Daily Listenings

Kaymar Foreigner

Of Lights and Shadows

Serenading You - Japanese Version -

OLAS

Go Mode 4L

Kicked Her Out The Telly Ft. Allawi Reckless (Prod. 24NT)

The rhythmic aspect of this composition is based on Euclidean rhythms (a salutation to the Greek mathematician Euclid!).
In 2005 Goldfried Toussaint published the article "The Euclidean algorithm generates traditional musical rhythms" (http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~godfried/publications/banff.pdf). In this article he defines and explains the concept of Euclidean rhythm . These rhythms are so called because they can be obtained using the famous Euclid algorithm that allows us to obtain the greatest common divisor of two numbers. Using this algorithm, rhythms are achieved in which the accented beats of the measure are evenly distributed among the non-accented beats and the uniformity that is achieved is the maximum possible. The interest is that many of the prominent rhythms of world traditional music have this Euclidean rhythm arrangement.
Specifically, in this piece I have used four Euclidean rhythms, corresponding to the following popular music: "Cumbia Colombiana", "Tresillo Cubano", "Cinquillo Cubano", a bell rhythm from West Africa.
With a pair of numbers, the first indicating the number of downbeats and the second the total number of beats in the measure and using the sign   x   to represent the accented beats and the sign   .   for the weak, the cited rhythms can be represented like this:
 
"Cumbia Colombiana" :   E(3,4) = [x. x x]
"Tresillo Cubano ":    E(3,8) =  [x. . x. . x.]
"Cinquillo Cubano ":    E(5,8) = [x. x x. x x.]
West African bell rhythm:   E(7,12) =  [x. x x. x. x x. x.]

The intention has been to obtain a festive music for a certain celebration.

To contrast with such joy and to give a little more variety, in the harmony I have used more ambiguous and somber elements such as the fourth chords and also the four musical modes that I have used: Dorian, Aeolian, Phrygian and Locrian.

In the symphonic instrumentation, it is worth highlighting the inclusion of four saxophones, two sopranos and two tenors and also the absence of percussion instruments with the intention of achieving strong rhythmic sensations implicitly only with melodic instruments.

Euclidean rhythms for a celebration

10 years ago, I recorded some piano improvisations with weather on my mind. This one is for all us cloud-gazers. And you know what they say about weather ... it always changes ... 

Stream: https://tinyurl.com/TAOClouds

Written and performed by Michael Price
http://www.michaelpricemusic.com

Recorded by at Snap Studios, London
http://www.snapstudios.co.uk/

Mastered by Katie Tavani
https://www.katietavini.co.uk/

Illustration & Animation by Deepesh Patel
https://www.artstation.com/deepeshpatel

The Anatomy of Clouds

The Anatomy Of Clouds

wah-dooby-do-wah, pa

wah-pap-pa-di-da, whoom-pam-pa
wah-di-da, wah-di-da 
whoom-pam-pa

She said why can’t I find 
a semi-decent man?
The one I quit most recent-
-ly failed to understand

He came with mommy issues
would belittle me every way he can
When I helped him he was vicious
wouldn’t believe I was his friend
  
Tell me, is there such a thing
as a semi-decent man?

wah-dooby-do-wah-pap-pa-di-da
whoom-pam-pa
wah-di-da, wah-di-da
whoom-pam-pa

I said I wish that more of us
would aim for semi-decent men
We think we’re fully decent
but when we can’t hold a can-

-dle to a donkey or a pig 
or even a slovenly sloth
instead of rising like eagles 
we sizzle like moths

You tell me, why is it so hard
to be a semi-decent man?

wah-dooby-do-wah-pap-pa-di-da
whoom-pam-pa
wah-di-da, wah-di-da
whoom-pam-pa

She said, something in your depiction
of less-than-semi-decent men
makes me wonder vis-à-vis
the reasons we misunderstand

I’m not a minx or a bitch 
or dominating queen bee
I just want to see someone 
make that someone see me

But for this to f***ing happen
(and let me throw you a bone)
I need to find my kind of broken
persuade him he’s not alone

We can work our way up to semi-decent
if we find we’re not alone...

wah-dooby-do-wah-pam-pa-di-ta
whoom-pam-pa
wah-di-da, wah-di-da
whoom-pam-pa

ooh-wah-dooby-do-whamp

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Semi-Decent Man

OK, first of all - Yes, sorry, it's in Czech... And yes, you have to notice the punk is NOT dead. And especially Czech punk is not dead. 
This one is my bet for hit-parade VELKÁ SEDMA of https://www.radio1.cz/

However this song Chlupatý kolena (Hairy knees) has long story. The very first draft of few chord and basic melody crossed my mind the day after the boss of the boss of my boss announced the company’s decision to value more the price of share over the value of people and therefore the company decided to turn upside down life of my 450 colleagues. Collective dismissal.
That time the song's working name was simply - Angry.

But… time flies. Few weeks later I found myself with coffee on sunny terrace in the middle of summer. Me and my Czech friend. Let’s call her my-YouTube-channel-subscriber-#007.

Me not in very good mood, her in short skirt and in similar mood. And with not well shaved legs/knees. And that, despite the view wasn’t very funny, made us laughing like hell… That moment I said myself “damn company and damn bosses”… On the end they do the same as me – trying to do their best for their bosses and trying to deserve their wage and their yearly bonuses.

And so the original idea got twisted from Angry to something inspired by that moment making me laughing.

It took me some time to find courage and try to record the singing. Until today I sang only as kind of self-defense and so far it worked veeeery well. Hope this one will not kill you...

https://www.ladatinthebox.com

In the Box

Chlupatý kolena

Naked version of the official demo for sample library by Herman Samples, Frozen Piano.
Patches used:
Felt Piano - Softer, Dreamer, Icelander, Icelander 2, Frozen Piano, Pad 1, Pad 2, Echoer, Little Glockenspiel, Windspiel
Teaser: https://youtu.be/SgvOeaqeN98
Try it yourself! https://hermansamples.com

Frozen Piano - "Ascension" by Patrik Herman

Composed for Universal Prodcution Music's 'Earth Day' album.

Published as "Time To Change"

Available to license at https://www.universalproductionmusic.com/en-gb/search?vtag=1&vwave=1&vdesc=1&fq=composerIds:%2821870%29

Heartbeat

What the Future holds

Intruding

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)

Euclidean rhythms for a celebration

Ramon Capsada Blanch