One Fell Swoop

Sam Arnold - Guitars, Bass, Banjitar, human keyboards and percussion, programmed keyboard and percussion. composing, arranging, and mixing

Aaron Parks - drums on all songs, but kinda more like samples/loops on 1, 7, 10 and 11.

Greg Yancey - Mastering
Michael Day - Drum Recoding
Adrian Benavides - Drum Recording
Brian Nothin - Artwork

Progressive Rock Electro Jazz Fusion. Organic grooves and melodies deranged by spastic blasts of cheap symphonic synth excess and flowering chaos.

In May 2020, I started writing instrumental songs inspired by Chick Corea, Pryapisme, Secret Chiefs 3 and the global funk and fusion I was hearing in the air. Jazz and Prog virtuoso drummer Aaron Parks did a session with me at AMP studios in which he rained fire on 7 or my composed songs and 3 spontaneous performances, I filled in the rest in early 2021.

Density Problem

Recording Date: 22 August 2017.
Just wanted to share it.

Some Turkish Improvisations on 11/4 Time Signature.

Burning Fir

Luciferian Ambition

Asura

Songlet 1 of 6

One more day
falls away
grains and grains

6-27-2020 - Grains

My father grew up on the Vistula river or Die Weichsel as they called it. He and his family fished, played, and boated on the river all throughout his childhood. He asked me to write a symphony in the style of Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, Brahms et. al. about the river. This is the first movement. Its MIDI using Vienna Symphonic Library.

Die Weichsel Symphony

Die Weichsel Symphony Movement 1

I've seen the world with five speak and spells
looking at the front side of me
singing his songs, one of Jason's now and then
but I don't think Pete done it this way
did Sonic Boom really do it this way?

01 ARE YOU SURE SONIC BOOM DONE IT THIS WAY.mp3

Sasquatch Returns To The Sea

These songs were made during a 12 hour and 8 minute span. With some light editing during mixdown (less than 30 mins).

The goal was to write 20 songs in 24 hours as part of the Immersion Composition Society game. 

I hadn't done this before, and was curious about how quickly I might be able to write a 2 minute song with multiple tracks. I wanted to get it under 2 minutes but did not accomplish that. My techniques included recording at a very fast tempo, then slowing it down to a "normal" tempo; cutting and pasting a lot; and not writing lyrics since that is a weak point for me.

The songs are titled like this:
Song # RecordingStartTime-RecordingEndTime (TotalTime)

Time is in military since I thought I might go over the 12 hour mark.. which I barely did (dang it!)

All songs were recording 11/27/2020 (Black Friday)

SONG17 2140 - 2211 (31 Min)

I create progressive music in various genres including heavy rock, jazz, electronic, and pop. Please join my patreon to support my Soundcloud habit!

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