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Calm and Steady tracks series no. 431

created on 2024/02/29

Picture CREDIT:
(c) stuartwhanau – some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Our 24th #StayHome Edition, featuring a very special selection by @the-kount. Stay safe, keep making beats <3

LS_060 - KÈTHE MAGANÉ

cosmic rendez-vous Def exp. mix 2

Orbit

Through the haze

Drift into the fog with Three Photons as they unveil "Through the Haze"—a hypnotic blend of jazz-blues textures and analog mystique. This track doesn’t just play—it envelops.

Written by TJG May 2023
Trying for a vintage jazz sonic.
Thank you for listening.


Through the haze

Tell me one more time
what’s on your mind
I hear the rain
These are stormy days

Late nights at the cold front
I see you
Through the haze

Wake up, Wake up
Somethings brewing
In your mind

Tell me one more time
What changed your mind
I feel your pain
These are lonely days

Late nights at the cold front
I see you
Through the haze

Late nights at the cold front
I see you
Through the haze

Wake up, Wake up
Somethings brewing
In your mind

Wake up, Wake up
Somethings brewing
In your mind

Wake up, Wake up, Wake up, Wake up
Tell me what’s on your mind.


Technical Details
Rhythm Guitar: Gibson ES 335
Lead Guitar: Fender Jazzmaster
Guitar Amplifier: Vox AC15….set as clean I can get it. 
Bass Amplifier: Fender BXR 60

Fender pedal board: Line 6 delay; Fender clean boost

Percussion: Pearl Hi Hat with Zildjian symbols – played with brushes 
Percussion: Pearl Cajon – played with brushes

Mics: a pair of Royer r10 ribbons on guitars
Mics: AEA R44 vocal 
Mic preamps: API 312
Mixer: API 24 channel summing mixer (8200/7800)
Stereo Bus processing (API EQ and API compressor)
Final mix down to a MARA MCI JH110 1/4inch 2-track at 15 ips using ATR Master Tape.

Through the haze

Rusty

VA McCarty Records Goes Tech-House
Single -  Just Don't (Original Mix)
Genre - Tech-House
Mixing - COACH
Mastering - Dadgar Mohajer Taleghani
Release Date - 16/10/23

COACH/Single - Just Don't (Original Mix) - Preview - OUT NOW

Z albumu "Brama życia" (2023).
From the album "The gate of life" (2023).

Brama życia

Brama życia (The gate of life)

Ilimitado x David Vive

Based on the motifs of traditional English folk song. An exciting collaboration with friends from the Białowieża area.

Scarborough Fair (ft. Anna Vartija Jarząbska & Piotr Karpiuk)

Cold Groove proudly presents "Darkest" by Ben Rama.

In this entrancing track, Ben Rama weaves a narrative, guiding listeners through the labyrinth of self-discovery. The hypnotic melodies serve as an auditory catharsis when confronting the shadows within. When the track reaches its pivotal break, a profound transformation occurs, and the melody transforms into a vessel for the rebirth of love and light.

"Darkest" is not just a song; it's a symphony of resilience, a testament to the enduring spirit that emerges from confronting one's innermost struggles while moving forward with hope.


Music and design by Ben Rama
Mixed by Executive Producer
Mastered by Pheek

Darkest

Free Download

FREE DOWNLOAD: Ben Rama - Darkest [Cold Groove]

Introspection

Photo: Capilla de Sallaco - chapel on the high altiplano, Abra La Pampilla, Valle Sandia, Puno, Peru (c 4,600 m asl), 2013. On route to amigos at Cecovasa & San Juan del Oro coffee communities.

Was looking for soundscape intro for this one, followed by some lofi funk before veering off in a slightly Latin jazz chilled direction. Anyway, thanks for listening...

Drums: NI 40.
Bass: Warwick 5-string Corvette through NI Guitar Rig.
Guitars: Suhr Classic Custom through a few NI Guitar Rig and Archetype Rabea patches.
Keys: various NI, Spitfire (piano), Crow Hill (Small String Gestures), Baby Audio and Arturia.
Mastering: Ozone 10 Standard.
DAW: Ableton 11.

In The End

About ten years ago, around this time, I was at the Gare de Lyon, on my first visit to Paris. I still remember the awkwardness of not speaking the language, having lunch at the Café des 2 Moulins, the grave of Oscar Wilde, and my desire to be there as an artist. I didn't know I could be one yet...
Ok, but this music is not really about that. This is the theme of a tragic prince, an artist too. Once kind and shy, he then started a war against his loved ones.

†ॐ

"Lyon"
Music composed by Yoshihiko Kitamura, Saki Haruyama and Yoshito Hirano.
Performed by Thomas O'Higgins Horna.
Excerpt at the end taken from "Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones".
Track produced at Kolima Forest Studios.

Cover art: "Self-portrait as Hamlet" (1821) by Eugène Delacroix.
Edited by me.

This track is not to be used to train AI.

Lyon

winter garden

Artist Picture. Shyntwirl
Cover Art Editor. Shyntwirl
PROD. Shyntwirl 

Shyntwirl - Space and Time (PROD. Shyntwirl)

Missin U2

Murmuration

Get your copy on my Bandcamp Page here:
https://roxtonfone.bandcamp.com/track/second-gen-3

LOTS of Synth stuff and Fake Wurlitzer piano. Sounds like the future IMAO. The song goes in overdrive @ 3:39

Second Gen

called pianobeet in my files

reverb piano + arp i made

cover art by me

Green Divine

Genocide, June 2025:
Israel is only the executioner, every nation which has armed that country in the past year is an accessory to that genocide, an accomplice, a facilitator.  We cannot talk about war crimes because when you target unarmed civilians, mostly women and children, we are talking about a massacre, like terrorists do, not a war. The people who orchestrated that massacre, in the US, the most duplicitous, followed by those of the UK, Germany, France, and probably a few lesser ones should be tried for crimes against humanity just as well as Netanyahu and his cabinet, because it has been going on for two years, generously reported by media of all kinds, so the enablers knew exactly how the arms were to be used, as a tool for revenge, domination, and humiliation of the Palestinian people.  The conflict has ceased to be about the defense of anything for months.

The parties responsible have made a mockery of decency, morals, fairness, proportion, or justice, not to mention empathy.  Of what little there was, these concepts will be a lot longer to come back than they were to be struck down.  

Is it 1984 already?!?!
 ...

I have not been able to recover access to my other account [https://soundcloud.com/ha-kekong] for a couple of years.  I have tried a few times to get back into it but SoundCloud doesn't trust me.  Same phone number, same email addresses, and they still claim that they can't verify my identity.  I created that account about three years ago as a substitute to my regular account which SoundCloud temporarily closed.  They closed it as part of some upgrade procedure in their system, the result of a bug that affected many accounts, about two years ago.  Since SC did not inform its users I didn't know if that was permanent or not, so I created that other account which I can't access.  Don't be mad if I have not replied to your message in the past two years, that's because I never got them ; ) ... You can always reach me here though.
...

This one here (957729823) is for regular folks.

I love you, both.

...

You can't see it because of the angle with which I took the shot, aiming down, but beyond those blocks is the sea.  To the left is the Mediterranean, to the right is the Atlantic Ocean.  No it's not Gibraltar, but a little bit further West. ... Actually I checked recently and it is further North more than West, I thought I was facing South when in fact I probably was facing the Atlantic ocean, which is why I suppose the waves were of a decent size where we were.
...

My face and the bike are a courtesy of Joël Vaudreuil
[https://vimeo.com/user8897093]  ... Merci Joe!
I then went ahead and butchered his work with a borrowed helmet.
... Sorry Joe. =(
...

I'm trying to promote what I think is good music, so if you want to help out a bit I'd rather you [like] or [repost] my *playlists* rather than my field recordings, if you don't mind, unless you are a die hard fan of those things. Thank you ; )

I speak French, so if you send me a private message, and that you are a francophone, please write in French, thank you.  ... I mean, you don't absolutely have to, but I would prefer it. 

All my field recordings (except for when I record a person) are public, freely downloadable by anyone who is able to click on the button.  I encourage anyone interested to use them in any way whatsoever, on purpose or accidentally. No need for permissions or credits or any other kind  of administrative maneuvers.
...

Anarchists give me hope.

I'm a big fan of EFF.  Love ya EFF.  (no connection with the above line)
... and of course Richard Stallman and Linux and all the others.  Bless yous.

Now don't be lazy, go find out what it is this "EFF" that I'm talking about.  I'll give you a hint: it has to do with computers.

You have a nice day now.  Hugs & Kisses.

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