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Kygo Saxophone Cover: SAXITY ‘It Ain’t Me’

February 21, 2017 No Comments

Before dipping into the theme and leaving a couple words about this new Kygo Saxophone cover let me express something:
You know how much I’d love to feature more tracks and have more blog posts on Saxobelle?
I hope you guys will soon start to send me your own saxophone works to write about to make this blog grow with beautiful content. So don’t hesitate to reach out at: saxobelle@gmail.com
I’ll be more than happy to hear your talents!

Let’s go back to the topic. End of last week, tropical house genius Kygo released his latest work with with Selena Gomez. (Bieber’s Ex, the girl who can’t keep her hands to herself, currently with The Weeknd? Not that anybody cares but hey I’m well briefed, am I?)

Once such huge release comes up it’s clear a lot interesting work gets created around that piece of music. This time it’s Germany’s duo Saxity coming up with the first Kygo saxophone cover. However this is not an entire saxophone song. It rather is a housy re-make starting with a quite chill Intro and beautiful vocals by Victor Perry. But once the drop kicks in we’re all on that sax! The rough tone and sharp phrasing pushes the pumping production up on another level of danceableness. We won’t hear many notes or quick solo fills in this Kygo saxophone cover but just the right amount of real instruments to merge well into the trendy electronic music scene.

Give it a listen and judge yourself. No, don’t judge. Better grab your dancing shoes and hit the floor hard. This is mad!

Kygo Saxophone Cover: It Ain’t Me (by Saxity & Victor Perry)

Fancy for more saxo vibes? Have a look at our Saxophone Music or Saxophone Video section! This is all brand new so please excuse if there is still a lot to do. But honestly, we’re just super happy to have you here and hope you come back to groove with us again.
In case you play the saxophone yourself don’t hesitate to drop a message at Contact to keep us posted about your latest work!

Saxophone Visuals

LED Saxophone Visual Effects

February 14, 2017 No Comments

In one of our previous posts we started talking about the possibilities of visually upgrading saxophones.
Some of you may like it, others will always prefer it just the way it is. Or may even consider LED’s looking cheap.
We’re not here to judge, just to show 4 examples how an LED saxophone can look like:

Standard LED Saxophone

Most common: Just put a few LED stripes from the outside and you’re good to go. You can buy these stripes including batterie pack for a couple bugs online. Ebay, Amazon or wherever. With only a few minutes of work and very low expenses you’ll be able to have your LED saxophone shining bright and ready for some club action. You may wanna ask the light jockey to not have the location fully luminated to stand out yourself much more against a darker background.

Heavy illumination

In case you’re down to put a little more affort & money into you shiny project this set up may catch your attention. Vertically installed LED stripes look super awesome when being shaked in the club. Especially on photographs with an extended exposure time. Your event manager will thank you for this!
Gotta say I’m not sure if such contruction will affect you while playling. Any reporting on this would be helpful!

More decent

A pretty cool alternative to usual LED Stripes are LED Lines.
Not this bright but quite decent and classy. By the way, its random that all LED Saxophone examples appear with blue lights. You can get them in any colour or even pulsating, colour-changing and in many more modes.

Glow from the inside

This one looks unreal on the first view. But its true, you can make a sax glow from the inside. You just need a Saxophone made of polycarbonate. Vibratosax from Bangkok is one brand constructing those. To be honest, don’t expect too much from it, it’s still made out of plastic. However its not completely useless, just lacks a bit in brilliance what makes it harder to cut through the loud club sound. And the intonation is real heavy so make sure to practise a lot before playing in public.

In the end its your choice if you want to make your sax shine neon or stay classy with its natural golden shine.
In case you have different ideas how to pimp your Saxophone please let us know by dropping a mail at saxobelle@gmail.com
We’d be happy hearing from you!

Saxophone Studio

Stan Sax Studio Works / Saxophone Song Development

February 5, 2017 No Comments

Our very own Stan Sax has been in studio this week for quite a few hours where questioning how a modern instrumental saxophone song could sound like. How to balance up-to-date sounds and trendy beats with jazz-ish melodies. And also very important: Who would be the audience to target?
Is it the hip and young electronic music community or rather ‘traditional’ audience for instrumental music?
Who ever this is. Well guys we are, yesss! stans ax saxophone song development

Well, let’s talk about music! Stan’s little jam starts off with a slow but heavy urban beat and super chill, almost retro organ/rhodes sound. His ‘drums’ as usually are played and produced on NI’s Maschine. The keys on a way too tiny controller but hey, we all know you don’t need heavy equipment nowadays. The Saxophone comes with a quite catchy melody which could meant to be the chorus. Way more interesting however is the (unfortunately) little short solo part covering a wide range of musical expression. From very soft sounds all the range up to even distorted notes.

Saxophone Song Development

In case you play the sax yourself and you got a new saxophone song out or if you only want us a quick note feel free to reach out at saxobelle@googlemail.com

Saxophone Cover

Saxophone Cover: The Chainsmokers – Paris (by Dave Bo)

January 30, 2017 No Comments

Dave Bo, one of YouTube’s most clicked young sax players just came up with another dope saxophone cover. His smooth and full sound makes The Chainsmoker’s new single “Paris” a truly romantic piece of music.

As typical for pop music also Paris’ melody songwriting is driven by many repetitions.
However Dave takes care to not making it sound boring (without lyrics) by sprinkling it with clever, little improvised fills. Towards the end of the saxophone cover improvised parts taking over and the track peaks in a short saxophone solo. And again Dave scores with this classic, clean and smooth sound.
Not least its always great to see someone actually play the music – we all love this kind of studio performance videos.
And the LED-ish effect on Dave Bo’s saxophone looks pretty co Effect Saxophone Cover ol.
Way better than usual LED bars on the horn and
rather like a visual lightning effekt.

Quick note: We should write up an article about different visual effects on the sax for saxobelle in near future.
Now have fun with this brand new cover and let’s hear some sax 🙂

Paris Saxophone Cover:

For more smooth sounds, saxo performances and saxophone cover videos check out Dave’s YouTube right HERE.