I’ll be seeing you is a very popular song with countless arrangements. The guitar reaches this melody after a very long developpement of slow and dark percussion exchange, punctuated with oriental harp phrases. View Full Article »
Archive for December, 2008
Isfahan, a jazz ballad, was written in the late Fifties by Duke Ellington. Again, harmonies remain somewhat complex and unusual regarding many jazz standards written at this time. The melody itself conceals very subtle oriental sonorities, View Full Article »
Maiden Voyage is a very well known Herbie Hancock’s modal composition from the mid sixties. Modal jazz remains a search for new atmospheres and sounds View Full Article »
Antigua is a gorgeous theme written by Antonio Carlos Jobim. His harmony rolls on very complex set of chords that sound very natural and simple, as the music of this immense composer always does. The present intrepretation inlays the bossa nova into the Jungle and the exotic gongs of an alien place. As often, the improvisation ends with rythmic exchanges between instruments, but maybe dialogs between guitar and gongs are not that usual 
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Released December 21st, 2008 as the Third track of Ambient Jazz. Arranged and performed by Jazzcomputer.org.
Star Crossed Lovers is a widely known ballad written by Duke Ellington, with complex and unusual harmonies so smartly used that this song remains a model of elegance and emotion. This arrangement lets the jazz slowly fade in through ambient pads and noises enhancing a guitar intro. When does jazz start and ambient disappear, or isn’t it true that jazz music imposes his own ambient mood, especially with such a song writer, even if a weird arranger like me starts melting the jazz with even weirder noises ?
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Released December 21st, 2008 as the second track of Ambient Jazz. Arranged and performed by Jazzcomputer.org.
Mood 73 is the only personal composition of the album. The jazz rock comes after large sweeping pads have faded into the sound of an electric quartet ; a distorted guitar chorus View Full Article »
Caves was orginally as much an experiment with a modular virtual synth than the idea to build a soundscape depicting a voice prisoner in an industrial underworld prison. The experimental effects could have lasted for the whole track View Full Article »
Three little synth notes and a water drop open this long piece ; a harp starts dialing with his far eastern cousin, the Koto, then other instruments (marimba, timpani and strings) enter slowly the soundscape, introducing View Full Article »
Light of Lost Summers opens with an electronic soundscape based on campfire sounds with bats lurking around, like in a cold desert of distant memories. A guitar theme is repeated and transposed over these sound effects before View Full Article »
Breathes starts with classic harsh bubbles effets fading into a complex repetitive bell sequence in a very classical way. Then comes lush and warm stings pads, like breathes in the music, and after a more rythmic break View Full Article »