«Dark side of the future» studio session • Background version

My previous studio session, filmed with many summer sunrise photos, was very much enjoyed by my listeners. And I thought - why not to make something similar with this session of intuitive improvisational music. And I did it - I just threw out the video layer with the keyboard of the synthesizer and my hands - I left only the background. And you know - it's great!

Why didn't I do this before?

Night from 8 to 9 October 2022. Moon near Jupiter

On the night of October 8-9, 2022, the Moon will come close enough to the brightest planet in the autumn sky — Jupiter. Perhaps you already saw the Moon last night and not far from it a very bright luminary. On the net, I met a lot of questions about this: "What is the star next to the Moon?"

Jupiter is not a star, but a planet. True, this is the largest planet in the family of solar planets — Jupiter exceeds the Earth by more than 10 times in diameter and more than 300 times in mass. And its dense cloudy atmosphere reflects sunlight very well — that's why it is so bright. Moreover, now it is relatively close to the Earth, because a few days ago (September 27, 2022) the Great Opposition of Jupiter took place. Of course, the Great Oppositions of Jupiter are not as significant as the great oppositions of Mars — the red planet has a significant spread of distances in oppositions, while Jupiter has a very minor one. But still, it's nice to realize that this gas giant is now in a special way towards us. And one more thing — the Great Oppositions of Jupiter are not so rare — they happen once every 12 years (for Mars — once every 15/17 years).

This coming night, the Moon will pass just 2 degrees south of Jupiter. Both luminaries will fit within the field of view of binoculars, a tube, or even a small telescope. The moon will be almost full — phase: 98.5%.

Jupiter will also have a full phase — the other one cannot be seen from the Earth. The brightness of Jupiter will be -3^m, the angular diameter is 50" — it does not happen more over. Everything that concerns Jupiter will be record-breaking this and the coming nights — and the distance too — 595 million km — is actually record-small.

Kurzweil SP7 / Kurzweil SP7 Grand

Something really new

Back in early summer 2022, Kurzweil announced the release of a new version of the Stage Electronic Piano “Kurzweil SP7”. There is a certain shortage of microprocessors in the world now, and perhaps that is why they are seriously talking about the new product only now.

«I was born not on the Earth» album on Youtube

One of the key albums in my creation

But it all started with a song. It was written by my old friend, with whom we studied at the Moscow Planetarium. The song was dramatic in meaning, if did not say tragic. In eight verses, it was told how the hero of the story was thrown down here — on Earth — still he was very young, and all his life he cannot find a common language with the strange inhabitants of this planet — not the kindest creatures, to put it bluntly.

But then I took it as proof of the theory of the transmigration of Souls. Who knows, maybe the soul of the author of the song in the previous incarnation did not live here, and remembers other feelings and relationships between intelligent beings... Or maybe I am the same, since it hooked me so much...

Back in 1985, I tried to interpret the music of that song in my own way, written by the author with a guitar. But in the end, I wrote a lot of melodies that formed around the song into something larger in form — into a whole symphony... or just an album of instrumental music. But then I was 16 years old, and I didn’t record any albums then.

It's been a long ago. Some melodies were lost, forgotten. And the attitude to the plot of the song was greatly transformed. I began to consider it as evidence of spiritual growth.

The analogy is simple: children, while they are small, fit their own house and a playground nearby, but they don’t go to the playground near another house — it’s a stranger. And other children are often chased away with their own.

As a person grows up, he begins to associate himself with his city, country, planet ... and then the planet becomes small for him. Not all people, of course, from the first time live to such a level of self-acceptance as part of the Universe. But at some point, the question arises by itself: “Where did my Soul come from? — Did It really arise right here? And if I am the whole Universe, then my Soul has always been the whole Universe and manifested itself here only in order to put a point to growth trajectory — one of the points. And how many such points have already been? How many more will be?“

In the late 90s, this album reappeared in my musical plans. I expected to record it by 1999 — even the covers were printed. But then the recording did not take place. However, at least I rethought the musical basis again — I managed to remember something (after almost 15 years), and write something again. But I managed to approach the recording of the album «I was born not on the Earth» only in the mid of 00s. In the summer of 2007 the first half was completed and in August 2008 the album was finally released.

The original song sounds in the album in an instrumental form, of course, there are no chants here. But the irony is that later one of the melodies of the album «I Was Born not on the Earth» was used by the composer Victor Argonov for his electronic opera, and there it sounds like the main theme of the real song itself. And in general, the electronic opera «We, XXII century» can be considered as a logical continuation of the album «I was born not on the Earth». This is such an amazing thread.

Now the album «I was born not on the Earth» is fully uploaded on Youtube — you can listen and ask questions.

• Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFvC40FBta0
• Bandcamp: https://klimkovsky.bandcamp.com/album/i-was-born-not-on-the-earth

«Music of Celestial Spheres in the Moscow Planetarium» live album

You can’t just talk about concerts at the Optical Theatre, the Museum of Astronautics, the Museum of the History of the Earth, but not talk about concerts at the Moscow Planetarium. There were three of them — in 2012-2013. But only one was recorded qualitatively — the middle one.

Probably, there is no need now to talk about how exciting the light show was on the largest dome-screen in Europe (the dome of the Moscow Planetarium is really the largest in Europe). But I consider it necessary to note the uniqueness of the musical component of that concert — each composition sounded in a completely unexpected playing, and new versions were prepared for some melodies. This became possible thanks to the participation in the concert of my colleague — musician and composer — Igor Kolesnikov, and an absolutely inimitable vocalist — Olga Zemlyanika. And although Olga participated in only two numbers, this concert is worth listening to only for her participation.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv1aNTE2iQs

In 2013, the concert was released on CD, and now it has appeared on Youtube — you can listen (or you can watch — there is an indication of the DVD version in the description).

«Venera 14» — the new track

Friends, today — April 12 — the country in which I live — Russia — celebrates "Cosmonautics Day". It's strange — to wage war and be proud of space achievements at the same time. Personally, I can't understand it. But nevertheless, the first manned flight into space — it was performed by Yuri Gagarin in 1961 — is a world achievement, and our common big step into the Universe.

But on this day I decided to tell you a slightly different story — the story of the exploration of Venus by the space stations «Venera 13» and «Venera 14». There is a rather lengthy story about them in the description of this single.

«Prelude C major by Johann Sebastian Bach» — the single

It's hard to stop once you start playing Bach's music on the synthesizer.

The famous Prelude in C major that opens my new album «Delphinus» may sound different. This mini-single features two alternate versions. One of them is hidden - it is a bonus.

«Delphinus» — a brand new album

Friends, at this difficult time for our entire planet, I would like to wish all those living on Earth Peace, Friendship, constructive creativity, and all those people who are now in trouble, safe salvation and help, the symbol of which has long time been the Dolphin - good and a sentient being that we have underestimated for so long.

I want to remind you that dolphins are another civilization on our planet, which, unlike people, does not fight among themselves, has no territorial and racial claims to other dolphins. For its best qualities, the dolphin was ascended to heaven in the myths of ancient Greece, and became a constellation.

My new album is dedicated to the Delphinus constellation.

Let it become an outlet and comfort for someone, and give hope to someone.

«From Atom to Human» experimental studio session

Friends, for the past three days I have had an epiphany regarding the transformation of philosophical ideas into musical phrases ... okay, take it as a joke ... although, in every joke there is only a part of the funny, and the other part is serious. What if the path of Man in the Universe starts deep in the microcosm, and is directed to the stars and galaxies? We — none of us — certainly do not remember how we were once small atoms. But you don't have to remember.

It would not be superfluous to just think about it along with this music.

«Fantasies about the Worlds» experimental studio session

This is another five of the improvised studio tracks that are unlikely to be turned into anything finished. However, they listen quite well in this form. Besides, each melody here corresponds to this or that philosophical idea. This seems to be the richest studio session in mental and visual imagery. And also - it is the longest, which is not so important.

Happy listening, Friends!

Selected improvisations

This selection of improvisational tracks is not uniform at the moment of occurrence — everything was recorded on different days (or rather, nights). But I felt the impulse of the need to collect this music in one carriage and roll it away on the rails of life. Further, it is itself, and I need to move forward.

Despite some seeming fragmentation, these tracks differ in a common feature — each of them corresponds to a certain philosophical thought. I expressed it right in the first publication on Youtube and social networks. It will be superfluous to duplicate the description of each improvisation here, but all this is in a very colorful PDF booklet, the design of which was very successful this time. Take it along with the music. It also contains active links to videos.

• https://klimkovsky.bandcamp.com/album/selected-improvisations

December 21, 2021 — Winter Solstice Day

Friends, we have lived through the shortest day of the outgoing year. The longest night is ahead. But the previous one was actually the same — the difference is microscopic.

The shortest day in Moscow on the winter solstice is only 7 hours. The night is all the time remaining in the day... Although, after all, there is also twilight. According to various estimates, evening and morning twilight lasts from 30 minutes to an hour. And there are 3 types of twilight: "Civil", "Navigational" and "Astronomical". Modern man knows even less about the differences between them than about how the winter solstice differs from the summer one. But this is only because most people do not need it. It got dark — it means that the twilight is over, the night has come.

The night takes almost 16 hours from the Moscow winter days. There is more to the north of Moscow — for example, in St. Petersburg 17, and in Murmansk all 24 hours — there is a polar night.

But the best part is that from this date every next day will become longer until March 20 equals the duration of the night. Although here, too, this comparison will be very conditional.

The world is full of conventions.

For example, today, from the point of view of astronomers, the astronomical winter has begun. It has been snowing for almost a month, but the astronomical winter does not coincide with the climatic or calendar winter.

Meanwhile, there are really important components of life. It can be cold outside the window, but if the soul is warm, you will not be afraid of any frost. The darkness and length of the winter night will not frighten you if you live with a kind attitude to the World. And Spring will come very soon if you do not wait for her with folded hands.

These abilities are not determined by science, are not described in numbers, but it is they that fill our life with happiness.

And happiness can be found even in winter. Even on the longest winter night.

One of the random versions of the Universe

The infinity of our World lies not in the number of stars and planets revolving around them, not in the distances separating them, but in the boundless multitude of combinations of mutual dispositions that they could make, the variety of versions of our realization in this physical space. And, as it turned out, our Universe is simply not able to contain all this - everything that its matter could construct from itself - for the entire time of its existence.

There is no point in somehow stretching this time, because even having increased the period of the possible existence of the Universe by a million times, we will not solve this problem. And for the realization of the full potential of the matter of which our World is composed (although the material part of the Universe is only a small fraction of what may be in it), any time frame will be tight.

And if this is so, then there certainly exist in an innumerable set of other spaces in which other scenarios and forms of existence and development of material structures are realized. Our World is just one of the random versions.

By the way, I recorded this improvisation 6 times. Chose only one. the rest are no better or worse, but to a large extent, they are different in development and even in form. And until some critical number of these records had accumulated, neither I nor they, no one in this world, knew which of these "random versions" would eventually be chosen.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMuLi6maUoI

Parade of the planets. December 2021

Probably, many have heard that the Parade of the Planets is taking place. Someone calls this parade of planets "small", suggesting that it can be cooler. But what the essence of the phenomenon is, not so many representatives of humanity are already aware.

And what exactly is the “Parade of the Planets”?

Venus. December 2021

In mid-December this year, perhaps the best conditions were formed for observing Venus - the planet closest to Earth - for the entire period of its evening visibility, which began in June, but was extremely unsatisfactory. Venus set almost simultaneously with the Sun. In northern latitudes, it was difficult to find it in the sky until November. But now everything has changed. And the planet is easy to spot in the south-southwestern part of the sky, relatively low above the horizon, even before sunset. And with the onset of evening twilight, Venus literally shines dazzlingly.

And although the favorable period of the evening visibility of Venus will not last long - in early January it will overstep into the morning sky, we have at least three weeks to enjoy its beauty. And there is a wonderful reason to talk about Venus as an astronomical object.

Since ancient times, and maybe even earlier, this luminary has been very popular. Among the ancient Greeks, a bright star-like object, visible in the morning or in the evening against the background of dawn, was associated with two characters - the goddess of love and beauty Aphrodite, but also with the companion and harbinger of the morning dawn - Eos Foros. The more familiar name Venus came to astronomy from the Roman pantheon of gods - in it this name also belonged to the goddess of love.

«The land of hopes and trials» album update

Friends, I have updated one of my most melodic albums ... oh well — this is my most mystical album — «The land of hopes and trials» — it was completely composed in the Crimea — in the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory. There are strange places on our planet — anomalous zones, places of power. The Crimean Observatory is one of the most mysterious places of power — it is even mapped, and this is not a joke. How many times I went there, I always had special melodies — right there. At first I took a telescope and a camera with me. And then I began to take a synthesizer with me. This album was completely and very quickly written at the Observatory. There is simply a creative volcano erupting among mountain rivers and valleys. I tried my best to express this in music.

What has changed in the release now?

• I have added the whole album as a whole unseparated track.
• Made a new design.
• And now the album is $ 2 cheaper.

Welcome to «The land of hopes and trials»

• https://klimkovsky.bandcamp.com/album/the-land-of-hopes-trials

Live «Music of Celestial Spheres. Leap into the future». Alternative video-version. Online friendly viewing November 19, 2021 19:00 London time. Direct link

Friends, today — November, 19 — at 7 pm London time, the video broadcast of my live «Music of Celestial Spheres. Leap into the future». Be with us.

Direct link: https://youtu.be/kTBQqqcHoWc

Live «Music of Celestial Spheres. Leap into the future». Alternative video-version. Online friendly viewing November 19, 2021 19:00 London time

Friends, many of you have already heard and even someone bought my new live album «Music of Celestial Spheres. Leap into the future». Do you want to watch the full video?

The recording is scheduled to air 19 November 2021 — 19:00 (London time) on the Youtube channel of NEANE Records (the label on which the album was released). You just need to go to the channel and subscribe:

• https://www.youtube.com/c/NEANERecords

Closer to the start of the broadcast, I will indicate here in the comments (and maybe — in a separate publication) a direct link to the video.

«Music of Celestial Spheres. Leap into the future» live album

Friends, recently I had a concert «Music of Celestial Spheres. Leap into the future» and we recorded it. The recording of this concert has been released as a live album. The album actually became a collection of my best works, but the difference from the usual collection is that it is a live performance of electronic music. And each melody sounds here in a new version. The transitions between the tracks turned out very well - like the concert, this album has continuous sounding - more than 80 minutes - one melody conceptually transitions into another.

Album «Music of Celestial Spheres. Leap into the future» can be listened to on the Bandcamp web-site:

• https://klimkovsky.bandcamp.com/album/music-of-celestial-spheres-leap-into-the-future

«Starry Sky» series | «Andromeda» album

Friends, I have updated the «Andromeda» album from the «Starry Sky» series. Each album in this series is dedicated to one constellation and contains musical portraits of bright stars, nebulae or galaxies. We can say that this series is a musical atlas of the sky.

I continue to work on this project, write new melodies, but do not forget about the already created albums.

The following changes have occurred in the «Andromeda» album:

• New design
• Corrected titles in English.
• The design is attached in PDF format
• Image gallery in JPG
• Updated album description in English
• Constellation story
• The whole album has been added with a track in order to listen to it without pauses (as a bonus)

Another good news: The album is now $ 2 cheaper.

Enjoy your listening

https://klimkovsky.bandcamp.com/album/andromeda-starry-sky-volume-1

«Music of Celestial Spheres» — the special offer

Friends, on the next three days — April 28, 29, 30 — you can buy on Bandcamp any of the six albums of the «Music of Celestial Spheres» series for only $ 4. That's $ 1 cheaper. With the purchase of the entire series, you get a benefit of $ 6.

This offer ends on May 1.

Don't delay your purchase.

The offer is valid for only three days: April 28, 29 and 30, 2021. And only for these albums:

• Music of Celestial Spheres — part 1 — from dusk till dawn
  https://klimkovsky.bandcamp.com/album/music-of-celestial-spheres-part-1-from-dusk-till-dawn
  
  
• Music of Celestial Spheres — part 2 — birth, life and death
  https://klimkovsky.bandcamp.com/album/music-of-celestial-spheres-part-2-birth-life-and-death
  
  
• Music of Celestial Spheres — part 3 — on the outskirts of the Galaxy
  https://klimkovsky.bandcamp.com/album/music-of-celestial-spheres-part-3-on-the-outskirts-of-the-galaxy
  
  
• Music of Celestial Spheres — part 4 — under the starry sky of Spain
  https://klimkovsky.bandcamp.com/album/music-of-celestial-spheres-part-4-under-the-starry-sky-of-spain
  
  
• Music of Celestial Spheres — part 5 — lunar Odyssey
  https://klimkovsky.bandcamp.com/album/music-of-celestial-spheres-part-5-lunar-odyssey
  
  
• Music of Celestial Spheres — part 6 — story of a fallen star
  https://klimkovsky.bandcamp.com/album/music-of-celestial-spheres-part-6-story-of-a-fallen-star
  
  

May the «Music of Celestial Spheres» be with you!

20210306 Meditation

Let's meditate?

They sewed my head on. Probably they hurried — for meditation it is all the same — not an essential item. Is it okay that I look at you from time to time?

I made myself some tea. While the cup is cooling, I think I'll play ... and fell into Nirvana for 20 minutes. The tea is cold ... sorry for the bag — it was a delicious "Princess Nuri. Breakfast in Bengal". This tea has the taste of Love and the aroma of Freedom ...

Yogis say that life is measured out to each of us by a certain number of inhalations and exhalations. Therefore, you need to breathe slowly and calmly — you will last longer.

What if our life is measured by the number of tea bags. And every packet of "Princess Nuri" thrown away for nothing is a waste of the day ?!

In short, I brewed another one. I'll go, I'll drink it all the same, so that I don't go to waste ...

Road to the cosmodrome

If we talk about what kind of melody the author - the composer, in this case - loves most of all, then it is better not to start this conversation. People ask me, and I evade. But I really have nothing to answer specifically.

But one can speak, and on objective grounds, about what the listeners like the most - in the work of this or that musician. All sorts of ratings and chart positions eloquently testify to this. Statistics are good for many, but always bad for one.

Among the compositions of the album «Interstellar mission» - from the listener's side - a clear favorite is the track «The Road to the cosmodrome». I feel this with all the goose bumps at my concerts - the energy of people who come to my performances makes itself felt during the performance of this play. And this is a very pleasant response. To catch him again, I regularly perform this piece.

Fortunately, it comes easily to me. «The Road to the cosmodrome» is probably one of the easiest pieces to perform among my compositions.

But today I made my task more difficult, and performed this piece in a somewhat new way. I think you will appreciate this, Friends.

The head, as usual, did not fit into the frame again. But it’s time to get used to it - during my music, she sometimes flies away somewhere there ...

And this album - «Interstellar mission» - can be heard in full on the Bandcamp website. Here is the link:

https://klimkovsky.bandcamp.com/album/interstellar-mission

Enjoy listening!

«Interstellar Mission» album • Radio premiere at «Cassiopeia Station»

Friends, I am glad to inform you that on March 5, 2021 - Friday - at 19 o'clock London time (22 o'clock Moscow time) on the Internet radio «Cassiopeia Station» the radio premiere of my new album «Interstellar Mission» will take place.

I invite you on this musical space journey. Our cosmodrome is located at: https://centaurus.s02.radio-tochka.com/, where the music of the stars never stops. But tomorrow night, something that has not sounded before will sound.

Vitaly Vetrov will be our captain on board the «Cassiopeia Station».

Welcome! Join Humanity's Interstellar Mission!

«Interstellar mission» new album

This is a new album, Friends

Although many of you will hear familiar tunes here that you wanted to hear again, buy on CD or download from the NR website, but they were not there ...

... they appeared, disappeared again, sounded at most concerts, but did not add up to an album for 14 years.

I do not know the reasons for their so strange fate, but today there is a holiday on the interstellar highway of these melodies — they now have their own album, and perhaps this is also my best album, each composition in it is a hit, recognizable from the first sounds, possessing bright and memorable melody, successful arrangements, fast paced rhythm and deep attention.

They were a little unlucky with the sound. At the time of their birth, I did not have enough experience, but now they have found it too — an elastic, rich sound, which was not there before in my early early experiments. 14 years ago, I certainly would not have achieved this sound. The years of waiting were worth it. During this time these melodies found the new companions, and the tracklist was extended by 4 compositions.

Meet «Interstellar Mission» — the album, the program of which is presented at the «Interstellar Live» at the Museum of the History of the Earth (there is full support on the HP site) in 2007. A year ago, I posted an unfinished footage as an «Interstellar Music» bootleg. But now it's a full-length album:

• 14 tracks
• 80 minutes duration
• 1 common global concept
• no pause
• new powerful sound
• updated arrangements and performance
• the album is available in MP3, FLAC and CD formats.

Enjoy listening and exciting space travel to this music!

Album link: https://klimkovsky.bandcamp.com/album/interstellar-mission