Dear all my friends,

As you knew, Bright, Quietmelodies' founder, is extremely busy now so that he can't spend more time posting new music. I think that's the reason why this place can't attract visitors any longer. Gambetis is still doing his job really well, but it's not enough without your help. Please share what you have here instead of just downloading and leaving.

Honestly, there is a problem about kinds of music that are allowed to be published here and it's totally my fault to approve them. I've just removed all such kinds of music and I hope that you don't mind it anymore. All posts now will be checked carefully and approved as soon as possible. Gambetis said: "We all have to be involved in keeping the quality of our place". So please stay with us as friends!


Best Regards,
Mr.Neveralone.

Hi there!  Thank you very much for finding your way here!  As many of you already know, this site is really a continuation of a blog that was originally hosted on Wordpress.  The blog grew to a point where there really needed to be some additional capabilities that Wordpress just couldn't provide.  This started the search for a better overall solution.  This site is the result of that search.  I really do hope that all of you come to think of this site as your home for good music, good company and a good environment. 

One of the neat things about this site is that each of you has the ability to post your own music here.  All that is necessary is for you to become a member.  Of course, membership is free and offers some of those capabilities that were mentioned earlier.  If we start to get more posters, not only will the site grow, but it will also become much more than just a site.  My ultimate goal for it is to become an active community where people with similar tastes in music can share their opinions, views & feelings about our kind of music.

In the coming weeks and months, additional capabilities will be added to help increase your experience here at QuietMelodies.  A couple to look forward to will be the new forum & a request page that can be edited and added to by the members.  Right now, the updates will be happening as fast as I possibly can.  This process can be sped up by everyone helping out in terms of making their own posts with music that was available on http://quietmusic.wordpress.com.  Of course, not only the music found there, but anything that can be considered New Age or it's subsidiaries will be most welcome here!

All in all, I've got a very good feeling about this site and the community that we will become.  Each of you have abilities and talents that make you unique, thank you from the bottom of my heart for taking the chance and sharing yourself with us.

Best,
Bright

"Live In Barcelona 1999" is the result of the collaboration of Spanish guitarist Albert Giménez and Spanish synthesist Dom F. Scab under the side project Cosmic Ni. The album compiles the memorable concerts by Giménez and Scab at Abaixadors-10 Theatre (June 6, 1999) and at Sidecar Club (June 22, 1999), in Barcelona, Spain.

The five themes are improvissed sessions recorded live. The music can be placed between Ambient and Trance. Touches of psychedelic rock are also present, and even come to have a leading role in different parts of the release. Also there are some traits from Jazz and other varied elements that contribute to enrich the pieces.

The artists utilize electronics and sonic collages with great imagination, succeeding in creating musical structures far from the most usual trends.

Dom F. Scab is a Spanish synthesist who began his career in 1995 with the group At-Moss and the trilogy "Morphing Synthesizers". His music and sounds are strongly inspired by Tangerine Dream and Vangelis. "Necessary Fears" is his 8th solo album.

This keyboard player performs a very dynamic electronic music that is based on recurrent rhythms, synthetic loops and emphatic percussions that put him very close to Vangelis and Tangerine Dream. Like them, he likes this kind of constructions that put a lot of stress on a dynamic rhythmic melody, enhanced and punctuated by contrasted percussions and sequenced patterns.

Recommended.

The album "Crosswords" by Spanish synthesist Dom F. Scab is for anyone interested in instrumental music that is more focused than all-out smooth spacemusic yet a bit more cerebral than prog-rock.

This album delivers seven tracks which reference majestic moments in classic works by Vangelis and the calming sounds of repetition circa Tangerine Dream's early 'Blue' years. While Scab builds his music with these touchstones, the arrangement, execution and vision is completely his own. The music on "Crosswords" is in constant motion, stopping, starting and shifting at the will of a dexterous composer. Scab's tone patterns are energetic and cycle through many engaging variations. His sequencer can run full-tilt, producing heart-pounding syncopated rhythms, then dramatically slow down to a percolating, bubbling pace. The melodic content spins above and below the rhythm floor. Scab's wide open synth lead lines energize the brightening air, shifting tone wildly. There are also places where the mood becomes more settled, locating a less playful and more reverential space.

Scab's greatest accomplishment is creating music that is engaging and listenable without being simplistic.

Dom F. Scab is one of the most internationally recognized Spanish electronic musicians in the field of analog synthesis, despite being unknown in his own country except for the experts in this style. His presence forces us to remember that there is a good number of followers of this kind of ambient and secuencial electronic music in Spain, and that during the 70’s the country counted it with one of it’s pioneer european bands: Neuronium.

Despite of the influence of synthesists from the 70’s, such as Neuronium and other obvious references like Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze, Dom F. Scab finds his own way of creating a contemporary and personal style.
Dom F. Scab’s approach to the german sequential tradition and the ambient electronica started by Vangelis is combined in a very clever way with actual rhythm programming. This move turns his music into a really attractive offer, far from the typical dullness of some 'new age' and electronic ambient works.

"Twelve Stories", his new album in Margen Records label, is a perfect blend between traditional sequenced synthesizer music and contemporary electronic, a stunning excursion into the realm of New-Berlin School music fusing dark, undulating tone clusters with dense, warm melodies that swirl in and out of these twelve stories.
The tracks of this work, like in other Dom F. Scab works, have a coherent structure and a fresh dialectic progression, far from the repetitive patterns in some of this kind of electronic music. Lush, ambient textures are overtaken by frenetic, complex sequencers and amazing melodies. Trance like percussive sections give way to surrealistic, dream-like passages. Although Scab is obviously seeking for new directions for his creativity and compositions, he again proves that he is able to produce true classical EM masterpieces with just a flavor of modern music.

From "Twelve Stories" I would note "I'm Sorry But We Have Moved To Saturn", an ambient track where the massive analog sequences are combined with the incomparable Vangelis CS80 style strings.

The album offers an excellent production and care of the analog sound, typical of one of the most European experts in analog synthesis.

Spanish synthesist Dom F. Scab has obviously been heavily influenced by the 'post-kosmische musik' contemporary electronic sequencer music that emerged during the 1980's. Music of this era brimmed with optimism and energy as a generation of artists swept onto the scene, embracing new technology while emulating and complementing their idols - taking the genre beyond cliche with artistic expectations met and often exceeded.

On "About A Tree", Dom F. Scab offers nine vital compositions which are both further refinements of his craft as well as significant contributions to the genre as a whole. This album is characterized by the much-loved arpeggiations of staccato synthesizer tones and sequencer acrobatics revered by audience and musician alike. Pieces on "About A Tree" each average in the 5 - 10 minute range. The music always develops quickly and without hesitation, running thoughtfully through its twisty course of breathtaking tempo changes, ambidextrous rhythm patterns and advancing and retreating layers of syncopated synth pulsations. Scab's series of connected and rapidly orbiting synth tones cascade up, down and through major, minor and diminished chords. Giving depth and dimension to this flowing latticework of rhythmed tone and echo are Scab's gorgeous, breathy synthesized harmonies and bright, warm analogue lead lines. Here and there Scab provides the listener with some contrast in the form of smooth, floating, fully formed realizations of drifting space - a moment of reflection before another launch.

Throughout "About A Tree", Scab seems to be pushing his hardware and software to its limits - nearly searing circuitry's or overloading microchips through the musical energy generated. Yet his dedication to the vintage sounds and aural explorations of electronic music is boundless - as it is fed by the excitement and enthusiasm of an artist constantly in pursuit of his full potential and that of his mode of expression.

On his brilliant fourth solo album, "Facta", Spanish EM artist Dom F. Scab eclipses every other recording in his career so far. This is a highly ambitious piece of work, pushing the envelope of Berlin School music to its limits while never becoming too abstract or too experimental. Of course, this has been Scab's domain for some time now. But, on "Facta", he has taken the electronic music genre and infused it with an imagination and ambition that is seldom seen in any type of music.

The liner notes by Pablo Magne detail the imagery, inspiration, and details of musical allegory that lay at the heart of Facta. In effect, the album is a thematic recording, addressing the concept of humanity's freedom within the context of the tale of a metal bird being freed from the confines of its cage. Using this as his theme, Scab interweaves synthesized exotic bird song/birdcalls throughout the album, mostly in the bridges between tracks. But the distinctly human feelings of desperation, despair, drama, hope and all the emotions connected with loosing one's bonds permeate the recording throughout all its nine songs.

Musically, Dom Scab once again provides ample, if not compelling and undeniable evidence, that he sits at or near the top of Berlin school EM practitioners recording today. His juxtaposition of classic Germanic sequencing with more melodic elements, evidenced perfectly on the opening cut, "Metal Bird Creation", creates an artistic and emotional tension that takes the listener for a roller coaster ride of highs and lows. Sequenced notes and beats are interspersed with sweeping and melancholic melodies, played out on lush keyboards and counterpointed with twinkling optimistic bell-tones.

Diversity of music, yet bound by thematic cohesion, is a constant on "Facta". "Miracle Of The Flight" opens with plaintive piano against a somber backdrop of synth washes and a slow tempo bass beat, but eventually erupts in a dramatic crescendo of keyboards and pulsing rhythms and rapid-fire sequenced notes. "Message of Missing Birds" is appropriately haunting, ushered in with a lengthy series of eerie bird-like calls and distorted human vocalizings. The song itself is somber and mysterious, somewhat experimental in nature, but grounded by an underlying series of synth washes and drones so that those who are shy of the avant garde are not dissuaded from exploring the album further. "Rescue Of Hope" is high energy sequencer music - rapid-fire pulses of assorted types of keyboards played out against a background of strange electronic effects. "Dream Of Freedom" opens with a soothing cascade of synth notes played against alien vocalizings and soon escalates into pumping sequenced beats and notes accompanied by darker rumblings and noises underneath it all.

As I explored "Facta" through many listenings, what I became aware of was how Scab had integrated his melodic musical elements with the more dramatic 'noise and sound' effects and yet how all of it fit together as one whole. The power inherent in the music throughout all of "Facta" is overwhelming - this is not ambient music in the least. The nine songs don't just ask for your attention - they demand it. And, because of the thematic elements within the recording itself, this is one album that merits your undivided listening and immersion. Sure, if you are a fan of sequencers and electronic keyboards, it's easy to recommend "Facta" to you - you'll most likely love it. However, this is also some of the most intelligent music crafted in the ambient/new age genres in the last year. If you give yourself over to it, you will be treated to an emotionally rich and complex experience. "Facta" is one of the more ambitious achievements in this genre in quite a while. While I have always considered Scab one of the brightest stars in the neo-Berlin scene of the 21st century, even I was unprepared for the strange new worlds he visits on this CD.

"Facta" is, simply put, an essential album if you have any desire to see where EM is headed.