E-Sweetie Q

Visualizer link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh6-DVpGidY 
Abbot Suger, the twelfth-century abbot who effectively birthed Gothic art and architecture, had a particular passion for stained glass. He believed that in passing through the stained-glass masterworks he had installed at Abbey Church of Saint-Denis. Natural light or Lux was transformed into Lumen, a holy, consecrated light; and that such light transformed again into Illumination as it passed through one’s physical eye, elevating the mind and renewing the spirit.

OneKind- Sanguine

Recorded in Modesto, Ca.  Featuring Gibson 335 Electric Guitar solo.  Fender Rhodes Electric Piano solo. Trumpet solo. Acoustic Bass. Roland Synthesizer Bass.  Acoustic Piano Rhythm. Trap drum set. Percussion Congas, Bongos, Cowbell, Timbales, Zildjan Crash cymbal.

Capitola

Sangria

Moderato

"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing"
- Archilochus. See also  e.g. Ronald M. Dworkin, Justice for Hedgehogs (2011)


A song to the one and only who knows it. 

This is an improvised song I played and recorded the other day (my apologies for the mistakes). It is not much but I just had to play it. I am not in the advertising business and I have to mention as a private person for non-commercial purposes that this song is also a mellow celebration of the Rhodes Electric Piano which is one of the most beautiful instruments I have ever encountered in my life (after my U1 upright piano..). I first heard Rhodes electric piano when I was a little child, and for many years I wondered "What is that?". Now after all these years I got enough resources to get the official Rhodes V8 Pro virtual electric piano.

In a larger context this song is also - despite the fact that it's played in the minor key - a mellow celebration of life. It is to celebrate this particular day and everything this day brings with it.

This song was inspired especially by a particular performance of an old song loosely translated from Finnish to English as "The Vagabond's Night Star" (composed by Mr. Toivo Kärki and arranged by one of the greatest jazz pianists in this country, Mr. Olli Ahvenlahti); it was the song where I for the first time heard the amazing sound of an electric piano many years ago. This song was also inspired by the song "Eternal Child" composed by the late great musician and composer Mr. Chick Corea, and also especially by the memorable music of The Alan Parsons Project.

The song was played by me with my Korg SGProX digital stage piano, using Yamaha Montage 8 synthesizer as an audio interface and using e.g. the following instruments: 
- Rhodes V8 Pro electric piano (Mk8);
- UVI T20 Electric 2 Chorus (cf. MKS-20);
- Arturia V Collection / 1982 Acoustic Grand;
- Arturia Mellotron V (guitar, strings);
- UVI Kroma (brass);
- UVI PX Memories (brass, pad; cf. Memorymoog, LAMM);
- UVI Ultramini and Arturia Mini V (bass) and
- UVI Soul Drums. 

Once again I use this opportunity to present a wish: Please let us have the strength to take decent care of each other and ourselves and let us always try to treat each other with due concern and respect.

The Mellow One and Only

Deep Sky

This Orchestral Romance takes you on a sentimental journey to the vast and breathtaking coastline of my favorite lake.
Simple melodies and sweet harmonies try to capture how I was overwhelmed by the beauty and wonder of this majestic view after many months of isolation in the Pandemic lockdown.
I hope you feel this atmospere of tranquility and comfort as well.

Seaside Romance for Strings

No. 21 // AERO
Nature does not need us humans - we humans need nature. Time is running ...
https://soundcloud.com/docfritz // Composition // Arrangement // Soundscapes, Drums, Mix & Production
https://soundcloud.com/joerxworx // Sopransax & E-Piano
© 2023 by DRUMAX PROJECT

DRUMAX No. 21 // AERO

a little snippet from the other night. Somewhat contrasting the extreme noise of our last SC post : ) Still making use of this wonderful space and Grand Piano, no doubt we will get asked to leave at some stage, but until then happy days : )

Moderato

Pascal Bertram