I’d like to dedicate this song as a tribute to my late music partner, Hans Ottsen. We always performed this as an instrumental, and I wanted to share with you my love for the words. Since the pandemic, I’ve been listening to the great jazz women of the past. These include: Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, and Dinah Washington. I’m learning so much from their recordings, whether it’s the classic 1950s, or their final decades.

  For the piano sound, I chose the new Nord Felt Upright, extra large sample, which I downloaded around March. To make the piano sound like a grand, I selected the bright filter on my Nord Grand 88. It’s the perfect piano sound for getting that stripped down, laid-back sound, like the classic recordings of the 1950s.

  Hope you’ll enjoy it.

Music by Johnny Green
Lyrics by Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton

Body And Soul

W-Miranda!

This Is a Classical Symphony

Ausus sum

Happy solstice!!
May light be always on you

Belisama

I thought it would be fun for you to hear me cover a little future soul repertoire by Hiatus Kaiyote. They’re an Australian band combining elements of jazz, soul, hip hop, and electronic sounds. This song is originally off of their first album. The song also has a wild remix featuring the rapper Q-Tip from the hip hop group, A Tribe Called Quest. I chose to do the band only arrangement. Their music also got noticed by several people from the soul, and hip hop community including Questlove, Erykah Badu, and especially Prince. I really like Hiatus’ second album, because there’s more of a jazz meets hip hop sound. Next time, I’ll share you my cover of one of those songs. Hope you enjoy it.

Nakamarra - Hiatus Kaiyote cover

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Second try (I think the first one is too "full")
Used @lazenbeeindustries track https://soundcloud.com/lazenbeeindustries/five-days-a-week-disquiet0591

Added a 808 kick-bass and played around with some filters and distortion 
Photo by Vince Gx

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0592-better-than-one/

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Two Days a Week - disquiet0592 with LazenbeeIndustries

Finishing off the asynchronous trio with xiiixxi after having made the second part by playing bass, too. - My idea for this third part was to add synthesizer sounds and also make use of the vocal track from Looperman xiiixxi created his  amazing track in the disquiet0591 from, but I wanted to use it unprocessed.
After listening to Patricia Edwards´  vocal track on Looperman, I esteem xiiixxi´s work all the more. Only part I wished to make use of was  a short snippet I added to the second part of the track, plus one snipped I reversed.
First part of this imaginary trio: https://soundcloud.com/xiiixxi/disquiet-junto-the-loneliest-number-disquiet0591
Second part: https://soundcloud.com/flyingtonefish/wilfried-hanrath-xiiixxi-euclidean-chromatica-disquiet0592
Patricia Edwards´ track on Looperman: https://www.looperman.com/acapellas/detail/14802/i-do-today-is-the-day-by-patriciaedwards-128bpm-house-acapella
More on this 593rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, The Charm (The Assignment: Complete an asynchronous trio begun by two other musicians), at: https://disquiet.com/0593/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Today

Wilfried Hanrath with xiiixxi - Today (disquiet0593)

Here’s a wild Phish cover I did after experiencing the jam band at the Hollywood Bowl a few weeks ago. It was a fun challenge learning the first half of this particular song. I started by listening to the studio version featuring a horn ensemble, then I focused on a couple of live versions I have: Live Phish Vol. 7 recorded in 1993, and Live Phish Vol. 4 recorded in 2000.

Musically, it features the whole tone scale, which I include during the jam section. Also, I love how the chords change to reflect the dark nature of the lyrics, something I feel is sometimes lost in music. As a fan of the band’s live recordings, one version could be laid back, and another could be faster. I took more of the fast approach, with a dreamy, atmospheric jam.

The keyboard drums were played without a click track. Later, I played the piano using Nord’s early piano sample, the Studio Grand 2 (Yamaha C 7). Then I played my five string bass using my line 6 bass pod, the “Session” preset. I finished with the guitar with the sustain pick up. All the echos, including the spacey, dreamy sounds were completely live on the spot!

Anyway, I would love to compose a song that features the whole tone scale in unusual ways, and unlike this song, write a vocal idea inspired by Ella Fitzgerald and Dinah Washington. I hope you like this cover.

Split Open And Melt - Phish Cover

recorded toungedrum with TE´s TP-7/TulaMic
then rerecorded in TE's TX-6 with reduced tempo and played backwards

More on this 607th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Silence Wave (The Assignment: From close to zero and back again, alter the relative amount of sound to silence in a piece of music), at: https://disquiet.com/0607/

Thanks this week to Jason Richardson and Klaus-Dieter Hilf.

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0607-silence-wave/

silent percussion(disquiet0607)

[Experiment] Trying the Shure MV88 mic on a iPhone for field recording (nature).   Not that I would want to do this very often, but it could be useful when better mics/recorders are not available in a given moment.   The photo shows the location where this recording was made (holding the iPhone, standing about 5 feet from the grass in lower middle of photo).

[Setup] Shure MV88 on an iPhone 10 with foam windscreen. Settings on app:  mid-side mode, max compression, flat EQ,   The quality is not bad for what it is.

The Shure MV88 is *not* a sensitive mic and certainly not great for nature field recording.  The manual even says it was designed to record in very loud environments like concerts, so it would not be good for recording a quiet soundscape.   However, for loud environments it seems OK.   These cricket frogs were so loud that I wore the headphones for ear protection even when not recording.  Without ear protection the frog calls were painfully loud (to give an idea of the ambient sound levels being recorded).

BTW, on an iPhone X I was not able to find a way to monitor audio while recording.  Gain was set by watching the meter on the app.  On phones that have plug-in headphones, apparently there is a way to monitor audio while recording.

iPhone field recording using Shure MV88 mic (frogs in forest)

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Split Open And Melt - Phish Cover

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