Inspired by a dear friend who deserved a long holiday. Hope you enjoy this 4-minute invitation to relax and daydream.

An original composition, no AI,  written digitally MIDI to DAW. 

VST instruments: Synth guitars with echo and reverb, bass, harp, cellos, and "sailing" sounds with Latin and hip hop beats at a very chill 65 bpm.

Wrote a demo of this track in December 2022, but updated the track in February 2024 after adding “sailing" audio. 

Three of the five AUDIO files in Sailing Barcelona were recorded live of improvised water sounds — such as splashes caused by my cupped hand pushing through a bathtub of water or tapping a large metal bowl of water with metal spoon to simulate the pinging of rigging on a sailboat’s aluminum mast. Plus, I imported AUDIO of birdsong, wind, and wind chimes  recorded live in ATL via iPhone on the 8th and 28th of February, 2024. Sailing Barcelona offers a partially-manufactured ambience, but one made by a human.🤗

COVER ART is original CGI by SUNNYBECK created using the DaVinci app for AI-generated original images and the artist’s CGI designed into a composite in Photoshop.

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Sailing Barcelona

Tief Tief
Im Inner Kern
Wo Kein Schimmer 
Und Kein Stern 

Tief Tief
Im Inner Mein
Ist Kein Hall
Bin Ich Allein 

Tief Tief
Im Leid Ertrunken
Verzweiflung Reißt
Sich Seine Wunden 

Tief Tief
Die Last Mich Zieht
So Dass Inner Winter
Mich Besiegt

Inner Winter

I discovered  on soundcloud The Magical Realm of the Electronix composed and played by Jano and the Electronix.
You know how it goes, it was gorgeous and i felt the need to sing!


Lyrics
E e eeee aa aaaa oe oe wah
Once upon a time in a distant land called Synthiopia, where people lived in harmony, people lived in harmony
 one day something extraordinary happened. A  musician The Master of Electronix mamama master of Elec tronix
He made a synth He made a synth so extraordinary 
He made a synth He made a synth so extraordinary 
When he touched the heart of the people
In  Synthiopia  
Come on come on come on we make music with electronix
He made a melody he made a harmony, 
Of unknown beauty
Once upon a time in a distant land called Synthiopia, where people lived in harmony, people lived in harmony
 one day something extraordinary happened. It was a  musician; The Master of Electronix mamama master of Elec tronix
 He made a synth He made a synth so extraordinary 
When he touched the heart of the people, everything changed  
He made a melody he made a harmony, a rythme in  synthiopia
Of unknown beauty

In The Magical Realm Of The Electronix - Collab Saskia X Jano And  The Electronix

This track explores minimalism by utilizing just two simple csound instruments. Though each instrument consists only of an oscillator, a filter, and some distortion, they combine to create a sufficiently rich sonic palette using variations of the C# note across different octaves.
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More on the 643rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Stone Out of Focus — The Assignment: Make music inspired by a poem — at https://disquiet.com/0643/

This week’s project is based on a text by Yoko Ono, originally published in her book Grapefruit60 years ago, back in 1964.

Ignota Gens - Disquiet0643

S-Rhododendron

Around the time I turned 50, a couple years ago, we got a nice electric piano and I promised myself I would try to learn to play boogie style piano. After a few recordings of much shorter and simpler attempts, this is about as far as I got, after about half a year.

This tune was used as the basis for a longer, heavier version I did more recently, building other instruments around it. Here's that 'expanded' version...

https://soundcloud.com/user-432503709/backroads-boogie?in=user-432503709/sets/album-the-goods

...but I always meant to include the original solo piano version. now I did.  :)

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here's some pictures I took:
https://500px.com/p/MrMark?view=photos

In The Magical Realm Of The Electronix - Collab Saskia X Jano And The Electronix

Saskiagoethals