WOA!!Cool clarinet!! Great narration Chris and a brilliant collab - STUNNING poetry...don't know how I missed this one...WAY COOL guitaring too - very well arranged...sad...Peace:)xo happy new year Chris!!

Wow, love this arrangement! The various instruments are mixed together brilliantly

Amazing track!! So rar--original musical setting combining real poetry!! Awesome stuff!!

 I love the texture and choice of sound...great just great production

Great performance by all...masterpiece! I love it indeed!!

The Never Ending Album is a Soundcloud stream that will be continually expanded for as long I can make music. It's a dynamic album - traditional albums are now largely made redundant by the internet.  This aims to marry the curatorship of a traditional album with the internet audience’s need for continual content.

These are my favourite tracks from my own works that I'll keep adding to as I deem something worthy.   

If you enjoy the work here and would like to help me make more you can purchase my music from a range of online retailers as listed on my website: 

http://brunkard.com/where-to-buy-a-never-ending-album/

You're support be it by liking, commenting or buying is heartfelt and appreciated.  

A Never Ending Album

This is a not for profit cover of a famous song and is intended to pay a nod to the great Dr Brian May.  Written by Brian May, performed by: Steve Williams guitars/ Backing Vocals, Mike Williams: Lead Vocals/ Bass/ Production & Mastering

Resurrection (A Nod to Brian May)

A Gypsyish Savall homage with jewish inflections.

Guitarviol and a guitar playing the part of a theorbo.  

Check out the guitarviol on my blog http://brunkard.com/bowing-to-bowed-instruments-guitarviol/ or http://www.togamanguitars.com/

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Sad Pavan In C Minor

A tribute to Ennio Morricone and Kevin Kiner.  This is part of a soundtrack of a western that was never made.  Quite proud of it.

A mix of dobro, hitting pens against the dobro, beating the dobro with my fist, my vocals (a first) my girlfriend's ukulele debut and some other nonsense. There are no samples or synths on this.  

A campanion blog: http://brunkard.com/on-film-scoring/

Chain Gang Blues - A Soundtrack To A Western That Never Was

Another experiment in juxtapositioning.  My melding of some acid jazz with a seasoning of classical inflections and a dollop of heavy metal guitar solo.  Half bake for a few weeks et voilá, the GBH.

Gearheads:

My Les Paul Custom doing all the guitar stuff and the sequencing care of the installed Fishman Triple Play.  Strings from my trusty guitarviol.

GBH - Ghetto Baroque Hymn

A sequel to GBH kind of.  Thinking of  Serge Gainsbourg's Cannabis soundtrack. 

Actually fell down the rabbit hole properly making this one.   It's quite sad.  Sorry.  I'm very cheerful in real life.

It's a bit of a slow burner but it gets there eventually...  

I'd also like to thank @musicaserj-ii - who very kindly complemented the mood which is something he does more properly truthfully.    So many wonderful sounds up in this cloud...


1967 - Closing Credits

Forgive me but this is something of an indulgence.  

This is a piece that is inspired by older musics in it's entirety.  Nothing surprising.  Every note of it is from a real instrument - which makes it inherently imperfect but perhaps more charming for it.  

In this case the instrument is my arpeggione - Guitarviol 

You can read about it here:

http://brunkard.com/bowing-to-bowed-instruments-guitarviol/

The photo is one I took in a massive forest in Thuringia, Germany over easter.  The title references an Irish philosopher and the world's first and only pantheistic atheist John Toland.  

I've also created a Giorgio Moroder inspired ringtone for iPhone users.  I've no idea why but I'm using it on my phone and it's working!
http://brunkard.com/ringtones/Ele%CC%81gie-Pour-M-Toland-Thomas-Brunkard.m4r

Elégie Pour M. Toland.

A poem written and recited by @chris-okunbor with Clarinet from stevee101

The very wonderful @chris-okunbor originally had this poem posted in collaboration with a Soundclouder that never was.  Mysterious?  Some will know.  In any case the poem had to be removed from its music but now the music is remade anew. 

The poem tells of a timeless romantic narrative and I've worked very hard to try and match the mood of that story.  The tale charts the course of a relationship and so the music follows that until its penultimate tragic end. 

A very important ingredient was the clarinet most ably played by @stevee101 -  a fellow traveller.  You should really check out his page next.   

Both Chris and Stephane are wonderful people.  The true pathos of this was that we worked on this so far away in isolation.  It's a testament to their talents.

The photo is a common ancient Roman motif - the Dying Slave or The Dying Gaul.   This one was taken in Dublin Castle.   

Gear - my trusty guitarviol supplying the strings again most of them stereo miced just like "Broken Hands Improvisation".  The guitars (my Les Paul Custom) are recorded using @scuffham-amps awesome S-Gear - real clarinet, real percussion.  Drums and piano from Logic Pro X. 

The Slave - A Poem By Chris O

I decided to create another mix of the original, "You're Different" by Guiville and myself. He had some great music, I wrote the lyrics, turned in my vocals and he made it more successful than I could have hoped! It has over 24,000 plays! Pretty cool!

Here's a link to the original: soundcloud.com/guiville/youre-different-ft-lisa-west?in=guiville/sets/lovelovelove

Guiville: soundcloud.com/guiville
Give his work a listen! He knows how to bring the right music and voices together! Fantastic abilities!

You're Different (Got a Hold)
Arrangement, lyrics, vocals and instruments by Lisa West
aka Faerytale

Thank you for listening!

You're Different (Got A Hold)

Here is the music that introduced Headlander to the public.

This is the music - isolated - from the official headlander launch trailer.

Headlander is published by Adult Swim and Developed by Double Fine.

Headlander Launch Trailer Music

This is my interpretation of the Queen song 'Forever' which is an alternate instrumental version of 'Who Want's to Live Forever' from the Queen album, A Kind of Magic.

Forever - A Kind Of Magic - Queen

Good Company Solo - Queen

Never Ending Album

One Minute

KYA Solo

Love Of My Life Queen cover

∎ Composer & Performer based in Dublin, Ireland 
 ∎ Guitarist, guitarviolist 
 ∎ Blues to baroque to whatever inbetween!
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How wonderfully malleable is music? I grew up and live in a country drowning in music of so many sounds. 

I dabble with all sorts of styles and genres but I like to think that it all still sounds like me. 

There's no grand mission for me on Soundcloud beyond finding music that I love and dialoging with other musicians. 

I'm always open to suggestions for collaboration and other adventures.

I don't repost here - not because I'm a miserable person but just because I use this page to sell my wares so to speak. That said I do listen to music on here religiously and I'm very proactive in sharing it around and building links with people that might like the sounds I find appealing. 

I'm working on ways of getting more people from outside Soundcloud plugged in to the wonderful art on display here. I do my bit!

I don't leave comments as link bait or for "karma". I'm very plain spoken so if I comment it's because I have something to say. I use my real name for that reason - my name and my word go together so if you get a compliment or critique its intended as though I gave it face to face.

If you like the music you can help me make more by buying some. Just visit here to help support me making this nonsense! - http://brunkard.com/where-to-buy-a-never-ending-album/

If you would like to use the music or commission me to write something new just get in touch with me through here or on my website. I offer free licenses for non-profit ventures with some small conditions and I also excellent rates for profitable ventures! 

Instruments:

Guitars, guitarviol and guitar like things. I use virtual instruments sparingly and keep the focus on real sounds so to speak.

The Slave - A Poem By Chris O

Thomas Brunkard

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