Takla Makan - Helm

[@TaklaMakanMusic]

This was one of my first tracks I recorded using Ableton Live. I think I started it in 2005 but I was never happy with it. I came back to it again and again, adding things, taking away things but I was still not fully satisfied. I got quite annoyed with it at one point. I think I even wiped it from hard drive only to come back to it later via a CD back up. By 2007 I had almost enough material to release a new CD and I decided to revisit Helm once again. To my surprise it wasn't as bad as I remembered and I now quite liked it. A few more tweaks and it ended up as the second track on the album Contour. Most of the percussion is built in samples from Ableton Live, but pretty much all the synths are analogue hardware. I think the chords are my now long gone Prophet 5 rev 3 while the lead lines are an Oakley modified SH-101 and SH-1. I think the Oakley modular is doing the bass and sequencer parts. There may be a bit of Jupiter 6 on there too - I used that a lot of that on the Contour album. The name Helm comes from a violently strong wind called the Helm Wind that blows when we have a strong easterly wind coming off the Pennine escarpment into the Eden Valley.

[@bellerob]

Thank you very much for your explanation, Tony!

[@andrewgenner2613]

"Wasn't as bad as I remembered..." - an understatement if ever i saw one! This is a lovely track. Perhaps a case of how it is possible to get wrapped up in an intended outcome when making a track? Sometimes great music is created almost by accident.

[@tudorhulban2817]

thank you for contour! masterpiece

[@elintrepidomoncho2779]

Excelente música, gracias por compartir, saludos desde Chile.

[@2010ditta]

Great to hear this lovely track again in 2022.

[@tsns1]

Nice composition of Tonys experiences.

[@m.schmidt3091]

Wunderschön bellerob ....thanks ♥️

[@bellerob]

Bitte!

[@michaelmoon-dreamtimepoet6204]

"As delicate, precise and powerful as a wind turbine! ~ Beautiful work Rob & Tony Allgood"

[@bellerob]

Thanks!

[@m.schmidt3091]

Nice ☝️😊 / Liebe Grüße zum Wochenende bellerob

[@bellerob]

Danke schön!

[@richhough6093]

Excellent Rob .

[@bellerob]

thanks Richard!

[@сержпуп-ф3п]

Очаровательно!!

[@bellerob]

Thanks.

[@m.schmidt3091]

Nice 💫🎧

[@bellerob]

Agreed. Thanks!

[@khamis93]

very nice Mr.Rob

[@bellerob]

thank you!

[@chrisbob1200]

Wind turbines and EM. Here we are, in a good future.

[@bellerob]

Hopefully. Thanks!