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| Night Flyer by mre | 3 days ago |
Thanks for your listen and comment  best wishes, mre |
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| Night Flyer by mre | 4 days ago |
| Thanks, Ace, glad you enjoyed your listen... I might be able to arrange a bit more, she played alto and clarinet on some of the other songs from the night... best wishes, mre |
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| Blue Aegean 2 (Cover) by Telemetry | 4 days ago |
| Musical ideas clearly expressed. Tempo could be a little faster to really groove... best wishes, mre |
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| Bucket by shavingronaldscar | 4 days ago |
| Nice bucket you have! Cool stuff, glad to see you back in town... best wishes, mre |
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| Cheverly Bacons Takes a Bath by shavingronaldscar | 4 days ago |
 Great work here! Love the live feel of the piano, the introspective vibe and the way the drum sneaks in with a 16 beat, but it all works together beautifully... best wishes, mre |
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| "Blood Of The Drums" by abzwork | 5 days ago |
Stirring and powerful! I stand with you in protest of enslavement and oppression and all its many guises still existing today... FREEDOM! peace, mre |
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| Night Flyer by mre | 7 days ago |
| @padowan_learner Pleased to meet you Jeannette, thanks for your listen and comment. It really was a fun gig! This was the first outing for this combination of players so it's nice to know we came across as "meshed"... best wishes, mre | |
| Have You Ever Been Lonely? by pharmakeus | 7 days ago |
| Poignant and authentic, nice work! best wishes, mre |
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| Muddy Fraser Played the Blues by nlsn | 7 days ago |
| Great tribute! A bit of a "Grapevine" vibe goin' on... best wishes, mre |
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| A Touch of Steam by padowan_learner | 7 days ago |
| Most interesting throwback to the industrial age. Writing within the confines of purpose is a big challenge ably met here, hugely effective in the context of the theatrical live action I can imagine. best wishes, mre |
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| Still Love You by MusicLeft | 7 days ago |
| Laid back vibe, sophisticated chords, elegant melody, great solo... love inspires! Love the squirrel picture too! best wishes, mre | |
| YOU NEVER TOLD ME by SISTERS | 7 days ago |
| Nice work from all involved, transparent mix so the shine of the vocal harmonies and feelings come through! best wishes, mre | |
| Night Flyer by mre | 7 days ago |
| Many thanks, Anto! best wishes, mre | |
| Night Flyer by mre | 8 days ago |
| @pharmakeus Thanks, Chris, for your listen and comment, sometimes I'm "up to" over my head... | |
| Night Flyer by mre | 8 days ago |
| Thanks for you comment and enthusiasm, @SISTERS, the "sax" is actually an Electronic Wind Instrument a kind of wind synthesizer made by Akai. best wishes, mre |
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| Fog and trees ( Echo from mountain ) by zarizarikun | 9 days ago |
Hey Ken, I Iike the groove and the way your piece builds through the percussion and rhythm guitar. Vocals could be more forward in the mix imho... backing higher voice vocals suit your voice really well! Nice ideas well executed! Great sounding reverb by the way! I sometimes like to search out acoustic spaces with my horn, my favourite so far is a small circlet lake surrounded by treed steep mountainsides on a still winter's day... I love the sound of natural reverb in the forest! best wishes, mre |
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| Night Flyer by mre | 9 days ago |
| @zarizarikun, @Telemetry Thanks, Ken and Tele. Glad you enjoyed |
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| Sunny by daveblinzinger | 16 days ago |
| Fun to listen to these live recordings, Dave! Do you have any of the one at Mambo's? cheers, mre ps If you want my advice on posting the next tune, Well You Needn't! |
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| St. Thomas by daveblinzinger | 16 days ago |
| Sounded like a fun gig... nice to hear you with Sam and Gary again! Thanks for posting! |
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| Peg (Steely Dan cover) by grathy | 18 days ago |
| Nice work on a challenging piece! Kudos! best wishes, mre |
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| My bird by zarizarikun | 18 days ago |
| I like the gradual build and natural variation with a contrast in the middle, structurally does it for me, great playing and production! Keep up the good work! @grathy , @Lagusaya2 , @ihussain FYI "reverse guitar" is a special kind of delay whereby a phrase of selectable length is recorded in real time, played back in reverse and mixed in with the live signal. This means everything is backwards, the notes and the envelopes*... Available as an option in some pedal delays. I once heard Bill Frisell, jamming with David Lindley, with his delay pedal in reverse mode: he had the mix set to 100% delay, so he could only hear the delayed signal, which meant he had to anticipate in reverse the notes that he was playing... kinda mind-blowing! best wishes, mre *string sounds have a quick build at the beginning and a gradual fade at the end, reverse delay is opposite. |
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| Prelude Kiss by daveblinzinger | 18 days ago |
| Nice work, Dave, robust and burnished... best wishes, mre |
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| Aurora by MusicLeft | 19 days ago |
| Brilliant progression the way it arrives at the new tonal centre unexpectedly and similarly returns... beautiful playing, Anto. Much enjoyed my listen! best wishes, mre | |
| nowhere [ SANPACHI ] by zarizarikun | 19 days ago |
Groovy and understated. First rate work here! Love the percussion effects, the subtle slides in the bass and the sparse slide guitar. best wishes, mre |
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| Mr.Cool by AcetyleneJukebox | 19 days ago |
| Good old Bill Cosby... very crisp and clear bass and drums. I wonder if some day there will be an app that will jam along with you in the style of Bach, Shöenberg or Zawinul... best wishes, mre |
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| "The 5:15" by abzwork | 20 days ago |
| Trains are fascinating, I worked on the railroad in another life... Love the echoey 12/8 funk of the percussion, expressive horn lines and searing melodic guitar in this piece! Also like having the ending chords gently letting things down though the cutoff is a tiny bit abrupt... While I'm in my suggestion box: would be cool to pan the train! Including ambient captures adds greatly to the dramatic effect. best wishes, mre |
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| Billy's Eyes by LunaBleu | 1 month ago |
| A touching song sincere performance. Hoping you are well, mre |
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| Some Plunk Funk by mre | 1 month ago |
| @Argales Hi Maria, hehe, my tribe is so far East we think we're West! Thanks for your listen and comment... best wishes, mre |
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| The Shadow Machine (Broken Head Mix) by DJShadowkat | 1 month ago |
A rich audioscape; disciplined unfolding; expressive Ebow singing; other worldly vox... best wishes to you both and to your wife a speedy recovery! |
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| Clubbed to Death (Piano) Cover by JDVLZ | 1 month ago |
| Reminds me of a baroque piece. Well played, rhythmically strong! best wishes, mre |
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| "DownTown" by abzwork | 1 month ago |
| A "Petula Clark" free zone. This one has the Miles/Marcus thing going on. | |
| "Garden Of Hope" by abzwork | 1 month ago |
| More fantastic work! At least there is peace in music... Your guitar cries for the oppressed as does my heart, thoughtfully, mre |
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| "Ground Zero" by abzwork | 1 month ago |
Wow everything's rattling that's not nailed down!  Cool cooking! |
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| Spring Under (Demo) by Argales | 1 month ago |
infectious dance piece, interesting syncopated section, very short that ushers in the theremin solo and returns for the ending. best wishes, mre |
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| Too Cliché (Demo) by Argales | 1 month ago |
| Nice work, Maria! love those drops and the interesting harmonies in the synth stabs add variety. Great potential for a larger work... best wishes, mre | |
| Basking in the sun [ SANPACHI ] by zarizarikun | 1 month ago |
| We happen to be cat sitting right now... enjoyed the sparse minimalism and ethnic sounds, felt like a Japanese tea garden, with cats. best wishes, mre |
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| Heaven's bird [ SANPACHI ] by zarizarikun | 1 month ago |
Beautiful and mellow. I like the use of space in the bass part yet it is strong and integral also the contrast in the middle to give form to the composition and the return to the original vibe with added intensity through the guitar. best wishes, mre |
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| Spiritual by AcetyleneJukebox | 2 months ago |
| Music, as with other aesthetic experiences, to me is deeply spiritual. Perhaps it puts us in touch with some sort of over arching "ultimate" owing to its being made of universal principles of temporal and harmonic divisions. This piece seems very Coltranesque, I appreciate the sparse pentatonic nature of the first section and the relief yet deeper tension of the rhythm section cutting loose. I like the chromatic neighbouring diatonic 4ths harmonic approach. I'd like to hear another stage along the way from: inside ---> outside ...that of the neighbouring melodic minors... I enjoyed my listen; thanks for sharing! best wishes, mre |
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| Some Plunk Funk by mre | 2 months ago |
| Many thanks for your encouraging comments. I was a big fan of Weather Report. The paper on the strings idea came from Lionel Loueke who uses the effect on nylon string guitar. cheers, mre |
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| Theme [ SANPACHI ] by zarizarikun | 2 months ago |
Great laid back feel, love the live drums and intricate sounds, vocoder adds spice galore... great work, much enjoyed! best wishes, mre |
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| Anthem For The Earth by mre | 2 months ago |
| Thanks, Ken... best wishes, mre |
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| Anthem For The Earth by mre | 2 months ago |
| Thanks, Chris, for the encouraging comments |
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| Anthem For The Earth by mre | 2 months ago |
| Thanks for your listen and comments, Vix, folks get preoccupied with economic and political concerns but forget it's all predicated on a liveable biosphere. Yes, my studio is a bit of a "hobbit hole"... cheers, mre |
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| I see you here all the time by TheMotto | 3 months ago |
| Shades of Valkyries and Hitchcock... Maybe they were trying to be friendly, or... best wishes, mre |
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| "Sprite's Night" by abzwork | 3 months ago |
| Another winner, the sax in the opening and near the end has a near human sound! Great guitar work, so creative... best wishes mre |
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| I'm following all of your bullets to the sun by AdamStolterman | 3 months ago |
Very musical, intricate and sophisticated, gorgeous vocal harmonies. Well done, good for you to get the music out of your head and be able to share with us... best wishes, mre |
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| Eight orchestral intruments by duio | 3 months ago |
| Hi Duio, Sorry you feel despondent enough to pull your tracks and that you find responses unhelpful. I hear music all around me, besides the supermarket, coming from birds, the ocean, wind in trees... commercial music is but an insertion into life's soundtrack. I find this site extremely useful to bring my music to some kind of audience, it may not be large but it's global! Besides being a dated repository to prove your ownership of an idea, it is a place to direct potential clients in order to gain credibility and a place to share with friends. I like this track, it reminds me of 19th C. music but with lydian chromatic contemporary influence. best wishes, mre |
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| Some Plunk Funk by mre | 3 months ago |
| Thanks for the listen and encouraging comment... greetings from the Big Island! mre |
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| Some Plunk Funk by mre | 3 months ago |
| Thanks, Chris, yes, the buzzy sound reminded me of an African pentatonic percussion instrument like a balafon or a kalimba, in fact the working title was "Afro Uke"; great that you picked up on that! best wishes, mre |
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| Some Plunk Funk by mre | 3 months ago |
| Thanks for the listen and comment, Erin, glad you enjoyed. My wife's comment: What fun! Daisy |
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| Straw Dogs [Out-take 2] by pharmakeus | 3 months ago |
| Go Chris! In full philosophical form... raw and expressive, great collab! best wishes mre |
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| Capitalism's DNA by zarizarikun | 3 months ago |
| Curly spiral stacks of international bank notes. Nice guitar work, interesting use of processing on percussion. best wishes, mre |
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| Sunlight warms up the room by TheMotto | 3 months ago |
| Perhaps they meant solar energy... lots of sevenths in your piece. best wishes, mre | |
| Check It Out part 2 (Finished) by morgan102 | 3 months ago |
| Great work, Gentlemen! | |
| "A Wicked Web We Weave" by abzwork | 3 months ago |
| Progressive and energetic - glad to catch up. Great feel on the drums, appreciate the longer extended statement on the guitar at the end, would like to hear more development of ideas over several phrases. Also form is a direction to go, having a balance between similar and contrasting sections. Appreciating the new directions you're going. best wishes, mre |
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| Cheverly Bacons' Lament by shavingronaldscar | 3 months ago |
Glad I stayed with the crescendo in the long intro... very meditative, it does have a submarine wetness to the sounds. They seem to be vocal in nature, although radically manipulated ~ Jeg kunne ikke forstå teksten, skjønt, må det være på norsk best wishes ë |
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| "Cosmic Transport" by abzwork | 3 months ago |
That's one baddass bass drum... nice build, great intervalic guitar interjections, love the way the fills on the drums start way back with a small displacement that cascades into a landed conclusion-yes, drums can be melodic too. Also the guitar lines actually go somewhere as opposed to aimless wanderings, they have abundant variation and a rhythmic and melodic urgency and directness that keeps me interested, and coming back. |
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| The Inside-Out Reverse Concave Contrariwise Switcheroo Flipside Inverted Wraparound Elevator by shavingronaldscar | 3 months ago |
A departure, uplifting! I was in one of those IORCCSFIW elevators once, I was just going down for some flüfltufs for my sleixens and it unexpectedly jawliperted! Thanks for your comment, my team are deciphering it as we speak! best wishes, mre ps o0o there's a puff of air at the end... |
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| African snow [ SANPACHI ] by zarizarikun | 3 months ago |
Thanks for your comment, the feeling is mutual, man, you've got something here! The sounds are so well presented, deliciously groovy with rhythmic intricacies adding to the propulsion. Kept me on board until the very last note! best wishes, mre |
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| Harbinger Vs The Historian by mre | 3 months ago |
| Thanks for listening, glad you enjoyed... best wishes, mre |
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| "An Indoor Pool Party" by abzwork | 3 months ago |
Maybe we can shoot a game some day... snaky groove, hooky backing rhythm shots, way expressive whammy inflections ~ dig it! |
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| "Character" by abzwork | 3 months ago |
Again, love the interplay between voices. Very creative. Wild tone on the guitar... glad you've time to play! best wishes, mre |
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| "A Mobius Strip" by abzwork | 3 months ago |
| I like the "clean" guitar sounds, especially the brief acoustic; the power of the outside pentatonic! The echo groove effect on the drums is also intriguing. I hadn't thought of the musical analog for a mobius strip before but now that I think about it, it seems possible, from rhythmic notions like "turning the beat around" to harmonic/melodic: a succession of thirds repeating after 2 octaves, of fourths every 3 octaves etc. not sure that the picture is of a mobius strip though, wouldn't it have to have a twist? It's great to check back and hear what you've been up to and to hear more of your guitar voice in your music, it shows your musicality in a most immediate way... Many thanks for stretching, bending and twisting our ears, here at iComp! best wishes, mre |
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| "A Morning Sun" by abzwork | 4 months ago |
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| I still couldn't have her - ambient mix by chilladreams | 4 months ago |
| Dig the balance between the organic sax and the electronic keys... nice work, guys! best wishes ~ mre |
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| "BeautyRest" by abzwork | 4 months ago |
Great work as usual, love the drums, HH and guitar breaks... ~ mre |
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| You Will Service Us by shavingronaldscar | 4 months ago |
| Scary stuff! Who is the lovely android? best wishes, at your service, mre |
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| "A Morning Sun" by abzwork | 4 months ago |
Nice work Erin, especially dig the trading at the end, expressive molten guitar work... best wishes mre |
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| Silent Night (Noche de Paz) by mre | 4 months ago |
| Thanks for the listen, all the best, Zinc! mre | |
| Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas by zincshed | 5 months ago |
| Great swing version of a Christmas classic... hope you had a very merry one yourself! All the best for 2012, may it be full of music making! best wishes mre | |
| Silent Night (Noche de Paz) by mre | 5 months ago |
| Thanks for the listen and comment, Anto! Merry Christmas! mre |
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| Silent Night (Noche de Paz) by mre | 5 months ago |
| Thanks, Diane, I appreciate your listen and comment. best wishes, mre |
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| Silent Night (Noche de Paz) by mre | 5 months ago |
| Thanks for listening and the comments, folks, glad to spread some joy! They are very special kids... best wishes, mre |
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| Wonkcheese by shavingronaldscar | 6 months ago |
A point of departure from previous work here, I believe. I imagine enough time would allow deciphering more of the text... who's Cory? Are there references to Pink Floyd's Furry Animals here? best wishes, mre |
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| Too Many Things Are Going Wrong by DJShadowkat | 6 months ago |
| ...funky town! cheers, mre |
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| "Chronicles Of Ben Sherira" by abzwork | 6 months ago |
A tapestry of sound for the bouyant... love the guitar and sax interplay and trading. The rhythmic shifting accents seem to open the space for me, best wishes, mre |
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| "Da RunAround" by abzwork | 6 months ago |
Happy belated quarter century birthday to your boys! Triplets, wow, you must have been busy! My son just turned 24 last month, I can't believe it was 24 years ago that he was a swaddling infant! Digging this one man, massive bottom end filling my house... on to the next one, I can't keep up to listening to your stuff let alone producing the number and quality of tunes... all the best, mre |
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| Poop is the New Pop by shavingronaldscar | 6 months ago |
| haha, did you know I worked as a plumber one summer? cheers, man, mre |
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| Harbinger Vs The Historian by mre | 6 months ago |
| Thanks for the listen, Maria, I must admit not one of my catchiest... all the best, mre | |
| "Casualties Of War" by abzwork | 6 months ago |
| Thank you for paying homage and showing appreciation for the sacrifices made by veterans. Love the guitar work! Peace, best wishes, mre | |
| "A Cup Of You" by abzwork | 6 months ago |
| Dig the down tempo back beat twelve, yes, the vocal samples are tantalizing as is the chordal pad. I feel the bass line needs to be simplified though: non chord tones, let alone "outside" notes, need to be approached and resolved with care, especially in a bass line, IMHO... I do enjoy listening to your music and hope you don't mind my opinions. best wishes, mre |
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| "A Day In The Park" by abzwork | 6 months ago |
| Love the singing analog guitar with the whammy drops the best, singing through the strings, you can hear it through the acoustic as well. A suggestion would be to slow the progressions down and let us orient our ears to the tonality by dwelling longer. By use of counterpoint the chords can become incredibly complex and voice motion becomes hard to track for any length of time. Sound is perceived as louder if it is preceded by silence. Density or speed of motion is more dramatic if it is built up to with sparse and slow sounds. These ideas are especially true with the bass voice whose most satisfying moments are pinning down the tonality in some sort of groove pocket. I am in awe of your output, I can't even keep up with the listening hehe, let alone producing a song every couple of days! best wishes, mre PS BTW did you check out immi's stuff? |
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| "A Real RockWell" by abzwork | 6 months ago |
Oh, yeah, major chill when the bass enters: nails the groove... dig the beat displacement thing too, lots of stuff going on and structural thematic returns. (Can I hear a little Larry Carlton in there, Beck, Alan?) Very good work! best wishes, mre |
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| Demo : Either or (unmastered) Open Collab by Argales | 6 months ago |
| Trancy and groovy... best wishes, mre |
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| "Buenos" by abzwork | 7 months ago |
| Another potpurri of tasty treats. Listening for the clave... best wishes, mre |
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| Harbinger Vs The Historian by mre | 7 months ago |
| Thanks, MH, for your listen. Joe Morello is an influence for sure, also apparently this classical guitar piece, there is a significant similarity in the main motif although not deliberate. best wishes, mre |
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| "Alam-i-Amr" by abzwork | 7 months ago |
Brilliant orchestration and development, cheers, mre |
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| "A Beach Body" by abzwork | 7 months ago |
Groovy, yet smooth... blown away by the quality of the horn sounds, love the piano comping and the horn shots in the middle section. A treat to wake up to best wishes, mre PS Interested in the account of your approach, thanks for taking the trouble to explain... are you familiar with UK vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, producer Imogen Heap? I just discovered her the other day, from my home county, Essex! |
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| Driller's Regret by pharmakeus | 7 months ago |
| Great emotional delivery aided by the harmonica wail... great job Chris, it feels authentic with the minimalist instrumentation. It's all about the narrative. Had me 'til the last note, mate! best wishes, mre |
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| "Casino Comp" by abzwork | 7 months ago |
The way forward is thru merging of disparate influences and disciplines, this piece is a case in point: hip hop rhythms, jazz harmonies, prog metal tones and devices... much enjoyed, my friend! best wishes, mre |
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| "5am Shuffle" 4collabz by abzwork | 7 months ago |
| Hey Erin, dig the bass, man... just got back from a trip, spent some moments with m'bros listening to tunes, Stanley among them, just to say it reminds me of his playing. I'd like to dub and play along, see what I can come up with... best, mre PS Smooth ending |
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| Sticky Love Blues by pharmakeus | 7 months ago |
| Naughty but good, I laughed out loud! Thanks for posting, much enjoyed! best wishes, mre |
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| "A Night Out" by abzwork | 7 months ago |
Hey Erin, nice to hear you on the odd meter stuff, it conveys a certain urgency. Cool bass riff, way deep - definitely enjoyed the guitar playing, the human connection. cheers, mre |
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| Harbinger Vs The Historian by mre | 7 months ago |
| Many thanks, Anto, for your listen and comment! best wishes, mre |
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| Love, At Last by Naaji | 7 months ago |
Crackers about this one On the big speakers, that bottom! Dig the bass run! nice work and congratulations! mre |
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| Harbinger Vs The Historian by mre | 7 months ago |
| Many thanks for your thoughtful comments. @nlsn I'm glad you had a listen, hopefully it was a pleasant challenge. Meter does change everything in the arc since it lands in a new place. @tom Glad you stopped by for a listen. Your comments are treasured. @Darkmuse Thanks for stopping by for a listen. Glad you enjoyed. @Abz Thanks for the listen. My music is wrought in some cases over decades, pounded out until a shape emerges. I'm so happy to have a place for it to emerge. Your comments are always much valued and appreciated... best wishes, mre |
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| "A Touch Of That Flava" by abzwork | 7 months ago |
| That your guitar? Headless 7 string! |
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| Nardis by Filmscorz | 7 months ago |
| Nice work! Great tone! Love the flügelhorn. best wishes, mre |
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| "A Touch Of That Flava" by abzwork | 7 months ago |
Just right! Redefining the power trio: "Bravely go where no-one has gone before..." more guitar in your pieces please, love the comping. best wishes, mre |
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| "Dance Of The Roses" by abzwork | 7 months ago |
| Love the bass (of course) and sax. Cool structure with the chill bit in the middle. Not to be critical but the "bell" is a little hot for my taste: would get more propulsion from a classic African bell rhythm in the background or a cáscara eg. Also would like to hear more harmonic build by holding back on the 12 tone sound a bit as it would be all the more powerful when it comes in. For instance: start with more pure pentatonic, move gradually to more density. Hope you don't mind my opinions being vented, great job over all. I admire your productivity, your pieces never fail to be fascinating to the ear... I'd like to hear more on your methodology too as your ears are so far along, I guess it speaks to the multi instruments taking one along multi paths - melodic, rhythmic, harmonic etc. best wishes, mre |
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