cool sax improvisation! dig the dueling saxes!

Excellent ambient and playing, so cool :)

Music: Jan Schonander
Crows from Pixabay
Image generated with OpenAI with a prompt

The anticipation - the standoff - the requiem 

A favorite movie of mine from my younger days is "The Good, The Bad & The Ugly" famously ending in a Mexican Standoff between Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach and Lee Van Cleef. Directed by Sergio Leone with music by Ennio Morricone I recommend this spaghetti western to anybody who hasn't seen it.  On a whim I thought I would perform a musical reenactment, although in my version there are no survivors.

The experimental part of this has to do with the reverb on the drums in the "shootout" to simulate gunshots.

A Mexican standoff is a confrontation where no strategy exists that allows any party to achieve victory. Any party initiating aggression might trigger everyone's demise. At the same time, the parties are unable to extract themselves from the situation without suffering a loss. [Wikipedia]

Mexican Standoff

BeatPort https://www.beatport.com/release/galaxy-ping-pong/4235027
Deezer http://www.deezer.com/album/477082225
Amazon 	http://www.amazon.de/Cr007/dp/B0CFWK24H7
iTunes / AppleMusic http://itunes.apple.com/album/id1702900551
Yandex Music https://music.yandex.ru/album/27007797
Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/2WpqBjbf4s7S12ikJ70Wup

Galaxy Ping-Pong

Zarine - Galaxy Ping Pomg Cut Vers.

This is the 3rd collaboration with my old friend Synline (@synline). I created a basic track using his equipment in his studio, and he completed it with his excellent arrangement (includes creating additional sections, tracks, etc.) and mastering work.

Composition by Ken
Composition and Sampling collage and mix by Synline

Taken Away (collab. w/ Synline)

a collaboration with a wonderful artist #AdaDaveed 
Soar my friends SOAR !!
Sitar Roger Walker 
Vocals Ada Daveed
Keyboard Ada Daveed
Percussion Ada Daveed
Bass Guitar  Roger Walker

Powdered Mountains 

YOUNG BUZZARD by #AdaDaveed and Roger Walker .

LYRICS

Living times
Lifetime's gone,
Crisp at dawn
Mellowed by the sun.

Golden horizon, all at stake,
People arrive at the fray.

No one knows the roots of our past.
No one shows, we've given our best.

Times have come
Times have gone,
Past tense
Is the chosen form.

Till the plain, caught up surrounding 
Our heart, our soul, our own.

No one knows the roots of our past.
It goes to show it's gone too fast.

Shear moonlight through my window.
Riding sideline, drawn-out timeline.
Taste so quaint, virtuoso.
Hello blueprint: unchecked, untried.

See the way
Script what may,
Humbled by the song
Promises go on.

What is this, hold on exist,
Gotta love our land, our smile, our pain.

No one knows the roots of our past.
No one grows enliven the guest.
It goes to show it's gone too fast.
No one knows the roots of our past.

The Roots of Our Past

From the Album: "Arrhythmia & Blues" 2024

Lyrics:
Do you need some more cash?
A big old stack
Right there in your pants
Look at you, getting more than the next guy
A bigger slice of the pie
Do you like it like that?
Need more cash?
Look at your bad self out on that dance floor
Gucci sunglasses
A Louis Vuitton money belt
Fill your life with beautiful things
It gives you everything you need
But still you say:

I need something more
(Happiness is where you are)
I have nothing left
(Let the sunshine in your heart)
I feel emptiness
(Feel the magic of the earth)
What more can I get?
(Do you fill up with things where you hurt?)
Let me rhapsodize
I am happy with my slice
5% of paradise

You're getting a bigger bite at the apple
MMMM, it's coming soon
All these things, that gives you more
Va-va-voom
(Va-va-voom!)
Costco size it!
You've got more possessions
Then a Pharaoh
In an Egyptian tomb

But still you say:
I need something more
(Happiness is where you are)
I have nothing left
(Let the sunshine in your heart)
I feel emptiness
(Feel the magic of the earth)
What more can I get?
(Do you fill up with things where you hurt?)
Let me rhapsodize
I am happy with my slice
5% of paradise

Need some more cash?
A big stack in your pants?

5% Of Paradise

Saxophone improvisations from 1987's Resonance.
www.jh0st.com/resonance

"And indeed there will be time
For the yellow smoke that slides along the street,
Rubbing its back upon the window-panes;
There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet"

- TS Eliot, The Love-Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Resonance

05/05/1987

Talking Of Michelangelo (Resonance 1987)

CAST OF CHARACTERS:
J.J. Terrell-- @j-j-terrell—JJ-- electric piano, synth, seed idea
Mistermark-- @user-432503709 -- Mark –  vocals, lyrics, mix, and production
Llanpsych-- @llanpsych -- Tez – guitar
TexMex Shaman– @texmex-shaman –Stephen–banjo, guitar, sitar, and final mastering
K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara –Ken–drums, seed idea
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)– @josh-clary-1 –Josh – four-string fretless bass

Composition – The Eclectic Collective
This song started in probably the most effective way our group writes them. Ken had a spectacular drum beat that was unused in a previous project, so JJ composed and recorded  a chord arrangement with his magical keys. Once we had a beat and a chord structure, Josh came along and added his foundational bass. 
     Now that the rhythm section was complete and the chord structure was in place, Stephen added his unique melody line that you hear at the beginning and every other verse on his magic banjo. He also plays all the initial guitar until around 1:40, where Tez takes over. Stephen also added some really trippy sitar in the vocal section. Then it was time for Tez to add some spice to the mix with his fiery guitar solos from about 1:40 on, eventually building up to a crescendo towards the end. 
     Once we had all the music down, we realized that we had a big gap in the bridge without much going on in it. So, Mark came through with an old poem he had written on his fridge with word magnets for his daughter more than a decade ago, and expanded on it for this song. (the poem is loosely based on the idea that our dreams exist in a digital environment/universe) The young girl's voice you hear echoing Mark's filtered voice is his daughter, in her first appearance with the EC. 
     The song was now finished, except for Mark using his production skills to trim and move a few things, then mix it. While we usually defer to Tez or Stephen for the mix, Mark did such a great job, we decided to keep his mix. Stephen did, however master and EQ it to make it a finished product. 
     This song was truly put together as a whole band effort, showcasing what the Eclectic Collective can do. I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed creating it.  

Original lyrics by Mistermark:  

The moon flickers on
and rises and dances
across a celestial stage
as dreamers paint the pixels of their mind 
like an infinite canvas 

Sleep away tiny egg
and leave a delicate thread 
of memory behind 
but never log out 
you are in the elaborate web
always

-------------------------------------------
here's a photo of the original fridge magnet poem from years ago:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mark_boucher/2257994722/in/album-1495769/

and here's some collections of photos I took over the years:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mark_boucher/albums/

Dancing Moon (The Eclectic Collective)

Uke, Mandolin and a couple tracks of syths...mashing. The clicks are me clucking my tongue...

The title? I got no idea where that came from...

Image is obviously AI

Ist Kan Bulle

[English lyrics below]

I was a high-schooler, not yet able (if at all) to write decent lyrics. So I resorted to more or less famous poems, but also to short stories from which I cut out fragments and stitched them together. Under my scalpel also fell 'Superfluous Invitations', a short story by Dino Buzzati published in 1958 in 'Sixty Short Stories'. There is a version that I recovered from a 1977 tape , but I had the desire to replay and rearrange it a few time ago.
2024, May 22 (Last version). At the sax Jörg (@joerxworx); together we have also produced an only instrumental version of the track (https://soundcloud.com/michele-ansani/i-would-like-you-to-come-instrumental  AND  https://soundcloud.com/joerxworx/michele-ansani-instrumental-with-alto-sax-2).

Cover picture: "Ritratto di Eura", from the graphic novel of Dino Buzzati, Poema a fumetti (Poem Strip), Milano 1969.

English Lyrics

I would like you to come to me on a winter evening
and huddled together behind the window looking at the night
we would remember the winters of fairy tales
where we lived together without knowing it.

By the same fairy paths did you and I walk
together we went through forests full of wolves
together without knowing it perhaps we both gazed
towards the mysterious life that awaited us

‘Do you remember?’ we will say each other and you will smile,
while outside will sound the wind's shaken metal sheets
but you - now I remember - do not know the ancient tales
of the nameless kings, of ogres and bewitched gardens

You have never passed enraptured under the magical talking trees
nor have you ever knocked on the door of the abandoned castle.
you have never walked in the night towards a distant light
nor have you ever fallen asleep under the stars of the East

Behind the window in the winter evening probably
we will remain mute like two strangers
I would ask ‘do you remember?’
but you would not remember
you would not remember

------

Music by Michele Ansani (1977); lyrics by Dino Buzzati (1958).
Remade in 2023-2024.
Posted on SoundCloud: 2024, July 22.

Vorrei che tu venissi da me in una sera d'inverno **

01 - SA - EWC - Tutti - All In One - Dynamic Swell EH
02 - Spitfire Audio - Kepler Orchestra - Woodwinds - Shards Grid Time Machine_ Albion 2 - String Lo - Short
03 - NI - Noire Pure _Emotional

Henceforth

As much as I love making music, I'm also a fan of so many of you here on Soundcloud. This page is a mix-tape dedicated to all your amazing work. I'll be listening closely with cat's ears.

Please take a moment to listen, comment on, and if you like, repost - let's keep the soundcloud community vital. 

Any folks looking to follow/ then immediately unfollow just to get me to repost: think twice and think sustainably please by doing the real work of growing your fans in an honest and organic way.

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