Guitar-driven instrumentals

Jam over track by Dmitry Shustov

Igor: lead guitar
Everything else: generated by Igor from a GuitarPro bass and drums notation by Dmitry Shustov

Recently on a backup HDD found out this jamming over GuitarPro MIDI track composed by Dmitry Shustov: my former subordinate, composer and multi-instrumentalist from Saint-Petersburg. Haven't seen him for years and  hope here is his SC page https://soundcloud.com/oldblack

When I found this recording, at first time I had troubles to remember who, when and in what circumstances is playing here. Seems just tried to invent some solo.

UnforTUNEtely, latency correction was turned off during recording. For a couple of days I've been trying to find the beat and shift the solo track. Maybe not so successfully. 

Probably I will redo this thing  or add more notes on a distorted guitar.

Igor: guitar
Maxim: noises

Just a music that came into my hands once (except bit closer to the end which is an an extract of a tune I had been composing that days. 

Live in some extend: occasionally recorded in between songs while keyboards were unpacked from a case and prepared for the next set.

My "psychodelic" guitar relaxation

by Igor

Sorry for rhythm fluctuation, I hope it will not much offend your musical taste. 

I've discovered a 4 year old long forgotten recording (just before my twins were born and my musical activity was stopped ). It was a single guitar track with a good sound with chorus effect, but the problem is it's uneven tempo. 
I do not know why, probably I was recording down ideas, maybe on the fly. For the moment, it would be too hard for now to study this part from recording and record it again :-) 

For masking rhythm fluctuations I doubled it with an octave down piano part which I crafted basing on the guitar part, but do not know if it helps. 

Actually I like it as is because it's connected with personal memories of that period of calm laziness of "laying on the sofa"  before the real hardship had came.

Thanks a lot to a couple of friends who have listened to it privately and encouraged me to go ahead and make it public.

South

Gave a try to open collaboartion invite https://soundcloud.com/megsmusicjourney/strings-improvisation-open-collab-invite

Original track by Megan McCarthy - strings
Guitar part by Igor M. - (no edit)
A bit of mixing/mastering by Igor M.

Many thanks to Megan for this wonderful lovely music.

For some reason I thought that I had to improvise too, so after one or two runs along the original track I recorded it. 

Hope I'm not much out of original tune, but at least it has culmination  :-)

And probably I will made another, "mature" take.

Here is a playlist of all the participants in this open collaboration:
https://soundcloud.com/megsmusicjourney/sets/strings-improv-open-collab

I haven't listened to them before I made my record.

Fallen tears of μετάνοια (Strings Improvisation by Megan McCarthy, guitar improvisation by Igor M.)

Original music by https://soundcloud.com/eddytimmermansmusic  https://soundcloud.com/eddytimmermansmusic/on-the-way-to-tomorrow-new
Guitars added by Igor

Thank you, Eddy, for this fantastic and inspirational music.

Mother and Father, Daughter and Son (collab of Eddy Timmermans and Igor M.)

Fivos Valachis: original composition, piano performance
Igor M.: Symphonic Rock arrangement, orchestration and lead guitar

Actually, there are stories from that Age much more appealing to me, such as a story about Adrian and Natalia or  about a woman named Wisdom with her daughters Creed, Hope and Love, than the story about Antinoos and Emperor Hadrian. 
 
However, my friend Fivos composed a compelling and inspiring music. So, thank you, Fivos, for this wonderful opportunity to participate in such an international project. 

I would like also to devote my arrangement as a humble tribute to Jon Lord whose works "Concerto For Group and Orchestra", "Sarabande" and "Gemini Suite" are one of my most important musical influences.

Well, imaging a stage with maestro Fivos Valachis on the pianoforte with Project managers band nearby. All of them surrounded by Symphonic Orchestra (basses, celli, horns, tromboons, various percussion) and let's Rock!  

Please also check other works in this open collaboration project - 
https://soundcloud.com/fivosvalachis/sets/antinoos-project-request

Triptych of Love - Pathos (By Fivos Valachis, Symphonic Rock arrangement by Igor M.)

Megan McCarthy https://soundcloud.com/megsmusicjourney - original piano improvisation "Sadness" (Open Collaboration) == Thank you, Megan, for this wonderful melody!

Igor - orchestration, guitars, production, enhancing the piano sound.

In memory of 224 passengers and the crew of Metrojet Flight 9268 heading from Sharm el-Sheikh to Saint Petersburg and disintegrated by a bomb above the northern Sinai on 31 October 2015. Also in memory of recent Paris events and all the victims of recent "hybrid" wars.

I believe there is an evil power at work in the world deliberately overthrowing stable countries one after another and turning them into bloody chaos. And that chaos spreads over borders further and further. Lives of millions of people means nothing to those who make such schemes.

For a year and a half I have this feeling deep inside. On the surface I can smile, can live normal life, but I feel it. There is no hope for peace. Only grief.

Grief.There is no hope for peace. (Contemplation over Megan McCarthy's piano piece)

Just picked up a wonderful acoustic piece https://soundcloud.com/ddjohn/no-words-just-chords by my friend Steph and added spontaneous solo guitar. Evening relaxation.

Also I enhanced original track with my mastering, so Steph's acoustic guitar sounds brighter and drums really rock.

Flying away! (Collaboration with DDJohn)

Online jamming
Chord progression was composed and recorded  by an LJ user based in Israel
Solo was composed and recorded by Igor


Oriental Elegia

This is the song about home-sick feeling while being on business trip to Chicago. It has lyrics. While recording I failed to sing and desperately played guitar solo over the whole rhythm part. Thus this version is an instrumental one.

Music by Igor. Version with words to be recorded :-)

Verbatim translation of the lyrics (by Igor):
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Now I've been to Mississippi
And in Chicago I was listening to the blues
I have  seen all those skyscrapers
And I walked along the streets

I touched a Stealth-jet in Ohio...
I swam in Michigan lake... 
Why I'm counting up the days
Until I get back home to you?
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When I come home to you

All parts are composed and played by Igor

I created this tune playing along while my wife's niece (she was visiting us for a week) was jumping on the sofa. She grown up now, but the tune remains.

Have many versions of this theme using various scales and harmonics, two of them were recorded. 

This one is a fixation of preliminary ideas with some nods to my inspirations.

Fresh morning

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita........
Je meurs de soif aupres de la fontaine......

Songwriter. Kitchen guitarist with inclination for orchestration and arrangement. Poet in the past.

I occasionally post solo works of "the other manager", my friend, drummer and self-taught keyboard player Maxim K.

My spotlight :-)
https://soundcloud.com/project-managers-trio/when-i-come-home-to-you

Guitar-driven instrumentals

Igor Maximov