Dreaming all day long

Welcome,

I'm back with a new song, one of my most ambitious one yet. It's a 6 minute long french disco pop style song, coming out on April, the 11th 2025 on most platforms (Amazon, Apple, Deezer, Napster, Spotifiy, Shazam, YouTube Music,... you name it).

Empty Room Remix (Stacey Kelleher)

 Another song I did using the vocals of Stacey Kelleher. Much darker approach on this one.

Shamil Elvenheim · Empty Room - Remix By Elvenheim

Stacey Kelleher

Whale in the sky

I drew the idea with pencil years ago, but never started painting until now.

Acrylic painting on canvas.

Landscape

 Acrylic painting from a photo I took.

Second Day - Jean Greene (쟝그린)

I found this song from a korean guy, and I just fell in love with it. So I asked him if I could do a remix, and he sent me the whole tracks of his song.

To thank him, I did a remaster of his song:

Shamil Elvenheim · Second Day (JeanGreene)

And here is my more dreamy version of his song (I still prefer his original though):

Shamil Elvenheim · Second Day Dream Remix by Elvenheim

Fade from Watermät Remixed

Still alive, still working, still too much going on, not enough time to really get into music...

My next album will be more natural, slightly less synthetic with some nice progressions. Maybe even some lyrics? Who knows? I can already tell that there are really some cool tracks in it. But that's just me talking about my own work, how can that be reliable 😇

When will it be done? That's a good question. Regarding everything what's going on right now, I really can not tell.

Anyway, here is a remix from Watermät's song "Fade" I did a few months ago. Enjoy

Midi sans frontières

Tom Jenkinson (aka Squarepusher) reacts to the recent "Brexit" and states rightfully that this kind of thinking only creates differences, hate, racism and xenophobia. Those in favour do not realize that we are all living on one world, and that we should not close our doors and frontiers to keep staying what we are.

Anyway, Tom Jenkonsion did a song he shares completely and encourages other musicians to reinterpret it as they whish.

I think his song is absolutely gorgeous and didn't want to change too much about it. So I loaded the midi file into my sequencer and let the tracks play my own choice of sounds. I added some drums to it and some noise and there it is.



Enjoy,

Elvenheim

Calymbo Island

Some time ago I got another vocal track from Midicrash Serge, sung this time by "Pirate Maya", and asked me to do something with it. Again, I didn't know the original song, I had nothing but the vocals. First, the tempo, quite tricky but I got it. Then the scale. Wow, that was difficult, because I heard some scale changes. I didn't want to make things complicated, so I used some auto-tuning.

I did one rough version, pitched the vocals slightly up to get a clearer sound, sent it to Serge and he sent me back a new version of the vocal track, with a higher pitch. I wasn't really convinced by this as you can hear the singer reaching her limits. Eventually, after much try and error, I build this electro-pop like song:

Shamil Elvenheim · Kalimbo Island feat. Mary

Only recently I got to listen to the original song, and was quite surprised how it sounds:




Enjoy!

"Don't let them" and other news.

Almost a year has passed without giving you some news. I am still working on a new album, I already released some tracks on Soundcloud, some videos have been uploaded on YouTube and I got a surprise from the Hubble Space Telescope.

But first, I uploaded my album Wormhole on Jamendo:


Why, you may ask, because I wasn't happy about their site for various reasons. I realized that not many people go to http://elvenheim.bandcamp.com/ to listen or download my music. I got the most public on FreeMusicArchive (FMA), but their site seems dead to me. I uploaded only one track from the album on FMA with a link to bandcamp in the description, but nobody seemed to care about it. So now I wanted to upload the rest of the album on FMA, without success though. The tracks are pending, and stay pending forever no matter what I try to do.

Then I looked back to Jamendo, their site seem to work now and I still have an audience there, much more than on bandcamp. So I decided to upload the album also on Jamendo.

That's it about my last (and already old) album. Now for the new stuff. Yes, I am still working on a new album, but I have no idea when it will be released (it will be released once it's finished).

I won't tell much about the next album, there will be new things, maybe some surprises, but overall I think it will be a nice easy to listen-to experience.

Here is a video of "A fantastic journey", a track for the new album:

Two other new tracks, maybe not for the album : "Glistering Sun" and "On the move again" :




Midicrash Surge sent me a recording of Tinna singing and asked me to do something with it without giving me anything else, not even the tempo :). So this is what i came up with: "Don't let them ..."


Surge did a video for the song:



And now for the surprise : I was watching the video "Clash of the Titans: Hubble's Universe Unfiltered" on the YouTube Channel of Hubble Space Telescope when I suddenly realized that my song "Stars" from "strolling through electronic spaces" was playing during the visualization of the Andromeda galaxy approaching and slamming into our Milky Way (starting at 16:14). But they forgot to mention me, so I told them I was very pleased to have my music featured in the video, and asked them to give me credit. They did, and I got even more happier.



That's about it for now, I hope you enjoy listening!

Free music :)

Hi,

As you should know, I am creating music for free. My work is published under a creative commons license, it's free for everybody, you can use it as you wish, I'm only asking to name me as being the artist.

I'm doing electronic, mostly ambient music in order to recreate feelings, moods or to tell a story. Doing a song for the Rust Factory was a great experience.

The Rust Factory

If you like my music you can support me in many ways. You can still support me on Jamendo (even though I will not publish new albums on it), or if you download my latest album "Wormhole" on bandcamp, you can do it for free or even pay the amount you want to.


I am currently working on a new album, so stay alert! I'm coming back :)

Eclipser 1

In November 2012 some scientists had the idea to send a camera on a balloon at an altitude of 25 kilometers to the stratosphere during a total solar eclipse. They weren't interested at the moon or the sun but at the shadow the moon drew on the earth. The eclipse could be seen on the south pacific, from Australia to South-America.

They caught beautiful images of the shadow disc.

Why am I posting this? Except that I'm fascinated by science, just listen to the music.

I did a cover

I'm sorry I neglected my blog for some time. But that doesn't mean that I did nothing. In fact I'm already looking forward for a new album, I already have some almost finished tracks (and some random stuff I still don't know what to do about), even if I'm still not sure where I'm heading...

I'm lately having fun "singing". Well, the brackets are there because I can't sing very well, so I'm using a Vocoder. I shouldn't say "singing", "using my voice in music" may be better instead.

My first try was a cover I did a few months back. I rewrote the song "Something about us" from Daft Punk and added my voice. Positively surprised by the result I gave it my own touch by changing it a little bit.

Shamil Elvenheim · Something about us - Cover by Elvenheim

I would be glad to hear some feedback. So, what you think about it?

Greetings,

Shamil Elvenheim

Elvenheim's Revival

I made this remix of "Revival", a song written by Neil Davidge (Massive Attack) for Halo 4.

I wanted to keep the spirit of the song, while adding an electronic "flair" to it.

Shamil Elvenheim · Elvenheim's Revival

The Rust Factory - Progress

As you (should) know, I'm participating in this project amongst other musicians. Each musician is in charge of one part of the story. I finished my part and a preview is already available on the site.


The story has been divided into different parts, and we could chose the part we wanted to work on. After reading the story I decided to make the third part "L'incident de la Basse Plaine". It is an interesting part, a turning point in the story : calm on the beginning but soon changing into a breathtaking run after a major incident.

Check out THE RUST FACTORY. It's in french though.

See you!

Wormhole

My new album Wormhole is finally finished and available!

Listen to and download it here: http://elvenheim.bandcamp.com/

That was over a year of work. Initially I thought to release it around the end of 2011, but I couldn't finish it at that time. Don't get it wrong, I didn't work on it like "non-stop". I have a job, a family, I can't work on it all day.

I did some final adjustements just a few days before. A major "adjustement" was about changing the 6th track - Alcubierre Drive. Although I did the track about a year ago, it never really convinced me and I was about to take it out from the album. But then I changed completely the drums, changed the EQ, and added some kind of melody. The result is on the album.

Enjoy listening!

Underneath the ocean

I remastered my first album (never published though), Underneath the ocean from 2002.

Tracklist:

1. underneath the ocean
2. into nowhere
3. come farer
4. down the roots
5. highway
6. flowers in NY
7. new hope
8. plastic
9. push_i
10. home
11. vital reality
12. freedom

I will try to upload one track per day (maybe I will also add more "bonus" tracks, which weren't meant to figure on the album)

UPDATE 29/07/2012 : The whole album is uploaded!

Project : The Rust Factory

I'm participating in a project called "The Rust Factory".

The project is about a story which takes place in a fictive future where industries took the leadership of almost the entire world. There are no countries anymore, but worker communities instead.

Every musician participating is in charge of one part of the history (equals to one track). I'm actually doing the third track.

More information about this project: THE RUST FACTORY

My album "Wormhole" is therefore delayed... but not cancelled!

Jamedo, what have you done?!

Since the 26th of April, Jamendo did a big update. And since... it became worse.

1. You can argue about the colour, I don't really like it. But if you think it will just be about that... Many things seem to go wrong.

2. The player is now attached on the bottom of the window and is not in a separated window as it was before. You can't see the playlist anymore either.

3. You can't comment on an album anymore. You can not rate it either. The search engine became strange, it doesn't work for me at all. Jamendo is now based on tracks only. By the way, you can't download a complete album anymore, you have to download each single track.

4. I liked to see albums from other musicians of my country, well you can't do that anymore.

5. My stats went down. Not that I had much listens, but the few I had dropped to 1 per day since Saturday the 28th. My pageviews went to 0 per day since the 24th (before the update).

My pageviews fell suddenly to 0 per day...

What happened with these statistics? This seems to be true for many other artists. I can't believe that people are not listening to music anymore (or do they as it became more difficult to search for musicians?).

I'm really searchin for something that has been improved, but I don't find anything. At least my widgets to my albums on blogger seem still to work.

Many people are also complaining on Jamendo's facebook sites. On jamendo.fr there are only 16 people who likes the update. It's kind of few for such a big site. Too bad you cannot "dislike" it, I wonder how many people that would be.

Chef Georges explained more about it on his blog. It seems that most of the artists are putting some kind of "ultimatum" to Jamendo.

There are many who are angry about it, and I can understand them. There is a facebook page called Old Jamendo Friends the artists can join to act against this non-respect of Jamendo.

I think that Jamendo will improve their site (for the sake of everyone). If not they will shot themselves a bullet in their head.

Now I'm even more encouraged to not publish my next album for free on Jamendo...

Bye Jamendo, it was nice knowing you...

What happened on Wednesday? - RESOLVED!

Sometimes I check out my statistics on Jamendo. I was surprised when I saw this:

183 listens on one day? What?

Before, my album Winterdust was still on the first place (I don't know why though, I suspect a chinese site to refer constantly on that album). But now, things have changed:

Strolling beats Winterdust

So I suppose (because Jamendo's statistics aren't very clear) that this happened all on last Wednesday. I also saw that quite a lot of listeners were guided to my site on Jamendo from Facebook.

So, my question is : what happened on Wednesday?

EDIT:

I found the answer : Jamendo did a tweet that day about my album "strolling through electronic spaces".

The tweet of Jamendo:

"Shamil Elvenheim allie avec brio l'electro et l'ambient, saupoudrant le tout d'une touche de lounge et d'indus...."

Contest "AllForMusic"

Silly me...

I stumbled on this per chance. I saw a contest for musicians in the "L'Essentiel", the winner will get a free recording session for 3 tracks in a new studio in Belgium.

Not that I really wanted to record in a studio, though I gave it a try and sent a just finished track.

Now people have to vote.

It's in french:


http://www.lessentiel.lu/fr/concours_et_jeux/story/Votez-pour-votre-artiste-ou-votre-groupe-prefere--15827722

At least I'm not the last one :)