With all this talk of minimalism, I thought it was about time to explore my inner Steve Reich.  Today’s #MusicalMinute features the thumb piano and clarinet using a pitch-class set of 5-27.  As you can hear, there are quite a lot of repeated notes, but if you listen carefully, you’ll be able to hear where the instrumentalists breath.  What do you think?

14 Nov 25 Pent-Up Minimalist

Another Sunday Sequence

New Age Ruhe

a collection of tracks on the ambient side.

Winter Layers - ambient - from the album SUBTRAX

A track from the album Time and Tide, available on Bandcamp
amandasanderson.bandcamp.com/album/time-and-tide

Lyrics, music, mixing, production: Verulium
https://verulium.bandcamp.com/releases
Vocals: Amanda Kim Sanderson

It started in Garstang
Heading out for the M55 it's a beautiful motorway
But in the wrong direction 

I first saw Jimi in 75
Stood on the cowling of a seaplane not alive
But more like a saviour

I sat by the lakeside
Checking up on the stove and the gear for a very long holiday
To where the spirit takes me

He landed like a star on Derwentwater
His face was drawn so I offered him a quarter
Of Kendal mint cake

Driving the ghost of a famous 60s rock star
Around and around ’til we've built the energy
Living in the back of a camper van
The lakes are great and we do the best we can
One day we'll make it

We're parked in a lay by
Filling up with some beans on toast and a very nice Chardonnay 
To mark the occasion

In a white silk shirt and skin tight pants
He can't sing a note and he's banned all instruments
You've got to respect it

Driving the ghost of a famous 60s rock star
Around and around ’til we've built the energy
Living in the back of a camper van
The lakes are great and we do the best we can
One day we'll make it

We pin our hopes upon
The comeback show of the chosen one
At the Woodstock of the north
In Deeply Vale with Sandie Shaw and The Doors 

Driving the ghost of a famous 60s rock star
Around and around ’til we've built the energy
Living in the back of a camper van
The lakes are great and we do the best we can
One day we'll make it

But the times have changed
The stars have left?
We keep on chasing happiness none the less
One day we’ll find it

Time and Tide

Driving The Ghost Of A Famous Sixties Rock Star

Composed, arranged, performed and produced by:
Leon Pajer

orlando51music © 2020

You And Me

One of the the great things about working with Justin @grevusanjl, is that we both operate on the principle that all things will take their own time and course, eventually evolving in a most natural way. This track took a couple of months to create, each of us working little by little until it was done. Sometimes the absence of pressure opens up the perfect setting for creating music.

Check out the other music we've made together: 
https://soundcloud.com/grevusanjl/sets/the-belial-pelegrim-grevusanjl

A Dim White Statue Extinguished By Stones | Belial Pelegrim & GrevusAnjl

The songs I've always loved writing are those that come easily, whether they are 'soul-baring' personal expressions or 'thought-constructed' forms. 
This came very quickly.

Sketch: "Bereshit" (Brian Peters) 

I’VE GROWN USED TO YOU
(Brian Peters)

I’ve grown used to you
What can I say
I can’t seem to tell it right
Any other way
I get to feeling all the things that you do
Ooh babe, I’ve grown used to you

I’ve grown used to you
Does it seem bad
Like it’s always been this way
For the little time we’ve had
Feels like we’re riding on an old country bus
Ooh, babe, I’ve grown used to us

I’ve grown used to you
I’ve grown used to you

I’ve grown used to you
More than a wife
Like I’ve known you somewhere else
In another life
Feels like we’re locked inside an old memory
Ooh babe, and you’ve grown used to me

I’ve grown used to you
Close as I can
For all the distance that they say
Between a woman and a man
You’re still a mystery, I don’t know where you’re at
Ooh babe, and I’ve grown used to that

I’ve grown used to you
I’ve grown used to you

(Solo)

I’ve grown used to you
At the end of the day
I can’t seem to tell it right
Like you heard me say
Guess I believe in magic and déjà vu
Ooh babe, I’ve grown used to you

I've Grown Used To You

Please come back to me!  (alone in moonlight bay)

The washing machines had a gutsful
It’s raining again on the lawn
There’s muck on the floor and there’s mud in your hair
Can I wipe can I clean any more?

O woman rise up from your ashes
so you don’t thrill to clean any more,
Spin around and at least you’ll get dizzy
and there’s plenty of food on the floor

O I don’t expect joy all the time,
And I never expected true bliss,
But when we fell down and made babies
I didn’t anticipate this!

There’s a strange sense of wild in my head now,
There’s a part of me drifting away
Watch a woman down there in the kitchen
as I unclip one side of me brain


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This is one of my older songs that I am still quite fond of..  I have had fun mixing it up with some random sounds from my laundry and goodness knows where else while I was in creative mode!  And yes, that picture IS the machine performing in the piece.. :-))
Written sung made and played by Emma.

Washing Machine Song...  (O I don't expect joy ALL the time!)

A modern hybrid soundtrack composition with English lyrics featuring a powerful and energetic vocal performance courtesy of Audentity Records (Official license).

Please watch the 4K Youtube video story: https://youtu.be/xsyZQVHvbKA
Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/08YGQVTwWgP63WAovIYOvY

Arranged and produced by Peter Heckmann for Rose Records and Publishing in 2020.

Album cover photo by korabkova
Photos licensed through Envato (elements.envato.com)

Mixed and mastered by Peter Heckmann. 

Lyrics: LIARS (courtesy of Audentity Records)
I’m a lion
Free from the cage full of liars
All they gonna say is I won’t make it
I’m sorry that you feel that way
I’m a champion no I ain’t afraid to take a hit babe
Put it in my face
You can hate me
I’m sorry that you feel that way

I’m sorry that you feel that way
Like I care
Like I’m here to bring you down
Like the air that I’m breathing won’t be around
Oh I’m sorry did you feel that …
I’m sorry that you feel that way !

Liars

FREE DL at Bandcamp

https://johnpalmer1.bandcamp.com/track/i-could-be-anyone
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https://open.spotify.com/artist/5O3DVQrinTJHbNYJCFLlyE?si=plG2rBUGS5W-6cmXR3FErw

I have been experimenting with sounds since I was really young , when I was about 6 or 7 years old, after lots of pleading, from me, I managed to get my hands on a very old reel to reel tape machine, that everyone thought I was too young to have, and I discovered and loved recording. 
I played guitar and wrote songs in a indie punky band ,toured, made albums and worked in Studios. Now I work from my home studio in SW Germany,  using synths, groove boxes, guitars and vocals to produce electronic music. I also produce images through photography and  make ceramic sculpture.
My music is AI free.

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https://itunes.apple.com/…/faint-glow-in-the-sky/1458147207…

Winter Layers - ambient - from the album SUBTRAX

John Palmer