One of my older songs updated this week, I may remix the tune with a classical treatment in the future. 

In the meantime, I wish you sweet dreams. I also hope that fears or threats are vanquished as quickly in your life as they are in my Bedtime Story. Happy trails!✨

90 bpm with tempo shifts 
DAW Apple Logic Pro X 
MIDI Akai Pro MPK  
E-instruments: 
Steinway Grand Piano 
SoCal Ballad Piano 
 Flamenco Echoes
Steel String Acoustic
Upright Ballad Bass
Violas
Cellos
French Horns
E-drum kits:
Latin Kit Pandeiro, Tambourine, Congas, Bongos
Pop Kit Maraca, Shaker
Classic Hip Hop Remix Analog Kick, Gated Snare, Hi-Hats, Cymbal
Atlanta Hi-Hats, Crash
Mystic Groove Chimes

Audio
* Bird chirps recorded live May 29 and June 15, 2024.
* Cicadas recorded live June 22, 2024
* Train recorded live October 17, 2023
* “I’m gonna get ya” vocal recorded live July 11, 2024, of my voice transposed 4 steps down. Sounds like LL Cool J’s voice to me. 😀

Cover art: A Photoshop composite of many photos from pexels.com as follows:
* Woman in body of water by Pixabay
https://www.pexels.com/photo/woman-in-body-of-water-235469/
* Brown Monolith Under Teal and Gray Milky Way by Eberhard Grossgasteiger
https://www.pexels.com/photo/brown-monolith-under-teal-and-gray-milky-way-1624360/
* White Swan (wings) by Anthony
https://www.pexels.com/photo/white-swan-132479/
* White Horse on the Beach by Missi Köpf
https://www.pexels.com/photo/white-horse-on-the-beach-6215909/

Bedtime Story

This is my whimsical impression of moving through dream states.

At some point during our REM state,
we may move from free floating imagery
to suddenly crystalizing within a lucid state...while it lasts.

Upon this startling realization,
that nothing could seem so real,
it also begins to appear
that this new reality soon slips back 
into the mundane fare of dreamscapes...

and suddenly we arrive in Alpha,
when we are realigning with consensus reality,
where we believe everyone is sharing the same dream.


Image by:
https://unsplash.com/@mo_design_3d

From REM To Alpha

Loop beat w/Rhythmic Theremin Noise. Bass & keys solos too

R&N (0)

Frescoes

Words and music by Roger Whittlesey. Audric Jankauskas plays the lead guitar solos. All other sounds by Whittlesey. © 2024

Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOc4A4stx9k

I'd like to thank Audric for joining me on this song. Audric has been hard at work on some music he's eager to finish, but after I sent him this song he was kind enough to put his music on temporary hold so that he could play his blazing, virtuoso guitar solo. 

Audric and I both have our feelings about what this song is about, but we leave it up to you the listener to consider making your own meaning. Art is always open to interpretation. Art doesn't live in a binary universe; rather, it has gray areas and what I consider to be art may not be artistic at all in your view. I just ask that you listen with an open mind.

I thank you, as always, for continuing to return to my channel, and for supporting my music once again. 

All my best, 

Roger
April 2024

DIRTY HANDS

Dirty Hands (featuring Audric Jankauskas)

"Possibility" written by KL
Recorded & Produced by KL

Possibility

Jazz Andaluz

Video; youtu.be/66EdJF5C2xM

Made in #Ableton (July 2024)

Genres;
#Electronic
#Ambient
#EDM

https://hega.bandcamp.com/

Space Waves

There's something metronomic about the planet, Nod. 

The slide guitar was played on a telecaster whilst the heavier riffs came from a Duesenberg Paloma put through a modern amp.

Caravan

Samples from Ella Fitzgerald’s recording of ‘Round Midnight by Thelonious Monk.

12_ante_meridiem.wad

Street Band and other stuff in the green hills o`somerset

Jazz Andaluz

The West Street Band