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Congratulation, that is a beautiful release. You seem to publish albums faster than I can click "export audio". Impressive considering you don't seem to do the same thing twice.
Joseph, in full disclosure my last several albums have been reworkings of tracks from 2-3 yrs ago. Although my output has always been about the same, 3-5 tracks a week. I can do that because the basis of each track is a one take piano improvisation. I rarely make a second attempt and actually only play about 20 minutes a week to get the material I need. Creating in jazz, classical, world and electronic genres also allows for the variety.
But in the last two months I have not created anything new. The combination of my partner’s illness (Alzheimer’s), the attendant sadness/depression and a certain exhaustion after three yrs of intense creativity has temporarily, I hope, stopped me making new stuff. Instead I am following @richardyot ‘s sage advice of revisiting old stuff and making it better with fresh ears. This has consisted mostly of stripping away superfluous synths, midi editing, improving production values adding or removing percussion and refining bass lines. This work has, at least, kept me musically engaged.
I’ve learned a bit since my original tracks and my ears are better, so I’m happy with the results I’m getting. I’ll run out of tracks to redo in a couple of weeks. We’ll see if I start making more. After 700 tracks the show might just be over, or, I may stumble on some new method of musical exploration. I’ve yet to utilize the Neova Ring I bought on sale. I’ll start with that.
Anyway, that’s what’s happening, but I’m still satisfied with the results on this album and very glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for listening.
🙁 sorry didn’t know 🙁
Do you by any chance have a solo piano album?
Congratulation, Mike !
I'll give the album a listen tomorrow !
No problem there @jo92346. We make the best of it and there is a lot of happiness as well. As my late piano teacher, Connie Crothers once said, “Life… the mix that it is.”
As to solo albums, there’s only one. With a hybrid runner up. Usually the piano is just mixed in with other stuff. Thx for the curiosity, mate.
https://michaelalevy.bandcamp.com/album/pure-piano
https://michaelalevy.bandcamp.com/album/bluebird-boulevard
Really enjoyed Full Moon. You have an amazing ability to create chords that defy description. I will try to listen to the rest of the album after my wife is done with me.
I understand a little bit about Alzheimers. My dad was never officially diagnosed, but it wasn't necessary. It wouldn't have changed anything. For whatever it's worth, we'll say a prayer for her and hope she is as comfortable as possible.
I also make use of old tracks. My latest (Teen Town) was actually done many years ago and I just forgot about it. I made it as a practice track for my sister's nephew. He showed a lot of early promise as a musician and I gave him one of my basses and the score. He ended up playing upright in the high school concert band and never got around to it.
I can relate to the feeling that I've run out of ideas. I was fortunate to have played in several bands when I was young and energetic. I was never famous, but always pretended I was when performing. I have some great memories. I never thought I would end up making music alone on an iPad.
One last thing - the tone on that piano is absolutely gorgeous!
Very beautiful sound textures all over.
As usual, a big fan of your piano performances on Full Moon and November Lullaby.
A Calm Strength has a very beautiful vibe, bare bones arrangement that suits the mood nicely.
Very impressed by Stratospherics composition and the way the arrangement evolves. Nice choice of articulations even though some sound a bit unrealistic sometimes. But it sounds great.
Some trumpets parts on the Minarets of Brooklyn reminded me of Miles greatest moments. I wish I could hear a real player playing those lines...
Evening Stars is also very beautiful. Great oriental vibe that comes and goes. I like how the vocal pads interact in a very intricate way with the strings and harp and the way you push the pad really high. That makes them sound unnatural in that register but in a nice way.
I feel Spider's web could be in a musical. Not crazy about the sounds used but the composition is great.
Hard for me to listen to Kolkata because of the flute that get my nerve after the very first repetitions...
Trans Atlantic has a great jazzy vibe but not the biggest fan of the synth. It gives it a fusion feel which was probably intended but never worked for me.
Overall it is a great release. Maybe one of your strongest in terms of arrangement and instrument choices. I enjoyed the listen.
So you're running out of tracks to rework? Can't wait to hear what your still have inside of you!
Thanks @Paulieworld, Alzheimer’s is a unique illness. The one thing we use to deal with serious illness is our brain. Here the brain and it’s cognition is the source, so th most important tool is useless.
As to the piano sound, I usually put the Cubasis channel strip default on the track. It seems to add the right amount of compression.
As to running out of ideas. That’s not the source of my difficulty. I’ve had very, very few musical ideas
ever. I know for a lot of composers it's idea driven. For me it’s all been about will (power). What I feel these days is a lack of will. Believing and feeling I can create is the fuel that gets me to the zone of creation. I’m just not feeling the will. It’s paradoxical, cause having the will is really nothing more than telling myself I have it… or not.
Wow, @JanKun, thanks for the detailed and positive review! Kolkata does seem a bit out of place, but that’s not your issue, of course. I don’t mind the Module Shakuhachi sound, but it does get a bit tiresome. Maybe I’ll delete it and replace with another piano centric track. I listened to some of my first albums and, though I was impressed at the time because of all the new found bells and whistles, most are not too good. Lol, using apps like Sensual Sax back then was a thrill, but really a pretty poor emulation. Thank goodness we have better now. Still, training my ear to hear better production requirements has taken some time and leads to a much better result today reworking the raw data.
We’ll see what happens next and if there’s more to express. I think some experimentation might be in order.
I love Bluebird Boulevard, I don't know if you write or improvise the piano, but the harmonic and melodic structure is really great. But the other instruments / sounds, I'm not a huge fan. The piano solo is really self sufficient here.
I really enjoy the piano intros, but I kinda switch off when the other instruments come in. Shame on me, because the piano is really really REALLY offing great.
Pure Piano might sound technically better, but I really prefer Bluebird boulevard. Would prefer a real piano solo version though.
@jo92346 every one is improvised, Joseph. Sorry you don’t care for the orchestrations. In the beginning (Bluebird Blvd was my 8th)I used synths too much due to the novelty and freedom. In the reworking I have eliminated many of them. Still I see a place for them in my stuff. Give this a try, if you care to. (Try part 2 first)
https://michaelalevy.bandcamp.com/album/pictures-at-a-planetarium-2
@LinearLineman The orchestrations are fine in those two albums even if they are not your best.
The best orchestration would still be distracting to me when the piano is so good. I love the piano. I love your improvisations, and I really think in those pieces in bluebird boulevard the piano solo don’t need anything else. Those improvisations only deserve one thing: sending you in a studio with a Bosendorfer grand imperial.
I’ll go listen to Pictures at the planetarium now.
@jo92346, I certainly appreciate that you like my piano playing a lot. Probably my late teacher, Connie Crothers, would agree with you. Still, I wouldn’t be much of an iOS warrior if I just did piano solos (and I wouldn’t be as inspired by the medium). Let’s see what you think of Planetarium, as recreating a kind of synthesized Holst was a lot of fun and a good utilization of synths. Anyway, thanks very much for your interest and praise.👍🙏
of course I started with part 1, and the second half is just monumental. It is subtle and violent at the same time, very evocative (to me). Very powerful writing or improvising. I loved the huge variety of rhythms and harmonies, there was no pause, no way to rest, and when it's a bit less agitated, it's just the prelude to a series of magnificent explosion of synthetic tutti.
And then you jump to part 2 with its aerial light mood intro, which evolves into a subtle synth crescendo then back to a soft intimate melancholic piano part. And the rest of part 2 gets even better. The flute is just beautiful. And the second half start, with a beginning that is powerful and chaotic, I would say a powerful chaotic "mess" in the noble sens of it. Not a shitty mess but a glorious musical mess that is not actually messy ( sorry it's hard to explain my feeling here). the rest of part 2 is a bit quieter and more relaxed leading to a softer ending that sounds like vanishing into deep space.
Overal, Pictures at a planetarium is SUPER GOOD!!!
A very surprising and refreshing album of high musical quality that I really enjoyed.
Just listening to this now - it's really interesting to see how having a wealth of possibilities at your fingertips has motivated you to explore so many different genres, sounds, and ideas.
Thank you for listening @jo92346 and for the positive feedback. I’m proud of Planetarium. I aimed to capture distance, cold, vacuum, vastness, turbulence, loneliness, and, of course, crystalline beauty. I think I managed pretty well to stick to those themes, like you do in your End Of Days. I was fortunate to find the synthesized sounds necessary to evoke extraterrestrialism. Still, I don’t really know how it managed to come to be. It was completely improvised.
Thanks @richardyot. Indeed, having (relatively speaking) all the sounds in the world can be intoxicating. The first exposure led to an overuse, but that’s to be expected. Exploring different synth preset libraries led to a few albums. I used your presets, too, as I recall.
I don’t see anything wrong with revisiting previous works… all the great composers / creators tweaked, re orchestrated and plagiarised there own works (and others) so your in good company.
I sort of agree with some of the other comments in that the closer your creations get to just a piano (and possibly the slower they get) the more I enjoy them.
I’d love to hear you do a ‘Jarrett’ and give us 30 minutes of you just sitting at the keyboard and playing… warts and all, no edits! Of course you would have to hum and grunt along with the music, stop every now and again to scowl at any interruptions and walk off in a huff if anybody coughed but I guess we could put with this for the sake of art.
Having said all that I don’t think I’ve ever listened to anything of yours that I haven’t enjoyed so just keep them coming, whatever they are 🙏
@GeoTony, yes, I guess, on balance the piano solos are the better tracks. Makes sense since that’s what ikve done for so long. A very long solo… not sure I could sustain that, but maybe. The future awaits! Thanks for keeping up, bro, and I hope you have a wonderful holiday season.