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This week I wanted to work out a few fragments I had in mind, but after a first recording I felt there is no need to work them out. As a set of six pieces, they are telling the whole story to me. Here is the first one.
The others will follow soon. 
from the album "2 Days & a Year"
Enjoy...

fragments of a journey #1

Here is the second fragment. Just a little melody. 
from the album "2 Days & a Year"
Enjoy...

fragments of a journey #2

This piece evolved from improvised motifs, which I have sorted slightly. 
from the album "2 Days & a Year"
Hope you enjoy...

2 days and a year

a few days ago Steffen aka bitzone ask me, if I would contribute some pieces to his new soundcloud-group for music and sound with the maximum length of a minute - the "One Minute Group".
I felt immediately inspired and had a creative day in my studio. I have just improvised and recorded what wanted to come out. At the end of the day I had 8 one minute pieces, the minute sketches. 
from the album "2 Days & a Year"
Hope you enjoy....

one-minute group: soundcloud.com/groups/one-minute
Steffen: soundcloud.com/bitzone
photo: www.flickr.com/photos/p_medicus/

minute sketches #1      jensfelger

a few days ago Steffen aka bitzone ask me, if I would contribute some pieces to his new soundcloud-group for music and sound with the maximum length of a minute - the "One Minute Group".
I felt immediately inspired and had a creative day in my studio. I have just improvised and recorded what wanted to come out. At the end of the day I had 8 one minute pieces, the minute sketches. I'll post once a day.
This second one is for two guitars and shows my weakness for five-four-time.
from the album "2 Days & a Year"
Hope you enjoy....

one-minute group: soundcloud.com/groups/one-minute
Steffen: @bitzone
photo: www.flickr.com/photos/p_medicus/

minute sketches #2    jensfelger

a few days ago Steffen aka bitzone ask me, if I would contribute some pieces to his new soundcloud-group for music and sound with the maximum length of a minute - the "One Minute Group".
I felt immediately inspired and had a creative day in my studio. I have just improvised and recorded what wanted to come out. At the end of the day I had 8 one minute pieces, the minute sketches. I'll post once a day.
This is the third one.
from the album "2 Days & a Year"
Hope you enjoy....

one-minute group: soundcloud.com/groups/one-minute
Steffen: @bitzone
photo: www.flickr.com/photos/p_medicus/

minute sketches #3 jensfelger

a few days ago Steffen aka bitzone ask me, if I would contribute some pieces to his new soundcloud-group for music and sound with the maximum length of a minute - the "One Minute Group".
I felt immediately inspired and had a creative day in my studio. I have just improvised and recorded what wanted to come out. At the end of the day I had 8 one minute pieces, the minute sketches. I'll post once a day.
This is the forth one.
Hope you enjoy....

one-minute group: soundcloud.com/groups/one-minute
Steffen: @bitzone
photo: www.flickr.com/photos/p_medicus/


minute sketches #4   jensfelger

Ups ... this piece was washed too hot. Oh ... no, it's a Ukulele.
A contribution to the "One Minute Group".
from the album "2 Days & a Year"
Hope you enjoy...

one-minute group: soundcloud.com/groups/one-minute
Steffen: @bitzone
photo: www.flickr.com/photos/p_medicus/

minute sketches #5  jensfelger

Here is the 6th piece of the "minute sketches".
A contribution to the "One Minute Group".
from the album "2 Days & a Year"
Hope you enjoy...

one-minute group: soundcloud.com/groups/one-minute
Steffen: @bitzone
photo: www.flickr.com/photos/p_medicus/

minute sketches #6    jensfelger

Original Jazz Compositions for jazz guitar trio. Plus a few standards


The Road To You

Glory

i recorded this sound on april 7th and now, april 16th, i've totally forgotten how i made it.. except that i know it's the modular, and i believe is based around a piston honda MKII oscillator or the intellijel shapeshifter.

maybe.

i'd rather not remember how i made every sound, though. when you know too much about something the mystery is gone.

april 7, 2015 (grey days past)

i've been really busy finishing a 17-speaker sound installation for a public passageway in sapporo, japan these last couple of weeks... but did have time yesterday to fire up the jupiter-8 and make this simple arpeggio which goes through an eventide h3000. i do love the jupiter-8.

april 30, 2015 (a simple jupiter)

Sunrise (ft. Zeitfaktor)

A Moment (Reconsidered)

once again i say where has the time gone... i've had little time to dabble in the studio, been too busy with real work....

but i did manage to do something i've done before a million times... control the verbos harmonic oscillators with a bunch of LFOs, well, in this case, with one expanded turing machine.

the sine waves go into a verbos amplitude and tone generator for the saturation and reverb comes from a lexicon PCM90\

nothing outstanding, but at least i'm tinkering again.

may 11, 2015 (harmonic saturation)

This new one I hope makes you want to stand up and move a bit, at the very least tap your feet. Many thanks to the gracious Derek Cornett for providing a few guitar tracks that give it some soul. I also would like to thank Chris Yochens for great B3 part that inspired the whole song.


Where You're At / featuring Derek Cornett / Chris Yochens

"Keep on, don’t look back, hold on to this love..."

First, long awaited collaboration with Vocalatti, and her sultry vocals - a great performance indeed, but also a tribute to her very poignant lyrics - take them in.

Then, Derek Cornett a.k.a "Larry Carlton/Earl Klugh/George Benson" (your choice) delivers the smoothest, laid back guitar imaginable.

Magnus, you're zooming in on the appropriate sentiment with aplomb, your EWI always a pleasure to listen to.

And then our own "Paulinho da Costa", multi-talented MoodyMo adding the final layer on the cake with his subtle and stylish percussion.

From vision to fruition, thanks to the ever-awesome collaborators from all over the world; as always no boundaries in the world of music.

I thank you all.

Concept: Peter Bennborn & Magnus Jansson
Music: Peter Bennborn
Lyrics: Vocalatti

Vocals: Vocalatti (@vocalatti)
Guitar: Derek Cornett (@derek-cornett)
EWI: Magnus Jansson (@the-ewi-master)
Percussion: MoodyMo (@moodymo)
Rhodes/keys/synths/drum & bass programming: Peter Bennborn

Mixed & Mastered: Peter Bennborn

Lyrics:

Is it time for us
To take just what we had
And walk away just as friends
It seems to me that every time
That we said goodbye
All that sadness in your eyes

Fate can be so cruel
When others break the rules
No one gets another chance
I find it hard to think that
You're never coming back
All is wasted what we had

Chorus

Keep on
Don’t look back
Hold on to this love
That we already had and
Try to start again
Let this love begin
And never let it end

Looking back to when
Our feelings had to end
Was the last thing on my mind
I wanted to always stay here
So you and I
Could find peace within our lives

Nothing stays the same
Two people are to blame
For changing other people’s lives
If I knew how
I would have stayed in that fairytale
Feeling free and so alive

Chorus

Move on start a new
You’ll forget these things
That life has put us through
And try to love again
You'll remember that
You and I were friends

Buy on iTunes

Keep On (ft. Vocalatti, Derek Cornett, Magnus Jansson & MoodyMo)

A nice Pat Metheny Tune I recently discovered.

The Night You Were Born

An early recording of "Flying" taken from the album Different Colours

Krimzon

Taken from the compilation album "BineMusic presents Various Artist 2010"

Ancoats 111

Taken from the unreleased album "Weightless" (Ambient Transmissions Vol.2)

Weightless (Ambient Transmission Vol. 2)

Weightless Part 5

Weightless (Part 5)

A Lost Connection

Stationary

Taken from the download only compilation album "13"

Two Kinds Of Silence

Happy Easter soundcloud. 
In Germany, there is still no spring in sight. "Fresh air" is the desire for the long-awaited spring and a bit of warming sun.
from the album "2 Days & a Year"

Fresh air

It's a piece about encounters and rare moments of inner peace and serenity 
from the album "2 Days & a Year"

Rare Moments

Time is different in music.
 Close and friendly it is drifting by
sometimes flying, sometimes even 
standing still, but never passing. 
Nothing gets lost – the first tone 
is not older than the last one.

All music is child of its time, but not bound by time. 
It arises from moments and lives in people.  
Listening to music you make it your own.

My name is Jens Felger and I live in the southwest of Germany.
I'm a composer, guitarist & music teacher.
I love music of nearly every style and I live music whenever I can.
Creating & listening to music is my elixir of life.
The classical guitar is my musical base camp and at the moment 
I'm concentrated on creating music for this instrument. 
I'm not focussed on a specific style but I can't deny my classical background.

recently I had the great honour of being soundclouder of the day
http://soundcloud.tumblr.com/post/55093681730/soundcloud-of-the-day-jens-felger-jens-felger

Sharing music and the emotions within on social networks gives me a peace I've never expected. Being part of this amazing & inspiring community on soundcloud changes the way I hear music, I feel music and influences the way I create music. Thanks to all of you for your fantastic support, this means a lot to me.