Guitar Instrumental from the 2004 CD album "Some Of" by John Castellain

Quanbo

First track from my new collaborative project "Hosana" with Scott Carruthers of Northern Heirs, featuring Nicole Yoshimura on Violin!

Hosana

Gurz

Update 2/15/20 - Another year down... another lesson in humility,  always next year!  

https://hofa-contest.com/song/3738/

Welcome to what looks to be my the last competition for 2019.   HOFA is hosting its annual Christmas mixing competition.   When I got the invite a few days ago I took a listen and was like.....ugggghhhh!!!  An "a cappella" which puts me in my weakest spot for a starting position.  

The human voice when on a piece of music, ends up being one of the most important/relatable parts of the piece.  A great vocal performance can prop up a band... but it very seldom works the other way around.  

It's been one of the more challenging things for me to mix properly.  Here is the 2019 HOFA competition and the only thing on it, VOICES!!.  Challenge accepted HOFA and here is where I ended up brothers and sisters.  

The competition closes out in January so still plenty of time to get into the competition if you want to have some fun....working the faders.  I mean common what else could be more fun?....(blushes)  Really people, such dirty minds!!  haha

https://hofa-contest.com/

Happy Holidays brothers and sisters

Special thanks to Bill from November Sound( https://soundcloud.com/november-love-680008043 ) for being an advisor on the project... Big thank you for this and all your support in 2019. 

On a slight comedic note to one of our own:  Sunnidayz always mentions not being a techie...  If you get here sister.... I fought my production rig for 3 hours this morning to print the final mix and master...  Had everything set last night... wanted to sleep on it before finalizing.  This morning bam..kerchunk..bzzzt....with every session crash... I was reminded of those things you mention, about it getting in the way!  Three hours of fighting for 20 minutes worth of work!!

Let There Be Snow

Competition - Let There Be Snow - HOFA 2019  Mixing competition

Cold Waters

Brighter Days

Blues instrumental. All musical instruments - LeoMResnik

Deepsea diver's blues

Ramblin Fever

All Instruments By Martin Reed,
Produced By Martin Reed.

Big Muffs

Losing Light

Wishing everyone a happy holiday season.  Be warm, be safe and be smart

It's The Little Things

Here's a little something that you can use for collaboration! 
It's a simple and free tempo handpan track :) 
You can download it and if you feel like doing something with it, let me know and I'll add to the Playlist "Divagações" <3 https://soundcloud.com/joaomsousa/sets/divagacoes-open-collaboration

Scale:
D (Ding) central note
A, Bb, C, D, Eb, F#, G, A (other notes)

Divagação

Youtube

Divagação | 𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯

I am known for my guitar work, but am in actuality a multi instrumentalist playing (as well as guitar) keys,drums,bass,brass,found objects and percussion.I have worked within the music industry for many decades and have played in Australia and the United Kingdom sharing the stage with many international players including Steve Vai,David Lee Roth,and many more.I am also a record producer with around 100 releases for many artists including my own solo efforts & bands from the USA,Holland,New Zealand,Italy,Africa,UK,Australia to name but a few.I enjoy most musical genres and constantly produce differing styles.I  encourage you to listen to some of my work as there is something for everyone in the tracks I'm constantly putting up.Thanks for listening :)