CODE Luxe

Scalar

Thanks For Asking (Don't Ask Mix)

What Is Real? (prod. chillingcat)

Tough, inventive, no-nonsense genre-bending hook-laden guitar-based multi-ethnic dance-music, that flouts convention.

BestLife

Power'ouse Mix

Freer

Saved our lives one night from the great beyond: "MARY!".

As did Maria Therezia Capretta Theriot St. Regis.

Some of you spoke to our 1st gen. Italian American mom on the phone, about your Midimoog/SE-1, or were blessed to meet her/know her... listen to her stories, like the childhood fire story hidden in plain sight here.

Beautiful, cagey, often hilarious sparkling soul and singer of touching & torchy songs, she was, and remains in our eyes: A daughter who missed her mother, mystified by the persistence of memory, seemingly without mass or momentum.

Call her and she'll be around.

PS: Felecia's Cry is an Omega/CODE patch and mom's mom's Ellis Island standardized name.

CODE Luxe Dreams & Slaps - Repurposed (and brilliant) @vcousa SE-3X Feedback Rhythms - Tonestar 8106 Bass Brotherhood - "Kingdom Inside" double dips.

Enjoy,
Marc A. Theriot St. Regis
4-10-25

Felicetta's Cry

DAWN HOPETRANE

CODE Luxe: Luscious and sometimes reversed polyphonics, perfectly percussive leads (think power banjo), ending Catero “Wurli”.

Tonestar 8106 colors: Multi-tracked chordal happenings (includes “CS-80 Wah Horns”), opening lead and bass, often hard-panned continuing bass intermittents, glorious near culmination lead—in its original key/formant.

Xtreme Lead: Tim Swartz piano clarifiers.

Boomstar 8106: “9th Avenue World” leads; mas mulit-tracked chords; “Mucca Nera” lead, flutter, supplimental glide leads; surprising bells; last minute bass uplifts; 3 part “Wurli” in-a-hurry lead-into.

Boomstar Brotherhood: Select kicks, all snares and claps—SE80 w/SEM clap.

SE-1X: Hi-Hats

"...Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning."

Enjoy,
MSR 5-16-25

Dawn Hopetrane

CODE Luxe everything (massive kick too), except for piano and luscious, extravagant, multitracked Boomstar 8106, supporting and contrasting the "ivories" at 13 seconds in.

Oh yes, Boomstar Modular Sensei delivers percussive octave bass tones beginning at :11.

New faster Luxe envelopes definitely assist in my homage here, to Stevie Wonder's immortal "I am Singing" GX-1 pluck patch.

Enjoy,
MSR 72525

8 Hours Of Yesterchords

Kudos to St. Regis eternal bandmate & friend Nick Tumler for never letting me forget this song (Love Transition) and its driving, determined changes, that Johnny Caswell (The Crystal Mansion) and I crafted into what should have become an R 'n B classic, one fine day in the QC booth at SIR's Gower Studios. "Is it me? "Is it you?" "Could it be it's really true...?"

CODE Luxe: Main chords & more chords—gorgeous in reverse per usual—(:28 "Hopesichord too"), subs, :14 cymbals, lead bass/bass leads, whistle closure.

Boomstar 8106: Kick-matched bass, multitracked chordal support, processed "guitar" leads, "When we were new" leads... plentiful and fanciful lead 'n bass cluster ensembles... poignant plucks, "Strairway" flutes, David Frank inspired "System" basses.

Boomstar SE80: Assorted Boomstar Brotherhood Drums.

Tonestar8106: Horns, New Wave-y Boomstar Bass octave double.

SE-02: Tabla Dudes

SE-3X: Hi hats

Not an exhaustive SE rundown, but close.

Enjoy,
MSR 8-27-25

Love Transition '25

CODE Luxe: Robert Lamm inspired LFO pulsed Chordal figures, feedback/drive fantasies, needle-dropped polymoods, swan song chirping.

Boomstar8106 Faux-llphonics: multitracked piano-stalking chords; stereo leads & cries (sounding very ObieRack-ish); bass accents & smoothing; soothing ending lows.

Tonestar8106: Magic Dorothy Ashby Harping.

Enjoy,
MSR

SighOp Shadows

An autumn afternoon at the Champs de Mars by the Eiffel Tower in Paris. A red balloon makes its way through the September skies towards the infinite, across the oceans of water and time, through the distances of geography, dancing its dance over the clouds and painting a rainbow in the gray skies of autumn.



Produced by Grecco Buratto, Marconi de Morais and Sandro Feliciano. 

Recorded by Benny Faccone and Mixed by Moogie Canázio.
Painting by S.U.S.H., Photograph by Caesar Lima, Art Design by Jeri Heiden at Smog Design

Grecco Buratto - Vocals and Acoustic Guitar 
Zé Luís Nascimento -  Percussion 
Francis Varis - Accordion
Antonio Carmona - Background Vocals and Additional Percussion


O Amor a Voar (G. Buratto)


Vai pelo céu 
Passeando no azul 
Vai voando rumo ao infinito 
Vai de encontro ao sol 
Num ballet pelo ar 
Meu amor a voar pelo mundo

Vai pelo mar 
Navegando ao léu 
Sobre as ondas do tempo, invisível 
Uma gota de dor 
Uma nau de papel 
Uma lágrima encheu o oceano

De beleza, de cor 
De tristeza, de amor 
Das lembranças que trago comigo
Das canções ao luar 
Teu olhar, Praia Mar 
De te ver num espelho sorrindo

Corações a pulsar 
Um balão a bordar 
O teu nome nas nuvens de outono
Corações a brincar 
Um balão a pintar 
Um arco-íris no céu de setembro

Foi meu amor 
Ganhou asas, voou 
Foi buscar o seu próprio destino 
Navegando no azul 
Sobre as ondas do mar 
Uma lágrima cai , infinita

É a beleza, é a dor 
A tristeza e a cor 
Das lembranças que levo comigo 
Caminhar ao luar 
Na cidade , o lugar 
Onde tudo teve seu início

Corações a pulsar 
Uma nau a bordar 
O teu nome no mar de Santiago
Corações a brincar 
Um balão a pintar 
Um arco-íris no céu de setembro 
Corações a amar 
E o amor a voar 
Pelos céus de Paris nesse inverno

12-09-06

℗ and © Zen Mohawk Records 2017

Published by Agora Eu Sei Songs/SESAC

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O Amor A Voar

Factory songs recorded from the SE-02.  There are two songs total.

SE-02 Factory Songs

Learned from a youtube video. Just had to learn it because it's such a great tune. It revolutionized my understanding of chords on the Irish BC accordion.

Metsakukkia - Finnish Waltz in Amin

Having fun layering an assortment of patches I dialled into my 2004 Studio Electronics Omega 8..  

I have always liked the array of multi-mode filters this synth has to offer - it adds a great deal more sonic potential to an often overlooked and very capable analog beast.

NB:  Although it might sound like it, no phasers were used in this recording.. what you are hearing is copious use of the superb band-pass and high-pass filters in the Omega 8 being modulated by the LFOs.

Composition & Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio, 2021.

Dawn Hopetrane

STUDIO ELECTRONICS

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