Past Pastures past - new original music from gribbles

Intro

My new 4-track EP is out and slowly propagating around various streaming services, so I though I'd take a bit of time out to introduce it to my fellow Hivians.

In many ways, it's a spiritual successor to Pastoral Pyramids, my 2021 release of chilled, bucolic tunes inspired by the countryside I grew up in,

PPP, ploughs a similar furrow. It's just as chilled, with organic instruments at it's heart (though sampled - Spitfire Audio's free BBC Symphony Orchestra plugin is all over it!) offset with subtle electronic/synthesised elements.

I'm really pleased with it - it's not often I set out with a theme or destination in mind and my muse does what it's told and provides me with something I was aiming for!

And it's been well received. Here's what folk have said about it...

"This is beautiful stuff"
"Absolutely Stunning...Warms the soul"
"Wonderful timeless melodies"

Anyway - before I start to waffle too much, here's the tunes. You can make your own mind up 😉

Mistrise

That moment, early in the morning when the mist clings to the fields. Just enough for you to see it, but often barely reaching over the hedge-tops. So transient, It just takes the sun to climb a *little8 higher, and it melts away.

There are a couple of influences that, to me, come through really strong in this tune. One is a little bit of one of the melodies, literally 4 notes, and the other is the way the chord change works in the bridge/chorus part. Can you spot them?

https://soundcloud.com/gribbles/mistrise?in=gribbles/sets/pastpasturespast&si=660022f0bedc425c9dae1c6396d57d8e&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Seasons

Outside in the fields, night begins to fall. Tomorrow, work on the land must go on aquick. For nature has its seasons, and the seasons wait for no man.

The seasons wait for no man.

https://soundcloud.com/gribbles/seasons?in=gribbles/sets/pastpasturespast&si=950587eadcc341cdbbc42780add21033&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

After The Rain

I tried to invoke the calm after a heavy rainstorm on this one. With heavy clouds still in the sky, the quiet as the countryside gathers itself following the downpour. and then the sun breaks through...

https://soundcloud.com/gribbles/after-the-rain?in=gribbles/sets/pastpasturespast&si=bbdf1fa925e14e528184709334ea35ae&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Day's End

This started out as a bit of an experiment - I acquired a handful of old recordings of Tennyson's poetry written and performed in the old dialect of my home county, Lincolnshire. There's so much fantastic stuff in there - from the actual language to the sound and tone. This was my first use of it. And it turned out so well, I made it into a finished track.

It was also the inspiration for my entry in one of the Zapfic competitions here on hive - and it won!

https://soundcloud.com/gribbles/days-end?in=gribbles/sets/pastpasturespast&si=e21c52cb59024889aec1962eb6fcdc53&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Outro

So there you are - 4 new gribblytunes. Let me know what you think in the comments - or ask me anything about the tunes or the writing/recording process. I love a natter.

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