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…
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…
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…
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…
I decided to tap into my latent '80s Depeche Mode subconscious, and this bouncy tune popped out! Ian Beardsley heard an earlier version of this and immediately detected Spanish flamenco hidden in the techno dance chords. I opened up the stage…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The music fits the film wonderfully. You really get the feeling that these are visitors from a european country. You must have been delighted to come across these birds. I love that whole area from Big Sur to Monterey. Thanks for showing us so much beauty both music and film.
I decided to tap into my latent '80s Depeche Mode subconscious, and this bouncy tune popped out! Ian Beardsley heard an earlier version of this and immediately detected Spanish flamenco hidden in the techno dance chords. I opened up the stage…
I decided to tap into my latent '80s Depeche Mode subconscious, and this bouncy tune popped out! Ian Beardsley heard an earlier version of this and immediately detected Spanish flamenco hidden in the techno dance chords. I opened up the stage…
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…
oh! lovely, sweet voicings from the flutes,
cool gtr sound - very delicate, yet strong.
gorgeous sounds from another land -
glad i heard your offering, eduard.
nicely done.
sis
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!
ttfn,
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!
ttfn,
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.
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
Comments on drakonis's stuff
The trumpet on this is great - it flows, doesn't sound forced at all
Absolute class.
are you using a $10,000 sample library to do this, or...the quality of the instruments are...well, you know.
you're a great composer.
Quality, you obviously know your stuff
very nice, quite baroque
Magical! I love your music, D!
Haunting and spectacular.
nice melodies
Nicely done!
Very interesting music and beautiful birds in flight on video
I love polyphony!
You tease!
What a wonderful piece of music!
Oh I like! Raindrops to begin with and then snow!
very nice rag!
The music fits the film wonderfully. You really get the feeling that these are visitors from a european country. You must have been delighted to come across these birds. I love that whole area from Big Sur to Monterey. Thanks for showing us so much beauty both music and film.
Like this one!
Alex Kidd in Shinobi world! All over to mine for a go on the master system.. Love these sounds. wicked.
oh! lovely, sweet voicings from the flutes, cool gtr sound - very delicate, yet strong. gorgeous sounds from another land - glad i heard your offering, eduard. nicely done. sis
Comments made by drakonis
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