Started to tear up hearing this, remembering Michel, also my dad had it on 78 when I was a kid, Les Paul & Mary Ford.......Heaven....thanks Brother

A favorite- pure class, Martin & Julien! How

Beautiful you too- top notch, enjoyed so much...xx

such a classic - crooning Martin!  Love the choice ... again... Julien

RIP Michel - you have taken us all over the moon with your beautiful clarinet playing

this is such a classic J and Martin.  So sad to have lost Michel and his sweet sweet clarinet

A Smooth Rendezvous (Edit: Mastered with Ozone on October 5, 2023)

I am not a professional and I have been very lucky and blessed to have been able to play music using so wonderful instruments as I have in all these songs. With them I have been able to try to mimic or recreate something that once was, something that could be and is "out there"; something that is so clearly and vividly expressed in the music genre often called "smooth jazz" - and in fact in the whole genre of "classical music". So I have wanted to try to demonstrate these amazing instruments, how I love them all and also how I feel playing them. This track maybe conveys some of that affection and the feelings to You and I hope this maybe would bring some joy or happiness to You, even for a brief moment.  

A minor partly improvised "song" (or maybe a basis for improvising) that also demonstrates once again the richness, beauty and potential of the Rhodes electric piano (which to me is maybe one of the world's most beautiful instruments) and hence also the Scarbee EP-88S. This was played by me with my old loyal workhorse Korg SGProX digital piano using the following sounds: 
- Scarbee EP-88S (Rhodes Mk I electric piano),
- Bass and Lead: Lounge Lizard EP-4/Insomnia sound pack,
- Strings: UVI Orchestral Suite/All String Ensemble Vel.

The drums and drum grooves come from Native Instruments Abbey Road 80s Drummer (with some adjustments and additions made by me and with a LinnDrum snare layer added with the UVI Drum Replacer).

Sorry about the large quantity of drum fills... I am an ex drummer (the quality of the fills of course is astounding bc they are from the 80s Drummer). I also am not a jazz musician so the lead lines in this piece truly are not very sophisticated; instead I tried to concentrate on the chords and chord progressions.

This track was inspired especially e.g. by 1) Mr. Bill Evans' song "We Will Meet Again"; 2) by my great hero Mr. Jeff Porcaro, who could easily record this kind of a drum track at one take (using his right-hand sixteenth-note hi-hat); 3) by Mr. Chris Rea's song "The Mention of Your Name" and 4) by a relatively large bunch of popular and classical music and jazz. Of course also everything Mr. Robbie Buchanan does and plays keeps inspiring me continuously.

A Smooth Rendezvous

''Presence is felt''
Written, recorded and published by Tom Nied (Tomasz Niedzialkowski) on 15th April 2023.
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Presence is felt

A Gravidade do Juízo

Dawn

Video

'Was It Something I Said' is a Scots Celtic influenced Ambient Piece. For those quieter listening moments.

Or Is It All An Illusion

Was It Something I Said

The indoctrination of the masses, the manipulation of information, sowing chaos, wars and misery.

Notturno   ☆:*´¨`*

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We don't have much - Niewiele Mamy - Short 2013 - 2023

Bring It Back.

Suchet jetzt die Tage so zu färben,
Der Moment hält seine Farbe treu,
Dass, wenn nach und nach die Freuden sterben,
Bleibender Genuss im Rückblick sei.
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Seek now to color the days so,
The moment holds its color true,
That when the joys gradually die,
Lasting pleasure in retrospect be.
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While composing the song, it occurred to me: "What if you opened this door to this room from outside, where you have lived, worked and pondered for years, and you met yourself? See yourself sitting on this leather chair in front of the desk." Would you tap yourself on the shoulder and ask: "Are you awake?" The middle part of the song is about this absurd idea... Locking the door again, he continues to work at the wooden desk, oblivious to everything around him. Sometimes he looks at the window and thinks: "What was that just now?" Trapped in the room, feeling safe, but alone, wallowing in thoughts and memories. Until the day dawns...

Chamber Of Rememberance

And you wanna say, but you wanna know
Everything I am, inside my soul
Am I full of shit, I don't really know
All I really know is I'm original
And you wanna be kinda like me
Do you wanna know how I did it though
You gotta spend some time in your fucking mind
'Til you're fucking minds and out your fucking mind
Are you getting mad cuz I operate
In a different way than you want me to
Are you fucking glad I don't penetrate
Every mind of the kind you make weak and blind

We don't care
We Undermine your lies with our underlying guise
We won't bear
Your burdening defies our need to stay alive

And now your narrative is fucking crumbling
and your former sheep are now grumbling
And your humbled by the mumbling
Of the people you keep in the dark and underneath
And they're gonna know what you don't want them to
We aren't really free unless we're slaves to you
Until we break the chains until we free our minds
From the ones who remain dumb lost weak and blind
They try to throw it all put us all away 
Like we're a detriment to society
Only trouble is they can't facilitate
The making of a mind as strong as mine into a paper plate

We don't care
We Undermine your lies with our underlying guise
We won't bear
Your burdening defies our need to stay alive

We Don't Care

I'm very glad to hear on this jazz standard the great vocals of Martin https://soundcloud.com/ver2xif and the awesome clarinet playing of Michel https://soundcloud.com/michel-martineau.
It looks we were very laid back to play this moderate swing with a lot of fun. We hope you enjoy.
Thank you for your time listening, your shares and your comments.

Vocals: Martin Jones https://soundcloud.com/ver2xif
Clarinet: Michel Martineau https://soundcloud.com/michel-martineau
Piano, drum programming and upright bass (on keys): Julien Apelian https://soundcloud.com/jules-keys-1 

Fly Me To The Moon - Martin Jones (Ver2Xif), Michel Martineau and Julien Apelian

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Music is a passion, i'm keyboardist and love to play some guitar, bass and drums as well.
Compositions, recording, mixing and mastering at Audio Colors Studio.

Fly Me To The Moon - Martin Jones (Ver2Xif), Michel Martineau and Julien Apelian

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