A cello elegy dedicated to the great San Francisco photographer Fred Lyon who passed away yesterday, August 26, 2022 at the age of 95.

you can see his work here:
https://www.fredlyon.com/about

cover photo: Castle Street night view of Coit Tower, San Francisco, 1947 by Fred Lyon

Elegy for Fred

"...And they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us."  Matthew 1:23  (KJV)

Emmanuel

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Composed, produced & performed by Srouly Frank

Ups and downs

A positive and hopeful track that I build around a nice little piano idea. I recorded some live acoustic guitars to add more energy and liveliness to the piece.

Full Of Confidence

Traveling Light

La Visite

Travel

Rattikan to Katie

There's strange. And then there's weird. And then there's Sun Ra. Imagine, if you can or will, a 27-piece (or thereabouts) atonal anarchic jazz ensemble (the Arkestra) featuring at various times a bassoon played with a trumpet mouthpiece, African dancers, and a fire-eater. Imagine further that this assemblage and its man-of-mystery leader could actually make this stuff accessible and enjoyable! 
That was Sun Ra. Those of us in Philly knew him a bit better than other places, for he lived here (cheaper to drive the band to gigs in NYC than to live there, some things haven't changed) in a big old house in the Germantown section. From what I heard the house was as unorthodox as its resident maestro. If he'd been white nobody would have hesitated to call it a commune.
You don't "cover" an artist like Ra, all you can do is let his interplanetary anarchy react with the portions of your soul akin to it, and be prepared to abandon all preconceptions while recording and mixing the results. Just so have I done. A ton of saxes, several clarinets of various registers, flute stand-ins: piano, organ, a little synth, and the bass: and my dozen-odd African percussion section. If I were doing this live, even with a band of multi-instrumentalists, I'd need a band the size of the Arkestra itself.
Sun Ra passed on in 1993 to wherever self-professed Saturnians go when they depart this plane: but longterm saxman Marshall Allan has kept the Arkestra running. Go here for the latest: sunraarkestra.com  The site contains NO COOKIES! Clearly good developments in more than music are at work here!

It's After the End of the World (Sun Ra)

Joyful Hearts

Here is the 2024 remix of my 2022 track, which was originally made for Ambient Online Compilation: Volume 18. The remix consists of Volume and EQ tweaks which were made to (slightly) increase the volume of the original track.

The original track may be found here:-

https://soundcloud.com/whatsisname/paramnesia

Sophism

Paramnesia

Paramnesia (2024 Remix/2024 Master)

Trying to reconcile love for old-school Prog-Rock with more modern approach to instrumentation and composition. Hopefully the results of this unlikely fusion will yield some level of success.

Great website, specialising in Eclectic reviews of ambient, psychedelic, post-rock, folk and progressive rock … http://makeyourowntaste.com

Collaborations with other musicians:

http://smp3030.bandcamp.com/

Other artists that you really ought to listen to............

http://www.soundcloud.com/happy-hooves
http://www.soundcloud.com/polyslax
http://soundcloud.com/2ndmouse
http://soundcloud.com/sonic_arts
http://soundcloud.com/s1gnsofl1fe
http://soundcloud.com/smp3030

Paramnesia (2024 Remix/2024 Master)

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