calm

Oct 2020 part 2

A calming, soothing menu theme that you'll probably hear for all of 30 seconds in-game.

Download the game: https://unlimited-trees.itch.io/unitres-dreams

UNITRES Dreams: Sweet Dream - Menu Theme

All composed, arranged, produced, and performed/programmed by me.

Greenland

Free download

9/10 2020 Mawile day

motif : DCBDG

steel fairy

This is a collaboration with the talented Karin-Maria Brunner from Switzerland. She composed the music and asked me if I would be interested in doing vocals and some guitar. I decided to write the lyrics in the Swiss dialect of German. Karin made it easy for me to write lyrics and do some acoustic guitar with her wonderfully composed song. Here are the lyrics in Swiss German and then English. The song art is actually a photo of where Karin used to live in the mountains. Hope you enjoy!

Herr uuf em Berg (The Gentleman upon the Mountain)

Gan wiit obä uuf em Berg
Gits a mega psonderi Herr
Und jetz verzehli syni Legendä wort für wort bis zum Ende

Vo da obä, geseht er alles
D'schöni Wiesa D'Wasserfälle
Er schützt das Land mit stabiler Hand
Aber es gi niemer, wo syn name chann. 

Im sym Herz isch nur Liebä da wird bliebä
Wird dieser Herr niemal sterbä
Und bliibt verbundä mit d'Erde. 

Aber jedes Jahr, es git es Kampf
Zwische dem Herr und ä anderi Ma
D'Mann isch gross und ziemli Start
Ung schlagt d Herr unheimli hart

Aber dieser Herr, der hat wieder gunnä
Jetz staht er uuf und begrüsst d'Sonne
Und hebts Land unter syn Hand
Und herrscht na wiiter....mit liebvollem Plan

English Translation

Way up high, upon a mountain
There is a very special gentleman
Und now I will tell you his legend, word for word until the end. 

From way up there, he sees all
The beautiful meadows and the waterfalls
He protects the land with a stabil hand
But there is nobody that knows his name

In his heart, is only love
And if that will stay so forever
This gentleman can never die
And will stay connected with the earth

But every year, there is a struggle
Between the gentleman and another man
The man is big and really strong
And strikes the gentleman incredibly hard....

But this gentleman, he won again
And now he rises and greets the sun
And keeps the land underneath his hand
And continues to lead with a loving plan. 

Danke!

Herr Uuf Em Berg

A cute short song i made using only mellotron samples in 7/8 and 5/8. Enjoy!!

Lullaby of the Hidden Creatures

Music & Lyrics, Vocal, Synth, Drums: Jan Schonander @thegats
Guitars, Bass, Drums: Norbert Meyer @nobsmeyer

This is a track from my soundcloud friend Jan Schonander, which he wrote, performed and released here on soundcloud already some weeks ago.
As he recently asked me, if I could do a N.o.b.S. Version of it, I did not hesitate as I really do like the song.
If you listen to the original, there is a guitar already creating a great atmosphere. 
I wanted to amplify this momentum with my version especially in the second part with heavy rock riffs.

I hope you all will enjoy this and bang your heads to it. It is something for rock obsessed individuals.

Please visit Jan on his site and support him, you will like the music you will find there:

Lyrics:

BREAK OUT OF THIS CAGE
Break out of this cage
Why can’t I hold on to the bars
Is it all in my mind
The weight on my shoulders
Better than that 
More than that
You deserve so much more
So much better than that
Round and round and round…..
Up and down
Round and round
Off the ground
I don’t want to hear a sound
Uh uh uh uh uh uh uh….
Break out of this cage
Break out of this cage
Break out of this cage
Why can’t I hold on to the bars
Is it all in my mind
The weight on my shoulders
Uh uh uh uh uh uh uh…..
Round and round and round…..
My future
Your future
Our future
It’s all in the past
It’s all in the past
Get off of this circular path
Break out of this cage
Break out of this cage
Break out of this cage
Why can’t I hold on to the bars

Break Out Of This Cage | N.o.b.S & TheGat(s)

Break Out Of This Cage | TheGat(s) & N.o.b.S

This Cinematic-style Celtic Fantasy is loosely based around an ancient Celtic gathering on Lindisfarne and had me researching the Common Brittonic language to get some interesting 'Foley' sounds.  It was spoken in Britain and Brittany and eventually developed into Old Welsh, Cumbric, Cornish, and Breton.  It also features my long suffering wife who over time has become a quasi- Foley artist and harmony part singer for me. 

The Metheglin of the title is the oil that makes the celebration happen and is a type of spiced mead, so basically fermented honey with spices added. It also obliquely connects to Lindisfarne mead and also the bees featured in 'By Castle Walls'.  

I wanted to get a sort of cinematic feel to be dropped into a Celtic Festival or feast day and I hoped the language and children's laughter would aid in the immersion. Finally in this project I get to do a fair bit of bouzouki playing which was a plus. 

So hopefully you will enjoy the feast .... "búwa slanos ac swos"

This track is now part of "The Pilgrims Way Project" exploring the history and natural world of Lindisfarne.

Project Playlist

soundcloud.com/mrbouzouki/sets/the-pilgrims-way-project

Project Website 

https://www.pilgrims-way.co.uk

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Instrumentation

A Taste of Metheglin features low and high whistles, harp, strings, violin, alto-flute, a choir backing and bouzouki. Percussion consists of bodhrán, clapping, various taps and knocks, shaker and even tapping on my acoustic guitar. 

Vocal FX is a combination of Brittonic vocalisations and a  backing line from the Soundiron 'Voices of Gaia' collection featuring the vocal talents of Linda Strawberry.

Some of the percussion sounds come from the excellent playable VST instrument set "Flying Hands Percussion" by HandHeld Sound

A sea waves sound FX and children laughing FX that are classed as Public Domain are used to add colour to the track from www.freesound.org

creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

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Background

This track is a combination of VST-based instrumentation and real-playing of instruments  with additional clapping, tapping and knocking, all overlaid with original Foley sounds.

I wanted to try and get a well developed rhythmic feel and maybe the feel of circular dancing that hopefully comes out from the track.

A Taste Of Metheglin

Collab track with my friend Kenny aka KarismaBeatz .

KarismaBeatz x BlackBrightBeatz - Crying Guitars

Lyrics 

It's not good.
You can start over.
You are mean
You can't go away

It does not matter.
You will do better.
The next time.
You can't go away

It's not good.
You understand
Everyone walks away from you.

It does not matter.
You will do better.
The next time.
You can't go away

It's not good
I believed in you
You broke  the silence.
You can't go. Away

It does not matter.
You will do better.
The next time.
You can't go away

Souls in perdition

You can't go away

You Can't Go Away

A collection of songs, instrumentals and orchestral pieces charting my adventures in home studio recording and production.  All original compositions using voice, acoustic and electric guitar (sometimes using altered tunings), bouzouki, low and high whistles and MIDI instrumentation. 

I'm also using VST instrumentation to create classical compositions and integrating orchestral sounds into my songs and instrumentals.

Links to various instrumental projects and other Social Media links are available below.

The current collaborative YouTube channel with Dee Zee is here:-

https://www.youtube.com/@DeeZeeandMrB

A Taste Of Metheglin

MrBouzouki