The sound is crawling around in my brain. The silence at the end is the best!

Blurred recollections of 3 years living in Harlow, 87-90... loving to hate the occasional visits to the "premier" nightclub, Highwire in Harlow, quaffing crap beer, dancing to blurred music, all the shouting and misunderstandings, the highlight being the doner kebab (with extra chillies and chili sauce) after nightclub turfing-out time...
Kit: Fluss, Lunchpad, Hilda, Granulator, iMS20, TexttoSpeech, uKorg, Volca fm, Logic Pro X

Acknowledgements: 
Audio sample: 
1) Modulated vocal excerpt from "At the Moving Picture Ball" (1920), composer - Joseph H. Sontly, sung by Maurice Burkhart. Public Domain, CC-PD, PDM 1.0 (Mark 1.0 Universal).
2) Modulated strings excerpt from "Concerto Grosso in D Minor Op3 Nr5 HWV316", composer Georg Friedrich Handel, played by The London Baroque Orchestra. Public Domain, CC-PD, PDM 1.0 (Mark 1.0 Universal).
3) Various field sounds: 'madman' at Kebab shop, barking dogs, pub sounds, farmyard animals.
4) Jimmy Liu on heavy modulated bagpipes at his brothers wedding

2am, confused, outside Highwire, doner, Harlow, 1989

in her eyes

Hey here is a mastered version of my partner in vibes @specialececilia Same Planet

SAME PLANET* CECILIA AND RICO** Mastered **

RELEASE NOTES

A collaborative jam featuring Stonerjazz (@user-911083679) on vocals,
Turab Khan (@turab-khan) on guitar, Zanshin 残真 (@soundsofthekosmos) on
drums & Teth Sin (@teth-sin) on guitars, bass & vocals.
This collaboration started back in 2020. Myrh (@myrhyum) suggested Teth
Sin to track a guitar part on "Mazdoor Funk (loop jam with Raza)" -
Original track by Turab Khan:
https://soundcloud.com/turab-khan/chichora-23. The project was then left
aside for various logistical and technical reasons.
A couple of years later Zanshin 残真 sent Teth Sin a sample of his cool
street drumming, which was synced to Turab Khan's jam. Teth Sin, at that
point, decided to cut out the bass and drums from the original piece,
leaving only Turab Khan's guitar. Then he chopped up his guitar solo and
redistributed it across various tracks. He also added a new bass line,
which helped vary the structure of the song.
In late 2023 Teth Sin asked Stonerjazz to kindly add lyrics and vocals.
He mixed and mastered the song, and the result is this enjoyable
funk-rock jam, featuring a sample of Stonerjazz's exquisite
post-beat/psychedelic poetry.
Please note that every element was recorded in a different continent:
drums in Australia, some guitar in Pakistan, other guitars in Tunisia,
bass in Italy, vocals in the USA. Still this virtual jam sounds so
cohesive, despite a world that seems to be increasingly fragmented and
disjointed. At the end of the day, we should always remember that we all
revolve around That Giant Ball Of Burning Gas...

LYRICS by Stonerjazz:

Just out here in the middle of the void,
spinning fast around a giant ball of burning gas
that's hurdling thru the deepest darkest space.
Meteors and comets are zooming by at breakneck pace
The situation seems to be a little bit precarious,
some might even say Nefarious,
how can it be that tragedy can sometimes  almost  be  hilarious.
Stupidity it seems to be the order of the day.
But here we are and here we go onward out,
like warriors without a clue,
and everyone will play their part,
of this i'm sure, i know it's true.

That Giant Ball Of Burning Gas - Feat Teth Sin, Turab Khan, Zanshin 残真

Recorded in Modesto, Ca.   Featuring Acoustic Godin Nylon Guitar solo. Alto Saxophone solo. Fender Rhodes Electric Piano solo. Fender Electric Bass. Roland Synthesizer Bass.  Clavinet Rhythm. Steinway Brothers Acoustic Piano Rhythm. Trap Drum set, full kit. Percussion Ago go Bells, Cow Bell, Zildjan 22" Ride Cymbal.

Carmel

Eclypse

To What Extent is the first single to be released on Scratch Kelly's forthcoming album, of the same title.
A reflective outpouring of sound, inspired by the search for some kind of limitation. An emotive soundtrack, set to a shifting seasonal atmosphere, anchored by a heavy synth bassline and mixed downtempo beats.

Available for download here:
https://scratchkelly.bandcamp.com/track/to-what-extent

To What Extent

💿

Fascinated on a couple of occasions by strong wind "singing" through railings... all captured crudely on my phone and integrated with drone and arpeggios. 

Wind Over Rail (XL3)

Frida's Wings – The Skeletons
April 2024
Duration: 2:50
A shorter version was previously included in the “Art Expressed in Music” series
Painting: Frida Kahlo Painting Self Portrait.
Music for Danse Etoile Ballet (www.danseetoile.org) who will be performing Frida's Wings, a ballet based on the life and works of Frida Kahlo, June 2024 in Colorado.
Thanks to John-Marc Ventimiglia @john-marc-ventimiglia for creating the “rattling bones” sound library
Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self portraits and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico.  Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with fantasy. She is also known for painting about her experience of chronic pain. In most of her self-portraits, she depicts her face as mask-like, but surrounded by visual cues which allow the viewer to decipher deeper meanings. Aztec mythology features heavily in Kahlo's paintings in symbols including skeletons and skulls.  In the painting, Dream of The Bed, painted in the year of 1940, Frida expressed her feeling and interception of death, which depicts a skeleton on the canopy of her bed (as she had in her real life). Her husband, Diego Rivera called the Juda, Frida's lover, but Frida said it's just an amusing reminder of people's mortality. Frida Kahlo spent much of her life in pain.  As As a teenager she suffered a horrific bus accident which left her unable to have children and meant she needed more than 30 operations on her spine. Eventually her withered leg had to be amputated and she died at 47. She said in her diary: “Feet, why do I need you, if I have wings to fly”
For guitar, accordion, trumpet, violin, double bass, sound effects and percussion

Frida's Wings - The Skeletons

Frida's Wings – The Valse 
April 2024
Duration: 3:10
Painting: Frida Kahlo Painting Self Portrait.
Remix of Vals Alejandra by Enrique Mora
Music for Danse Etoile Ballet (www.danseetoile.org) who will be performing Frida's Wings, a ballet based on the life and works of Frida Kahlo, June 2024 in Colorado.
Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self portraits and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico.  Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with fantasy. She is also known for painting about her experience of chronic pain. In most of her self-portraits, she depicts her face as mask-like, but surrounded by visual cues which allow the viewer to decipher deeper meanings. Aztec mythology features heavily in Kahlo's paintings in symbols including skeletons and skulls.  In the painting, Dream of The Bed, painted in the year of 1940, Frida expressed her feeling and interception of death, which depicts a skeleton on the canopy of her bed (as she had in her real life). Her husband, Diego Rivera called the Juda, Frida's lover, but Frida said it's just an amusing reminder of people's mortality. Frida Kahlo spent much of her life in pain.  As As a teenager she suffered a horrific bus accident which left her unable to have children and meant she needed more than 30 operations on her spine. Eventually her withered leg had to be amputated and she died at 47. She said in her diary: “Feet, why do I need you, if I have wings to fly”
For strings, piano, accordion and percussion.

Frida's Wings - Valse

Its FRIDAY!!  Here is a little number thats unusually uplifting for me :-) Thank you for all of your wonderful plays shares and playlists too!!

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