“Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage” has been on my to-read-list for a while. Apparently, it’s an amazing (and horrible) tale of survival and… well, endurance.

I’ve been reading a few other boyish adventure novels as well, like Kipling and Verne, the stuff I missed out when I was younger. Great excitement & fun! (And horror)

To make things a bit more challenging & educational, I’ve been doing this sort of reading in english. Although, reading Kiplings “The Man Who Would Be King” in english was a little rough… Oldish language, endless historical references and long passages of freemason terminology made sure the reading experience was clunky, to say the least…

Anyway, ENDURANCE, inspired by “Endurance” (which I still haven’t read), powered by endurance.

End ur rants.

And then something that fits into the sub-sub-genre of “You know, for kids”:

SKIPPING THE ROPE

The music should speak for itself.

The genre in question is of course a quote from a movie called “The Hudsucker Proxy”. Wonderful little comedy film that is. Maybe not the greatest thing Coen Brothers put out, but still pretty good and super ok.

Balance is restored after the horrors of Halloween.

Here we go again: Spooky Halloween music part k: HALLOWED. Shoutout to Bernie Hermie, and the famous theme from the “Psycho”.

At some point of the production I started to feel the urge to add drum beat. Only with great determination I managed to restrain myself from doing so.

Then I had an idea: Why not redo this tune with the beaty stuff that had been harassing me. So, coming up: Just that!

That version of the piece… I think I’m going after more stuartgordony feel… Something like the theme from “Re-Animator”. You know, orchestral instruments on a silly 80’s beat.

By the way, the “Re-Animator”-theme is of course a blatant ripo… I mean, lovingly crafted reimagining of the “Psycho”-theme, so, that makes the circle very round.

Movie recommendation of the season: “Re-Animator” (1985) directed by Stuart Gordon.

This post contained five (5) colons. Now, that’s spooky!

Umm, änng, hnnggn. How should I put this…

Low-budget western art chamber pop music combo presents: KOKALUU.

Now it wasn’t that hard. All you gotta do is think.

Very often, when making these “classical” tunes, I feel the temptation to add more stuff. And then add even more stuff. Make the whole thing big ‘n spacy ‘n all epic.

Not this time. Todays piece is very grounded, quiet and intimate. Just three instruments there.

That’s it. Hope you like it.

Last year (I think) we missed the opportunity to post some delicious autumn pop stuff.

This time, we’re right on time: LOWDOWN. It’s less than cheerful, not very pacefully moving, and it’s miserably vintage. You know, all the good jazz!

With these sort of tunes, I rarely use guitar as the melody instrument. I dunno why.

Today however, we got guitars, both real & surreal, doing it’s magic all over the place, meaning the tune.

The lead guitar has a really nicely echoing sound, don’t you think?

Gotta use it more often.

RIGID is pretty rigid. Musically speaking.

There’s some groove ‘n swing ‘n ding-a-ling, but not very much nor many.

“Solid” would’ve been as suitable of a name. Or “Log”, or “Block”, or any word that has a nice woody quality about it.

But “Rigid” it is. Even though it sounds kinda tinny.

COPYCAT is a one long and winding road to nowhere

It’s a house with no door, a home by the sea, close to the edge

In my darkest hour, in the midnight hour, visions of angels come to the sabbat, and break on through to the south side of the sky

White wedding ends with a silent scream

The end

More of that merry-moving, jolly-jumpin, flock-flipping, folking folksy folk music!

It’s going to go wild, when we’re GOING WILD while winding gold.

There’s strumming, we got drumming, but no humming, joy upcoming and piano.

Why am I so singsongy today?

A: To counter the negative effects of monday morning.

I was going to save this one for the Halloween, but then nah… Gonna make something else then. After all this guy here has bright major chords and other nice things.

PATHOS was kongano’s tune number 500.

That’s pretty good, considering that I started with 50.

Some of you may have noticed, that I stopped making “birthday tunes” some years ago, you know, to celebrate the date kongano first went online.

Or hey, no. I didn’t stop. One year I forgot to make one, and the following year “I forgot”. Then I just let it go.

The older you get, the less there is to celebrate.

Now, that’s not true. Stop being such a negative Nancy.

Coming up in the near or distant future: The third musketeer!

Yeah, it’s BACK TO SCHOOL time of the year. Ok, a few weeks late but whatever…

I like autumn, which in my opinion is the true spring. Schools are opening again, people are getting back to work, after a well earned break.

(Needless to say, this is from a person, who’s life has always been dictated by school year)

Time to rejuvenate, right now!

And it’s getting chilly outside, meaning it’s getting comfortable indoors as well!

Praise.