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Ambient, dreamy, chill out with a jazzy twist built on catchy melodies and cool chords. Everything composed, mixed and produced on my iPhone.
Budapest Dream Orchestra consists of me, my iPhone 4 and the apps iSequence and Music Studio.
It was formed at some point in 2009.
In September 2009 I got an iPhone and after a while my interest to compose music returned, after a twenty-year absence. I searched for an app, found several and ended up with iSequence on my iPhone 3G. I started to make ambient, beautiful music with a jazzy twist built on catchy melodies and cool chord progressions.
The result was Last Train to Vienna, which turned out to be the first full-length album made on an iPhone. It was published on Jamendo.com the 30th of October 2010. I continued to work with my iPhone. Discovered MusicStudio, fell in love with it and made another album. A Winter’s tale was released in January 2011.
Both albums are a mix between joyful exploration and stunning opportunities lost. There are seeds on the albums that strive towards the sound I’m searching for.
The first 7 songs are spread out over a period of almost one year. The first tune I wrote was Gloria Winter. The last one was Balatonbeats, written at lake Balaton in Hungary during the summer 2010.
The next 7 songs are written under a much shorter period, November 2010 to January 2011. The sound is more mature and I found MusicStudio to be a lot more experimental friendly than iSequence. But, it came at a price. The learning curve was much steeper. And I’m still learning!
The first song I did in MusicStudio was A Winter’s Tale. A slow saxophone based tune, somewhat dreamy. Next was Two Tigers Drinking Dr. Pepper. I started work on Snowscapes and it took about 2 weeks to understand what I was doing. But it turned out to something that I really liked. And it has the best bars I’ve written so far. An "h" played by a muted trumpet to finish off a solo.
At present, spring/summer 2011, I’m working on the release of my third album, Naked Pavement. In mid June/July I plan to release my forth album, Ocean Suburbs.
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So beautiful..magnificent composition and musical performance. Winter is my favorite time of year, also Autumn. Thank you so much for great comment and rating as well.