Clément Belio
Clément Belio Music LIVE - 2 Chords pt1 - Inner Voice
updated
Been watching the Mummy lately, prob because Brendan Fraser is all over the news, it probably inspired more than intended, so here is a short action/adventure thingy that my 12 year old self would have found cool :D
Brass stacc run at 37sec and mysterious ending courtesy of Brendon Williams' amazing track Nebulous : soundcloud.com/brendonmcwilliams/nebulous_bw , which was also an inspiration for this track :D
For this occasion we threw a big party, ending with the first "public" Clément Belio Music concert, even tho we were only among friends and familly.
I never really imagined playing these live as I was always more focused on composition and studio work, and even tho lots of you asked me if something like this was planned or in the work, I never really imagined myself doing it. Until I met some incredible musicians and now I can finally see this thing happening. I mean, don't misunderstand me, I will probably only manage to play 3 or 4 times locally in my hometown (maybe) but hey, I'd be happy about it.
I don't have particularly big ambitions or expectations. Maybe if the right occasion presents itself, but for now I just want to enjoy playing this music live :)
Audio is directly from the camera sorry for that, I'll do a proper version with the band in the future.
We still need to practice as you can see (we've only rehearsed once !) but it is very encouraging and all the musicians want to play this live too !
Hope you enjoy this little glimpse in what could be...
TRACK LIST :
00:00 - Take Your Time
05:54 : Trampoline
15:14 - Grey Zone
19:29 - Tigran Unreleased track
24:17 - K You K Yaw (a special track for Manon)
32:22 - Rainbow Road
MUSICIANS :
Drums : Benjamin Vidal
Bass : Matthieu Salesse
Guitar : Samuel Dolbeau
Vocals : Carla Fernandez
Sax Alto and Baryton : Marina Moureau
Sax Soprano and Tenor : Brice Matha
Piano : François-Xavier de Turenne
Guitar and vocals and stuff : Clément Belio
A special thanks to Pierre Foulquier and my father who captured these videos, to Alex da Silva who made us sound quite decently given the little amount of gear we had at our disposal, to everyone who came celebrating with us, and of course to Manon whom I love more than anything.
Enjoy !
I had to make a 20min video, playing whatever music I wanted.
So I took this opportunity to do stuff that I've postponed for years, in that case a duo rendition of the track "Red Dragon" by my band @ItzamnaMusic .
This time not with clones but with my close friend Benjamin Vidal (@egbt4) on piano, recorded at the Studio du Bassin.
He is the one who originally came with most of the ideas for this composition, as I handled the guitar, arrangement and production parts, back in 2016. I always felt this track had the potential to work in a power trio formation, given its very close proximity to Tigran Hamasyan music. So I also added some bass parts in post prod, just to make it sound better and voila, c'est chose faite !
I had to make a 20min video, playing whatever music I wanted.
So I took this opportunity to do stuff that I've postponed for years, starting with a new arrangement of my song "Take Your Time" from my 2019 album PATIENCE. Most of you are familiar with it by now I suppose, so it's not "new new" but I still wanted to start this festival with something that you would know.
This is part 1 of 3 of my participation for this festival, part 2 is coming on October 3rd , part 3 on October 10. So let's just say, stay tuned, more to come :)
00:00 - Intro, few words from Ben and introducing musicians
01:55 - Who starts, you ? Me ?
04:04 - "High Heart"
05:27 - Ben/Nate duet intro to "Burning bright"
09:09 - "Burning Bright"
18:40 - Ben looping stuff and Nate joining, as intro of "Darling"
19:47 - Some cruise ship passing by
21:58 - Start of the craziest and weirdest drum solo, courtesy of the ferocious Nate Wood and his cookware.
23:00 - some deep thoughts....
24:34 - some lower deep thoughts
26:07 - "Unforseeable"
26:16 - Nate has to stop playing cuz you know... he need his coffee mug... he NEEDS it...
26:37 - boom boom boom boom boom boom
29:27 - some mug action
30:33 - some more mug action on Shai Maestro's solo
31:10 - some dramatic mug action
33:30 - start of some serious build up
36:22 - final theme with me singing on top sorry about that
36:47 - final A that I sung like 14cts too sharp
36:55 - Benjamin having the best night of this year so far
Sorry guys I don't post as I used too in my channel, it's very frustrating for me not having the time anymore to work on my own projects, it's drawing all my energy and there's nothing left for me, and so for you. That's life I guess, you have to make a living somehow. I hope I'll come back someday with new music, but it will obviously take more time than before.
Take care !
00:00 - Intro
04:26 - Dive in
08:25 - Take your Time
18:42 - Grey Zone
24:25 - Trampoline
33:24 - Alive and Well
39:26 - Rainbow Road
45:46 - Credits
46:35 - Producer pack
47:05 - Bonus 1
49:14 - Bonus 2
THE BAND (so far) :
Piano : François-Xavier de Turenne (fx2t)
Drums : Benjamin Vidal
Guitar : Samuel Dolbeau
Bass : Matthieu Salesse
Flute/Clarinet/Sax : Titouan Project
Vocals : Carla Fernandez
the rest : me
LINKS :
My albums : clementbelio.com
Producer pack : clementbelio.com/merch/producer-pack
Facebook : facebook.com/clems6beliomusic
Stream/Download/Support : idol.lnk.to/Patience
soundcloud.com/fx2t (fx soundcloud, composer for film/video games)
https://m.soundcloud.com/matthieu-salesse (matthieu's soundcloud, prog and rock tracks)
soundcloud.app.goo.gl/zKru : (sam's endeavor doing hip hop and cute music with melodies like Itzamna)
youtube.com/channel/UC_H2DPCH1ZjWXalqAPqScMA : Titouan's Solo/Duo project looping winds and brass and overall grooving.
Things have changed a LOT (for the better) this year for me, which is weird for such a bad bad year.
This one was firstly intended to be used in Legends of Runeterra but didn't make the cut so I can upload it ! Enjoy !
Coincidentally, I recently discovered Thomas Adès beautiful piece called Arcadiana, even it was made in 1994.
This is a mockup of the 6th movement called "O, Albion", using only the sample library mentionned above. Pretty neat.
To be more specific, I recently got a pedal to control midi CC signals with my feet. So now I can control both expression (CC11) and vibrato (CC1) in the case of this specific library, and it sound MUCH better without having to spend hours tweaking after the take !
And to finish, sorry for not posting anything these days, I have many projects going on at the same time with almost none worthy of doing a video or something for my channel, but yeah, busier than ever.
Thomas Adès - Arcadiana - Full performance by Danish String Quartet : youtu.be/LeKa8Wk37RY
Thomas Adès - Arcadiana - 6th movement : youtu.be/nP5__SSf3dk
Samplemodeling Solo & Ensemble Strings : samplemodeling.com/products/strings
The next livestreams will be done directly in YouTube of course.
To celebrate the 1 year anniversary of Patience, I released yesterday a NEW ALBUM during a livestream, available for FREE right here :
clementbelio.com
Here is some words about it :
101 Bits is pretty much a compilation of tracks made during the last 9 years that were never part of an official release.
Some are shorts, some are long, some are good and some are total crap. Some were done for me during my free time, some for TV documentaries or for other people as part of my job.
The point is, every single of those tracks made me who I am today.
And while some of them are definitely still sounding like me, some are now just a landmark in time and a proof that your music and tastes evolve as you grow up.
So yeah, to celebrate the 1 year anniversary of my last album Patience I definitely had other plans (big plans lol) but the current sanitary situation kinda forces me to think of something else, that I should have done ages ago anyway.
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Some of those 101 bits might sound familiar to the long time fans here as they were released as singles on my soundcloud years ago, or in my YouTube channel, but there are a lot of exclusives too.
I organized the compilation as follows :
### "8Dio" and "UVI" tracks were made to demonstrate sample libraries from those 2 companies, I had complete artistic freedom here.
### "TV Work" tracks were done for documentaries, advertising, shorts and movies as part of my job as composer for French TV.
I had little to no artistic freedom here, mostly following temp tracks or obscure client demands.
### "Mondays" tracks are part of my Monday serie of video on my YouTube channel where you can see me play all the instruments and stuff. Can be covers or originals.
### The rest are tracks I made for my own pleasure during my freetime, and believe me I had quite a lot of time when I was a student.
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As usual and especially in this one, I couldn't be broader in therm of genres and production quality (lol)... After all, that's almost 10 years of music, I was in high school damn...
Anyway, hope you enjoy !
Oh and yeah, this is absolutely free, yeah boy !
I was lucky enough to get a front row seat, because yes, I was there extra extra early.
I was also lucky enough to catch Louis Cole a few days before at Sam's first Bar near LAX and I included that as a bonus at the end of the video (they are playing one of Louis' track called "Failing in a Cool Way")
I did not include Zach Danziger in this cuz I apparently lost the footage, sorry.
I love this quatuor so much, especially their traditionnal repertoire more than the classical. Absolutely beautiful melodies, so well written harmonies and voices, it's just perfect and has such a superb flavor to me. I wish I'd be able to compose half of it.
So here is my humble rendition of this track but on harmonium as, sadly, I do not play violin very well (or at all). Again it's an incredible ear training exercice to transcribe this by ear only and I feel my relative pitch is now so strong that it's easier and faster for me than to use actual partitions haha
Check out Danish String Quartet here, playing 3 song from their album "Wood Works" at NPR Tiny Desk in 2014 : youtu.be/cfuEIHEZobc
Wonderful intimate and haunting melodies.
Anyway here is La Danse Macabre, my favorite from my latest album and I can say that without shame cuz it wasn't composed by me but by Camille Saint Saens in 1874, and what an extraordinary piece.
I did arrange it to my taste and flavor, which in this case basically means "put it all in"
More tracks, more footages, a nightmare for my computer BUT HEY IF I TELL YOU I NEED ANOTHER LAYER OF MANDOLIN IT'S FOR SOMETHING OK ?!!
Anyway, thanks for watching and please if you like what you see and hear, feel free to share it to your friends (like please seriously do it lol).
Listen, buy, download, support : clementbelio.com
Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, etc... : idol.lnk.to/Patience
Facebook : facebook.com/clems6beliomusic
Instagram : instagram.com/clems6belio
LYRICS :
Le vent d'hiver souffle, et la nuit est de plus en plus sombre,
Les gémissements, des squelettes vont à travers l'ombre.
Zig et zig et zag, la mort en cadence,
Frappant une tombe avec son talon,
La mort à minuit joue un air de danse,
Zig et zig et zag, sur son violon.
Zig et zig et zag, la mort continue
De racler sans fin son aigre instrument.
Un voile est tombé ! La danseuse est nue !
Son danseur la serre amoureusement.
Zig et zig et zag, chacun se trémousse,
On entend claquer les os des danseurs,
Un couple lascif s’assoit sur la mousse
Comme pour goûter d'anciennes douceurs.
Zig et zig et zag, la mort continue
De racler sans fin son aigre instrument.
Un voile est tombé, la danseuse est nue !
Son danseur la serre amoureusement.
La dame est, dit-on, une marquise ou une baronne.
Et le vert galant un pauvre charron, elle s'abandonne
Zig et zig et zig, quelle sarabande !
Quels cercles de morts se donnant la main !
Zig et zig et zag, on voit dans la bande,
Le roi gambader auprès du vilain !
Et puis tout à coup on quitte la ronde,
On se pousse, on fuit, le coq a chanté
Oh! La belle nuit pour le pauvre monde !
Et vive la mort et l'égalité!
La danseuse est nue, son danseur la serre amoureusement.
Ses yeux grands ouverts ne voient plus que son prince charmant.
Zig et zig et zag, la mort en cadence
Frappant une tombe avec son talon,
La mort à minuit joue un air de danse, Zig et zig et zag.
Un voile est tombé ! La danseuse est nue !
Son danseur la serre amoureusement.
Le chant du coq, résonne encore,
Et me voila si seule.
So here is a Behind the Scenes (part 1)
Any Patience related topics/song/instrument/thing you want me to cover in these ?
This is from my last album Patience, that you can stream/buy using the links below.
I did rerecord a few different things on this one, you know, to legitimate the video and make a slightly different version than on the album.
So yeah it was a cool process, tho it's been super hard for me to relearn the parts...
This track was first made in 2015 so yeah, I had to put the time and effort to remember what the hell I was thinking at that time...
Hope you like it, if you do PLEASE help me and SHARE it to your friends !
Visibility is, as you can see, the thing I lack the most and even tho I'm quite confortable being under the radar since forever, it could be nice to reach some new people don't you think ?
THANKS GUYZ !! ASK ME ANYTHING IN THE COMMENT I'LL RESPOND, MAYBE SUGGESTIONS ABOUT MY OUTFIT ???
Official Website : clementbelio.com
Producer Pack : clementbelio.com/products/producer-pack
Bandcamp : clems6belio.com
Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, etc... : idol.lnk.to/Patience
Facebook : facebook.com/clems6beliomusic
Instagram : instagram.com/clems6belio
Un making of hyper beau et un peu rigolo du tournage de mon clip "Alive and Well", que vous pouvez (et devez) regarder ici : youtu.be/GKuuA36xnFM
On a passé quelques jours dans les Pyrénées, tantôt du côté Français, tantôt Espagnol, mais globalement perdu dans les montagnes entre des cascades, forêts, vallées, collines, pic, lac, sentiers et villages.
L'eau était hyper froide, on dormait peu et mangeait mal, mais on était EN VIE ET BIIIEEEN allez ça dure que 20min c'est bon tu peux tout regarder non ?
Also here I demonstrate how those tshirts can affect your SOUND, I swear it's legit......
GRAB ONE HERE : clementbelio.com/collections/merch
should I do more of those tho ?
instagram.com/clems6belio
facebook.com/clems6beliomusic
facebook.com/clems6beliomusic
instagram.com/clems6belio
Main theme of the album 🎶
www.clementbelio.com
Also, very important, the PRODUCER PACK, basically containing the whole DNA of this album, is available for 29,99€ until the end of May.
Check out more : clementbelio.com
I'll be continuing a bit more this Patience Vlog serie for a couple of weeks maybe, not one video per day tho I have too much work haha
THANKS FOR THE SUPPORT GUYS LOVE YOU !
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2 year of work and it's finally done, I'm super excited !
LISTEN / BUY / SUPPORT :
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Also available on streaming platforms : idol.lnk.to/Patience
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01:00 - Take Your Time
09:30 - Chromatic Curtain
16:50 - La Danse Macabre
23:38 - Dust
26:41 - Pt1. Oasis
30:05 - Pt2. Grey Zone
34:20 - Trampoline
42:44 - Simpler Times
45:13 - Alive and Well
Hi !
Patience is finally here, 5 years after my last solo release Contrast.
First things first, thank you very much for your support throughout my musical journey.
This one has been in the work for 2 years, and every minute of the process was as challenging as rewarding.
Patience features no less than 10 tracks, each of them exploring numerous genres, moods and textures, altough all united by one single melody.
From jazz to metal, hip hop to classical, minimalist ambience to epic orchestral sections, the reminiscence of the main theme of this album keeps coming back over and over again to remind where home is.
Taking your time, waiting, calm and at peace, I give you PATIENCE.
SUPPORT ME (stream/buy/download) :
clementbelio.com
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SPECIAL THANKS :
Stéphane Peyrot for is help, patience, gear, studio, gifts and overall support.
FX, Carla, Camille and Maxime for their dedication, time, talent, smile, joke and overall incredible work.
Benjamin Evaristo and Philippe Puccili for their astounding work on « Alive and Well » music video, from up there on the mountain or from behind a screen.
My parents, my girlfriend, my friends and my cat for their unswerving love, support, excitation, advices or marks and scratches.
And again, Manon, for her immense patience, love, hugs and cuddles during the last 2 years and more, et aussi ce lourd velouté d’asperge.
This album is the synthesis of the last couple of years I have spent with all of you guys, and all of you let a mark in it, somewhere somehow, I want it to be yours too.
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CREDITS
Produced by Clément Belio
Composed, Arranged, Recorded and Mixed at Clément’s home studio
Guests recorded at Studio du Bassin
Mastered by Clément Belio at Studio du Bassin
Music & Lyrics by Clément Belio
Trampoline composed by Clément Belio and François-Xavier de Turenne
La Danse Macabre composed by Camille Saint-Saens (Arr Clément Belio)
All Instruments - Clément Belio
Piano on Trampoline - François-Xavier de Turenne
Rhodes solo on Grey Zone - François-Xavier de Turenne
Vocals - Clément Belio and Carla Fernandez
Violin - Camille Schwartz
Artwork and Visuals by Maxime Lefranc (Equalist Design)
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LINKS :
Clément Belio :
clementbelio.com
www.facebook.com/clems6beliomusic
www.youtube.com/clems6belio
Tell me if you wish to see more about that, maybe about the actual recording, mics I use, mixing, autotuning my out of tune takes, etc...
I'll never go as deep as Jacob Collier of course haha but if there is something you hear that you like maybe I'll be able to give you more specifics :D
PATIENCE - MAY 6th
Ended up with a tone that works half the time and only does WUB WUB
I'll share every presets and tones in my producer pack, soon.
From basic triads you go to, 7th, 9th, 11th chords super easily.
In that way "Grey zone" is pretty much a surprise track in this album, in the sense that until the last moment it wasn’t supposed to exist.
PATIENCE - MAY 6th
Music by Clément Belio
Written and directed by Benjamin Evaristo
benjamin-evaristo.com
Starring me (lol), my girlfriend Manon Quenneville, and Carla Fernandez (the main vocalist of my album)
PATIENCE WILL BE AVAILABLE ON MAY 6th at :
clementbelio.com (coming soon)
clems6belio.com (bandcamp)
facebook.com/clems6beliomusic
instagram.com/clems6belio
This music video was shot in five days in the Pyrenees, lost somewhere in the mountains between France and Spain, near my family's original village Panticosa (hometown of all the Belios around the world apparently) and where I literally spent all my childhood summers.
I obviously insisted to shoot in nature and not in a studio for this specific track, which I chose to use as the ending of the album.
Starting on a very intimate mood at first, reminding the main theme, and then closing it as gloriously as possible, but still keeping that organic vibe with the strings section, organic percussions and moutains/waterfall samples that I captured during the shooting.
It's funny how this specific track inspired the album front cover, which inspired the music video aesthetic, which inspired the track again... My first time going full circle between the music and visuals.
Altough this track is closing my new album, it was inspired quite some time ago by an artist called J.Views and his track "Almost Forgot".
Instantly loved it, bought it alongside his sample library, blended it with my 2 years process doing this album and this is pretty much the result.
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Alive and Well
April 26
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Speaking about the introduction/transition of Alive and Well.
Chimes, vinyl, heartbeat, sidechain compression, modern electronic / trip hop things...
Hopefully it will make sense soon :)
It's mostly used in field recording, for video games or films, post production, foley recording etc... But of course it can really add significant value to your tracks, by adding stereo definition, distance appreciation and overall 3D accuracy.
Here are some exemples on how it sounds compared to traditional recording on drums, piano, guitar, vocals etc...
Virtual Haircut : youtu.be/8IXm6SuUigI
http://www.soundman.de/en
Dummy head from neumann : en-de.neumann.com/ku-100
He probably stumbled across one of my Tigran covers cuz he also like Tigran Hamasyan, so yeah, we quickly realized that given our common influences and our abilities to write/record/mix our own music that we should do something together. Like a track to begin ? That's how Trampoline ended up on this album.
FX fb : facebook.com/Fx2tcomposer
FX soundcloud : soundcloud.com/fx2t
FX youtube channel : youtube.com/channel/UCknG70GkBSc45zsfxeVWluA
"Pt1 - Oasis" is my poor attempt at it, and ended up being something else.
Also WARNING : Beware the obnoxious teasing
Piano takes made at Studio du Bassin (website and social media coming soon)
hope you like it, if you have any questions you know what to do :D
Here are some insights about it, the 2 main themes and important moments, a few stories, a couple of clones, and some little excerpts of my version with the weird acoustic instruments I've used !
Check out the original piece really, it's an amazing piece of art :D
Original version : youtu.be/71fZhMXlGT4
Les clefs de l'orchestre : youtu.be/Dhvuytwr4M0
La boite à musique : youtu.be/d8DG0xzwOf0
With vocals : youtu.be/Zrvs8phmyys
Different version : youtu.be/YyknBTm_YyM


