bjornpdx

I always enjoy your guitar performance Makke
Very nice.
-Bjorn

Down and Out
Short video. A work in progress I think.

I had written the music a few years ago with the idea that I'd make a video showing early Sunday morning in Portland, OR. I had envisioned a nice peaceful story of people drinking coffee while strolling along the river. But times have changed.

I walked around downtown Portland early this morning and took some videos and pictures. There are still remnants from last year's riots here and there but at least the stores aren't all boarded up now. I should say the whole downtown area is not like the images I took, just a small section in the mostly older part of town. But it's sad to see the deterioration and the homelessness.

The music features the lya Efimov Duduk, one of my favorite VSTi but I don't use it that much.

Thanks for watching/commenting.

-Bjorn

Thanks Jack.  Appreciate it

Tom, like...wow! Terrific production around your very funny and clever lyrics. Excellent pacing too.
Pretty much have to watch a couple or more times to pick up on all the bits. Thanks for posting this. I really enjoyed it.
-Bjorn

Doug, Another great song. Every time I listen to your songs I always think, How does he do that on the guitar?
A couple of people mentioned back up vocals and I agree. Or at least a little double tracking on the chorus maybe. Or not.
-Bjorn

Your unique style is always interesting for sure. Lyrics are very good.
I thought you could change it up a bit but that's just me.
-Bjorn

It's About Time

I like this as an instrumental but decided to add some vocal bits here and there.
Not sure how well they worked in the song though.  

Thanks for listening/commenting.

-Bjorn

Nice one David. Really good orchestration.
-Bjorn

Freddy, I just love the traditional blues progressions going on in the background. "Too much time for thinking" fits right in with the blues theme.
-Bjorn

That main synth reminds me of the 70s somehow, maybe Wendy Carlos? I like how the machine gun percussion seems to turn the page to another  theme
-Bjorn

Nigel, boy I really like the visuals in this one. Fits the music perfectly.
Hope things are going well for you. Sounds like crazy stuff going on where you live
-Bjorn

Steve,  Such a beautiful song! Makes you appreciate how the accompanying parts can add so much to the main melody and lyrics.
-Bjorn

Lynn, A reminder that the seemingly insignificant has a huge impact when they're gone. I really like how the song builds up to a powerful ending.
-Bjorn

Very nice!  Enjoyed listening  to this on a lazy afternoon.

I'm not familiar with Jon Hassell.  Will have to check out his music.

-Bjorn

Steev, I must have heard this song a million times but never as a cover.  Great job on what you did with it!  You kept a lot of the original sound but also made it your own version. 

To my ears the bottom is lacking a bit so  I think I would tweak the lower freqs up or lower the highs.   Just my take, that's all.

-Bjorn

Freddy, I really like the sentiment in the lyrics.
Some kind of disconnect between the voc and instrument
not quite synced up or something?
Bluesy guitar is excellent as always.
Looks like that hurricane is headed your way?

-Bjorn

I was into Tai Chi for a while. All we had for music was boring New Age stuff, nothing like your kind of JM Jarre style track.
Really good use of those synths at your disposal.
Very relaxing, relaxing ... and then I became alert ~4:00  😀
-Bjorn

I really, really liked this one John. May be the best one I've heard from you.  And I know just what you mean about the Northern Lights and Wonderment. Beautiful.

-Bjorn

I'm not into guitar talk much but I will say this sounds really good. Maybe that's the "tone" you guitar guys are always on about whatever I enjoyed the listen.
-Bjorn

Doug, A+ and thumbs up.  
Great job.

-Bjorn

Paul, thanks for the comment. I had a lot of trouble with the intro bit and I'm still not sure if I like it or even if I needed it for that matter.

Jack C  thanks again

Steve, thanks I do appreciate the comments. Yeah, I knew the flute was used a bit too much and I tried to balance it out with the saz, but I just couldn't come up with a good way to do it. Maybe I should have strayed away from using mid east instruments there dunno. Anyway, thanks again.

Mark  thanks for the suggestion. Will definitely look into the flute volume - hadn't even noticed that!

John B   Thank you!

Treesha  Yeah, I wasn't even sure about the vocals being in there so I appreciate your comment.

Nigel  thanks!

Doug  thanks. I'm sort of jack of all trades master of none.  Yeah, the Syria voices has that nice mid east mystery to them.  

Hidden Symmetry   Thanks!

Well, don't have any useful comments except your songs always sound so radio ready.  Very professional production there.
-Bjorn

Free flowing jazz number. Very good, enjoyed it. Improv?
-Bjorn

Mark, this is really nice. I like how you used the cello in a couple of your other songs and it would sound great in this one too.
So, "Fairfax" as in the drum kit in Addictive Drums?

Maybe you've already seen this, but Creative Sauce has a great tutorial on AD
https://discuss.cakewalk.com/index.php?/topic/31039-how-to-use-addictive-drums-2-in-cakewalk-by-bandlab/

-Bjorn

I have the Discovery Series Middle East instruments from NI Komplete so I decided to try for a middle east sounding kind of song.  I also have East West Voices of Passion that I bought a long time ago during a sale and never used it until now.

Thanks for listening or commenting.

NI Discovery Series Middle East - frame drum, kudum drum, saz string instrument
Syria voices from East West Voices of Passion
Diva - flute
Zebra - keys