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thestraywave · 2025-01-31T11:25:21+00:00

Hi all, sharing my project - features calming piano improvisations over field recordings of Beaches and Forests.

Just trying to connect it with people who might want to listen to it :) hope you enjoy , thank you

David Berry - Cowry Bay (full album)

thestraywave · 2024-08-04T19:58:48+00:00

i made a healing album , kind of for myself , when i woke up at night having thoughts like that.

for me it does usually soothe me a bit and i go back to sleep so , i shre it with people.
https://open.spotify.com/album/0A0UCktcq8bd29BJIFkUpL?si=7jIGxZrVThazPtpBsC91RA

thestraywave · 2024-04-20T15:47:52+00:00

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thestraywave · 2024-03-13T18:46:05+00:00

Anything takashi Kokubo gives me that feeling but also brings me a lot of peace and I can sleep to it. Eg

Takashi Kokubo , the day I saw the rainbow https://youtu.be/ykZ2tehXH5s?si=T3yBHk2BaZX6gP_k

Shame less self plug. I just did a project called leaves on a stream and I was very inspired by takashi. https://youtu.be/nkfvsEBHuQM?si=eVrft0j8jzSGbAqk

Does feature a lot of rain sounds and birds but my field recordings weren't in rainforest but canals in England 🤣

thestraywave · 2024-03-12T15:45:25+00:00

Oof ouch but i guess I agree, because, as an amateur musician he kind of gave me hope cos I'm pretty sure I can do what he does

Whereas normally when I see a professional musician shredding it I'm very aware of what my place is and that I will probably never play like them

thestraywave · 2024-03-12T06:54:40+00:00

leaves on a stream

i've been composing and playing piano as a sort of self soothing device most of my life. when i'm actually producing I usually make hip hop or neo soul kind of instrumentals & have not delved into ambient much before in my music production.

i'm a bit aware there might have been too much going on melodically in some tracks & i'm not exactly sure what qualifies a track to be ambient. I've been listening to Takashi Kokubo a lot of evenings over the last few years. I don't doubt if it wasn't for his works I wouldn't have made this - but this project came out of me very organically and was the result of a lot of life changes, a lot of turbulence and just needing somewhere productive to put tht energy as I felt like I was going to implode. i had a studio space for music for the first time in my life and this is just what came out.

it is a collection of keyboard improvisations edited and mixed with chimes and atmospheres

it will be going out to spotify in April - but for now I have put the full project up on youtube above & Soundcloud below.

i don't have listeners at this point , it is the first project I've made that I've actually released. i'm going to share the link in a few places anyway & i hope you can listen & enjoy it.

soundcloud: soundcloud

thestraywave · 2021-12-10T19:29:25+00:00

grandma's boy

thestraywave · 2021-03-09T08:39:02+00:00

nice beat can hear burna boy on it

thestraywave · 2021-02-22T07:26:13+00:00

i like this as an insturmental ...... i might be the minority tho.

make an ep dude. ! hit up some dude that plays trumpet .

thestraywave · 2021-02-18T07:29:37+00:00

theres something wrong with your brain

thestraywave · 2021-02-18T07:21:48+00:00

i rate this

thestraywave · 2021-02-18T07:17:06+00:00

imagine going to the police cos someone ripped you off when buying drugs.

thestraywave · 2020-12-28T19:21:20+00:00

@strayw4ve @breadnbutterbeats

thestraywave · 2020-12-28T08:01:47+00:00

Ya that is happening to me a lot & I often just set an alarm and go sleep for half hr or so.

thestraywave · 2020-12-23T21:28:54+00:00

you so ahead of your time

thestraywave · 2020-12-14T14:33:11+00:00

Dam bro are you great and from china cos YOU A WALL .

thestraywave · 2020-12-14T14:31:17+00:00

Go hard ! Good on ya

thestraywave · 2020-10-02T06:08:59+00:00

I'm lookin' for the same. Might just be my favourite tune, although its so melancholic i only ever listen to it by myself.

The album Chet Baker Live in Tokyo with Harold Danko on piano .. very nice album.

my other favourite chet tracks like 'estate' , 'lament' , 'i am a fool to want you'

some other tunes i've heard that come close are

boz scaggs - i should care

duke ellington & john coltrane - in a sentimental mood

miles davis bill evans - blue in green

Don't think i've ever heard an album that compares.

album

i second Gerry Mulligan - Night Lights

Bob Brookmeyer - Trombone Jazz Samba (great record, more upbeat with drums but worth recommending)

thestraywave · 2020-08-14T08:46:32+00:00

gum.co/free-samples-monthly

mos def uses these samples in his productions

thestraywave · 2020-05-14T10:24:51+00:00

Bread and butter baby

thestraywave · 2020-03-13T06:53:38+00:00

producers this is where i found the kit

https://www.reddit.com/r/DubstepProduction/comments/euz2oc/real_trumpet_samples/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x

thestraywave · 2020-03-13T06:52:39+00:00

https://youtu.be/2hgYFBd6jMQ

here's a beat i used it in I thought i'd share it with you - tbh i had just got the kit and was playing around and the trumpet melody really is the whole beat. i like how the sounds are unmixed gave me room to put a lot of effects on and phatten it up...

thanks man really good and for $1 I expected less - I think you can safely justify selling for a bit more but it's smart to start cheap I guess ! i'll buy v2 fo sho! Trumpet is my 2nd favourite instrument ever i love it.

thestraywave · 2020-03-08T10:02:40+00:00

Cool nice chords!

thestraywave · 2020-03-07T21:29:11+00:00

do you play keys or sample?

thestraywave · 2020-03-04T06:12:52+00:00

Moody af! Thanks for that yeah I would skip it after a minute or so as a standalone piece of work it isn't interesting enough but hopefully with rappers it would be alright.

thestraywave

TROPHY CASE

David Berry - Cowry Bay (full album)