Name: Death of Abby (Tony Banks) by Matt Hogg in Redwing Suite
Duration: 1 min 30 s
Description: Taken from the Redwing Suite, this is a synth version of the MIDI file I did eons ago (thanks to Krissy for sending them to me - I'd lost them a couple of years ago). Short, not too sweet, but listenable.

'Redwing Suite' is a collection of five instrumental pieces from the Tony Banks 'Soundtracks' album.

I had originally covered this via MIDI files back in (around 1999 - can't remember specifically). Most of these are synthesized versions of those MIDI files, except 'Lorca' which I have recorded from only the drums being sequenced - everything else a live recording with a little mixing magic with some FX.

I've allowed the files open for download, but please, if you do download then share the link to Soundcloud - I'm sure they'd love the traffic and my stats improve, too (which, unfortunately includes a bit of ego on my part - hey, I'm only human).

Enjoy.

PS If you don't already have the Soundtracks album and you've enjoyed this, please try to find it and purchase it; I shouldn't be the only one to benefit from these, especially considering I didn't write them.

Redwing Suite

A slightly different version of Tony Banks' In The Dark from the album A Curious Feeling. The whole thing is from memory and not from a MIDI, or analysis of the original track so I'm not confident the chords are correct. However, they seem to fit ok and don't sound horrific so that's good enough for me.

In The Dark - Yamaha Piano (Banks)

As an experiment to see if the music stands up to the original with the vocals, this is my version albeit with vocals ripped from the original song (Spectralayers 9). I've had to re-time the vocals a little bit. I think the second half is more successful than the first half and it's obvious I don't have professional mixing or mastering but for something I've had to figure the music out for myself I'm quite pleased with it.

As this contains original vocals copyright must be respected a bit more than a usual cover. I haven't sought permission for the vocals and I make no claim to any part of this version of the track apart from the instrumentation and arrangement of the backing track.

There is always the instrumental version available elsewhere on my playlists.

Lion of Symmetry (Toyah Vocals)

Entirely VST - no real guitars were harmed in making this. Guitar tracks created by my own software, hopefully a certain level of realism is achieved, although I can spot where it's not perfect.

The guitar tabs were from a YouTube video (I will post the link when I find it).

Now with added Mellotron choir (slight).
Now with added percussion (shaker/tambourine).

Entangled (VST) (Genesis cover - Karaoke version)

Taken from the Redwing Suite, this is a synth version of the MIDI file I did eons ago (thanks to Krissy for sending them to me - I'd lost them a couple of years ago). Short, not too sweet, but listenable.

Death of Abby (Tony Banks)

This is the second track in a cover of Tony Banks' Redwing Suite. All instruments played live as overdubs except the drums which are sequenced originally by myself back in the late 90's.

The sounds used are from the Korg. Although I try to get the sounds similar, I really don't see the point in doing an exact replica; I might as well listen to the original. Still, it's recognisable to those who know it I hope.

Jan '16 - Tweaked the mix and added an octave layer to the porto synth.

Apr '16 - Slight mix adjustment

Jul '17 - Drawbar Organ (subtle) added to 'chorus'

Lorca (Tony Banks)

Another cover from the Redwing Suite. The parts are played live. I may as well do Lift Off soon; just to complete the suite!

Kid and Detective Droid (Tony Banks)

Lift Off from the Redwing Suite.

This is taken from the MIDI file version I did circa 1999. There are two layers to the main organ sound and the pipes come in separately. The choir is a combination preset on the Korg 01W/FD and this sounds vastly better than the MIDI version.

Lift Off (Tony Banks)

This is a chord progression and vague melody idea i keep revisiting since coming up with it some 20-ish years ago.

There are a great many things that made this one a whole lot of fun for me:

1) The drums are out of time 'cause i played them myself.   ^_^   There's two tracks of 'em, panned hard Left and hard Right.

2) The little piano doodle added at the end was inspired by the piano coda on the end of "Beatbox (diversion one)" by The Art of Noise.  

3) Each instrument was recorded at different times and places, often weeks apart.   (E.g., The drums and bass guitars were tracked in the dead of winter at my band's old practice space; the keyboards were recorded at home in the summer.)

3) That warm string pad that lays out the harmony is a recently acquired Roland JX-8P.  The chord progression came to me when playing an excellent *sample* of that JX-8P preset via an Ensoniq EPS some 20+ years ago.  Good thing i wrote out all my parts back then!

For those interested, the progression is Eb6 to A7 (x2), then F#7add9 to C7.  It's hard to mess that one up!

Twilight (2015 "organic" version)

Just a doodle on piano and keys.

(It's not a *real* Yamaha CS-80, but actually a patch on a Kurzweil K2500 that emulates one of the classic CS-80 presets.)

piano and CS-80 doodle

This is a re-recording of the one I did a few years back. Better production methods and if you know the previous version, I hope you'll agree that it sounds a lot better. Still not a scratch on the original Tony Banks version, but I'm very happy with how this turned out.

Redwing (Tony Banks Cover)

For the Eddie Jobson tribute CD "Theme of Appreciation 5". 
Music by Mia Rischmann (Mellotron)/David Bagsby (everything else). 
© 2018 Rischmann/Bagsby ASCAP 
© 2018 estoericity Music ASCAP

TOA5: A Worldwide Tribute to Eddie Jobson

Free download!

Mysteria Obscura (Eddie Jobson tribute)

Stayed up late last night making music and this was one of the results. Nothing too fancy. Played all the instruments myself, as per usual – though not all of ‘em simultaneously, of course!  ;-)

Hodgepod #1

I wanted to give this a go - writing is a bit of a blank at the moment. Varying degrees of success and failure on this, but as a first try I'm happy with it. Certain things are missing and the whole thing is unfinished. There's no guitar solo either - cuz I'm a rubbish guitarist.

All VST apart from guitars and bass.

The drums are VST, albeit played live with an e-drumkit.
There are some Simmons samples in this!! Gotta love the 80s!

Revisions:

2022-07-13 - Synth Bass redone
2023-02-14 - Added DX7 (Dexed), re-eq of snare and some guitar

Tonight Tonight Tonight (Genesis Cover)

From the soundtrack of my photo series "A10"
http://minemice.com/a10

Cover artwork by Pam
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This one came together rather quickly – maybe a total of one half hour total to quickly compose and record each track, one right after another.

Instruments used:  Korg KARMA (drums, pad sound, piano) and Novation MiniNova (Moog Taurus bass).

Africanus

Strictly amateur stuff here, folks. What's mine is distinctly average at best, but there's a few Genesis-and-related covers in here, and also a few Genesis-inspired tracks of my own; I have many more of my own but I'm not sure the world is ready for them(!).

I don't really have any equipment (apart from e drums) younger than 20 years old; I'm afraid it doesn't sound as good as I'd like, but never blame your tools!

I may be ending this account soon. For what I pay I'm just not getting the traffic that I feel justifies it...shame.

Death of Abby (Tony Banks)

Matt Hogg

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