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Art: Mama Africa by OlgaSher, DeviantArt

https://www.deviantart.com/olgasher/art/Mama-Africa-196047560

I had a lot fun making a lot of noise, and switching pan and double-tracking to keep the listener off balance.

The two main guitar tracks were done via ThumbJam with a couple of metal amps from Ampkit. Love that app combo. The backing track was created using Blocs Wave.

The image is from "Icon" by Jeroen van Valkenburg, Wikimedia Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Icon_-_by_Jeroen_van_Valkenburg.PNG

As I created this track, with it's muted bass and double bass basslines, I added the dark rhythm guitar and guitar solo and it just become epic. It felt like flying too close to the Sun...

There are layers of complexity on this track, but I'm happy with it. I think it works, do you?

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Image: 'Coronal Rain, Solar Storm' by NASA Goddard Photo and Video, Flickr

https://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/4445502685

Never get used to normal

A small dedication to the city that gave me my surname. Coutts is derived from Cults, a suburb of Aberdeen, Scotland. It also gave name to Colt, as in Colt '45.

https://books.google.com.au/books/about/Genealogical_Memoirs_of_the_Families_of.html?id=JiYAAAAAQAAJ&redir_esc=y

Such are names.

In this track I return, after a long absence, to glitch...one of my favourite musical discoveries since I've been creating music. Of course I mixed it with rock/metal.

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Image taken from the console game Dark Souls II. (available for non-profit use).

I was discussing the nature of sugar earlier today ( I suffer from fructose malabsorption), and felt in the mood for some funk, so I ended up creating 'My Sweet Poison' which I dedicate to the monosaccharide fructose. Music doesn't have to make sense. The title is copied from a book of the same name by David Gillespie

Not many people can say they've dedicated a track to a type of simple sugar...

It's a proud moment....ha ha!

Of course the double entendre is deliberate.

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Image: Bruce Nauman: Human/Need/Desire, shared by Ed Schipul on Flickr.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/eschipul/431902450

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Not for "Brain".

Image: Jo Guldi on Flickr, "I'm Lost In Love"

https://www.flickr.com/photos/landschaft/449699818/in/faves-14829735@N00/

I often think about the future of our species, and about space, and here again I combine those two streams of thought. I feel that it's like an ambient heartbeat.....very faint, but still there.

Hopefully my music helps you think about such things too. Enjoy...it's free to download!

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Check out Image: Cosmic Epic Unfolds in Infrared - JPL, NASA. 2007

https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_737.html

With Daft Punk holding the reins on my brain, I thought I'd try an electronic dance club track.

Let me know what you think!

Paploviante and Friends recently released a fabulous electronic open collaboration piece entitled CINEMATIC - thanks guys!

https://soundcloud.com/paploviante-and-friends/cinematic-open-collab

This is my collaboration attempt for that piece. I've added a phasing sweeper synth and a synth string, as well as some acoustic guitar noodling and a touch of background choir towards the end.