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Title	Published	Genre
Kenneth's Jig I love Irish folk music. I love Irish dance. We all know Riverdance. One style of Irish dancing is the jig. There are different styles in different measures but most popular are 6/8 and 9/8. I decided to make a try of composing a new jig in 6/8. I call it ... Kenneth's Jig	25 Feb 2012	Folk
Sunrise In The Mountains Symphonic rock ballad. Big feelings. Big sound. The larger than life feeling when earth shows itself from its most beautiful side. Instrumentation is piano, synth strings and bells, piano, strings, English horn, bass, distorted lead stratocaster, and power chord guitars, and big sounding drums. A slow piece with many contrasts from classical/new age to hard rock. In A-minor and 60 bps. You get most out of it if played loud. Enjoy. (Photo taken by Sonja Pieper - license CC BY-SA 2.0)	19 Feb 2012	Rock
Cat Song A cute short melody with a catchy tune and a nice rhythm. It is written with children in mind. I wrote this last year and decided to post it encouraged by the reactions to my previous tune "Cafe Latte Song" http://www.icompositions.com/music/song.php?sid=174970 I know iCompositions tries to be family friendly, but we lack some music for the young members. So here is one for you. And should someone feel like making a cat lyric and add some voice you are very welcome to do so.	11 Feb 2012	Childrens
Cafe Latte Song The is a happy pop song. Very upbeat and light music that should cure any luring winter depression. I have tried to write some lyrics but besides the coffee theme I am blank. The idea is that the song should be a duet. The structure is BCABCABC where B is verse, C is chorus, and A are middle pieces that could stay instrumental. If anyone feels like taking a stab at doing some lyrics and arranging a male/female duet it could be great fun. The B and C pieces are in C-major and the A piece modulates to F major and then back to C major. My idea of lyrics was a plain pop lyric about enjoying life at the coffee bar meeting friends, eating cakes, and drinking cafe latte. But if someone gets a better idea then I am perfectly OK with that too.	08 Feb 2012	Pop
Viking Raga Viking Raga. Inspired by Indian raga music with sitar and Indian percussion. But interpreted with a foundation in rock and techno with electric guitar, lots of percussion, synth. It is more rock than raga but the raga inspiration is there and influence the music very strongly. Fot the music theory interested the song is in the key of D-flat in Lydian mode. First half is straight lydian with a D-flat pedal but then I start playing with simple harmonics. If you really listen I have hidden some small short chords played by the sitar. I dedicate this track to Iqbal (ihussain), as a thank you for all the fantastic music you share with us	01 Feb 2012	World
Still Missing You An instrumental expression of how we feel when we miss someone even though it may be many years ago. I have been playing with putting words on it but for now it is instrumental. A little music detail. This song is in D Dorian and A minor and uses the same chord progressions as the "The Old Troll" I posted earlier. When I did the Troll I felt there was more music to explore with this combination. But even though the chords and the modulation between D Dorian and A minor is the same, the song is very very different. But they share the mood.	30 Jan 2012	Pop
The Old Troll The Old Troll. An instrumental with a mix of sculptured sounds, synth, and sampled instruments. It is composed in the key signature of D in Dorian mode with a modulation to A minor and runs at 85 bpm. The themes have a bit of folk sound to them. It has been an interesting process for me to create this. Dorian does not have a natural chord progression like major or minor. You need to take care to maintain the Dorian mood which is minor like but with an extra twist. And you need to avoid a chord progression that points to C major and takes focus away from the key of D. I think I succeeded in doing that incl. an 8 measure modulation to A minor. The piece has two melodic themes that alternates, an improvised guitar piece and a 3rd theme during the A minor modulation. It is a piece that works best with the volume turned up a little bit to hear the details in the sounds. Even through it is Dorian mode music the themes are easy listening.	24 Jan 2012	Pop
Moments That Matter - Moto version Some time ago I posted the song Moments That Matter with lyrics that my wife had requested for a work assignment. But the title also matches perfectly the slogan we have where I work (Motorola Solutions). The song is not advertising and the lyrics are not about radios. The song is about those heroes that are depending on the work that my colleagues and I do. It is about those police officers, fire fighters, rescue workers that often put their lives in danger to save others. Those are the Moments That Matter I moved the key from A to C to better match my voice compared to the original The song was performed as a live sing back at a company party with 3 of my colleagues as backup. It was hard to hear myself so it is a bit off pitch on the video but we had great fun doing it and our colleages gave us only good feedback. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fLV_D7_Ryw	21 Jan 2012	Pop
Seven Blue Days A fusion of jazz and classical with a latin twist. The time signature is 7/4 and the key is F minor. The instrument line up is: Piano, drums, upright bass, violin and cello ensemble, trumpet, and English horn. So not a very traditional jazz line up. It has a melancholic but still very bright mood. Some of the melody lines were built from many sessions of improvisation over a guide melody line, where I picked the best takes. I am very happy with the result myself and I hope many of you will enjoy the listen.	04 Jan 2012	Jazz
Kitsch Cow Tune OK so this tune is probably kitsch. I started off trying to make a slow rock and roll tune in the style we know from Mark Knopfler. But it ended up sounding more like the melody the hired keyboard player plays between the roast and the ice cream. "Does this song sound too kitsch", I asked my beloved wife Diane. "Yes" So I worked on it for another night. "How about now?" "Still too kitsch." So I worked on replacing all the tunes. Changed the guitar strumming. Changed drum kit for something harder. "Now?" Diane looking at the bird feeder just outside our living room window: "It is scaring the birds away!" So I gave up. Let it be kitsch then! I continued adding more instruments, adjusted the themes, added the rusty pipe instrument that I built in Logics sculpture plugin. Maintaining the nice kitsch sound. All I needed was a title and a photo. After a while I found what I needed searching for "kitsch" and "cow". I like the result myself. I hope some of you will as well. The Vintage Kitsch Cow Notecard Set is for sale on Amazon for 18 dollars. My song ... is for free. Enjoy. PS: No I did not buy one for my mother-in-law.	28 Dec 2011	Country
Disco Love Beat City This is a tune inspired by the disco music from my teenage days. Turn the volume up. Get up of your sofa and dance in the living room. There is a party tonight in Disco Love Beat City.	19 Dec 2011	Pop
Ill As Only A Man Can Be I am sure some of the women that hear this song will say: "That is my husband!" And a few men saying: "Yeah that is me. And that is my wife laughing at me." I have been down with the flu for the past days. The other night I could not sleep for coughing so I sat up in bed and started writing these lyrics on my iPad. Today where I am getting a little better I put music to it. It is a simple song where the lyrics is the important thing. The rest is guitar, bass, a fiddle, a clavinet, and a little drums. My voice is rusty from my cold. Good I recorded the voice early because now I am starting losing it :-) I hope you have a good laugh.	13 Dec 2011	Pop
Frozen Margarita On The Beach It is dark and gray and days are very short here in Denmark in December It is the time where we are dreaming of escaping south to a warm beach, sunshine, and ... a frozen margarita.	07 Dec 2011	Latin
A New Start This music is dedicated to my many former colleagues who have been forced to make a new start in life. Hopefully for the better.	25 Nov 2011	Pop
Moments That Matter Moments That Matter is an upbeat song with a serious theme. The moments we take for granted but for some people are not possible for so many reasons. The song was suggested by my wife for a specific purpose.	13 Nov 2011	Pop
Feeling Your Soft Whisper This is a relaxing piece of music with saxophone as the main instrument. Rest of the set is electric guitar, base, gentle drums and a few colors painted with vibes. I originally wanted to add a bridge piece with another solo instrument, but I decided that the tune works best just with the saxophone singing, and I think that works as each chain of chord progression is long and only repeated few times through the song. Enjoy	11 Nov 2011	Pop
Living Smart (English version) Living smart - with all sorts of gadgets for everything in life. It is not an autobiography. For example - my coffee machine does not have an IP address. But there are similarities. I wrote this song in Danish originally with lyrics that are a tribute to a blogger and TV host Kenneth Lund that has a TV program called Living Smart. The Danish lyrics are made in a funny ironic way. Since none outside Denmark will know this guy and his gadget show I made the English version so it is about the universal geek. I am sure you will find it quite funny. The melody is quite catchy. I think it is one of my best pop songs. Enjoy.	03 Nov 2011	Pop
Motion Theme Motion Theme is a song I wrote as a theme song for an open source project I have managed for many years called Motion. Motion is a program that monitors the video signal from cameras and detects if something moves. But this song is not so much about the project as it is a tribute to the most active and persistent contributor Angel Carpintero. A man I am proud to call my friend. A man I actually never met in person or even spoke to on the phone. But yet we have worked together on this hobby project for the past 7 years or so, just for the fun of it. Angel is from Barcelona. And that is why this Motion Theme has a strong Catalan/Spanish influence. It also has a bit of techno base arpeggiator. After all it is the theme of a pretty geek project. The tune is composed and recorded using only the software instruments and no loops in Garageband on an iPad. It was a challenge to record the fast notes on the guitars. I spent an entire Sunday to get it right. On the iPad you cannot move individual notes. You can split the thing up in small pieces and keep on playing until to get it right. I later used Logic Studio to mix the balance of the instruments and maybe fix a note or two. But the tune sounds pretty much like it did on the iPad. Amazing what you can do with very little on an iPad. This one is for you Angel. I hope you like it. And thanks! Besides the standard license - the Motion project is granted unlimited license to use this tune in anything related to the Motion project without prior permission.	01 Nov 2011	Pop
Foswiki Theme I am very active on an open source project called Foswiki, which is a wiki used in business. I have had plans of making some training screen casts videos for a while and needed some music for the intro and as background in passages. And for this purpose I needed something soft, light, instrumental music that does not take attention away. So it is intentional that the whole thing is soft pop almost kitsch in its nature. It is an instrumental soft-pop tune. But with a melody you can sing along with like I always do. I love a good strong melodic line in a song. This was all before I really started being serious about making music. It was when I composed a lot of stuff in Garageband on my iPad. I have later done some minor enhancements in the mix and edited a few wrong notes in Logic Studio but as a whole the tune is still pretty much as I made it in Garageband on my iPad. Besides the standard license - the Foswiki project is granted unlimited license to use this tune in anything related to the Foswiki project without prior permission.	31 Oct 2011	Pop
Spooky I composed this little classical soundtrack-like piece while playing with many sound effect loops in Logic. Halloween must be the perfect occasion to share it. I put the story in the lyrics. Maybe you should listen first and then see if the lyrics matched the story you heard.	31 Oct 2011	Classical
Cool Rio Breeze This is a light latin jazz tune that I wrote. Main instruments are piano, horns, vibraphone, and synth.	29 Oct 2011	Latin
Eighteen Eighteen is another simple tune. Acoustic guitar chords and synth tune in a slow beat. Written on the day I went to an 18 year birthday in the family. It is an instrumental piece but with a pop / easy listing style more than electronica.	28 Oct 2011	Pop
Journey Home (vocal version) The song is about all the fantastic beautiful places I have seen travelling as a tourist but at the end I look forward to be on the journey back to Copenhagen It is a hard song for me to sing. The verses are OK but the chorus is a bit low for me, but I did it the best I can with my totally untrained voice. I have "cheated" and used some vocal enhancement techniques to get the singing in pitch.	27 Oct 2011	Pop
All My Shields Were Down A simple love song that I have written both music and lyrics for. Lots of acoustic guitar. I sing the song myself though I am not a schooled singer. The guitar is actually played in the WI Guitar app on an iPad and sent to Logic as Midi live as I play it. A great way to play guitar with no skill at all. Requires some practice for a few days though.	26 Oct 2011	Pop
Amid The Roses This is quiet song I wrote inspired by a poem by John Banister Tabb. It was originally published in a book "Child verse; poems grave and gay" (1899). When you read this poem a melody automatically happens in your mind. This is the one I heard inside my head and recorded. I sing it softly because to me this is the obvious lullaby. A father sitting at side of the bed of his child and singing a quiet song. In the improved version 2 I have listened to the good feedback and changed the balance in the instruments. I also changed the piece between the verses adding a new theme on the violins and moved the old theme to cellos and damped it down. The last piece also has some small modifications. Vocals have been worked hard on.	26 Oct 2011	Classical
Hey Folks Hey Folks - a folk song. It is mainly meant to be a song that puts a smile on your face.	25 Oct 2011	Pop
First Impression The first jazz piece I composed and recorded. It is very traditional and very Danish in its nature. A bit like a TV theme from the late 70s. Easy to listen to. I do not really play the piano so I practiced and practiced and took it bit by bit. A real jazz pianist would have made a better job. But the project was mainly to prove to myself that I could write a jazz tune.	24 Oct 2011	Jazz
Cold Beer On A Quiet Night Imagine yourself outside on a summer night. Not a wind. And you have served yourself a nice cool beer. That is the mood I pictured inside myself as I composed this song. It is simple. It is pretty rough sound. But it is exactly how I wanted it. Plain and honest.	23 Oct 2011	Rock
Easy Easy - a slow blues about a rather pathetic man who is happily married but cannot forget an old girlfriend that left him. Vocals, Lyrics and basic melody:: Jan Mathorne Arrangements and solos, Music played by: Kenneth Lavrsen This is a blues that my colleague Jan Mathorne sings. I play the instruments and did the mixing. Jan wrote the lyrics and the basic melody. And he challenged me to do the arrangements and record all the instruments. A challenge I could not say no to. Unlike myself, Jan has trained his voice for many years both in barbershop group and in choirs. I have Jan's permission to upload our collaborative work here.	22 Oct 2011	Blues
Three By Four in C Major I challenged myself to make a piece of classical music and this was the result. My dream is to hear this one day played by a real orchestra. It actually started its life on an iPad in Garageband. I was playing with the acoustic guitar in Garageband and recorded the chords as muted chords and the beat turned out to be in a 3/4. I pulled it into Logic Studio and before I knew it I had a theme going. And then I just started adding more and more instruments and added more parallel themes. End result is a short piece of classic music with strong ear hanger melody lines and a big sound. Not quite the traditional orchestra setup. There is also 12-string guitar in the line-up. Enjoy.	22 Oct 2011	Classical

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