FINALLY!!! After many months of composing, arranging, practicing, recording, mixing, editing and mastering, this new composition is in the can! Beyond Music was written for and dedicated to the TrioVivo celebrating more than 25 years of music and friendship. Special thanks to Roland Spether, our unofficial press agent and source of (too) many embarrassing pictures … Continue reading New Composition – Beyond Music!
You might be familiar with ‘Mo’ Better Blues’. I took the well-known tune, juiced up the tempo somewhat and turned it into some sort of fusion/funk kind-of version. All music produced in Cubase and mastered with WaveLab. Arrangement is available upon request. d.c.k. Continue reading Mo’ Better ConFusion
Here is Django Reinhardt’s “Minor Swing” in (one of its) original version as performed by Django himself – including his great improvisation but, arranged for and performed with clarinet. The band comes literally out of the box, i.e. “Band-in-a-Box”, but with its relatively new RealBand feature sounds pretty cool, given its only a computer fed … Continue reading Minor Swing
Here is a new production from my home music studio. Pick up the …. PHONE! Makes a good – well – ringtone! Let me know if you want it and I will email you the MP3. d.c.k. Continue reading Pick up the … PHONE!!!
Have you ever wondered how they get the oil price up or down where they need it…? You know, when you read or hear things like: “Oil at $x would hurt the economy, $y would be a ‘good’ price’, etc.”. And I’m sure you have heard how some very important people seem to be able … Continue reading Ever wondered how the oil price is determined…?
Total Modal is an own composition in modal form. The tune uses and embeds my own live recordings from NYC`s 6 Train and various Air Canada flight announcements on flight from Toronto to Chicago and makes use of sound texturing and panning. All sounds are separately available under the Sounds section at blindfoldemonkey.com. Listen to … Continue reading Total Modal – Music
Happy Birthday Otto! Diese Seite samt Inhalt ist für dich! Da ich leider deinen grossen Tag verpasst habe gibt es hier nachträglich ein musikalisches Geschenk: Der Schnitzel Blues! Wie gesagt, leider konnte ich keine Blues-Diva auftreiben die mich gesanglich unterstützen hätte können. Aber keine Angst, ich habe nicht (kaum) selbst gesungen. Das müsst ihr entweder … Continue reading Der Schnitzel Blues
When your band is either in hospital or somewhere in South America (to travel), you start working on alternative ideas. Here is a recording with me ‘and the box’. I’m talking about Band-in-a-Box, of course, which has evolved into a very nice and useful tool to practice and play at home. I just arranged my … Continue reading Tu Vuo’ fa’ L’Americano
Summertime This own arrangement of Summertime consists of 3 parts: The traditional, slow version at the beginning and end with an upbeat, funk version including improvisation in the middle. The track combines grass-root, instrumental elements with effects provided by Cubase 5. I have arranged the tune in Sibelius (arrangement available upon request) and recorded all … Continue reading Digest 4 From My Home Music Studio
They had the potential to be greater than the men’s home chest waxing system, Windows Vista or even Stefan Mross. Concert promoters from Munich to Zwickau were fighting tooth and nail to get them on their list of exclusive performers. The band was so hot in the late 90s and early 2000s that they literally … Continue reading Hottest Boy Group in Town or was it Too Good To Be True…? Going down the memory lane.
Ok, here is another short piece (2:43min) with the title Sept2009 (guess when I wrote this one…?). It’s supposed to be a bit on the funky side. Don’t laugh about the ending, but I kind of ran out of patience and ideas and fabricated an easy fade out…. I guess I’ll be back to this … Continue reading Digest No. 3 From My Home Music Studio
My second musical contribution on this site is a tune with the name of In Memory of a Great Urban Man. This deserves some explanation. For that purpose, please allow me to cut and paste from Wikipedia (Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven)): […]Beethoven had originally conceived of dedicating the symphony [Symphony No. 3] to Napoleon Bonaparte. … Continue reading Digest No. 2 From My Home Music Studio
This is a tune that I called HNY 2008 which stands for “Happy New Year 2008”. Why? I wrote it in January 2008 and I was looking for a title… very original, isn’t it? Anyhow, the tune consists of a very simple and basic 4 chord progression, follows a very minimalistic approach and is entirely … Continue reading Digest No. 1 From My Home Music Studio
Daniel Kölsch - Saxophones, Clarinet & Flute 