Jazz , Classical, and more

AUGUST  2020  /  2

here is some cinematic 'magic' i have found on Soundcloud - such a diversity and collective pool of talent.  Show your appreciation and have a listen....  leave a comment, repost, let the artist know what you liked about their music and/or how it moved you or fueled your imagination...

FROM A MOVIE, AS YET UNMADE

Jordan Tobias Alexis Naylor Pierre Bordetti @Achazia_S John Daleman @sonni_quick @lucyrosemusic @blizzardmusic GRETA MEIER Lily Brings the Weather @Terra_V_

Follow Me And Dream of Seaview #2898

Soul Flame 34>

Sonni Quick

Welcome to the piano series of my playlists, instrumentals only.  this is where i like to showcase all the talented artists i've discovered here on Soundcloud...  show them some love... so gifted.

88 KEYS

Fractures

Extract from my new piece for Erhu and orchestra. 

Koyo

Sodus

A PORTRAIT OF YOU

Movements.  I wrote all the parts for this but everyone added their own expertise.e

Lost in Arabia

Another first and live in studio recordings for Velvet Voyage.  Trio style. Song I wrote thinking of james bond.  Also showcasing many of the VST's available from NI at that time.

Velvet Voyage

Eye Spy

A Moody tune whipped together in one lonely night

Dark Alley

Funk n' Beats, Vol. 6 (Curated by Smoove)

I'm a Man

Nutville (Horace Silver)

Scene Suspended

Wait

Phobia

two mic recording from living room in 2001.  Just messing around.

Unknown album (5/27/2020 9:44:40 PM)

just groovy

Musique Concrète 6

Jazz Fusión (from Málaga (Spain)) -> RECOMMEND USING HEADPHONES.

- Carlos Fuentes Castillo: Guitar, Keyboards, Composition, Programming, Mixing and Mastering.

Muerde vieo

Muerde Vieo

Mazalini - 'Lost reality'

This is Sophie last week, June 28th, on her 11th birthday. You can listen to her first recording with me last year soon after we started lessons. We recorded this piece last week and today we uploaded it to SoundCloud. Her track is the sax. This one was harder than the last one we did because it is in the key of A flat - 4 flats. She listened to what I played while keeping in mind the scale of A flat. She practiced the scale a few times to take note of what keys she could play while she listened to me.  We kept her second try. It is easy for an improv player to play in C or A minor because you can play just about anything on the white keys and have it sound good while keeping in mind the time signature. Self-taught Improv players usually rely only on sound but do they take the time to teach themselves the language of music theory? Without knowing it, it is like knowing how to speak but not being able to read and write. I have met extremely few teachers who can teach the concept of improv because all they can do is read music themselves and teach through method books, so students grow up with no knowledge of how to develop their own sound and by adulthood, most have quit playing entirely. Sophie is a gem. We work for hours at each lesson. I teach her like I would teach an adult, not a child. No method books. I don't teach someone else's style of learning how to play the piano. I push her beyond her capabilities and she keeps right up with me. 

Right now we are working together on writing a new piece with three movements and she is hand drawing the chart vs improvising. After we record it she will improvise at least two other tracks. Computer printouts of the music that is played make musicians lazy and they are usually wrong. If you don't know music you wouldn't know if it is wrong, but it looks good. If you want to know what I teach I do teach online - but not with a prepared package you can buy. I usually only teach those who are already playing but know they need more.

Improv in A Flat - Sophie on Sax

Love For Ériu

Music/Arrangement/Production/Vocals/Lyrics by Achazia

Requiem

When you have already lived a majority of your life you begin to question if you are satisfied with who you are.  How much more time do you need to be able to say you are done, and you are okay with who you are? How much farther could you go if you knew you had the time to do it? Or will there always be the thought that you could do more, you could learn more, no matter how old you get - if the effects of life didn't get in your way? Will there a time when you can say you are done? I'm always stretching time to have even another five minutes. Everyone has their own gifts but not everyone has the strength to pursue them. They end their life thinking it is too late to start something new. Being able to create music, as many of you know, is a wonderful gift to have, no matter how well you play, as long as it makes you happy. My thanks to those these past years who have taken the time to listen to the music I play.  You have been my family as my birth family has never wanted to be. Thank you.

Can You Hear it Searching For You?

August means it's time for the annual Soho summer sampler. 
Vital Soho are delighted to bring you label debuts from up and coming production talents Dyn Taylor, Joran Shade & Matthew Vik, Jordan Tobias plus London & Niko. This sampler has you covered if you like your faster paced trance. We bring you the tech trance sounding 'Optical Takeover' with big room rhythms, vocal uplifter 'Follow me and dream' 138 banger 'Phenome' and the emotion invoking 'Skyward' 


Enjoy,

Soho Music / 2020

Follow Me And Dream (Radio Edit)

Jordan Tobias Feat. Alexis Naylor - Follow Me And Dream [PREVIEW]

Pierre Bordetti productions (c) 08/2020.

Composed, arranged, performed, and produced by:
Pierre Bordetti
Special thanks to my friend Alain for the beautiful photo of Crete.

SEAVIEW

Why can't I see you in the picture,
I still think I'm cure,
but my memories come back to my mind,
like grains of sand blown by the wind,
that stings your head,
it's my fear, it's my dread,

Summer light,
always blue sky,
it's time,
to rest my mind,
but my soul is dark,
you left my heart,
you left my heart,

I need you,
for share this view,

Why can't I see you in the picture,
I still think I'm cure,
but my memories come back to my mind,
like grains of sand blown by the wind,
that stings your head,
it's my fear, it's my dread,

Summer light,
always blue sky,
it's time,
to rest my mind,
but my soul is dark,
you left my heart,

I need you,
for share this view,

Seaview

STAY TUNED 
YouTube -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_nOfPQzBao&t=49s

DISORDER - ICEBERG

Competition entry for the Professional Composers Community 2020 August Sad Music Contest.

I had a really hard time with this competition theme. This is my fifth attempt, and the first idea that didn't just end up depressingly uninteresting. Unfortunately, I didn't come up with it until the weekend before the deadline, so I only had two days, but that's enough for a piece like this, once there is a proper idea to build on.

The vision behind this piece is rather abstract... "Where do we go from here?" I suppose that's how I feel about life in general right now, but not exactly in a way that inspires creativity, which is probably why I had such a hard time with this.

Used:
Cubase Pro 10.5
Kontakt
TC VSS3
smart:reverb
StereoSavage
Pro-Q3
Ozone 9

Spitfire Solo Strings
Spitfire Chamber Strings
Spitfire Symphonic Woodwinds

Crossroads

On the edge of a very high cliff, you can see the clouds below and, a long way down, you can see the ground...

But imagine... just imagine... if... you could fly...



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Precipice (You Can Fly) [Solo Piano]

Day after day my life revolves around two constants - my music and buying and selling vintage jewelry.  There is so much hate and disrespect in America being shoved down our throats that it is depressing. The only way to survive it is to crawl inside one's own mind and create a space you want to be in and for me - create the music to listen to. I enjoy the music I record, with all the little mistakes I make because I'm not an engineer. At night, if I  have trouble sleeping I  stream my music.  If you don't enjoy listening your own music why would anyone else? I often go to sleep with my music playing so it is indeed the music of my dreams

I'd Rather Be Dreaming Today

Some days have been harder than others to go through. I lose track of what day it is because of the isolation. There is sadness knowing there are millions of people who are grieving the loss of their family and friends this year that should not have happened this way.  There are many more that don't know they are on the list. I've worked hard to make it to this point. There is so much more music to play and give away hoping to leave a piece of me with them. As I play I have another great grandbaby on the way. will my music be the only way they get to know me. I guess that depends.

This piece has other instruments, 4 tracks, which often changes the story. I have also uploaded just the piano where all the music begins. The music is layered one improv over the others. There is no mixing, only what I hear in my head as I play. It can't be changed. It is what it is, what I'm feeling at that moment.  The music is completed usually in 20-30 minutes. It either works or it doesn't.

The Beginning and the End

Classical composition by Rachel Nusbaumer
To buy the whole album : https://rachelnusbaumer.bandcamp.com/album/baroquissima

Figlie di coro

Staring out my window today, a gloomy day and it's getting dark earlier and earlier. No sun to pick up the spirit to let me pretend that everything is going to be okay. Tomorrow I will wake up and everything will go back to normal as if that normal was okay - because it wasn't. If I didn't have my music to make me feel whole I couldn't stand it. Standing is getting harder before I have to lay down. It's going to be a very long winter.

Will We Heal From This

It has been a stressful year and everything I thought would happen, did. It has been ugly. Many people have lost the ability to seek the truth and thousands of everyday people joined the cult Qanon. The president has shown more racism the closer we got to this day, and those who aren't loyal to him got axed or destroyed. People are dying yet he insists they aren't. What is happening? But we have reached the next step. Tomorrow we vote. It is just the beginning of the next fight for the life of our country. I never thought, I never believed such a day would come. we have a long way to go to undo the damage  he has done, but at least we will soon know, after the ballots are counted if we will be able to begin to put the pieces back together again.

The Waiting is Almost Over Now - Maybe

It has been a long hard year for everyone and emotions have been high. From despair over loss, to fear of not being able to repair our lives and anger because not enough was done to lessen the possibility of paying this price because too many haven't wanted to believe it was happening.  This will be a year that will never be forgotten and the repercussions have only begun to be felt. We will never be the same again no matter how much we pretend we won't have to create a new normal. The year 2019 was the last year of 'Good old Days' which is my next piece of music.

A Year of Sadness

A Heavy Price to Pay

I improvised this track using the Audio Recorder feature of the Casio PX-560M Stage Piano, recording it to a thumb drive. I played the song back from the Casio into an SSL2+ audio interface into Steinberg Cubase for further processing and mixing.

@ 2021 Roger Hooper Music

PC: Mindy Gasca (my daughter!)

Winter Sky

My music pieces are all piano improvisations expressing emotions. It is music telling stories without the words. In my earIy years I sang and played piano in piano bars or fronted bands of different styles, from country to heavy metal and to 40. I've been composing, teaching and performing most of my life.  I'm getting old(er) now 😔 but the great thing about creating music is it gets better the longer you play, and you have more to write about! 

This is what I leave of me to my generations to come who wonder where their desire to make music comes from. My mother, grandmother and great grandmother were both accomplished pianists when they were young. My son is also exceptional.  My great grandmother and gr grandfather sang and danced in minstrel shows (vaudeville) in the early 1900's. Kids today have no idea what life was like before moving pictures.  I now have great-grandchildren. They will know who I am through my music. When I am gone my music will still be here. What a wonderful thought! 