Milana Zilnik's beautiful song, with some improvisation over it by myself.
The piano Milana is playing is the Una Corda, which if you don't have access to one or the means to get the hardware, a software version can be played in Native Instruments Kontact. I have had Komplete for years. I originally bought it to use B4 and Pro 53 (both discontinued) and FM7 (replaced now with FM8). I never checked out the Una Corda, until recently I heard recordings of it here on soundcloud and fell in love with its intimate, emotive sound. Now I want to write songs and record with it!

Please listen to Milana Zilnik's original recording of this piece here:
https://soundcloud.com/milanazilnik/una-corda-fantasia-new-album-and-open-collaboration

The fretless bass has been redone. On this recording, an Ernie Ball/Music Man fretless Bongo bass was played, plugged into a Tech 21 RPM bass preamp. To my ears, the Bongo fretless bass and the RPM preamp combination is a far more sonorous tone than I was able to achieve with the instrument and equipment that I used up to last year.

The lead guitar is a PRS 305 through a Stomp Under Foot '73 Ram's Head V10 distortion and a Skreddy Dynamic Mids Enhancer, into a Hiwatt DR103 amp.
There is ambient guitar added, which was a Carvin DC127 going through a Morpheus Capo, a BOSS CE-20 chorus and a Strymon Timeline delay. The track was processed using Amplitube to add amp tone.
The drums are Superior Drummer 3, using the Rock Warehouse kit.
The organ is the Arturia B3V.

Thankyou again, Milana.

Let Me Tell You A Story - Una Corda Fantasia 3/7/2021 collaboration w Milana Zilnik

A splash of epic, hybrid, orchestral music...starts small scale with a light touch, mixed ensemble and finishes with a full flourish of orchestra and choir.

Created in Kontakt sampler.

Composed, arranged, performed and produced by Mark Taylor, March 2021

The Bell Tower and the Cross

Exiles Return

Unsent Messages

Dedicated to the memory of Emmett Chapman - musician and inventor of the Chapman Stick.

Jeremy Cubert - 10-string Railboard Chapman Stick, Electronics

Free Hands To Infinity (For Emmett Chapman)

Boy-choir meets synthesizers from the 70's....in the 90's. Possibly in Berlin. And Gabriel Faure' phones it in.

Once again, checking out new software equipment. 
Including boy-choir emulator.
And algo-rythmic drums.

The Girl With The Flaxseed Shake

Continue

Ma said when sad son to sing in the rain, to sing in the rain and you won't feel a thing  Ma said to smile when I needed a cry, I needed a cry that's how I've got by love and madness, sickness, sadness. they wont take me away some might hurt me, gone, desert me but love in my hearts gonna stay Ma told me son someday I'd need a ring someday I'd need a ring for some pretty young thing Ma told me son unless the world turns ya cold this world turns ya cold yeah one big heart of stone love and madness, sickness, sadness they wont take me away some might hurt me, gone, desert me but love in my hearts gonna stay
Love
Forever
This love in my hearts gonna stay

Love is raining down on me it’s raining down me
Love is raining down on me it’s raining down on me
Love is raining down on me it’s raining down on me

Ma said when sad son to sing in the rain, to sing in the rain and you won't feel a thing

Sing In The Rain

Turn and Return

OK This is a long one, but is quite dynamic.  It starts with a self generating ambient sound from Arturia's Pigments 2.  It then goes into a chill kind of jam with Taurus Pedals providing the low bass drone, the Korg Kronos providing the the electric piano sound and I played the Novation Summit for the lead.  This lead was improvised in one take.  It then goes back to full ambient where it fades from the Pigments self generating patch into a different self generating patch on the Hydrasynth.  It then kicks it up a notch with a nice long synth solo on the Moog Subsequent 37.  It ends with the Hydrasynth fading back into the Pigments patch.

Huge credit goes to Red Means Recording whose tutorial for creating self generating patches inspired this tune.  The Hydrasynth patch is based on his tutorial.

Evolvers

The Alleged Participants are:

Lead Vox: Tommy Chinstrap
Guitars: Laughing Jim Prescott
Bass: John Pyle
Keys: Mick Michaelson
Drums: Freddy Del Vecchio
©2021 Prescott Chinstrap Music, ASCAP

Turn and Return

Jeremy Cubert

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