Here are a few instrumental songs of mine. This page is regularly updated with new materials. Your feedback, whether harsh or enthusiastic, is obviously welcome since it can help me to improve. Enjoy!
Bruxelles (Berlin, 2010)
This piece actually belongs to Treffpunkte, a set of experimental music pieces you can listen on this website in “the composer” but, since it is so guitar-oriented and so heavy, I just had to put it here.
P&J Project – The Zossener EP (Berlin, 2009)
My good friend Pierre and I had decided we should produce some good old guitar music together and gathered a few times in March and April 2009. Three tracks came out of these sessions: Come on Jeremy!, Pas travailler and Yabon. In short, it was all about mixing music styles we like (a lot), playing all the guitars we own (not that many) and produce tracks we would be proud of. Like always, you should not care about the titles which are mostly private jokes but I do hope you will enjoy these three songs since we gave our best.
Come on Jeremy!
Pas travailler
Yabon
Midnight surf (Berlin, November 2008)
My first guitar-oriented song since August 2007 is quite unusual for me: no crossed influences, no mixed blood, just some pure straightrock with a strong 60′s feeling.
Am Kottbusser Tor (excerpt from Die Kiezoper – Berlin, April 2008)
That piece is a place where metal, ska and surf music meet balkan music. Being very fond of gypsy music and eastern folk music in general, my aim was to keep the Balkan element as pure as possible but not try to imitate a gypsy brass band either since that just is NOT possible (what many western bands seem not to understand when they play some kind of very cheap and offensive caricatures of folk music because this is just so cool to be “cultural” …).
If you like it, you may want to watch the whole Kiezoper at www.kiezoper.de
Polymachine (co-produced by Rellüm, Berlin, August 2007)
Since I started to compose and produce songs, I always try to control the heavy metal guitarist in me to avoid falling into excesses like long screaming shredding solos. Polymachine completely breaks the rule and contains a 90” solo full of extravaganzas like fast runs, tapping and swept diminished arpeggios. The song is thus a tip of the hat to my musical roots as well as being a mirror of what I’m working on theses days, for example experimental song structures and the use of electronic sounds and samples. It was a real joy to do it!
Mehringdamm Suite (excerpt from the PodcastOpera) – (Berlin, April 2007)
It has always been quite customary for composers to extract a highlight from an opera of theirs and turn it into a separate piece. The Mehringdamm Suite follows these steps and is a slightly modified version of the third act of 20 Minuten – Die PodcastOper.
Disco Rado (No Woman’s Allowed) (Berlin, July 2006)
Don’t pay too much attention to the title, it’s just a private joke. An Old School disco track with a jazzy flavor where my guitar takes herself for a singer. My aim here was to find good hooks for the melodies and produce a good song that would sound like anything but a guitar track.
The Orange Experience (Berlin, July 2006)
This song has a flavor of Indian music with a little heavy rock. I didn’t try to mix both styles but I do think they have a common point in the use of very intense grooves and strong contrasts. They therefore can get along for a song. I really like this tune since I achieved to put in it two elements of what I’ve been working on during the lasts months: Indian music (rhythm and finger technique) and sampling (the drums and tabla parts are both only made of samples). The subtle whisper of an acoustic guitar chanting a Lydian melody can suddenly be turned into a storm and that’s what I call an Orange Experience.
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