Great subject matter for a track Max.  Brilliant execution 👍

What a nice amalgam to fuse 12th century with ambient.. acoustic instruments with pads.. still retaining its cultural identity

Great: you make the atmosphere of the orient with the sounds and the composition. Well done, greets out of the Kraftraum:)

Great track and Oriental atmosphere. Nice pan

Very nice, this nuance Orient, without overdoing it with it. It's authentic and damn good.

Awesome. Hypnotic percussion & superb atmosphere

enjoyed seeing dervishes once... you've TRANCElated it well, mate!!

Superb achievement! I like ❤️Love, 🕊️Peace, 🙏Respect

All compositions are originals from mid 1980's thru 2022.

Fields of Time

Some early (12th Century) Trance Music.

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Photo:
Whirling dervishes perform during a ceremony in Konya, Turkey. 
(AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Here is a presentation of the Sufi Whirling ritual dance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h1wayIgn8o

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I would like to thank Sander Heerings: 
https://soundcloud.com/wane-of-summer 
for his advice and assistance during the remixing 
of one of my previous songs, "Whirlpool".

His recommendation for the use 
of the WAVES S1 Imager was most helpful. 
I feel the S1 is more effective than LOGIC's Binaural Panning,
and seems to have less CPU overhead.
Also, there was an elegant approach to his mastering phase,
atteneding to a huge hole I was in need of filling...
and giving a mix just the right finishing touch.

Also to Peter Heckman:
https://soundcloud.com/peterheckmann
in the importance of paying particular attention 
to track separation in the mix.

...Again, here is where the S1 excels.

So, Thank you, Sander and Peter.

Dervish

Done during those (very) rainy summer days... Perfect weather for music making instead of grilling like a sausage at the beach :)

Hope you'll like that "Hopkins-esque"  one(or is it rather a Holden-esque track?) 

So, do you like malls? Let me tell you that I really don't! 
Forget all hope in those places of despair

Do you like malls?

Podzimní šátek - impro

So pleased to have Debra Buesking as my ever-capable copilot on piano as we take off in this collaboration.  Hear more of Debra's great music @debra_buesking.

Flight Patterns (with Debbie Buesking, my favorite pianist and co-pilot:)

chicken pickin' funk asks the question, do chickens have lips?

written & produced by kid otari
flute, harmonica and all guitars by naldo
keyboards by guillaume pearson
Recorded on tape at the Laundry Room, Oakland California
8-channel 1/2" Otari MX5050

None

Chicken Lips

Talking With An Alien

I set out to make a light and sensible track. This happened instead.

This track has a short video: https://www.instagram.com/p/CakT6T9gyhg/

Senseless

Recombinant version of a tune from happier days......
https://soundcloud.com/windscaleblues/helix?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

(Headphones recommended)

Double Helix

One Summer Morning

All music composed performed and produced by Jeffrey Lasky, 2022

The Awakening Within

This is my whimsical impression of moving through dream states.

At some point during our REM state,
we may move from free floating imagery
to suddenly crystalizing within a lucid state...while it lasts.

Upon this startling realization,
that nothing could seem so real,
it also begins to appear
that this new reality soon slips back 
into the mundane fare of dreamscapes...

and suddenly we arrive in Alpha,
when we are realigning with consensus reality,
where we believe everyone is sharing the same dream.


Image by:
https://unsplash.com/@mo_design_3d

From REM To Alpha

I was imagining what all might be happening in a living neural network.
Is it merely a summing of various electrical potentiation
which results in the synapse firing, or is there possibly
some ephemeral packet of information along for the ride?

It seemed if there were something like that,
and there were some direction to it,
it might be like a passenger moving along a railway,
with multiple rails running in parallel.
Are they totally insulated from sharing this imagined information,
coming to some almost alien and rudimentary realizations...
based on who knows what?

But certainly, it would all be far to fast to keep track of in any instance.

Though, it could be further imagined that it might be possible
to slow this train to the point that we could crawl into this movement
to experience it at a much more leisurely pace.

It was these kinds of thoughts that I was meddling with
when I became curious for what might represent the firing of the synapse.
I decided upon the sound of an electric arc zapping,
only stretching that audio out in time,
sending it into a much more powerful bass experience.

After each discharge, 
we would once again be accelerated down a new set of tracks.

Of course any such discharge would fry a living network...
but again it is all only a musing.

Synapse

Photo by: Stablecog.com
(AI Generated)

Suleiman the Magnificent was the ruler of the Ottoman Empire in the 16th century. He was a conqueror, artist, poet, and lawgiver. 

This piece wanders back and forth between 4/4 and 6/8 a few times.

Suleiman The Magnificent

Photo by Stablecog AI

Puts me in mind of when I bought my first reflector telescope.
I actually watched some kind of craft take off and head into the sky
as it slowed to a stop against the star field and faded to deep red...
then vanished.

Don't look too close...
The AI thinks you need to merge your head into the optical tube
to get the best view,
and don't be shocked that our young astronomer
only has 3 legs.

Stargazing

Image by Stablecog AI:

When I came up with my stage name for SoundCloud,
I imagined an old organ grinder with his monkey and money cup,
cranking away on a street corner of an old cobblestone village.
But these days, the street corner was even older, as was the man himself,
along with his old synthesizer. The monkey is long gone, in case you were wondering.

Actually, I was quite surprised when the image that appeared got my glasses and my beard right, and even my blue shirt along with a pocket (where I keep my pocket protecter full of pens and pencils). Heck, it could almost have been my photo.

Ye Olde Synthgrinder

Subliminal Patterning Tool #701

( REPOSTS  are  routed to Synthgrinder [REPOSTS] )
( https://soundcloud.com/user-813544615 )


++++. PROFILE NOTES ++++

Once a wannabe, not yet a has been.

It had been over a decade since I put together a song,
and for that matter basically walked away from music altogether.
Losing hope that I would ever have the time to put into music again,
I finally gave away my 3rd music studio.
I ran across SoundCloud around 2013,
and thought I might take what few songs I had recorded, 
and lay them to rest there.
And there they languished.

HOWEVER, around 2017 I went back to SoundCloud
and began listening a little more and a little more,
and actively taking a part in visiting the sites
of so many wonderful musicians and beautiful songs.
Also, more and more often I would discover that these artists
were blossoming everywhere around the world,
and most definitely worthy of high praise and compliments.

Then suddenly, these old dead soundtracks right here
began to have a bit of life breathed back into them.
From the kind words that began to come trickling in,
I thought, maybe, someday I might give this music thing a try again.

The thing that finally pushed me into action
was a particular SoundCloud artist…Sander Heerings,
AKA https://soundcloud.com/wane-of-summer
 

Not only was he encouraging,
but he began faithfully responding to a few questions,
then a barrage of them.

The final result seemed to be that after a couple of months,
the Old Grinder now has a 4th studio and, finally, a new song.
I hope there may be many more to come.

Thank you Sander, and to the multitude that have dropped in
to listen to these old songs, 
and most of all, for perking up my spirits.

Dervish

Synthgrinder

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