First Monday of October

Reflecting...

This piece has some retro videogames-like vibe in it, it reminds me slightly the ending theme of Zelda 3 - a Link to the past. That's about 28 years ago. Almost as old as the photo I shoot of that sunset above. Getting old...

Shamil Elvenheim · First Monday Of October

"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 :)

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

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!