Turkish influence with the use of the Ney Flute and Asian percussion including the Darbuka - all samples.

Mixing a trance feel with a Asian/Turkish elements to mash up the genre (again).

Created with - Cubase Pro, Halion 6, Padshop Pro and Synthmaster One, Steinberg World Instruments.  A lot of focus of auto varying the levels of reverb and delay for each instrument.

Turkish Trance

Shade to Light

Some Halloween fun.

The tritone is an musical interval that it’s earned the nickname ‘The Devil’s Interval’ because of the dissonant sound it produced.   Apparently, the church had strict rules of harmony and forbade the use of the augmented fourth for musical reasons, albeit some believed that it was the devil's influence within the music.

The Devil's Interval

Session from 2006 (I think) with John Delahaye (guitar), Terry Cray (Drums) and Nicky Davis (Vocals).  I play Fretless bass and keys.

Fixation

Another one from the "Fixation" sessions with same line up.

I Could've Been Anyone

This orchestral piece begins with a late spring morning and the theme of the Bybrook (a river that runs through the village of Box in Wiltshire), that then gives way to more wildlife activity, especially the Kingfisher who darts around hunting for food - the Kingfisher, although native to UK originated in Indonesia 27 million years ago so a cheeky reference to an slight Asian theme.  The piece resolves back to the Bybrook theme for a beautiful sunny spring afternoon.

This is my first serious attempt at creating an orchestral piece.  The time is spent in articulating each instrument adding expression to make the whole piece sound and feel as real as possible.

Many thanks to Marcus Dellicompagni at Poundsound for the Cubase template (saves hours of time) and some technical advice.

Composed, arranged, recorded, mixed and mastered by me - a learning process!

Bybrook 1 - Byrook and the Kingfisher

A hot summers day by the Bybrook river - the sun rises with morning birds chirping, the heat of the day intensifies and then later in the evening cools off.

Bybrook 2 water music

This was a mixing and EQ nightmare but got something reasonable in the end.  I took each individual track from MIDI and created it's own audio track instead of just recording the mix from the synths into stereo.

The music (Orchestral/Electronic/Dub) represents 3 people and the relationships between them.  Sometimes there is harmony and sometime dis-harmony, especially when the three collide.

Hope you like it.

Mike

Three Worlds Collide

First piece using Steinberg Iconica Section & Players software.  Original sequence was written over 30 years ago by a good friend albeit I have heavily altered the timing.

No Wisdom In War

Hi Everyone

This is my original piece - Emergence.

It pays tribute to one of my major musical influences  - Vangelis (RIP). 

Vangelis was a genius in crafting sonic landscapes and musical imagery.

Those familiar with his work will recognise some of my choice use of instruments and sounds.

I hope I do him justice!

Emergence is a musical journey through the evolution of human consciousness and awareness, in four parts:

1 - Awakening with nature	0.00	
2 - In ignorance 		        3.10	
3 - Emergence 		        6.05	 
4 - Return to nature		8:55

Relax, close your eyes and enjoy the journey.

Emergence - My tribute to Vangelis

A snippet from a larger soundtrack piece.

Something's There

Hi, I am Mike and welcome to my SoundCloud page.  I am using this site as an outlet for my musical projects both present and past.

I write in a number of genres and styles and play different instruments depending on the project but mainly bass (both fretted and fretless), acoustic guitar and keyboards/synths including the usual programming.

Hopefully something for everybody on here and expanding all the time.

The Old songs set will contain songs that I have written and produced in previous bands so on here for prosperity and so they don’t just gather dust electronically ;-)

Please leave feedback if you enjoy anything particular. 

I usually only follow people who write and produce their own music.

Some songs will need a request for download.

Thank you for listening.

Also band project here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVE14wOFyBtzwOpen-Tq18Q

https://www.facebook.com/bybrookmusic/  

Mike

R-Complex

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