orchestral symphony

Daft Punk  Give Life Back To Music

Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah (piano)

Paul Hertzog - The eagle lands (Kickboxer)

From the trenchcoat-noir, motion picture classic "Sea of Love". Read what that's all about here: https://uncletnuc.com/2024/02/14/februarys-erotic-thrills-in-the-night-sea-of-love-1989/

Trevor Jones - Main Title Theme [Sea of Love]

Welcome to our version  (experimental )  on Ennio Morricone’s  “Once upon a time in the West (theme)”
We wanted to do an experiment, make a piece in complete free hand (free motion) without metronome, starting to create choirs first to make them sound as realistic as possible, and then create an orchestra around those tracks.

We split up the song in 2 parts, as by hearing the original soundtrack has 2 different rhythms / tempo’s, and we worked on those 2 parts separately, without consulting each other as we normally do by Skype, email  or telephone.

As we all know people hear and experience different things in music, and we just wanted to see how close our creations would come together in the pre-production, when all the tracks were completed,  I cut all the tracks in bits of 1 second, and I allowed myself to make slight changes within parts of 0,125 second on all tracks to make both Matt’s and my instruments sound as smooth as possible, keeping the Ennio’s main theme sound recognizable for everybody, and still give it our own signature at the same time, because we don’t  want to sound like copy-cats.

Most musicians and composers will say that’s impossible, as we also thought so ourselves ( especially as Matt lives in England and I in Holland, so we can’t sit next to each other ), but we did it anyway, another prove that collaborating and creating music together for almost 3 years, makes us a solid team, and we understand each other almost blindly, and I am very proud of Matt what he has accomplished through the years, and honored to work together with him.
Although this may not sound exactly like the soundtrack most of you know it, we hope you will enjoy our version too.

We are planning to do the “final” of Ennio’s composition (which is longer) later this year, with real voices.

Composer:  Ennio Morricone
Arrangement:  John Styles & Matt Baker
Instruments & voices:  Matt baker & John Styles
Producer:  John Styles

All your comments and advices are very much appreciated as always, all the best for now, John Styles & Matt Baker 


John Styles & Matt Baker - Once upon a time in the West

Twisted nerve - Bernard Herrmann

Nujabes - Aruarian Dance

Trevor Jones & Randy Edelman - The Last Of The Mohicans - Main Title

The Good, The Bad And The Ugly

The Ecstasy Of Gold (2004 Remaster)

La lune brille pour toi

Fermes les yeux
Et laisses les étoiles
S'accrocher à tes doigts
Comme un des papillons

Mon amour
La nuit est belle
Approches-toi de moi
Ouvres grand tes ailes
La lune est telle un ange
Veille sur toi...

Si tu as peur d'apprendre à voler
Les battements de mon coeur
Disent je suis tout près
J'ai demandé un ciel parfait
Pour que tu puisses enfin rêver
Fermes les yeux
La nuit'sera ton amie

Sens comme le vent
Caresse ton visage
Gageons que le temps
Ne soit juste qu'un mirage
La nuit est belle
Approches-toi de moi
On ne voit plus qu'elle
La lune, mon amour qui Brille pour toi

Fermes les yeux
Et laisses les étoiles
Briller de tout leurs feux
Comme d'immenses soleils, mon amour
La nuit est belle
Approches-toi de moi
Ouvres grand tes ailes
C'est toi, mon amour qui brille pour moi

La lune brille pour toi ( piano cover by Kieu Anh )

Ennio Morricone's Chi Mai (meaning Who Ever in Italian, although it looks Asian to me :)

Live video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHHPlqwxZA8

He composed this in 1971 for an Italian movie called Maddalena, and reused it in 1981 for the beautiful final scene of the French movie Le Professionnel starring Jean-Paul Belmondo who insisted on using this music. It was also reused in some other movies and TV series and is famous in French pop culture thanks to a memorable dog food TV ad for Royal Canin, where the music is used while a dog is running in slow motion.

The instrument is a Clavia Nord Stage 2, using a Bösendorfer sampled grand piano with some echo, and strings I control with an expression pedal, well, try to control.

Video

Ennio Morricone - Chi Mai (Le professionnel) [piano + fx]

Versión de piano y cuerdas de la gran obra de Ennio Morricone. 

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Cinema Paradiso - Ennio Morricone by Sergio Moya

Concerning Hobbits - Howard Shore

Ennio Morricone
L'une des plus belles musique du monde

Once upon a time in the West

Kill Bill Soundtrack (You Shot Me Down)

Ennio Morricone - Le vent, le cri

LIVE concert at Club 202 Budapest, 2012 november 30. 

My name is nobody (Ennio Morricone) - Spencer Hill Magic Band (live)

Every breath you take - The Police

Stan Bush - Fight For Love

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