Hey Alex.
Sublimely awesome this track is.
Ferry Terry is such a talented musician with his loops and you have mixed his guitar work in masterfully. the keyboards are so soft and subtle but perfect as you showcase the awesome guitar work. It almost sounds like a live recording.
Awesome work my friend
Steve
thank you so much for your kind words. you can't imagine how much time and energy I put to reach out some excellent musicians from the site personally these last months. this one is simply a result of the work I am doing with ferryterry for quite a long time now. Indeed I started with only mixing his loops few months ago but this one is an entirely new and original project. I gave him backing track and he made great guitar recordings so I could produce this track. I am really happy you liked my keyboard work (I played bass guitar from the keys as well), drums are EZdrummer performances.
Classic rock fusion you've done here! Ferryterry is a very talented instrumentalist, and it's good to hear you work together. Super groovy and relaxing. You always lay it down with your e piano work, and I respect that! The ride cymbal really adds a lot to this mix, it almost seems like a staple of the style to my ears. Good way to come in from the Sunday heat. I love it! Fave!
hi. thank you for listening and good words! This is a bit different from ferryterry's usual prefference (he is a bossanova guy). I applied an 'Ampire' plugin which is a kind of vintage amp set of effects, it gives that classic rock flavour to the guitar sound I guess. Yes, I am on the keyboards as always but I had to play bass also this time (from the keyboard of course) haha. Sunday is hot as well here but it is the end of a day so I can chill myself out now...
thanks for your nice comments! all the best to you, alex
the other day I have sent a funk backing track to ferryterry and he recorded many different cool things. I made this track this Sunday morning juggling with different parts of his guitar lines. I found 2 different chord progressions so finally I changed a bit the harmonic context (as played on original backing track) behind the actual guitar lines.
thank you again for friendy comments. I am really happy you enjoyed this one.
This is cool...what is curious that you are in the humble 'shadow' throughout the whole track...hats off...great prog rock with huge guitar play and pro arrangement...
thanks a lot danke! ferryterry is a real star here. at first I was thinking of alternating his guitar and my keyboard solos but then I realized there's nothing much I can make at the moment on the territorry of keyboard soloing so it's entirely driven by his guitar playing (which is cool).
thank you again for nice words. it is much appreciated.
track 1 sounds like a live played one. i like the native female sound .....
track 2 sounds like i dont know but sounds realy cool and good to me .....
track 3 is something special. very expiremental and i like that a lot.
track 4 sounds like something cinematic for me. Sounds like something is around the corner and this something just wants something. i am not sure jet what it want, so better i hide myself and wait until it is not so close to me :)
Intresting and realy good sounding mix. Sounds are cool and nice, like mostly. Loops fits very well.
thank you for checking some of my older work! I appreciate that.
indeed on the first track I played the 'rhodes' live - the bass and lead guitar (it's from Megapaul) are loops. Ethnic vocals by Taratoxic (I used the same acapella on the track I made with ZankFrappa) and spoken words by Janis71. Drum sequences from Ezdrummer and some other drum loops as well as organ riffs and tropical birds are loops also as well.
the second one was created after listening to tennyson's https://soundcloud.com/tennysonmusic/with-you
it was doudei who inspired to listen to their music. There are no loops on this track - just an attempt to create everything myself ioncluding synth automation and extended sound processing (I do not do that very often because I am lazy and always work very fast playing everything from the keyboard). Solo e piano improv line added after creating the main beat so it is just an another jam track.
3rd one is an experimental ambient with some repetitive melodic elements. The last one is more dark ambient even but here this is only a fragment of the full composition - the resolution of a full one is bright, ascending and luminous.
Actually there are loops only on the first track - other tracks were made only using virtual tone generators (vst synths).
I will try to contact you soon so we can finish our collaborations maybe (also the 'Hot Coffe' project).
I think the following translation of the lyrics is closer to the original ......
When i get up on monday morning and i do a look into my walet,
then i start feeling ill and my eys starts hurting me.
Once again no money, must be realy this?
When nothing helps, then i just go shopping without money.
I go shopping, i go shopping, i go shopping, shopping without money
And should then appear a detective and he cries out for police
I´ll thump him one on the nose and then I fight myself free
I go shopping, i go shopping, i go shopping, shopping without money
No matter where I look on, anywhere in the world.
OH - I can not understand, the people throw around with money
I go shopping, i go shopping, i go shopping, shopping without money.
Nice feel about this piece, don't really know why but it just grabs you, making you want to listen to the piece, love the space you have left in the track mate...No complaints at all, just respect for pulling this type of track off so well.. Everything from this end sounds spot on...Fav...Peace n Respect....Mosaic...magical work....
Thanks a lot for your nice words. I probably have missed a few of your latest productions (but I will listen to them soon!).
I am happy you liked the space on the track - I always try to keep some amount of air and usually my mixes are quite different from the other stuff posted here (also regarding to instrumentation).
This piece is simply the result of playing with new synth Roland Juno Di. I am still looking forward to create more music like this (but simply lack of time). Maybe later this summer...
There's a place for vocals/spoken words even (I will add them soon).
Thank you again for kind review and adding this one to your favourites. It is appreciated.
You are flat out brilliant my friend. First, thanks for translating the lyrics, it really added to the experience knowing what he was saying. Your synth work is always so good, and once again you illustrate your mastery of the keys. Loved the panning on the mix, Alex, it really gave the piece a great deal of space.
I could see this one being used in any number of films....all I had to do was close my eyes and you transported me someplace else. In the end, that is all we can ask of our music.
This is for sure the most nizarre piece of music I h ave listened to in the past 12 months. I do speak quite a bit of German and I must say... WTF?! :-). So understanding the lyrics, I can only say that your music fits it perfectly. Very well done. This is a great example of how the acapella and music both make the other one stronger. I'm impressed.
I also hear some very interesting timing details in this track. Nice.
hey. glad you found this piece bizarre. of course there's no plugins for timing-fixing used and honestly any plugins at all here. just very raw take on the acapella without even restoring and manipulating the given audio. all the rest was real time played. delayed piano notes are intentional. in fact everything is intentional on here.
hello Silverman. Thank you for listening and taking your effortless effort to leave a comment. I much appreciate that! First of all I respect you a lot so do not worry. thanks for such an abstract comment by the way. Glad I coud help giving your works more exposure too at that time (had no idea of the particular looperman circumstances). Best to you, Alex
This is really nice and chilled, I like the way you used the same loop I did in my track minaret, it works really well with this laid back approach compared to the more urgent feel of mine. Then pretty cool how it morphs into a dnb section, wasnt expecting that. Very enjoyable listen, I am quite relaxed now! :)
I think i found a cool concept for some -vocal art- for it
but it is not easy to produce without .... (and if i would do, then you have 150 plays only from me) :)
Just connected the ending of this as totally Ummagumma.
Still sounds wonderful ... this not Ummagumma though Granchester Meadows was my favourite chillout track for many misspent years ... think I'll go visit Youtube before bed.
Thanks again for some nice inspiration. I was never a huge fan of PinkFloyd but some of my productions were compared to music from 70's as I am using a lot of vintage electric piano (I do not have a real one though) and old styled syntesizers (again: just plugins).
I just played some single pieces from Ummagumma but I will listen to the entire album today later for sure. Thanks again for pointing this,
This is an enjoyable track here. I see you implanted a lot of jazz elements into this track. It's definitely an interesting listen and makes my mind wonder off. It would be interesting to know what your original intentions for this track was.
Regardless of that, I have to say I really enjoyed this one and will be on the look out for more like this from you!
so basically my very intention was only to make a new track. My previous looperman one was kind of electro-styled (with JoeCramer's vocals) so I decided to go even further with the exploration of my new hardware synth this time. This track was made entirely (except drums) using only one sound source (Roland Juno Di) but I started with very simple drumming and tried many different synth presets. The basic idea was: 120 bpm and the key of F (no chord changes). It was recorded from the keyboard in a real time but of course with a lot of placing/replacing of all recorded single elements inside the composition afterwards (but the main synth lead was played in a real time without any placing/replacing manipulations). At some point I replaced simple drums by some excellent EZdrummer jazz performances (which is probably the only 'jazz' element here).
So this is the process. There's no need to quantize notes anymore (I did that a lot when using plugins for piano or electric piano). There's no even MIDI in there (me happy yay! haha)
thanks a lot for listening and nice comments,
best, alex
drums are EZdrummer jazz performances, all the rest was played on Roland Juno Di. There's no virtual synths needed anymore (only some plugins for effects) so I can create much longer tracks now and work easier without any high CPU usage problems.
This one is quite simple played but with lot of sound-itself manipulations (mainly cutoff/reso).
Thanks again for checking this one out and some nice comments. As always it is much appreciated.
Alex
First i read some comments. Then i followed the link silverman posted. Then i came back and listen. And you had to do some very special, after the listen to this extremly cool Ken Nordine.
AND - You done it.
This is very experimental and i mostly enjoy things like that, if they not tooooooooo jazzy.
Maybe i should try to do some words in this Ken Nordine style for you :) ........
firstly I am really happy that you liked this one. That only thing which makes it so jazzy is drumming. I used EZdrummer jazz performance but of course the whole thing will sound very different with other drums. The outro thing is already present throughout the track as a background - I only removed the drumming and main synth lead.
Ken Nordine is very cool indeed and silverman's point was very inspiring (but quite unexpected). I didn't realize this weird synth jam will open new possibilities.
I am open-minded to whatever will come up on the spoken word area and am looking forward to collaborate again!
thanks for listening and leaving some interesting comment. man this is some real synth madness in here, it's entirely recorded in a real time. how you can say I should take off that synth, it makes entire piece. maybe you simply do not like my playing. that's ok. it's actually more playing with cutoff and resonance filters than the actual playing. also mix is not loud at all. I understand this on is not really even close to so called mainstream.
but thanks again!
I spent some moments this morning listening to Ken Nordine's World Jazz. never heard of him before. Thanks for the links and some nice inspiration.
About 5 years ago I met a danish guy and we managed to create some amount of music even (he was singer/songwriter). He pointed Dan Turell (danish writer) and this song as an inspiration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77jiPMXR3Aw but we never really finished our spoken word project. Anyway Ken Nordine sounds way better than this... thanks again!
on You can call it freedom feat ferryterry by promenade2239
Sublimely awesome this track is.
Ferry Terry is such a talented musician with his loops and you have mixed his guitar work in masterfully. the keyboards are so soft and subtle but perfect as you showcase the awesome guitar work. It almost sounds like a live recording.
Awesome work my friend
Steve
thank you so much for your kind words. you can't imagine how much time and energy I put to reach out some excellent musicians from the site personally these last months. this one is simply a result of the work I am doing with ferryterry for quite a long time now. Indeed I started with only mixing his loops few months ago but this one is an entirely new and original project. I gave him backing track and he made great guitar recordings so I could produce this track. I am really happy you liked my keyboard work (I played bass guitar from the keys as well), drums are EZdrummer performances.
Thank you again for such a nice review.
All the best, Alex
on You can call it freedom feat ferryterry by promenade2239
Thought I'd give a listen to your track with my buddy, Franco. Super job on on both your parts. Always a pleasure checking out your work.
Cheers,
Scott
all the best to you, Alex
on You can call it freedom feat ferryterry by promenade2239
thanks for your nice comments! all the best to you, alex
on You can call it freedom feat ferryterry by promenade2239
Your work set the focus extremly well on the guitars.
Did you play over the guitar or did he play to your music?
(dosen´t matter to much, ´cause it sounds very well)
Cool one and i enjoyed this one a lot.respect!
stay tuned
joe
the other day I have sent a funk backing track to ferryterry and he recorded many different cool things. I made this track this Sunday morning juggling with different parts of his guitar lines. I found 2 different chord progressions so finally I changed a bit the harmonic context (as played on original backing track) behind the actual guitar lines.
thank you again for friendy comments. I am really happy you enjoyed this one.
I will write you soon.
All the best, Alex
on You can call it freedom feat ferryterry by promenade2239
This is cool...what is curious that you are in the humble 'shadow' throughout the whole track...hats off...great prog rock with huge guitar play and pro arrangement...
Respect, Danke
thank you again for nice words. it is much appreciated.
Nice Sunday to you, alex
on You can call it freedom feat ferryterry by promenade2239
The track is very creatively constricted.
Beautifully laid out, the guitar is perfect for it
Well done.
Jamid
all the best to you, alex
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track 1 sounds like a live played one. i like the native female sound .....
track 2 sounds like i dont know but sounds realy cool and good to me .....
track 3 is something special. very expiremental and i like that a lot.
track 4 sounds like something cinematic for me. Sounds like something is around the corner and this something just wants something. i am not sure jet what it want, so better i hide myself and wait until it is not so close to me :)
Intresting and realy good sounding mix. Sounds are cool and nice, like mostly. Loops fits very well.
I enjoyed the listen realy much!
stay tuned
joe
thank you for checking some of my older work! I appreciate that.
indeed on the first track I played the 'rhodes' live - the bass and lead guitar (it's from Megapaul) are loops. Ethnic vocals by Taratoxic (I used the same acapella on the track I made with ZankFrappa) and spoken words by Janis71. Drum sequences from Ezdrummer and some other drum loops as well as organ riffs and tropical birds are loops also as well.
the second one was created after listening to tennyson's https://soundcloud.com/tennysonmusic/with-you
it was doudei who inspired to listen to their music. There are no loops on this track - just an attempt to create everything myself ioncluding synth automation and extended sound processing (I do not do that very often because I am lazy and always work very fast playing everything from the keyboard). Solo e piano improv line added after creating the main beat so it is just an another jam track.
3rd one is an experimental ambient with some repetitive melodic elements. The last one is more dark ambient even but here this is only a fragment of the full composition - the resolution of a full one is bright, ascending and luminous.
Actually there are loops only on the first track - other tracks were made only using virtual tone generators (vst synths).
I will try to contact you soon so we can finish our collaborations maybe (also the 'Hot Coffe' project).
Thank you again for nice words!
Nice Sunday to you,
Alex
on montagsmorgen by promenade2239
When i get up on monday morning and i do a look into my walet,
then i start feeling ill and my eys starts hurting me.
Once again no money, must be realy this?
When nothing helps, then i just go shopping without money.
I go shopping, i go shopping, i go shopping, shopping without money
And should then appear a detective and he cries out for police
I´ll thump him one on the nose and then I fight myself free
I go shopping, i go shopping, i go shopping, shopping without money
No matter where I look on, anywhere in the world.
OH - I can not understand, the people throw around with money
I go shopping, i go shopping, i go shopping, shopping without money.
on hot coffee by promenade2239
Nice feel about this piece, don't really know why but it just grabs you, making you want to listen to the piece, love the space you have left in the track mate...No complaints at all, just respect for pulling this type of track off so well.. Everything from this end sounds spot on...Fav...Peace n Respect....Mosaic...magical work....
Thanks a lot for your nice words. I probably have missed a few of your latest productions (but I will listen to them soon!).
I am happy you liked the space on the track - I always try to keep some amount of air and usually my mixes are quite different from the other stuff posted here (also regarding to instrumentation).
This piece is simply the result of playing with new synth Roland Juno Di. I am still looking forward to create more music like this (but simply lack of time). Maybe later this summer...
There's a place for vocals/spoken words even (I will add them soon).
Thank you again for kind review and adding this one to your favourites. It is appreciated.
All the best to you, Alex
on hot coffee by promenade2239
~Eighteen
on hot coffee by promenade2239
the drums and that jazz trip... awesome
on montagsmorgen by promenade2239
I could see this one being used in any number of films....all I had to do was close my eyes and you transported me someplace else. In the end, that is all we can ask of our music.
Terrific work Alex. I hope all is well.
Bear
on montagsmorgen by promenade2239
This is for sure the most nizarre piece of music I h ave listened to in the past 12 months. I do speak quite a bit of German and I must say... WTF?! :-). So understanding the lyrics, I can only say that your music fits it perfectly. Very well done. This is a great example of how the acapella and music both make the other one stronger. I'm impressed.
I also hear some very interesting timing details in this track. Nice.
Easy fav mate.
Doc
thanks a lot for the fav and some nice words.
Best to you, Alex
on The Source ft FutureAnalysis by promenade2239
Can't fault it from here.
It reminds me of something from way back but have no idea what.
Going in my favourites.
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on hot coffee by promenade2239
Drums are great and cofee has never been so hot!
Thumbs up_____Orlando
All the best to you, Alex
on hot coffee by promenade2239
could you send me this track?
I think i found a cool concept for some -vocal art- for it
but it is not easy to produce without .... (and if i would do, then you have 150 plays only from me) :)
enjoy the weather and stay tuned
joe
thank you again for nice words.
All the best, Alex
on hot coffee by promenade2239
Still sounds wonderful ... this not Ummagumma though Granchester Meadows was my favourite chillout track for many misspent years ... think I'll go visit Youtube before bed.
I just played some single pieces from Ummagumma but I will listen to the entire album today later for sure. Thanks again for pointing this,
Best to you, Alex
on hot coffee by promenade2239
Regardless of that, I have to say I really enjoyed this one and will be on the look out for more like this from you!
Great job sir!
so basically my very intention was only to make a new track. My previous looperman one was kind of electro-styled (with JoeCramer's vocals) so I decided to go even further with the exploration of my new hardware synth this time. This track was made entirely (except drums) using only one sound source (Roland Juno Di) but I started with very simple drumming and tried many different synth presets. The basic idea was: 120 bpm and the key of F (no chord changes). It was recorded from the keyboard in a real time but of course with a lot of placing/replacing of all recorded single elements inside the composition afterwards (but the main synth lead was played in a real time without any placing/replacing manipulations). At some point I replaced simple drums by some excellent EZdrummer jazz performances (which is probably the only 'jazz' element here).
So this is the process. There's no need to quantize notes anymore (I did that a lot when using plugins for piano or electric piano). There's no even MIDI in there (me happy yay! haha)
thanks a lot for listening and nice comments,
best, alex
on hot coffee by promenade2239
Not a big synth fan but you've made it sound interesting, the drums
lock everything together....
Well done...
Peace...TG.
drums are EZdrummer jazz performances, all the rest was played on Roland Juno Di. There's no virtual synths needed anymore (only some plugins for effects) so I can create much longer tracks now and work easier without any high CPU usage problems.
This one is quite simple played but with lot of sound-itself manipulations (mainly cutoff/reso).
Thanks again for checking this one out and some nice comments. As always it is much appreciated.
Alex
on hot coffee by promenade2239
Wow - cool one.
First i read some comments. Then i followed the link silverman posted. Then i came back and listen. And you had to do some very special, after the listen to this extremly cool Ken Nordine.
AND - You done it.
This is very experimental and i mostly enjoy things like that, if they not tooooooooo jazzy.
Maybe i should try to do some words in this Ken Nordine style for you :) ........
the outro is very special.
stay tuned
joe
firstly I am really happy that you liked this one. That only thing which makes it so jazzy is drumming. I used EZdrummer jazz performance but of course the whole thing will sound very different with other drums. The outro thing is already present throughout the track as a background - I only removed the drumming and main synth lead.
Ken Nordine is very cool indeed and silverman's point was very inspiring (but quite unexpected). I didn't realize this weird synth jam will open new possibilities.
I am open-minded to whatever will come up on the spoken word area and am looking forward to collaborate again!
Thank you so much for very nice words!
Best to you, Alex
on hot coffee by promenade2239
but thanks again!
nice day to you, alex
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Wanna see his studio?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxukf0IPsME
I spent some moments this morning listening to Ken Nordine's World Jazz. never heard of him before. Thanks for the links and some nice inspiration.
About 5 years ago I met a danish guy and we managed to create some amount of music even (he was singer/songwriter). He pointed Dan Turell (danish writer) and this song as an inspiration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77jiPMXR3Aw but we never really finished our spoken word project. Anyway Ken Nordine sounds way better than this... thanks again!
on hot coffee by promenade2239
Absolutely love this track.
Yet again another wonderful track from you.
Well done
Jamid