Stargazer has to work. That's it.

This one may be the weirdest addition to the album. I had these ideas recorded somewhere, and my Gameboy game needed a background song for walking around the ship, so I made this. Later I put it through the JP-08 and this is the result.

JP-08 over MIDI, chopped TR-08 recordings stitched together (too lazy to make a MIDI file for the TR-08, plug it in and record it for such a simple beat).

Stargazing

Stargazer, Kanzi and Miso find themselves 20 ly away from their home, at Wolf 1453. Hope? Fear? Both? I think that's kind of the theme here.

This song has had many iterations. One of my first compositions, back in 2016. Made it for a friend on the HZ-600 originally, but this version here has some tracks made on the JP-08.

Mostly made by hand, but I think the bass may have been recorded using a sequencer, can't remember.

The Tale of Stargazer

Distant Wolf 1453

So, the ship had a problem and it disappeared. This is the ship's alarm. Like the red alert from Star Trek (again, I love Star Trek).

This has been recorded using the built-in step sequencer on the JP-08 at 75 BPM (clocked by the TR-08).

Alert

This one I think it's about excitement, expectation, anticipation at first, but then, considering the story it tells, the incident happens and the ship, Kanzi ru Miso, is lost with Stargazer.

This was the first song composed by me that I ever played live. I actually made it with the intention of presenting the synthesizer to my colleagues, back in 2017, to show them how versatile and flexible the instrument can be, what it can do.

This version has been recorded playing a MIDI file with CC on the JP-08. The live presentation did hurt my finger a bit, tho.

The Tale of Stargazer (v5)

Stargazer

This one's on the nose. Curiosity, the desire to discover new things. Not gonna say the whole Star Trek speech about the final frontier, but that's the idea.

This song is not the first version of "DTRAS". The "Reprise" is the first one, both "Reprise" and "KRM" were made at the same time, back in 2018. I thought DTRAS would be interesting as an intro for the album, so I made this version.

This was played entirely by hand on the JP-08, using the HZ-600 as keyboard.

Desire to Reach Another Star

Some of my production files and early versions. Everything here has been played by hand, unlike some of the stuff from the album (looking at both of you, KRM and DTRAS).

Fun fact: the "reprise" version of DTRAS is actually the original one, but I had to change the name to fit the album. The "intro" version came later.

New tracks tagged #jp-08