from Oannes blog…
…for a Sunday morning
Ο Χορός των Ευλογημένων Πνευμάτων, από τον “Ορφέα και Ευρυδίκη”, του ανανεωτή της όπερας C.W. Gluck. Μπαρόκ δοσμένο με όρους ρομαντισμού [δεν υπάρχουν εδώ “όργανα εποχής”] αλλά με απαράμιλλη μουσικότητα, από τον Κάραγιαν και τη Φιλαρμονική του Βερολίνου.
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Dance of the Blessed Spirits, from “Orpheus and Eurydice”, written by the opera reformer C.W. Gluck. Baroque given in terms of Romantic [no Baroque instruments] but with unmatched musicality, by Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic.
More about these reblogs
Lately I have been rebloging music videos from Oannes new blog. For my friends who didn’t know, or wonder why…. Oannes [aka Socratis Papahatzis] is my husband, partner in life and music and the one with my undying admiration. Together we have a band MK-O [the music of Marina Kanavaki & Oannes]. So, it’s my pleasure to share with you his [and mine] musical selections. • Although here I reblog mainly his musical selections, he writes exceptional articles on various topics [some may need translation], so do visit his site. He has my highest recommendation!
Categories: MUSIC, Oannes Reblog, video
Marina Kanavaki 
Cool, well you have the talent to merit the benefits of a pro studio. So I guess you took the stems in and let the engineer level it all out? I love mastering… Fiddling with levels, sidechaining, compression… But I’m still learning. For me it takes so bloody long and then nobody likes it! One can get discouraged. But one must also follow one’s muse. 💫
You should not get discouraged, it is first and foremost done for your own pleasure and if it pleases you, sure enough you’ll get your audience. I’d love to listen btw! Re studio… we take our pre-mixed tracks, -if needed- record instruments and voices and then listen on monitors and fiddle with levels etc The engineer is the brave person who will listen and carry out our instructions! 😉 I also love fiddling with levels / effects etc and yes, one must definitely follow one’s muse!!!! 🙂
Thanks. I’m gearing up to start again. But with the freakin’ windows 10 update (I used to use win 7) I suddenly have far less RAM. It has a psychological effect on my creativity. It feels cramped… btw… I like your time paintings. My little tablet crashed who!e trying to view/like them. But I’ll get back with PC in due course. Xx p.s. I’m all over SoundCloud by various names. A lot of raw learning stuff and a few with potential, imho! 😀
…and some of those names are?…. [at soundcloud]
Don’t even get me started on Windows! I’m a mac person but we use a pc for music and I’m incompatible with it [even if I’m the techie of the two]. Honestly, I wish we could just go back to a 4-track recording!
Lol… When I get back to my PC I’ll forward some links to some of my favs. But let me tell you, I really am bedroom. What you and your husband do is far more evolved. Part of my prob is rushing… Along with other factors previously mentioned. I began, btw, with a two track reel to reel! Born in ’62 so may have a decade or so on you. 🙂
…less! 😉 We’re in the same decade!
Well, looks like you’ve found the elixir of life! ☺
😂🤣😂🤣photo is 19 years old! 😉
beauty is within.. 🙂 Here’a a funny one I did a few years ago… remember i was raised on 70s cop shows… https://soundcloud.com/dedrokstarz/on-a-star
it gets a bit boring but basically i was just learning how to mix in sound fx
Love it!!!!!! Brilliant track!!!!! I don’t see what you mean by boring at all… 🙂
I find it gets a bit “sickly” sounding toward the end. I’m using a real telecaster and an old Fostex 4-track as the preamp. It’s a noisy preamp (80s machine). After that I switched to using a stratocaster soundfont with the pitch wheel. That is, playing guitar on the piano keyboard. Much cleaner… 🙂
Here’s another one that I did within the last year… it gets dull too but I like the beginning… a bit of a rip off from Holst.. the voice is totally computer-generated… which was fun to play with…
I like the beginning too and also I can ‘hear’ more stuff that could be going on afterwards and in JCN 0017’s phrases… Fun listening too! 🙂
Yeah well as an artistic intuitive I’m sure you could add a lot to something like this. It does sound only half-done. 🙂
Here’s one i did to commemorate the life and death of david bowie, whom i adore…
it’s a bit mechanical but what the…
We were both devastated [especially hubby!] when we heard about his death. You tribute is beautiful! 🙂
Thanks, yeah db helped me thru some transformations, for sure. I began life just an ordinary guy. Didn’t believe in God, spirituality, etc. I though science had all the answers. Lots of ch ch ch changes, for sure. Thanks also for taking the time to listen to my bedroom stuff. Part of me wants to get a big, high-powered computer and all the big software names – Nexus, Sylenth, Serum etc. But for now I mostly use my humble i3 and Vst4Free. If I feel called to go to the next level I will. But right now it’s actually writing… that’s where my “energy” is going as the Jungians say. 🙂
here’s a sappy one i did – obvious McCartney synthesis… the sax SoundFont is a bit out of tune here and there… maybe i could have fixed that..
https://soundcloud.com/earthpages/70sfeelgoodlove
H ha …sappy… lovely tune [even when slightly out of tune! ] 😉 I’m not one to fix ‘out of tunes’, I kind of like them, which is where hubby comes in! 😉
It’s nice you have a compatible collaborator ! I’ll have to drift over to your husband’s site and check it out. Although I live/work at home, time is of the essence… 🤩
It is indeed! I know you’ll enjoy visiting his site… when you get time. I’m aware of how limited time is… 🙂
Yes I guess you are! 🙂
🙂
Here’s a sort of conventional ‘garage band’ one that has a nice vocal melody but i just haven’t been able to nail it yet…
based on breaking up with my last g/f, quite a few years ago.. 🙂
Ah…. the breaking up melody… Lovely tune. 🙂
Yeah I just need a hot female vocal… 🙂 I tried chanelling Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitz and God knows who else but I just couldn’t get it myself. 🙂
alan parsons eat your heart out!
not too outstanding except i like the guitar solo about halfway thru…
oops sorry.. i posted the same one twice by mistake.. here’s the alan parsons one
time to stop… (goofing up always tells me that)
sorry to inundate you and your blog… pls don’t feel compelled to listen to it all.. just thought i’d give a sampling.. i do a lot of ambient spacy stuff too. 🙂
Mike Clark ey?! Really like that one! I see I’m going to have fun exploring more!!!! 🙂
lol… that’s my name don’t wear it out! 😉
🙂 🙂
here’s one i did quite a while ago… i put on a fake Russian accent – sort of a spy vs spy theme – but basically the song came from a brief infatuation with a younger Russian woman!
this one hasn’t aged too well… sounds thin today…
a ha ha ha… the accent!!!!!!!!! 😂🤣😂🤣 Like it …doesn’t sound aged actually! 🙂
He’s one of my fav conductors. Just gets it right. Not too pretentious. Not too casual.
In this case, he gets it …more than right. Like many conductors, he has his highs and lows but admittedly, his ‘lows’ are pretty good too. I’ve heard conductors do a wonderful job on a symphony and years later slaughtering it by madly accelerating the tempo!
Yeah, it’s fun to compare different versions of the same piece. I find the same thing with piano solos, which I partic. like. The Naxos online music service is really good for comparing. Luckily, we get it through the library here. 🙂
Ah, thank you for mentioning The Naxos online music – I’ll check it out. We’ve always been fond of that label so this sounds like a treasure! 🙂 🙂
It actually carries hundreds of thousands of CDs from most of the major labels… Sony , EMI, Deutsche G., along with Naxos CDs. One of the best kept secrets on the web, which is unfortunate. I think they need a better marketing director! 🙂🙋
Maybe it’s better that way… I’ve always thought that one has to ‘steal’ art [as in, wanting to search for it]. 😉 🙂
Well, if Prometheus could steal fire… 🙃 But seriously, I just follow my instinct on everything. Instinct tempered with reason and experience. 🙂😇
😂🤣Best kind of instinct! 😉
p.s. I’m diggin’ your lp on YouTube. Carrying me through a slightly sleep deprived, cold and snowy afternoon.. Also liked your performance at the library. Some really interesting arrangements and playing around with the flow, tempo, etc. 🪐
Awww thank you very much for your kind words! I do hope you managed to avoid getting ‘seasick’ from the shakey camera!!!! 😉 The arrangements were the first ones I did before going in studio to record what was to be my first solo album. Same one was later re-arranged and republished after the death of Elias Petropoulos (poet), by Oannes (my husband and shortly after co-writer of MK-O). I’m really glad you enjoyed our music!
🤣 (seasick, that’s funny!) But seriously, you both have a lot of talent! I’m a bedroom musician (I use Reaper) and find that my mixes are always a touch uneven. My bedroom isn’t ‘treated” as they say, and I just use different home speakers. No studio monitors, etc. It must be nice to have real gear at your disposal. The CDs production values are really quite impressive. Mature themes evolving over time. I don’t know how you did it! 🙂
You are so generous… thank you! I’m a ‘bedroom musician’ too if by that you mean not having a ‘proper’ recording home studio. Eventhough we do have a small home studio setup, we rarely use monitors to listen and the room is not ‘treated’! In fact I’ve always worked with headphones whether listening or recording. I enjoy the isolation/seclusion [I’m not sure which is more appropriate] and privacy of it. I’m so flattered by your words [and I speak for Socratis -Oannes- too] all the more that we never had any ‘help’ from anyone [producer/arranger etc], solo or as a duet. A big thank you from both! 🙂
Wow it sounds like the cd was done in a major studio. Now I’m really impressed. My bro gave me some awesome phones for mixing but I have unequal hearing in my R/L ears. Right ear is fantastic 20 – 20k Hz, left ear falls short around 20khz (we used outboard motors a lot as kids = loud! 😒) The upshot is uneven hearing. So speakers work better pour moi. I also listened a bit at ReverbNation. Your husband (I assume) was playing a really nice fat synth. Analog4ever! 😇😀
Analog forever indeed!!!!! We both play …depends which one you’re listening to but as a rule boss is the man 😉🤣 and he’s also a master on guitar/bass. Final mixes, voices and mastering were done in a pro studio but everything was more or less ready.