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Departure


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SmokeyVW

 Genre: Ambient

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album: Our Local Cluster
track 1: 3:12 CA67
track 2: 3:12 Do I Know You?
track 3: 2:21 I Am A Cat
track 4: 3:50 Luv
track 5: 3:04 Just Occasionally Still
track 6: 5:44 Departure
track 7: 4:48 Dissociation Break
track 8: 2:08 Ack Ack
track 9: 6:49 Listlessness
track 10: 4:07 Just A Meter
track 11: 5:02 It Slowly Dawned
track 12: 2:19 grg
track 13: 1:18 Singer
track 14: 2:30 Blooper Reel
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Song Description

piano, strings, ambient sounds

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I don't want to say too much about this and risk ruining your first impression. Just close your eyes and listen. Make up a story. Let me know what you came up with...
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Comments: 17
Fans: 6
Plays: 111
Downloads: 52
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Uploaded: Sep 16, 2006 - 10:29:00 PM
Last Updated: Sep 19, 2008 - 12:02:15 PM Last Played: Oct 10, 2009 - 11:11:44 PM
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bud said 1161 days ago (September 17th, 2006)
Beautiful arc...
to this Satie-like piece. Good delicate piano work without becoming
sacharin. You keep the mood and swing through a space coming home
again - hence Departure I guess. Cool how the jet gives way to strings.
- Bud
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SmokeyVW said 1160 days ago (September 18th, 2006)
you flatter me
Satie?! woah. i must admit i'd love to create some real "ambient" - but i'm
several years too late for that. so, i'm just trying to do what i can here and now...
i guess it worked for you... thank you very much.

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Macaudion said 1160 days ago (September 18th, 2006)
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Wow...

Thanks! - Dion
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SmokeyVW said 1160 days ago (September 18th, 2006)
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k!

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scratch_harris said 1160 days ago (September 18th, 2006)
small hours
I loved this from the start and continued to love it. Shockingly good.
Deserves to be heard by every Macjammer.
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SmokeyVW said 1159 days ago (September 19th, 2006)
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thanks for the warm compliment.

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ktb said 1160 days ago (September 18th, 2006)
wonderful imagery
oooh what a calm place you create. restful, beautiful and complete.
nice piano. sparse, lunar phrasing that was amazingly resonant. your
strings and the sounds you used were in the "religious experience"
category. There were times I actually hit pause because I couldn't tell
what was real (the plane) etc... superb. you show great patience and
craft to compose and execute something like this. I see you just posted
33 other tracks so no I have an excuse not to go back to work just yet
:-) splendid
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SmokeyVW said 1159 days ago (September 19th, 2006)
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wow, i guess this ambient sound idea has worked out!

i myself am looking forward to listening to this again in the dead of winter - i
wonder if it will take me back to that warm august evening?

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onesweetworld said 1158 days ago (September 20th, 2006)
very nice
What peaceful yet somber tune. The piano sets the right mood for sure
as well as the delicate pauses between the notes. Ohhhh I like the strings
too!!!

Here's my story: Sitting in a park by myself and full of thoughts. I'm
watching leaves blow in the wind and they're all different colors. It's very
much like the "paper bag" scene from American Beauty. Nice mood I must
say.
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SmokeyVW said 1156 days ago (September 22nd, 2006)
stories
thanks for the comment - yours is the first that actually describes what you were
thinking of while listening... thank you very much for sharing that.

some songs tell stories, and i would love to better understand what kinds of
stories people hear in these kinds of songs...

i have story of my own for when i listen to this - i'll need to post it sometime
soon.


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Schello said 1140 days ago (October 8th, 2006)
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Just sad lovely!
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SmokeyVW said 718 days ago (December 4th, 2007)
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thank you
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guitapick said 719 days ago (December 3rd, 2007)
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As in "it's time to leave, now"...

A quiet way to say "fare thee well" to a friend.

Beautiful piece.....
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SmokeyVW said 718 days ago (December 4th, 2007)
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thanks for adding a comment with a "story"

the story i had in mind was that a loved one was leaving (literally flying away in that plane) with an overtone of the distinct possibility they may never return. maybe a reservist going to the war. or something like that.
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magnatone said 628 days ago (March 3rd, 2008)
This is WONDERFUL
thanks for giving me this link Bill. This is really amazing in every conceivable way. What did you use for the piano - very clear sound, which I have all kinds of trouble with. This is more or less blowing me away! thanks.
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SmokeyVW said 627 days ago (March 4th, 2008)
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the piano is the Steinway Grand from the Orchestra JamPack. i used a Roland XP-50 to play it.

this was a pre-planned improvisation, followed by some editing to fix up mistakes.

i'm glad you dropped by to listen!

thanks
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apod said 46 days ago (October 6th, 2009)
Indeed
Beautiful is the word


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Name: Bill
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Eclectic, at best. I learned some music theory at school, and read a ton about it since. I've listened to lots of music over the years. I once played guitar in an actual garage band and actually got paid to play! Once. Although live performance is an... [see more]

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Ambient music is a loosely defined musical genre that incorporates elements of a number of different styles - including jazz, electronic music, new age, rock and roll, modern classical music, reggae, traditional, world and even noise.

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