"Cold Sweat" on TV

Thomas Lesourd's film "Cold Sweat", based on my music, has been broadcast part of some French arty TV show on TéléNantes. Nice! At 33.15 of the program.

Free Album : "Upon a Sleepless River"

As mentioned by a reader, the netlabel which hosted this instrumental album has gone missing...

So I'm releasing this again here.

Download the whole album with artwork.

"Upon a Sleepless River" is a dense, dark, political, cinematographic album with moody piano improvisations, noise experiments and a mix of cold digital landscapes and searing analogue leads.

This is a work about victory in the XXth century, from Harry Truman to General McArthur, with Kurtz the European Son providing historical perspective.

1 - Harry S. Truman at Hiroshima

2 - The European Son

3 - Last Words of Mistah Kurtz

4 - A Remarkable Man

5 - McArthur visits Unit 731

6 - Upon a Sleepless River

Main instruments : Moog Little Phatty, Prophet 08, M-Tron, Korg Wavestation, Roland D50.

Groove on “Last Words” and ambient sound design on “McArthur” by John Fisher aka Ricemutt aka Bagger288.

“McArthur” is featured on short film “Cold Sweat” by Thomas Lesourd.

Cold Sweat from Thomas lesourd on Vimeo.

Yup, It's Dead

Looks like netlabel Bitkins is dead indeed and its creator is out of reach.
So, I'll be releasing again here my instrumental albums, "Upon a Sleepless River" and "Uniforms of Snow", in a remastered version.

Dead Site?

As a reader kindly told me, the Bitkins.com website is down.
It's the netlabel for my instrumental albums, "Uniforms of Snow" and more recently, "Upon a Sleepless River".
I'm checking into that and if it turns out it's definitely dead, I'll re-release the albums.
A track from "Upon a Sleepless River" has been used in "Cold Sweat".

"Cold Sweat" Wins Festival Prize

"Cold Sweat", the Thomas Lesourd short movie featuring music from my "Upon a Sleepless River" EP, has placed 3rd at the DSLRcinema First Film Festival "Speechless".

Congrats to the man for this fantastic ambient piece of film.

You can download for free the "Upon a Sleepless River" album at Bitkins.com.

Cold Sweat (5mn version) from Thomas lesourd on Vimeo.

The European Son

Another track from the instrumental "Upon a Sleepless River" album, available as free download on Bitkins label.

This was mostly done with Korg Wavestation, Moog Little Phatty and Prophet 08.

The European Son by khoral

Upon a Sleepless River

Final track off the new "Upon a Sleepless River" album on Bitkins.

All done with Gforce M-Tron Pro.

Upon a Sleepless River by khoral

New Free Album : Upon a Sleepless River

If things are on schedule, my new instrumental album has been released today on netlabel www.bitkins.com.

"Upon a Sleepless River" is a dense, dark, political, cinematographic album with moody piano improvisations, noise experiments and a mix of cold digital landscapes and searing analogue leads.

This is a work about victory in the XXth century, from Harry Truman to General McArthur, with Kurtz the European Son providing historical perspective.

 1 - Harry S. Truman at Hiroshima

2 - The European Son

3 - Last Words of Mistah Kurtz

4 - A Remarkable Man

5 - McArthur visits Unit 731

6 - Upon a Sleepless River

Main instruments : Moog Little Phatty, Prophet 08, M-Tron, Korg Wavestation, Roland D50.

Groove on “Last Words” and ambient sound design on “McArthur” by John Fisher aka Ricemutt aka Bagger288.

 “McArthur” is featured on short film “Cold Sweat” by Thomas Lesourd : http://vimeo.com/12580670

The album is available as a free download or CD on www.bitkins.com.

Check it out!

Upcoming Album : Saturday 7th August

New instrumental album "Upon a Sleepless River"will be released on www.bitkins.com next saturday 7th.

"Upon a Sleepless River" is a dense, dark, political, cinematographic album with moody piano improvisations, noise experiments and a mix of cold digital landscapes and searing analogue leads.
This is a work about victory in the XXth century, from Harry Truman to General McArthur, with Kurtz the European Son providing historical perspective.

1 - Harry S. Truman at Hiroshima
2 - The European Son
3 - Last Words of Mistah Kurtz
4 - A Remarkable Man
5 - McArthur visits Unit 731
6 - Upon a Sleepless River

Main instruments : Moog Little Phatty, Prophet 08, M-Tron, Korg Wavestation, Roland D50.

Track 5 "McArthur" is featured on short film "Cold Sweat".

Coming Soon

Netlabel Bitkins is currently undergoing a big upgrade, but it looks like it's coming to fruition.

Which means my new instrumental album, "Upon a Sleepless River" will soon be released.

Check out previous post "Cold Sweat" for a preview.

Cold Sweat

Fifth track off the upcoming "Upon a Sleepless River" album, "McArthur Visits Unit 731" is featured on this great short film by director Thomas Lesourd.

I am very pleased with the result and sure look forward collaborating again with him.

Cold Sweat from Thomas lesourd on Vimeo.

Polishing...

I'm also putting the final touches on the instrumental album "Upon a Sleepless River", which will be released on netlabel Bitkins.

This is a dark, brooding work about victory dancing in the XXth century.

1 - Harry S. Truman at Hiroshima

2 - The European Son

3 - Last Words of Mistah Kurtz

4 - A Remarkable Man

5 - McArthur visits Unit 731

6 - Upon a Sleepless River

It was mostly done with Gforce Mellotron plugins (regular and pro), Korg Wavestation and Roland D50, with the usual analog suspects providing warmth and depth (Moog Little Phatty and Prophet 08).

I'm not sure yet when it will be released, since the netlabel is currently undergoing a refit.

The fifth track will also be featured on a silent movie.

More to come...

Upcoming : "Upon a Sleepless River"

So, there's been a couple of good releases lately (notably Tsinam's "Chasing Ghosts" and the Police covers), but I've still lots of music to put out there this year, because basically I can't stop working.

"Upon a Sleepless River" is an instrumental album to be released soon on netlabel Bitkins (which already released my "Uniforms of Snow" album).

"Upon a Sleepless River" is a dense, dark, political, cinematographic work with moody piano improvisations, noise experiments and a mix of cold digital landscapes and searing analogue leads.

A couple of tracks will feature the grooves and ambient sound design of Mr Fisher aka Ricemutt aka Bagger288 aka Golden Master.

The good people at Bitkins are currently reworking the site, so I'll let you know the final release date when it comes.