Dude.... are you playing all the instruments on this...?  Awesome all around.

Cigars & Whiskey

Don't look for a message in this track – there isn't one. 

But I do think this is a first for me: 120bpm, that ubiquitous default tempo which I usually go out of my way to avoid.
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So this one's all about the groove, and for those unfamiliar with the concept (and who would like to find out why trying to turn music into language is often a fruitless undertaking)...

UK musicologist Richard Middleton (1999) notes that while "the concept of groove" has "long [been] familiar in musicians' own usage", musicologists and theorists have only more recently begun to analyze this concept. Middleton states that a groove "... marks an understanding of rhythmic patterning that underlies its role in producing the characteristic rhythmic 'feel' of a piece." He notes that the "feel created by a repeating framework" is also modified with variations. 

Turry and Aigen cite Feld's definition of groove as "an intuitive sense of style as process, a perception of a cycle in motion, a form or organizing pattern being revealed, a recurrent clustering of elements through time." Aigen states that "when [a] groove is established among players, the musical whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts, enabling a person […] to experience something beyond himself which he[/she] cannot create alone (Aigen 2002, p.34)." 

Jeff Pressing's 2002 article claimed that a "groove or feel" is "a cognitive temporal phenomenon emerging from one or more carefully aligned concurrent rhythmic patterns, characterized by...perception of recurring pulses, and subdivision of structure in such pulses,...perception of a cycle of time, of length 2 or more pulses, enabling identification of cycle locations, and...effectiveness of engaging synchronizing body responses (e.g. dance, foot-tapping)". 

Neuroscientific perspectives:

The "groove" has been cited as an example of sensory-motor coupling between neural systems. Sensory-motor coupling is the coupling or integration of the sensory system and motor system. Sensorimotor integration is not a static process. For a given stimulus, there is no one single motor command. "Neural responses at almost every stage of a sensorimotor pathway are modified at short and long timescales by biophysical and synaptic processes, recurrent and feedback connections, and learning, as well as many other internal and external variables".

Courtesy of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groove_(music)

Going Deeper

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431 - Dream Catcher

This is another track  I've added to a compilation album I've put together of all my best bits over the past two years called 'Soul Lounge' . This new solo fender rhodes keys track takes the the album track listing to twenty three :)

If you fancy a listen to the other tracks, or if you feel the love, you can buy a CD sound quality copy from - https://markyd1.bandcamp.com/track/crystal-silence or the whole album here http://markyd1.bandcamp.com/album/soul-lounge

Artwork c/o http://www.loungemasters.org/

436 - Crystal Silence from Soul Lounge

450 - Haven

507 - Quiet Nights

"A Blue Night" by falcon

That night
When they said they were leaving!

New video for "A Blue Night" is now live on YouTube! Get it here; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1f4N_GmEsw&t=3s

A Blue Night

Art Expressed in Music – Renoir's Charm
February 2024
Duration: 3:00
Listen to the Playlist: soundcloud.com/bruce-klepper-1/sets/art-expressed-in-music-i
Painting: Luncheon of the Boating Party 
Remix of “Afternoon in Paris” by John Lewis with original composition 
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (February 25, 1841 to December 3, 1919) was a French painter originally associated with the Impressionist movement. His early works were typically Impressionist snapshots of real life, full of sparkling color and light. By the mid-1880s, however, he had broken with the movement to apply a more disciplined, formal technique to portraits and figure paintings, particularly of women. Renoir mastered the ability to convey his immediate visual impressions, and his paintings showed great vitality, emphasizing the pleasures of life despite the financial worries that troubled him. Several of his masterpieces date from this period including Luncheon of the Boating Party.  Renoir had his first attack of rheumatism in 1894, and, as the attacks became more and more frequent, he spent more and more time in southern France, where the climate was better for his health. About 1899 he sought refuge in the small village of Cagnes; in 1907 he settled there permanently, buying the estate of Les Collettes, where he spent the rest of his life. In 1910 he was no longer able to walk. Although his infirmity became more and more constraining, Renoir never ceased to paint; when his fingers were no longer supple, he continued by binding his paintbrush to his hand.  Several months before his death, Renoir was able to go to Paris, where several friends wheeled him for the last time through the Louvre to view the masterpieces that he had venerated throughout his life. Renoir died in Cagnes-sur-Mer on December 3, 1919 at the age of 78.
For strings, piano, harp, accordion, clarinet, alto flute, sound effects and percussion.

Art Expressed in Music - Renoir's Charm

If it were me, I’d ask you how your day has gone
If it were me, I’d listen as you carried on
And I would cherish all you say and do,
You’d tell me all your dreams,
I would make them all come true

And every day I’d tell you that you’re beautiful
Like how your eyes sparkle when you smile
And you should   know, for the first time in my life
 How I feel alive, and you were right here all the while
 
If it were me, you’re longing for

His love for you is fleeting and untrue
 A flash in the pan; he’ll soon disappear
And when you’re blue, i’ll be here for you
 Like I will be throughout the years
 
But it’s not me, I’m not the one your heart beats for
 Hard as I try, I’ll never be who you adore
And is that fair? Am I destined just to be
A friend that’s by your side
 While I keep it all inside?
‘cause it’s not me you’re longing for
A shoulder for your tears
A smile to ease  your fears
  That’s all I’ll ever be

if it were me

Art Expressed in Music – Picasso's Brilliance
March 2024
Duration: 3:05
Listen to the Playlist: soundcloud.com/bruce-klepper-1/sets/art-expressed-in-music-i
Painting: Les Demoiselles d’Avignon 
John-Marc Ventimiglia: jagged shards sound effects 
Visit: @john-marc-ventimiglia
Pablo Picasso (October 25, 1881 to April 8, 1973) was a Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most-influential artists of the 20th century.  The enormous body of Picasso’s work remains, and the legend lives on—a tribute to the vitality of the “disquieting” Spaniard with the “sombre…piercing” eyes who superstitiously believed that work would keep him alive.  Picasso's output, especially in his early career, is often periodized.  The most commonly accepted periods in his work are the Blue Period (1901–1904), the Rose Period (1904–1906), the African-influenced Period (1907–1909), Analytic Cubism (1909–1912), Synthetic Cubism (1912–1919), Neoclassicism to Surrealism (1921-1937) and Post-War Work (1937 – 1970s).  Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, from his African–influenced period, marks a radical break from traditional composition and perspective in painting. It depicts five naked women composed of flat, splintered planes whose faces were inspired by Iberian sculpture and African masks. The compressed space they inhabit appears to project forward in jagged shards.  Picasso unveiled this monumental painting, that precursors Cubism, in his Paris studio after months of revision.  Picasso said the ethnic primitivism evoked in these masks moved him to "liberate an utterly original artistic style”.  The Avignon of the work’s title is a reference to a street in Barcelona famed for its brothels.  Exceptionally prolific throughout the course of his long life, Picasso achieved universal renown and immense fortune for his revolutionary artistic accomplishments, and became one of the best-known figures in 20th-century art.  Picasso died on April 8, 1973, at the age of 91, from heart failure, reportedly while he and his wife Jacqueline were entertaining friends for dinner.  Considered radical in his work, Picasso continues to garner reverence for his technical mastery, visionary creativity; paralleling the entire development of modern art in the 20th century.
For morin khuur violin, dudek, bansuri, bamboo flute, hecklephone, bassoon, kalimba, marimba, double bass, ethnic percussion and jagged shards sound effects

Art Expressed In Music - Picasso's Brilliance

Zeitenwende

Lyrics;
I didn't ask to be here
But I don't want to leave
They say you won't find Heaven
If you don't believe

I wake up every morning
my body feeling sore
And I still have no idea
what this life is for

Memories crawling forward
From way back in my mind
Like bugs from out of nowhere
That I can't leave behind

I heard the Word as I grew up
But folks would read it differently
Now I don't know who's right or wrong
Guess we'll just have to wait and see

I didn't ask to be here
But I don't want to leave
Can you stumble into Heaven
If you don't believe

See things on the news
Spun and twisted for more views
The misery can sometimes get a bit
much to me

See places that I'll never go
Edited for prime time shows
The hardships and the poverty

They didn't ask to be there
And they can't seem to leave
But can find their way to Heaven
If they just believe

But the world can be so wonderful
So I go outside to get my fill
Of trees and grass and clouds and sky
As raindrops fell before my eyes

And the world can be cold and dark
And lightning's bound to leave a mark
Back to the shelter of my home
Watch through the window till the storm is gone

Too much time I have to think
I feel my feelings start to sink
Those creeping bugs soon return
With ghosts of the past and lessons learned

No, I didn't ask to be here
But I sure don't want to leave
How can anyone find Heaven
If they don't believe?

Bugs

funkyreggaedope...I only realized now that I never posted this track on soundcloud...I'm doing it now I hope you like it...it gets worse day by day.... 

WARRED THE WORLD

Ganesh

Stick two like Led zeppelin House of the holy…

Red Glow

Here's my latest late night jazz offering, hope you like.

286 - Late Night Blue - 320kbps

Hi, I'm a keys player and I like making up grooves to existing jazz and latin standards. Over the last few years I've been mainly working on original numbers.

It's just me in the music you hear, I play all the parts off a keyboard recording in midi and layer up into the finished version.

I started playing the piano as a kid , then took up the trombone and played for fun in various local amateur bands and orchestras. Then at 18 went to college and didn't do anything  musically  for many years. Started playing the saxophone and tuba more recently, and in the last four years or so got back into the keyboard which is now my main instrument.

I like making up jazzy  late night music & music you can listen to when travelling. Sounds like a strange thing but I find the most enjoyable part of a holiday is the travelling part, whether that's on a plane , train or even a car on a quiet road with some nice views. Looking through a window with a changing view, in a bubble of suspended time between two worlds, that's what travelling feels like to me, and I like to write music that sounds that way - http://soundcloud.com/markd54321/361-stolen-moments-320kbps . Can't really explain it any better than that for now. Cheers Mark

507 - Quiet Nights

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