Here is something quite different. :-)  

I've been messing around with Blender 2.92.0 and specifically the 2D Animation feature. One of the add-ons to Blender allows you to import 2D images as planes so I created a little character called Vector Owl and then I needed to create  some music to go with the animated intro, all of 10 seconds in length.

If you want to see the completed animation it's on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qScmOz-YdaQ

Instrumentation Used

Piccolo / Sousaphone / French Horn / Trombone / Woodblocks / Celtic Harp / Upright Bass

The sound of a Tawney Owl that is classed as Public Domain is used at the end of the track was sourced from www.freesound.org and is classed as Public Domain.

( creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)

Music for my animated project Vector Owl

Breathing out. Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbKm_5Y-yzM if you like.

Ausatmen

Ay up chuck.  Never missing an opportunity to confuse transatlantic friends once again with the title referring to a line in UK long running soap opera - some kind of northern humour/grit to it.

Down, down
Stumble around
through old memories

Snow falls
Dusting the dawn
from the windowpane dream

So long
troubles be torn
by a thread on a seam

Sail on
Ports in a storm
Singing songs to the sea

Can anything save us now?

How 
now 
crumble in crowds
Well there's nothing to see

Hold on
nothing is wrong
So try just to breathe

So shuffle along 
with the world asleep 
with the world asleep 
(it's not a smile, it's a lid on a scream)

Down, down
Stumble around
through old memories

Snow falls
Dusting the dawn
from a windowpane dream

Lid on a Scream

Fortified

BENIGHTED [for Ulrich Langenbach]

oh babe, what a day, come fall into me 
I don't know what to say, so I wrote you this song in a minor key
   
so lie with me, vibe with me
cry with me, writhe with me  
we’ve got nowhere to be

you can lay here all afternoon
and listen to me play your melancholy tune
that I made just for you  
oh, let me play this song for you

don’t be shy with me, make me pry baby 
ain’t gotta lie to me, you can tell me everything
and we’ll conspire until we’re tired 
and I’ll just keep strumming 

you can lay here all afternoon
and listen to me play your melancholy tune
that I made just for you  
oh, let me play this song for you

let me play this song for you 
let me play this song for you

a song for you in a minor key

Instrumental track. The drum is a ghatam, which is a clay pot drum from southern India that I have been playing for some time. Then there is a santoor, which is a  hammered dulcimer, also from India (that is sampled, I don't have a santoor although I would love to), acoustic guitar for some rhythm and arrangements, and electric guitar for the leads (a Stratocaster). Then of course there is the bass, and some synth.

The cover art is by my friend Mar Ambroj, a great artist from Buenos Aires, Argentina:

https://www.flickr.com/people/enmicro/

Escape Route

Most Uncertain Uncertainty

Rock(s) From Outer Space 

Icebergs In The Night

Arkestar: 'the Faceless Spaceman' now available @ Bandcamp here:
https://arkestar.bandcamp.com/track/the-faceless-spaceman-2

Written, arranged, produced & performed by Arkestar 2021

Arkestar - Blush

Trenchcoat

A blast of spacerock cosmic jamming for you :)

Lid on a Scream

paulmck