This piece is my original almost-fugue-sounding arrangement of my favorite Ukranian “Christmas Carol”, Carol of the Bells, as if J.S. Bach had written it. Ingredients: Warmth, depth, complexity, eternal romance. Dedicated to my Belle. This was…
This piece is my original almost-fugue-sounding arrangement of my favorite Ukranian “Christmas Carol”, Carol of the Bells, as if J.S. Bach had written it. Ingredients: Warmth, depth, complexity, eternal romance. Dedicated to my Belle. This was…
"As we grow up, we always carry our inner child with us. Wonder and curiosity... there are so many things the child sees. However, this is a view from above. We are now adults with good and bad experiences of life, looking inward. It is time…
This piece is my original almost-fugue-sounding arrangement of my favorite Ukranian “Christmas Carol”, Carol of the Bells, as if J.S. Bach had written it. Ingredients: Warmth, depth, complexity, eternal romance. Dedicated to my Belle. This was…
"As we grow up, we always carry our inner child with us. Wonder and curiosity... there are so many things the child sees. However, this is a view from above. We are now adults with good and bad experiences of life, looking inward. It is time…
This little ragtime number began life as just a snippet, written as background music for a home movie years ago. For the hard core ragtime buffs, I know this is not quite syncopated enough to be true ragtime, but hopefully its fun and bouncy…
Background music for a fun father/daughter YouTube video editing collaboration/experiment (embedded here.) My daughter and I filmed and edited the movie, and I wrote the music after hearing some video-game music my daughter wanted me to emulate…
This piece is my original almost-fugue-sounding arrangement of my favorite Ukranian “Christmas Carol”, Carol of the Bells, as if J.S. Bach had written it. Ingredients: Warmth, depth, complexity, eternal romance. Dedicated to my Belle. This was…
"As we grow up, we always carry our inner child with us. Wonder and curiosity... there are so many things the child sees. However, this is a view from above. We are now adults with good and bad experiences of life, looking inward. It is time…
Close your eyes, and come with me. It is a warm Autumn eve in the Black Forest. There are ancient folk tales about this magical wood... how late at night it comes to life with mischievious fairies and wood nymphs. Any mortal who hears the unusual…
This little ragtime number began life as just a snippet, written as background music for a home movie years ago. For the hard core ragtime buffs, I know this is not quite syncopated enough to be true ragtime, but hopefully its fun and bouncy…
While my wife and I were travelling back down the coast of California (near Big Sur) from a vacation around New Years, we stopped at a turnout over a cliff, and took a bunch of video of at least 15 California Condors, flying and hanging out on…
Close your eyes, and come with me. It is a warm Autumn eve in the Black Forest. There are ancient folk tales about this magical wood... how late at night it comes to life with mischievious fairies and wood nymphs. Any mortal who hears the unusual…
Close your eyes, and come with me. It is a warm Autumn eve in the Black Forest. There are ancient folk tales about this magical wood... how late at night it comes to life with mischievious fairies and wood nymphs. Any mortal who hears the unusual…
Here is another quick glimpse at ideas from my huge "Fractal Serenity" music video project, still in progress. This particular music-video is a "character study" of one of the strange plants that grows in this dream... the "Glass Orchid…
Imagine a Mexican quintette playing a fast waltz. There are 3 melodies played in 3/4 time, in a sort of non-standard ABCABC format. The title is a photographic/geographic/melodic play on words. There is a merging of European waltz and Mexican…
Background music for a fun father/daughter YouTube video editing collaboration/experiment (embedded here.) My daughter and I filmed and edited the movie, and I wrote the music after hearing some video-game music my daughter wanted me to emulate…
Here is another quick glimpse at ideas from my huge "Fractal Serenity" music video project, still in progress. This particular music-video is a "character study" of one of the strange plants that grows in this dream... the "Glass Orchid…
A simple 3-part "round" or canon with variations, showing my children how you can devise a melody that can stack on top of itself like offset puzzle pieces, which will then make its own harmony (with a nod to the master of rounds and fugues, J…
Here is another quick glimpse at ideas from my huge "Fractal Serenity" music video project, still in progress. This particular music-video is a "character study" of one of the strange plants that grows in this dream... the "Glass Orchid…
One of my all-time favorite pieces as well, very nicely re-orchestrated... sort of a Wendy Carlos/Tomita feel. Rich and inventive selection of synth sounds.
I like this little chord progression idea, enjoyed the plucky sounds (although the scratchiness partway in was a little distracting) and the walking bass part was cool. Nice hand-off to the synth in the middle.
Maybe Rock-Ren-Roll? :-) Nice piece of music, great choice of instruments... but 'tis far too short to dance to! It needs a B section, then back to your A section here, and an ending. Well worth extending this out more.
An electronic track from the Dead In The Water sessions. I thought the Last FM version was missing something, so I went in to fine-tune it.
This is the end-result of that fine-tuning.
The track deals with how there are usually no easy outs…
This is a song I wrote with Lisa Purdy (who sings the harmony vocal) about the experience of depression. Jim Bouchard plays lap steel - I'm playing/singing the rest.
Yay Neil! I enjoy this one... great singing and lyrics of course, and what a trio... Lisa's awesome, and matches you wonderfully... and Jim's lapsteel really gives this an even-more woozy off-kilter feel, perfect! And did you do the mixing? Sounds really clean. Programmed drums?
ttfn,
Drakonis
Pulled this one together in bits and pieces as time permitted. This has been one of my favs, lately!
Doug
Oh, yes, this is my loopless experiment, too!
fun gentle ballad thingie (although the fuzz guitar in the middle was a surprise :-) Cool bits of drumming and guitar and singing... way more than I'd ever try to do!
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Drakonis
Imagine that you are that lump of enchanted wood on the workbench.... and instead of Pinocchio you can be anything... maybe even a stratavarious... thanx to my friend Dave Edwards for the real violin trax
A talented singer, guitarist, songwriter, and excellent lyricist... I'm quite impressed with what life has molded you into! Great song, great lyrics, excellent build, and always sweet to hear real violins!
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Drakonis
While living in Seattle I knew a guy named Larry. Larry was one of the "pretty" people of the world and had most women drooling over him. He met and married Denise... Also one of the "pretty" people of the world. But Denise could not seem to…
Love this song, great writing, great singing... nice mixing... you should be proud of this one. There's a very slight phasing effect on your voice, which at first I didn't like much, but it adds a dreamy quality, so I changed my mind. Excellent harmonies.
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Drakonis
Cool and rather unique sound to this song. I was not much of a fan for the dry-sounding raspy bass synth that sometimes appeared in my left ear (would have preferred a softer sound, or back further, more reverb?) But the rest of this was super-cleanly mixed, very crisp sound (stop making me lust after logic!) :-)
ttfn,
Drakonis
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How cool that people are still enjoying this piece, thank you!
13 years later, and I'm still loving it! LG
Really enjoy your tracks!
j'aime beaucoup. Continue à nous faire rêver.
tres beau
this is awesome drakonis!
very German
I love it!!!! LG
Hi!!! I just wanted to say Hi!!!
Very outdoorish sounds...diggio!
Lovely piano piece
How lovely, it has all the flavour of your wonderful video of the Condors. Delightful!
Hi Eduard, just cooking dinner and being royally entertained! Bee
A brilliant tune, well structured and arranged
So pacifying... Well done
quite nice
Great vid mate and cool track.
great mood piece,,feels very spacial ie open/large... what synth do you use? good work
fun piece
Brilliant
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Has a bit of baroque feel, and very frenetic, perfect for a 18th century car chase scene :-) This is nicely written.
Very pretty composition, and well played. A mesmerizing piece.
One of my all-time favorite pieces as well, very nicely re-orchestrated... sort of a Wendy Carlos/Tomita feel. Rich and inventive selection of synth sounds.
I like this little chord progression idea, enjoyed the plucky sounds (although the scratchiness partway in was a little distracting) and the walking bass part was cool. Nice hand-off to the synth in the middle.
Maybe Rock-Ren-Roll? :-) Nice piece of music, great choice of instruments... but 'tis far too short to dance to! It needs a B section, then back to your A section here, and an ending. Well worth extending this out more.
Very pretty lyrical piece... there was a teeny too much reverb on this recording for my taste, but the music and playing were a delight.
wacky, dizzy, cool music. Love the strange echoey bent distortion of the vox samples.
Yay Neil! I enjoy this one... great singing and lyrics of course, and what a trio... Lisa's awesome, and matches you wonderfully... and Jim's lapsteel really gives this an even-more woozy off-kilter feel, perfect! And did you do the mixing? Sounds really clean. Programmed drums? ttfn, Drakonis
fun gentle ballad thingie (although the fuzz guitar in the middle was a surprise :-) Cool bits of drumming and guitar and singing... way more than I'd ever try to do! ttfn, Drakonis
A talented singer, guitarist, songwriter, and excellent lyricist... I'm quite impressed with what life has molded you into! Great song, great lyrics, excellent build, and always sweet to hear real violins! ttfn, Drakonis
Love this song, great writing, great singing... nice mixing... you should be proud of this one. There's a very slight phasing effect on your voice, which at first I didn't like much, but it adds a dreamy quality, so I changed my mind. Excellent harmonies. ttfn, Drakonis
Cool and rather unique sound to this song. I was not much of a fan for the dry-sounding raspy bass synth that sometimes appeared in my left ear (would have preferred a softer sound, or back further, more reverb?) But the rest of this was super-cleanly mixed, very crisp sound (stop making me lust after logic!) :-) ttfn, Drakonis