Flower Boy
By horatiuromantic on January 11, 2026 10:15 pm
HI! It's me, FLOWER BOY, delivering a nice new funky tune! It's only instrumental, but I started with lyrics about a boy in the field picking flowers discovering he's allergic to pollen but is still attracted to the sweet colors and smells. It starts with a slow groove that speeds up for the main theme and solos. I also made a video and I had fun doing 3 COMPLETE LIVE TAKES without cuts!!! I'm very proud of that because usually I have to cut parts of solos or themes or whatever, but this time it went without a single wrong note haha (ok maybe a couple but only small ones).
Please watch and give my channel some love!
I wanted to make a calypso kinda tune, with a strong catchy melody that would be as addictive to play and sing as something like Fungi Mama or St. Thomas, or perhaps any song by Harry Belafonte. I was inspired by all these wonderful calypso tunes, as well as I've been listening to a lot of Funkadelic and Weather Report this week. So I suppose all those things and more have mashed together. Please let me know if you know any tunes that are similar, cause I wanna listen! I hope I didn't plagiarize the melody, it seems super catchy, suspiciously so!
Performing on my spanking new Korg SV-2S, on wurli piano, wah clavi and hydrasynth lead synth. Mixed and mastered with UAD Spark plugins. There is some reverb, some galaxy echo on the clavi and hydrasynth with flipped panning (so the echo is on the right for the instrument on the left and viceversa). I also added a synth ride bell for the theme, cause I wanted to punctuate that ding ding ding calypso ride cymbal. I think it works super well and you can almost not tell it's not a real cymbal. Apart from the bell, welcome once again Levi the drummer on the drums.
I also wanted the challenge of playing bass and piano at the same time, because this is what I do in my trio with a drummer and guitarist, because we haven't found a bass player that wants to join us to play this kinda fusion tunes. So I have learned a lot in terms of playing bass while playing piano this past year, but not all tunes are equal - so the challenge was to compose something that I can play and solo over, while keeping the bassline with the left hand. We will def play this with the band!!!
Alright, thanks everybody for tuning in and remember to STOP AND SMELL THE FLOWERS sometimes!
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cheeky PS: I am interested in your constructive feedback and ideas altho i am aware many things are going very right here. thx again
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the band will get a kick out of this comment for sure. Well until the bass player arrives I will continue to bass it out cause I like to be independent, but indeed I would feel much more free without being chained on the left hand. However I take the positive look: I can choose where the bass goes and thus control the song at will, which would be harder if bass was not super responsive (good bass player would be ok but a not so good one would actually limit me further). For example only piano and bass goes to the theme at the last part of the song, but u cant tell because it’s already strong enough. The other takes synth and clavi don’t do the theme at the end, in their takes it’s just a regular beat. Poor planning didn’t stop me from 2nd theme because I control the power of BASS
