Happy Halloween Everyone! 🎃
All the fears are in our psyche 🧌👀👻😱😉

It's my first collab with my Friend, kavvka @grzegorzkawka, who made all guitars sounds design and melodies that were played by lead guitars. Also he gave me a lot of good advices and ideas to make this track better. I've made all the rest including guitar solo at the end.
It was very difficult month for me, that's why I was silent so long. This track is my katharsis.

We've used
DAW Ableton Live Standard/Lite
Kontakt Play Series Duets
Ableton Live Instrument Rack
Kontakt Factory Selection
iZotope Stutter Edit 2

Samples used:
FX Sweep Distant and Metal Riser SP from Ableton Live's pack "Build and Drop"
FX Impact 06 from Ableton Live's pack "Mood Reel"
Riser White Noise from Ableton Live's Core Library
MIDI drums loop used:
64 Pads Penelope Kit groove 01_108 bpm from Ableton Live's pack "Drum Essentials"

Cover art by Engin_Akyurt from Pixabay

Psyche

Psyche 🎃

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Poem is "The Unseen" by Sara Teasdale

Death Went Up The Hall

Copyright 2023, 2024 Brian James McDonald (ASCAP)
Copyright Hoon Toons Publishing (ASCAP)
All Rights Reserved Worldwide

Coatbridge, Scotland 1901 (Piano Improv)

Lyrics - Andrey Voznesensky
Music - Nadir Shamuhamedov
(When I sang it for the first time, I was 23 years old and madly in love...)

English Translation:

Play, grasshopper, play,
Oh, my acoustic grasshopper!
And in these delicious musics
Save all meadows of August...

Play the azure of forest
And  the organs of Lielupe pines,
Sing me a song about the happiness
Of an flighty woman,
Because she is all, I live by...

Play, green music fan!
Our romance is orchestrated with sadness...
Love is not a musical toy,
But it’s also scary to break it.

Play, grasshopper, play, don't stop,
After all, your life is even shorter,
Than the lives of other musicians,
Even though they are not eternal too...

Video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PxnIDL9_V0&t=40s

«Grasshopper». Op. 04. 1983.

Date de publication: 10/01/2024

Musique, arrangements, claviers, mastering: Cyril MENDEZ

© Cyril MENDEZ 2024, All Rights Reserved.

Undertone

Desolate Berceuse

Made in #Ableton (February 2024)

https://frozenlab.bandcamp.com/track/better-days

Genres;
#Electronic
#Pop
#Rock

Better Days (as Frozen Lab)

This was written for a close family member that just passed. It is a departure from what I normally write, but it’s my feeling for them that made it possible. You must always act with your gut.

Gone, But Not Forgotten

Crazy Racer

Cover of the 1971 song 'Behind Blue Eyes' by The Who.

Art by @not_eli1102 on Instagram. 
https://www.instagram.com/not_eli1102/

Behind Blue Eyes (The Who Cover)

This piece starts off from the repeating 4 notes of the 3rd movement from Beethoven's Tempest Sonata (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRoZgmqlfso) but takes off in a much different direction with new melodies. The piece borrows from Beethoven only those repeating 4 notes and the figuration of the left hand... everything else being my own. Though the feeling is overtly Beethovian too (with all due distances, of course)... And do you sometimes hear echoes of the Für Elise? (To my ear, the Für Elise itself has echoes of the Tempest's 3rd movement, even in its opening theme.)

The title "After the Tempest" has double meaning. It "takes after" Beethoven's Tempest's 3rd movement. And it also represents the sunlight and freshness felt after a storm's atmospheric depression has passed. Triple meaning, actually, as we endure this terrible worldwide depression and wish for the day it will past us somehow...

Played by software, sorry...

The painting shown is by Thomas Cole (1836), entitled "The Oxbow" and represents an oxbow in the Delaware River after a passing storm. Beethoven's Tempest sonata was written 1801-1802 and Für Elise dates from 1810.

After The Tempest (#piano)

Drawing heavily from the synthesizer-driven sounds of the 1980s and 1990s, my work crafts a compelling fusion of retro and modern electronic music. While predominantly instrumental, I do write traditional songs with lyrical content. My compositions intricately weave together various genres, resulting in a rich and evocative listening experience designed to resonate deeply with the audience. I'm an Independent Artist (FUK-IT Records 2024). I’m a Veteran musician, producer, and sound engineer of over 30 years experience. I try to have a little bit for everyone’s tastes.

Gone, But Not Forgotten

Darth Skippy The Machine