the softer side of OESJ...very very nice!

ahhh...there's that beautiful and emotional guitar...SO nice, Stefan!!

stunning performance. kudos to everyone involved in this

Emotion on the space..beautiful...lovely voice, btw! Loved it! :-))

I find this such a sincere and moving piece. Gets me every time I hear it. Beautiful work Katja, Ralf, Peter and Stefan

SPUTNIK ALIVE - OESJ ft. Katja E.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sixty years ago, mankind's space adventure began.
Happy birthday, SPUTNIK!

When this song came to my ears as a first playback I knew that I only could add acoustic guitar to it. First, to keep it's sensitive feel, second to add a kind of acoustic contrast to the electronic set on it ... So what you hear now has developed over several transitions. I have already worked earlier with Katja, a classical and pop singer, so we asked her if she could imagine to write lyrics and sing on the song. The demo originally was titled 'sputnik'. Quite often Katja keeps the first impulse, studies the background and then she unfolds a story around the topic very well. It was a honor to work with her in this song. 
The composition and complete processing of this song was done by Ralf Wadephul, years back playing keyboards in the famous electronic group 'Tangerine Dream', so this song got it's fantastic sound from his production skills.
The Drums and Grooves were contributed by Peter Pasch, a well known studio drummer in the Berlin music scene. Ralf and Peter, both form the group OESJ.
I hope you enjoy this little tune as much as I do!
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Lyrics and Vocals - Katja Ebert
Composition, Keyboards, Production, Mix and Master - Ralf Wadephul
Drums, Percussion & Electric Grooves - Peter Pasch
Guitars - Rock Flexible

https://spacejazz.bandcamp.com/track/sputnik-alive
https://soundcloud.com/oesj/
https://www.facebook.com/oesj.eu/

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Sputnik Alive (Lyrics by Katja Ebert)

You were the first
To make the way
From the dust
To the stars

Ten brothers
Followed the same trail
Made us dream
Of moon and mars

You defied gravity
Followed by so many

Long gone, but never quite forgotten
Your dream lives on beyond the clouds
Are you still alive? Are you still alive?
Companion?

A tile of life
And of death
Of sacrifice
And of hope.

Everything else
Was meaningless
But reaching for
the stars above

You defied gravity
Followed by so many

Long gone, but never quite forgotten
Your dream lives on beyond the clouds
Are you still alive? Are you still alive?
Companion?
Companion?

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(c) 2017 - OESJ - All rights reserved! - https://oesj.eu

OESJ

SPUTNIK ALIVE - OESJ ft. Katja E.

Rock Flexible is a spare-time guitar player, multi-instrumentalist, producer and singer based in Berlin, Germany. 
He is much interested in the technical and production side of things and he will immediately stop making music as soon as he has achieved his final goal: Creating music in the quality of the ones producing for Radio and commercial CDs :o)
His other projects like the Electronic Music project based on KORG's Volca stuff can be found here https://soundcloud.com/rock-flexibles-elektro.
Rock has done many tracks based on Lyrics or piano pieces of the fantastic Jaime J. Ross which can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/jaime-and-rock.  
His seasons of the "The Great Conqueror" epic instrumental series is available under https://soundcloud.com/the-great-conqueror .
Here on this profile his favorite songs and new releases can be found ...
The latest project is based on an own Modular Synth RF has started to set up. So, hopefully interesting soundscapes to come :)
Hope you enjoy ... 
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Rock owns a small home studio - the "CandyLand Studio" in Berlin. He uses the following - not complete - list of equipment to record and mix his music:
- Guitars: Fender, Ibanez, Schecter, Charvel, Ovation
- Guitar FX: Eleven Rack, Boss GP-10, NI Guitar Rig and a modded CRATE Amp
- Mics: Neumann KM184 MP, Shure SM57, SM58, SM7B, Brauner Phanthera
- Outboard: WA76, Joemeek VC1, SPL GoldMike, TC Helicon Voice Live Rack
- Electronic: KORG Volca Bass, FM, Sample and Keys, NI Maschine, Roland TR-09, Kaoss Pad 3+, Arturia Drumbrute + Beatstep Pro, Roland MX1, Pocket Operator PO-35 und PO-14
- Eurorack Modular with modules from Doepfer, DreadBox, Mutable Instruments, MakeNoise, SSF, TipTop, EoWave and Manhattan Analog.
- Interface: RME FireFace
- Monitors: ADAM A7X
- DAW: Logic Pro X and Ableton Live 10
- Software: NI Komplete Ultimate, Several Waves Plug-Ins, Melodyne, u-he Podolski, Toontrack EZ-Drummer 2 & EZ-Keys
- Flutes, Whistles and Ocarinas
- Percussion (quite often I use real percussion over ready-2-use loops)
- Roland V-Drum TD-3

Comments

markjbennett

Walkin' in Pa's Footsteps

DAX

.47 seconds

jaime j ross

jaime j ross

jaime j ross

jaime j ross

jaime j ross

jaime j ross