Forgotten songs

Messing around

Homework  (bits & pieces)

Started writing in 74 but was still in high school and not many of my mates were musicians.  Finally put the whole thing together after trying to work with musicians who only picked up their instrument in the late seventies.  Kept the drummer and did everything else myself.
Copy of a tape, which was a copy of a tape, which was another copy of a tape, finally dumped years later to recordable CD ROM.

1974

11 Highest Mountain

Running Away

If You

Wayne Shorter re-imagined. Very fun.  Live recording

Infant Eyes

A remake of Stevie Wonders Diamond Dust as realized by Jeff Beck and reinterpreted by Velvet Voyage.  Available in HD on the Dysfunction Junction CD by Velvet Voyage.

Dysfunction Junction

Diamond dust

This is going to be my work on next release.  Please enjoy.  Of course just me doing all parts.

Rule the World

Sad, Dreamy.  Wrote for my dad as he was passing.  Never mixed, live in studio.

Nights Lullabye

Movements.  I wrote all the parts for this but everyone added their own expertise.e

Lost in Arabia

Moment in time

Velvet Voyage

Mingus Amongus

Song about heroin addiction, first hand experience.  Originally played and sang all parts.  Never mixed, live in studio.  Replaced bass with Darren Frate.  Replaced drums with Mike Hricko.

One Sad Life

Play with Fire

My hope is no one looks at green tractors the same ever again.  The upfront guitar lead is actually a keyboard being run through a guitar processor and amp.

Green Tractor

Always

Another first and live in studio recordings for Velvet Voyage.  Trio style. Song I wrote thinking of james bond.  Also showcasing many of the VST's available from NI at that time.

I Spy

The red line by my neck is the RAM drive I brought this recording home with.  Played with a remarkable team of musicians.

Unknown album (12/24/2012 12:16:58 PM)

SaHo

Nice little one to five type thing.  Too bad engineering was trash.

Blas e  (pronounced Blah-zay.)

A Moody tune whipped together in one lonely night

Dark Alley

A Piano piece I started developing when I was six years old. Which is ever evolving over the years and sounds completely different today and is much longer live.

Creation

A song written by a wonderful woodwind player named Dave Kasper.  Who's taught me so much in the art of jazz.  Backed by Velvet voyage.

Best Intentions

Groovy track with subtle background sounds. Done in trio style, drums, keys and bass.  And of course looper pedal.

Toll Road

The Bridge

A truly big hair eighties inspired song.  Oz Fest?  Played all parts. Added ZAZA on lead for the final mix.

Anathema Maranatha

Comprehensive.  Very live in studio production, almost no one got it.  We get it now!!  Come hear it live!

Ashima

Ninety East

Just another simple idea I'm working on that will be on my new release.  With just the melody and no improv.

The Thought Of Losing You

Messing around while bored.  Playing all instruments.

Fixed

Fun track, should of posted a long time ago.

Free Soul

Just an idea recorded live in rehearsal studio.  But dropped shortly there after.  
This is day one of first meeting.  But Velvet Voyage was born.

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Where are you?

A very unique track by Darren with Velvet.

Marcus

Song that was a last minute thought in the studio to use time we paid for played very much live.

Extranal

A quick thought that I was playing around with but gave up on. But shows how i arrange my compositions.

Lemony Bounce

Hisstory

Fun with a four track. 1978. Third generation cassette transfer.
  Just me except for drums.

The Game

Metal, all parts played by me live one take; except drums. late seventies on tascam 4 track or Teac, can't remember.   Used Taurus pedals at the time, they were a thing.  Rush used them as well as Genesis.  Guitar was an Aria Pro, three years before the Gem.  Floyd Rose Tremolo system, one of the best.  3RD generation cassette copy.

Thanks to

Wrote for the woman that I loved.  I played all parts.4 track.  3rd generation cassette transfer.
1979, Her name was Leona, and she's beautiful.  Wrote all parts on Acoustic Guitar.

Leona

Played all parts in the seventies.  Third generation tape transfer.    Here is a song I did when I was seventeen that I can't post here:  https://youtu.be/Koa2EpYwOMc  Here's the next song: https://youtu.be/QEi7Q7WQIyc

Time goes by.

This is me fooling around writing the parts.  Midi tracker and four track.  Only one guitar track live.

Anathema Maranatha (pre-final)

Title track off second Velvet Voyage release.

Dysfunktion Junktion

two mic recording from living room in 2001.  Just messing around.

Unknown album (5/27/2020 9:44:40 PM)

just groovy

Now Romance

Another live track at my house from the year 2000

Night Sky

Skipping stones

Refuge

Unknown album (5/27/2020 10:33:30 PM)

Daydreaming

Washington's Groove

What's going On?  Instrumental version.

A song I have wrote in another version since this original take in my living room on my piano.

Unknown album (5/27/2020 10:40:50 PM)

My Friend Billy

Bored and snowed in.  Winter a twelve or so years ago.

The Bored Blues

Slinky first time run through of a song VV was going to record before Covid.  Rehearsal in my living room.

Oogly Boogly

An idea I wrote on guitar but gave up on in the years that followed.  Just me in my living room on a cold winter night thirteen years old

Four Evers

Just messing around, writing the very first piece I would ever write.  It was written some 54 years ago

Absolutely

I love to compose and play in many genres and on many instruments.  Always happy to find others who enjoy my passion.  Please support my music here:  http://store.cdbaby.com/cd/velvetvoyage3   http://store.cdbaby.com/cd/velvetvoyage2  http://store.cdbaby.com/cd/velvetvoyage

Vincent Veith

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