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Amazing as always. Hey, would you consider doing a video? I would love to watch you play!

Red Rocks Inspired by the red rock canyons in Utah. Very ambient. Flute is OTS Mesa Winds bunch of Omnisphere sounds Trilian I wrote this a few years ago. Thought I would try remixing it now that I have more experience with mixing and now that I have Ozone to help with mastering. So this is a first pass at a remix. Thanks for listening.

Promising. There isn't much going on in the background so something like a string track would help to fill in the sound. Just one man's opinion. Thanks for posting.

I too remember you from the old forum and it's great to hear your music again. Nowadays video is so commonplace but back a few years most people didn't have a movie camera so family images from back then were still photographs. I like that you created a song from your movie (which probably didn't have audio) and fit the lyrics to it. I thought the vocal could have been brought up a bit more and that's about all I can suggest. Nicely done.

Tom You had me toe tappin' from the get go. Well balanced mix, great performances and just plain likable. Well done, and boy do I hope the lyrics come true.

Tom That was my go-to piano, the Kontakt Grandeur plus the NI Raum plugin for spaciousness. Thanks for listening. Max Thanks for listening. I did play the melody part and then I went in and fixed all the mistakes. Doug Thanks for listening and the comment on the composition. The other Tom Thanks for listening. I like ambient dreamy stuff once in a while. The genre is hard to write because of the long sequences where you have to get into the flow of it at different points in the song. The voices? Did you hear voices?? Hmm better get that checked out. Nah, it's a Sound Iron VST called Mimi Page Light and Shadows, some unusual vocal stuff from this vocalist.

Tuesday Morning This started off as space music but evolved into more of an ambient/easy listening genre. Thanks for listening.

I like songs that are easy to critique like this one. Everything about it is just excellent, the music and the production. Thumbs up my man.

Wow, I can only imagine the work it took to put all this together. Just excellent. Got a question. About 1:15 and elsewhere in the 1st movement is an instrument that sounded more like a traditional synthesizer doing some arps to me. Is that what it is or is that a bassoon or oboe?

Rex You said you were working on the BGV and what you did is very effective. Blends in nicely with the voc. The wahwah was a bit too heavy for me, kind of took something away from the mood of the song. All in all a beautiful song. Excellent lyrics too.

I already commented on your SC page but here it is again. This is the best song I've hear from you, Wookie, I recognized the M1 aaaahs in there and some of the other synths. Made for a nice morning listening to it a few times with my coffee.

Great job Freddy! It's wonderful that people are appreciating those whose every day jobs are essential to the rest of us.

My one and only experience with a psychedelic is recreated every time I hear a song from side 2 of Abbey Road. Just to add a music reference to this forum.

I'm liking this one a lot, Doug. Not much to critique IMO, maybe could be EQ'd a bit brighter IDK. Really liked that lead in ~ 0:35. Something in there sounds like a 60s band to me but can't put my finger on it.

Thanks. Works for me. Just have to make a few edits for my VSTs.

Hidden Symmetry Thanks for listening and commenting. I just kept my usual slouch while composing this. Doug Thanks. I hope that Kraftwerk sound will make a comeback some day. Fat chance I think. Tim Thanks. I think every song has a story and it's interesting to hear how they came about. Makke Thanks. I love seeing those old 40s and 50s movies about Hygiene and Popularity etc. Can't believe they were taken seriously back then. And the student audience at that time probably didn't. Tom Thanks. It was a fun project. It had languished for a while and needed something and I believe you had an influence in my adding in the old movie soundtrack stuff. David Thanks. You live long enough and you see changes that are directly opposite to what was believed years ago. Like in Reefer Madness. Bajan Blue Thanks. Yes! Klaus Schulze was (is) one of my heroes. Amazing what he did with those old synths.

I listened to the 2nd song in the links just above. Sounds good to me. Lovely song and well performed too.

Very promising song, just needs some more time spent on the mix. I think the voc level is just about right and the bgv are very good.

Love it! Very Eno-esque. I'm totally chilled out. Love the title. The music takes me right there to that harbor. And I kind of liked that good old vinyl scratch sound. Haven't heard that in a while.

Wow there's some time distortion, slo-mo vocal vs speeded-up instruments. You could average the two but it wouldn't be the same. Jesse, your songs are never boring.

Mix is great. I felt like I was in the center of the room. I thought the vocal could be bumped up just a tad. I always look forward to hearing another of your songs.

The vocalist is excellent as is the whole production but I agree with Tom above about the violin; it does seem a bit shrill. In fact to me the violin just didn't seem to fit in with the song. And that's probably because I'm not accustomed to hearing them so up-front outside of a symphony (except for fiddle in country music). Not taking anything away from the violinist who certainly has the chops as you said. So, just one person's take on it FWIW

Barry Welcome to the forum! Well, maybe not constructive criticism here, just a comment. The mix and all sounds good to me but I'm no sound engineer. Just wanted to say that the story and your lyrics are absolutely top notch. And your voice has that rugged quality to it that's perfect for the song. I know what you mean by background noise. What I hear is the distant freeway plus tinnitus, but I pretend it's the soothing sound of a river. ?

Missed this the 1st time around. I'm impressed you came up with the lyrics so fast. I could hear the Lynn and Daryl styles in there for sure. Nice melding job. Lynn, that kind of swirly vocal fx you're using works really well. Thought I'd lost my internet when that silent bit came in. ? Congrats on an excellent collaboration.

Tom Truly unique sense of humor you have there! Teeth to piano keys - nice. The WTF at the end - nice. The burning building - hmmm. Really liked the music (esp the Gamelan (?) intro) and the performance is excellent as usual. You always brighten the day for me.