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Willie Jones "It Goes Like This" By Thomas Rhett

In response to an open collaboration invitation from Dirk Maassen I could not resist the opportunity to add some guitar swells and drones to accompany Dirk's beautiful piano performance and composition. 

It was an absolute pleasure for me working on this collaboration. Thank you Dirk....

To hear more of Dirk's wonderful compositions visit @ascoltadi

For a video of some time-lapse cloud imagery accompanying this track please visit: http://t.co/iDXY0dJYMv


East by Dirk Maassen feat. An Imaginal Space

Hymn To Faith

La Blogothèque | Empty Space #5

One of the largest, most prestigious French chateaux. A huge room, and Anna Calvi who plays one of her most energetic pieces, 'Love of my life'.

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'Love Of My Life' - La Blogothèque | Empty Space #5  Dec 2013

I'm away from the piano at the moment, so I thought I'd share this with everybody...

Compositional sketch for a modern Pastoral Appassionata String Quintet.  Primary composition sometime in November 2013.  Work in progress.

Somebody asked if this is a "sad" song.  Here is my answer:

It is not a "human emotion" song.   It is more a divine/nature/universe  song.  It does not have human emotions like happy/sad.  It has only what is.  It has only pure beauty. Like a waterfall.  Or a mountain.  Or a star. A waterfall is not sad.  Or happy.  It only is. It is simply pure beauty.

Pastoral = of or referring to nature or the creator

Appassionata = with passion  (but in this case, it is not passion like between a man and woman.  it is more passion of the creator for his creation or created for his creator.)

It is more of a spiritual music.  This is what I will do more of later in life. Like these guys:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_minimalism

I aspire to follow in their footsteps one day.

Somebody asked about the plug-ins used:

Solo Bass, Cello, Viola, Violin 1, & Violin 2 from NI Kontact (standard set from Komplete) for this sketch.  Sometime later I will ideally record the real thing... (Or at least use more advanced string libraries.) 6 Instances of 2CAudio Breeze (which I am the developer of) are used here to make the Kontact Strings sound reasonably good. 

http://2caudio.com/products/breeze

The strings samples themselves are not that good.  The reverb is!  :)  That's the trick here.



Many new solo piano compositions to share with you all soon!  Happy New Year!

Andrew Souter -- Pastoral Appassionata For String Quintet (Sketch)

Flesh & Blood is available now.

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John Butler Trio - "Blame It On Me"

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"Curtain Call" appears on Their / They're / There's Analog Weekend EP, available here - http://polyvinylrecords.com/analogweekend

Their / They're / There - Curtain Call

Written by Catherine Feeney and Nikki Lamborn

Published by Lock Stock and Barrel Music

Feeling mean checking the scene
Oh I’m hot tonight
My body’s aching
Ooh feel like taking a shot tonight
Where are you
I’m looking for you
Heaven help you
When I find you

Gonna give you my love
Gonna give you my love
I’m rough and ready
Gonna give you my love
Gonna give you my love
I’m rough and ready

I’m aware there’s somebody there
I can’t see you face
Standing in the shadows,
Ooh do you wanna get out of this place
Come on Satisfy,
Don’t deny me
What makes me feel good
Can make you feel good

Gonna give you my love
Gonna give you my love
I’m rough and ready
Gonna give you my love
Gonna give you my love
I’m rough and ready

I feel good
I feel right
I’m rough and ready
I feel good
I feel right
I’m rough and oh baby I’m ready

Gonna give you my love
Gonna give you my love
I’m rough and ready
Gonna give you my love
Gonna give you my love
I’m rough and ready

Give you my love
Give you my love

Give ya my love, Give ya my love, give ya my love

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Park Place

On their latest full-length, Engineering The Void, Swedish death metal militia, SOREPTION, vomit forth a a multi-layered symphony of surgically accurate riff sequences, maniacal pace fluctuations, plenty of head-jarring rhythms and sprawling intervals of quietude, the six-plus minute opus is an all-consuming lesson in flawlessly assembled brutality.

Engineering The Void was recorded by Tommy Rehn from symphonic black metal collective Angtoria at Ninetone Studios and serves as the follow-up to SOREPTION’s debut full-length, Deterioration Of Minds. Applauded by Underrated Reviews for its, “superior sense of rhythm and razor-sharp precision that will appeal to fans of bands such as Cannibal Corpse, Suffocation, Dying Fetus and The Faceless,” the record reaped critical accolades both Statside and abroad. Noted No Clean Singing, “lots of bands are cranking our modern, technical death metal, attempting to out-do each other (and their forebearers like Necrophagist and Decapitated) with ever more intense instrumental pyrotechnics. Most of them fail at what they’re attempting, or at least fail to create anything you’d want to hear more than once. But SOREPTION have managed to tread this path successfully, not only through the precision of their playing but through the competence of their song-writing.  The music has got grooves and compulsive rhythms — and those way-cool contrasting guitar leads. It just makes you want to get up and fucking mosh and headbang and break shit!,” while Ultimate Guitar opined, “If there was one band…which had to be picked as the representative for what tech death is turning into, this would be it…” Added Metal Observer, “…this album kicked my balls hard on the first listen, completely tore them off during the second, made clam chowder soup with them on its third play-through, and threw said scolding chowder in my face during the fourth. Suffice to say, this album was quite the tasty shock.”

SOREPTION will unleash Engineering The Void to the masses this February 18, 2014 followed by a reissue of Deterioration Of Minds, both via Unique Leader Records.

“The new SOREPTION album is going to rip faces. I mean hot damn! Those riffs! The Swedes in SOREPTION are up there with Obscura, Gorod and Psycroptic at the upper echelon of the crowded tech-death pack, no doubt. Can’t wait to headbang furiously to this the minute it comes out!” – MetalSucks

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SOREPTION - "Engineering The Void" (featuring guest vocals by Trevor Strnad)

Jon E.K. - "Crumble"

Zagga - Calm and Easy - Roots Survival Records

Acoustic cover of Miley Cyrus' 'Wrecking Ball' as played on the Dutch national radio channel 3FM, 14 January 2014.

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At just 21 years of age Icelandic singer-songwriter Ásgeir has become a sensation in his domestic music scene - staggeringly, almost 10% of the Icelandic population now own his debut album 'Dyrd í dauðathogn' – the English version, translated by John Grant, will be released worldwide as 'In The Silence' and is out now!

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Ásgeir - Wrecking Ball (Miley Cyrus Cover)

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Papa San - Radio ft. Lecrae

I Was Blind

Oliver Sadie was kind enough to let me add my own musings to this wonderful song.  You can hear the original here:  https://soundcloud.com/oliversadie/the-muse-ii  
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Oliver Sadie - The Muse II (Zefora's Vocal Version)

Blasterjaxx & Ibranovski - ID (Exclusive)
ID & ID - Bone (Exclusive)
ID - ID (Exclusive)
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