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Beauty and Rain
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An ambient/space music piece for electric guitar and synths. A bit reminiescent of "Rainbow Dome Music" by Steve Hillage.
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Ambient electronic music for guitars and synthesizers.
Sleep Distance is my ambient/electronic music project. I am a guitarist, and I like incorporating synths and ambient guitar sounds in my music. I also very much enjoy Michael Manring's fretless bass pieces, and so I play some fretless bass in a few of my compositions. Some of my pieces are a little more composed, others are largely improvised.
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World • New Age
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#4,909 today Peak #98
#678 in subgenre Peak #28
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Rob Wessel
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July 02, 2011
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MP3 8.0 MB • 128 kbps • 8:46
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The piece was more or less improvised. I started with just a basic idea on the guitar, hit record and found out later where it went. It ended up sounding a little like "Rainbow Dome Music " by Steve Hillage when I got done. Still a very cool album after all these years. Guitars, delays, lovely synth sounds. Both guitars in Beauty and Rain were a Hamer Artist Korina with Seymour Duncan 59 pickups through a Genz Benz El Diablo 60 amp into a Marshall 1-12 open back speaker. The delay is a Rocktron Replifex. I'm really liking what the compressor and saturation knob on my Presonus Eureka channel strip do for guitar tones! It makes the guitar sound warm and smooth. 7/2/2011: New version uploaded! The synth pads sounded a little too metalic so I found some softer sounding ones. First time using Absynth in a piece now! I still didn't wanna just wanna fall back on the ol' standby sawtooth analog sound.
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Michael Duran
Mar 30, 2011
nice gentle relaxing tone from the harmonic plinking. very enjoyable vibe
Major Snagg
Mar 23, 2011
Now there's a name you don't hear much these days ...Steve Hillage. He was one of my early guitar heroes. I still have Rainbow Dome Music LP in clear vinyl ? Very relaxing and totally fabulous. I could listen to this for hours. :)
windjammerchick
Apr 06, 2010
Lovely. Appropriately titled. An excellent depiction of what rain drops sound like - it is very melodic. You really captured the essence of nature's music. Another great piece!