Songs for the Christmas Season 27

For today's post I'm taking a couple of songs directly from my very own YouTube channel. First up is a hard-to-find song by The Smothers Brothers called "The Toy Song" from 1965.





And next is a newer recording (just a few years old) by Roman Coppola. Though the tracks from this album are from this decade they could pass for music recording in the mid to late 60's. Very much in the vein of David Holmes style and very groovy.

Songs for the Christmas Season 16

A couple of instrumental holiday songs today. First up is a very smooth, jazz version of "Silver Bells" by Kevin Eubanks on acoustic guitar.






And next is another jazz artist, the Ramsey Lewis Trio, with I believe an original composition called "Christmas Blues."

Songs for the Christmas Season 7

A couple of Motown holiday tunes today. First up is one of my all-time favorite versions of "Jingle Bells" as done by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles from 1970. Such a fun & great take!






The next selection is not exactly a familiar, classic Christmas favorite. It is, however, an instrumental by Marvin Gaye called "Christmas in the City" featuring the Moog synthesizer and it's from 1972. So funky!

Songs for the Halloween Season 11

How about a couple of soundtrack songs today? Soundtracks can be known for being very spine-tingling and here are a few that could be considered more obscure. First up is Alain Goraguer's "Deshominisation." Perhaps most would not find this song particularly creepy but for me it certainly conjures an atmosphere of suspense and mystery. Must be that wah guitar, clavinet and dark strings.






Next up is one from the Charles Bronson movie, "Citta Violenta." It's a song by Ennio Morricone and again many might not find it to be scary but it does have unsettling elements, especially that intro and the snake-like guitar permeating throughout the song.

Open Sky

This is a new video/song I made for my YouTube channel. I originally just had the video up but I felt it needed some music. The video is a time-lapse presentation of a severe thunderstorm that was coming through the neighborhood on June 18, 2010. It was actually 14 minutes long in real time. Even though I enjoy watching it in real time I felt that most other people would not. Besides that, I like to keep my videos generally short because unless it's something absolutely mind-captivating or with plenty of visual effects, most people don't have the attention span to watch them.

As for the music of this video, I created a basic 2 track ambient sounding instrumental track, just about 2 minutes long (just about 1:20 was used for the video). I wanted something to match the eeriness, dramatic nature of the video. So I used my Yamaha S90 for a great sounding synth sound and a piano track. For the piano track I added plenty of reverb to create a very distant and lonely sound. The entire song was made in a matter of minutes. I just wanted something quick and ominous sounding. I titled it "Open Sky." I'm pretty interested in this type of ambient, atmospheric sounding music. It can be used in movies, commercials or just as chill music. I plan to make a full length album of this type of music.