Name: Mistakes Where Made by Trogler
Duration: 4 min 54 s
Description: Instrumental Metal, with lots of guitar solos and stuff.

I'll be making a new track every week for the rest of this year as part of the @musicweeklies challenge. This is my submission for Week 34.

Enchantress - Week 34 - Single

Enchantress - Week 34

Once upon a time there was a small brown mouse who lived in a shed. As all mice, he could squeeze into the tiniest spaces and limbo under thin cracks under doors. For a long time he managed to evade the giant feet that often came into his shed, his home, his domain.
His prize possession was a large chunk of Danish Blue that was proudly displayed on a wooden cheese board. It had been placed there one day by the kindly gardener who owned the giant feet. 
Ahhh! his cheese, the love of his life.  It was beautiful. It was golden with thin streaks of blue. It was smelly...but he adored it and sang and played his banjo to it every evening. However, as the cheese sat in the corner radiating light and ever more pungent smells over time, the little mouse increasingly had strange thoughts and feelings. His stomach started to rumble and his mouth salivated with desire. He began to dream about nibbling around the edges of his beautiful cheese. Maybe he could just try a morsel, most of it would still be left to admire....
One morning, overcome with hunger, he made his way across the shed floor towards the wooden cheese board and as he did so he sang a little tune, I Love My Cheese…
The rest is history.

This weeks’ Music Weeklies Challenge https://www.musicweeklieschallenge.com/home was on the theme of #Cheese and this got me thinking about genres and styles of music. I have been releasing music for about 20 years and when I started out, the tag of Melodic Electronic / New Age had a bad reputation, especially in the UK ( I feel it still does). It always seemed to me that if you wrote melodic multi-layered synth electronic music, it somehow became undervalued, even ridiculed, some might even use the term 'cheese'. However, not everyone thought that way and I looked across the pond and found an audience who was more receptive, appreciative of my craft and less critical. I still feel awkward at times about my more melodic side, although not so bothered now that I’m older, and it seems that melodic synth music has recently garnered a wider appreciative audience from younger more open minded listeners. 

This week's challenge also led me down that infernal memory lane again as 'Tales of the Riverbank' came to mind. It's title music - Mauro Giuliani - Andante in C has stuck with me all these years, as well as the quiet adventures of Hammy, Roderick and friends, and so my cheesy tune is an imagined episode of a children's tv show, of how a mouse fell in love with a blue cheese and lost his tail.

If you want cheese, I can do that but I am no longer embarrassed or apologetic to say I sometimes still write melodic electronic music.

I Love My Cheese

Today's track is a submission for the #Cheesy challenge by @MusicWeeklies.  It could be considered a cheesy track on many levels, most of them hidden!!!  Think about the cheese making process; the fermentation, bacteria, warmth and the natural rhythm of creation.  Then think of the mice that like to eat it, scurrying around licking their lips/whiskers!  What do you think?

03 Sep 21 Cheesy Grin

By the River

Waterfall Gully

Voiiiiilà :)







Submission to Music Weeklies Challenge ;)

The River

What lurks under the surface of a glistening river flowing?
All seems calm and tranquil BUT there are things that swim in 'packs' looking for prey beneath the surface.

The Amazon is about 4000 miles long and is a myriad of tributaries, inlets, swamps and pools teaming with wildlife. As some are beautiful others are, not so beautiful, and are deadly. 

I set out to create a tranquil riverscape but like most of my tracks they evolve into other things quite by chance and being involved with Music Weeklies ( https://www.musicweeklieschallenge.com/ ) has given me space and spurred me more to experiment with very old gear and sounds. I usually spend a large proportion of my time thinking about a subject and what type of sounds might evoke that thing or image, like a painter does with paint. But, like an artist who likes to experiment with colour and techniques, very often too much knob twiddling results in happy accidents and this is one of those tracks, altering my ideas a great deal. 
Eureka! a sound that to me was like a shoal of angry hunting piranhas looking for prey enmasse.

It’s a simple tale of nature, the hunters and the hunted and here at the end in a dark pool, one lucky piranha muscles its way into the writhing throng and thumping the side of the prey with its jaws, tears off good sized chunks of flesh.

I knew watching poorly made B movies on rainy afternoons would come in handy one day.

Artwork based on a photo by Attis 1979 of a Red Bellied Piranha  (Pygocentrus Nattereri) on Wikimedia under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License.

Piranha

It's been a couple weeks since I've uploaded something new (I was in a bit of a creative rut). Inspired by this week's challenge theme "Rivers," I decided on a short but emotional journey. I pictured a group of survivors making their way to a river in order to have the current carry them away from the place that they were in. I want to come back to this one to work on it some more, but I hope you enjoy it for what it is! Feedback is always appreciated. :)

Photo by Jeff Finley on Unsplash

Riverbound

This week's @MusicWeeklies theme is #River so I thought I would allude, fairly overtly as it turned out, to one of the great European rivers.  Can you guess which one?  I think it is time for a new melody tomorrow and I've got a broad idea of where I am going to go.  It'll be interesting to see how it works out.

10 Sep 21 Going With The Flow

A journey down a muddy river on a moody overcast afternoon.

River Journey

Instrumental Metal, with lots of guitar solos and stuff.

Mistakes Where Made

Cave dweller, 56, Making guitar based tunes.

Mistakes Where Made

Trogler

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