Really enjoyed the orchestration here, Steve...excellent work, my friend

The bassoons are rocking! I used to play so I'm obliged to love this sound :D

@studio-little: Thanks! Your comments are appreciated!

I think this is a good example of what you wrote in your bio, Steve. Composing for full orchestra. You can literally feel the fun of it. The result is uniquely great!

mysterious and exciting. Great production and arrangement

Great instrumentation on your arrangement!

really nice and richfull arangement. Also great  production

Well I almost scrapped this song but after 3 weeks writing words, and then realizing how fun it is to sing, i kept it. I'm trying to figure out how to add a little lightheartedness to my music, but i think this one just turned out creepy lol. NOTE:  I always felt a little uncomfortable with the words, i just really didn't like them, so I reworked the chorus and a few other lines, and rerecorded the vocals. It seems a little better now...
 

I've seen my own worst enemy
Every night just staring back at me
Through the mirror with such animosity
And baby, it drives me crazy
I don’t understand what’s with this guy,
He don’t know that he’s alive
He combs his hair on the wrong side

I don’t expect you to understand,
But I’ve got these hammers for my hands
I like to start with everything
and smash away what I don’t need
and scattered all around are the pieces off of me
oh baby can’t you see what this done has to me

It’s a strange strange situation 
I need a little information
If it’s real or just imagination
Don’t say it’s so, I can’t believe 
Its down to you and me again
Up against the world my friend
Who can say   how this will end
 
It’s 3am and you’re slamming doors
Cause ‘I don’t speak your language anymore’
While I’m on my knees picking pieces
Of me up off the floor, 
I can’t lose much more, these pieces could be the last of me,
I wish I could see the way you see
is there anything left in this debris

Hammer Hands

I've been "away" for a while musically, because I was busy with setting up a new PC as "music machine", but yesterday and today I've created a new track from scratch, started with programming percussion, beats, brass and stuff, the jungle vibe ambience included (with Palindrome); so all is vst and no audio loops used. Finally I added a sloppy sax jam, which may be replaced some day ;-) so have fun and enjoy my late summer vibes ! photo by Truman Talbot, unsplash

Jungle

A reimagining of David Dunham's original track "Fall Back".
 Listen to David's beautiful original ---> https://soundcloud.com/david-dunhamuser589535203/fall-back?si=9b140300b6e14c22b6da0cb67f20ae96&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
Thank you again, David.

Migration -- David Dunham, guitar; Debra Buesking, piano.

Traduit plus bas
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Lost in the wild, like the other souls, I've endlessly searched for you.
Are we born to be alone or is happiness only made for two

Like two sides of a coin, we belong
To each other we'll be strong
Somewhere in the crowd 
we finally found each other through the storm

From birth to death, everyone in this world, shares a cruel fate 
We feel incomplete, until we find out, somewhere there's our soul mate

So we belong
To each other to be strong
Somewhere in the crowd 
we finally found each other through the storm

You're my miracle  
One chance, one chance, one in a million
You're my miracle  
One chance, one chance, one in a million
You're the one 

So we belong 
To each other to be strong
Where have you been?
When i was searching all the  years
Alone, in between
My melancholy and my fears

You're a miracle  
You're my miracle 

----

Perdu dans la nature, comme les autres âmes, je t'ai cherché sans cesse
Sommes-nous nés pour être seuls ou le bonheur est-il seulement fait pour deux ?

Comme les deux faces d'une pièce, nous nous appartenons
L'un pour l'autre, nous serons forts
Quelque part dans la foule 
nous nous sommes finalement trouvés à travers la tempête

De la naissance à la mort, tout le monde dans ce monde partage un destin cruel
Nous nous sentons incomplets, jusqu'à ce que nous découvrions, quelque part, l'âme soeur

Ainsi nous appartenons l'un à l'autre pour être fort
Quelque part dans la foule nous nous sommes finalement trouvés à travers la tempête

Tu es mon miracle  
Une chance, une chance, une sur un million
Tu es mon miracle 
Une chance, une chance, une sur un million
Tu es la seule

Ainsi nous appartenons l'un à l'autre pour être fort
Où étais-tu quand je cherchais toutes ces années
Seul, entre ma mélancolie et mes peurs

Tu es un miracle  
Tu es mon miracle

My Miracle

Here's an old one recorded in 2005 and remastered today 02.05.23.
A simple Tango with plenty of little quirks.

Tango 4

Get Up But Git Down

a song expressing the recognition of the existence of God and that God is everywhere.  

Written and performed : Johnny 

Let Your Love Reign Down

sunrise blues- sax&guitar

Lived on Blues Point Road for 10 years, till 2020. That's Blues Point Hotel in the pic. I thought 'Blues Point Road' would make a good name for a guitar blues!

Blues Point Road

E-Diplomatic Crisis

Modes About Me X Eric Godlow Beats - ANOTHER F-ING WEED SONG - 77 BPM - C Minor

Music: Composed, written, and performed by
Eric Godlow Beats
https://www.youtube.com/@EricGodlowBeats

Lyrics: Written and performed by Modes About Me "Mark David McClellan"

Another Weed Song (Prod. Eric Godlow Beats)

Thank you for visiting and listening. I appreciate your comments and messages. Please feel free to say hello! - Steve
General life - info / bio - - -
I began my musical education with listening as an infant and at the age of 7, in 1958, composed my first piece of music which was a brass quartet.

Early influences were guided by the musical taste of my Mother which was often Tchaikovsky and other romantic composers, with an occasional diversion to Big Band and pop music of the late 40's and early 50's.

The Boys Club Band, Grade School Choir and High School Band were a great education in basic orchestration and harmony and in the mid 60's, and self taught as a guitarist, I began live performance, which lasted until 1999.

Music and technology have always been my main interests and as those two elements continued to merge through the late 90's to the present, they have led me to the point where I now can successfully realize my earliest childhood dreams of musical expression in composing for full orchestra.

Special thanks to Mom for the great listening experience, brother Greg for the continued guidance in music from a formal perspective, and brother Lew for the technological expertise.

Tango 4

Steve Karl

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