]

And Ye Shall Receive

A percussion-only track made as an attempt to capture the spirit of the hypnotic rhythms of drum circles I've been part of. 

If you like it, feel free to use this track, DL should be on, and I offer it free under a creative commons attribution license. Please credit me (Jeffrey A. Trott) if you do use it. Contact me if you'd like a more raw and uncompressed version.

I'm only about 95 percent satisfied with the mastering, so I may re-master this in the near term.
[Ver. 17_UAD_BAKED]

TriFour

TriFour - World Drums

Dynamic and narrative instrumental built around a simple piano hook and counterpoint. It's one of a few pieces that spun out of "Pianolo" a free form piano song. Piano, Brass, Electric Guitar, swirling Airy Synth bits and Thunderous smashing drums.

[Ver 45_BAKED3_FINAL FUSION]

Pianolo Song 1 Loved

Pianolo [Song 1] - Loved

Composer and Media Producer from Kent, Ohio, USA.  Has released works as Xyst, Sonoxia, and JeffRay for Hypaethral Productions, Pearls Before Swine, and Mesa Publishing. Now focused on creating mostly instrumental music for video, tv, games and motion picture scores.

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