Soft Panorama Ft Planetjazzbass Midisparks - Promenade2239

hi, thank you so much for a nice comment! Currently I am working exclusively on vst instruments (mostly free plugins played from Casio CDP220r). I am using the other cheap keyboard to get rid of the artificial weighted keys sometimes and just to get the actual idea of how the plugin may react lol). In a sense it's only an 'artificial' music, so I entirely agree that it's 'filtered' and some frequencies are obviously missing!
I will return to the acoustic music soon anyway, but the artificial world is really fascinating so far.

Thanks again for some nice words and interesting thoughts,
the groove on the first track is from PJB. Alex

Thanks a lot Steve.
It was great to discover Brian Ferry! I love music from 80's (I'm 30).
The combination of PinkFloyd 'echoing' and funk-disco synth sequencing on the 'Limbo' is excellent.

Thank you again for the inspiration and your interest in my music. Alex

Thank you Ookami for this very nice review. I am happy you liked the songs.
It's a result of my exploration on some funky territories. I am trying to combine some jazz loops and samples from some great musicians of this site with my keyboard (synth/Rhodes piano) playing. I added some strangeness and nice ambiance in here as well.

I started to study more closely some funk patterns but this time the off-beat drums are simply a midi sequences from the EZdrummer plugin. I used only two funk drum midi patterns (2-bar and 4-bar long I guess) in this first track but there's some ethnic percussions and some other percussive sounds - that's why I was able to create some interesting motion and dynamic in here.

Thanks once again! Alex

Thanks a lot! I think WR is just pure fusion. It is something I am trying to 'emulate' but I do not think that 'emulating' is really a proper word here at all. All keyboards are just live performed as well as bassline and guitars (eventhough they are obviously loops) so in a way it is just some creative approach in here in finding the corresponding sounds from different classic genres mixed into some nice chillout.
Thanks again for some nice words - it is appreciated, Alex

thanks a lot FreeRadical.
I am trying currently to discover and explore even more the funk keyboard playing so I keep practise some riffs. Probably this is the stuff I was going for a quite a long time including many years of total lack of creativity.
I am really happy you enjoyed this music - I was trying to upload this additional bonus track that I made yesterday a couple of times so now it is also visible as a waveform on this site.

Yes, I think the sound-image on the second track is a bit 'freezing' and 'cold' as you mentioned but maybe it's just simply my keyboard playing - I am actually a classical trained keyboardist so it obviously affects my productions.

Thanks again for some very nice words. Alex

thanks a lot soundhound. There's no processing (chopping and like) on loops here at all - they are all at a normal speed (100 bpm) just as performed.
All the rest (synth and Rhodes improv, synth pads and the entire composition and arrangement) it's just me playing it from the keyboard. Funky drums from EZdrummer plugin.
Thanks again for listening and nice comment! Alex