Name: NEW ALBUM -preview #1 Dani Kirby/Mat Ward by No Mates Ensemble
Duration: 3 min 20 s
Description: Dani and I saved our pennies and hired a great engineer/mixer/masterer called Ivan. Asked really nicely and got access to a beautiful full sized Grand piano and spent a couple of nights recording. album is now being mastered for release in a few weeks. Both happy with the huge sound.. here is a little snippet : )

Wonderful piece, great collaboration 💐 😍 🙏 🍀 🎶 🎧 

y'all/so cool/awesome vocal/outstanding/grand soundN/play on/ piano

a wonderful atmospheric recording..........absolutely beautiful!

such a beautiful piece - the playing is exquisite and her voice is just wow

What conummate pitch.  Dani's notes can do no wrong. Amazing. Damn fine piano of wrangling too.

bunkermoles

The Horse Walks Backwards on a Violet Cloud is the original mix:

🖋️ Lyrics: 
I listen like a child to night, But the shadows know my name. Fatigue pours gently through the vents, Wrapping me in soft, invisible blame.
The horse walks backwards on a violet cloud. My eyes face the dream it left. She whispers through distant time zones now... And I keep still, in theft.
The table breathes beneath its gift, Unknown hands tie memory in bows. My name was said, half-broken, By a mirror that never knows.
The old man’s beard touches the past. I'm seated wrong, I'm waking slow. She trains in orchards long forgotten. I’m just the ache I never show. Light moves backwards, Through our unfinished sky.
I wrote none of this — But it’s mine, It’s mine.

🎧 For alternate versions — instrumental and the Arctic Mood edit — explore the full release on Bandcamp

Full Album on Bandcamp

The Horse Walks Backwards on a Violet Cloud

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aftulser

Hold your hands up to the sun,
Dance around, chant a song,
Swing your hips and have some fun,
Stomp your feet, vibrate the gong,
Shake the earth, embrace the air,
Sun is out, it's all around,
Dance your heart in to a prayer,
Listen to the sacred sound,
Circle of sol, enlighten your soul,
Rays of sunlight, solar power,
We are human, we are whole,
Consuming the sun like a sun flower,
Yellow sun that bakes the earth,
Essence of life it gives to we,
Fuel for the plants, bolsters the birth,
Taste the sunbeams, blaze of glee.

Oh, the golden mask of Ahau,
Oh, the golden mask of Ahau,
Oh, the golden mask of Ahau,
Oh, the golden mask of Ahau.

Sundance of Ahau (original unedited)

mid-deep listening groove electronic ambient dub

fresh aire day

Photo: Bergen, Norway, 2025.

Gone somewhat cinematic with this one in the end. 

As ever, listen all the way through = good karma... thank you.

Drums: NI sample pack.
Bass: Sandberg Elektra 4-string with flats through NI Guitar Rig.
Guitars: Sandberg Salen Jazz into Archetype Mateus Asato and a Suhr Classic Custom into NI GuitarRig.
Keys: various VST from NI and Arturia.
Mastering: Ozone 11 Standard.
DAW: Ableton 12.

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Turn the Page

EXcursion9

Part of: Dark Bouquet. Variations on a theme. soundcloud.com/velvetsomethingsuperdark/sets/dark-bouquet
All material - cut, altered, mixed at will - comes from a nocturnal solo improvisation with fretless acoustic bass guitar with piezo pickup, effect pedals (Carcosa - Dark Star - Obscura), non synchronized loops, three amps. Recorded in the room with Zoom H2n, edited in Audacity. All sounds made with the instrument. All sounds, mixing and production: Velvet Something Superdark.

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Dark Flower

Made for Naviar Records' 609th Haiku Challenge

A torch in the dark [naviar609]

Dani and I saved our pennies and hired a great engineer/mixer/masterer called Ivan. Asked really nicely and got access to a beautiful full sized Grand piano and spent a couple of nights recording. album is now being mastered for release in a few weeks. Both happy with the huge sound.. here is a little snippet : )

NEW ALBUM -preview #1 Dani Kirby/Mat Ward

Music and things that might sound like music by Mat Ward. Noise Art/A  Piano and Bass Duet with Dani Kirby/A 50 plus member Art Ensemble called Then She Reaches The Gun/Deep Research Into Luigi Russolo and his Intonarumori .. thats just the stuff I post regularly : ) Thanks to everyone thats ever stopped by. Music is The Best!

NEW ALBUM -preview #1 Dani Kirby/Mat Ward

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