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The Time Machine

The Sky Above

A Dangerous Group ?

Helioglide is around 42 years old now, wrote it back in my late teens I think. There's another recorded version on here that was from 2022 but it's one of those songs that I'm never quite happy with, hence this updated version.

Helioglide '24

Sitting in the sun, halfway between asleep and awake, mind wandering to wonderful places and happy thoughts...

Daydreams

Just imagine... if you knew they were coming... but... as friends? Or...? 

The Day Before They Came

Mindgames

Frenetic in name, and slightly in nature... A more straightforward piece compared to some of my others.

Frenetic

Do they? If they don’t already, they will at some point… 

A nod to a certain classic sci-fi film in the music and in the title of this one, a fairly complex piece having managed to use up 32 tracks in total. 

Special thanks and much kudos to Mark Scovell for allowing me to use the lovely melody and chord sequence from one of his new compositions for the middle-8 section.

Enjoy…   

Do Androids Dream?

Welcome Paragon is a one-man electro-band from the rural areas of Sweden. Drawing inspiration from glitch, dubstep, jazz fusion and video game soundtracks, Welcome Paragon brings a highly ambitious twist to the sound of slightly-outdated electronic music, peppered with unusual themes and novel arrangements. And, with his vast array of unused software synthesizers and virtuoso MIDI-editing skills, he is truly a force to be reckoned with.

Thank you  for visiting my world, I'm happy to share! Listening is free, commenting is priceless.

I 've been composing electronic music for more than 23 years but only started this new project 3 years ago, when the band in which I played bass splited.

 A large amount of the music I love was recorded in the 70's. Among these revered groups , Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, Ange or King Crimson stand out. Over the years, I've also been very fond of many diverse bands and songwriters (The Doors; The Beatles; Bowie; Neil Young; Deep Purple; Led Zep; Patti Smith; U2; The Police; Massive Attack; Chemical Brothers; Killing Joke; Marillion; Morphine; Nirvana; The Young Gods; Dominique A; Noir Désir, Conil, Aurora ...). 
More related to my own synth music production, one could find influences from Vangelis, Jarre, Björk, Oldfield, Numan, Kraftwerk, Schultze and other pioneers. Finally, I should mention the great soundtrack composers such as Ennio Morricone, Wendy Carlos or Hans Zimmer.
Above all those great musicians stands the beloved statue of Ludwig van Beethoven, the visionary, the prodigy, the most sensitive man.

My desire is to be a tiny part of the admirable family of human composers and musicians in order to explore the infinity of musical combinations that our mind offers... To achieve this goal, I will continue to mix my own set of diverse influences in my own imperfect human way, without surrendering to any type of AI composer. My approach questions the astonishing way in which skills, sensitivity, aesthetic and personal history provide the fuel and oxygen for our creativity, while chance, curiosity and current feelings provide the spark. What matters the most is the process, not the result, the “product”. 
I often start my new pieces with a vague idea of the genre and mood I want to explore. Then, by playing with one of my synths, I let the sound impose its nature and call for other sounds it wants to play with.  My role as a composer is like that of a sailor acting on his rudder and his sails. I am neither the wind nor the sea and I have no map, but my instinct should allow me to avoid the reefs and I will eventually land somewhere, most likely a strange and unexpected place.
My pieces will always reflect the result of hundreds of micro-choices I made, consciously or unconsciously, that's what makes it fun, right?
Feel free to comment or criticize my plethoric prod because reading your feedbacks is the only reward I expect.

Bandcamp: https://loyajirga.bandcamp.com/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/intl-fr/artist/0bohy1SDB37BBZLksRM9GY

Thanks for taking the time to listen. 

I'm continuing to enjoy creating some new indulgently electronic music after a 30-odd year gap in proceedings, unashamedly inspired by my 1980's music heroes.  
 
I am proud to be a former and founder member of Big Big Train along with Greg Spawton and Andy Poole. 

Prior to BBT, in the days of cassette recorders and some very dodgy vocals, Andy and I were 'Arcshine'. 

Having hung up the keyboards in circa 1993 I blew the dust off of them again in February 2022. 

Hope you enjoy the new offerings, and the old ones.

Psychedelic Electronica 

Shamans in sneakers in search of light, dancing at the rim of the unknown.


KarmaKult was found as KargoKult by Markus Van Elsen and Franziska Köppen and renamed to KarmaKult in 2021.

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