The summer is still in its Solstice. Have a warm day!

Fantasy is played on Maschine Mikro MK3 with pads and knobs. Only stock drum/bass, synth and the new polysynth. When Maschine software chocked on tracks and FX, rendered tracks into Ableton for tweaking, mixing and to play more embellishments with Polysynth as VST. Mastered with UAD, IK, and FabFilters. Fantasy will go to Uplifting Chillout album titled Love, some day, maybe. TNX!

Musically yours! ~ S.P. ~
~ @samprock ~ @prockjet ~ @art-of-nonsense ~ @silentzen ~

Love

Fantasy

Champagne bar (Tribute to Sebastien  Lefebvre)

Warning! This is one shot, pure improv recording with Fender Strat and Yamaha bass. 4 min lo0Oong guitar no0oOdle comes in "as-is" conditions, no "missed note" quibbling will be accepted, and "no returns" policy on the reflective thoughts it might induce ;) Now we done with fine-print .... I wish to grab a beer and sit in a far corner of your studio, close to the biggest speaker. See and hear your music in making. Here is mine.

Some good dudes and dudessess decode my music nickname PROck, as PROgressive Rock. To justify this I recovered this casual  Fender session. I know, it is only 4 minutes, not 20(?).  I try to find verse-chorus structure here - I wasn't able too. So falls under Prog and Art Rock to my understanding. Not sure if ELP, PF, Zappa or any 70's genre monsters would approve it .... but hey, that's what Prog is Progressive about, right? By no means attaching myself to the gurus. Full respect to Prog Rock and Art Rock branch, with Supertramp and 10CC. I have become "Comfortably Numb" with "The Things We Do For Love" ... "I'm Not In Love no, no" .... just "Art For Arts Sake" ... it's all "Logic Songs" for me, if you know what I mean ;)

So I exhumed this Logic Pro project from my Macbook, done years ago. Mixed solo, strum, and one more verby Fender lines with Yamaha bassline. Only changed the drums. I missed my real drum set that got lost in the turns of life (darn cheap, but way cool DDrum) Replicate its raw, harsh, solid & lively sound as I remember playing it. 

Other than that, I did not fix anything ... Wait I covered up one part! I got too much into the improv, moving around, dropped the glass of wine off the studio table, hitting it with the neck of my Strat :) It flew nicely!!! leaving red wine stains on carpet. Broken glass sound in the mix is fake, cus recorded guitar with interface. This is what you hear :D

Anything more precious than jammin on you fav instrument? Power button ON, Lights Off ... Opened for collab. If it inspires you grab the WAV stems right here:
https://soundcloud.com/samprock/sets/lights-off-open-collab-sam-prock

Released by Sam Prock, 03-15-2017

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Flower Power Released by Sam Prock and Silent Zen, 2019 ☮

SmartLink: https://ditto.fm/flower-power-sam-prock
iTunes: https://music.apple.com/us/album/flower-power/1489977054
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/7i43flgf1eaacjnbMonTjp
Bandcamp: http://samprock.bandcamp.com/album/flower-power
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08286NQJ1
JunoDownload: https://www.junodownload.com/products/sam-prock-flower-power/4368313-02/
Pandora: https://www.pandora.com/artist/sam-prock/flower-power/AL67tvgJlZl7zVP
Google: https://play.google.com/store/music/album?id=Btopk4vd6vz4p7gbb7jzdvyu7zy
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/samprock/sets/flower-power
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/samprock

Musically yours! ~ S.P. ~
~ @samprock ~ @prockjet ~ @art-of-nonsense ~ @silentzen ~

Flower Power

iTunes or Anywhere

Lights Off

I have decided to revamp and re-sort my tracks on SoundCloud with new tunes that landed on Flower Power. Prock Rock album released by Silent Zen, which is my official record label now ☮ how cool is that, woo-hoo!

I cannot over-emphasize the value of improvisation and catching the moment. Happy that on one good Sunday  did not forget to press a record button while getting intimate with my blue Fender Strat. And happier that posted for you guys to make my day (so many good days!) with all your support and encouraging comments: 

https://soundcloud.com/art-of-nonsense/sam-prock-up-to-you-original-mix

The Art Of Nonsense account @art-of-nonsense will mostly collect remixes. On the newer Prockjet account @prockjet I will ship momentary improvs, mobile grooves, new prockjets for you to enjoy the raw, and hopefully provide valuable feedback and encouragement :) 

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Flower Power Released by Sam Prock and Silent Zen, 2019

SmartLink: https://ditto.fm/flower-power-sam-prock
iTunes: https://music.apple.com/us/album/flower-power/1489977054
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/7i43flgf1eaacjnbMonTjp
Bandcamp: http://samprock.bandcamp.com/album/flower-power
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08286NQJ1
JunoDownload: https://www.junodownload.com/products/sam-prock-flower-power/4368313-02/
Pandora: https://www.pandora.com/artist/sam-prock/flower-power/AL67tvgJlZl7zVP
Google: https://play.google.com/store/music/album?id=Btopk4vd6vz4p7gbb7jzdvyu7zy
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/samprock/sets/flower-power
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/samprock

Musically yours! ~ S.P. ~
~ @samprock ~ @prockjet ~ @art-of-nonsense ~ @silentzen ~

Up To You

"If music be the food of love, play on ... and on" - William Shakespeare (Sam PROCK Remix)

SoundCloud Premier Partner. Published at Silent Zen label with Ditto. Making art with the sound is what I'm after. Curving genre boundaries is a must.

"It is something between discovering and witnessing" - Robert Moog

Hardware: Moog Subsequent 37CV, MiniMoog Model D '22, Buchla Easel 208C, APR 2600m, Córdoba Koa edition nylon guitar, Fender Stratocaster, Yamaha Bass, Teenage Engineering OP-Z, UAD Apollo Twin X, Presonus 1824C, Line6 PodXT, B-52 LS100 & B-52 4x12, Arturia Keystep, XKeys Air, iPad Pro 12.9-inch, iPhone. 

Software: Ableton Live 11, Moog, Arturia, UAD, FabFilter, IK, NI, Omnisphere. Mobile music fan: Korg Gadget, Cubasis, ZenBeats, Arturia, Moog, FabFilters.

"Depeche Mode is the soundtrack of my life" - rephrasing Dave Gahan said alike of David Bowie. 

Influences: Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk, Art Of Noise, Daft Punk, Telex, Trans-X, Yello, a-ha, Arcade Fire, Panic! At the Disco, She Wants Revenge, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana, The Offspring, Madness, Che Sudaka, Ultravox, Sex Pistols, Rancid, Strangles, Elastica, PJ Harvey, The Cars, Foreigner, Therapy?, Muse, Duran Duran, Pet Shop Boys, Erasure, New Order, Telex, Zodiak, INXS, Hey Rosetta!, Cause and Effect, And One, Banco De Gaia, B-Tribe, Air, S.P.O.C.K.

Personas: Ottmar Liebert, Dave Gahan, Martin L. Gore, Jean-Michel Jarre, Georgio Moroder, SuperMax, Boris Blank, Leonard Cohen, Curt Cobain, John Frusciante, Flea, Tim Artstrong, Johny Lydon, Dexter Holland, Falco, Midge Ure, M. Harket, Regina Spektor, D. Marouani, Nick Cave, V. Clarke, A. Wilder, Robert Moog,  Don Buchla, Moby, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Vysotsky, G. Nannini, R. Fogli, Hank Marvin, Aeoliah, A. Vollenweider, M. Knopfler, A. Parsons.

"I am interested only in "nonsense"; only in that which makes no practical sense. I am interested in life only in its absurd manifestations." - "Daniil Kharms.

Styles: Funtronica (invented), Electronic, Deep, Alternative, Disco, Deep House, New Wave, Synthpop, Synthwave, Ska, Punk, Reggae, Cumbia, Indie, New Age, Chillout, GOA, Downtempo, Instrumental, Ethnic, Neo Classic, Psytrance, Psybient.

My mobile uploads account is @prockjet. More remixes @art-of-nonsense. Silent Zen is a support group I conduct @silent-zen.