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Come on iedereen.  Let's get it together and unify!

Compositions by Robin Benjamins
Produced by Robin Benjamins

Unify

Vol. 1

2018_08_23

What Words Can't Say

Electronic-2

/Margo Fly --- CJ Stereogun & Margo Fly - The Feeling Of Flying (Rework 2016)/

Syntaleta --- Taken To Heaven

Bare Feet

Take a ride along the Tioga Road to one of the most amazing places: Tuolumne.

- Music by: Robin Benjamins, @blunt-force-serenity, BluntForceSerenity.com
- Arranged and produced by: Robin Benjamins
- Photograph: "The Meadow" by Robin Benjamins

Key: D major
Time signature: 7/4, 13/4
BPM: 67.3

Instruments:
- Arturia KeyLab 88

DAW:
- Mac Pro 12 Core, macOS 10.1.7 (Catalina)
- Apple Logic Pro X 10.6.3
- Plug-ins: Logic Stock, Spitfire Audio – BBC Symphony Orchestra, Ez Drummer, AIR theRiser
- Focusrite Saffire Pro 40

Total Aquarium

Tuolumne

A homage to one of my favorite bands, The Carpenters.

- Composed by: Bonnie Bramlett, Leon Russell, and Delaney Bramlett
- Original recording and performance by the Carpenters:    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ5KKoDmtPo 

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group
Superstar · The Carpenters
Carpenters
℗ 1971 A&M Records
Released on: 2005-09-27

Producer: Jack Daugherty
Associated  Performer, Recording  Arranger, Background  Vocalist, Piano, Wurlitzer electric piano, Rhodes: Richard Carpenter
Studio  Personnel, Recording  Engineer: Ray Gerhardt
Associated  Performer, Vocals, Background  Vocalist: Karen Carpenter
Associated  Performer, Bass  Guitar: Joe Osborn
Associated  Performer, Drums: Hal Blaine
Associated  Performer, Oboe: Earle Dumler
Composer  Lyricist: Bonnie Bramlett


- Remix stem source: YouTube, “Carpenters - Superstar - Acapella (near)”, Pedro Andrade, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9wqJJi87yA 

- Remix by: Robin Benjamins, @blunt-force-serenity, BluntForceSerenity.com
- Remix arranged and produced by: Robin Benjamins
- Photograph: NASA Hubble Photo of Eta Carinae - a super star!
- Note: Given that this is an unauthorized remix, Robin Benjamins makes no claim or rights to this production and is a gift to the current copyright owner to do with as they please.

Key: F minor
Time signature: 4/4 and 7/8
BPM: 84.1174

Instruments:
- Arturia KeyLab 88

DAW:
- Mac Pro 12 Core, macOS 10.1.7 (Catalina)
- Apple Logic Pro X 10.6.3
- Plug-ins: Logic stock, Spitfire Audio – BBC Symphony Orchestra, Ez Drummer, AIR theRiser
- Focusrite Saffire Pro 40
- Mackie Control Universal

Superstar (BFS Remix)

And I Love Her / The Beatles
https://youtu.be/Nm4YlZ3oYsQ

This work was supported by many people in the winter of 2019. The listeners were mainly in various area of the United States. I am very grateful for that. I decided * WINTER 2019/2020 * for this work. I wish you a good Christmas and a good year.

This classic Beatles song is designed to raise the key by a semitone at the stage of the guitar interlude. Some people do not realize that it has been changed the key because it is so natural. I think it's a really attractive and mysterious melody. I developed it and experimented with this recording to see what would happen if I continued to raise the performance of the song by a semitone for each theme. For those who are practicing the guitar, I think it can be used as a basic lesson to aim at playing in any key, whether it is chord stroke practice or melody line practice. 
However,  I know that some people who are practicing guitar can only play the same melody line with different pitches, because the chords are different. If the songs are different, other instruments will perform quite differently. Therefore, even if your performance while practicing guitar is always doing almost the same thing, it is often the case that the listener hears it playing a different performance. What is unfortunate is the fact that you can't grow at all during that time. The problem is that you stay there for years. If you later realize that you were wasting a terrible time, you can't get it back.It's a serious wall for beginners to overcome. Even if you are a skilled top professional guitar player, if you don't pay attention to your condition, it is said that you will be playing only the usual phrases. It is the same that we should always be aware of.If you can't get out of the symptom that the melody you play is almost the same, even if you use different titles for each recording, you first need to realize that you are always playing almost the same phrase.
Such people terribly often don't know or ignore the difference between the Western scale and the Blue note scale. For example, if you add an E-flat sound to the C major scale or A minor scale, and you think it is a blue note scale, it won't cause a catastrophic failure if you are a keyboard player. However, if you are a guitar player, it will be fatal.They are even suspicious of whether they have found a usable scale from the chord progression and are starting to play.Often they do not seem to be fulfilling the important mission of matching rhythm and melody.What's more, it's impossible for a sensitive listener to allow someone to pretend to be a blues player while making a sound unrelated to the blue note scale.To make matters worse, such people do not even master the Western scale enough,many good listeners will gradually move away from the artists who release or spread the works that cannot be called works. We will need to be very careful about that.You may struggle and find someone to pass on responsibility. But that attempt will fail. We all pay laziness and self-satisfaction by ourselves.
Alternatively, some beginners can imitate the performance of a great guitar player, but cannot freely improvise. In general, it is until the early teens that a boy or a girl who is crazy about guitar playing is expected to see the future from the audience by imitating the performance of a genius guitar player.As is well known, copying and covering are completely different acts.That is also a serious wall. In order to overcome this, there is no choice but to accumulate a lot of issues from basics to applications over a long period of time. I would like the recordings shown here to be used as the first step before getting into there in earnest.
December 2019

The chord progression from the 11bars.
F#m7|E6  |F#m7|E6  |
F#m7|E6  |A       |B7     |E6     |E     |

And I Love Her ～slide To End（Instrumental cover,The Beatles）--- * WINTER 2019/2020 *

Your Lies

A tune I made a wee while ago.

Featuring the Novation Bass Station & Korg Minilogue in a mind-expanding duet.

Feel free to download.

Extraterrestrial Rainforest (FREE DOWNLOAD)

My old band, Savoy Special. I listened to this the other day and was feeling nostalgic. Miss those guys.

New Age Hustle 06

Come and Gone

All Vocal's & Guitar's by Martin Reed
Bass By Tophonicus
Drums By Breaks Watts

Produced By Martin Reed

Cockney Geezer - REMASTERED

Guray Nameh

Track 3. 'Old Buildings' from 'Old Demo tape'

All tracks in this playlist are old recordings.

All songs and lyrics wrote and recorded (2001-2021)

New songs coming soon.

Buy Old Demo Tape

Old Buildings (Demo)

The Awakening (Prod. SouL Muzick & PACMAN)

Production & Mix @soulmuzick13
Production @pacman-mic-mastery

Tracks is available for lease or exclusive. Any questions please inbox or contact on Facebook here @https://www.facebook.com/pacman.banghouse

We thank you for listening!

The Awakening (Prod. SouL Muzick & PACMAN)

This is the third incarnation of my original track and has been beautifully reworked and remixed by the amazing Wane of Summer. 

I love what he has done and hope you enjoy it too.

You can contact him at https://soundcloud.com/wane-of-summer

This New World Feat. Moonlit Aurora (Wane Of Summer Remix)

An old new track :)
Remastered by Houman (https://soundcloud.com/houmans)

Flying in the Dream

The Whole Life

Floating Feeling Of Migratory Birds

Joe; www.hammondtoday.com
©️Tu, Joe 2014

wikiloops.com Blues jams

Wednesday Blues | Tu : Vo, Joe : Organ

Alexander Aarøen Pedersen: Keyboard
Are Charles Pedersen: Gitar

Spaceman

The Paths Of Redemption

Pulling myself out of a bit of musical doldrums (we’ve all been there!), I resurrected a song that sat for a long time in concept only.  I intended it to be a driven song with a Billy Cobham/Jan Hammer influence.  Something that was on my “musical shelf” and collecting a lot of dust, a victim of the doldrums, that finally sparked and I took it from a scratch idea into what is presented here.

- Music by: Robin Benjamins, @blunt-force-serenity, http://BluntForceSerenity.com
- Arranged and produced by: Robin Benjamins
- Photograph: "The Plains of Mount Thielsen" by Robin Benjamins

Key: G# minor, F# minor
Time signature: 31/8
BPM: 100

Instruments: 
- Arturia KeyLab 88

DAW: 
- Mac Pro 12 Core, macOS 10.13.6 (High Sierra)
- Apple Logic Pro X 10.4.1
- Plug-ins: Ez Drummer, u-he Bazille
- Focusrite Saffire Pro 40
- Mackie Control Universal

- Copyright: Robin Benjamins, http://bluntforceserenity.com

Plains of No Despair

With all my love...

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"Caelia Maximus" has been remastered and is featured in my album "Orchestral music for a lifetime"
https://rachelnusbaumer.bandcamp.com/album/orchestral-music-for-a-lifetime

Caelia Maximus

Ripples

The Marionette Ballet

Pull Me Out

Bill Us For the Light

From our latest Album decipher. 

Www.facebook.com/shadowpainterband
Www.twitter.com/shadowpainter1
Shadowpainter.bandcamp.com
Decipher https://www.amazon.de/dp/B07CNJ94K2/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_czV3Bb9DZV3JD

InsistRiseAgain

I love sunfishes. Sunfishes are my friends.
Enjoy the trippy video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtWVmnpF23g&t=1s

Mola mola - downtempo electronica

This is the third track for an EP I'm working on exploring the theme of  the Navajo creation spirit asdzą́ą́ nádleehé, meaning "the woman who changes".

Asdzą́ą́ Nádleehé II

Asdzáá Nádleehé III: Sommer

ESTELAR

out on a "Empty Sky" - electronic based , vocals and e-guitar

Empty Sky

Humankind has imposed its presence upon The Great Precession.
I had this concept in mind as I began working on this project.
While it seems as though its cause has been fairly well understood,
I was amazed that there is still a good deal of conjecture surrounding it.

See the YouTube:  "The Great Year"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3ZDcj0kF_0

In creating this soundtrack,
I used only the instruments in Logic Pro X's ALCHEMY
and its native presets.
No additional effects, other than automation and EQ were used.

ADDENDUM: Since the time I first encountered Camille Saint-Saens' Symphony No. 3 In C Minor, Op. 78, "Organ"
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDaZfSHDpa0
in a symphonic composition,
I had wondered at the paucity of the use of the organ in larger arrangement.
Of course, with something of that size, you can't just go on a road show.

The Great Precession

yes, this is leading nowhere... 😶 no climax... just another sketch with some electronic noodling and impro. But I am somehow fond of it. So please enjoy, 🙏 Peace! ☮︎

02.04.2019

Leading Nowhere

Please welcome to join Syntaleta community on https://www.patreon.com/syntaleta
Remastered by Houman (https://soundcloud.com/houmans)

Rise Again

Show your support

Obsession

Serving up a new dish of harmonic and rhythmic adventures in pursuit of flavors to be savored  and pondered.  

- Music by: Robin Benjamins, @blunt-force-serenity, http://BluntForceSerenity.com
- Arranged and produced by: Robin Benjamins
- Photograph: "Morning Moon over Peeler Lake, Eastern Sierra Nevada" by Robin Benjamins

Key: G minor, Bb, E minor, Eb minor Pentatonic, Bb minor, G# minor, F, and various in between...
Time signature: 15/8, 8/4, 13/4
BPM: 82

Instruments: 
- Arturia KeyLab 88

DAW: 
- Mac Pro 12 Core, macOS 10.14.6 (Mojave)
- Apple Logic Pro X 10.4.6
- Plug-ins: Logic Stock, Surge, Ez Drummer
- Focusrite Saffire Pro 40
- Mackie Control Universal

Horizon Drift with Boiled Potatoes

Please welcome to join Syntaleta community on www.patreon.com/syntaleta
Remastered by Houman (https://soundcloud.com/houmans)

Taken To Heaven

We wish all of you a Happy Hollidays and Merry Christmas!
Move In Dance  
Vocals :https://www.ghosthack.de
Backing Track: https://soundcloud.com/paploviante-and-friends/in-the-beginning-open-collab
Cover: Emerson Lake & Palmer- From the beginning
Sax: Mark Douthit
Trumpet: Don Clark 
Lillithe:   Arrangement  and Production

Move In Dance   Lillithe & Paploviante

Now available in all digital stores:
iTunes:
https://music.apple.com/us/album/flying-in-the-dream/1509262899
Free listening on Spotify and YT Music (removed from SC)
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/4QCtoxkxVtBDYJSoJi4bSj
YT Music:
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mF15v_U9hJoVv07vk6sfIo72ljSwDQzbg
Amazon music:
https://music.amazon.com/albums/B087D75T6F
Amazon store:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B087D75T6F

The album track list:
1. Don't Say Goodbye
2. Returning
3. Illusion
4. Out of This World
5. Flying in the Dream
6. River of Life
7. Another Memory
8. Circle of Loneliness
9. To Be Young Forever
10. The Whole Life
11. Rise Again
12. Carol of the Bells - Winter Lullaby
13. A Letter from the Past
14. Mama
15. Eternal Love

Special thanks to Houman (https://soundcloud.com/houmans) for remastering each of the tracks!

Flying In The Dream - Preview (The new album 2020 is now available)

Tribute to Florian Schneider
Cover The Model „KRAFTWERK“ Instrumental Version Paploviante
R.I.P Florian Schneider

Tribute to Florian Schneider "Kraftwerk" The Model - Instrumental Cover Paploviante

Behind the Fence / Open Collab Paploviante 2020
Instrumental Version of the track Enchanted
BPM 140
The track is downloadable as a mp3 file!
You can complete what you want!
If you publish it, you have to mention me in the description and title!
Thanks !

Behind The Fence - open collaboration Paploviante

"Anytime" Electronic beats and bass,E-guitar and vocals, I was sidelined for a week or two working on a track that I eventually gave up on, It seemed like a total waste of time, but this often happens and I suppose it´s for the best, a little quality control goes a long way. I work on my sounds almost everyday into the wee hours more often than not, I was initially down after realising I had created a pile of rubbish (lol). this track though, was waiting in the wings and as soon as i played it (after a long a break ) I knew it was the one I should finish. The art work is a panoramic shot I made in Lightroom, hope you like it !

Anytime

I’ve Seen That Face Before feat. Vocalatti
I am very happy to present my first collaboration with Vocalatti.
Vocal Vocalatti
https://soundcloud.com/vocalatti
A huge thanks to Paploviante for remastering
https://soundcloud.com/paul-racle
Music and Production Lillithe
Lyrics:
Strange, I've seen that face before
Seen him hanging 'round my door
Like a hawk stealing for the prey
Like the night waiting for the day
Strange, he shadows me back home
Footsteps echo on the stones
Rainy nights, on Haussmann Boulevard
Parisian music drifting from the bars
Tu cherches quoi, rencontrer la mort?
Tu te prends pour qui?
Toi aussi tu détestes la vie
Dance in bars and restaurants
Home with anyone who wants
Strange he's standing there alone
Staring eyes chill me to the bone
Dans sa chambre, Joel et sa valise
Un regard sur ses fringues
Sur les murs, des photos
Sans regret, sans mélo
La porte est claquée, Joel est barré

I've Seen That Face Before feat. Vocalatti

I was inspired by Liisa Pentti’s recording of “Black Is the Color” to do a remix of her interpretation of a traditional folk song.  I was so impressed with her performance and her beautiful voice, so I roughed out an initial version and sent it over to her.  She offered me her original recorded tracks, which enabled me to produce this posted version.  I am very thankful to Liisa for allowing me to do the remix and post it for your enjoyment.  Please visit her SoundCloud site @liisapentti and listen and comment on all of her amazing songs.

- Vocal by: Liisa Pentti, @liisapentti
- Liisa's original version: @liisapentti/black-is-the-color
- Original folk version performed and written by John Jacob Niles, @johnjacobniles/black-is-the-color-of-my-2
- Remix arranged and produced by: Robin Benjamins
- Photograph: "Rue des Mages” by Robin Benjamins

Key: G minor
Time signature: 4/4
BPM: 106.75

Instruments:
- Arturia KeyLab 88

DAW:
- Mac Pro 12 Core, macOS 10.15.4 (Catalina)
- Apple Logic Pro X 10.5.1
- Plug-ins: Logic Stock, Ez Drummer
- Focusrite Saffire Pro 40
- Mackie Control Universal

Liisa Pentti - Black Is the Color (B•F•S mix)

A composition initially influenced by a John Bonham groove that evolved into a G minor vamp with weaving melodies, based on a double harmonic scale, played by an English Horn and Bansuri.

- Music by: Robin Benjamins, @blunt-force-serenity, BluntForceSerenity.com
- Arranged and produced by: Robin Benjamins
- Photograph: "Illumination at 304" by Robin Benjamins

Key: G minor, double harmonic scale
Time signature: 7/4, 4/4
BPM: 80

Instruments:
- Arturia KeyLab 88

DAW:
- Mac Pro 12 Core, macOS 10.15.4 (Catalina)
- Apple Logic Pro X 10.5.1
- Plug-ins: Logic Stock, Spitfire Audio – BBC Symphony Orchestra, Ez Drummer
- Focusrite Saffire Pro 40
- Mackie Control Universal

Waves At 304

I was in the mood to write something heavy and came up with a song inspired by the dread of a diminished 7th chord.  However, there is a counter point to pull it up out of the gloom and impart some beauty.

- Music by: Robin Benjamins, @blunt-force-serenity, BluntForceSerenity.com
- Arranged and produced by: Robin Benjamins
- Photograph: " Black Hole Image of M87" by NASA

Key: C minor, C# minor
Time signature: 15/8
BPM: 67.3

Instruments:
- Arturia KeyLab 88

DAW:
- Mac Pro 12 Core, macOS 10.15.7 (Catalina)
- Apple Logic Pro X 10.6.0
- Plug-ins: Logic Stock, Spitfire Audio – BBC Symphony Orchestra, Ez Drummer, AIR VacuumPro, AIR Loom 64, AIR theRiser
- Focusrite Saffire Pro 40
- Mackie Control Universal

Singularity

B L U N T • F O R C E • S E R E N I T Y

"I don't always make music.  But when I do, I prefer dynamics.  Stay below -6dB, my friends."

Composition explorations in musical textures, stories and grooves.

I am an amateur composer, producer and musician who has been inspired and influenced by music my entire life.  Beyond my interests in developing harmony and rhythm ideas, a song’s timbres and textures have always held a deeper emotional grip on me.  This passion for tone has dominated my compositions and productions, which are combined with playful melodies and progressions that are immersed in sophisticated soulful beats.

B L U N T • F O R C E • S E R E N I T Y is led by Robin Benjamins and features collaborations with composers and musicians from down the road, and from around the world.  These artists are:

Олег Ястребов @v28yterij7ek
Liisa Pentti @liisapentti
Home Sweet Somewhere @homesweetsomewhere
Pia @pia-rose-music
Gabriel Bustamante, @gabriel-bustamante-12
Mindsongs Musique @nancy-joie
PlasticSky @plasticsky
Ingolfur Bjornsson @ingolfur-bjornsson
Gemma Cao @psychological_music
Niti Dharwadkar @niti-dharwadkar
UMD Anokha @anokhaumd
Nick Osmonovich @osmo94