M. PELAYO - MONOMYTH THE HEROS JOURNEY

I wanted to share my first concept instrumental album with you. Download link and description bellow.

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About this album: 

Short instrumental pieces based on Christopher Vogler's 12 stages of The Hero's Journey. Monomyth expresses an introspective journey. It's concept starts in an post apocalyptical world where the Hero's mind being asleep in the dark, the unawareness, the “ordinary world”. Story develops as curiosity and questioning arrises in the Hero's mind, taking the initiative to “Do Something”, to wake up, to become... mindfulness. Trough out the journey the Hero faces mentors, challenges, temptations and finally its own transformation. Let your imagination be free while creating its own story. 

If this resonates with you. Please share! 

Cover Album by Cheche 

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Sobre el álbum:

Piezas instrumentales cortas basadas en las 12 etapas de Christophet Vogler de “El Viaje del Héroe”. Monomyth explora un viaje instrospectivo. La historia comienza en un mundo post apocalíptico donde la mente del Héroe esta dormida, ciega, en el “Mundo Ordinario”. La historia se desarrolla al Héroe sentir el llamado de la curiosidad y custionamientos que lo llevan a tomar iniciativa para “Hacer Algo”... para despertar. Durante su travesía el Héroe se encuentra con mentores, desafíos, aprendizajes y finalmente su propia transformación. Deja que tu imaginación forme parte de esta travesía creando su propia historia.

Artwork: Cheche

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Released January 1, 2016

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Composer: Manuel Pelayo / www.manuelpelayo.com
Cover Album by Cheche

M. Pelayo

WHAT IS THIS SITE ABOUT?

Music is one of the oldest things that has, and keep having a huge impact on us. Now days is not only melodic lines and harmonies made with instruments, technology has allow us to explore sound textures and colours such as the ones used on electronic music.

"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything" .- Plato

Trough out the years I started to be aware of the hard work great artists put into their creations, from their creative process and recording to mixing and mastering. Technology has allow us to create music even in our phones now, (that is awesome do not get me wrong) we have more people discovering the joy of creating your own expressions coded into frequencies. At the same time I feel that its oversupply, has taken a little bit away from its value to some of its listeners. Artists spend months or years writing, producing, recording, mixing, fixing and touring their songs into something unique and special, and I feel that is underrated by some... now days. 

The goal of the topics here is to share my experiences, thoughts and tips about the processes of creating music and sounds, in order to make others appreciate the work behind their favorite songs. So if you are a Producer, Composer or just a music lover you are in a fun site.

Here is a link to THE DISTORTION OF SOUND documentary, where artists talk about this topic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDZcz-V29_M
Director: Jacob Rosenberg
Cast: Slash, Quincy Jones, Mike Shinoda, Snoop Dogg, Hans Zimmer.

I hope you find something useful and if you like what you see in here please share!.

Thanks. 

M. Pelayo

ABOUT ME

Hi! I am a Composer for Film, Media and Games from Mexico.

Following my interest for musical and visual arts, I moved to achieve a Film Scoring Certificate at UCLA. During 2011 I developed a solo independent project called Close Fact City as singer- songwriter; Close Fact City has been distributed online. At the present time I act as a Composer for Film, Media and Games. I also produce concept instrumental albums where I get to explore with freedom my own creativity.

Sound and musical forms have been shaping my life. Music is like magic to me!, I find its strength and complexity fascinating. Sometimes I like to think of it as: “What is one of the oldest things that still have a huge impact on humanity?….Music”.

Over the years I have explored new knowledge, fields, sounds, textures and colours that have helped me expand my Compositional skills. A lot of it came from awesome friends and amazing teachers at the UCLA program that helped me open my eyes towards the musical language.

If you would like to check out my material you can go to:

www.manuelpelayo.com

Thanks for reading, pls share.

M. Pelayo