After taking a hiatus I'd like to turn your attention to this latest upload of mine, featuring samples of the oud, a stringed instrument common to the Middle East. Please bear in mind that I didn't play the oud; sadly, I am not such a virtuoso. However, I am getting quite experienced in choosing samples that fit my jam sessions, and using this exotic instrument yielded quite enthralling results in my humble opinion.

In this particular session I was experimenting with G minor, which took me outside of my usual comfort zone of C minor. As so often the case, I used a combination of Eurorack modules, the Arturia MircroBrute, and some pre-prepared drum and drone pad samples. These sounds were looped on the Boss RC-300 loop station. 

After setting up the sound frame using Eurorack and the Arturia MicroBrute, I played back a couple of Youtube videos together with my sounds; something that I have been practicing for a quite a while now. At the end I settled for following two videos:
- G minor oud Improvisation (https://youtu.be/vIBjXLFv1vE)
- Emotional Gm (G minor) CHORD - Ambient Backing Track #13 (https://youtu.be/PLqvVSGuRlI)

The jam session was recorded in Audacity. In post-production I used the best parts from the jam session to create this track. As I already expected, I had some trouble with playing back the oud sounds in such a manner that they fit the track and especially its tempo. So I had to heavily edit these samples in post production and put them back together with my sounds in order for them to sound as desired. While doing so, I also employed some reverb, high pass filters and a limiter within Audacity, albeit very sparingly. Other than that, no elaborate effects or mastering techniques were used, you basically listening to a short and condensed version of the jam session.

As always, the result is highly dynamic, so headphones are recommended. Also, please turn up that volume knob because Loudness War is for losers!

MAB logo by @maxim-lichtenwald, check him out!

I hope you enjoy!

Oud Dub [Jam session sections: RAW2022 - 2]

Ahead of us. We might welcome some things, some will frighten us or make us angry. We will see.

Was vor uns liegt

Doraibu 2023

Base photo for cover by Kunj Parekh on Unsplash

There Once Was

Pure As A Rose

V-Viva! Fujiyama Funk

'Crossing The Boundary' Is a Jazz Fusion piece inspired by the growing sense of a lack of compassion and respect for one another and the land. The building in the cover image and taken by Freddy Bence, demonstrating what I am sensing "world wide". A downward spiral in care for ouselves and our surroundings.
However, forever the optimist, I look forward to an upward turn in the situation, when common sense once again hits in.
My thanks to Freddy for his superb camera skills and you can visit his page here: https://soundcloud.com/fjbence

Thank you for listening and any comments you care to leave will be received with much gratitude.
Alan

Light The Candle Please

Crossing The Boundary

Because of the Marshal's popularity in the first installment, we thought a sequel would be fun as he embarks on another daring mission of bringing Old-West law and order to another planet where criminal mischief has broken down the rule of celestial law. Central Galactic Intelligence(CGI)received a frantic call for help that anarchists had taken over a peaceful and prosperous world and needed the Marshal to set things right.  The track begins with him and his crew (Curtis, Seagull, and David)being cleared for takeoff.
A big thank you to Curtis Gremmel(center-left in the mix) for his superb playing, Seagull @farout-music-studio for his visionary and production expertise, and Clara for being the angelic voice of CGI. 
The original "Space Marshal" release can be heard here: https://soundcloud.com/david-dunhamuser589535203/space-marshal-curtis-david-and-seagull

Space Marshal 2 (the sequel) Curtis Gremmel, Seagull, David, and Clara

edibles

COSMOS: Night of the Sky-River is a ceremonial, drum-driven vision-quest told as one long night. A circle of young warriors gathers at the village fire and, under the guidance of a shaman, is led into a shared cosmic journey.

Powwow-style big drum, water drums, frame drums, foot-stomp rhythms, rattles, chanting on open vocables, and a lone wooden flute carry the story from first sparks of flame to the pale light of dawn. Each track is a different phase of the initiation: gathering, trance, the sky opening, crossing a star-river, trials among constellations, meeting the ancestors, claiming a steady warrior heart, and returning to the fire changed.

By the end of Sun on New Faces, the night feels like an epic myth: boys went out under the stars and came home as men, with the drumming as the bridge between earth and sky.

Crossing the Sky-River

NIGHT LIGHT

Mrs. Audio Boy is a proud member of Project:Music (@projectmusicsounds) and MintFam (@mintfam), and is a German-based project, which creates experimental electronic music by the process of conducting jam sessions, improvising during these sessions, recording them, and then using best parts from those sessions to create so called "Jam session sections" (manually, no AI whatsoever). These are generally raw sound clips that are mostly left unprocessed apart from using a simple cross-fade in order to tie two or more clips together. Only very rarely some simple effects like filters, compressors or noise reduction are applied. 

In doing so, the special one-of-a-kind moment is pursued; thus, the created sound is highly inimitable and unreproducible. Most of the tracks can be downloaded. If you use them, please give a shout-out to Mrs. Audio Boy!

MAB logo by @maxim-lichtenwald, check him out!