"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.

Electro from Dusseldorf : Lars Leonhard

I recently discovered this great artist from Germany (Düsseldorf).

http://www.lars-leonhard.de/

This is nice good electronic music. He recently composed the song Thunderbolt (available on bandcamp) for Nasa videos:

NASA | Fiery Looping Rain on the Sun">NASA | Fiery Looping Rain on the Sun 

 20 February 2013

Now there is a new video online:

NASA | First X-Class Solar Flares of 2013

13 May 2013

NOTE: I forgot to mention his account on soundcloud:

https://soundcloud.com/larsleonhard

Get Lucky and Random Access Memories

Finally Daft Punk are back, with a promising album.

For their new album, rather than using samples from famous artists, they got the artits to play for them (Except for the last track "Contact"). Apparently they worked on the album since 2008 but were not satisfied as it was still based on sythezisers. So they gathered some people to play their stuff. And not just anybody. First there is Nile Rodgers, the co-founder of the famous band "Chic". His basslines were always great, no wonder the Sugarhill Gang used his line from "Good Times" for their "Rapper's Delight" (that song was the first hip hop / rap song to enter the charts)

There is also the record producer Giorgio Moroder. I might say that he really influenced the dance genre during the disco era since his productions with Donna Summer (for example "Love to Love you Baby").

Then there is Pharrell Williams, I knew less, yet he is a successful producer and singer (and apparently fashion designer), Julian Casablancas, frontman of he Strokes, Noah Benjamin Lennox, known as Panda Bear, founder of Animal Collective, song writer Paul Williams and producer Todd Edwards.

The released single "Get lucky" is already in the top charts:

Some say that they brought back the soul of music, and that it will maybe mark a change in music, "Back to the instruments". For Daft Punk it will certainly be remembered as a milestone in their career.

I also like the retro-artwork. Since I saw the title it triggered a memory, but I was not quite sure where i saw that kind of writing.

But then I tumbled on the following image:

Yes, they did it. (Is Guy-Manuel pretending to become the next king of pop?)

We will have to be patient for a couple of weeks until we can listen to the full album.

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