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.
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.
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 »
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 »
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.
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 »
Elsewhere starts and ends with a cosmic drone fading into pads and foreign rythms of Water Drums and Udus. Sounds of tibetan horns and space effects enhance a distant distorted guitar chorus, before dancing electronic rythms establish themselves for a very vintage synth chorus.
This very long piece of space music explores differents soundscapes as worlds and colors from far away. Also, the strange instrument heard after the Udu introduces a fast rythm is a Tibetan horn-like synth sound, and the arpeggiated synth chorus on the funky final part tries to reproduce a vintage Moog sound. One can also hear a Kalimba, various gongs from a Gamelan, a Korg wavestation pad, and even a distorted electric guitar .
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Released December 10th, 2007 as the third and main track of the Elsewhere album. Composed and performed by Jazzcomputer.org.
Dawn In the Snow is about a raising icy snow storm in the night and a shelter of warmth and light like a dawn in dark, snow covered forests. Harsh electronic effects are cleared with warm 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 »
