SEAS OF SOLACE

WE WERE

Dont as a rule do remixes but this Loop from the Marshall Trucker Band was just asking for it
Just hope that the sherrif dosnt make me take it down

Dope Cowboy

Make Em' Go Wild

Wasn't sure I'd release this but after a buzz to the hospital yesterday figured what the heh. Expermenting with compression and time elements to bring out feelings and emotions.

Atom Fest

Created and produced by SA (Rosemary Bensko).

Chimera

Shit Show - Robert Grigg & Combstead

Welcome to A Springtime Celebration 1B - exploring the exciting world of electronic music. 

Outrageous Intro 
Just An Echo (Instrumental) / Minute Taker + Color Theory (plays in background of intro dialogue) 
Former Selves, The Great Synthesiser (Song for Bowie) / Minute Taker 
Just An Echo / Minute Taker + Color Theory 
Confident Man, Romance With A Memory / Oliver Sim 
Disappear / Nik Navy 
Let's Go Outside, Need A Little More, Velvet Lies / Bananarama 
Vanity Life / The Safety Word 
Holiday / Crooked Colours 
Brutalism Take 2 / Jean Michel Jarre + Martin Gore 
Another Time, Like A Drug, A New World / Sonar 4 
Don't Let Go, Slipped / VH x RR 
Up By The Lake (Tech Dub mix), Against All Odds (Never Tell Me The Odds) / Arcane Trickster 
Hello, Angels Of Saturn II / Tim Spiker 
Black Rainbow / Mox Infernum
Source Energy / Modal 
Helper / Fate Aeffect 
Womb / Lonely Faces 
Joy / Ivofonic
High Strangeness / Phase 7 
Outrageous Outro

A Springtime Celebration 1B

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outro

FreeWill

Ashes to Ashes

Simon's Song

BURNING ANTARCTICA

DIE TWICE

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DETHRONED

Scorpion Tales for Two Harps
Duration: 15’
Publisher: Bill Holab  Music: http://www.billholabmusic.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1126
For More Information: https://robertpaterson.com/scorpion-tales

PROGRAM NOTES
Gruesome creatures have always fascinated me, so when Duo Scorpio asked me if I would be interested in writing them a new piece, and their only request was that I incorporate the scorpion as a theme, I was happy to oblige.

The first movement, Trinidad Scorpion, is inspired by a fiery red pepper called the Trinidad Scorpion "Butch T", currently the hottest pepper in the world. It measures a blistering 1,463,700 Scoville Heat Units (SHU). (A typical jalapeno pepper measures around 5,000 SHU, while a habanero pepper measures up to 350,000 SHU.) The tempo is appropriately marked con fuoco, and the contrapuntal middle section is subtly infused with Calypso rhythms.

Promenade à deux is the title of the second movement, borrowed from a colorful description of the scorpion's complex courting and mating ritual. This begins when the male and female locate and identify each other using a mixture of pheromones and vibrational communication. The courtship starts with the male grasping the female's pedipalps with his own; the pair then perform a "dance" called the promenade à deux. The courtship ritual can involve several other behaviours such as juddering and a cheliceral kiss, in which the male's claw-like mouthparts grasp the female's. In some cases, the male will inject her with a small amount of venom, perhaps as a means of pacifying her. Once mating is complete, they separate. The male generally retreats quickly, most likely to avoid being cannibalised by the female, although sexual cannibalism is infrequent with scorpions. Scorpions glow fluorescent under black lights, so I imagine the scorpions basking in a fluorescent afterglow after completing their courtship.

The third movement, The Tale of Orion, is inspired by an ancient Greek myth. According to legend, Orion boasted to goddess Artemis and her mother, Leto, that he would kill every animal on earth. Although Artemis was known to be a hunter herself, she offered protection to all creatures. Artemis and her mother sent a scorpion to deal with Orion. The pair battled and the scorpion killed Orion. The contest was apparently lively enough to catch Zeus's attention, so he raised the scorpion to heaven and afterwards, at the request of Artemis, did the same for Orion. This served as a reminder for mortals to curb their excessive pride. A second version describes Orion and Artemis growing fond of each other. Learning of this development, Apollo, Artemis's twin brother, grew angry and sent a scorpion to attack Orion. After Orion was killed, Artemis asked Zeus to put Orion up in the sky. So every winter Orion hunts in the sky, but every summer he flees as the constellation of the scorpion approaches.

Scorpion Tales was commissioned by harpists Kathryn Andrews and Kristi Shade of Duo Scorpio through a grant from the American Harp Society.

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