Ok, this isn't the original guitar part - had to cut loose somewhere!

Those vocal harmonies are as good as the original..

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Steely Dan

Ut sepeliantur / Hypnopompia

My smooth jazz guitar version of the Steely Dan classic. I play all instruments except drums.

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I've got a page devoted to Steely Dan where I talk about how to play their great guitar solos 
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Steely Dan ---- Peg (free download by clicking the 'buy' button)

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'Josie' is another Steely Dan classic off the 1977 album 'Aja'. 

Steely Dan ---- Josie

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Deacon Blues is another classic Steely Dan track off the Aja album.

Guitarists love Steely Dan because they integrated the instrument into their studio productions so beautifully. In the process they gave the world at least 10 of the top 50 guitar solos of all time!

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Steely Dan ---- Deacon Blues

I heard this song several days ago and really liked the catchy hook and impressive guitar solo however; as I listened to understand the lyrics, somehow it really makes me giggle like a little girl.  

Overall, I wanted to perform this melodic piece specifically to play along with Benny; remembering that he enjoys music from this band (By the way, it is through Benny that I learned that this is a band an not a person named Steely Dan).  

To hear more of Benny's fantastic performances, please visit his page:  https://soundcloud.com/bennysutton.  

Credits:

Benny Sutton - Guitars, Mastering

Moody Mó - Drums, Conga, Bass, Piano, Mark I, Lead-Synth (Moog Patch), Lead and Background vocals, Mixing and Arrangement


Reelin' In The Years By Steely Dan (Cover By Moody Mo Feat: Benny Sutton)

Not strictly a Steely Dan Track this is from Donald Fagen's Nightfly album. However it's as close as he gets to classic Steely tracks. I always thought Fagen wrote it but it is actually a cover they did of a Leiber Stoller song. They know a good song when they see one.
My approach is to jump genres with the beats; there's Dubstep and Disco there! Some horns and a clavinet bassline later and - Voila! The Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. version was originally recorded by The Drifters and was released on a single by Atlantic Records in 1956


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Steely Dan ---- Ruby Baby (downloadable)

This track, when the Steelies first released it, was marked by its distinctive 'voicebox' guitar, quite an innovation at the time when it was initially released Technology has moved on so much since the original track was recorded. 
The original voice box was a tube attached to your amp the sound from which went up a plastic tube and you mouthed vowels etc with your mouth close to a microphone. I have a pedal with a superb setting that does in digitally! I don't use it often but when I do I love it. So you get a clean guitar solo and a voice box one too for the same money! 
I always wondered why the almost reggae beat - that would mean it was called Jamaican Divorce! Slick move Donald to not do the obvious).
source http://www.songfacts.com
The lyrical meaning of the original refers to the odd practice of going to Haiti for a quickie divorce. You could go to Vegas for a quickie marriage, but what if you want a quickie divorce? In the early '70s, Haiti made it easy, allowing foreigners to divorce with hardly any restriction; the big sell was that only one member of the married party had to be present and request it.
For Haiti, this was a tourism ploy, as travel agents would send Americans looking for a quick and easy divorce to the island, where they would often spend some time on a resort. In many cases, these divorces were requested so that the person could immediately get remarried - a service Haiti also provided. So it was not uncommon for a married man to show up in Haiti with his mistress, get a divorce, and marry the new girl all in the course of a weekend. .Donald Fagan talked about the Haitian divorce in a 1976 interview with Sounds. Said Fagen: "It's a fierce and terrible ritual. I'll tell you that. You wouldn't want your sister to have a Haitian divorce, believe me. It was the quick 'divorce, without too much red tape. If you can say 'incompatibility of character' in French you're as good as gold. But we added a few elements to the ceremony itself."
In this song, it's the woman who goes to Haiti for her divorce. She has some fun while she is there, and presumably hooks up with a local - their sex scene is implied in cinematic terms in the lines:

    Now we dolly back
    Now we fade to black

    When she returns to America, she is pregnant, as Fagen sings, "Some babies grow in a peculiar way."
    The girl in this song drinks a zombie from a coconut shell, which at the time was a very typical island experience. A zombie is a rum-based cocktail that was popular at the time - an alternative to the Pina Colada.


Steely Dan ---- Haitian Divorce

Etude 01 A Flat Minor

No means No.  Stop means Stop.  Silence does not mean yes.

Don't Tell

Release januari 2020 by Dead space maze studio at De Klinge, Belgium.
Written, played and produced by Mathias De Cauwer.

26/12/2019

Ice anger

from Superloser E.P. (Drums by Elisa Abela).LOVE!

Superloser

Lockdown Blues (I Just Want To See You)

VT Youtube link here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC-2VXOXP1Y

If any circus ever came 2 town
she'd know all about it
The only girl i knew to turn a frown
n B the remedy 4 it

The most creative force i'd ever known
never happy less she'd made it
though my father didn't often say
said, she was his absolute favourite

Hmmm,.. Proves u don't know what u have
when it's gone, it's just 2 late yeah
Hmmm,... Proves U don't know what U have
When it's gone it's just 2 late yeah

U inspired n I admired U
4 every generous gesture
U're always selfless, never pressure
when u left i lost a treasure

U taught a lot of people on the way
I'm still thrilled to have been there
like a Calloway n Prince conversation
that will never b beaten

I've been so lucky with the love that i've gained
like a spectacular library
all the knowledge that a book can't say
laid out b4 me!

[chorus]

U were the light that comes from every painter
U were improvised beauty
U were the colours of a springtime rainbow
U were an infectious aviator

Written, arranged, produced & performed by Arkestar 2020
ft. Neil Ottanaro on acoustic guitar & Steve Perry on Electric Guitar.

Copyright owned by Arkestar 2020

4 S.S.

Buy @ Bandcamp

Arkestar - U Don't Know What U Have

Bass Guitar, Lead Guitars, Additional Rhythm Guitar
(Wah Samples) - Admiral Krank
Drums - Monkey Blood Lowdown
Rhythm Guitar, Synths - Nic

Greatest Hits

Semi Pro

Excellent open collab

noxpox - rl1

sounds & inspirations: noxpox

lyrics, vocals & luminated manipulations: electroHippie

wenn die transzendenten subatomaren Prozesse erodieren,
und die synaptischen Reflektionen im Fluss der endokrinen Nervensäfte dahingleiten,
begibt sich das atonale Bewusstsein auf eine höhere Stufe,
die Radikale Lumination Ersten Grades,
die ein erster Schritt auf dem Weg in das Audio-Nirvana ist,
der Beginn der totalen musikalischen Anarchie

when the transcendent subatomic processes erode,
and the synaptic reflections slide in the flow of the endocrine nerve juices,
the atonal consciousness moves to a higher level,
the First Degree Radical Lumination,
which is a first step towards audio nirvana,
the beginning of total musical anarchy

https://soundcloud.com/noxpox5
https://soundcloud.com/noxpox5/sets/noxpox-rl-1-mutated-rmxproject

noxpox - rl1 (die Radikale Lumination Ersten Grades)

Wave

I am a songwriter/studio musician who plays the Piano/Keyboards primarily and secondarily drums and almost all World Percussion instruments (e.g. Indo/African, Latin, Southwest Asian, etc.) and bass.  I have many music sets with varying genres.  Although I am partial to Jazz (traditional); Bebop; Blues, Fusion, Latin/World and a mixture of the aforementioned, I occasionally dabble in R&B, Gospel/Inspirational; Funk, Rock, and various other music categories.  I also sing (although not very well).  My current in home studio setup consists of:

KEYBOARD
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- Korg Triton Studio 88
- Ensoniq SD1
 
PERCUSSION
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- Mapex Fusion Set w/ 3 added snares and host of varying cymbals.
- LP Tumba, Conga and Quinto
- Custom Half/Tube Tumbadora Set
- Various African, Arabic & Latin Percussion (e.g. Shekere; Guiro; Djembes; Doumbek, etc.)

PRODUCTION
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- Cakewalk Sonar Platinum Production Suite
- Focusrite Audio Interface
- HP Pavilion 64bit i7 w/ 16 GB RAM
- Various compressors and effects processors that I don't know how to use

Reelin' In The Years By Steely Dan (Cover By Moody Mo Feat: Benny Sutton)

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