Norman Warren
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Band/artist history
I love listening to and composing music, especially in the Jazzy, ambient, bassy, beat, string genre. I prefer to create compositions with no fixed boundaries. My mother played all of the sophistocated jazz/vocals classics of the 50's and 60's, along with those Hollywood musicals, I was fascinated by Fred Astaire...those beats and his incredible timing! I was soaked in all the color of Piano/Guitar/Strings and Syncopated rhythms. From then on I began messing about on Guitar and Piano at school. After seeing Enter the Dragon in the early seventies with Lalo Schiffrin's classic film score, I was hooked on the style and feel of his music. I have my sister to thank for introducing me to Burt Bacharach's beautiful compositions. With the explosion of Disco, Funk, and Jazzfunk..it was a great time to be involved in the club scene. The first live band I saw was Betty Wright and the Cleanup men around '75, I was in my element! Enter the eighties....I bought an Ensoniq SQ1 and an Atari 1040 ste, along with stiff fingers and plenty of passion and ideas, I got busy using the one and only Emagic Creator/Notator sequencer, in my opinion one of the best music software platforms of that era.Have you performed in front of an audience?No.
Your musical influences
Burt Bacharach Lalo Schiffrin Bob James Andreas Vollenweider Quincy Jones Herbie Hancock Weather Report Jaco Pastorius Pat Metheny Frank Sinatra Irving Berlin George Gershwin Count Basie Cole Porter Everything Motown George Benson Spyro Gyro George Duke The Brothers Johnson James Brown Ralph Towner Lee Ritenour Stanley Clarke Bill Laswell The ECM label Kool and the Gang Rose Royce Brass Construction Marvin Gaye Gill Scott Heron Artie Shaw Robbie Vincent The Beatles Ray Charles Disco Funk Jazz Funk The Orb Bootsy Collins StingWhat equipment do you use?
Ableton Live 11 Suite, Push 3 iMac and Macbook pro. Yamaha keys.Anything else?
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Excellent one! I am glad Alexander Port pointed me to this!!! This is oustanding, well elaboreted and builded up: .....splendid Rhodes & Bass work!! 15 minutes of pure pleasure and listening enchantements. Really excellent!! :)Wow, this has got such a vibe. That start is again very fantastic, making me very curious what will happen next.
There is such a nice groove in here. Enjoyable!And now I'm listening further. Yes I agree, the intro is really superb.
This one has got such a "driving the car" feeling, a very very long, empty highway in the middle of the night.
Very cool!Oh, I'm a fan of this track for so long, glad I found it back on the charts. This is just pure inspiration.
I like the time you are taking for it, the very slow, cool, relaxed building up.
And now I'm just enjoying it very much.All comments (40)
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Norman, I am glad you headed me to your new one!!! :D It is beautiful in my opinion! A extraordinary intro ( classy keys), slow growing build up, a clear idea (theme) developed in such a clever way. Masterfully arranged and mixed instrumentations, but, the vocals-fx parts own a special timbre and drive. A surprise for me was the part at about 02:19 (male singers loop)! I love the originality of this part!!! Just like your last tune I commented before, it was a pure relaxation and musical joy listening to all the 10 minutes long, not a second of dull!! WOW!! Respect Norman, my kudos to you!! :-) Cheers to the music.