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The Great Conqueror - Rock Flexible
SEASON 2 - Part Four - Shadows in the Night
In his dreams, caused by the past, the king is bounced between Light and Darkness ...
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Recording in the Candy Land Studio - Berlin, Germany
Many thanks to Native Instruments for the excellent tools!
(c) Rock Flexible

Shadows in the Night (By Jaime J. Ross)

The King was just beginning to wind down after a full day's worth of activities. He welcomed his brother and sisters with a parade through the streets of the Kingdom. He introduced his oldest daughter to the man that, he hopes, will soon be her husband...and he got to enjoy the awesome music performed by his friend Lord d'Up Stabb.

He finished off the evening in the sitting room catching up with Robert, Julietta, and Hermine (his brother and sisters). His brother seemed awfully quiet, but the King didn't find that too hard to believe...after all, he has had a long day.

As the King laid his head upon his pillow, he couldn't help but think that something else was "off" with his brother. Just as he begins to drift off to sleep...it hits him...his limping. Back when they were boys, the King and his brother had been playing with a sword that they should never had touched...a "curse" had been placed on the King that whenever his brother would feel "pain" then he would feel it as well...it was obvious that his brother had been injured...yet the King had felt nothing...this was his last thought as he drifted off to sleep...he hears his brother's voice...is he dreaming? Is he awake? He doesn't know...but he follows the voice...knowing it will lead him to his brother...

The voice leads him deep into the Forest of the Unknown...he continues walking...

He comes to a place where he hears chanting...and he braces himself to see what kind of people live this far out...and why his brother is with them. As the chanting gets louder and louder, he realizes he is almost there...

Standing before him...he sees them. All of them. The "people" whose chanting has led him here. His brother included. But, it's not his "whole" brother...it's just his shadow. They are all just shadows. Where are their bodies? Well, the King KNOWS where his brother's body is...it's sleeping in one of his beds in the castle...he just doesn't understand how this can be?

The King sits down and listens as Robert tells him all about the Undesirable Spirit and how he has stolen their bodies. How they all wish to make their way back to their kingdoms...but they have no idea where their bodies are being kept...or how to get them back...

All of a sudden, Steward appears. Robert has summoned him into this dream as well...Steward knows EXACTLY where their bodies are located. He hands Robert the map that he still carries in his pocket. He tells him to take the map...follow it to the jagged red "X"...find the jester...and enter into the Dark Lord's kingdom...

Robert assembles the shadow people and tells them of this new development. They realize that the Dark Lord will not take kindly to them stealing their bodies back...but, they also realize that it will be hard to "detect" shadows...they will sneak in as shadows and retrieve the bodies that are rightfully theirs. They are ready for a battle...if it comes to that...they are ready to fight!

The shadow people set out with the map. Robert sets out in a different direction...he is heading towards the castle. It's time to wake up "his" body...the Undesirable Spirit has no idea what is coming...

The King lifts his head from his pillow...he sees the Queen sleeping beside him...his limping dog still in the bed with them...and he thinks about the dream he just had...it seemed so very real!

He finds that he cannot get back to sleep...he listens and waits...wondering if, in the morning, his brother will still walk with a limp...

The Great Conqueror - Part 24 - Shadows In The Night - Rock Flexible

Dark music for dark people

Sad stories for sad souls

Life is a short-lived dream, let your imagination create your own eternal dream 
                           
Free sensation for free spirit

Emotional sensibilities for sensitive human beings

"The Great Conqueror" is the epic side project of Rock_Flexible (https://soundcloud.com/rock-flexible) and Jaime J. Ross (https://soundcloud.com/jaime0223). While Rock is the mastermind behind the medieval sounds and Guitars, Jaime adds soulful piano parts and recorded most of the used samples with her Tascam field recorder ... many very interesting sounds so found a new life in this organic electronic/acoustic - pieces ...
Thank you very much to all listeners for your kind support!
Artwork: Amazone from Ronny Welscher 
TGC.(2015)

For many years I concentrated on painting, but meanwhile I come back to music more and more. I always like to connect the different mediums, also writing lyrics. I play several instruments with main instrument classical guitar. I'm no singer, but sometimes I like to send a message.
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I very much started out playing instruments very late in life, and spent much of my earlier days listening to it, rather than playing it. I am very much a self taught musician and regard my instruments very much like implements, tools or devices to write with, rather than being anything remotely near a good playing musician of any great technique. 

I guess I really got into instruments more back in 1994 when I got into my first band (though I did learn to play the Harmonica when I was 8 years old) it was around this time I wrote a song on the Guitar entitled Oldtime Street. The song is very much even today one that contains some of the finest lyrics I have ever written, and very much perhaps inspired me to carry on.

Though the band back in 1994 was a very short affair, it was not long after I got into a R&B band performing Rock & Blues in various pubs around my own town Birmingham. I was very much the lead singer in this outfit which lasted some 6 years. Though during these years the band had gone through several line up and name changes and came to a stop in 2001. I suppose it was a bit of relief in a sense, because it's quite easy to put a band together, but murder to keep everyone happy, and keep it going.

Even though I only really did Vocals and played my Harmonica in the band, I still found time now and then, for my guitar, and my keyboards at home, and I also contributed in a big way to our own compositions in the band.

My tools are as follows:

Studiologic VMK-188 Plus 88 Key Midi Controller Keyboard.

Yamaha PSR E303 61 Key Keyboard (Used Via Midi)

Yamaha F310 Acoustic Guitar.

Yamaha ERG121 Electric Guitar.

Encore E4 Bass Guitar.

Various Harmonicas in many Keys.

Alesis Performance Pad Pro Drum Machine & Pads. 

Audio Technica AT2020 USB Microphone.

Vic Firth Drum Sticks.

Various VST Software for Keyboards, Guitars & Mixing.

Cubase 5.

Ableton Live 8.

Steinberg Wavelab.

Influences are from mainly 70's Prog/Rock/Blues/Traditional Folk/Electronic Music.                    

I am just like you. Finding my way along…sharing my musical self with anyone who wishes to listen…and continuing to enjoy the musical creation process. To me…there is nothing cooler than listening to a song that didn't exist before you created it. 

I play piano…by ear…no lessons…no rules. I just play what comes.  I love to find simple melodies and listen to them grow…

I enjoy singing…and I thank all of the amazing artists on the Cloud that have written music for me to sing to.

I am mostly known for my lyrics. I am a writer. It's taken me 42 years to say that…but, that's who I really am. I am a lover of words and the way they can be manipulated to tell a story. The simpler the better…the more relatable the better. I have written many, many lyrics for Stefan (Rock Flexible) who has created some pretty awesome musical worlds for these lyrics to live in. 

That is who I am…

Good luck as you continue on with your own personal musical journey…