Stein_Thor

This is my last song here for awhile,, going to take a break from SC till I don´t know.

Hope the changes they make to this site will start to move away from mass streaming back to nurturing a community of independent musicians.

Goodbye SC

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One of the masters of Soundcloud is Dirk Maassen,  makes wonderful music that people love and he also manages to keep fresh and evolve. He also makes his music available to us mortals and this is my attempt on his collab...

Here you can listen to the original 
https://soundcloud.com/dirk-maassen-official/open

here is what he has to say about the project and be sure to listen to his music,  I´m pretty sure most of my followers already do...

This is the first of a series of open collabs for my next album "einklang" .

the track is at 90 bpm !

I am looking for any kind of electronic, ambient, ethnik, duduk, grooves or whatever gives us the chills.... no lyrics, no vocals this time :)

First reason to join into this collab should be fun and passion for music and no guarantee that the track will make it on the album but if it makes it, we will share 50/50 in case the track will generate more than 100 € a year (which is hard enough :). Full credit is understood...

Dirk's Soundcloud Page Links are as Follows: 
@dirk-maassen-official
@ascoltadi

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Dirk Maassen "Open" - Stein Thor Remix

A love song,,,,

strange to say it, but I like this song my friends,,, and it´s a personal one...

In Your Arms - A Love Song (done)

An excellent guitar player, Stan Leonard,  put this base up for collab and I added some sugar to it...   Stan Leonard https://soundcloud.com/stanleonard  on guitar,,,  Stein Thor rest..   

Please repost and follow us if you like it,,,   we need all the help we can get :)

And yes,, it´s a free download for you pleasure


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Lucid Dream By Stan Leonard - Stein Thor Arrangemnent

Finally I´m somewhat happy,,  after some tinkering I think I arrived at how to set up my mic´s and how to play my upright for this project that has been building up for a long time -  And last night I did the first session of the hours albums.

The idea is to sit down and just record, and thats what I did last night, recorded 8 songs and this one is number two. Each album will be 8 songs named after the monastic hours, the circle of christian meditation that has mostly become lost in today society. 
https://steinthor.bandcamp.com/album/december-hours-2014


I really hope you like this idea and sound, and that some of you might even buy the whole album on itunes and bandcamp when the time comes. The other album Skuggaskil (physical release) is coming out next week,,, cover is finished and now they only need to print and put everything together.

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2 Lauds - From December Hours Now out on Bandcamp

A song ---

Thanks

Stein
http://open.spotify.com/user/1262355698


Spotify

Una Melodia Semplice (x) (sheet done)

photo by Eyþór Ingi Jónsson
https://www.flickr.com/photos/eythoringi/


Am I on Spotify you ask?, of course  

https://open.spotify.com/artist/3q1LSNssFkpGMV7qJpO6Tk

spotify:artist:3q1LSNssFkpGMV7qJpO6Tk

Una Melodia Sospesa (free dl)

We all tick on

one take, no layering, idea is to make train the left hand 



Clockwork (sheet done)

Today I hate my country, really detest what is going on. I work as a church organist and there is so much hate speech going on agains the church that I´m seriously considering changing places. Other things are also disgusting here but enough of that.

On the positive side my music for a short film was voted best score on a film festival in USA,,, thats something I guess.

But in times like this it´s good to have a few happy places when things are like this.  First one is my grandparents farm (picture),, Ytri Tunga Tjörnes,  where I feel I´m at home,,   second is Goldberg suite by Bach,, when I listen to the aria played by Glenn Gould I go to a happy place,,  third is letting all go and make music and fourth is being with people I love,  and thats my best place.  When I manage to combine some of these elements I manage to clear my mind, and this piece here is something like that. You can hear some elements of Goldberg in it I hope.

Thank you all listeners, commenters and friends on Soundcloud for being part of my happy place. Feel free to download and I hope this music brings you also to my happy place.

My Happy Place (long description, musical blog)

First day of real winter here in Iceland, I mean loads of snow..

Recorded my upright in winter mood, also since it´s one year since I recorded my december hours release..  

spotify:album:1I3pBFccouUgGX8N1VjB4C
https://open.spotify.com/album/1I3pBFccouUgGX8N1VjB4C

Hope you enjoy this piece and maybe if you download it do me a favour and share this song, follow me on my facebook and spotify...  early christmas present for me :)

Video on facebook
https://www.facebook.com/Steinmusica/videos/10156371175925601/

youtube coming up

Video on fb page

Meditation (with video)(free dl)

A short piece I did for a group that requested music that sounds like Vivaldi, 

hope this is somewhat like Vivaldi

Done only with Berlin Strings 

Sounds like Signor Vivaldi? - Berlin strings

Happy new year my friends,,, 2016 is here, 2015 was the year that mostly nothing happened,,,

2016 I don´t have high hopes for,, but I hope it will bring you all nice things.

Free download if you want this piece.

Una Melodia Dal Passato

Never been blessed with a child, and probably never will,, but sometimes I like to imagine I have been and make music that I hope a little child would like, a little lullaby.

Free download for you my friends, only ask that if you download maybe share the music to others, and help my music gain some ground :)

My spotify page could use some love too 
https://open.spotify.com/artist/3q1LSNssFkpGMV7qJpO6Tk

My spotify

Your First Lullaby Little Girl

Live recording at Hallgrímskirkja 12. july 2018

Alto flute Pamela De Sensi
Organ Steingrímur Þórhallsson

New piece by me that me and my wife played yesterday.

Meditation On The Summer That Never Came No. 1 (live Recording)

Did you miss my piano

well, I´m about to come out with a 10 piece album soon,   all written in one evening.

It will only go on spotify I´m afraid, last album of mine did not do very well, have loads of cd´s left, so I´ll just put it on mr Spotify and hope that a playlist will pick it up and make me playlisted.

The Last Wave (piano) Teaser From Next Album

Autumn Dream (x)

Hello Darkness (x)

I put a lot of work behind this one, strings can be a pain and my MBP was fuming with the samples at times.

Hope you enjoy this one, I´m pretty proud of the result.

Freedom

Try to match the music with your heartbeat

Happy easter, and happy wonderful spring to you all my friends.

Stein_Thor

Tarek Badr