darren r hill

the creative minimalist

Category: Music

All posts relating to music, either my own songs, soundscapes and other compositions, or music created by others

  • Turning up the heat on Music Monday

    Lyric sheets for Astral Visions and The Path

    This past week, I have been working on several new music tracks. The way they are coming together, and new tracks seem to be wanting to join in, it feels like this could be a new album. I want to avoid committing at the moment, but it is beginning to feel that way. This week’s creative prompt is heat, which is apt as it feels like the creative heat is rising. A new album could be on the way. It’s a long way off, but the muse is beginning to weave her magic.

    The current track list is:

    • Astral Visions
    • The Sun and the Moon
    • The Path
    • Your Touch (soon)

    I know that is only four songs, but a couple of days ago it was only two. At this rate of growth, I might have the album outline by next Monday. And, seeing as Mondays are Music Mondays, I’ll keep you up to date.

    Meanwhile, and to tie into the weekly creative prompt, here’s a version of Heat by Soft Cell that I found on that YouTube. Someone has spliced the recorded audio with an old TV recording, enjoy.

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    d
    xox

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  • New Music on Music Monday

    Due to a series of fortunate events, I was motivated into putting more of my music out into the world. A few years ago I released Pilgrimage and possibilities, and Transformation and freedom on Bandcamp. Since then, I have shared the music on Patreon. I have used it as background music on my YouTube videos and allowed others to use it. (And if any of you would like some music, please ask, it is a pleasure to create and share.)

    Back to the series of events. Dianne Fago Art used one of the tracks from Transformation on a recent video. Now YouTube has an automatic copyright infringement detection tool. This clever AI goes through any music and video at the upload stage and flags content that belongs to someone else. This enables the copyright holder to get their fair share of advertising royalties. In theory, this is good. In practice, it doesn’t always work.

    As Dianne was uploading her video, the music was flagged as belonging to someone else. Unfortunately, that person wasn’t me. The AI had got things mixed up and now there is the rigmarole of sorting it out. To point out that the AI had got things wrongs, I uploaded the piece of music to YouTube, and it didn’t get flagged. Here it is…

    This isn’t the only incidence. I remember another piece of mine being flagged a few years back. Things should have improved by now, but they haven’t. Just the other week, someone on YouTube was going through a similar infringement issue when a singing bowl they were playing live was spotted by the AI. I know some people are afraid of Artificial Intelligences taking over the world, but I think it might be a way off.

    Back to the music. Having remembered I had those two albums on Bandcamp, I decided to share them further. I jumped over to distrokid, where I was planning on releasing some music later this year, and set up an immediate release. If you follow the links below, you’ll now find Pilgrimage and Transformation on all the major (and many minor) streaming platforms. From Apple and Amazon to Pandora and Spotify, whatever music site you use, you’ll find my music. Alternatively, simply search for this temple eden and you’ll find me.

    Transformation and freedom

    Pilgrimage and possibilities

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    xox

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  • Summer Solstice Blessings and some music

    Summer Solstice Blessings and some music

    solstice by this temple eden

    Blessing to you all on this Summer Solstice

    Today is the Summer Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere and the Winter Solstice in the Southern Hemisphere. I wrote a piece of music inspired by the Solstice and I am sharing aversion of it with you today. You can listen (and watch) below or click through to watch on YouTube, where you could also subscribe to my channel if you would like.

  • Free Christmas Holiday Music

    I wrote a piece of music for the Christmas holidays. I now offer it to you. You can hear it below or download to keep and listen anytime you want. I hope it brings you a little pleasure in these difficult times. As you hear the bells jingle raise a prayer or intention and perhaps you’ll receive that Christmas miracle.

    Please share this page with anyone you think might like to have a little uplifting tune

    Download here (Dropbox)

    If you like the music be sure to check out my Bandcamp page and this temple eden homepage, where you’ll find more music and related news and information. In the meantime, enjoy the holidays safely when they arrive and have a lovely weekend.

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    d
    xox

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    a short soundscape

  • Lockdown Beltane Mixtape

    I made a mixtape of songs that have been bouncing between my ears recently. They all have a vague link, in my head, with the current lockdown and Beltane, which has just passed. It’s just under 40 minutes long, so if you want to have a musical meander for a bit, scroll down.

    The mixtape starts with wanting to be somewhere else and in love, onto trying to sort out life, via a dose of immortality and then getting a bit hippie and new age with Marc Bolan. To balance things out, for those who are not new age, it ends with a little witch burning. I like to please everyone. (Actually, please don’t burn witches, it’s not big or clever. Don’t bow to Hansel and Gretel’s peer pressure.*)

    *Actually, Gretel pushed the old woman into an oven so technically it wasn’t a witch-burning as such. However, unless someone came and let the old lady out she would have burnt like anything left in an oven for too long.

    Apart from that, and just like a FaceBook meme, I’m not going to say anything about the individual tracks. They are simply tracks that are hanging out with me at the current moment.

    You can listen to the Lockdown Beltane Mixtape on

    Apple Music

    or Spotify

    Or watch the individual videos of the tracks below…

    Heavenly

    Cigarettes After Sex

    https://youtu.be/6LmzF7-8flk

    Congregation

    Low

    Or a version using footage from Devs

    Fixture Picture

    Aldous Harding

    Diary

    Weyes Blood

    Exhibition

    Gary Numan

    Immortals

    Jean-Michel Jarre & F&%k Buttons

    Ride a White Swan

    T. Rex

    Burn the Witch

    Radiohead

    I hope you enjoyed the Lockdown Beltane Mixtape, and remember mixtapes are not just for lockdown but for the whole year x

    Original tape image by Bruno /Germany from Pixabay

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    d
    xox

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