Bio
Several people have asked me about my musical background, so here goes...
I was talent spotted by my parents when I was about 9 years old playing the dining room
table.
Seeing the potential, they bought me a table of my very own. Due to lack of decent sound and the simple fact it was just a table, I was treated to a very dodgy old Casio keyboard which I remember had a great bosanova rhythm on it. Next was a Yamaha, this i used to record very simple tracks on tapes when I was at secondary (high) school.
Then, when I was 20 years old, my Grandmother passed away leaving me a small amount of cash. With this I bought a Roland U-220, an MC-500 and an A-30 keyboard. This keyboard cost £150 and is still the only keyboard I possess to this day and have used it for all the tracks on Fuzz.
I composed only 2 songs over the next 6 years. Amateurish plinky plonky piano with synth strings. "hmm nice" I hear you say...
These are now uploaded and can be found in the album section. (Well they would be, however it keeps telling me that my MP3 and WAV versions of the tracks are unsupported...)
When I was 26 I got married realised I was rubbish and all the equipment went in the loft.
There it all stayed until my divorce.
When I remarried I bought some simple sequencing software and other bits and bobs.
I finally started composing in my 33rd year, in November 2007, 'The Cruel Sea' which is actually a rip off of one of the 2 plinky plonky ones I composed when I was 20.
So there you are... Everything on Fuzz has been composed in the last 6 months, with nothing of any significance preceding it.
Oh, and I almost forgot... I mimed in a band once! (well, twice actually!)
I have never had formal training and never learned to read music, which is a shame as I am now struggling to learn 'Sausage in a pan'.
I have always had a passion for movie music (Badelt, Williams, Silvestri) and I think this shows in my compositions.
The people on Fuzz including Clif, TCC, Jostel, Armen and Beradley have really inspired me to continue in making music and I thank you all so much for the kind comments which continue to come my way.
Oh, and if you're under 30 and were wondering what an MC-500 looks like, click on this link!
http://www.durftal.com/music/edmx/dmxstudio/mc500.htm
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Below is a selection of clips with my music...
An idea inspired by M.Mehdi Karimi
An alternate soundtrack for 'The Mummy'
My take on 'Mongol'
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I was talent spotted by my parents when I was about 9 years old playing the dining room
table.
Seeing the potential, they bought me a table of my very own. Due to lack of decent sound and the simple fact it was just a table, I was treated to a very dodgy old Casio keyboard which I remember had a great bosanova rhythm on it. Next was a Yamaha, this i used to record very simple tracks on tapes when I was at secondary (high) school.
Then, when I was 20 years old, my Grandmother passed away leaving me a small amount of cash. With this I bought a Roland U-220, an MC-500 and an A-30 keyboard. This keyboard cost £150 and is still the only keyboard I possess to this day and have used it for all the tracks on Fuzz.
I composed only 2 songs over the next 6 years. Amateurish plinky plonky piano with synth strings. "hmm nice" I hear you say...
These are now uploaded and can be found in the album section. (Well they would be, however it keeps telling me that my MP3 and WAV versions of the tracks are unsupported...)
When I was 26 I got married realised I was rubbish and all the equipment went in the loft.
There it all stayed until my divorce.
When I remarried I bought some simple sequencing software and other bits and bobs.
I finally started composing in my 33rd year, in November 2007, 'The Cruel Sea' which is actually a rip off of one of the 2 plinky plonky ones I composed when I was 20.
So there you are... Everything on Fuzz has been composed in the last 6 months, with nothing of any significance preceding it.
Oh, and I almost forgot... I mimed in a band once! (well, twice actually!)
I have never had formal training and never learned to read music, which is a shame as I am now struggling to learn 'Sausage in a pan'.
I have always had a passion for movie music (Badelt, Williams, Silvestri) and I think this shows in my compositions.
The people on Fuzz including Clif, TCC, Jostel, Armen and Beradley have really inspired me to continue in making music and I thank you all so much for the kind comments which continue to come my way.
Oh, and if you're under 30 and were wondering what an MC-500 looks like, click on this link!
http://www.durftal.com/music/edmx/dmxstudio/mc500.htm
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Below is a selection of clips with my music...
An idea inspired by M.Mehdi Karimi
An alternate soundtrack for 'The Mummy'
My take on 'Mongol'
Create your own visitor map!
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Hello everyone.
After a couple of months resting from music and being busy having head on car accidents I AM BACK! I'm minus a car and plus a few cuts and bruises!!
'Autumn' is a new approach to Classical/orchestral music and I really hope you like it.
As always, feedback however bad, is very welcome.
Tim
"What? Right here in the cafeteria? What if she said no. I don't think I could take that kind of rejection."
One of many email rejections I have suffered. Oh the humiliation!
Dear Tim
Thank you for your enquiry. As you suggested, we have visited the website but unfortunately have come to the conclusion that your music would not be suitable for the Chandos catalogue.
I am sorry to have disappointing news for you but would like to take the opportunity to wish you every success...
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I dig your tunes, they are really lovely. Fortunately, I can't make out olds from new ones except one and that helps me go through as if they are all old and still very new to me.
I vote for "The Morning of Surrender", "The Cradle of Humanity", 1940 and "Another Stroll In England", they are really original, I'd say.
You'll have me listening to them again, soon.
Good luck bro, good luck you deserve it.
Much love / Mehdi
Dood day
nice to found you here . nice Bio u have !!!
it's not bad to take a look to my Profile ( bio ) and let's be friends . You can get what u wanna know about me in my bio .
And I'll be so glad to see ur kind comments in my new post .
Yours / Bahador
don't let it get you down when people don't take much notice on here, or the world, create the music for yourself, and for you own self , enjoy what you are doing, and if it takes you somewhere even better.
Wow, I am listening to your music now and feel like Im going to take off,!!!!!
I will be back to listen to the rest. Really enjoyed The Morning of Surrender!
You've got a good feel for the kind of dramatic atmosphere required in a lot of film music, and you develop your pieces in ways that keep them listenable without distracting from the mood. There's coherence in your work. The film idea has clearly been a good way in to composing for you. It sounds to me like you're ready to stretch out a bit. I'd like to hear you try something at a crisper tempo, for instance.
It can also be good to give yourself some semi-arbitrary rule to force yourself in a new direction. It can be as simple as deciding to use a diminished chord somewhere in the piece. Or setting an arbitrary running time (make a 90 second miniature that doesn't sound like a TV jingle). Little challenges like that can work wonders.
Keep up the good work.