Ever Loved

Forgotten

If I had to choose two or three of my compositions out of all of them, this would be one of them.

Like every composition, this one has a story...or rather two.

The first tells how it was done.

The advantage of making music with an iPad is that you can take your "studio and instruments" anywhere. Thanks to that, I started composing it in France, a country that, as many know, I visit frequently for family reasons.

The main instrument that defines the melody is a bell-type synthesizer and was taken from the defunct Alchemy.

It was 2015 and I was still not able to equalize properly (And I think today, although I have improved, neither).

So in 2019 I decided to improve it, but I discovered that I had accidentally deleted the master.

I didn't know very well what to do and finally decided to recompose it from the beginning, but looking for the most similar sounds on another synthesizer (kv331).

The second story has to do with what I want to convey.

Where I live there is a nursing home. I see the families who come to see the people there.

I remember my grandfather, with whom he spent entire days and showed me all the books he read... I remember it as if it were yesterday (My other grandfather died when I was very young). What I learned most from him was respect and discovering the wonderful stories behind them from which you can learn authentic life lessons.

This composition is for these people who suffer and do not have the love and respect they deserve.

Today I also dedicate it to all these wonderful musicians of a certain age who are in this community and to anyone who suffers for any reason and believes that no one remembers them.

Merry Christmas to all the people.

Paco.


FORGOTTEN.

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Cover art. Pixabay by Sabinevanerp
Hardware. iPad 
DAW. Music Studio 2 
Mix. My car.

20 Tracks native instrument and taken from the xewton forum.

1 Track XPad.

4 Tracks kv331 Synthmaster.

Forgotten (2023)

Played on a Tom Doerr (RIP) Legacy- LS Redwood/Cocobolo. 
This little tune gradually grew on me over some time period ahead of the final recording including little changes on the evening it was recorded. Sometimes that's the way things work!!
 Played in CGCGCD tuning capo #1. 
The melody seemed to convey to me a hopeful, thoughtful day ahead where good things might happen! 
The picture is of my son in law looking out over the harbor on a fabulous summer evening sunset!
Thanks for taking time to listen!

MAYBE TOMORROW

A song about willing to find a new place to live. It's not about the city, it's about the state of mind. And I see this track as a soundtrack.

The City [DEMO]

original: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k6TSH74h2ug&pp=ygUcVGhlIHN0cm9rZXMgc29tZWRheSAyIGRvbGxhcg%3D%3D

another hasty cover amidst a (hopefully) temporary lapse in creativity.

someday (the strokes cover)

method: field recording and vst
narration: honouring a place that hosts humans
image: images taken in clara zetkin park, leipzig, germany, copyright jo richter

poem / copyright jo richter:

pervasive peppermint aroma permeates
the cat's olfactory self as it passes
the ice-cream truck nestled next to
the bridge made of slowly flowing steel,

thermal tarmac and as red a coat of paint
as cinematic cone cells can fathom - elsewhere,
a heron's solitary silhouette complements selves
unabashedly spread across playground noise -

if humans had never touched down
on these waters, soils, the river would
have run another course - wind
might have shed its aeolean pride,
for arrival does not alleviate
the ringing shock of departure

clara zetkin park

Clara Zetkin Park

404. imagine (lennon).mp3

Phoenix Ash - (1982) The Man Who Walked on Air - More Than Meets The Eye [v7bS01]

EVENING STAR (Cover)

Ruby LaRue

Climb Up THe Ladder

Climb Up The Ladder

Guitar driven rock.... a work in progress

THE THINGS THAT YOU DO WIP MIXX 053119 L2 01

Just a couple of songwriters trying to find our way. Blessed with some INCREDIBLE musician friends (Tim Pierce, Matt Laug, Jimmy Z, Arlan Schierbaum, Bill Churchville, Rafael Padilla, Michael Parnell) that create the musical magic of Ruby LaRue!  Steve Valenzuela is our trusted engineer and studio Producer Guru. We'd be lost without them. We share our music during the mix process and welcome everyone's 2 cents. Thanks for listening! Rock on......Follow us on Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/rubylarueofficial/