Easy Listening 2

Love theme from "The Sandpiper"
Comp.: Johnny Mandel
Text: Paul Francis Webster
Guitar Arrangement: Laurindo Almeida
Guitar: Arno Behl

The Shadow Of Your Smile

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Mellow, jazzy acoustic / electric instrumental.

2018-10-25 updated with enhanced sound.

Mellow Hello

Daybreak

Look behind...!
Cover Art: https://akashafox.deviantart.com/

Sneaky

Africana III

I was playing the piano

Photo by Lukas Kloeppel from Pexels

Expectations (piano improvisation)

Acoustic medieval backround music for videos
Royalty free License: http://bit.ly/MedievaL

Great for apps, games,documentaries, slideshow, commercials historical videos, games, presentations. Suitable for art, theatre, movies, TV , slideshows.
1. Main File – 3:08
Genre- Medieval, Folk, Old-world, Ancient, Celtic.
BPM- 98
Instruments: Acoustic guitar, harp, flute, drums, tambourine, cymbals, violin, cello, triangle, percussion, woodwinds, shakers, irish flute, ivory wind, shire whistle.

Medieval

For Ellie...

Written, performed & mixed by
André "pixelorb" Brandes © 2018

Mastered by Steve Corrao at Sage Audio,
Brentwood, Tennessee (USA).

Image: pixabay.com (CC0 Creative Commons)

Instruments:
- Ample Guitar MII
- u-he Repro-5
- u-he Diva
- The Legend
- Sytrus
- EZdrummer 2

Where Civilization Ends - Final Cut

Five Spice
September 2018
Duration: 2:20
Picture by John-Marc Ventimiglia
Renowned chef John-Marc Ventimiglia has created a unique five spice blend. 
Five Spice creates a sense impression of this spice blend in music. The spices as introduced in the music are: rosemary (cello), fennel (viola), basil (oboe), tarragon (alto flute/trumpet)and lavender (flute). The guitar and percussion are the squeeze of lemon and additional flavors that unlock this spice blend.

Five Spice Recipe:  1/2 tsp lavender, 3 tsp basil, 3 tsp tarragon, 1/2 tsp ground fennel seed and 1 tsp rosemary.  All the spices should be dried and ground if needed for a consistent blend.  Great on shrimp, seafood and chicken. Salt  and coat liberally with the mix before cooking.  Finish with black pepper and a squeeze of lemon juice.

Five Spice

This song makes me think of a ghost, wandering in a rainy forest

Picture by Ryan Bruce

Ghost in the Forest

This track is dedicated to the memory of Chris A and the time that was 'Elidor'. "I hope you are flying somewhere with that big grin on your face" 
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This track was very much a collision of ideas. I wanted to follow on from The North Shore and actually take the listener into the air to experience the feeling and freedom of flying like a bird. Additionally the track title "Flight of Fancy" was the title of an original instrumental  played by a band I was in in the early 80's. The keyboard player in that band is sadly no longer with us, so I decided to try and reinvent the spirit of that time as a musical tribute to Chris.  

Enjoy your Flight of Fancy :-)

This track is now part of "The Pilgrims Way Project" exploring the history and natural world of Lindisfarne.

Project Playlist

soundcloud.com/mrbouzouki/sets/the-pilgrims-way-project

Project Website 

https://www.pilgrims-way.co.uk

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Instrumentation

(i) Sunrise (0:00 - 0:58)
Part One of the track features strings, brass from my new orchestral library Albion One by Spitfire Audio and timpani. It also includes an additional brass VST from Halion Sonic (Cubase).

(ii) The Shoreline At Dawn (0:59 - 2:28)
Part Two features Albion One Strings (muted - con sordini) and Woodwinds, Synthesizer and Electric Guitar 

(iii) Into The Air (2:29 - 6:42)
Part Three has Strings (Longs and Ostinato), Synthesizer, Electric Guitar, Bass, Drums (Simon Phillips Studio Drums in Groove Agent) and a Choir Backing. 

Various seabird sound FX that is classed as Public Domain are used to add colour to this part of the track from www.freesound.org

creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

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Background

This track seemed to naturally evolve into three discrete sections with a different musical flavour to each part.

(i) Sunrise (0:00 - 0:58)
As the title suggests, it is my musical imagining of sunrise on the beach with all the grandeur of a new day dawning. A big orchestral sound and timpani seemed the way to go.

(ii) The Shoreline At Dawn (0:59 - 2:28)
Part Two has a much more muted sound as nature begins to stir with the dawn and musically this part acts as a linking section between parts one and three. 

(iii) Into The Air (2:29 - 6:42)
Finally we are into the air and I wanted to give a feeling of flying by the use of rising chords sequences and a string ostinato (a recurring rhythmic or melodic pattern). I also wanted to give a nod to the original Flight of Fancy so it has a variation of the main guitar riff I played back in the early 80's, some interwoven guitar and keyboard parts and harmony with underlying jazzy drum and bass parts.

Flight Of Fancy

"We humans can't dive twice in the waters of the same river"

Picture by Matthew Henry

across the time

I found this on my hard drive. It dates from four or five years ago. At the time, I thought it wasn’t enough of this or enough of that to post, while thinking it was also too much of the same thing. But now I like it, especially from the guitar player’s point of view. The sounds and interlocking parts please me. Maybe you will like them too.

I remember that I made this in vague tribute to one of my favorite players and musical mentors-at-a-distance.  He shall remain only partially named.  

For some reason, the “head,” such as it is, comes at the end. Go figure…

Billy I Am Ruined

A Promise Kept ~Inspired by Stranger Things~

Through A Window

Rêverie/ Claude Debussy
Piano: Eric Dartel

Rêverie / Claude Debussy

Have you ever had the feeling that this kid in your memories was another person ?

memories

Pause for a moment and relax........
I present for you another of my very loose classical adaptations :)
This time it is J.S.Bach's Prelude No.1 which was adapted in 1853
by Charles Gounod into what is commonly called "Ave Maria". Now adapted by me .
Enjoy :) XXX
Photo by Josef Hanning - https://www.flickr.com/photos/jphanning/
All you need to know about Ave Maria 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ave_Maria_(Bach/Gounod)

Maybe Maria

Available pieces from Elementals series:
Air: https://soundcloud.com/arcaans/sylph
Water: https://soundcloud.com/arcaans/nymph
Earth: https://soundcloud.com/arcaans/pygmy
Fire: https://soundcloud.com/arcaans/salamander
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Learn more: 
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elemental
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2018.10.30: Today is a "Ten Million Day". During this day, positive or negative actions are multiplied 10 million times. With this song, I would like to wish, our Earth fully healing. I would like to wish "All of Us", blessed and wonderful life. I wish the Humanity, the better future on best timeline. Namaste my Friends!

The Sylphs are Air-Elementals. One of the Earth's defenders...
...Feel their majestic being...and learn more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylph
Ten million days: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lhabab_Duchen

Sylph

Watch it on my YouTube

Télécharger cet album :
https://www.maximeraynal.com/les-albums-1

Le Portail des Rêves

Le chemin imaginaire

Le chemin imaginaire / Version symphonique

Silver Lining

( 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.