Interesting tracks - 2021

This was played using a Yamaha Clavinova and some sampler I bought at that time for around $1000 :(.  It used floppy disks for sounds. This was the string sounds with arpeggiator turned on.  I remember being floored that I could play and trigger the sampler at the same time.

Looking back, it was a fun time to learn about synthesizers and 16 track recorders and rack mounts and being wrapped in midi cables and trying to figure out why one rack mount wasn't being triggered and why the mixer was messed up and why you forgot to arm your recorder to record after you just finished playing a 15 minute masterpiece (a masterpiece in your mind...until your friends heard it and told you not to quit your day job).

Reverence (Nostalgia - 1987 Analog Tape Recording)

No A.I. was used to create this track!

Around January 20th my friend from work asked me to prepare for him some music for his graphics reel project. And here is result. Mostly done in one evening. Original track has 36 seconds, however, for SoundCloud purposes, I extended this "track" and added a finish. Finally this track didn't find his way to final product, but I think it's a decent project to share ;)

Main hero of this track is still awesome, 18 years old, soft synth from Native Instruments - Massive. Beside that I've used heavily filtered Heavyocity Foundation Emotive Choir and couple of percussive samples from Ableton Live libraries.

Thumbnails background: Freepik by Garry Killian
https://www.freepik.com/author/garrykillian

Gimmie Some Energy!

Gimmie Some Energy! (Graphics Reel Background Music)

1980's inspired nostalgia. 
Co produced with my wife, Olivia Grant, as she recommended for me to change the original lead guitar part so it is more melodic and not loads of notes played in your face. I think it worked for the better.
Hope you all enjoy listening 🎧

Guitars used:
Yamaha Revstar Standard, loaded with P90 pickups
Fender Precision Bass 
Guitar and bass sounds created using Line 6 Helix Native Plugin. 

Plugins used:
Spitfire Audio Labs - Pads
Toontrack - EZ keys Synthwave 
Arturia - Analog Lab Play

Drums: 
Toontrack - EZ Drummer 3 - Dream Pop expansion 



Summer Romance

UnBoxed April 2024

[ d o w n l o a d a b l e ]

Awareness Of Self

Original song: R.Planes ©2024 

Ruben Nievas: Piano Rhodes (@ruben-nievas-445742486)
Rodolfo: Guitar, Fretless Bass, e-Drums, Synthetizer (sax)
Recorded in Ushuaia - 2023

6994

'6994' featuring Ruben Nievas

Don't Buy Anything Today

23 7 1

I found another vocal treasure on Looperman. 

Looperman Acapella: https://www.looperman.com/acapellas/detail/14352/annett-upside-down-115bpm-electronic-acapella

Vocals: Annett
Music & Arrangement: OMCB

Cover Picture: pixabay.com

Lyrics:

The first step I've made 
had burnt me down without a trace
 Inhaling smoke, I've exhaled you

Suffocating underwater 
I hope I won't go much further 
breathless watching how my world goes upside down 
Suffocating underwater
 I hope I won't go much further upside down

I'm the last leaf, you are the wind - 
strong and cold, soon I'm falling, 
But it's better to be on the ground 
than soaring high and never be found

Upside Down - OMCB

https://www.reverbnation.com/nowyyorg/album/317460-infinite-journey 
A l b u m   I n f i n i t e   J o u r n e y 
n o w y y o r g  2 0 2 4

A Guy Like Me

original instrumental "leaked" from Paploviante, genereously offered by the talented Paul, who has his SC page Paploviante and friends, among other projects.

Leaked / Paploviante Open Collaboration Offer 
Paploviante: E-Bass, Music, Composing, Arrangement, Mix and Mastering 
BPM 90

State of confusion  lyrics

I went to a doctor because i hear things  that aren’t there
My mind wanders mentally
I hope you take this seriously

Perception deceiving
Perception  Not believing

I’m hearing voices
That no one else hears
The sound ’s so frightening me
Because   i know they aren’t real

Perception deceiving
Perception  Not believing

So doctor you must help me
To chase this voices and visions away

Tell me this hallucinations are only  temporarally

I  feel things moving under my skin
Imagine the state wher” I’m in
State of confusion, depression hallucination
confusion, depression hallucination

(In layers: lyrics all together)

State Of Confusion (collab Paploviante)

Video;  https://youtu.be/sYanXbV-ibs

Made in #Ableton (June 2024)

Genres;
#Experimental
#Ethno
#Electronic

https://hega.bandcamp.com/album/sahara-swing

Sahara Swing

Samples vocals : « Whispers » (Ana Criado).

WHISPERS.wav

Scarborough Fair is a traditional English folk song. The author is unknown. Probably the best-known version today is the adaptation by Simon & Garfunkel, which first appeared in 1966 on the album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme.
I wrote this German text in 1994.

English translation of my text:

Look at the fields in autumn.
The grain turns yellow, ready to mow.
Reminds me of days gone by.
It was beautiful, I think about it a lot.

And the vines with grapes so heavy.
Makes the wine that we loves so much
Come winemaker, because the work is done.
Raise your glass, because the festival begins.

Forests colorful, a colorful splendor.
Red, green, yellow, autumn made it.
Winter is coming soon and covering everything.
White the landscape, the trees heavy!

Together with Karin-Maria Brunner

Herbstzeit

Composé, réalisé par Jacques Lemaire alias idematoa, janvier/février 2021 via Studio One, 120 bpm
En version YouTube : youtu.be/GH7IGCJuSbI

Merci infiniment à toi Franck pour ta merveilleuse création, une flûte enchantée en quelque sorte !
Ma première collaboration sur Soundcloud ! 

Franck Douvin : https://soundcloud.com/franckdouvin
> Flûte Prima Sankyo en argent, embouchure « FAULISI / PARIS » avec noyau en or 9K et bouchon réglable Logicork du luthier E.FERRON

> 01 - Spitfire Audio - Contemporary Drama Toolkit - Vocals + Combi Textural - Fireflies
> 02 - Spitfire Audio - Contemporary Drama Toolkit - Combi Textural - Frozen Textures
> 03 - Spitfire Audio - Ólafur Arnalds Composer toolkit - Felt Grand Piano
> 04 - Spitfire Audio - Ólafur Arnalds Composer toolkit - Evo Ambience + Reversed Pad 
> 05 - Arturia - Modular V3 - Bass Sequence

Broken Heart [Franck Douvin & Jacques Lemaire]

Japanese Sixties

To Find (2021)

I'm a keyboardist with a love for layering sounds to create ambient, ethereal atmospheres and composing simple piano pieces to embellish. I love all genres of music, and find myself composing different types depending on my mood of the day.

I’ve never had formal training. As a teen, my parents wouldn’t let a piano in our house in Egypt, so I studied piece-meal at friends’ homes. When I got to college, I learned by going to university piano practice rooms. In my 40’s, I met my birth-mom who turned out to be a child prodigy, winning a Van Cliburn competition by playing Rachmaninoff at age 11. Most of what I play today, I learned from the techniques she taught me. 

I’m an American who has lived abroad for a good part of my life in Egypt, Turkey, Japan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Italy, Taiwan, and now back to Texas.

Reverence (Nostalgia - 1987 Analog Tape Recording)

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