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Myckael MarcovicMon dernier t'aime / collab. w Samy ben RabahSamy Ben Rabah : Original Composition / Guitars
Chris Dargay : Sound F/X / Percussion
https://soundcloud.com/elements-of-synergy/letters-m-1
Lyrics, melody and vocal Myckaël Marcovic
(English translation above)
Mon dernier t’aime
Seul dans le désert
Depuis trop de jours
Je suis comme en mer
Vague sous un ciel sourd
Mon chameau ne dit rien
Perdu dans ses pensées
...
Sait-il au moins où je vais ?
Le sais-je moi-même ?
Quête bohémienne
Est-ce le bon chemin
Pour la revoir ?
J’ai pourtant signé
Ce serment d'amour
Plein d’infirmités
Trop sûr de son « toujours »
Mon chameau ne dit rien
Mais j...2020-09-2903 min
Samy Ben Rabah musicFrom A Distance (with Jeff Wiedenfeld)A new collab with Jeff @jwiedenfeld2020-03-2304 min
Samy Ben Rabah musicFarMandolin with some delay here and there and there and there...2020-03-0504 min
Samy Ben Rabah musicLettersLetters by Samy Ben Rabah2020-02-2903 min
Samy Ben Rabah musicOver SleepySome cat trivia: cats can sleep as much as 20 hours per day.
ps: sorry my acoustic guitar doesn't have a correct pitch - I need to get a decent one
Pictured: a retrospective of my cat's achievements in the past year (published with authorisation)2020-02-2104 min
Samy Ben Rabah musicThe Funeral March of the Möbius StrippersAs the name implies, Möbius Strippers are inhabitants of the Möbius Strip, which is this strange surface with only one side.
During their funeral procession, the Strippers walk endlessly on the strip without ever reaching the cemetery as they always come back to the same point, continuously playing the funeral march all the while.
Believe it or not, they are still marching as I type these words.
Please note that you have to play these 8 seconds in a loop to get the full Möbius Strip experience, but beware that it could then run into hours if you don...2017-12-3100 min
Samy Ben Rabah music2017 is over. Thank you for comingWe're closing year 2017. Thank you for coming.
Don't forget your belongings.
Happy new year to all of you! I wish you an excellent musical year 2018.2017-12-2701 min
Samy Ben Rabah musicBağlama(Jeff Wiedenfeld & Samy Ben Rabah)Here's another collaboration with my talented friend Jeff @jwiedenfeld!2017-12-1302 min
Samy Ben Rabah musicJust Passing Through II (Jeff Wiedenfeld & Samy Ben Rabah)My friend Jeff (@jwiedenfeld) recently posted this inspiring track : https://soundcloud.com/jwiedenfeld/just-passing-through.
I sprinkled some mandolin.2017-12-0703 min
Samy Ben Rabah musicCelestial Need (with CrazyCompass)( this was posted earlier by CrazyCompass).
Nata had the good idea to add her voice on one of my tracks (Kind of Superfluous https://soundcloud.com/samybr/kind-of-supefluous).
I never imagined a voice when I made this music and this came as a very good surprise. Thank you Nata!
Vocals, drawing: Nata Boundariver @crazycompass
Music: Samy Ben Rabah2017-05-2004 min
Samy Ben Rabah musicSaz Explorations VWhen I wrote that "Saz Explorations IV" was the last one, it was a total lie.
This is hopefully a forgivable lie.2017-05-1702 min
Samy Ben Rabah musicSaz Explorations IVMy last saz exploration track. This time it seems to have drifted to the African continent - I guess because of an increased tectonic plate activity , what else?.
Not playing with a pick (called 'mızrap') on this one, but fingerpicking. This gives a totally different feeling and inspiration on the instrument.
After these explorations I'll try to study a more "authentic" way of playing and try some Ottoman/Turkish music - albeit modestly and superficially, the goal is to have fun!2017-04-2702 min
Samy Ben Rabah musicSaz Explorations IIII continue some explorations on a saz a friend lent me.
I'm quite far from the "orthodox" way of playing it, but that's the way it is.2017-04-2703 min
Samy Ben Rabah musicSaz Explorations III continue my explorations with a saz a friend lent me....2017-04-1804 min
Samy Ben Rabah musicSaz Explorations IA friend recently lent me his saz and I'm trying a few things on this interesting instrument. Not playing it in an orthodox way, but I am having fun.2017-04-1606 min
Samy Ben Rabah musicReflections IIThis is the second reflection. Always good to think twice.2017-03-2402 min
Samy Ben Rabah musicThe FoolHe's a fool, please don't blame him.
A sad and tragic story.2017-03-1905 min
Samy Ben Rabah musicReflections INothing profound, just two guitars and a mandolin2017-03-1003 min
Samy Ben Rabah musicUnexpected JourneyI think I was trying something inspired by raga charukeshi and then it degenerated - oh no! Is it serious doctor?
No dogs were involved in this track.
Photo taken at the Karnataka-Maharashtra-Goa border2017-03-0705 min
Samy Ben Rabah musicPrelude (to something)There's always a prelude to something n'est-ce-pas?
Pictured is a view from Grožnjan (pronounced "Grožnjan", like in "Grožnjan"), a hilltop town in Istria, Croatia2017-02-2101 min
Samy Ben Rabah musicМАЯКИ / Lighthouses (Samy Ben Rabah & Crazy Compass)Nata (aka Crazy Compass @crazycompass) did the vocals on this music I made.
This is a poem of hers in Russian. She added Black Sea atmospherics.
Nata Boundariver @crazycompass - poem and voices
Ясный-Svetly @jasny-svetly - base drums (August 2015)
Black Sea (Batumi / Georgia / july 2016)
Me: music
Thank you Nata and Ясный-Svetly!
Drawing by Nata Boundariver.
The poem in Russian -
МАЯКИ
[Маяки] мне указывали путь.
Глаза у [Моряков] сияли.
Это были звезды Большой Медведицы.
Мой корабль дышал вместе с морем
до самого основания — до дна — до земли.
Море дышало. И его дыханием
меня уносило все дальше и дальше.
Мне навстречу не попадались больше корабли.
Я забыла, что это такое.
Снились только глаза [Моряков].
И звали меня за собой.
И я плавно плыла через волны.
И волны бились о борт.
English
LIGHTHOUSES
(pidgin-version)
The [Lighthouses] have pointed the way for me.
The eyes of [Sailors] shined.
They were the stars of the Big Dipper.
My ship was breathing with the sea
to its very foundations - to the bottom - to the ground.
The sea breathed. And its breath
carried me away further and further.
I didn't meet more ships.
I forgot what it is.
Only the eyes of [Sailors] dreamed to me.
And they called me behind themselves.
And I sailed smoothly through the waves.
And the waves beat against the board.2017-02-1902 min
Samy Ben Rabah musicA Few Drops...Maybe I'll try to make a song of this - maybe.2017-02-1302 min
Samy Ben Rabah musicMeanwhile...Having fun with my new midi keyboard. Will practice a few years before I'm kind of playing the piano semi fluidly and then revisit this piece.2017-01-1902 min
Samy Ben Rabah musicEphemeralThis the mood for the next minute and thirty seven seconds2017-01-1601 min
Samy Ben Rabah musicMöbius Strip (with Jeff Wiedenfeld)Cycling on a Möbius Strip requires a certain openness of mind.
Thank you Jeff for playing the solo trumpet on this one!
Jeff Wiedenfeld (@jwiedenfeld): trumpet solo
Me: guitar, bass, etc ... + mixing2016-12-1904 min
Samy Ben Rabah musicDroughtsMandolin fun2016-12-1302 min
Samy Ben Rabah musicAmore Che Vieni, Amore Che Vai (cover)During a recent road trip I discovered in a friend's car a cd from Fabrizio De André , a celebrated Italian poet, musician, songwriter and singer and his song "Amore che vieni, Amore che vai", a beautiful and poignant love song talking about love coming and going. I liked it so much that I decided to make a cover whose painful result you're listening at right now.
Me: trying to sing, in Italian, arrangement, guitar, bass, mandolin, mixing, coffee service
Here are the lyrics, in Italian. It's about love.
Quei giorni perduti a rincorrere il vento
A chiederci un bacio e v...2016-12-1004 min
Samy Ben Rabah musicWorking Class Rant (Chemobrainkid & Samy Ben Rabah)@chemobrainkid posted a working class rant recently. I added some proletarian atmospherics.
Here's the original naked rant: https://soundcloud.com/chemobrainkid/naked-working-class-rant-1.
Thank you Duane
@chemobrainkid: rant
Me: music, guitars, mixing2016-11-0603 min
Samy Ben Rabah musicBeyond half Planck, certainlyFound this track hiding on the cd I bought last time from the lady at the refueling station.2016-11-0403 min
Samy Ben Rabah musicAndromedaHeard this piece playing in loop at the last refueling station before entering the Andromeda galaxy. I found it was a good repetitive and relaxing piece of cosmic elevator music so I asked the lady at the counter for the cd and a cheese sandwich for which I got a discount.
It was a good move and money well spent - I still had 0.5 kpc to fly!2016-10-2504 min
Samy Ben Rabah musicFull Featured Fur (Jeff Wiedenfeld & Samy Ben Rabah)My friend Jeff, who is never short of good ideas, came up with this one.
A typical feline jazz piece.
@jwiedenfeld guitar, steel guitar, double bass
Me: mandolin, mixing (sort of)
Pictured: my cat Squeak (a.k.a Squeaky), who is kind of furry. Used with permission of course. She got a double ration of yogurt as royalties.
Thank you Jeff!2016-10-2104 min
Samy Ben Rabah musicMeowing Tall (Jeff Wiedenfeld & Samy Ben Rabah)Another musical collaboration with Jeff (@jwiedenfeld)!
Jeff: Gambian bass, string bass, environmental acoustics
Me: Mandolin2016-10-1603 min
Samy Ben Rabah musicLost Pools (Jeff Wiedenfeld & Samy Ben Rabah)The always inventive Jeff (@jwiedenfeld) secretly recorded a mermaid and played along on his piano.
I played some guitar to accompany them.
Jeff (@jwiedenfeld): mermaid, piano
Samy: mixing, guitar, whale guitar2016-10-0602 min
Samy Ben Rabah musicPetite musique d'automnePetite = Little
Musique = Music
Automne = Autumn
================
= Little Autumn Music (French is not that complicated after all)
I was trying some sort of classical piece on the mandolin. I might have heard bits or patterns here and there, so if you recognise something, let me know.
Warning contains some string/fret buzzing and all sorts of unplanned noise and imperfections. I should probably re-record the thing2016-10-0202 min
Samy Ben Rabah musicBeds of Reeds (Jeff Wiedenfeld & Samy Ben Rabah)Jeff sent me a splendid dilruba track and I added the mandolin. That's pretty much it.
Jeff Wiedenfeld (@jwiedenfeld): dilruba
Me: Mandolin
The inattentive listener could be fooled into thinking that the background noise is far away waterfalls, but it's just that: plain white noise coming from the mandolin recording.2016-09-2802 min
Samy Ben Rabah musicAmbient Jor (Samy Ben Rabah & Martin Kirwan)I'm happy that this is my first collaboration with Martin Kirwan (@martkirwan)! I play the mandolin part on a drone track that Martin created. He also plays the e-bow part which is that great voice-like singing you can hear.
Here "Jor" refers to the form played in instrumental hindustani music where "chikaris" (the drone strings) are played in a pulsating manner, which I kind of mimic by playing the mandolin with delay.
Thank you Martin for your collaboration!
Martin Kirwan(@martkirwan):Drone, e-bow
Me: Mandolin
Photo: a picture I took from Grožnjan, a town in Istria.2016-09-2404 min
Samy Ben Rabah musicL'arbre à palabresRough piece on the mandolin for this afternoon. You can even hear some sloppy fingering - proof that it's not generated by a computer (although...).
In French, "arbre à palabres" refers to the tree under which people gather to discuss, debate or listen to the village sage. It's a tradition usually associated with some African cultures but you've probably seen it somewhere else - people talking under the shade of a tree.2016-08-1502 min
Samy Ben Rabah musicKind of SuperfluousHaving fun.
Sorry, one string is a bit off by a few hertz in the mandolin solo (oh no! why?)
Pictured: Squeaky the South Indian cat (used with permission)2016-07-2204 min
Samy Ben Rabah musicAym CeeGeeDee Twenty FourMandolin and guitar, bass played by me. Drums and percussions are samples and loops because I cannot play them which is very unfortunate .2016-07-1702 min
Samy Ben Rabah musicTočka The PandaA little piece on the mandolin created this Saturday afternoon after a nap.
Crappy microphone + crappy sound card = crappy sound + scratches. No mystery to this equation.
Točka (pronounced tochka) means "dot" or "spot" in Croatian and is the name we gave to a little kitten who appeared one day in the courtyard (pictured).
That's all it is really.
August 14th 2017: The little Točka left us yesterday. Too soon. She was very fun and sweet. You can see some pics of her here: https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/tockathepanda2016-07-0202 min
Samy Ben Rabah musicIndusPiece I initially started when playing some notes of raga Marwa (one of my favorites!) on the mandolin, but which degenerated into something totally unrelated. Mandolin, guitar played by myself + bass/percussion/drums layered on top.
I was planing to add a small alap (slow introduction) at the beginning - maybe later!
Sorry for the horrible sound and mixing! It seems that it comes better when listening with headphones.2016-06-2906 min
Samy Ben Rabah musicQuest for SomethingPiece I created with mandolin/guitars + other instruments added electronically. Most of the mandolin parts are recorded twice and superimposed, which might give an impression that there were a lot of people playing. - but that was just me playing at different positions in space-time.
Pictured: Squeaky a.k.a Squeak, the South Indian cat (http://instagram.com/thedailysqueak) who doesn't like music and is just trying to find a spot to sleep on the sofa.2015-02-1905 min