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Cloudburst Fight


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Henke

 Genre: Ambient

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Description
A gathering storm
Clouds crashing
Violent lightning
Vanishing clouds
Air refreshed
Soil and spirit cleansed

My first piece made with Garageband in 2004. Thought of adding real lightning sounds in GB3 but Edgar Froese's (of Tangerine Dream) remastering of his old classics on the album "Beyond the Storm" stopped me. The song is tribute to TD and the title of course alludes to their 1979 Cloudburst Flight (on the Force Majeure album). My brother contributed to this song by messing around on the Casio, and with a totally different instrument it is now part of the "thunderstorm", so thanks...

The song is the third on my "album" Dreams in Cerulean Blue... Hope you enjoy it!

Photo taken on farm house vacation in the south of Sweden in 2003.
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Comments: 12
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Plays: 152
Downloads: 59
Votes: 5
Uploaded: Sep 16, 2006 - 03:45:23 PM
Last Updated: Sep 16, 2006 - 03:45:23 PM Last Played: Feb 10, 2010 - 12:36:19 PM
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Hardware:
iMac G4 800MHz
Casio CTK-611
Software:
Garageband 1
Comments
drakonis said 1278 days ago (September 16th, 2006)
FrankenFroesen
It does have a bit of a Tangerine Dream feel, especially the drum
patterns fading in and out. Being a lover of melody, I found no easy
melody or chord progression to grab onto through this, so it felt like
clouds of ideas blowing by. This is good and bad... good because it
does give an ephemeral ethereal feel to the music, like clouds
themselves... bad, because it seemed there was no recurring theme or
thread to follow all the way through. But, that is just *me*... I liked
the deep rumbling bass, and the high pitched synths and pitch bends,
everything was crisp and clear, not distorted and muddy, I liked that! I
don't have that particular TD album, I may have to look into it.
Stratosfear is my favorite so far, White Eagle being second I think.
ttfn,
Drakonis
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Henke said 1277 days ago (September 17th, 2006)
Themes
Thanks for you long comment! Like you say it is not a (simple) melody to rest
on - I may have a couple of those really simple ones in store for you later... -
but there are looped sequences in the beginning that comes back towards the
end. And the instrumentation I feel works as a uniting force in the song. But
maybe that is for me who have listened to it like a hundred times or so. To
me it is not so much clouds of ideas blowing by but one fairly coherent idea
that develops over a longer time. The idea being this weather change I tried
to describe above. But of course this may not work for everyone. Maybe you
hear a different tune when a storm passes by :-)

Force Majeure is not a bad album! But it has *some* similarities with this
song, with developing textures which makes my imagination run. Especially
Thru Metamorphic Rocks. The title track if I remember right includes som
nice melodic themes as well as texturescaping. You can find it on iTunes
Store, but the half-minutes are perhaps not that representative - the three
songs are pretty loooong!

Be well!

Henke
Check out my latest song called Heading for Alpha Centauri (mj space race 2009)
said 1278 days ago (September 16th, 2006)
I Like the Textures
I enjoyed this very much.
Henke said 1277 days ago (September 17th, 2006)
I am honoured
to have you as a fan! You make som pretty interesting stuff yourself! (Like your
version of Drakonis Ember!)
Thanks!
Check out my latest song called Heading for Alpha Centauri (mj space race 2009)
vbluesky said 1277 days ago (September 18th, 2006)
trippy
sounds, I like your ideas, very good production / mix. To bad some people just like to hear their own voice and read their words more then listening to beautiful music, sick people, your music is very interesting, thanks 4 the jam
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Bubowski said 1252 days ago (October 12th, 2006)
Classic Old School Electronic Music
I like the evolving soundscape and the concluding soft major chord right at the very end. It's like that last bright sunlight peeking through the clouds, with a promise of better weather.
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Henke said 1252 days ago (October 12th, 2006)
Thanks Bubowski
That is what I feel too. Thanks for commenting.

(Hey, you've got some kids to make music. Those Planetearth pieces really blew
me away! Now lets see what you've been up to yourself...!)
Check out my latest song called Heading for Alpha Centauri (mj space race 2009)
Doug Somers said 901 days ago (September 28th, 2007)
That
rolling feeling with sounds thinning out and dissipating is very evocative of your subject. Very well executed. Thanks,
Doug
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Heightened said 844 days ago (November 24th, 2007)
Cloudburst Fight
Solid ambient - cheers!
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Heightened said 703 days ago (April 13th, 2008)
Now that's what I call a
Soundscape! Outstanding!
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davajonah said 319 days ago (May 3rd, 2009)
This is just lovely
First song in GB? Very impressive indeed.
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Henke said 318 days ago (May 3rd, 2009)
Hm,
Well if you put it that way..! :-)

I am a bit proud that I did not fall back on some "real" thunderstorm fx but tried to conjure up the feeling by other means... Pretty good dynamics too, for coming from me, high-low, strong-weak...

Thanks again for patiently listening to my stuff, even if just to get away from the paint job ;-)

Cheers,
/Henke
Check out my latest song called Heading for Alpha Centauri (mj space race 2009)
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I went to music class at a fairly early age but I guess I was never really that interested. I played the recorder for starters and then the flute and then for some reason the trombone! I also played in a renaissance ensamble, in long brown ve... [see more]

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Ambient music is a loosely defined musical genre that incorporates elements of a number of different styles - including jazz, electronic music, new age, rock and roll, modern classical music, reggae, traditional, world and even noise.

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