Beautiful arrangement. Wonderful sound, brilliant crafted. Great production, Mikey. 🎶💛

Awesome cover!! Very underrated song!!✌️🖤

Really like this song -- very cool cover and synth ambience!

What?!?! Insanely cool!!what an awesome cover.

Theo Bina: Music, all instruments,mix
Bodo Bremer: Cover

Release: 25.02.2023

November (Theo Bina)

A video of me performing this tune:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq3-oZRMGOE
This is my version of a favourite song by a favourite artist - Celso Fonseca.

Slow Motion Bossa Nova (Cover)

Artwork: Zenbot, by Malka
This track contains bird songs recorded on the Hallasan and Mudeungsan mountains in Jeju and Gwangju, South Korea. 
Cette piste contient des chants d'oiseaux enregistrés dans les montagnes Hallasan et Mudeungsan à Jeju et Gwangju en Corée du Sud.

Time Zones

Zen, but...

Yamaha Tenor Saxophone
Various Garageband keyboard sounds

Sleepwalk

Sleepwalk (cover-Santo & Johnny)

"Northern Lights" (Edit: Mastered with iZotope Ozone on September 25, 2023)

A little tune where I had in mind the beauty of the North where my heart will always be.

The instruments used: 
- EP layer: Yamaha Montage 8 synthesizer (Yamaha TX816 Electric Piano sound), Keyscape (LA Custom Rhodes Suitcase 80s, Roland MKS-20/E. Piano 2, Roland JD-800/Crystal Rhodes)
- Piano: Keyscape LA Custom C7 Grand Piano (Yamaha C7) 
- Drums: Native Instruments Abbey Road 70s Drummer, with some layered Linndrum sounds (snare, toms)
- Guitar: Native Instruments Electric Sunburst
- Bass: Native Instruments Prime Bass Session Bassist
- Lead sounds: Arturia DX7 V/VHS Flute & VHS Strings, Arturia Prophet-5 V
- Brass and synth sounds: Yamaha Montage (TX816 Horns & Filter Synth)

Northern Lights

From the series of songs composed this summer. Looking for an oasis within the mirage.

MIRAGE 4

Nick Drake - Place to Be

Guitar and vocals by Stefano Manotti 

When I discovered Nick Drake's music, I immediately felt richer as a musician and less alone as a person. An artist who delved into the depths of human emotions, unafraid, driven solely by the need to express himself.The eternal beauty that he created will endure for centuries. I wanted to pay tribute to him with his masterpiece, in the fingerpicked version he recorded as a demo.
 

When I was young, younger than before
I never saw the truth hanging from the door
And now I'm older, see it face to face
And now I'm older, gotta get up, clean the place

And I was green, greener than the hill
Where flowers grow and the sun shone still
Now I'm darker than the deepest sea
Just hand me down, give me a place to be

And I was strong, strong in the sun
I thought I'd see when day was done
Now I'm weaker than the palest blue
Oh, so weak in this need for you

Place To Be (Nick Drake Home Recording Version Cover)

Yard time. A bittersweet piece built on small harmonic ambiguities. On violin my friend  @Rosindust. We played a classical guitar, a violin, an electric bass, a piano and an ostinato digital oboe. 
Here the other pieces together: soundcloud.com/francescocartocci/sets/grazie-tatiana

The painting: Vincent van Gogh, Prisoners Exercising, 1890. An alienating round of prisoners. Above two small white butterflies, symbol of hope and freedom.

Composition and all arrangements: Francesco Cartocci

Ora d'aria - with Rosin dust

When Did I Get Old

Retribution

Tainted

Hello and thank you for dropping by.

Thank you to all that leave nice comments. My apologies if I take a little while to respond.

I like listening to music, making simple, tunes when I have time, and generally faffing about in an inefficient manner. Hopefully you might like something on offer here. 

I use a Hinkler Cigar Box guitar (about $30 from Aldi, (great fun), a Flying V ukulele, a couple of old keyboards, other bits and bobs, and a Yamaha tenor saxophone.

Sleepwalk (cover-Santo & Johnny)

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