Warning, contains between 31.5% and 100% mandolin, which depending on your mental condition could have serious consequences or nothing at all - which is even worse.
You cannot claim that you weren't warned.

I repost this playlist whenever I update it

Warning, contains mandolin!

Composition made on mandolin + bass + guitars, all arranged in some way. 
The title  'Bez Mozak', can be roughly translated to 'Without brain' from Croatian which I try to learn painfully by osmosis.  Not sure why I gave this title, I was probably not thinking much at that time.

Bez Mozak

Piece I created with mandolin/guitars + other instruments added electronically. Most of the mandolin parts are recorded twice and superimposed, which might give an impression that there were a lot of people playing. - but that was just me playing at different positions in space-time.
Pictured: Squeaky a.k.a Squeak, the South Indian cat (http://instagram.com/thedailysqueak) who doesn't like music and is just trying to find a spot to sleep on the sofa.

Quest for Something

A little piece on the mandolin created this Saturday afternoon after a nap. 
Crappy microphone + crappy sound card = crappy sound + scratches. No mystery to this equation.
Točka (pronounced tochka) means "dot" or "spot" in Croatian and is the name we gave to a little kitten who appeared one day in the courtyard (pictured). 
That's all it is really.
August 14th 2017: The little Točka left us yesterday. Too soon. She was very fun and sweet.  You can see some pics of her here: https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/tockathepanda

Perso

Točka

Točka The Panda

Mandolin and guitar, bass played by me. Drums and percussions are samples and loops because I cannot play them which is very unfortunate .

Aym Cee Gee Dee

Aym CeeGeeDee Twenty Four

Having fun.

Sorry, one string is a bit off by a few hertz in the mandolin solo (oh no! why?)
Pictured: Squeaky my dear little South Indian cat (picture used with her permission) https://www.instagram.com/thedailysqueak

Kind of Superfluous

Rough piece on the mandolin for this afternoon. You can even hear some sloppy fingering - proof that it's not generated by a computer (although...).
In French, "arbre à palabres" refers to the tree under which people gather to discuss, debate or listen to the village sage. It's a tradition usually associated with some African cultures but you've probably seen it somewhere else - people talking under the shade of a tree.

Arbre a palabres

L'arbre à palabres

Jeff sent me a splendid dilruba track and I added the mandolin. That's pretty much it.
Jeff Wiedenfeld (@jwiedenfeld): dilruba
Me: Mandolin
The inattentive listener could be fooled into thinking that the background noise is far away waterfalls, but it's just that: plain white noise coming from the mandolin recording.

Beds of Reeds (Jeff Wiedenfeld  & Samy Ben Rabah)

Another musical collaboration with Jeff (@jwiedenfeld)!
Jeff:  Gambian bass, string bass, environmental acoustics
Me: Mandolin

Meowing Tall (Jeff Wiedenfeld & Samy Ben Rabah)

My friend Jeff, who is never short of good ideas, came up with this one. 
A typical feline jazz piece.

@jwiedenfeld guitar, steel guitar, double bass
Me: mandolin, mixing (sort of)

Pictured: my cat Squeak (a.k.a Squeaky), who is kind of furry. Used with permission of course. She got a double ration of yogurt as royalties. 
Thank you Jeff!

Full Featured Fur (Jeff Wiedenfeld & Samy Ben Rabah)

Droughts

This the mood for the next minute and thirty seven seconds

Ephemeral

Maybe I'll try to make a song of this -  maybe.

A Few Drops...

There's always a prelude to something n'est-ce-pas?

Pictured is a view from Grožnjan (pronounced "Grožnjan", like in "Grožnjan"), a hilltop town in Istria, Croatia

Prelude (to something)

I think I was trying something inspired by raga charukeshi and then it degenerated - oh no! Is it serious doctor?
No dogs were involved in this track.
Photo taken at the Karnataka-Maharashtra-Goa border

Unexpected Journey

Nothing profound, just two guitars and a mandolin

Reflections I

This is the second reflection. Always good to think twice.

Reflections II

( this was posted earlier by CrazyCompass). 
Nata had the good idea to add her voice on one of my tracks (Kind of Superfluous https://soundcloud.com/samybr/kind-of-supefluous).
I never imagined a voice when I made this music and this came as a very good surprise. Thank you Nata!

Vocals, drawing: Nata Boundariver @crazycompass
Music: Samy Ben Rabah

Celestial Need (with CrazyCompass)

My friend Jeff (@jwiedenfeld) recently posted this inspiring track : https://soundcloud.com/jwiedenfeld/just-passing-through.
I sprinkled some mandolin.

Just Passing Through II (Jeff Wiedenfeld & Samy Ben Rabah)

Letters

Mandolin with some delay here and there and there and there...

Playing and creating some music, drawing cartoons and baking bread. That's what I like to do!
I play guitar and mandolin. I used to play sitar and learn Hindustani music - but not anymore - so you might hear some influence in my music, especially the pieces with mandolin. I don't play accordion, despite my profile photo. I wish I could pay it though, and many other instruments.

Some selected reviews written by my cat in the in-house Music & Arts magazine: 

"The equivalent of an acoustic waterboarding!"
"Music? What music?"
"Just noise"
"No place to sleep with all these instruments"
"A daily torture"
"I wish I was deaf"
"Noise arrogantly called music"
"A pleasure... when it stops"
"Can't even unsubscribe to this"

I'm very glad to have stumbled upon very fine artists on Soundcloud and honored to have collaborated with some very talented individuals.
You can listen to my collaborations here:
https://soundcloud.com/samybr/sets/collaborations-1
The drawings on my page are from my cartoon blog:
http://imprimatuur.blogspot.com/search/label/popular

That's it folks! Thanks for listening.
samy