Very intriguing ambient piece, sounds like a bassy fog-horn on a windy desert night! So is Sulben a moniker or a fellow human??

Original track (2005) :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkAKgAoeKEE

Feel The Opposite 2022

Voice…Rupert Spira
Voice Manipulation…Spacecraft
Drone… Crave

… A I …

Soul Machine

Onism

I've been trying to make Jazz music by electronic means for a while now. It's been pretty hard.

So much about the ethos of Jazz is dependent on the traditional notion of musicianship: a group of people in a room, trading improvised passages. So much of its tradition is shaped by virtuosos. The thing is, even though I play 'real' instruments, I don't play them well enough and also (and this might be strange to admit) I don't even like playing them that much. I started playing the saxophone when I was 15 and then went for 20 years without playing, I got back into it last year, but I don't really enjoy the process. So I sold it. Now I have a clarinet (because it's quieter, cheaper and sweeter), but I also got a wind synth.

Yeah, the wind synth is not the same, but it's close enough for what I want, it allows me to literally breath some emotion into what I play without it being loud or overly hard to intonate and I have a lot more fun this way. This track features me playing the wind synth.

But another part of Jazz is the collaboration. So I invited the amazing producer and guitarist @ubo-music to contribute some jazz guitar improvisation and that changed everything. It brought a totally new life to the piece.

Overall, the process was: write a very repetitive pattern for the keys and the bass, then use that to play the virtual sax. I sent that to ubo, who send back this guitar part. Based on his part, I then re-recorded a big chunk of the sax parts. After that, I went back and played the keys again to add flourishes and variations, same for the bass. For the drums, I used Superior Drummer and made a bit of a collage of midi parts (I love doing this, it's like sampling, but for midi.)

In the end, even though nobody played together, I hope it still feels organic and if it does, it's because we did collaborate and traded passages, only they didn't happen in realtime.

Honestly, it's strange calling it Jazz. I have so much respect for the roots and traditions of the genre, but it has also evolved so much since the early days in New Orleans that I think I'm entitled, just like everybody else, to bastardize it in whatever way I see fit.

Jazz III (feat. ubo)

“The inability to get something out of your head is a signal that shouts, “Don’t forget to deal with this!” As long as you experience fear or pain with a memory or flashback, there is a lie attached that needs to be confronted. In each healing step, there is a truth to be gathered and a lie to discard.”
― Christina Enevoldsen
Thanks goes to @TheAceOverlord for his feedback and sound enhancements!

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A cover of The Opened Way from Shadow of the Colossus

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Examine Item

What I heard in a dream today.

Check out https://soundcloud.com/sulben

Terminal (Dream 01) Ft. Sulben

Music is an endless language of self-expression that I've only recently started to learn, yet have heard many speak it before. I'm fortunate to explore this landscape, and hope you enjoy the ride.

Infatuated with skeletons, hence the album arts :P

Terminal (Dream 01) Ft. Sulben

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