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Stephen Godsall
United Kingdom
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 30 ส.ค. 2011
New music composed by Stephen Godsall with weekly uploads. Featuring collaborations with other musicians, visuals artist and photographers.
FIRST FROST: Happy Christmas from the Old Forest
For my final 2024 "Track of the month" and Christmas greeting, here's a new piece which channels some of the processional music from Wagner's "Parsifal", a quite different atmosphere from his "Ring" cycle operas.
Thanks to Claire Sheppard of Bramble and Beach Photography for the photos. They were taken in November 2024, capturing the unusually early frost and snow in the North Western part of the forest. It was named "New Forest" by William the Conquerer, almost 1000 years ago. Over 100 years ago, Thomas Hardy referred to it in his "Wessex novels" as the "Old Forest" and I think it's time we caught up!
For the recording, I've also emulated some of the sounds from an ECM album of Armenian music by the Gurdjieff Ensemble, interpreting the compositions of Komitas with traditional instruments such as the "pogh" flute, "knar" harp and "zurna" double-reed instrument. (You can hear about that wonderful album here: th-cam.com/video/Uy0-2mCunNo/w-d-xo.html )
I used my Roland GR55 guitar synth to approximate these expressive sounds for this track.
Hi, I'm Stephen Godsall and I'm a composer/multi instrumentalist from Dorset, England. Thanks for watching and please subscribe to help grow my channel.
Thanks to Claire Sheppard of Bramble and Beach Photography for the photos. They were taken in November 2024, capturing the unusually early frost and snow in the North Western part of the forest. It was named "New Forest" by William the Conquerer, almost 1000 years ago. Over 100 years ago, Thomas Hardy referred to it in his "Wessex novels" as the "Old Forest" and I think it's time we caught up!
For the recording, I've also emulated some of the sounds from an ECM album of Armenian music by the Gurdjieff Ensemble, interpreting the compositions of Komitas with traditional instruments such as the "pogh" flute, "knar" harp and "zurna" double-reed instrument. (You can hear about that wonderful album here: th-cam.com/video/Uy0-2mCunNo/w-d-xo.html )
I used my Roland GR55 guitar synth to approximate these expressive sounds for this track.
Hi, I'm Stephen Godsall and I'm a composer/multi instrumentalist from Dorset, England. Thanks for watching and please subscribe to help grow my channel.
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BLUE TIDES: Trailer
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Here's our 8 piece band in action at two venues in Ringwood. Hi, I'm Stephen Godsall and I'm a composer/multi instrumentalist from Dorset, England. Thanks for watching and please subscribe to help grow my channel.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY: New arrangement with YODELLING
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This new arrangement of "Happy Birthday" incorporates the Austrian folk tune "Hinterglemm", a yodelling favourite from the Tyrolean Alps. It features a trio of Spanish guitar, banjo and ukulele - no singing. I've enjoyed instrumental yodelling ever since working in a folk-dance group run by the notorious Gerald Beck. There are great examples by the jazz organist Big John Patton (from his 1966 a...
OLD BANGERS DEPT. - Do drummers ever get old?
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My cousin had a garage way back; every week in the local paper he'd promote the cheap cars in his "Old Bangers Department". In those days, even newish cars broke down a lot and you could almost rely on an old banger to cause you trouble. If it wasn't dodgy mechanics, it was damp electrics or body rot. Engine fires were a common hazard. Many owners spent more time repairing their car than drivin...
BLUE TIDES '24: sampler from live performances
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Blue Tides is our 8 piece band. This year we've played some great party gigs. Now we're planning some more music for listening and relaxing, making the best of our colourful line up; flute, sax, trumpet, trombone, guitar, bass, drums, percussion and three vocalists. Hi, I'm Stephen Godsall and I'm a composer/multi instrumentalist from Dorset, England. Thanks for watching and please subscribe to...
FLUTE WAVES; guitar/flute trailer
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Film from a concert at Fordingbridge Music Festival, with Anita Somner flute and Stephen Godsall guitar. We have a repertoire of new arrangements of jazz, Latin American and classical music, ranging from Thelonius Monk to Luiz Bonfa, J S Bach to Edward Elgar. Also new compositions specially designed for flute/guitar duet by Stephen Godsall Hi, I'm Stephen Godsall and I'm a composer/multi instru...
BEACONS; Music for the South Wales mountains
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The mountains of the Bannau Brycheiniog national park have distinctive "fan" escarpments seen in this film, all taken on a recent hiking trip. They're friendly giants, except when the cold winds whistle or mist descends, which it often does due to prevailing Westerly winds from the Atlantic ocean. Wales is such a beautiful country but also quiet and depopulated in many places; we often walked a...
SALT PATHS: A Coastal Excursion for Ukulele and Piano
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I review albums for the excellent Belgian online magazine Jazz'Halo and have recently reviewed excellent duet albums for mandolin/piano, banjo/piano and this month bouzouki/piano. But I've never heard any jazz for ukulele/piano. I've also been enjoying playing the piano recently so this is my first piece for ukulele/piano duet. The film features scenes in Cornwall and Dorset, on the South West ...
CRUMMACKDALE; a Yorkshire Dales improvisation
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This month a track celebrating the mysteries of Crummackdale, an area in the middle of the Yorkshire Dales limestone country. Here rivers disappear underground then reappear further down the valley, there are waterfalls where no water flows and lots of strange rock formations. The film shows those landscapes, with photos I took this Spring - we walked for 3 days in the Crummack/Moughton area an...
TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE
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Featuring the wonderful voice of Natalie Orrells, who described this as "a very angry song - is it about someone you've worked with?" It's about a lot of things really but luckily I don't often get angry, except of course when I listen to the news! The song took an unusually long time to finish, trying out different versions before I realised it needs two singers to balance the brass arrangemen...
FOR JULIAN - For guitar and quintet, in memory of Julian Bream
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Julian Bream (1933-2020) was a pioneering classical guitarist and lutenist. I was lucky enough to see him live over many years, playing both guitar and lute, including a concert of lute songs with Peter Pears. His research and transcriptions of lute music did a huge amount to promote this brilliant repertoire of Tudor lute music, particularly the compositions of John Dowland. Bream also inspire...
SOU'WESTER! A sodden landscape
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Early 2024 has been exceptionally wet in England - rain, wind, mud and fallen trees all over the place. That sort of weather comes from the South West here, hence the oilskin hat known as "Sou'Wester". Such weather has a certain charm - but maybe not for months on end. This unsettled music in 7/4 time reminds me of our sodden Spring. You'll hear mandolin and ukulele themes over very squelchy el...
JIMI HENDRIX with MILES DAVIS? Purple Guitar, Kinda Blue Trumpet
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People often say “If only Jimi and Miles had got around to recording together” so I wondered “What if they had? What might it sound like?”. This is my attempt to answer that question, although it uses new technology, because I'm sure Jimi and Miles would never have stood still. For anyone interested in the technicalities, I used granular synthesis, vocoding, a little AI and a lot of luck to cre...
QUANTOCK FANFARE
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The Quantocks; a range of heather clad hills on the coast just East of Exmoor. That's where this music began life and the film is of the local landscape, including Halswell Park where we rented a cottage. It's quite a long piece but the only notes I actually played are in the first 17 seconds. From there I used sequencing software to turn them upside down, backwards, forwards, gated and arpeggi...
WHEN A RICH MAN HAS THE BLUES
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Does he feel as wretched as a poor man - or indeed a poor woman? Few of us have been in both situations so it's a rhetorical question. The title came to me first then I wrote some lyrics, then the music. It was surprising to find the title hasn't been used before. The first tune I wrote didn't quite work so I started again. At first it was arranged in a Gypsy jazz style and performed with my ba...
I WONDER AS I WANDER - Happy Christmas 2023
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I WONDER AS I WANDER - Happy Christmas 2023
WELSH HIGHLAND: Britain's finest narrow gauge journey?
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WELSH HIGHLAND: Britain's finest narrow gauge journey?
SPRING CAN REALLY HANG YOU UP THE MOST - featuring Laura Taylor and the Godsall brothers
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SPRING CAN REALLY HANG YOU UP THE MOST - featuring Laura Taylor and the Godsall brothers
BLUE TIDES live at Ringwood Meeting House
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BLUE TIDES live at Ringwood Meeting House
THE BATTLE OF BEAULIEU - jazz riot in the UK
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THE BATTLE OF BEAULIEU - jazz riot in the UK
Cool mix man.
Great job,great video!!!👍
great job!!!!!!
It'd be cooler if you did it on guitar instead Pro Tools. th-cam.com/video/T9jnzqP9AsQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=Lr0qpN1ffymrMpH0
Beautiful chaos
Wonderful!!!❤
wow great work man thank you!
Another hauntingly beautiful one - superb playing - I can’t put into words how the music you write makes me feel….’thank you’ seems very inadequate ……
Just beautiful Stephen, your music is so special and touches me deeply …….
Absolutely beautiful ❤️
Very interesting though Miles was known as the founder of JazzRock in the Seventies. We love it so much
Wow Stephen, this is amazing. The words, singing, music and playing are fabulous - I am blown away - it’s nothing short of genius ❤️
Love this one as well - beautifully played and sung - I so enjoyed watching and listening - thank you 👍💕
Bring on 2025! 🥰❤️
Love this - just great 🥰❤️
Wow! Very creative editing.
This is fantastic!
Fabulous evening, wonderful band, loved it 🥰
Perfect combination of sounds and scenes!
Thanks Mike, glad you liked it!
Love this trailer, well done all you guys 🥰👍
Thanks Una!
This is just beautiful, love it 🥰❤️
Merry Christmas beautiful horses. The New Forest is just lovely 🥰
Miles❤Hendrix
What a crappy 'synthesis', it blends the most mediocre elements of two geniuses into a totally uninteresting collage that just doesn't gel. Crap personified by impersonation!
There was no yodelling.
after the success of In A Silent Way and Bitches Brew I believe Columbia/CBS was going to put a super group together that consisted of Miles Davis, Paul McCartney and Jimi Hendrix...but something went south and the idea was shelved. Columbia put the money/idea behind another jazz rock super group...
amazing!!
This is music i could listen to and feel better. oh..purple geetar
my humble attempt...th-cam.com/video/1BdhniEBpPg/w-d-xo.html
I think Hendrix was very much like John Coltrane both in spirit and musical expression. Hendrix would sometimes introduce himself on the electric saxophone. I always wondered if this was an homage to Coltrane.
very beautiful ... being fan of both Miles and Hendrix I like this a lot ... I always tried to imagine Hendrix playing jazz ... nice
pointless
dig this...dig Prince and Miles too..
You did a great job....Very interesting.... Keep u the good work...!!
Wow, if we could add basquits artwork, all boxes would be checked
Uh-oh, is that Janie Hendrix lawyer...?
What Wasn't, Still Isn't ! There Have Been Many Trying to Make a Name for Themselves on the Work of Great Masters! This is an Example!
Yeah man ,I dig it ❤
I don’t like it when people claim a dead person as an advocate. Respectfully, you do not know what Jimi would think. I love your earlier “new” Jimi song btw
It should take about a half a day to get there !
If we travel by my dragonfly?
Nice work man! A very cool thing to try!
I think, I thought? It was Grooooovy!
Pushing forward the boundaries of uke folk-jazz!
that sounds like something from another world,
Mission was accomplished 😉
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Gotta say - very enjoyable work and thanks for the techplanations, but they would skewer you
Esto es verdad o IA?
This really works. It's a little disjointed in places, but I think that actually adds to the appeal, knowing that it's fabricated. It's sort of like listening to (them) work out new ideas in real time.
Unfuckingreal
Miles: Hey Hendrix lets play? Hendrix: Yes miles I want to play with your girl 😂