After Infinity

Jeremy J. Saks - After Infinity

Written Performed And Recorded By DMc.Music March 2022.

Every Step Of The Way (Lyrics)

Give Me All Your Loving - Everyday
I'm Gonna Be With You - Every Step Of The Way
Give Me All Your Loving - Everyday
I'm Gonna Be With You - Every Step Of The Way

Sometimes I Don't Know Where I'm Going
Sometimes I Can See My Way Through
Sometimes All My Dreams Are Exploding
I'm Feeling It Now
I Know You're Feeling It Too

Here Comes The Sun
There Goes The Rain
Step Into The Light
Let Your Mind Drift Away
Here Comes The Sun
There Goes The Rain
Step Into The Light
Let Your Mind Drift Away

Give Me All Your Loving - Everyday
I'm Gonna Be With You - Every Step Of The Way
Give Me All Your Loving - Everyday
I'm Gonna Be With You - Every Step Of The Way

You're The One - I Believe
Put Your Faith In Me
I'll Put My Faith In You
You're The One - I Believe
Put Your Faith In Me
I'll Put My Faith In You

Here Comes The Sun
There Goes The Rain
Step Into The Light
Let Your Mind Drift Away
Here Comes The Sun
There Goes The Rain
Step Into The Light
Let Your Mind Drift Away

Give Me All Your Loving - Everyday
I'm Gonna Be With You - Every Step Of The Way
Give Me All Your Loving - Everyday
I'm Gonna Be With You - Every Step Of The Way

You're The One - I Believe
Put Your Faith In Me
I'll Put My Faith In You
You're The One - I Believe
Put Your Faith In Me
I'll Put My Faith In You

All Lyrics Written By DMc.Music @Copyright2022.

Every Step Of The Way

This is my Covid Project.
Up until recently I reckon I was the only person on the planet not to have experienced the dreaded virus!
Anyway, I finally caught it while trying to record this song. All fairly mild but it lingered a while, and affected my voice a bit. 
This song has been knocking around for so long now I haven't the heart to do any more re-recording :) So ........ up it goes.
PS all better now ....... eventually!

One Face in a Million

Just acoustic guitar and voice this time.
It's been a while since I've written/ recorded anything in an acoustic latin style (I've been obsessed with bossa nova for years)- so here goes ............ it may be a little more Ilfracombe than Ipanema, but hope you enjoy :)
Here's a youtube video to go with the track: 
https://youtu.be/zPuCkhtasKk

Staring at the Sun

Glide

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UYwwvoVmMo&t=20s
This is the last in the Cloudlines series (Just realised I've been putting this collection together for more than 6 years!) 
A dreamlike series of ambient instrumentals featuring warm melodies, acoustic guitars (both nylon and steel strung), heavily processed electric guitars and a shimmering wash of synths.
A mix of the familiar, the nostalgic and the experimental.
The whole series is also available on my Bandcamp page.
Thanks for listening .......
Richard :)
PS a new long term project is on it's way.

Cloudlines No'12 (The Last)

Ages ago, while trawling Spotify, I stumbled on this song by Luke Doucet, a Canadian singer - songwriter(and great guitarist!). 
I immediately loved the guitar part and the lyrics.
It seemed like it would be fun (and a challenge) to learn the song - just guitar and voice, and upload it between bigger projects. Hoping I've done it justice :)

Wallow (Cover)

What do you get when you combine 80s synthesizers, lounge and the music from the background of the television guide? You get Smooth Plan, the first single from the in-progress EP "Ideas and Innovations", a throwback inspired by the chilled out sounds of Library Music circa 1988 to 1992.

Ideas and Innovations

Smooth Plan

The No-Synths-used, Synthesizer-sounding track: This track is a bit of an experiment, I tried to make a "synth" track using no actual synthesizers.  
Its just a rough demo to see if it was possible to make something genuinely sounding like real synthesizers on guitars, using synth effect pedal(s) as opposed to a slightly synth-esque guitar track,

Therefore, there were no synthesizers used to make this track, simply an electric guitar and a bass and effects pedals, admittedly the main one used is a Synthesizer effect pedal...

So, I'm using a new synth effect pedal from BOSS; the SY-1 which costs £175 - a new low price-point for guitar-synth technology. It is literally a guitar pedal there is no special pickup for the guitar or bass and no MIDI conversion, it simply seems to process guitars and basses to make them sound like synthesizers (and organs) - even polyphonic ones.

This track uses the BOSS SY-1 pedal with a bass to create the bass  register sequence and also with a guitar to create a string synth sound in the higher registers. 
One negative about the SY-1 pedal was its monophonic output - I basically expected it to be stereo.
Thoughts on the pedal:-
Whilst this pedal has 121 usable synth sounds in 8 categories it has the following issues:

1. Mono output (not much use for most synth sounds needs a stereo effects pedal to bring it out).
2. Fiddly little knobs, which are small and close together and some are concentric dual-function items.
3. No display whatsoever, so you can't see the name, number or type of an effect.
4. No scroll forward or backward buttons.
Basically, it seems to me to be usable only as a desktop effects unit I can't see how you could use it in a band unless you only wanted to use one sound there is no way you could change patches in a live scenario.
Having said that, the sounds are good and relatively convincing and varied and polyphonic, so its not all bad.

I intended to do a lead-synth solo on the SY-1 with the guitar, but couldn't get a nice sound that could be heard over the sonic thickness of the existing bass sequence and string pad, so simply played a distorted metal type of jam/solo, which although now meaning the track doesn't sound like its made 100% on synths it still doesn't contain an actual synth.

The SY-1 pedal has a number of other sounds such as Organs, Pads, Leads, Basses and Sfx sounds - its great if you have the means to convert the output to stereo - I used a Zoom MS70CDR pedal. 

In future I will use the pedal more sparingly as garnish or an option rather than for the entire track.
NOTE: My BOSS GT001 multi pedal does some synth sounds as does my GT01B bass pedal, so I could also have used those. They are more limited in synth patch count, but are stereo...

1. DRUMS: Behringer RD-1 
2. BASS-synth Sequence effect sound: Ibanez Soundgear SG300 Bass Guitar thru BOSS SY-1 pedal on a sequence setting and Zoom MS70CDR for the stereo sound and reverb.
3. String Synth effect sound: Ibanez RG370 6 string guitar thru BOSS SY-1 pedal on one of the string synth settings, plus MS70CDR again.
4. Lead guitar: Ibanez RG370 (again) thru BOSS-GT001 multi effects processor.

Synthesizers Not Allowed (SY-1 guitar pedal)

South West UK based, amateur, solo-artist, creating tracks with (mostly) analog synthesizers, analog drum machines, electric bass and guitars.
The tracks are instrumental music pieces and "jams" in a variety of styles, from pop to rock, 80s, electronica, funk/jazz funk, fusion and prog - often heavily stylized and influenced by artists from the 70s and 80s.

Originally from the West Midlands, I now live in North Somerset, near Bristol 
 
ANALOG MONOSYNTHS: Arp Odyssey Rev 3, Behringer Model D, Behringer Neutron, Behringer K-2, Behringer Crave, DSI Mopho SE, Arturia MiniBrute SE, Novation Bass Station 2, KORG Volca Keys, Waldorf Rocket.
ANALOG/HYBRID POLYSYNTHS: Sequential Prophet REV-2, KORG Prologue, Novation Peak, Roland JD-XA, KORG Minilogue, Behringer Deepmind 6,MFB Synth Pro, Dreadbox Nymphes.
DIGITAL SYNTHS: Yamaha MODX7, KORG Modwave, Waldorf Streichfett (string emulator), Roland D-05, Modal Argon8, Modal Skulpt, Novation Mininova, Yamaha DX100 and KORG Volca FM.
DRUM MACHINES: Arturia Drumbrute & Drumbrute Impact, IK Multimedia UNO Drum, Behringer RD-8 (808), Alesis SR16.
GROOVEBOX: Elektron Model: Cycles.
SEQUENCERS: Arturia Beatstep Pro, Arturia Keystep.
CONTROLLERS: Impulse 61, Launch Pad Pro, Launch Keys 49, Keith McMillen K Board Pro 4, Expressive E Touche.  
 
Influences:  Ultravox, Vangelis, Nile Rodgers, Peter Gabriel, David Bowie, Chic, Jean Michel Jarre, Gary Numan, Wendy Carlos,Tangerine Dream,  Stevie Wonder, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller, Level 42, Duran Duran, Talk Talk, OMD,A-ha, Howard Jones,The Stranglers, Scritti Politti and Classical music, especially Bach, Beethoven, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky.

Synthesizers Not Allowed (SY-1 guitar pedal)

Sonic Microcosm