Jazz Of Ethereal Forest Plus Bonus Track - Promenade2239

Hi Dave! Thank you so much for such positive words! This first track was my emotional outburst towards all annoying metronomical correctness of currently appearing looperman's music actually. I played snare drum on keyboard but intentionally didn't quantize it - it is just a presentation of possibilities of different synthesized based sounds when putting them in real time maybe 'in between' all already existing complex latin drum patterns loop hard harmonics even. I don't think I deserve for being compared to such great musicians you mentioned. I will try my best!

Best to you, Alex

I am really glad you enjoyed this one! The very attitude I probably present here is a kind of a searching attitude. Just an example: I decided to spend some time (took me at least 2 hours a day over last 2 weeks) to explore the Harmony. This means I did 'reductions' of some 'written tracks' or 'compositions' by classical composers (mainly Chopin, Wagner, Reger but preferably Shumannn, Mendelssohn and like). The way I did it was still quite primitive: analize and transpose to CM or Am (paralellel minor).

I whish I could be able to contribute more to the 'sound', so to speak - in terms as it is presenting itself to this recording,for example. Definitely this will require some new, probably hardly refreshed attitude and an energy which is mostly desired here (by me).

Have a good day too!
Alex

hello Joe

Thanks a lot for listening and such a kind review! In a way my 'looperman music project' is currently driven by my my want of getting more and more into exploring somewhere deeper all the hardware stuff I have already collected. Same time I am thinking a lot of grabbing more hardware but for the most part my focus in on the classical projects that are currently going on here. I will try to explain it to you as soon as I finish concrete recordings. I will send them to you and will definitely get in touch then.
Basically I am classically trained musician and the 'jazz' factor in my tracks might be just an offshot-result of the music I listened (apart of preffered 'classical' stuff). It's hard to explain until I post the examples of what I do do currently.

Thank you once again for your very kind words and your appreciation of the music I created.
Best to you,
Alex

thank you for listening and nice comments Brado. It is much appreciated. Yes, beside 2 tracks/instances taken from others that I mentioned in the description I played everything directly on the keyboard on the first track. Guitar is also a Casio sound but with lots of virtual effects on it (reverb and time delay candy and such). The 2nd track was made entirely on Casio as well - it's just an earlier take of the same musical 'project'. I am really looking forward to experiment more with sounds and definitely to get more seriously into hardware in the future. Currently I have some other, classical keyboard music projects running quite surprisingly (in my 'real life') so it seems I will probably invest more into hardware synths later this year hopefully. So far I can't say I am anywhere even close to the point of using creatively the possibilities of the hardware I collected. At least this is how I actually think about my current musical condition - there is so much to explore in terms of going 'inward'.

I am really glad you enjoyed this little piece (or pieces) and some percussive work I did on the keyboard. I didn't quantize timing nor velocities of my playing this time.

Thanks for your very nice review.
Alex

thanks for listening and commenting! Glad you liked it.

hello Traz
thanks for listening and some opinions. Basically I do not care whether my music would be top hit or more commercial sounding - I am rolling this looperman music project because it allows me to experiment and simply trying different things. In this case I am experimenting with the sounds of Casio and as I never liked or used them before it was a fine refreshing dicsovery. There is always something interesting and new when comes to the 'sound' production on the very basic level of playing it from the keyboard. Apart of drum loop and pella there is also a guitar with quartal 'abstract' harmonies and whole tone scale played in a descending manner using the synthesized sax.
I just have changed the genre from 'weird' to 'chillout' (ambient will probably fit nicely too) and added also bonus track based on the same acapella - this music is more conventional I guess.

I am glad you liked the music. Thanks for a nice comment.
Alex

Thank you Ed!

I actually blended many percussive 'tracks'. The main loop is http://www.looperman.com/loops/detail/76448/jazz-brushes-drum-loop-120-d-by-saintkuz-free-120bpm-jazz-drum-loop (I pasted wrong link yesterday) and it is a quality one. Everything else is simply myself playing directly on the keyboard (my favorite way of composing:) and this time I used only the Casio keyboard. I was never a huge fan of the sound bank of this particular one as for the main part it is just a digital piano with weighted keys that I am using for practising but now I see it has fine patches as well. So the bass drum and snare drum is just a Casio drumset, many other percussive 'ghosts' drum sounds in the background as well. I used different delays and manipulated the stereo spactrum of the track (all software effects as I do not have any real ones so far). I recorded some parts already wet effects (it is inspiring and positively affecting the character of actual playing sometimes) - some other tracks were moved and manipulated/effected afterwards. It is really hard to explain as I didn't use any strict recipe. As for the mid side processing I think the drum loop and the acapella http://www.looperman.com/acapellas/detail/8431/whisper-3-by-soleilxlune-1bpm-spoken-word-acapella were already somehow processed and very nicely effected: around the middle section of the song I only multitracked the vox and panned one track hard left, the second somewhere to the right side of the stereo 'edge'. Those 2 tracks are placed in different time areas on the composition timeline. That was my way to create even more 'space'. The actual 'wind' quality is only on the acapella but I used also one of the sax sounds of Casio - this one has fine 'breathing' qualities too.

A quickly improvised music this time than a concrete, solid composition. I am glad you liked what I did! Thanks a lot for very nice words and your support! It is much appreciated.
Alex