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Requiem for the Stars EX

Miroir Miroir

Christmas music has developed both from cultured music through so-called pastorals and from 
traditional music with Christmas carols.
Christmas versions of my epic and classic songs but ....
nightmare, horror and tension

apocalypse now christmas

7 songs in 7 days, one EP total creativity.
Songs from 2010, remastered never earlier released.

Toast To Our Learnings

dac insomniac + r.s.stropharia - darkspeaker II - live impro-set (15.12.2019)

Really great to finally release this track which evolved into a complicated prog rock beast as we wanted to create a Tool vibe… we hope we achieved it. Lyrics are based on my own battles with inner demons linked with Jungian psychology exploring the id or shadow. Please check out my friend From Sands other fantastic work here @from-sands he is incredibly talented!
Lyrics
I must descend, for me to ascend 
regress to redress, the balance of my broken mind 
the shadow is suspending me from all that I intend to be
diving deep into the well to save the ghosts who dwell, 
I must descend, to bring me back to life
to bring me back to life
I must descend, for me to ascend
now the shadow is suspending me from 
all that I intend to be
sink back down to images of agony 
terror is my mirror 
of fear
suppressing time inside my mind
layers of repression 
testing the possession of the demons I keep inside
intent on override
shadow, my shadow lies over me (rep)
I despise the incubus deep inside, poisoning my soul, crawling inside me
deep down the well

Shadow - From Sands & Skyline Tigers

A LIVE PERFORMANCE !!!

It is with great pleasure that I make a joint release of this performance of Monday's Song by the very talented Liz Dicker @liz-dicker.

Monday's Song is one of the songs in the "Days of the Week" song series that I have released over the last few years.  Sadly, all those releases are of virtual performances.  This is my first live performance release.  

I feel that I have come along way improving my virtual piano performances over the last many years.  I have even very occasionally lulled an unsuspecting listener into thinking it was me playing (if only).  However, there is nothing like a live performance as most clearly demonstrated by this wonderful rendition of the work by Liz.
 
Liz's playing brings the piece to life!  She delivers subtleties and nuances that I could not even imagine.  So I would like to thank Liz again, this time publicly, for this generous gift and for all the delightful compositions and performances of her own that she has posted on soundcloud.  Please go take a listen https://soundcloud.com/liz-dicker.

As always, thank you for listening and hope you enjoy.

Be safe and stay or get healthy!
Christopher

Monday's Song

Monday's Song Performed By Elisabeth Dicker

Performed & Recorded by Matteo Mariano in 2004. http://macrogramma.com
Original cover art by Pietro Puccio (2019). http://www.pietropuccio.it

All that I did not understand, Story of an afternoon and Under Antonio Ceriani / Tutto quello che non ho capito, Storia di un pomeriggio e Sotto Antonio Ceriani

These three songs are constructed in a very similar way, practically recording short guitar patterns and creating loops by re-editing them and processing them with the same outboard. They were also the easiest tracks of the selection to restore as they were kept on multi-track format. All three tracks are directly inspired by Pietro Puccio's paintings. Between the distressing expectation of Under Antonio Ceriani and the lazy and lukewarm pace of the Story of an afternoon, my favorite has always been All that I did not understand, with that mass of unknown emerging from the depths of the canvas and swallowing all the forms and colors.
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Questi tre brani sono costruiti in modo molto simile, in pratica registrando dei brevi pattern di chitarra e creando loop rimaneggiandoli e passandoli dagli stessi macchinari. Sono stati anche i più facili della raccolta da restaurare in quanto tenuti in multi-traccia. Tutti e tre i brani sono ispirati direttamente da dei quadri di Pietro Puccio. Tra l'attesa desolante di Sotto Antonio Ceriani e il pigro e tiepido incedere di Storia di un pomeriggio, il mio preferito è sempre stato Tutto quello che non ho capito, con quella massa di ignoto che emergeva dal fondo della tela e ingoiava le forme e i colori.

from macrogramma volume 2, released September 5, 2019
Performed & Recorded by Matteo Mariano in 2004

macrogramma volume 2

Storia Di Un Pomeriggio

ORAN

I enjoyed hearing this melody on soundcloud and thought to try it out on my accordion.  I had the great good fortune to interest my soundcloud friends Zach and Jore in the tune as well.   Jore added our tracks together to come up with this wonderful version.

Alan Ingall @newshoe   -  accordion
Zach Schneider @zach-schneider-1   -  tin whistle
Jorma Heikkilä  @jorma-heikkil  - arrange, mix, all other instruments

Some other versions
Two concertinas
https://soundcloud.com/concertinist/2mb-xotes-romanes-6-28-20
Two accordions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbwu-YlZ9Rc

Photo: see: https://www.auques.cat/auca.php?auca=gitanes

Xotis Romani - collab Newshoe with Zach and Jore

First off:
I'm still happy I've managed to have recently finished my latest album Fuive, Pt.2. 

THis thing is streamable on spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/0PRPXmD0LXKl5V6tkYTcgF?si=5nMikolYReyXgoRU0vnuGA

Also the thing can be streamed or downloaded on Bandcamp 
https://saschamuhr.bandcamp.com/album/fuive-part-2

Anyway, back to the video at hand. I haven't been posting a lot lately which is due to the score to a small indie-video game I'm working on right now. It's an entry to the itch.io game-off and we had a month to start and finish a game. Besides work, the game and whatever else one has to do I've sadly neglected my social media outlets. While warming up to record some stuff for the game yesterday I made did this little improvisation that I thought would be fitting to the latest improvs.

I've been using the Vigier Shawn Lane Excalibur on this one, going into the 'When the sun explodes' by Beautiful Noise Effects into the BLuguitar Amp1 which goes into the Bluguitar Blubox which then goes straight to the mixer. 

I've got a Mooer A7 in the FX Loop, as well as a 'Shallow Water' by Fairfield Circuitry (prominently featured on the loop) and the Boss DD-20 for the loop

Let me know what you think!

Improvisation_17: Building lydian textures with the Vigier Excalibur on the Bluguitar Amp1

Sound Designer & Composer. Creates instrumental music and soundtracks for film/videos and for art exhibitions.

Storia Di Un Pomeriggio

Macrogramma