Castle Garden

HolyHammer · Castle Garden Demo

I'm long overdue on posting, but since I have more free time on my hands recently, it's time to get back to business.

This started out as a Quartet in D, then had full orchestral strings added along with piano and glockenspiel, so I went with calling it "Castle Garden" in the end because it has that meandering through the palace grounds sort of feel to it.  Also, my daughter informs me that the glockenspiel and harp definitely give it that 'fairy princess' vibe.  A bit emasculating, really, but I'm sure she means well.

The description listed online is as follows...

A relaxing, but upbeat orchestral song I imagined as a soundtrack for wandering around and enjoying a beautiful classical garden. It uses both orchestral and solo stringed instruments, harp, piano, and glockenspiel. Solo instruments include the violin, viola, cello, and harp.

I also included "pastoral" as one of the key words, even though no one in the world will every search for a song using that term.  But it IS pastoral - and I would use it as a search term.  

Four Descents

Nothing fancy here, just four new descending lines for use in film, video or audio productions. Four little branding idents to provide an audio background of something falling or descending.

Four Descents

Drunken Robot

 I haven't been super faithful with posting this summer - mostly due to laziness, I guess.  So here's a link to a demo of a new one I just put up for submission called "Drunken Robot."

https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZXsMyXZ5mzNQTKprH5mbncjL62XJz0mlcJy

In all honesty, I'll be pleasantly surprised if this one gets accepted for sale.  If it does, I know for a fact that I will OWN the "drunken robot" search term.  (FYI, I have already checked.) Someday, somewhere, someone is going to need a little theme song to go along with a robot on a bender.  Someone had to write and record it....why not me?  BTW, the robot gets sick at 1:23 (yes...that is what a robot sounds like when he throws up) and is singing along in an annoying way at 1:44.

I know, Beethoven would have been ashamed of me.  Mozart would have gotten a kick out of it, though.  Then he would have gone off and written a better one.

 Just a quick note that my "Not My Tribe" submission was accepted for sale by Audio Jungle.  That brings the total number of recordings up to 202.  Approvals get a little harder every summer, so I consider that a pretty respectable number. 

New Podcast Theme

This is just a short little theme for podcast/broadcast use. I'm a fan of the "bwoopy" sound of the udu.

PODCAST THEME

Posting a new one here that I am calling "Not My Tribe" for now. Honestly, I'm not sure what to call it, and I'm not sure which genre to submit it in. And I'm not sure whether it has vocals or not. No one actually sang, I used a couple different synth audio vocal, so I'm not sure if they count or not. I'm also attempting to link to a new online storage medium for music, since my soundcloud account is nearly full. $12/month seems a little steep for my needs, and I'm too lazy to delete any of my old stuff. I'm giving pCloud a try to see how well it works.

This is a demo of a 2:09 violin solo with piano accompaniment that I wrote & recorded for anything that needs a little maudlin audio. Two minutes of sad, dreary and depressing drama. Hopefully on sale on audio jungle at the end of July, 2020 - a year in which there was much to be maudlin about.

HolyHammer · Ruins In The Rain Demo