Take Me To The Bottom Of The Pit

Composer of Film Music / Trailer / Ambiant / Media
Musician keyboards, Composer and Arranger
© Cyril MENDEZ (SACEM), All Rights Reserved

Pianiste, compositeur
olivieri.gerald@gmail.com

Smoothjazz, jazzballads, saxophone, trumpet, sometimes guitar, also some latin, all rather old school, occasionally experimental...
I hope you will enjoy it.
(paintings by bara, music and photos by récard)
More photos on: 
https://www.flickriver.com/photos/138239088@N02/popular-interesting/

Musician/Composer/Sound Designer/Producer
Owner/Operator of Sound Source Fundamentals

"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science."
-Albert Einstein

Hello, welcome to my page.

I've been making music since 1972. At the time, with Pedro Castro, we created the alternative rock band Petrus Castrus. 

The music I'm placing here is mostly from the home recordings of my ongoing projects and ideas. I created a few playlists (Inéditos) according to language (PO - Portuguese; EN - English; SP - Spanish; FR - French; IT - Italian), and also for concept albums (Três Jardins). There are two long tracks (Mediterrâneo and Isaías) for full concept albums, and corresponding playlists that gather some of their individual tracks. A playlist called Synergies gathers the collaboration projects with other musicians in the fantastic SoundCloud community

Petrus Castrus edited records can be found on Spotify and Soundcloud. See the Facebook Petrus Castrus page for more details, including comments about the recordings uploaded here. 

We are both amateur musicians, i.e. music lovers. As for me, I'm just an electrical engineer with a master in AI that really loves creating music and use it to share ideas. That is why all tracks include lyrics or texts.

By the way I'm not interested in third-party offers to boost the number of plays. I like it as it is, and I've always declined such offers. Thanks anyway. 

I don't repost much, just some tracks that I find outstanding and with very few plays, so I can help them to get better known. I believe that repost parsimony also makes life easier for those who follow me.

Enjoy!

*** UPDATE May 2025. Good news. The SC contractual terms have now been corrected, and our music will no longer be used for AI training. NOTE April 2025: It just came to my attention that, unless we do a separate contract, all our uploaded music in SC can be freely used for AI training. This is written down in the legal section, under the licensing paragraphs. What can (should) we do to change that? *** 

*** Note Dec 2024: Alas, AI generated content that is not disclosed as such is now being posted at an alarming rate, sometimes multiple tracks in a single day from fake artists that even write down fake introductions, saying how much they love music that comes from the heart. Please avoid reposting these deceptions, it only adds to the confusion.  And it encourages the algorithms to give them preference. ***

*** NOTE June 2024: Generative AI is becoming amazingly powerful. Nothing against it. Just to avoid the confusion and embarrassment of finding ourselves praising and encouraging mindless algorithms, I believe it would be nice for us to always disclose its usage in our tracks. What do you think?  ***

Music saves lives.
All that is uploaded is raw, and from a pure source; 
 Enjoy :)
❤☮

I started fiddling with electronic music back in the mid 80's. One could argue that I should have learnt something about music by now.

Joe Sebastian Cofie born London England . Classical Pianist Bassoonist and Vocalist from the Royal Academy Of Music. Composer of Classical / Jazz/ R&B and House music 
And for a taste of Uk House by Joe Sebastian Cofie go to https://soundcloud.com/#boxerbabymusic