This is a track about sorrow played on one guitar. I looped the initial chord progression and jammed over that with the Flashbackx4. I stacked two delays on top of each other with different rythms to create depth and added the plate reverb from the Strymon Big Sky for Ambient hugeness. 

Check out our Promo video for the EP on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA0aMNJSoLM

Link to the Youtube cinematic version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOloXlGwXIg

Artwork by Philip Holmes https://www.facebook.com/philip.e.holmes

Enjoy!
Tulipanaros

Love on Repeat

Sorrow

Sorrow (Promo version)

An Ambient Guitar track using the Boss RC300 Loop Station and Strymon Big Sky Reverb. Check out our Promo video for the EP on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA0aMNJSoLM

Love on Repeat EP

Love On Repeat (Promo version)

This track is inspired by the second Blade Runner film. Like the Blade Runner soundtracks it is dark, foreboding and prophetic but has intimate and delicate parts as well. I often look to the music of Hans Zimmer for inspiration and also from the original soundtrack for the first Blade Runner film by Vangelis. 

"So it goes" gets its title from the novel Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut as the hopelessness of that line in the book reminds me of the message of Blade Runner. Humans could be doomed to invent themselves out of existence.

This track is ambient (bordering on dark ambient) music played on a variety of analog and digital synthesizers.  Among them the ARP Odyssey and Korg Volcas and Electribe 2. 

Enjoy!
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So It Goes (Music inspired by the Blade Runner films and novel)

Another jam with my Model D, Arp Odyssey, Volca Kick and SQ-1. If Hal could play the blues this is what it would sound like.

Enjoy!

Blues For Hal

I tried to evoke a feeling of being far away from Everything, of floating, of weightlessness. 
I used two Korg Sq-1 sequencers, an Arp Odyssey, a Boog Model D and a Behringer Neutron and a Volca Kick for this jam. Mixed on a Zoom R24 using onboard effects.

Enjoy this ponderous track.

Far Away

Ambient downtempo jam using the Korg Electribe drums and piano, Volca FM for lead solos and Roland D05 for ambient pads! Mixed in Reaper. Artwork Creative Commons. Enjoy!

Neon Saturn

This track is a mix of hardware and software. All the synths are software. I used the Moog Model 15 IPad synth, the FM Player synth and Garageband's Alchemy synth. I I sequenced the synths one by one with my Sq-1 sequencer set to random mode and then mixed the four "performances". This is probably the most random and 'generative' of my tracks so far. Enjoy! :)

Between The Ocean And The Sky

A jazzy reggae style jam using the Electribe 2 for drums and bass and solo synth, the Roland D05 for dreamy bell arpeggios, The Volca Fm for organ pads and a fender strat played through a Strymon Big sky for solo guitar. Artwork creative commons:https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/view-image.php?image=153239&picture=blue-purple-smoke

The Little Extra Things

I connected my Roland D-05 to my Ipad via an IConnectivity soundcard for midi and used the app Nodebeat to generate random/generative notes to send to the D-05. Artwork under CC license: Reference link: https://www.goodfreephotos.com/nepal/other/everest-base-camp-under-snow-nepal.jpg.php

Ice and bells

This an ambient jam played on my Ipad using Nodebeat to randomly within a scale play chords on an external synth. I also used the Moog Model 15 Ipad synth and the Roland D-05 as the external synth. I was aiming to capture a sense of harmony and levitation.

Once More

I used my Volca Fm and the Korg Sq1 sequencer to record three layers of random notes in C minor to create this ambient soundscape.

Bird's Eye View

This is a 1 minutte demo of the Skyspeaker. The full track can be found on Bandcamp. See link in presentation. Release date coming soon! Enjoy!

Artwork: Creative commons: https://pixabay.com/photos/sky-clouds-sunlight-dark-690293/

Skyspeaker Demo

My latest jam using the Korg Arp Odyssey, the MS-20 mini and the Electribe. The title is taken from William Faulkner's novel The Sound and the Fury. Full version available on Bandcamp soon! Enjoy!

Artwork Creative commons:
https://pixabay.com/photos/mausoleum-isenbüttel-gothic-ivy-4028526/

The Mausoleum Of All Hope And Desire Demo

I used a patch I made a year ago on my Roland D-05 that has slowly evolving notes with the filter opening up over time to create the soundscape and the Arturia Microfreak to play short random tones. I used the Ipad app Nodebeat to generate random notes on both synths. Enjoy!

Stillness

I used an Arp Odyssey, Arturia Microfreak, Korg Sq-1, Behringer Neutron and my new Eurorack system to create this soundscape/ambient melodious loop. Enjoy!

Artwork Creative Commons: https://pxhere.com/en/photo/876927

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Check Spotify and Bandcamp for my most up to date releases. I don't update this page and check on it infrequently. The songs here on Soundcloud are mainly jams and work in progress songs as well as some released music. Ambient modular synthesizer music adn ambient electric guitar.

Banner and main icon artwork by Philip Elvin Holmes. 
https://www.instagram.com/philipholmes/

Cheers,
John Reidar Holmes

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