This is an 80's vibe tune with lyrics from an old Danish poem by Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger, "Guldhornene".

I'm singing in Danish which is not my native language (Swedish).  My son & daughter on backing vocals.

It's made with Reason Studios v12, mainly using Bitleys Fairlight and other sound libraries.

Poem: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/29124/29124-h/29124-h.htm

The cover art is made by Midjourney using the prompt "A Danish iron age village with a man blowing a golden horn".
Maybe the golden horn got lost in the same quicksand the poor man got stuck in.

Guldhornene

Demo track for Way Beyond Fairlight soundbanks, available for Reason and Kontakt from www.bitleysounds.com

Used here was the Kontakt version, sequenced with Logic X. 

More info; https://bitleysounds.com/index.php/fairlight-for-kontakt/

Sararr Universe / Demo for Way Beyond Fairlight

Demo for Bitley's Way Beyond Fairlight soundbanks, available for Kontakt and Reason. Kontakt version used here. For more info please visit https://bitleysounds.com/index.php/fairlight-for-kontakt/

Synthwave 101 / Way Beyond Fairlight demo

This time I've used the lyrics from a well known Swedish funeral song by Carl Michael Bellman (1740-1795): Fredmans Epistel N:o 81 - Bellman, a k a "Märk hur din skugga".

There's little trace from the original melody, which is dark & depressing. Oh well, it's a funeral song.

I wanted to keep just a tiny bit of that mood, but have contrasting parts in major.
(I remember many years ago listening to a very happy Japanese song. Happy until I checked that the lyrics was about - not happy at all)

For reference, here's an interpretation of the original song, performed by Cornelis Vreeswijk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvhnSEn_gX8

The lyrics is in Swedish, which is my native language, but I use both northern and southern dialect.

My son sings the first verse

Märk hur din skugga

This is synthpop with a touch of 80's/New Romantic.
The lyrics is based on Lord Byron's poem "She walks in beauty" from 1814.

She Walks In Beauty

A 80's/New Romantic piece where I sing duet with voice cloned female vocals (audimee.com)

William Wordsworth's beautiful poem "Phantom Of Delight" inspired my to make this 80's/New Wave style composition.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45550/she-was-a-phantom-of-delight

Phantom Of Delight

Piano 1: Piano 16' on the Korg T3. Piano 2: Piano 16' on the Korg M1 plugin.

Korgus Pianus

This 80s vibe synthpop song is based on Emily Dickinson's poem "Banish Air From Air" 
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56454/banish-air-from-air-963

Sounds exclusively from Bitley's Way Beyond Fairlight sound library,
https://bitleysounds.com/

Made with Reason Studios.
https://www.reasonstudios.com/

Mastered through emastered.com

New tracks tagged #Bitley