The Kiss of a Vampire – Original music by @muphy – (Neo-classical / flamenco)

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Dancing with a beautiful female vampire and letting your reason and spirit evade your body in delight… this is what this short music piece is meant to inspire. 

In the first section, guitar and flute will describe your meeting with this wonderfully evil creature. Your eyes meet, your hands touch, both your hearts thump louder than usual… something electrical is in the air, while a delicious brume starts to impede your judgement. 

Then the acoustic guitars convert their sweet arpeggio into a heavy strum. the strumming sweeps your feet off the ground. You are dancing, dancing together an irresistible waltz, carried by a trembling mandolin, floating in the center of a magnificent Carpathian decorated hall, hypnotizing each other.

The full moon shines through the gigantic Gothic windows. The rays project your shadows on the walls, the shadow of a couple in a steamy embrace, the shadow of a couple forgetting time and space. 

However, such delight comes to an end… you are lying with no breath, in the arms of a vampire crying her despair.  The heat of the moment made her forget who she was… She couldn’t control her thirst, and lost her love… forever…  

For a while, I was playing with a good friend of mine as a duet: Acoustic guitar and transverse flute. I was quite amazed by her talent. She graduated from conservatoire, but unlike many other members of her family which are professional orchestra musicians, she went for a scientific career.  

I found it challenging for me as an electronic musician to compose something that would fit us both of us, and record it. It took me a while to find the right way to mix (actually I remember coming back to it from time to time over a full year until I was happy with it).

All guitars, guitar strums, flute and shakers were recorded acoustically using a pair of Berhinger C2 elektret microphones and an AudioTechnica 2020 studio microphone. The bass guitar (A Warwick Corvette) was recorded by passing through a DI box before the sound card. Minimal Equing was applied on it. Other orchestral instruments are virtual instruments from the basic Reason package (I didn’t have access to fancy VST’s at the time). 

I wish you a very pleasant listen!   

Image credits: 

• Pictures used to create the thumbnail and the music artwork were found on Pixabay

I’m @muphy (see intro post),

My life revolves around music production, teaching sciences, and discovery through travel.

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