Music

Today I added three new tracks to my ‘Stories’ Album: ‘Home’, ‘Ashes to Ashes’ and ‘Deep Beneath The Pines’.

I just released the first 5 tracks for my new ‘Ulloo Dreams‘ album:

1. Ulloo Dreams
2. Soaring Skies
3. I Dream of your Return
4. Quiet
5. Epigraph

After the previous more acoustic oriented tracks on the ‘Stories‘ album, ‘Pop-a-Xan’ is much more electronic based, using female rap-style vocals and lots of FX.

Today I released ‘Final Stand, the final track for my ‘Chimera‘ album which is finished now. ‘Final Stand’ is a piano and vocal based song: most of the instruments you hear are based on a piano (even the percussion!) althougs sometimes altered beyond recognition.

A magic song, mainly white but there also is a hint of black magic in the background where you can hear magic spells flying around.

A duet about a love story that’s over. He has broken up but regrets its, only now she doesn’t want him anymore. Spiced up with a nice sax solo, and a rather frantic, almost desperate, middle part with some latin influences in the drums.

I just released the song ‘Healing’ for my ‘Chimera‘ album. This song consists of two parts, of which the first part is much more in the ‘world’ than in the ‘ambient’ genre, it uses persian vocals and an important part is played by the arabian ‘Oud‘-instrument and the west african drums. The second part however is much more ambient with a softly spoken female voice-over, the drums in this part are mainly played at half-speed, giving a very nice effect.

I just released the song ‘Breaking Out’ for my ‘The Case Continues‘ album. Once again a kinda rock ballad, this time with (a little bit unusual for me) male vocals. Usually I prefer female vocals but this male vocal fits perfectly with this song. Also note the sax solos and the shimmering electric piano parts.

I just released ‘When The Bell Tolls’ for my ‘Chimera‘ album. This track once again contains female vocals in the ‘Sinhala‘ language, there are also lots of strings and even a violin solo. The general atmosphere is very calm although in the distance a retreating thunderstorm still can be heard.

Today I released the newest addition to my ‘The Case Continues‘ album. ‘New Emotions’ is as straight pop/rock song with lots of guitars and it reminds me a bit of Fleetwood Mac. This wasn’t intended as I started working on it but during the creative stage it became more or less apparent to me, the only thing I can say about this: there are worse examples ;-).