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Sunday, November 16, 2008

Three new music tracks

Dear friends,

I have composed and produced three new music tracks since the last time I posted something here. You can hear the tracks below. They are all in totally different styles, so I hope you'll enjoy at least one of them. :-)

I like to work with different styles of music, this way and that -- I always have.

The first track listed below is China Temple Morning which started as a simple arpeggiated bell pattern which just sort of "happened" on my keyboard the other day. I've purchased a new software synth called Omnisphere from Spectraconics and I'm using it for several of the sounds in this track. This track was finished very quickly; I did it all in one day from 08:30 until about 23:00. :-)

The next one is Blue Sky which is just a "nice and easy" sort of instrumental soft-pop track, or pop/ambient crossover. I wanted to make something that would be good as background use for media, video, film, presentations, etc. mostly with the idea of licensing it through my stock music library. I try to combine synthesized sounds with acoustic guitar for a softer feel. In the last part, a subtle electric guitar also comes in. I never use "plug-ins" for these kinds of guitar parts, because I find it takes me a lot longer to fiddle with the settings to get it to sound close to a guitar sound, than it takes me to simply pick up the guitar and play it into a microphone. Much quicker. :-)

The third track Tempest Drive is quite similar in style to some other "upbeat electronica" tracks that I've been making over the past few months. It's not exactly techno, not exactly trance, but something like energetic electronica, I guess. In this track I'm using some sounds from the Top Production Samples CDROM that I made and published myself, a few years ago. I still find myself using sounds from that CDROM from time to time. I know the sounds well and keep coming back to them. Also present here are some other synth sample loops and three instances of the software synth plug in z3ta+.

Anyway, the tracks can be heard in the player below. I hope you'll enjoy them, and like all my other tracks, they can be licensed for Royalty-free use in media production through my music library website, Shockwave-Sound.com

All the best,
- Bjorn

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5 Comments:

Blogger tarasis said...

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November 16, 2008  
Blogger tarasis said...

The China Temple Morning is absolutely stunning and very authentic sounding.

I really hope that you either stick it on a CD, make it available for download or heck sell it on iTunes / your store as a single track and I'll buy it in a heartbeat!

Tempest Drive I can easily imagine being used with an animation or promotional video. It works well at grabbing your attention.

Blue Sky, I don't know why but it just doesn't work for me. Its pleasant enough music but just makes me want to move on.

November 16, 2008  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Very nice! All three have that well produced sound.

China Temple Morning stands out for me, with some really nice themes. Seems to tell a bit of a story.

Blue Sky is a nice track, but definitely more background. Kind of makes me think of the weather channel which at least fits with the title.

Tempest Drive... good strong beat that makes it hard to sit still while listening. Just got to tap on something while listening to this. Just waiting for you to spill the beans on whether or not there will be another Divinorum album...

November 21, 2008  
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December 09, 2008  
Blogger Lia said...

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hearthug, lia

December 09, 2008  

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