Final improvisation with gamelan sounds surrounded by lush ambient pads. Very slow, very dreamlike…
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Released December 6th, 2009 as the last track of Life – Unfolding. Composed and performed by Jazzcomputer.org.
Slow ambient guitar pads, very minimalist improvisation a few reworked
for adding sparse sounds and colors
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Released December 6th, 2009 as the fourth track of Life – Unfolding. Composed and performed by Jazzcomputer.org.
Slow ballad with distant hypnotic percussions. The gamelan theme will be
heard later again on the album, as many other sounds.
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Released December 6th, 2009 as the second track of Life – Unfolding. Composed and performed by Jazzcomputer.org.
Those I Left Behind is a nostalgic tune, with the eyes looking through the two sides of the mirror : the contemplation of the prime world out of the city, and the memories of the urban jungle and its loss : other humans.
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Released May 5th, 2009 as the fifth track of Out of the City. Composed and performed by Jazzcomputer.org.
Cold, Bright and Quiet achieves the journey with open sounds and improvisations. After a long ambient first part filled with the noises and feelings of those living beyond the harmful urban atmosphere, comes the improvisation space for guitar and bass over percussions. There are rythms, life and feelings, far beyond the metal and the concrete.
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Released May 5th, 2009 as the fifth track of Out of the City. Composed and performed by Jazzcomputer.org.
Inverted Twilight leads to the boundaries of a new world during a very long sound sweep as if the final light rays of the twilight could become the glow of a new dawn, elsewhere, like a finally unfolding life, encountering so long awaited beings, softly raising in the music like the most natural things.
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Released May 5th, 2009 as the fourth track of Out of the City. Composed and performed by Jazzcomputer.org.
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 »
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.
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 »
Indian Mood on Thethys begins with a long guitar improvisation. Then, the Udu and distant bells opens a ryhtmic path for a Koto chorus, and the track finally quotes John Mc Laughlin’s “Lotus Feet” View Full Article »
