Fantastic piece, John...just love those drums

Whooping Crane Raindance has entered the @re-ex Best of the Rest chart at no.9 - very cool combination of styles! Awesome drums & a great melody, nicely done :)

Thanks for sharing this with us John this  is lit

These tracks are played on the whistles and flutes that I make and sell. You can find them on my website, DrJohnLaurence.com/Takahe-Flutes. Also on my Etsy store TakaheFlutes, or search eBay for Takahe Flutes! In New Zealand, try TradeMe. Some instruments also feature in YouTube videos https://www.youtube.com/DrJohnLaurence/videos

Takahe Flutes, Whistle Demos

I recorded the ambient audio in Berkeley, CA on Telegraph Avenue at a 4 way intersection very near where you would walk onto campus. The crossing beeps were always slightly in sync with some reverb and delay in the sounds. I got people walking by talking and also asking a few questions what I was doing and in the end a giant tricked out car roared by. It's fun when you get these moments when you hear the backing track for a tune and it just comes together. I recorded this on my iPhone and cleaned up the audio with Mauvio.

Telegraph Avenue

Stay with You (Piano Cover)

Impress celebrates Piano Day 2022 with Francesco Carone who returns on the label with a new Original Soundtrack for this special event.

Montrèsor

Francesco Carone - Montrèsor

Trance In Eb

Groovepad                     

COSMIC CONSCIENCE

Gone Too Far

I BANG! DIE PARTY (FREESTYLE DIRTY SPRITE MIX)

The tune of life

Demo of my Bluebird flute in Gm pentatonic, dedicated to the Spix's Macaw, sadly now extinct in the wild. There is some hope that a breeding program will be successful.

Just Whistling Thanks!

Spix's Macaw Blues

Buy Flute

A piece for low whistle and piano, in particular, my 'Matuku' large-bore low-D whistle. This is the prototype. The production whistles are now available. Matuku is the Maori name for the Australasian Bittern, which is endangered in both Australia and New Zealand.

Matuku Pastorale

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A blues for the extinct Pouakai Eagle (AKA Haast's Eagle). The song features my Pouakai low Eb penny whistle, playing in Fm. 

The Pouakai was the biggest and most powerful eagle that ever existed, as far as we know. They lived on the ostrich-like Moa. When the Maori people became established in New Zealand, they preyed on the Moa until they became extinct, leaving the Pouakai to the same fate. By about 1300AD there were none left.

Pouakai Blues

This menacing soundscape has a dark and eerie feel, reminiscent of standing on the edge of the haunted, dark forest just before a thunderstorm. It's ominous low swelling synth and constant cricket-like sound accompanied by occasional daunting cries create suspense and uneasiness.

For commercial and derivative licenses, please visit us on Sounzone, where you can buy this track for a number of additional uses. https://www.sounzone.com/artist/covert-acoustics?id=36829&format=producer

Ambisphere

Midnight Cry I

A cheerful instrumental in Celtic style, featuring my Kokako Chrome, an alto-G penny whistle. The piece is based on a riff played on a Harmony archtop four-string tenor guitar, with bass line and a bass solo on a fretless P-Bass clone. Piano is from XLN audio, and the last verse includes harmony from my Kereru II low-D whistle. The intro birdsong is played on the Kokako whistle which sounds remarkably like its namesake!

The Kokako is from a unique family of wattle birds native to New Zealand. They were in peril of extinction, but are recovering thanks to conservation efforts. With about 1600 pairs, they are now enjoying something of a Kokako Spring!

Kokako Spring

A raindance featuring American Indian style tom-toms. The theme and one variation were played on a Bluebird four-hole pentatonic minor flute. Backing harmony and another variation were played on a Kakapo low-C whistle. Piano by XLN audio and bass by Ample Sound.

"After being pushed to the brink of extinction by unregulated hunting and loss of habitat to just 21 wild and two captive whooping cranes by 1941, conservation efforts have led to a limited recovery. The total number of cranes in the surviving migratory population, plus three reintroduced flocks and in captivity, now exceeds 800 birds" (Wikipedia).

Whooping Crane Raindance

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SHOWCASING THE PROGHOUSE SKILL OF THE FIRST NIGERIAN EDM DJ/PRODUCER.

Idris Elba & The Knocks - One Fine Day (feat. Tiggs Da Author) [Yinx D Jinx  patch1.44x REMIX]

"Aging rock legend in my mind."
johnlaurence@drjohnlaurence.com
John Laurence is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and singer/songwriter, with a wide range of influences from Heavy Metal to Mahler, Folk to Baroque, with a healthy dose of Blues, Classical and Jazz. Instruments he plays include keyboards, acoustic and electric guitars, bass guitar, ukulele, Godin Merlin, dulcimer, recorders and whistles, and brass including cornet/trumpet, mellophone and trombone.
  
In 2011 he was diagnosed with attention deficit disorder (ADD) which had affected him undetected since childhood. Although he has a PhD and has had two successful careers, he has begun to see life with a whole new perspective. He has always been a musician at heart and is making up for lost time with a new career as a musician and composer. His music is  influenced by blues, jazz, folk, classical and rock. Given his eclectic tastes and creativity, it is not surprising that John's music has evolved in to a World Music style. A new EP has just been released, named "Last Song of the Dove".  Feedback on the album has been encouraging, especially from countries such as Canada, USA, Mexico, Japan, Israel, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. John is now producing a full length album "Takahe Toccata" building on the style of the EP and dedicated to the World's endangered birds.

Whooping Crane Raindance

John Laurence

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