The Kiss of a Vampire – Original music by @muphy – (Neo-classical / flamenco)
Dancing with a beautiful female vampire and letting your reason and spirit evade your body in delight… this is what this short music piece is meant to inspire.
In the first section, guitar and flute will describe your meeting with this wonderfully evil creature. Your eyes meet, your hands touch, both your hearts thump louder than usual… something electrical is in the air, while a delicious brume starts to impede your judgement.
Then the acoustic guitars convert their sweet arpeggio into a heavy strum. the strumming sweeps your feet off the ground. You are dancing, dancing together an irresistible waltz, carried by a trembling mandolin, floating in the center of a magnificent Carpathian decorated hall, hypnotizing each other.
The full moon shines through the gigantic Gothic windows. The rays project your shadows on the walls, the shadow of a couple in a steamy embrace, the shadow of a couple forgetting time and space.
However, such delight comes to an end… you are lying with no breath, in the arms of a vampire crying her despair. The heat of the moment made her forget who she was… She couldn’t control her thirst, and lost her love… forever…
For a while, I was playing with a good friend of mine as a duet: Acoustic guitar and transverse flute. I was quite amazed by her talent. She graduated from conservatoire, but unlike many other members of her family which are professional orchestra musicians, she went for a scientific career.
I found it challenging for me as an electronic musician to compose something that would fit us both of us, and record it. It took me a while to find the right way to mix (actually I remember coming back to it from time to time over a full year until I was happy with it).
All guitars, guitar strums, flute and shakers were recorded acoustically using a pair of Berhinger C2 elektret microphones and an AudioTechnica 2020 studio microphone. The bass guitar (A Warwick Corvette) was recorded by passing through a DI box before the sound card. Minimal Equing was applied on it. Other orchestral instruments are virtual instruments from the basic Reason package (I didn’t have access to fancy VST’s at the time).
I wish you a very pleasant listen!
Image credits:
- Pictures used to create the thumbnail and the music artwork were found on Pixabay
I’m @muphy (see intro post),
My life revolves around music production, teaching sciences, and discovery through travel.
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I liked how u blended the colors of different instruments altogether, especially the muted guitar strumming from 2:00 till the end.
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Thank you Tomista for your comment, and I am glad you captured the essence of the music.
I will check you out too, and see if we share something in common :-)
Edit... I see you are brand new on Steemit: Welcome!
A pleasant relaxing vibe. She plays flute beautifully :)
Thank you Ricia, yes she is amazingly good!
Actually we had to stop as I strongly hurt my hand and couldn't play guitar for nearly 2 years...
I play again now, no problem, all cured, but time has put distance between us :-(
beautifully done what a great post you just shared : )
Thank you, I hope you read the story while listening to the music at the same time... They go together...
Wonderful deserve my upvote 😍
Thank you Soufiane, I am glad you enjoyed this musical story
As a musician of course i will enjoyed it
I followed you waiting for more
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1/ Makes paragraphs of 3-6 lines. No big block of text
2/ Make a little comment for each pictures. There were interesting looking houses... why don't you write a sentence or two about these?
3/ distribute text and pictures to give variation, not all text first followed by all pictures. Pictures shoudl support the text and text support the pictures: Let the reader travel with you...
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what a wonderful music my friend i folowed you for more
Cheers @rabab, There are more in preparation!
This one was an exploration in the acoustic / classical world while I am actually an electronic music composer... You might find the next tracks I post more electropop or club-like ;-)
interesting work on this one quite nice i like it
Thank you Starboye.
I am happy you appreciated this exploration a little away from my comfort zone (this is definitely not electronic music lol!)
when one is inspired by the melody and the music comes out alone, it is good to listen to good music ..
Thank you @joelgonz1982, I am glad these few notes inspired you.
wohooo that's really awesome @muphy !
Thank you @cutiepie. I hope the flute melody inspired your day :-)
this is exciting for the weekend fun :D