Angelika Aleksandrowicz - vocal
Krzysztof [yelenito] Jaroński - piano, handpan

Following the darkest night comes the brightest dawn. ✨

Production, mix & mastering - Yeleń Records ®

Released on: 2025-10-29

Inner Peace

DREDGE (dredʒ) v. 1. clean out the bed of (a harbor, river, or other area of water) by scooping out mud, weeds, and rubbish using a boat or special device.

v. 2. bring to attention unpleasant facts or memories that had been forgotten.

DREDGE takes two separate definitions, one physical and the other emotional. DREDGE is private, it's voyeuristic, it's ritual. 

[this piece is meant to recreate that distinct sensation]


DREDGE was written for Miriam Liske-Doorandish, Adam Buttimer & Maya Stone for the 2025 Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MassMoCA

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DREDGE (2025) - for chamber ensemble [Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival]

WRITHE ('rīth) v. to make continuous twisting, twitching, squirming movements or contortions of the body.

In WRITHE, the ensemble functions as a single large convulsing body, its collective mass and
motion crushed under the weight of its own momentum. WRITHE is a study in the violent
mechanics of spasm, labor, and repetition.

[This piece is meant to recreate that distinct sensation]

Written for the fellows of the 2025 Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival.
Commissioned with generous support from Justus and Elizabeth Schlichting.

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WRITHE (2025) - for large chamber ensemble [Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival]

PAWS halloween special w/ @v_i_k_t_o_r_i_a

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PAWS #2 w/ Viktoria (16/10/25)

Autumn 2025. Meandering melodies over a pedal drone loosely unfolding like a raga. Recorded in St. Philips Church, Dublin.

Organ Improvisation VI (a la Raga)

"There had always been a piano in the House. Hiding in the shadows. Waiting. For a stroke. For an embrace. For something to rouse what it hid beneath its keys, locked away underneath its shell. (...)
Antonin was the first. He sat down and played a few notes. Struck a few chords. Closed his eyes. Recorded what was roused. And then edited what sounded wrong or useless or trite. Making movies like he does teaches you to do that. To distinguish, afterwards, between what is sensible and what is not."

Composed and mixed by Antonin De Bemels
Mastered by Yvan Hanon
Image by Stéphanie Paulus https://www.instagram.com/steph_paulus

https://antonindebemels.bandcamp.com/album/la-douceur

LA DOUCEUR

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La douceur

my first release for a few weeks
lemme know what y'all think
trying something new with this one
I wanna see how its percieved

something than nothing.

Written in October 2025. Violin and orchestra.
Seated nude,  Janet Cumbrae Stewart.

Violin Concerto 6 (iii)

Track 18 from 'Divertissement' soundtrack

Sometimes I would be the Fool Around
Chasing nights with no plan, going underground
Spontaneity led me through the dark
Protective armour worn to shield a fragile heart
But with time, my young soul, it grew wise
Revealed some truths I did my best to hide
Taught me things words can't always describe & say
I'm not the fool you once knew
I've Come A Long Way...

Fool Around   (Come A Long Way)

نام اثر: 05:00
آهنگ‌ساز و تنظیم‌کننده: سالار نیک‌فال
پیانیست: سالار نیک‌فال
ویولن‌سل: مهسا قاسمی
میکس و مستر: بهنام معصومی
تاریخ انتشار: ۱۴۰۴/۸/۸

پنج صبح، جهان هنوز تصمیم نگرفته بیدار شود.
دود سیگار با مه بیرون قاطی می‌شود؛ مثل فکری که نیمه‌کاره مانده.
چراغ‌های دور، یاد گذشته‌هایی‌اند که خاموش نشدند.
سکوت، خودش ساز می‌زند در دل تاریکی.
و مردی که میان نبودن و بودن، هنوز منتظر روشن شدن چیزی‌ست.
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Title: 05:00
Composer & Arranger: Salar Nikfal
Pianist: Salar Nikfal
Cellist: Mahsa Ghasemi
Mix & Master: Behnam Masoumi
Release Date: 2025 / 10 / 29

Five a.m. the world still hasn’t decided to wake.
Cigarette smoke blends with the fog outside, like a thought left unfinished.
Distant lights recall the past that never fully faded.
Silence plays its own melody within the darkness.
And a man, caught between being and not-being, still waits for something to dawn.

05:00

Contemporary classical with a few added elements.

Fortuna Imperium

Donna Harler, narration, John Bailey, alto flute, Clark Potter, viola, Kathleen Wychulis, harp

The Harp (2002)

Echoes Through the Mist

Giants' Moot

Here I Lie

Arioso (2025) for cuica, violin, cello, and percussion
Mizzou New Music Ensemble (dir. Stefan Freund)

Arioso (2025) for Cuica, Violin, Cello, and Percussion

Its Halloween! I composed this track using the piano and bass from the Casio PX-S3100 Stage Piano, and orchestral sounds from Cinesamples Musio. 

The photo in the art work is from Generative Gaze on Pixabay: https://pixabay.com/users/generativegaze-52555811/

© 2025 Roger Hooper

MIDNIGHT MIST

Unreleased track for forthcoming release on LUMINESCENCE, Skepper's 7th solo album for piano and strings.

Father Clock (unreleased - coming soon on LUMINESCENCE 7th solo album)

1% photographer /یک‌درصد عکاس                              
2% psychologist   /دودرصد روان‌شناس
3% composer        /سه‌درصد آهنگ‌ساز
94% Sad         /نود و چهاردرصد غم‌گین
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Every soul has a voice and I am glad you hear the voice of my soul.

هر روحی یه صدا داره و خوش‌حالم که صدای روحمُ می‌شنوید.

Unreleased works, live recordings and collaboration sketches from contrapuntal records

Licensing/commissions → contact@benjaminskepper.com


“Embodying classical aesthetic, music and culture, Benjamin Skepper is a musician with an extraordinary sense of the contemporary” (M. Pugliese, Director Museo 900 for Rolling Stone Italy)

Leicester-Leeds-London-Barcelona-Monte Carlo....Church Stretton, Shropshire😳

Soundtrack/Project Demos...raw, lacking finesse & at varying degrees of gestation...😃

Sometimes I'm still a little creative
With a tendency to stare into the past
Gotta keep on moving forward
To write a love letter to treasure
& a legacy that perhaps may last

GenX music lover, creating stuff I like to listen to.

Media Composer, pianist, synthesist, product trainer for Casio,.

Australian composer, born 1960, married to Clare Maclean (New Zealand/Australian composer). The first series of paintings used on my Soundcloud sight were by my father, Barry Carroll. I have used other painters since then. There is a wide variety of music here: recent compositions, pieces written in my thirties, student works, and pieces written in my teenage years. Its mostly based on Finale versions of my scores. There is a full list of my Soundcloud pieces at https://john-carroll-poems.com/soundcloud-recordings/

Soon after I started learning piano I began composing. At university I studied with Peter Sculthorpe (1978-81) [and earlier, with Martin Wesley-Smith, Moya Henderson and Eric Gross]. My style was modernist (In Terra Pax, Sonata for Two Pianos and Horn, Qui Tollis). After my studies I felt drawn to tonality. Many of my pieces were written during my thirties. My style is often tonal, sometimes using the structures of classical music, sometimes incorporating traditional melodies, aiming to express a sense of the timeless goodness in existence. I became a pastor. There was a twenty year exile from composition, during which time I started writing poetry. 

In 2018 I began composing again. Over 1940 new works have been written, each one canonic - using Plainsong, Jewish cantillation, Scottish pibrochs, Icelandic music, early transcriptions of Aboriginal music, Breton and Northumbrian melodies, Gaelic psalms, Irish and English tunes, Welsh folk songs, and my own melodies (and an extended series of works that accompany paintings) "joining our voice to a great communal voice that calls out across the centuries" (Ben Myers). Bruckner greatly influenced me when I was young. May I also create melodies that "arc from heaven" (Colin Davies). 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100025651981505
Poetry: https://john-carroll-poems.com/ 
Email: yomechad7@gmail.com
Thesis: https://john-carroll-poems.com/lament-and-homecoming-1/

TRACKS IN THE MUD - out now!
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Organist/Pianist/Composer based in Kildare, Ireland. :)

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This is a small online portfolio of my music. I hope you enjoy it. My email is stephenjacksoncomposer@gmail.com if you have any questions,  commissions, performance requests etc. please feel free to contact me. I'm always happy to start another project or collaboration!

Realize that you are a child of the light and that you need never walk in darkness again ✨✨

Antonin is an artist from Brussels. He makes masks and music, mistakes and mixtapes. All with love.

Regular partners:
https://soundcloud.com/olitaski
https://soundcloud.com/les-antonymes
https://soundcloud.com/david-lund-music
https://soundcloud.com/la-fin-des-pseudonymes
https://soundcloud.com/thin-consolation

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