Arne is absolutely on point with his skillful play.

Stupendous piano work Martin.  Real skill and thoughtful phrasing here.  This is one heck of a fabulous collaboration.

Wow!  What a great collaboration! Her voice is delicious!

such a  soft and beautiful trumpet  and voice!

ACE TRACKS FROM GREAT MUSICIANS

The Danish-born Berlin-based singer-songwriter Agnes Obel landed a pan-European hit with her disarmingly beautiful debut album ‘Philharmonics’. After seven weeks at #1 in Denmark and hitting the Top 10 in both France and the Netherlands, the deluxe double CD version of the album will be released in the UK on May 2nd on Play It Again Sam.

Entirely self-produced and performed, ‘Philharmonics’ opens with the instrumental piano piece ‘Falling, Catching’ which sets the tone for Obel’s classically inspired songwriting. The next track, ‘Riverside’, flows with a depth of emotion embedded with further character by Obel’s love of combining her sweet melodies with carefully considered lyrics that evoke the song’s innate sound. ‘Just So’ works a similar trick, its blend of melancholy and optimism perfectly encapsulated into the opening line ‘Black turns beat me bright.’ Elsewhere, with ‘On Powdered Ground’, ‘Brother Sparrow’ or her interpretation of John Cale’s ‘Close Watch’, she melds different moods and atmospheres, all indelibly linked by the brittle majesty of her music.

The deluxe edition of the album adds a second CD featuring six tracks recorded at Obel’s recent acclaimed residency of sold-out shows in Copenhagen and five instrumental piano performances.

As a child, Obel was subconsciously guided into music by the influence of her mother and father, who would play and listen to a blend of the classical greats, folk music like Jan Johansson and the timeless sounds of Roy Orbison. After discovering the likes of Portishead and Elliott Smith as a teenager, she began writing her own piano-based songs, but it wasn’t until she moved to Berlin in 2006 that she began recording an album.

Many of the songs on ‘Philharmonics’ have subconsciously found an audience through their use in film and television. ‘Just So’ soundtracked a Deutsch Telekom advert, which gave Obel the unusual combination of having a song that everyone knew while having almost no profile as an artist herself. But soon opportunities presented themselves and continue to do so. One of Obel’s earliest breaks came when three of her demos featured in cult director Thomas Vinterberg’s film Submarino – ‘Riverside’ earned her a Robert Award (Denmark’s equivalent of the Oscars) for Best Song of the Year. Her music also reached a bigger North American and international audience when ‘Riverside’ was used in Grey’s Anatomy.

iTunes extended Obel’s profile further by requesting an exclusive release of ‘Philharmonics’ and highlighting Obel on the home page of their North American website. The attention of the press has been consistently positive with Vogue and culture magazine Telerama producing in-depth features in France, while Obel will also feature in both the North American and European issues of TIME.

Official website – www.agnesobel.com
Official facebook – www.facebook.com/agnesobelofficial
Official twitter - www.twitter.com/agnesobel
Official youtube - http://www.youtube.com/agnesobel


Agnes Obel - Riverside (Lulu Rouge Remix)

Disquiet Junto Project 0606: Three to One 
Compose a piece of music with three times as much silence as sound.

More about this week's Disquiet Junto Project: https://disquiet.com/2023/08/10/disquiet-junto-project-0606-three-to-one/

Process notes: I used a probability gate (Count Modula's Chances module)to block 75% of clocks to the voices, on average over time. I took it as ok to let reverb tails count as silence. The resulting clip was brought into Reaper where I used a limiter on the master channel.

chances are (disquiet0606)

All scores, music, Photographs, and Modeling from me. Song Circa 2019

Dance to the Masque ~2009~

Electric Minds

Harusame

In the hushed serenity of winter's embrace, the ethereal melodies of the Melody of Broken Cake Plates gently weave a tapestry of mellow, soft, and melancholic snow songs. Born from a deep connection to the quiet beauty of winter landscapes, the Melody of Broken Cake Plates's music captures the essence of snowfall and the delicate dance of frost-kissed moments.

The essence of the Melody of Broken Cake Plates's sound lies in the delicate fusion of acoustic warmth and the crystalline purity of winter's touch. The hauntingly tender compositions invite listeners to immerse themselves in a world where time slows down, and every note is a snowflake gently settling on the soul.

Sweet Surrender

love beats

on silent ground ESM

[the first product from my "Ambiguous Situation no.7" open collaboration project, and I'm pretty much knocked out by it -- but since the lyrics are by Oddrun, I'll let her tell the story -- ML]

Martin made this wonderful uplifting jazzy open-collab. track. After being out in autumn nature yesterday....it had to be like this. The beauty of colorful leaves, falling slowly and kissing the ground...i love autumn...
Thank you so much Martin, for the Joy :) :)@mlucas
Martin Lucas: Music and all instrument, except flugelhorn and voice,
Arne Hiorth (@arne-hiorth): Flugelhorn/impro. and mix
Oddrun Eikli (@oddrun-eikli): voice and melodies for the vocals, and some few words following the leaves kissing the ground....:)

Autumn Serenade

in the middle of september
when leaves kiss the ground
when leaves capture sunshine
when leaves kiss the ground
a kiss
a kiss


Autumn Serenade - Arne Hiorth and Oddrun Eikli with MLucas

Sam Amidon - How Come That Blood

Taken from the new album "Where It Hits You" - out now on Loose.

JIM WHITE - Chase The Dark Away

Buy it now: http://smarturl.it/AnAwesomeWave

An Awesome Wave

Dissolve Me

For his blogs 4th birthday Mr @Peenko asked 4 bands/artists to record a new song, which had to be strictly no more than 2 minutes long. Then he had a proper artist provide some beautiful artwork. He put them together as an extremely limited set of flexi postcards which are now available here:

http://peenkopostcards.limitedrun.com/products/505288-flexi-postcards

They look beautiful huh?

They all sound great too as they were all mastered by Jonathan Huxtable of Small Fish Recordings. 
http://www.smallfishrecordings.co.uk/

Buy a Flexi

All My Days Are Shorter

2023 - For the past few months I've been working with Public Resource, a California based non-profit to release an extensive collection of older music for free use. In addition to audio, we'll be releasing the music as MIDI and musicxml. Last week we started posting a new featured piece every week on the Public Resource Soundcloud page (@PublicResource). Follow there, or look for frequent reposts here. It'll include classical music, pop music before 1927, ragtime, folk songs, and more. The main collection will be at the Internet Archive, and will be called the "Internet Jukebox". I'll post more about it as it grows.

Dogman - known as 'the English Neil Young' was raised by the wolves of Winter Hill. downloadable from from CDBaby, I-Tunes or Amazon or buy the DIGIPAK - He Chose The Road - The Cat that solved The String Theory and The Whisperer.
David Sands is a singer-songwriter who enjoys playing intimate gigs MY BLOG http://dogman-dogman-david-sands.blogspot.com

'THE CAT THAT SOLVED THE STRING THEORY.  'THE WHISPERER', 2010 (CD BABY, I-Tunes and Amazon) includes early studio tracks. ~~~~~~~~~
"The 'English Neil Young' comparable with artists like early Townes Van Zandt, David Gates, Ryan Adams, Sufjan Stevens, Roy Harper and Mark Knopfler  - Home Fire and Love Thing played on BBC6 Music and included in Podcasts.

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MIKANS (Matt Baker) collaborates brilliantly on many tunes and on early songs 'Like an Inca in the sun' (Tribute to Neil Young) a sound epic. We are known as THE CROSSBREED. https://soundcloud.com/the-crossbreed
~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Soundcloud Artist of the Day March 2011 
Was signed to Expat Records the Internet 'firework sensation' now a damp squid.

Autumn Serenade - Arne Hiorth and Oddrun Eikli with MLucas

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