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Don't Break Me (Piano)

Christmas is most beautiful time of the year and this particular song is one of my favourite ever.

I wanted to have a sweet orchestral/soundtrack kind of vibe and what better way then to use the Spitfire Audio libraries and Labs instruments too.

O Holy Night (rfb.mix)

This song was based in a book written by Irvine Welsh. 
Same author of "Trainspotting", this would be the prologue of what happened to Mark Renton, Spud and Sick Boy before they got addicted to heroin.
The book cover is actually this puppet-skeleton, and at first I was scared with its eeriness. 
The story is very well written, it has its own style, and I definitely recommend.

Guitar, bass: Marcio Hendrik
Drums by Marco Bz

Skag Boys

Inside a forest it sang

This piece is for a small ensemble of six instruments (flute, bass clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and percussion). It is inspired by a popular Catalan song that has precisely the same title, in Catalan "A dins d'un bosc cantava". The lyrics of the song explain that "Inside a forest a cuckoo sang with great eagerness, from the top of a towering oak, calling his companion ...".  Thus, the starting musical material has been the melody of this song. Material subjected to various transformations. The most notable is in the melodic field and has been to "chromatize" the initial diatonic melody by incorporating the necessary notes to achieve the basic melodic phrase formed by all the notes of the chromatic scale. This melodic phrase has been the effective base on which the entire work has been built. However, I have not wanted to completely dispense with the initial diatonic melody, but it also appears at different times, but with careful treatment, using the complementary musical elements to achieve a sufficiently coherent result that would overcome the possible contradiction caused by the simultaneous presence of diatonic materials and dodecaphonic materials.

Randomization is another important element that appears in composition. I have tried to present a continuous evolution of the presence of a controlled randomness, obtaining three different phases in the course of the work. The beginning has a more chaotic nature and evolves towards a much more orderly and clear-cut environment to end in the last part that takes up the more uncertain and agitated aspect of the beginning but that definitively overcomes the initial disorder.

With this approach, I wanted to achieve a music that would maintain the naive, innocent and playful character that the initial song has, but trying to make a musical rereading that was more modern and with a few more doses of complexity. All this imbued with a festive and Christmas atmosphere, which would serve to congratulate the Christmas holidays this year, which is the pragmatic reason why I wanted to compose this piece.

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Traducció al català:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1070-eXNJGZ-Kd3d4WDnGVkjw0PAMCYgi/view?usp=sharing

Traducción al castellano:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1A9tLdBA_H0Y5-PTGQ0nGve2nm6j_LC7l/view?usp=sharing

A dins d'un bosc cantava

Totally cool track by COMBSTEAD that I added to!
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Lazy Days And Sundays - COMBSTEAD / Robert Grigg

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Hit a Bong

Is it a country song, is it a folk song... it really doesn't matter because it is one of the greatest songs ever written...  f* great

It is a John Prine song that got my first attention with the beautiful movie ' Into the Wild'. I dug deeper in the Prine songbook and have to admit I've become a huge Prine fan. This is hands down one of his best tracks! And he has a lot more legendary songs...

This one...

I love to sing it, I love to play it and every single time that third verse comes it cuts deep. It even gives me the chills while singing it! Most of the times it cuts just right, sometimes  hitting those notes, it cuts even deeper. I know it's been done by so many other artists and this is hours!

recorded on a live studio session in Aarschot
Six String studio - By Dave Elli

Written and composed by John Prine (damn we miss you)

December Session

Angel of Montgomery

Angel From Montgomery

Lost in the woods, to dark to see, something watches.. Better start running. No talk, Lotta rock on this one.

Horrified

Went away for a few days and stayed at a house in middle of nowhere, there was nothing around but cows, on the side in the house was a little information sheet about the place, the lyrics are loosely based on that.

LYRICS

John Wild was staring at his pile of stones. He piled them together till he had a home.
In the fields full of gagel, where bog myrtle grows.
He'd raise up a family where no one could know. 

And, the cows do not care how you feel.
The cows stand and stare in the fields.
Oooooooo. 

There are herbs on the hillside and fish in the stream, 
There's game to be poaching to make good the lean. 
All the animals crowd as the north-easter blows.
The short days of winter approach from below. 

And the cows stand and stare through your face. 
The cows that belong to this place.
The cows do not care how you feel.
The cows will not move from these fields.
Ooooooo-ah. 

And the hills do not know,
of the valley(s) below. (x2) 

ahhhhhh (x4) 

The cows do not give much away.
The cows in the wind do not sway.
The cows are not ever forlorn.
The cows stay right where they are born.
Oooooooo. 

Oh, to be free,
in the wild valley.
Now, look at me.
With my land, far from sea. 

Oh, look at me.
No stopping me now.
Oh, look at me.
With my field; full of cows. 

And, the hills do not know,
of the valley below. 

John Wild was staring at his pile of stones. He piled them together till he had a home.
In the fields full of gagel, where bog myrtle grows.
He'd raise up his family where no one could know. 

And the cows do not care how you feel.
The cows stand and stare in the fields.
The cows do not show on their face.
What they think of this place.
Ooooooooo.

Cows (Wild Ones)

The aftermath of a PTSD/Depression period can be joyful often deliriously so, don't be complacent tho the next trigger could be round the corner. Take care of yourselves.

https://music.apple.com/au/album/open-wounds/1656883840?i=1656884332

Open Wounds

Released 02.03.23 to all streaming platforms, to be featured on "DVĀRAM." This track depicts the epic, Mediterranean clash between the Greeks and Persians at the Battle of Salamis in 480 B.C. After the sack of Athens by the conqueror Xerxes and his army, around 370 Greek triremes regrouped for one final attempt at halting the invasion force. Against the numerically superior 800 ship armada, the Greeks were triumphant at the straits of Salamis, saving Hellenic culture from the brink of potential annihilation.

Rising Tide

A piece of music is a mentally constructed entity, of which scores and performances are partial representations by which the piece is transmitted.
(Fred Lerdahl & Ray Jackendoff)

Any tone can succeed any other tone, any tone can sound simultaneously with any other tone or tones, and any group of tones can be followed by any other group of tones, just as any degree of tension  or nuance can occur in any medium under any kind of stress or duration. Successful projection will depend upon the contextual and formal conditions that prevail, and upon the skill and soul of the composer.
(Vincent Persichetti)

Music is a system of signs composed of complex forms which may be represented by physical sounds, and which in this way mediate between mental and psychic contents. To deal with such a system, semiotics are naturally evoked. To describe these forms, mathematics is the adequate language. To represent these forms on the physical level, physics are indispensable. And to understand the psychic contents, psychology is the predestined science.
(Guerino Mazzola)

A dins d'un bosc cantava

Ramon Capsada Blanch