Beautiful work Jim, sounds amazing, and I learn a lot from your amazing mixing/mastering.

I like this. It sounds a bit strange and somehow familiar at the same time. I don't know how else to describe it. The bass line at the beginning sounds very interesting and fits perfectly with the background. The whole thing creates an atmosphere of something we don't know yet. As if another ecosystem or creatures living on another planet.

"A Quiet Place"
Valhjim


Firefly hovering over still waters
on a forest pond, the wind
a mere caressing breeze 

I contemplate eternity 
in the pine trees sway. 

Stray serrated clouds move
in slow motion like radiant white
feathers across the blue:

a rare moment of peace
in this quiet place.

I have become the forest,
the pond, the firefly,

the clouds in the sky. 

—(c) 2024 Jim Valero (all rights reserved)


A Quiet Place

Encounter
Valhjim

"Embracing each other, they stood in the midst of the wide grassy land, neither of them able to move a step, each supported only by the leaning weakness of the other, each ready to fall if the other should move...."
                              --  George MacDonald.

"Encounter" is a soft-feathered piece featuring the liquid sounds of piano notes and clusters of choirs and strings soaring into the heart and mind. It recreates sonically the encouter of PHotogen and Nuycteris as they lean against each other in the valley twilight, sttempting to escape from Watho, the white witch. 

(Included in the album "Photogen and Nycteris: An Electronic Rock Fantasia.")

I hope you like this piece, folks.
Thank you for listening
and for your always kind words
of encouragement.

Valhjim 

(C) 2024 Jim Valero (all rights reserved).

Encounter

"Shibboleth"
Valhjim

"Shibboleth" is a fun jazzy track with a brief motif that separates sections. This is me just having fun with some improvisations on guitar, tongue-in-cheek. 

(Featured in the Album: "Explorations": https://valhjim.bandcamp.com/album/explorations)

Hope you have fun with this one too, folks.
Thanks for listening
and for your kind comments.

Valhjim 

(CO 2024 Jim valero (all rights reserved).

Shibboleth

"Zoic"
Valhjim

"Zoic" immerses listeners in a tapestry of richly textured soundscapes that evoke primordial landscapes. Morphing sound clusters intertwine in a continuous flow, adorned with haunting echoes reminiscent of distant whale songs or the primal calls of prehistoric creatures. 

Amidst this auditory tapestry, hints of avian chirps and the rustle of unseen fauna evoke a vibrant ecosystem teeming with life. Synthesizer pads and bass lines sculpt the passage of time itself, evoking the essence of a bygone era in the enigmatic world of "zoic."

(Featured in the Album: "Explorations": https://valhjim.bandcamp.com/album/explorations)

Hope you like it, folks.

Thanks for listening
and for your kind words.

Valhjim 

(C) 2024 Jim Valero (All rights reserved).

Zoic

"Old Eyes"
The X, Valhjim, Rik Irvine

"Old Eyes," tells a story through a blend of rhythm, sound effects, and orchestral motifs. A steady cadence sets the pace as layers of sound build, creating an epic atmosphere. 

Amidst it all, a soulful electric guitar takes the lead, weaving in phrases that speak of awareness and deep emotion. 

The singer's voice, young yet suggestive, adds another dimension to the narrative. Together, they paint a picture of introspection and longing, inviting listeners to journey through the landscapes of memory and reflection.

Hope you like it, folks.

Thank you for listening
and for your kind comments.

Valhjim

(C) 2024 The X, Valhjim, Rik Irvine (all rights reserved).

Old Eyes - The X Valhjim Rik Irvine

Intensity of obscure light, a musical grammar, a new way of understanding music. "Cosmic arrangements that mark also mark the point of maximum cohesion, achieved by the academic-commercial sound of the sophisticated atmosphere, superbly produced and arranged, The balance between a song overflowing with special effects and three-dimensional sound presence.

Black Water -  The X  - Valhjim  -  Ksenia Laura

We Traverse The Boundless Skies

"Pandara"
Valhjim


On distant Pandara, nestled within a stunning desert, lies a futuristic city that thrives amidst towering, bioluminescent rock formations. These capricious structures, with their elongated windows and grand entrances, serve as homes and communal spaces for the inhabitants.

 The sky above is a mesmerizing tapestry where two suns of a binary star system cast a perpetual, otherworldly glow, while three moons orbit gracefully, visible both day and night. The city pulses with a harmonious blend of advanced technology and organic architecture, creating a unique symbiosis between nature and innovation.


Hope you like this piece, folks.


Thanks for listening
and for your very kind comments.


Valhjim: synthesizers, samplers, SFX, guitar.
Martin MIers: drums.

(C) 2024 Jim Valero (all rights reserved)

Pandara - Valhjim w/Martin Miers

"Shades of Blue"
Valhjim


The light is dim. Figures move in shadow shades of blue. 
Under huge evening skies, soft voices like the breeze caress the night. 


There is  no time but this time.


Hope you like this experimental blues.


Thanks for listening
and for your kind and candid comments.


Valhjim - synthesizers, samplers, guitars.
Martin Miers - drums.


(C) 2024 Jim Valero (all rights reserved).

Shades of Blue - Valhjim w/Martin Miers

"Dripstone Dreams"
Valhjim 

Deep in the ancient cave, a dripstone dreams of ages past buried in time. Shadows move in dense damp, voices whisper, sigh, moan. Dreams move in slow motion; they come and go in the cave from a time when the world was young, and men and women sought shelter inside. Now, their voices, like their presence, are frozen in time and space, somewhere in the universe.

Valhjim - Guitars, synthesizers, samplers.
Martin Miers - Drums and percussion.

Hope you like this son, folks.
Thanks for listening
and for your always kind and candid words.

Valhjim
(C) 2024 Jim Valero (all rights reserved).

Dripstone Dreams - Valhjim w/Martin Miers

"When Freedom's Lost"
Valhjim

When freedom's lost, there's this feeling
of helplessness, vulnerability, angst.
A void opens its gaping maw, all joy

is lost where vultures gyre in the sky
and a Great Beast devours the human 

soul.

Valhjim - synthesizers, samplers, guitars.
Martin Miers - drums.

Hope you like this, folks.
Thanks for listening
and for your kind words.

Valhjim

(C) 2024 Jim Valero (all rights reserved).

When Freedom's Lost - Valhjim w/Martin Miers

Valhjim is a music composer with an eclectic approach to different genres: rock, pop, folk, New Age, and experimental electronic music. Greatly driven by imagination and poetic imagery, he combines multiple instrumental textures to fire the imagination of his listeners. 

His more experimental ambience and electronic music is built with layers of suggestive sound textures, rhythms, and melodic lines that stir the imagination into suggestive imagery and worlds unseen, true architectures of sound that open up limitless spaces to explore. Often Valhjim's melodies sail through genre thresholds, crossing over from one genre to another, from neo classcal to electronic, or from jazz to rock or new age.

Encounter

Valhjim

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