oh so beautiful, and Grandma`s Belonging...

This is a set of miniature dramatic musical pictures of what we discovered in our grandparents house after they left their house forever. The house contains a lot of history but mostly mysteries. Go see the scene description and the picture in each song to better appreciate the intention behind the music. 

NOTE ===> The short stories for each chapter are in the songs. Clic on each song in order to read those captivating stories.

Music & Production: Syrel
Photography: Syrel (1981 to 1986)

1.	Hiding In The Attic
2.	The Forgotten Insurance Policy
3.	Grandpa's Secrets
4.	Fishing and in Love Forever
5.    Grandma Concert Dreams
6.    The Twin Bathroom
7.    Uncle Rudolf’s Minimalist Bedroom
8.    The glorious Dining Room
9.    Aunt Daisy's Bedroom
10.    The secret wedding
11.   The Last Trip - Short Requiem


“This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.”

The Grandparents Haunted House - Orchestral Suite

Track 1 of the Album soundcloud.com/user-461764443/sets/the-haunted-house
As we visit our grandparents house attic we discover that something from the past has been hiding for a long time ... can you say what?

Music and Production: Syrel
Photography:  Protect-Yourself Magazine Cover (1981) by Syrel

“This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.”

The hideaway

Hiding In The Attic

Track 2 of the Album soundcloud.com/user-461764443/sets/the-haunted-house
Hiding in the attic was Grandma’s belonging and her souvenirs in an old wood trunk. It looks like those insurance policy where contracted in a different century. Do they have any value today and whose life is insured on those forgotten insurance policy?

Music and Production: Syrel
Photography: Protect-Yourself Magazine Cover (1981) by Syrel

“This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.”

The grandparents haunted house

The Forgotten Insurance Policy

Track 3 of the Album soundcloud.com/user-461764443/sets/the-haunted-house
After we found grandma’s belonging and her souvenirs in an old wood trunk, we found Grandpa’s safe. Thank god, Grandpa had the bad habit of using his birthday date as a combination and password on his Commodore 64. We expected to find some old money, a nice leather photo album of his adventures in the deep see and the fish he captured in the Caribbean Sea with his friend Charlie Walton, which we never met by the way. However, we did not expect to find this insurance policy on grandpa’s life and the recipient of the insurance being Charlotte Walton. 
Music and Production: Syrel
Photography: Protect-Yourself Magazine Cover (1981) by Syrel

Musical Note: Based on a chord progression of a song I made 20 years ago.
https://soundcloud.com/user-572843385/hip_hop_my_night

“This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.”

Grandpa's Secrets

Track 4 of the Album soundcloud.com/user-461764443/sets/the-haunted-house
In Grandpa’s Henry fishing photo album that we found in the safe, there was all the catch he made along those trips supposedly with Charlie Walton. There was pictures of large fish like halibut, shark, swordfish, tuna, vampire fish, etc. However, only this picture from 1953 was showing two little fish that looked like a nice couple ready for a feast. The hand written note on the back side was quite disturbing and explained why grandpa’s Henry life insurance beneficiary was not grandma. 
The note was: “Charlotte & Henry. Lovers Forever”
Could it be that Grandpa Henry had an affair with Charlotte Walton?
Music & Production: Syrel
Photography: Syrel (1987)
Music Notes: 
The first and second part of this piece is based on a chord progression I made for a jazz song 10 years ago called “Way Down” https://soundcloud.com/user-461764443/way-down
The third part is a set of cameos starting with a melodic 6th as Tchaikovsky used in one of his violin concerto as well as John Williams for the “Princess Leia's theme”,  “Han Solo and the Princess (Love Theme)” and “Marion’s theme”. Then few notes from “Voyage in the bottom of sea” by Paul Sawtell and finally 3 notes from the “White Swan”  again from Tchaikovsky.
“This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.”

The Grandparents Hauted House

Fishing And In Love For Ever

Track 5 of the Album soundcloud.com/user-461764443/sets/the-haunted-house
Grandma Margaret was a very good pianist and her Baldwin piano hand painted by artist Alfred Faniel was the living room “piece of resistance”. She was quite overdoing the playing while constantly adding notes and ornaments like the American Pianist Liberace. While playing she was also singing the orchestra parts at the same time but obviously we could not hear the orchestra like she was hearing it. Curiously, now that the house is haunted, each time we come in that living room we hear two movements of her favorite piano concerto from the composer … “Syrel”, including the orchestra that we never heard before.

Composed in 2001 by Syrel
Photography made 1986 by Syrel
“This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.”

Grandma Concert Dreams

The context of creation: 
a room where a shy sun shines 
for a few hours.
Isolation.
The winter.
Uncertain times.
Stretches of hours.
Tensions.
I look at a candle.
it redesigns its shape as it wears out.

I Am the one who fuels the fire
I am the one who consumes it
I am flame
Devoured by itself.

Its glow
Like a wound in the dark.

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new edit made in 8/03/2024

some sample are made by vocal messages from: Ugo Pisco Lùmaia

here's the following link on his page

https://soundcloud.com/12-days-for-a-new-way?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Tra La Fiamma E La Cera (cattedrali In Rovina)

Tra Fiamma E Cera (cattedrali In Rovina)

All sounds come from the initial spoken phrase 'Why don't you stop' .. and roughly follow the shape of it's waveform for overall structure. The sounds at any particular point in the piece are generated by the associated lexeme in the vocal phrase using an Akai s950 hardware sampler and its built in editing routines.

Performed 'live' straight into the mixing desk via the separate outputs. Sequenced by Logic. Mastered onto cassette.

Why Don't You Stop

Why Dont You Stop

on air @ Symbiose
https://cism893.ca/emissions/symbiose/14-01-2024/

La Musica è Sacra [on air @ Symbiose]

Marco Lucchi : piano, mellotron and tape
Akemi Takeya : shamisen and voice

marzo 2024

Iki no kôzô # 2 - w/Akemi Takeya

Composed, written, played and mixed by Guglielmo Allegro aka WillyKuma
A little inspiration from Tommy Guerrero and Tony Allen, chill and steady.

Long Road Ahead

2024-03-31

Infinity

Graphikos

UA536: XFA - V [LP] 14 Tracks 04.05.2024
Melancholic, Chill and Relax Ambient Music In Most, But Also a Little Psychedelic Too.
https://www.beatport.com/release/v/4522770

BDTMRVL

MMXXVIXXIVBDTMRVL

From the album: https://jeffgburekprojects.bandcamp.com/track/may-there-come-brighter-birds-of-song-to-zeitoun

Buy via Bandcamp!

May There Come More Bright Birds of Song to Zeitoun

Longing

SYREL : C’est un algorithme de fiabilité symbolique basé sur la méthode des Cutset utilisées en ingénierie.

Mais sérieusement, Sy...rel était photographe publicitaire à Montréal dans une vie antérieure avant d'être ingénieur et maintenant compositeur et producteur de musique orchestrale, de bande sonore, de jazz et d'électro tout en profitant de sa retraite. 

SYREL: A Symbolic Reliability Algorithm Based on Path and Cutset Methods used in engineering.

But really, Sy...rel was an advertising photographer in a previous life before being an engineer and is now an orchestral, soundtrack, jazz and electro music composer and producer while enjoying retirement. 

https://soundcloud.com/user-461764443

The Forgotten Insurance Policy

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