Fabulous track and wonderfully gentle ending...beautiful job!

I've played this tune many times. It's marvellous!! I've just realised, I never commented on it though.

Classical

This piece: 'Conquest of Paradise' is a cover from Vangelis, and most people would know it as a theme track for the movie “1492”.

In 2002, John Styles and his former co-writer / composer Jaap, began to create another arrangement for this song in Germany, but were never able to complete and release it, as Jaap became very ill. From the moment this song was released by Vangelis (1992), Jaap and I wanted to convert it as a duet Orchestral / Band effort, and we even wanted to create solo guitar tracks for it, to run along with The Orchestra at the end. However, John and Jaap were unable to completely finish it.

This song thus stayed on the shelf to be re-discovered and picked up again, and in 2013, because Jaap is no longer with us, both John and Matt started building on the very first ideas / tracks which had been started in 2002 in Germany.

As a result of this new beginning, 'The Orchestra' felt inspired and wanted to play this song as a part of their curriculum, entailing a rebirth and rearrangement of what had already been started by John and Jaap in 2002.  We hoped to join forces so that the band 'Euphoriqa' and 'The Orchestra' could play together as one, utilising the skills and techniques of orchestral and synth-style music. We hope that we have managed to achieve this in the way intended.

In the beginning of this song, 'Euphoriqa' keeps the lead of the song, and 'The Orchestra' is supposed to come in (at around 2:20), and they both join together again as one at the end part in a wonderful crescendo. The volumes of this version, were deliberately premastered on a massive scale, because we did not want this song to end up sounding like and released by others like a remix.

Unfortunately, due to little studio availability and practise time for members of  'The Orchestra', we all decided only last Friday (6-9-13), to pre-release this song to share with you, as a 'Euphoriqa' release, and then to continue this duet further at a later stage.  Thus, what you are listening to now is still a WIP [Work in Progress], and other members of 'Euphoriqa' will also contribute more with additional guitar solos.

Irrespective, what you hear now brings us great pride and inspiration to continue working on it further and to share with you. Because this version is still a WIP, and may not be of the quality that many have come to expect from us, or perhaps what we even aimed for, we achieved this in such a small amount of time, that we are very proud of what we have accomplished so far.   

I only wish that my former co-writer / composer, Jaap, was here now to enjoy working further on this latest version, but I know he would have loved it very much. Thus,  I would also like to dedicate this piece, 'Conquest of Paradise' to my dear friend Jaap. 

We all hope that you will enjoy our first duet version of 'Conquest of Paradise', and we would like to thank the members and the director of “http://soundcloud.com/the-orchestra” for inspiring us to finish this piece. We had a lot of fun making it.

Again, any feedback is more than appreciated as we continue on this journey as this song evolves.

Composer: Vangelis (Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou)
Arrangements: John Styles
Orchestral movements: John Styles, Matt Baker & The Orchestra
Synth, Percussion, Brass section, Piano and Choir: Matt Baker & John Styles
Guitars (WIP): Ralf Reichelt & John Styles
Producer and mastering: John Styles

Euphoriqa - Conquest of Paradise

This track is based upon the melody I have lately in my mind that was inspired by some classical concerts I have seen recently in Concert Hall "Lisinski".
Written especially for the G-technology Driven Creativity Competition 2013 and it took me about 3 weeks to finish it.
Update: Poseidon was shortlisted among best 15 composition and one of the most listened on competition.

Composing: Mario Mauer
Orchestrating: Mario Mauer

©2013 All rights reserved

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Poseidon

My wife bought a fabulous original watercolour painting of purple poppies and she left it on the music stand of my piano. As I sat down to practice I gazed at the painting and improvised this track. It has two aspects - the present day image of poppies blowing in the wind and the associated remembrance of soldiers who died in battle.

I recorded the improvisation and practised it until I could play the left hand part without it sounding too amateurish - at the end of recording the track my left hand felt about ready to fall off!

The painting is by a wonderful artist called Anna and was bought from eBay - you can see her other works here: http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/fabulous.2008/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=

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Legions Of Poppies [Re-recorded August 2014]

Summertime Sadness ( Aston Classical Cover )

Beethoven: Adagio Molto Espressivo. String Quintett Op.29. Transcribed For Two Pianos and produced by VV ona reading/sequence of H.Fesefeldt (1982-2019) fr.ca.2010.
Rec. was carried out on a modeled Blüthner grand piano duo, which was revoiced, reconfigured and the re.setup made by VV.
Photo byJV2018.
Any kind of commercial use of this track is prohibited.

eethoven Adagio Molto Espressivo. String Quintett Op.29. Transcribed For Two Pianos

Beethoven: Adagio Molto Espressivo. String Quintett Op.29. Transcribed For Two Pianos

The track "Away" is my latest  collab with pianist Dirk Maassen https://soundcloud.com/dirk-maassen-official.
 I just loved to arrange Dirk's beautiful piano part with my musical ideas. It was a great time to play with his open collab piece. Hope you enjoy the result.
piano: Dirk Maassen, arrangement and piano additions: MACRIMA 


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Away

Dirk Maassen & MACRIMA - Away

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A quiet and intimate conversation with "Mme Bechstein (my beloved Felt Piano)" from my series "Bach On Felt". This time the famous Aria (from Goldberg Variations). Unlocking the wonderful DNA of the piece and  - trying to - interpret it in a deeply emotional way. Enjoy.

Aria On Felt (From The Goldberg Variations)

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i see the light (‘tangled’) piano cover

Composed and produced by Koen Janssen
All Rights Reserved 
2016

Atlas

Beethoven Fur Elise and Brahms Lullaby for Kids and Children. Classical Music for Babies

Sonate 05 Opus10 1 (baby Sleeping Through the Night)

Please post which piece you think I should do next!

I love classical :)

Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2 - F. Chopin

Elises Traum

Composed, performed & produced by Deryn Cullen

First Light

Purple Rhapsody is instrumental music - 'emotions without words' is the tagline and that's what it's about.

There isn't any one constant that defines the style of a piece of Purple Rhapsody music. Many genres are represented... from powerful electronic to simple emotive piano with many styles in-between.

With experience in scoring films and commissions I'm happy for you to get in touch if you have a need for original instrumental music for your film project, advert, or any commission. I'll be more than happy to discuss what we can do together.

Hello... Story teller hobbyist mostly. .   
My original cloud is @sksskh
Thanks for listening.
Cheers! ~Sue


NOTE: Not yet able to get an uploader to work from iPad for collab tracks 
(my apologies to music maker Justin),.... thus, links offered via Justin's cloud below: 
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Collab Set
Sksskh & Hectic Head - Coral Brain - SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.com/worlds-worst-dj-radio-1/sets/sksskh-hectic-head-coral-brain?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=email
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Honour To War Victims - SoundCloud 
(CHECK OUT Justin's GUITAR in this mix....
...... & at his experimental guitar link below) 
https://soundcloud.com/worlds-worst-dj-radio-1/honour-to-war-victims

Bedford - SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.com/worlds-worst-dj-radio-1/bedford?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=email

A Story About a Dog From Clyde Smith Story Teller Sksskh music Hectic head - SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.com/worlds-worst-dj-radio-1/a-story-about-a-dog-from-clyde?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=email

Anthedon USS Asiatic Pasific Theatre ft. Smitty 
Story Sksskh & Music Hectic Head - SoundCloud

https://soundcloud.com/worlds-worst-dj-radio-1/anthedon-uss-asiatic-pasific?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=email

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Checkout Justin Coughman clouds:
@Slave Ships of Despair .... Guitar 
@Hectic Head
DJ.... https://soundcloud.com/worlds-worst-dj-radio-1

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Thanks for listening!
 (((sks)))  

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❤ENVIRONMENT — RURAL LIFESTYLE INFLUENCES
http://sksskh.wordpress.com/2013/06/13/environment-country-lifestyle/

♥CLEAN ENERGY for Planet Earth...Environment & Sustainability of Life......
http://sksskh.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/clean-energy-for-planet-earth-sustainability-of-life/? preview=true&preview_id=385&preview_nonce=86732cac83

♥Corporate Responsibility to H E L P BANGLADESH
http://sksskh.wordpress.com/2013/05/11/help-bangladesh/

♥Hate Map — Origins of Racist, Homophobic, & Offensive Tweets
http://sksskh.wordpress.com/2013/05/16/hate-map/

♥Religious Freedom, Respect & Equality for All
http://sksskh.wordpress.com/2013/04/11/religious-freedom-jesus-freaks/

♥☮Thoughts FOR Gun Control
Seems USA should follow Australia in adopting gun control law.... 
http://sksskh.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/%e2%99%a5%e2%98%bc%e2%98%be%e2%98%86%e2%99%ab-a-citizens-appeal-to-our-nation-for-gun-control-%e2%99%a5%e2%98%bc%e2%98%be%e2%98%86%e2%99%ab/
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PeeWee a rescued squirrel story....
♥”PeeWee”♥ by sue hite / sksskh
http://sksskh.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/♥peewee♥/
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