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Hello, everybody

Do you listen to the lounge music occasionally?
This is Instrumental Latin tune!
Please enjoy it with coffee, Scotch, or your favorite cocktail if you like.
Comments encouraged.
Have at it.

Best regards.

Shigeki Adachi

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Style is J!LUSH2.STY (MIDI)
Acoustic Bass(33) assigned to Wood Bass (EastWest Goliath)
Acoustic Piano(1) assigned to Rhodes Piano (EastWest Goliath)
Nylon Guitar(25) assigned to Nylon Guitar (EastWest Goliath),
MIDI Drums assigned to Jazz Brush Drums & GM Percussion (EastWest Goliath)

Additional Melody and Obbligato scored by me
Main Melody by Alto Flute (EastWest Symphonic Orchestra)
Accompanied instruments as follows
Acoustic Piano (Steinberg The Grand)
Solo Trombone & 4 Trombones (EastWest Goliath)
4 part Strings (EastWest Symphonic Orchestra)

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Very enjoyable listen. Well done Shigeki


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Originally Posted By: Scott C
Very enjoyable listen. Well done Shigeki


Scott said it, and we totally agree!

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Shigeki Adachi,

Beautiful.

Wonderful instrumentation, arrangement and mix.

Sounds like a movie score - from some classic early 60's film...

A delight to listen to.

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Top notch composition - so inventive. That was incredibly well constructed and the strings were amazing.

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yep, definitely a sixties movie score. Beautifully done. Can't go wrong with East West products. Not cheap but worth every penny.

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Hi animarorecords, Good work on this! Very smooth and relaxing vibes to this. The flutes really bring it together. Nice job! smile


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Wow, loved it from the first note.

Really pleasant, a thoughtful and relaxing melody.

Great orchestration throughout.

Nice.


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Hi Shigeki Adachi,

Your ability to orchestrate is incredible. This is beautiful music in every direction; whichever speaker I turn and face.

What you have composed and arranged here is an outstanding testament to the power of MIDI music. The EastWest libraries that you've used sound amazing.

This definitely sounds like it should be used as a movie score. Have you ever written anything for anime? I've seen a few Japanese presentations over the years and I can easily image this music being part of the score.

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I know this sound a "Muzak" or elevator music. Background music such as this use to be piped into elevators, stores, businesses like doctors and dental offices. Muzak was the premier supplier in te 60's.

My next door neighbor was a Muzak installer and I spent many hours with him as a helper. The equipment was installed in a hotel suite and I recall that walking across the floor and getting near the metal equipment created huge static charges from my fingers...

You've done a great job in recreating that familiar sound. Very nice.

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Originally Posted By: PeterF
Shigeki
Top notch composition - so inventive. That was incredibly well constructed and the strings were amazing.

Peter


I agree and add that the opening is a real attention grabber.
Well done!

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Shigeki,

I really love this sound. Very 60s but in a really good way. Excellent instrumentation. Kind of reminds me of Burt Bacharach.

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Hi Shigeki,

Simply beautiful! Dia and I love this kind of music. We do a lot of Lounge Jazz. This is excellent!

The strings add so much to hhis. Makes feel like I'm listening to the theme of a 1968 movie ... nothing wrong with that! great song!

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Hello, Scott, Rob & Anne-Marie, floyd, Peter, Mike, Joe, Trevor, Noel, Charlie, Robert, David, Alan & Di

Thank you very much for taking the time to listen and comment.
Much appreciate your kind comments and your continuous supports.
I am very happy you all like this tune.
I used to listen to soundtrack music in 70's.
And I love very much to write string orchestrations.

Mike,
I have been a big fan of EastWest instruments since Kontakt version.

Noel,
I have never written anything for anime, but I have written some scores for an amateur director in my city.

Charlie,
I understood well why you feel so familiar to this tune.

Alan & Di,
It's also a big fun for me to make Lounge music.

Thank you again to all.

Best regards.

Shigeki Adachi

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Dear Shigeki Adachi...

By the power invested in me through the most highly esteemed and venerable auspices of the Royal Order of Excellence in Lounge Music, I do hereby christen thee, "Sir Shigeki Adachi, the 21st century Mantovani", and by this singular and most exalted title, thou shalt forevermore be known to thy kith and kin, throughout the realm of thou faire Queen (ladies first, right?) and good King... smile

I would apply the three "L's" to your composition, "Coffee Time": lush, lovely, and langorous! Your melody is memorable, your harmonies, thrilling, and the way you handled your virtual instruments is exemplary, to me, at least. How did you manage to achieve such seamless legato in your string arrangement???

"Back in the day" -- for me, the 60's and 70's -- this genre of music was known as "easy listening," and was broadcast virtually twenty-four hours a day, mostly on the AM radio frequencies. At night, the really great stuff was programmed -- Percy Faith, Bert Kaempfert, Jackie Gleason, 101 Strings, and Mantovani, of course! I would go to bed with an earphone connected to a transistor radio and listen to those soothing orchestral lullabies until I went to sleep. Truly nostalgic memories, they are...

"Coffee Time" is one of the prettiest songs I've ever heard on the "User's Forum." I've got my ear on you, now, Sir Shigeki! smile

Sincerely,

LOREN (a.k.a. "bluage")

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As floyd and other's mentioned, "Sounds like a movie score - from some classic early 60's film..."

You have written, arranged and produced a wonderful interpretation of that period. Just reading the list of instruments is very illustrative of the amount of work you must have put into this.

Amazingly well done!

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Shigeki - GREAT song! I'm enjoying it with coffee... no Scotch for this lady!

This is today's Hot Forum Topic! smile


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Hello, bluage, Janice & Bud and Callie

Thank you very much for taking the time to listen and comment.
Much appreciate your kind comments.
I am very happy you all like this tune.
It is maybe the reason the sounds like lounge music are familiar for me that my parents had often played the LP records of Mantovani, Percy Faith or something like that in the living room when I was a child.

Special thanks to LOREN(bluage) who is definitively a string orchestration lover. The comparison with Mantovani is so flattering!
I owe the seamless legato in my string arrangement mostly to EastWest instruments.
EastWest strings has the patch named Butter Legato. I usually use it on my strings.
In the past it was impossible to reproduce the orchestra personally, but it is available in my room now.
Very good age for the house logger musicians now.

Thank you again to all.

Best regards.

Shigeki Adachi

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I'm enjoying it with a Dr. Pepper,
very pleasant, nice mix

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Hello, Kenny

Thank you very much for taking the time to listen and comment.
Much appreciate your kind comments.
Dr. Pepper is also available in Japan. (but not so popular)
As a little bit strange taste is stimulating, I occasionally drink it between Scotch and Scotch at the cafe bar near my house.

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Dear "Sir" Shigeki Adachi... smile

I have fallen so "head-over-heels" in love with your luxuriously dreamy and romantic song, "Coffee Talk", that I literally haven't been able to get it out of my mind, or my heart. Ever since I first listened to it, I've been walking around in a glorious haze of golden, childhood nostalgia. It has also inspired me to compose lyrics for it.

The singer I had in mind as I was writing is Jack Jones, whose warm and aching version of the song, "Dear Heart", by Henry Mancini, Ray Evans, and Jay Livingston, for the 1965 film of the same name, filled my innocent, little-boy heart with powerful and perplexing feelings that I was too young to understand, but also very nearly brought me to tears, as it was such a sweet and tender song to hear.

The style of the lyric is admittedly sentimental and old-fashioned, but, then again, so is your lovely music, and that's a good thing, right?!

Verse 1

The morning sunlight clears the mist
And like the memory of a kiss
The dream I had of you persists
Bright as the bracelet on your wrist

Verse 2

I lie alone upon our bed
The scent of you around my head
And at the door I hear you knock-ing
You serve coffee, and we talk…

Chorus

And, oh, the thoughts, and feelings
You share, are so appealing
Time flies by, and soon I’ll have to go
But not before I say I love you so!

Verse 3
Forgive me, but I must complain
A day away from you brings pain
Beyond my desk the windowpane
Is blurred by tears of gentle rain

Verse 4

The hours pass so slowly, dear
That I can’t wait to have you near
When I come home, the door’s unlock-ing
Then we sip coffee, while we talk…

Inspirationally,

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Hello, LOREN

Thank you so much for your composing lyrics for my song.
I am very glad "Coffee Talk" is now a vocal tune. And your lyrics are so fitted to it.
I wrote this tune in the same key as the male vocal's.
I entirely agree with your choice of the vocalist. I also like Jack Jones.
I would like to record the vocal, but there are no vocalists around me that can sing English songs.
So, I place the music sheet and the Karaoke(WAV and mp3) of this song at the following link.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/aow28hs12kr8oew/AAD8htfXegkotGzXbs3A6dGpa?dl=0

Please feel free to use them if there is an idea for the singer. I will also try to find a vocalist.
Thank you again, LOREN.
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Hello, there, Shigeki...

I'm very happy that you felt the lyrics fit your gorgeous song so well! The melody was "crying out" for lyrics.

You mentioned that there are no vocalists around you that can sing songs with lyrics composed in English.

How well would the lyrics work if they were translated to the Japanese language?

Sincerely,

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Very nice, Shigeki! Excellent arrangement. You have done a masterful job with the instrumentation. I agree with all of the accolades lavished on this one!

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Hello, LOREN

Thank you so much for your advise.
But maybe the translation to Japanese will be another difficulty to find a lyricist.
And as you have kindly written the English version for me, I will somehow search for a vocalist who can sing in English.

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Hello, Steve

Thank you very much for taking the time to listen and comment.
I much appreciate your kind comments.
I am very glad you like my arrangement.

Best regards.

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Dear Shigeki...

Okay!

I also will "look around" for a vocalist.

Talk to you later, Shigeki! smile

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Dear Shigeki...

While you and I are searching for a truly fine vocalist, I recorded a vocal track just so the both of us could listen to your song along with the lyrics.

Where should I send the *.wav file to?

Thank you,

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Hello, Loren

Thank you so much for your temporary vocal track.
It will be the best way to create Dropbox account to exchange WAV files.
For details, I sent you a private message. Please see it. <My Stuff - Messages>

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Beautiful. Thank you.

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Great arrangement and very enjoyable.
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Great Friday night tune Shigeki cool Will be good Saturday morning music too! Great job as always, Shigeki smile


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Hello, Buttery, Sergio and Will

Thank you very much for taking the time to listen and comment.
I much appreciate your kind comments.
I am very glad to hear you all enjoy this tune.

Best regards.

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Shigeki, you are such a talented musician!! This has a great clean sound that is very enjoyable. Great work with the strings coming in and out. Thanks, Torrey.




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Hello, Torrey

Thank you very much for taking the time to listen and comment.
I much appreciate your positive feedback.
I am very happy to hear your words to my strings.

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Beautifully done Shigeki!! Such a nice piece of music. Would be wonderful as a score to a movie scene. Really great! Take care. Greg

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Hello, Greg

Thank you very much for taking the time to listen and comment.
I much appreciate your kind words.
Thanks a lot for your continuous support.

Best regards.

Shigeki Adachi

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