Music

I just uploaded the last track for my ‘A New Case of Music‘ album. ‘Empty Spaces’ is a kinda ballad with female vocals, beautiful strings in the middle and a very nice sax solo in the end. Part of the drums (bassdrum, snare with hot rods and cymbals) are played by myself on my vintage Sonor kit.

The second song on my ‘Chimera‘ album is based upon some Cymatic loops, placed in a kinda underwater ambience, the lyrics are in a fantasy language. The drums in the background come from iZotope Breaktweaker and are completely mangled in iZotope Neutron 4 (Neutron is certainly not meant for this but somehow it worked 😉

I just released the track ‘Hell is back‘ which is the first track for my new album ‘Chimera‘. ‘Hell is back‘ is a rather long song (over 8 minutes) in the ambient genre with massive synths and female vocals, all placed in a seaside ambience.

I just added my new song ‘Silent Nightse’ to the ‘A New Case of Music‘ album. ‘Silent Nights’ is a quite unusual song and doesn’t fit in my usual pop/rock category. It features spoken text in English/Icelandic and some Viking shouts and the overall feeling is rather threatening, reinforced by the heavy percussion.

I just added my new song ‘Someone Told Me’ to the ‘A New Case of Music‘ album. ‘Someone Told Me’ is a ballad with female vocals and a nice melancholical guitar solo.

I just released ‘(Look for a) Compromise’, the last track for my ‘Ambient Music’ album which is now complete.

‘(Look for a) Compromise’ is build upon a simple riff created during jamming with the free APC Cloudrum virtual instrument. As the (loop-based) intro of this song strongly reminded me of Pink Floyd’s classical ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’ I have added some instruments from this song in this composition, please note that I have only used the sound (created with the ‘Floyd Tribute’ presets in Arturia’s Analog Lab V), not the actual notes. The percussion tracks were created mainly with iZotope’s Breaktweaker and the ‘Action Strikes‘ Kontakt instrument, for the melodic percussion tracks I have used ‘Mallet Flux‘. I also used several (sampled) gongs in this track as I’m a big fan of gongs, especially the Javanese ‘Gong Agung‘ with which this song starts.

Before starting with my next ambient music album I am now finishing some tracks for my ‘other music‘ project.

I just released my new track ‘The Ulloo Drone’. Some background information: Ulloo is Hindi for owl (an owl-like sound is frequently used in this song, alongside several Indian musical instruments), and the song sounds alltogether like a drone to me (drone in the meaning of a deep sustained or monotonous sound). Nice detail: the lyrics are in Sinhala (a language from Sri Lanka).

This song is build around a rather monotonous basstrack (the drone) to which I have added some Indian percussion and string instruments. I have completed it with flutes, owl-like sounds, synth and a vocal track in Sinhala (based on loops from the W.A. Productions Sinhala EDM Vocals library, with a drastic tempo drop).

My new track ‘The Ulloo Drone’ has entered the very last mixing stage en will be released within a few days!