An attempt to unify my interest for the ancient with my fascination for the modern. Instruments used are sampled sarangi (Indian keyed fiddle), soprano recorders (C and F) and various synth stuff.

Parastasis (Procession)

New mix and master of this "Switched-on Bach" styled piece. Vocals by Li Boström. Produced & recorded by me at the Phonurgia Audio recording studio in Sundbyberg, Sweden.

Die Güldne Sonne by JS Bach. New version with vocals by Li Boström.

The piece was recorded using free software, hence the title. Apps involved were the free version of the Zynewave Podium DAW, Plogue Sforzando soundfont player, 4Front piano plug and a couple of free reverb and EQ plugs. Editing and mastering were made on my tiny Linux laptop using Audacity. I think you should avoid paying too much for your software ...

Free World

This tune is based on an old recording I made in 1982 at the Electronic Music Studio of the Swedish Radio. It's an intermediate mixdown to two tracks of a composition that eventually was released on a cassette album called "Pravda" by Swedish industrial music label Konduktör. I found it while transferring one of my old analog tapes to digital. While I was searching through the tape, I discovered that the mix sounded quite interesting when played backwards at a little more than normal speed, and I decided to reuse it.  So I added Nord Modular, cello, piano, organ and saxes, and this is how it turned out. The original recording was made using a Buchla System 200 synthesizer and a Mastersound drum machine.

Down thru the Haze

The arrangement is somewhat influenced by Walter/Wendy Carlos. It's not an organ piece, though it fits well with the organ (as most of Bach's music). 

Die güldne Sonne (The Golden Sun) by J.S. Bach, arranged for Nord Modular

It's interesting to find out  what you can do with MIDI. For instance, you can create your own early music consort and it will  sound almost like real. This is my all private early music consort, performing a famous tourdion (a type of dance) from the 1530 release of Danseries by music printer and publisher Pierre Attaignant. This piece is one of the most wellknown tunes from the Renaissance era, so maybe you have heard it before. The performance is made on four (virtual)  trombones or "sackbutts".

Tourdion from Danseries by Pierre Attaignant (1530)

This track is recorded by the band HrH, that I play with on a regular basis. The tune is my own arrangemant of a tune written by the Castilian king Alfonso the Wise in the thirteenth century. Mats Hagberg plays guitar and bass, Johan Höppner plays drums, and I play the Sforzando soundfont player (bagpipe)and Streichfett (gregorian chant & ambient sounds).

Au Revoir

This tune is in a style that could be called "Swedish fiddle and accordion music arranged for small symphonic band"  that was really popular in Sweden in the fifties and sixties. It's written by Patrik Eriksson, who plays the lead guitar, acoustic guitar and twelwe stringed guitar plus bass, with the orchestral arrangement made and played by me on a  Proteus 2. I also made the mixing and mastering.  The tune was originally not intended to be an instrumental but ended up that way, for some reasons.

Mats R.

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