lovely perc notes on a wonderful texture!

Ambient 2021

This is a Mark and Gina (Watchglass) original that never made it to pro -recording stage. I made this demo with my husband so that kids in my class at school could learn and practise it. It's one of my favourites because of the simple naivete of the idea  and the gentle power of this kind of communication.

Paper Planes

I Had A Dream (I Was Riding A Mechanical Bull In A Wild West Theme Bar In Manchester in 1987)

SUMMER SNOWFLAKES: variations on a theme. Intended to be released at the first snow fall, but it never came... So I kept recording.

INSTRUMENTS used: Electric Guitar, two steel 6-stringed guitars, 12s guitar, classical guitar, two hardware keyboards (rendering the pianos, organs, bass guitar, chimes, bells, flutes, strings), pedal effects.

The music grew like a fractal in all directions and became quite vast in scope: should I have split it into shorter tracks? Many would say yes, but I didn't fancy that and instead went for the ”LP option"; an instrumental, meditative journey, inspired by the genre invented by Mike Oldfield in the 70s.

When I first heard his work, many years ago, I didn't first get it, but I was intrigued. "What is the purpose?" was my early reaction. But I couldn't shake it off and became hooked to the complexity of his instrumental music, and how it seemed to constantly mutate into new sections. I kept listening, and gradually discovered the many hidden secrets. And it led me to become very interested in classical music.

SUMMER SNOWFLAKES is made in this tradition. Not explicitly trying to mimic Mr. Oldfield, but admittedly clearly influenced by his method. And why not? Was it wrong that Brahms wrote symphonies just because Beethoven already had done nine legendary ones? Would the world have been a better place if Shostakovich had stayed away from writing Preludes and Fugues for the piano? Should no pop songs have been allowed after Beatles? I say, let us be shamelessly inspired by the gigants and make some efforts to create something! Throw an egg if you must, but I think any sincere attempt to compose is welcome.

When I decided to go for a full length track, my vision was (somewhat childishly) the thought of the younger myself; the days when I was a die-hard Oldfield fan and had stumbled upon a new release: always a rare event, an instant buy, running home, headphones on, expectations high, launching it: the first sacred discoveries ... My track may not live up to this, but is a tribute to those days and that feel.

The recording was quite an undertaking and I didn't want to let myself down. I worked on it since December 2018, and was occasionally quite frustrated about it. I avoided midi, and tried to hand-play it all (for the fun of it) - often leaving me in big trouble. I admit there are some sun spots due to this, but I consider them as my finger prints and evidence that a human did this, not a machine. .

Art cover: by DS 2021, reflecting the heavy reliance and overlaying of pianos and organs, and the combinational nature of the music.

Special Thanks to Mark Hermse, Mike Hilton and Wojciech Langner for support and inspiring discussions!

SUMMER SNOWFLAKES

https://music.apple.com/us/album/free-at-last-single/1842798983
https://open.spotify.com/intl-ja/album/7KIF2LGafoeAfJVWEd1t42
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0Fpgp5GJwM
https://touchofthewood.bandcamp.com/track/free-at-last

Free At Last

ice cave 2 65 bpm august 14 take 1

not stressful ultra super slowed reverb

Artist: Gigi
Title: Illuminated Audio
Cat Num: TIME003
Label: Time Capsule
Format: 180g Heavy double vinyl LP with liner notes by Tyran Grillo. Japanese Obi for the first pressing. Original artwork by Russell Mills and photography by Jean-Baptiste Mondino.
Remastered: Claudio Passavanti at Doctor Mix Studios, UK
Curator and Coordinator: Ken Hidaka

01 Abay

Music: : Arranged and performed by Fred Mulder
Vocals: Arranged and performed by Emily Coy
All rights  reserved Fred Mulder 2019
All rights  reserved Emily Coy 2019

recording Berlin 18 aug 2019

Made In Berlin

Working For The Day

Working For The Day**FREM&Emily Coy(vocals)

Old experimental piece definitely not for everyone :-)
Photo by Sharon Pittaway on Unsplash

Moletronics

Song composed during an artist residency with the Fredericton Arts Alliance. This song is now part of the repertoire of a duo I am in with Bryan McDaniel called the Reversing Rabbits. Guitar music composed and performed by Bryan McDaniel.

Rooted

I've been wanting to collab with Ingvar | 𝗔𝗴𝗻𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮 𝗘𝗹𝘄𝗮𝗿 (@agnosturaelwar)  for some time, and I saw this Invitation on a beautiful Playlist he made. Loved the 4 and chose the 3rd to create something. 

☮ 

Remain quite loyal to the original mandolin track, adding some shruti box and synth work on it. Really happy with the drones I managed to build aroud this sounds!
Listening to it makes me feel in the middle of nature, at night, by a fire, gazing at the stars and wondering the origin of all life.

☮ 

Check the wonderful playlist at https://soundcloud.com/agnosturaelwar/sets/octobre-collaborative-works-on with works by @mmastalka , @boson_spin and others.

𝗔𝗴𝗻𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮 𝗘𝗹𝘄𝗮𝗿 - Mandolin, composition, invitation.
𝗦𝘃𝗮𝘆𝗮𝗺 - Indian Shruti Box, Synth, Mix and final Master.

☮
 
«Aí vem a estrela! Aí vem, sobre a montanha,
Rompendo a sombra etérea do crepúsculo!
A paisagem tornou-se mais estranha,
Mais cheia de silêncio e de mistério!
Dormem ainda as árvores e os homens,
E dorme, em alto ramo, a cotovia…
E, se ergue já seu canto, é porque sonha
julga ver, sonhando, a luz do dia!(...)»

O NASCIMENTO, Teixeira de Pascoaes
https://www.citador.pt/poemas/o-nascimento-teixeira-de-pascoaes

Gazing at the stars | 𝗔𝗴𝗻𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮 𝗘𝗹𝘄𝗮𝗿 and 𝗦𝘃𝗮𝘆𝗮𝗺

Boundary Condition

Darker than green

@henrykoek - bells, percussion, Tibetan bowls, vocals
pete swinton - synths, treatments, FX, mixing.
From an 8 track album by Henry Koek and Pete Swinton available here : 

https://peteswinton.bandcamp.com/album/de-pelgrimage-van-jm-basquiat?fbclid=IwAR209zIw52apLk75ecdxbYc_QxTPmj4Q7k_H63-ALzrz34TH6aQFtaPWFcQ

Henry Koek - Pelgrimage Rework by Pete Swinton

PARTICLES

Artist from Sweden with Icelandic roots,
now living in Copenhagen

Darker than green

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