A collection of chilled, relaxing tracks by various Soundcloud artists that have a relaxing effect on the mind. With depth and goodiness. Like having chilled cake during a picknick by the lake on a beautiful summery day. With someone you love.

Mood Cake (chilled)

An Altitudinous Perch

Downbeat Expressed

Glitchy Jazz Lounge

afterthezerohour

A collaboration between Noly Williams and Softlands.  

For more music by Noly Williams:  https://soundcloud.com/noly-williams

The Salt Room (Noly Williams and Softlands)

Funked-up version to lure the unwary......
Siren call: alto saxophone solo theme....
Rocks/Waves: tenor saxophone scrambled arpeggio....
[Tailpiece: alto saxes]
Orig:
https://soundcloud.com/windscaleblues/the-windscale-blues-6

Return of The Siren

I sat on this song for several months.  I wasn't sure if I liked it or not.  Recently I gave a listen and I thought it sounded good.  So here it is.  Thumbs up or thumbs down?

Lyrics:
Violin


Chorus 1:
The violin is wonderful 
May sound so colorful

Verse 1:
It makes sound so intricate
Some think it is a sophisticate

Challenging it sure is
It’s so hard to be a wiz


Verse 2:
Changing keys can be challenging
But with a master it is dazzling

So many bow strokes to learn
But with practice one will burn

Violins

Doffle

Lint

I’m haunted a little this evening by feelings that have no vocabulary and events that should be explained in dimensions of lint rather than words.

I’ve been examining half-scraps of my childhood. They are pieces of distant life that have no form or meaning. They are things that just happened like lint.

–Richard Brautigan

music: mike brosco
photo: mike brosco

Dimensions of Lint

Dean Moore's Album

the way instrumental

What if the Cistercian (latterly Benedictine) community at the 12th century Fountains Abbey had survived the vandalism of the despot Henry VIII....would they have got down to The Brecker Brothers' great classic 'Some Skunk Funk'? Who knows? Those monastic brothers might have made their own more meditative 'monk funk' to echo round the cloisters! This track is my projection into this fantasy....

Instrumentation: soprano sax; flute; tenor recorder; bamboo flutes; Bb clarinet; Eb clarinet; alto sax.
Additional: drum loops and synth pads.

(Photo - surviving cloister at Fountains Abbey, North Yorkshire UK)

Some Monk Funk

Instrumentation: flute; bamboo flutes; Eb clarinet; Bb clarinet; tenor sax.

Photo: Ecclesall Woods - approx 100m from the burial site of George Yardley the wood collier (charcoal maker) who died in mysterious circumstances in a fire in 1786.....

Apparition

Zut: apart from the French mild expletive (Heck!)...I recently discovered the fictional game 'Zut' as described in an Amor Towles novel 'A Gentleman in Moscow'. This has two characters competing by describing variations of an agreed theme until one runs out of ideas. 
I had a similar feeling when producing this track (as I often do) - I loved the main riff but wanted to make variations in harmony and accompaniment. Eventually I had to give up (zut!).. but happily settled on those presented.

[Image: thanks to Leeds Art Gallery]

ZUT (Funk Variations)

Seahorse (Weedy Sea Dragon): image courtesy of Hailey Frederick and Haley Turner (Pinterest).
[Original track 'Seagrass' from the album 'Upstream Downstream' on Bandcamp.]

Seagrass Exploration

Technically the downbeat prevails here....but the intention is to be as 'upbeat' as possible!
[Thanks to The National Gallery, London for 'Rain, Steam and Speed' by JMW Turner (1844)]

Downbeat Express

Blue Lullaby

How Can I Make It Ok? (Lullaby Version)

#originaltrack #originalsong #songwriter #improvise 

Hear me (improvise)

Lyrics:

You ran there fast
Your ran there far
Your ankles dragged
From where you were
The gentle breeze can lift you up
and bring you back down to earth
Kind faces
Thinking of
Bright places
Good times
Wide arms embrace with love
And fill you up with warm sunshine

I wanna know you better
But I can't see you anymore
I wanna know you better than this
But I can't see you anymore
Those summer skies looked pretty
But each day keeps turning to night

All senses fired
From city sounds
To tired feet
The glass was empty
And you looked so sweet

I wanna know you better
But I can't see you anymore
I wanna know you better than this
But I can't see you anymore
Those summer skies looked pretty
But each day keeps turning to night



Those Summer Skies Looked Pretty

All we can tell you for sure is that this is not your big brothers dubstep. Yes it's 140 BPM, yes it has a drop or two, but this masterpiece by Mr. Bill and Virtual Riot creates something rare and amazing for the genre. A fork in the road that will inspire what is coming next.

For some reason Virtual Riots version and the version on Beatport is 5:30, but my version is 6:02. I'm not sure why...

Beatport: www.beatport.com/release/thwek/1301136


Mr. Bill & Virtual Riot - Thwek

Sunshowers

Small clip preview Mp3 of out latest concept in Jazz based House and Funk fusion with live organ work and other instrumental jams for the soul and mind. 
Out now on Juno Digital in full 24 bit wave or high quality mp3.

Buy on Juno

Attenuate - Part Two (Dub Jazz Mix) mp3 clip - now on Juno

Visions Of A Life

After The Zero Hour

Profet - Electric Lounging Love Seat (ZedHead Classic)

Aural Oracle

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Secret Spice

a little video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gaq0b4CfbY

reversed transition

underway... after looong baking time thins start looking up..

Revived Lick - Remex

My Mind's Gone Blank

Uneasy Dreams

Woodwind-powered experimental music (jazz/blues/ambient/funk/fusion/free improv....)[MOST TRACKS ARE DOWNLOADABLE] Wind instruments: tenor/alto/soprano saxes; Eb/Bb clarinets; flute/bamboo flutes; recorders; oboe; melodica (+ guitar+other various noisemakers) recorded on a Zoom MRS 1266 / R24.
Beats and other sounds: GarageBand.

Return of The Siren

The Windscale Blues Experiment