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Endure

By Tone Matrix on November 10, 2024 6:57 pm

Howdy frainds

Watching the news Tuesday night got me in a bit of a panic and bl@rghhhh I must admit.   
There was a lot of sleeping this week.  Or at least attempted sleep.  I was a bit in the gl00m.
I couldn’t get myself near the keyboard til Saturday night.  I had many meetings with the fridge.  We became confidants.
But! But! i also listened to a lot of music. 
These 3 were part of my morning walks this week. 
They helped block out the giant trucks with angry flags that drove past.
But! But!
I definitely recommend checking out David Gilmour’s latest album and Wu-Lu’s EP as well.
David Gilmour - Between Two Points

Wu-Lu - Young Swimmer

Wu-Lu - Daylight Song

I did manage to find a bit of a therapeutic session from just noodling about with the piano. 
The backyard recording is from November 5th 9am.  I pinched myself several times and instead ended up hanging out with the backyard kitties I like to hang with.  Sitting at the table, petting purring kitties and listening to the rustle of the palms in the wind made it feel like a normal day.  Of course the beginning of the recording had way too much landscaping weed whackin sfx and the end ironically had some sirens in the distance.  Echoing my thoughts a bit through that the piano felt good.  So this noodle is a mixed attempt noodle in that I took breaks in between a 4hrish sesh and smeared something onto the keys hoping for the best.  There were a lot of undos and space bar smacks as well tongue 
Thank you for reading my novellas and thank you for listening and commenting.  This community has always been awesome and supportive through times like these. heart


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Kitties have that kind of way about them, glad to hear they're around.  A beautiful noodle, the opening had a real Nick Cave/Warren Ellis feel to it before the tone switched to be a little more uplifted...and those sirens, I would have 100% believed you'd sampled them in.  Give the kitties all the scritches

wishing you some peace this week!

glad music has been helping/soothing

trying to limit news etc.

been rewatching one of my favorite shows with josh - it makes us laugh really hard & leaves a lot of space - that's been helpful

this track (very soothing) almost feels like it would fit in one of the scenes heart


it helps, Wizard. it really does.
thank you.

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

Lovely. Really beautiful. And the ambient environment adds so much here it's really wonderful.

Hard to find words but I will note that your noodle skills reign supreme when it comes to adding those tiny mode changes and minor note accents and shifts in scale... it does something wonderful to my brain, one of those magic powers music can have and you wield it brilliantly.

So delicate. A 'new' criminal president shouldn't change that much life on your day to day... At least I hope so, here up north the news is a bit scary too, but in the end, the people do more changes than the elite.

Take care!

Beautiful you play.  You are my noodle-king. Stay strong.

Kitties are the best form of therapy and music is probably right there behind them.  I definitely need some soothing tones after this horrible week as well and this really helped, so thanks.

Same. Hope you're doing okay. Hang in there. heart
Thanks for sharing this beautifully serene piece. It's much-needed right now.

This actually sits as a really nice transition from your track last week.  Time to just relax and settle down, again great use of the backyard field recordings, especially when the intensity of the piano picks up with the sirens in the back.

ahh that Gilmore track... Romany has such a great voice.
and Wu-Lu is new to me, really nice. cheers!

Love the fuzz and ambience - very tasteful and adds a lot to the already excellent music. relaxing and reflective! thanks tone matrix

I feel ya, what a week, what a weird reality, ugggggh. Music gets us through, and community like this!
This song is a lovely, calm moment of peace, this song gets us through as well. thanks for this moment! Your music always brings good feels.

So I just went down a mini Gilmore rabbit hole, listened to few songs, watched the video, loving his new album! He's got a magic, and his daughter's vocals, wow. I watched his interview on Fallon too, that was pretty cool.
I'll listen to Wu-Lu, thanks for sharing!

I wish we could stop with remakes of old shows that were really pretty poor to begin with. Let's make something new, with love.

Best of luck dealing with the stress. I think the real enemy is tribalism and how social media and news cycles amplify the hate. In the end, 90%+ of all people are really decent people and when you get down to a real conversation, you realize how everyone aspires to similar stuff, and is trying to do the best they can, but tribalism makes it easy to hate the other, however it is defined.

Much love your way, I hope you'll feel better. And thank you for your emotional piano pieces.

always a fantastic journey with your noodles. I think we all need to get out and touch grass, pet cats and make music with all the shit going on in the US right now. really like the change up around 3min. Love listening to you and also thankful for this community.

Yard kitties!
I love this. It's so soft and reminiscent. Thoughts of different times.

Very pretty piece, that'll keep us going for a while, I'm sure.
- Spider

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