Alexander Franke

First try to work with synthetic orchestra

Posted by Alex Franke | Filed under new albums

At very first let me wish you all a happy and healthy new year 2010!

Today my new album “First Sounds Of The Decade” found it’s way to the WWW. With this album I tried to create something more varied but also shorter. The songs have different feelings. Some songs do contain of more than just a piano audio track. I wanted to fill the sound with drums and other synthetic instruments. But fans of the classical piano play will not be disappointed: There are solo piano tracks, too. Furthermore I added a kind of project: The last track (“Concerto Minimale”) is, as the name already tells, a short orchestra and piano song beginning with strings and co. and leading to a piano part following the introduced theme. One day I had the idea of creating a orchestral sound by just using a usually known synthesizer. Never the less all tracks are improvised: The basic orchestra melody was an improvisation. All instruments which accompany this basic track are also improvised but of course adapted to it. Because I am quite involved, I’d like to get some feedback about it to find out whether this idea is something to carry on or better not .