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STRANGE BALANCES AND MIDNIGHT REFLECTIONS

sonic-attack Ancients EP. Ambient in all its glory

Ancient

Abydos

03 - Abydos

Wow! What can someone say. If anyone of you really takes the time to read my crap (thanks i appreciate) probably knows, that i had quite some troubles with inspiration and really felt like i over exceeded myself and my artistic vessel in 2k20....

So i really kept sticking more to listening and later on i had to take a complete break, step a bit back and i got to admit that i really enjoyed the off time. I was completely away from and with music, as i couldn't keep up with this intense pace and i simply wasn't able to draw any more out of that fragile "bucket" so to say.

I am really into Collaborating this year, so i put aside my (plenty of) projects and as i really befriended a few of you amazing artists out there, i got to admit, that it was (no offense towards any other closer friends here) the biggest impact for me, when my dear @texmex-shaman suddenly sent me this first raw version of the first third of what i can present to you today.....

It took me quite some time to get into it, but then it evolved, it grew into this wonderful thing here and i think it cured me... kinda... After busy months and going (wild again) with the arts for the cover to try to also convey the feeling into an image to show it to you, my fellow soundcloud friends and all other people....

..., it guided me to the point where i can now say "Here we are. This is it for me, after a long break to be able to upload again something where i put so much love and creativity and musical spirit into"...... This is also a declaration of love to Jim Morrison and his Spiritualty and his Native American Spirit......

Thank you for staying here with me my friends and its always so great to experience all this and this community and passion and love for music and so much more!

Truly yours,
Cmd. SF

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@texmex-shaman - Guitars, more Guitars, Base, Sitar, Various FX, Drums, Shamanic Rituals
@steve-fullyard - B3, Synths, Flute, Various FX, Vox, Field Recordings, and other weird stuff to hopefully entertain you!
Night Owl - Vox  (thank you my love!!)
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Thanks to TMS for going all this long way with me, and being so patient and uplifting and a real friend and man u know that i praise you from the bottom of my heart for being such a wonderful person, you resonate so deep brother. Thanks!

Way Out Here ft. Night Owl - collab with TexMex Shaman

NoxBright

Indeed

Hello Folks!

Been quite some time, but being slow, doesn't gladly result in no productivity at all. Haha! After my Collab with @texmex-shaman (thanks again brother for this awesome experience), i was rummaging unfinished projects and thought about "whats next?". I found plenty of stuff which craves for my attention, but too close on the timeline with our first summer vacation at my parents in laws place.

So i came to the usual little drill , like "What equipment will i take with me" ,  "How will it be?" (in terms of my usual unique work and creativity flow) , and "Will i be able to do anything in the usual FY style at all?"...... turns out it was a fast super week there with a lot of various ventures, activities and wonderful weather!

I also used the possibility a few times to take the chosen stuff (i did go for the minimal setup as minimal can be) out in the garden, sat down summerstyle with a cold alc-free Radler and just worked in my DAW with self-built synths and a Studio One "Impact XT" drum preset which i manipulated and bent into the way i wanted it to be. Comparable with the first track you build in the Andrew Huang course, i went full electronic and after that week i had like 90% of it!! 

I have to thank my dear friend TexMex Shaman who did pre-listen ALOT and also encouraged me to build that intro (which took me quite a while to find the right samples, shape them and do some automations and stereo field sweeps - awesome process to push myself into this).

Going mad with the Visual was also predictable... most of you who know me by now, would've expected that, i guess? I love that process, like you have that music and it creates an audible image in your brain, but adding something as close as you want it to look like with a cover, is a complete different and somewhat relaxing process to me. 3 weeks of alot of work and manipulations. So much new stuff i did learn!

I want to thank big big time Chris Ainsworth on Flickr to give me the permission to manipulate his wonderful pic of an restorated "Tron" Arcade Machine!! (https://www.flickr.com/photos/53643381@N00/)

We're soon at the end of this summer and 2021 feels already passing way too fast and there is so much music to listen and also to continue working on. 

Love this SC community! Thanks for being out there and all this exchange!

Yours,
CMD SF

PS: If your'e interested, i start sharing the hq arts on my google drive for those who want to see more detail to the "vision" of my creation here!

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1IwcIXWLFPQtvPHYCKoOLpmme0Px0fzMh?usp=sharing

Thunder Runner

Composé, réalisé par Jacques Lemaire alias idematoa, Août/Septembre 2021 via Studio One.
Free Download : https://idematoa.bandcamp.com/track/au-fil-de-leau-part-1

Au fil de l'eau : " Expression venant du mot latin filium utilisée dès l'Antiquité pour caractériser le caractère aléatoire d'une décision qui, portée tranquillement par le courant, peut amener à un échec ou à une réussite. De nos jours, cette dernière partie d'expression a été un peu oubliée. "


- BS - Eduardo Tarilonte  - Era 2
- Orchestral Tools - Arkhis
- Orchestral Tools - Layers
- Spitfire Audio - Albion Solstice
- Spitfire Audio - BBC Symphony Orchestra Pro
- Spitfire Audio - Albion One
- Spitfire Audio - Symphonic Motions
- Spitfire Audio - LABS - Synth Strings
- Spitfire Audio - Eric Whitacre Choir
- Spitfire Audio - Albion Neo
- Spitfire Audio - Contemporary Drama Toolkit
- Spitfire Audio - Originals Cinematic Pads
- Spitfire Audio - Olafur Arnalds Composer Toolkit
- Spitfire Audio - Spitfire Studio Strings
- Spitfire Audio - Spitfire Studio Woodwinds

Au Fil De L'Eau - Part 1

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Commander Fullyard was cruising through the Peep Durple system when the voice of Admiral Krank came in over the radio. It had to be done. One Colonel Hardy had turned renegade, establishing his own fiefdom among the Simmippians. According to the highly classified intelligence wire, Hardy had committed the highest crimes against groove, outlawing shuffle beats of all kinds and limiting musical expression to tonedeaf folk music. 

And now the swampy assignment: Operation Mango Wood. Hardy must be brought to justice or eliminated immediately. Was there any way out of it? Were there not several other officers capable of carrying it out? Didn’t Krank owe him a favor or two? Did the Commander need to remind the Admiral of how he came to his rescue in Operation Bass Guitar Part Rearrangement? Nothing doing. These orders came directly from Her Majesty Herself. She wanted- nay, demanded- that Commander Fullyard do the job. 


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I thank the Admiral for this opportunity! I, Cmd. Fullyard, fully obeying his will from now on, accepted the new supreme command in regards to any further additional space missions satisfying the highly royal needs of her Majesty! May she survive us all and may her burial chamber-like sten... ermmm sme... errrrmmmmm ..... FRAGRANCE never dissipate!

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(Operation) Mango Wood

Its hot and wet in the jungle, tonight
Laser axe hummin', red glowing, ready to bite

Mango Woood, Mango Wooood, Mango Woooooooooooood

A royal spacesuit soaked and boiling
Swampy assignment, highly annoying

Mango Woood, Mango Wooood, Mango Woooooooooooood


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This one was a real journey and along with the other collab i did with the mighty @texmex-shaman. The Admiral (@user-766619428) sent me the base and groovy drum pattern long long ago, early 2021, and it took quite some time to find the initial spark to go mad, but then it was a real blast. Kinda started sampling the whole thing and deformed it into something i never thought it would sound like. Recorded some stuff in the flat  (little child drum, etc.) and refined some axe-chops from our woodwork session early in 2021 along with some VOX and other little space pixie dust, b3 vst and synths. Later on he added the amazing guitars and additional fx - me finally trying to squeeze everything into the mix. Thank you so much for doing this with me. I hope this will be not the last one!

I also want to give credit to my parents in law and my love, which were so supportive in finding the right place for the shoot and helping me with my artistic vision to come true. This was quite a wild ride and it couldn't have been done all by myself! (That little forest fishpond was cold af... haha)

Thanks for the community for all that support and wonderful comments and reposts, likes and such. We are a real great "family" and i am glad to have you all!

Cheers,
CMD. SF

(Operation) Mango Wood - Collab with Admiral Krank and His Mighty Band of Spacemen

dave and chris magsam original boogieman holloween jam

holloween boogie

in an orbital mood

art by xresch: https://pixabay.com/illustrations/software-development-virtual-3682509/

Fishbowl Thinking

Hyperspace Transfer Protocol

hyperspace transfer protocol

What Dreams May Come

LADY MADNNA vossa cover.

Cant Stop the Lunatic Series, Biiig Thanks to my friends Joerxworx and Mike Polcari, so good to have you here on SC
https://soundcloud.com/mikepolcari
https://soundcloud.com/joerxworx

Lunatics 53/Wake Up With Sally

Lunatics 53/Wake Up With Sally/ Mike Polcari, Joerxworx&Ratzzz

7am on a spring morning at Blessington Lakes in County Wicklow and all was still, suddenly i heard the most amazing sound that broke the silence, 2 amazing white swans flew out of the mist with such gracefulness and power it took my breath away,  i wrote this song to try and capture the beauty and style of these amazing birds. 
this is my fist ever instrumental . I hope you like it. Johnny

Swans in Flight

So far but yet so close
measured in distance but not in heart
#see you in our Stars

Away From Me

Sakawa Boys

"Wave" is one of the most famous Bossa nova songs composed of great Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Jobim and the title song of his fifths studio album  published in 1967.
I tried to created an other new interpretation of the piece. Hope you enjoy !

WAVE  Tom Jobim

Wow!

Doing this with https://soundcloud.com/florian-luethi-59518579 really managed to create very uncomfy feelings in the first place..... I am very afar from the point where i would call myself a Keyboardplayer or a "Keyboardist", but that is something i really want to achieve some day. Then there is this Swiss Army Knive of a man, playing in a Band, playing in a Bigband, reinventing old classics, playing the Keys like a young god - how can you keep up with someone like him.

He sent me the first stem back then , i think in April 2021... and said that he want it to be our thing. There was a  toiletpaperroll kind of instructions which came along with it and music sheets which i really cannot read. Thank you, goddamn! AHahahah.  It is also slow, has various changes in timing and there is also a short variation in a part with a bpm change. 

Adding this into my DAW and setting it up was one thing, finding the right key to jam along with it and trying to go JAZZ was a complete different take. Holy SH*T. 

I prelistened alot this two milestone versions out there:
Thelonious Monk Quartet - 'Round Midnight -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yg7aZpIXRI and
Miles Davis Quintet - 'Round Midnight - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIgLt7LAZF0, and while doing so, i felt terrible feeble and developed some slight depression torwards the thing which Mr. Lüthi sent me. I was flatterned, that he thought i can keep up with something like that, but also frightened AF.

So i did listen to his version and i simply was not able to do it. I gladly was able to work on any music, but going 42 BPM, sorry, i fucking started going idle ... so slooooooooooow!!! (Remember : Dawn of Damn is 160 bpm - so this track here is a bout 4 times slower). After many months i finally set everything up and for another few months tried to play something to it - progress about to be aligned with those BPM hahah....

Late but nevertheless, the inspiration finally came and while i tried to line up with this jazzy thing, Florian wanted the FY - Mojo and Crazyness, so he completely changed the whole base for the song and bam bam bam - boomarang!! We both hope that you enjoy this new version of a classic which has been re-issued about 2000 times! We are pretty confident, that this version is quite different... :)

Thank you Florian for the possibility to do this with you and all your patience, your super cool uplifting attitude and positive and constructive critic! Also pretty happy, that he allowed me to collaborate with his unique drawing style. I really tried to adapt and went full drawing mode this time! This was so much fun!

All the best to all of you and a great 2k22 !
Yours,
CMD FY

FL: Base, Sub, Guitar, Beerbottle-Organ, Guitar FX, Drums, Pads, Coda and the THEREMIN!
FY: Trumpets, B3, Music-Box, Wolf-Keeper, Forest-Ambiance, Mix, Master

Check out this absolutely wonderful short video of the German Shepherd "Jedi" - who is kinda going nuts while listening to this one! -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfSLrQv_Tlc

'Round Midnight

'Round Midnight - Collab with Florian Lüthi

Error Call Hybrid Trap\Dubstep special experience Sound design By Egyptian Ground Music - { E.G.M}- Beat Maker @magdi-nabil
Free Download 2022

Magdi Nabil - Strange Phone Calls - Number

I AM HONORED TO HAVE DONE THIS BEAUTIFUL COLLAB (OUR FIRST AND NOT THE LAST) WITH THE GREAT JOHN PALMER https://soundcloud.com/john-palmer WHO I HAVE ADMIRED FOR A VERY LONG TIME AND THE TIMING WAS FINALLY RIGHT FOR US TO CREATE SOME MAGIC TOGETHER.  JOHN'S SILKY SMOOTH AND ON POINT VOCALS SIMPLY SHINE (I MADE CERTAIN THEY WERE THE FOCAL POINT) IN THIS TUNE.  THE MOTIVATION FOR THIS TUNE WAS ME PURGING SOME REAL DEMONS IN MY LIFE AND MOVING ON FROM THOSE WHO REALLY DO NOT HAVE MY BEST INTERESTS IN MIND AND WHO I REALIZED ARE ACTUALLY VERY SELF ABSORBED.  SO, THIS IS A CLEASING TUNE FOR ME.  I ASKED JOHN TO LAY DOWN SOME VOCALS BECAUSE I KNEW WHATEVER HE CAME UP WITH WOULD SIMPLY WORK, I NEVER HAD ANY DOUBT.  THIS IS THE KIND OF TUNE THAT YOU CAN HIT REPEAT TEN TIMES, LAY ON THE COUCH, AND FADE AWAY WITH A GOOD DRINK, A GOOD SMOKE, OR JUST BE WITH YOUR THOUGHTS, OR SIMPLY NONE AT ALL,,,BIG LOVE TO ALL AND THANK YOU JOHN, I AM HONORED TO HAVE COMPLETED THIS TUNE WITH YOU MY FRIEND.
VOCALS/SYNTH-JOHN PALMER https://soundcloud.com/john-palmer
PRODUCTION-ROOTS DUBMAN

REFLECTIONS NEVER LIE / ROOTS DUBMAN & JOHN PALMER

You need balance they say.
I curse the skies that turn to grey.
Far off where the sunset meets the sea
balance there was and balance there shall be.
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Here is an acoustic track from our EP "Centurions"
This album features voice, piano and cajon. (plus ... a few other real instruments on other tracks) 

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Mastered by Tainted Icarus https://soundcloud.com/taintedicarus
We highly recommend him if you need mastering help. Be sure to follow him on soundcloud. He is a great musician and a great guy!
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You need balance they say.
I curse the skies that turn to grey.
Far off where the sunset meets the sea
balance there was and balance there shall be.

We only need one wheel.
The smallest spark can start a flame.
We don't need any brakes
when we're driving insane.
Oh we're already gone.
No, it didn’t take long.
It's only one wheel. Only one wheel.

Bills note:
This EP and especially this song has been very difficult to put together. Yes, we wanted to release this in November but it just wouldn't happen. I tried but I'm a miserable failure.
Thank you Jeff for putting up with me ... again.
Melissa was able to make the melody work. She changed it from what I originally created and I'm glad for that! The result is quite good.
This is all real music and sounds quite similar to what someone could hear at the majority of our gigs these days.
We find ourselves doing quieter acoustic kind of shows, but hey, that's not a bad thing is it?
 (By the way - I really have no patience for people who put "helpful" comments about the sound of the kick drum or the snare or the synth sounds I used. THERE ARE NONE! It is just a piano, a voice and a cajon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caj%C3%B3n That's all.)
Will is my right hand man. Hopefully you can hear the interplay between the piano and the percussion. To me, his percussion playing really adds a cathartic energy as the piece goes on.
Okay.
Enough of the rant.
I hope you enjoy the music.
If you've actually read this far then God bless you! You are truly the most important people in the world to us.
Imagine a small family living in the woods of New England making music that people all over the world listen to? since 2014 ... how cool is that?
Cheers,
Bill from NS

Balance

Hafro is the fresh single taken off Nomadic Orchestra's forthcoming 'Love At Last' LP being released on NO RECORD LABEL.



Hafro

Rio- Composed By Roberto Menescal

Songster version was a little ‘copla’ about not being able to be with, nor without, a loved person.  As usual, I’ve ‘upgraded’ it, process from which you only get the final result, normally. 

But, following lyrics’ contradictions, I not only serve parts with different levels of (dis)order in heavy rock - flamenco sauce, but raw vs very cooked parts as well, starting with the improvised phone recording of the very first idea I had to develop the song, so please excuse my failures and noises.

Letra  /  Translated lyrics:

Te veo venir (No te vuelvas a ir)  /  I know where you're coming from (Don’t you leave again)

Te veo venir,                                                 /  I know where you're coming from,
cuando vienes con esa carita de pena,        /  when you come with that sweet sad face,
te veo venir,                                                  /  I know where you're coming from,
cuando vienes llorando sin que te duela,     /  when you come crying without any pain,

te veo venir (x3)                                            /  I know where you're coming from, (x3)

Te veo venir,                                                 /  I know where you're coming from,
cuando dices que quieres hablar conmigo,  /  when you say that you want to talk to me,
te veo venir,                                                  /  I know where you're coming from,
cuando quieres estar al lado mío,                /  when you want to be by my side,

te veo venir (x3)                                           /  I know where you're coming from, (x3)

Te veo venir,                                                 /  I know where you're coming from,
cuando vienes con esa carita de pilla,          /  when you come with that sweet sly face,
te veo venir,                                                  /  I know where you're coming from,
cuando vienes con esa sonrisa, chiquilla,    /  when you come with that smile, little girl,

te veo venir (x3)                                            /  I know where you're coming from, (x3)

ER33FI03 RUIZZO©1996 – FRANCÉS RECORDS®2016


Factor Integrante

Te veo venir (No te vuelvas a ir)

Pic: When I first heard the Sex Pistols I set my music system on fire.

Published on SC [DATE]

In the comfort of your own mind

Resilience

Hi, My name is Johnny Mc Farlane, I am an Indie songwriter from Ireland. I write, play, produce and distribute my own music. I try to write songs that will mean something to whoever may be listening. I try to express feeling and emotions through my music, I try to hit the heart and soul of whoever may be listening and to pass on my feelings through my lyrics and my music. A lot of the songs I write come from Personal experiences, some are pure imagination, but all try to carry a message of Hope, Fait, understanding and a spiritual message of love. I am just one voice in the wilderness but together we are stronger. Thank you so much for listening to my music. It’s a real honour.

Swans in Flight

No killie fish