This was an interesting track, liked the piano line

Love that skippy beat and bassline with it! =)

ayyeee diss hsit gooin stupiidd frr keep it goinn

Beautiful keys, great drumss would like it to be longer tho

ill be honest..wasnt gonna repost this, melody is MAD infectious tho😂🔥

this jazzy than a mf...love the keys 🔥🔥🔥

the start ia so trippy obviously it is called triphop. you can be a good game music designer. 👍

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Iggy E-Tape Hustler [Mutant Rebels]

Official Music Video: https://youtu.be/cV7NMot_1bA (premieres alongside CMJ Music Marathon Feb 8)

This song comes from wilderness. Olena and Marko found me aimless and wandering in Krakow, which somehow led, two days later, to an evening spent by the Western Carpathian mountains surrounded by a larger group of friends. Guitars around a campfire, melodies sung into the night. After leaving them, I wrote the main theme in trying to capture the mood we'd found.

I forgot about the song until a year later, when it seemed a good idea to gather all the “postcard” songs composed during journeys afar. Many of the themes seemed to want to stay simple and untouched, but “Foot of the Carpathians” presented a deeper mystery. I felt it was worth trying to expand the track’s primary statement into a few different but related harmonies, and introduce it to Nir Sabag (drums) and Hugo Reydet (bass) with room for melodic and rhythmic improvisation. I hoped a trio in musical conversation would be fitting for a song born from a small gathering.

We, together with longtime production friends Virgil Segal and Brian Trahan, recorded the track at TRIXX Studios in Berlin, Germany. The soundscapes were meticulously scored later, combining sounds found separately. This could not have been accomplished without Brian’s impeccable sound engineering. Full sound credits are listed at http://travelpoems.com/#about -- however, the primary contribution to the vibe of the soundscapes in this track is a recording of a Tibetan singing bowl, made in Duisburg, tuned to the frequency of the asteroid Ceres. 

If hearing this song evokes for you any memories, or fantasies, or other stories, I would love to know -- just message me here, or at eric@travelpoems.com. The live Travel Poems show features immersive storytelling, so it may be possible to weave your story into the musical experience.

First single “Foot of the Carpathians” premiered by JAZZIZ Magazine (longform interview at https://www.jazziz.com/qa-eric-pan-travel-poems/)

BANDCAMP: http://ericpan.bandcamp.com
GORGEOUS ALBUM SITE: https://travelpoems.com
ALSO NICE ARTIST SITE: https://ericpan.org

“Chapter 1 . Secret towns” full album released 28 Aug 2020 on Falling Sea (https://fallingsea.com)- and featured with longform interview on national radio, PRI’s “The World”: https://www.pri.org/stories/2020-08-31/travel-takes-new-meaning-jazz-pianist-s-latest-album

Chapters 2 and 3 release with tour and live storytelling, plus roving art exhibition soon

“Foot of the Carpathians” features Nir Sabag (drums) and Hugo Reydet (bass). Trilogy album recorded in various countries by Eric Pan and Brian Trahan, mixed by Brian Trahan in New York and Berlin. Mastered by Ruairi O’Flaherty in Los Angeles. Photography by Eric Pan. Calligraphy by Jitesh Patel.

Scored with found sounds — credited to these curators:
spt3125 freesound.org/people/spt3125/sounds/24806/
stefanhoevenaar freesound.org/people/stefanhoevenaar/sounds/50651/
colinsullivan (California) freesound.org/people/colinsullivan/sounds/189451/
unfa freesound.org/people/unfa/sounds/269344/

Travel Poems . Chapter 1 . Secret towns

Foot of the Carpathians

When At Night - Demo 2019 - 03 - The Wretched Nothing

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For me, this is an upbeat guitar track. I composed this tune around August 2019, recorded bass guitar on Boxing Day 2020 and finally recorded rhythm and lead guitar in May 2020 adminst COVID-19 lockdown. The track is not as progressive as my other pieces and a little more 'mainstream'.

Thanks Leo J. Russlan for the cool picture and of course your awesome compositions.

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