Such Power! Such Freedom!

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Music is excerpt from song Wonderlone, my first effort using my brand new Ensoniq VFX-SD 12-track keyboard workstation in 1989.  A keyboard workstation is a self-contained all-in-one synthesizer which combines all major categories of instruments and sounds, including drums, effects, and MIDI note velocity capability, all of which can be multi-track MIDI recorded, arranged, edited and mixed onboard, or “in the box”. 

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Angerlee Wangsdt opening 0:35These capabilities marked a new era of music creating for me.  At that time I had been hopelessly lost in an ocean of sadness from a broken heart.  Each morning I would roll out of bed straight to the VFX-SD, and remained there working until I passed out in the chair. Two weeks later the song Wonderlone was done.  A great example of the power of music to transform negative to positive, desperation to hope, ugliness to beauty. 

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Angerlee Wangsdt movement 0:34That keyboard was my first synth with a decent acoustic piano sound, including onboard digital effects processing, such as reverb, as well as a full palette of instrument sounds, including drums.  No longer did I require complex studio setups with a room full of hardware and a complex network of connecting cables.  I could create and develop anything, anytime, anywhere, with only a keyboard, AC power, sustain pedal, headphones, an optional data cartridge for keeping an extra bank of custom sounds onboard, and blank 1.44 MB / 3 1/2″ floppy disks for saving my work.  Such power! Such freedom! Yeah baby, thats what I’m talking about!… Denver Clay

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Angerlee Wangsdt hit 0:31Ahhhhh, the romantics have the capacity to rule our minds and bodies. Their audience is within all of us at some point upon our earthly journeys. Denver is a romantic and Angerlee Wangsdt – Wonderlone is a cosmic rest-stop for the emotionally wounded to have gourmet coffee and fried cheese. How long they-we-you-I stay varies on conditions and possibilities. This is a power of music… Anders Tomlinson

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Angerlee Wangsdt ending 0:37Lava Songs:
Piano with a View
Nourish … Just surrender to the virtuosic universe, and immerse…
Pianomomento … Floating on a delicate bed of distant murmuring humans and birds…
Wishy-WashyFarmer In The Dell reinterpreted on the Yamaha baby grand…
Fantasee … This is one of Denver’s all-time favorites from his library…
Angerlee Wangsdt … Music is excerpt from song Wonderlone created in 1989…
Under-OutLava Songs’ epilogue begins with The Perfection of Simplicity…
Simplexity
Over-Into … The world we live in is filled with musical sound / soundful music…
Fangalina Riffa … Blended syncopation and layered with rhythmic percussion section contributors, man and nature…
Cistern Blues … Straight ahead mainstream chaos with a heart…
Triology … Mother Nature is one creative diva in this surrealistic sound-scape…
Davey Crocket’s Dream … The universe is always ready to play with you, you just need to be loose and playful and open to all outcomes…
Atmosonics
Floatus … You may feel swallowed up by the primeval enormity of this track…
Float-Me … The “Rumble of Youthful Enthusiasm” envelopes and sustains…
Floatees … This is an exquisite sparkling living breathing sound-scape space…
Lakecide … Beautiful and gentle, yet it sweeps us up and propels us along powerfully on this journey like a small raft floating down a mighty river on its journey to the sea…
Amournacana … Tone poem of an anonymous loner serving out life’s remaining days somewhere on the frontier of earlier Americana…

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