Sleeping Whales

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Basking in the sun

Opacity

Lofi - Opacity

It All Comes Natural

While I was composing my F-sharp minor Fantasy, I found myself stuck on a particular middle section, struggling to find the right variation to complete the piece. Eventually, I succeeded, but before that happened, I wrote numerous segments that didn’t quite fit into the piece.

Fortunately, some of these discarded variations began to resonate with each other, leading to the creation of smaller pieces that I grew very fond of. The first of these became my Prelude in F-sharp Minor, and the second, the Moment Musicaux in A Major.

These two compositions share some motivic figures down to the note, yet in feeling and meaning, they couldn’t be more different. Despite the brief scope of the Moment Musicaux in question, I believe there is much to discover within it, with every new small section providing something unique and unexpected.

Moment Musicaux for Piano, A Major

Shades Of Grace - Robert Grigg & Combstead

Obliodrivers by Aedos Cluster of the Waterfall

Shapes Form

Ave Maria di Gounod

Lunar Tide

Original Lyrics:
Holding something that should never have been here
As the ghosts watch over us, swimming in fear
Is there a place where the rivers flow
Where the skies are clear and real trees can grow
A place where the ghosts cease to be
Is there a place where we can roam
A place to our one true home
It’s not a world where no one can be free
The swallows leave earlier now
The glaciers weep their silent vow
The ghosts of the past dancing in the dreams Chasing the future of our faded dreams. (Mate, you’re 16. You haven’t even started your dreams)
These thermal ghosts, made from our extremes
A new age begins, from the last one that died

I think they were good lyrics. They paint a pollution filled world and offer a Utopian one.
Counterargument:
Rocket: You didn't want to make things perfect. You just hated things the way they are.

So I asked Jasper if he wanted to collab and he said yes. I sent him ‘Say It Again’ saying it would be nice to get the drums done on them by next month. He sends me Thermal Ghosts with the lyrics, and tells me he’s going for ‘Fake Plastic Trees’ and I get it done  in a day. He asks me if I like the instrumental and ‘yeah.’ It’s not the most mind-blowing prod but it has a pretty good groove. He sends me a minute of the song so I sing 1 minute worth of lyrics. He wants me to loop it so that it goes longer. I ask him for a favor saying could he please loop his own song. So he copies and pastes the parts so you can hear a gap in the recording. So I then improvise and finish it in 4 minutes. 
He has now traveled from Australia to WAB for a field trip. So he was one of the kids with black hair and a fringe cut.
By this time, he still hasn’t done anything with Say It Again so I send him Veni Vidi Vici and say, “it’s OK if you can’t get the drums to me, I’ll just use programmed drums.” Meaning- You’re probably too lazy to get to it. For production, to fill in the gap I produced the whole thing again with programmed drums/guitars and figured out his …3 chord song. Not even a dom7 for the 5th degree? No. It’s a 3 major chord song. The most complex thing it has going for it are the drums which has the 2nd kick syncopated. There’s also 2 layers of bells going on. I also added simple bass and backing vocals. Yes, it makes my hairs stand up. The acoustic section in ‘You Had Me’ also did but the mixers ruined it but that’s mostly on me for choosing those guys again. For this one, the mixer sent me a version which I thought had the drums too loud and the vocals didn’t make my hairs stand up but sounded like perfection. So on the 2nd revision, I asked to have 20% of the reverb/effects removed and it worked. 
The irony is that the environment is the last thing I care about. I care about people first. I’m sort of with George Carlin. My take is that with a perfect environment and assholes running around there’s no point. Also, let’s just say Earth dies. Bigger picture wise, the universe will do just fine. The bigger environment-the universe lives on. Nonetheless, I did put my heart into someone else’s beliefs as you can hear. It has also reignite my interest in writing good lyrics cos’ if he hadn’t written good lines I wouldn’t have emoted.  There are also environmentalists who give a damn about human beings as much as the environment like Spiderman and I can respect that. 

Thermal Ghosts

Translation belove 

Paroles et chant de Jean-Paul Gaido-Daniel
Musique de Myckaël Marcovic
Illustration d'Annie Madec

Amour et mort et fleurs fanées

Dans le jardin où dort l’absence
J’ai vu ton ombre au pied des lys
Là où le vent chante en silence
Vers oubliés de nos prémices

Refrain :
Amour et mort et fleurs fanées
Du Baudelaire dans les allées
Et sous les roses empoisonnées
Nos âmes se sont embrasées
Nos âmes se sont embrassées

Des spleens perdus dans le mystère
Ton regard avait ce parfum
Puis, s’effaçant dans la poussière 
Ton cœur battait jusqu’au matin.
(refrain)

Quand l’âme rend sa révérence
À vouloir mourir de beauté
Entre un baiser et un silence
Que ce soit sous un ciel d’été

Refrain :
Amour et mort et fleurs fanées
Un vieux poème abandonné
Et sur ta tombe imaginée
Un (grand) bouquet de vérité

Lyrics and vocals by Jean-Paul Gaido-Daniel
Music by Myckaël Marcovic
Illustration by Annie Madec

Love and death and faded flower

In the garden where absence sleeps
I saw your shadow at the foot of the lilies
Where the wind sings in silence
Forgotten verses of our beginnings

Chorus:
Love and death and faded flowers
Some Baudelaire in the paths
And under the poisoned roses
Our souls were set ablaze
Our souls embraced

Spleens lost in mystery
Your gaze had this perfume
Then, fading into the dust
Your heart beat until morning.
(chorus)

When the soul gives up its reverence
Wanting to die of beauty
Between a kiss and a silence
Let it be under a summer sky

Chorus:
Love and death and faded flowers
An old abandoned poem
And on your imagined grave
A large bouquet of truth

Amour et mort et fleurs fanées (Jean-Paul Gaido-Daniel / Myckaël Marcovic)

Sonograph (feat. Ed Staal)

Guitar driven, self produced, original instrumental music.

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