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Ambient

Heliotrope Project

Ambient Tracks

My first attempt at mixing my own music in only a slightly more serious way.  I mixed a primary guitar track with a fairly subtle backing track that is mostly guitar drones.  I put that down over a third track I recorded from the north shore of Lake Superior in April of 2021.  I hear all the mistakes but I just did it in one take with no edits.  I figure it can only go up from here.

More Or Less

Ambient guitar track over sounds of the Northshore recorded in 2021

The Other You

Recorded in a single take with Fender Jazz Master, Strymon Big Sky reverb and Zoom H6. Field recording from Iona's Beach Lake Superior.

Found And Lost

Recorded on a Gretsch Baritone guitar through a Strymon Big Sky and Fender Mustang GT200.  The field recording was captured on a Zoom H6 at Moss Lake, BWCA in April of 2021.

A Warm Life

A song for Lilly. My beautiful dancing daughter.

Written by Stu King
Performed on a Fender Jazz Master with Strymon Big Sky reverb pedal.

Past Pirouette

Track listing:

1. (0:00) The Night Monitor https://twitter.com/TheNightMonitor - Moonlight and Magic - Their Dark Dominion (https://thenightmonitor.bandcamp.com/album/their-dark-dominion)
2. (2:36) Fatalist https://www.facebook.com/FatalistSounds - Enter the Sniper - Dread City Sniper (https://fatalist1.bandcamp.com/album/dread-city-sniper)
3. (4:09) Scape One https://linktr.ee/scapeone - Next Subject - Tears in Rain (https://scapeone.bandcamp.com/album/tears-in-rain)
4. (5:08) Hyboid https://www.facebook.com/Hyboid.Music - Sequencing the Apocalypse - Sequencing the Apocalypse (https://hyboid.bandcamp.com/album/sequencing-the-apocalypse)
5. (9:03) Jupiter-8 https://www.facebook.com/MrJupiter8/ - Los Angeles 2019 (The Near Future) (https://jupiter-8.bandcamp.com/track/los-angeles-2019-the-near-future)
6. (10:56) SoundEngine https://twitter.com/BeneshMusic - Daybreak - Analog Domain (https://iamsoundengine.bandcamp.com/album/analog-domain)
7. (12:52) Laura Dre https://lauradre.com/ - Drifting - Kyoto Dreams 京​都​の​夢 (https://lauradre.bandcamp.com/album/kyoto-dreams)
8. (15:50) Kuato Lives! https://www.facebook.com/KuatoLives88/ - Tears in the Rain - Prime Selection Vol. VII (https://kuatolives.bandcamp.com/album/prime-selection-vol-vii)
9. (18:52) Megan McDuffee https://meganmcduffee.com/ - Grey Sky - In a Weary World (https://meganmcduffee.bandcamp.com/album/in-a-weary-world
10. (21:50) exandroid https://www.facebook.com/exandroidmusic - Four Years Ago Today, Three Years Tomorrow - Please Remember to Rewind (https://exandroid.bandcamp.com/album/please-remember-to-rewind)
11. (25:56) Rodrigo Passananti https://www.facebook.com/rodrigo.passannanti - Dark Nights - Invisible Touch (https://rodrigopassannanti.bandcamp.com/album/invisible-touch)
12. (29:29) Color Theory https://colortheory.com and Joni Panda https://open.spotify.com/artist/7tRIvnH2YoS7o6HQnqJqZd - The Limit (Joni Panda remix) - Crystal (https://colortheory.bandcamp.com/album/crystal)
13. (33:54) Cat Temper https://www.cattemper.com/ - Catstronauts Are Go - Furbidden Planet (https://cattemper.bandcamp.com/album/furbidden-planet-2)
14. (38:16) SkyYamaha https://linktr.ee/skyyamaha - Final Phoenix - Final Phoenix (https://skyyamaha.bandcamp.com/album/final-phoenix)
15. (41:11) Assembler 2084 
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1wcz8yHZVrvGgMauRYUnRV?si=UZK-46IiT2iYOARRDU2W0Q - System Update - Retro Redux (https://assembleraudio.bandcamp.com/album/retro-redux)
16. (43:57) ZAYAZ https://linktr.ee/ZAYAZ - Apophis (https://zayazofficial.bandcamp.com/track/apophis)

Ambient Cinematic Set by ThomasArmada23 - 25th annual After Hours Reunion Show (2022)

The eleventh instalment of a slowly growing collection of free tracks I'll be releasing via Soundcloud.

The track is named after the The Kepler space telescope, a now-disused space telescope launched by NASA in 2009 to discover Earth-sized planets orbiting other stars, and named after astronomer Johannes Kepler.

Key & tempo: Dm, 122bpm.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CoV7ZrSOFkq/

SUBSET - Kepler (free download)

"Face the Sun"

Music by Stu King
Korg synth
Gretsch Guitar
Analog & Digital Delay
Microcosm
Mixed with Cubase

Heliotrope 01

Heliotrope Project 02 - "Distant Light"

Music by Stu King
NLDR
Korg Kaossilator
Digital Delay
Phase
Strymon Reverb
Hologram Microcosm

Heliotrope 02

"Neon washed streets of the distant future. A dance anthem for club crawlers. Plastic Slacks."

Music by Stu King
Korg Kaossilator
Mixed in Cubase

Plastic Slacks

Plastic Slacks (JAM)

"Face the sun"

Music by Stu King
Korg Kaossilator
Korg Monologue Synth
Conductive Labs NLDR
Mixed in Cubase

Heliotrope 03

"The falling of self"

Music by Stu King
Korg Monologue Synth
Digital Delay
Phase 
Reverb
Fender Jazz Master
eBow
Mixed in Cubase

Landfall

"For you..."

Music by Stu King
Acoustic Guitar
Digital Delay
Reverb
Phase
Hologram Microcosm
Mixed in Cubase

This track includes 25 seconds of silence…use it to take a deep breath. Peace

Offering

Offering (naviarhaiku519)

"Who you are, in what you remember"

Music by Stu King
Korg Monologue Synth
Conductive Labs NDLR
Mixed in Cubase

Memorial

"Animus Galactus"

Music by Stu King
Getsch Electromatic Baritone
Gizmotron
Tiesco Barclay
eBow
Digital Delay
Reverb
Hologram Microcosm
Conductive Labs NDLR
Korg Monologue
Mixed in Cubase

Supernal Slumber - The CosMix

Supernal Slumber (The CosMix)

"Something from nothing..."

Music by Stu King
Teisco Guitar (eBow)
Korg Monologue Synth
Korg Kaossilator
Hologram Microcosm
Digital Delay
Reverb
Mixed in Cubase

Trace

Trace (naviarhaiku523)

Music by Stu King
Live Conductive Labs NLDR Jam session
Virtual Instruments
Mixed in Cubase

A Walk In The Spark (NLDR Jam)

The first instalment of a slowly growing collection of free tracks I'll be releasing via Soundcloud.

Did you know: the track title is an obscure Aliens reference.

Axial 664

Axial 664 (FREE download)

The second of a slowly growing collection of free tracks I'll be releasing via Soundcloud.

Did you know: the track title is another Aliens reference.

Bishopp

Bishopp (FREE download)

The third of a slowly growing collection of free tracks I'll be releasing via Soundcloud.

Did you know: the track title is an overt reference to a well known Science Fiction author and thinker.

Clarke.A.C (Soundcloud FREE)

Halcyon Hum is a Cinematic and Pop Ambient project by Minneapolis based musician, producer and recordist, Stuart King.

Compositions feature undulating rhythms, walls of sound, ambient melodies, lo-fi textures and field recordings.