I composed a song when I was 18 years old, and I would like to share it with you and take your opinion! It’s an Oriental Progressive Metal instrumental, it’s kinda symphonic because there exist 17 instruments. The recording of this piece was done on my old desktop pc; I looked everywhere by that time for Sound Fonts and found interesting ones. I did not know enough about DXi and VXTi (Virtual Instruments) by that time but I managed very well with sound fonts.

This song is called “Sahara’s Fate”. Why Sahara’s Fate? well, there are no lyrics, but you will see how this piece expressed my story or my version of the very well known myth “Noah’s Arc”. The hero in this song is Dramata who is a beast sent by God to clean up the earth! By that time, God was angry because of the human behavior. Dramata was the flood that covered the whole Sahara! Only one man and woman stood outside the gate, they had the honor to establish a new life style. This is in brief the theme of this song, you might want to read the lyrics of this song which were never sang! I think this song expressed my story musically much better. In the end, I’m not anymore into this kind of music but I’m still so much interested in Mythology which cannot really be expressed with my current style of music (Jazz/Blues). I cannot deny that this is the piece of music that took time the most (around 3 months) and it’s still one of my favorite compositions. You will notice that I did not record any guitar with this piece because I couldn’t afford paying for a studio, even though, I had a chance to record in a professional studio but after few sessions things started to get messed up because time was not that year a friend of mine and my manager/friend Bash. Anyway… enough talking! Listen to Sahara’s Fate and give me your opinion:

Download: Elie Khoury - Sahara’s Fate

Here goes the lyrics or the story of this song:
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Hey friends,

I’ve been playing guitar for almost 8 years and playing the blues for 4 years! I decided this year to make a big shift and started composing Trance music. I’m not sure it’s 100% trance but you’ll hear what I came out with. It’s a mix inspired by Vivaldi’s Four Seasons album which is one of my favorite classical albums.

I want to thank Joanna for recording “The Revolution Begins” voice. It’s so smooth ;). Not to forget Nick, Fady and DJ Chris (Thanks guys for the tips).

Download this song and write comments please… I’m not sure I’ll be composing some other trance songs unless you like this one :). I see the blues and jazz a much more mature style of music in terms of expressing feelings and it’s not geometrical at all.

Download here: Elie Khoury - Season One (The Revolution Begins)

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Hey friends…

This is the worst improvisation I have ever played for Autumn Leaves!

Download here: Elie Khoury - Autumn Leaves

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Dear musicians friends,

I sampled the midi of a song I composed few months ago (Where can she be) and I felt like improvising some guitar solos over that backing track… I plugged my guitar and improvised only once!… the sounds is not great, but it’s not that bad too!

The guitar is out of tune.. and actually I did not like the melody that much

Here it is: Elie Khoury - Blues Improvisation