Charley Weber Portfolio

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Charley Weber

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Charley’s Music & Voice

I’ve mostly worked in film with some releases in music and experience in live events production and music production.

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An ASCAP writer, producer & composer, I have experience producing commercials, music videos and podcasts, as well as voicing commercials and documentaries. For the longest time a film editor and often producer, I have music in films and documentaries as well as one album and singles on iTunes & Apple Music. The music on the ‘Road to Reach You’ project is available with royalty split with Mary Keil, ‘Leprachaun Entertainment’, who financed the recordings in L.A.

Below an example of presenting a radio review show of the arts program for the London Olympics.

Original Music Recording & Production (ASCAP)

My latest music release, My Daisy Brain – Original C Weber

My Daisy Brain, C. Weber. Latest original release, which stayed at No.1 on the Reverbnation.com regional chart for eighteen months. Available commercially on Apple Music

Third Rose – I started plonking around on piano and guitar at around age fourteen, self taught and looking for simple memorable themes. A recent, still sparse, composition for film music.

Kinder Days available from Reverbnation.com or I tunes

Kinder Days. A straight folk/rock track I wrote and recorded for We Are Juan’s ‘Road to Reach You‘, my project and available on iTunes. The song came to me in ten minutes and I almost didn’t bother to stop and write the thing before leaving to go to work on editing Swing. It seemed very simple. But I did and found people enjoy the simplicity, if it’s a solid piece. Songs which come quickly are different experiences for a songwriter.

As an artist contracting producer, I worked on the first major electronic festival in Istanbul – J&B’s Techno Festival – and was the music director of a live after hours club in Istanbul, which had an interesting mix of local musicians, African immigrants and U.S. airmen on leave.

Atomic Rhythm Baby – C. Weber Original music – Voices, Guitars and Production. Electronic

Is You Is – C. Porter. Remix by C. Weber. With vocals by Nell Carter and C. Weber

A remix and dance recording interpretation of Cole Porter’s ‘Is You Is’. The voices are mine and Nell Carter’s Hers from a film called SWING, which I edited for Martin Guigui, a friend and film director. Martin also plays Hammond organ here.

My focus since leaving Turkey in 2016 has been on writing ‘Ragamuffin’s Tale’, a book contextualising my experience of growing up in the heart of counterculture, as well as on earning a postgraduate degree, for which I earned a merit in 2023. I am working on a second volume of adult experiences, Travelling Freelancer, about travelling and working in commercials, film, music and live spaces overseas, which I hope will become part II of ‘Ragamuffin’s Tale’.

More Original Music

Below are a few more original tracks in development.

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New World, one of my originals. All music, voices, guitars and instruments by C. Weber.

New World or The Pirate’s Song (vocals and all music by C. Weber). I hope to finish it to a release standard. The first real song I started writing years ago in New York. It might also work as music score for something. A strong chorus!

It was inspired by my roommate in New York at the time, Mr. Kim, a consultant lawyer to the South Korean government – now a law professor at a University in South Korea. A fascinating guy who opened my eyes to a different, very Korean, perspective – in terms of voice, music, health and food – probably too little of which I took on board – but he inspired me to develop what was a raw and pretty awful singing voice. Before that I just played guitar.

Above and below are a selection of songs, some original and some reinterpretations. They are digital recordings recorded in Plymouth between 2017-20 but upgraded with new recording equipment, my Mustang guitar, new and better drums and a deeper and more polished level of production.

Sentimental Soldier – C. Weber

Two Tracks – C. Weber – A back-to-basics, country music sort of track.

Two Tracks – C. Weber Original. All vocals, keys, guitars and arrangements. A ‘head back to the hills’ track I wrote stuck outside the Bulgarian/Turkish border – and my flat in Istanbul – a couple of years ago.

How to get a Job – Once – C. Weber

How to get a job – Once – Original C. Weber, all words, music, vocals, guitars and arrangement.

Everybody Else – C. Weber

Soundtrack Music Originals

Spanish Lullaby – C. Weber

Incidental music for film – a strong piece of music, a little over the top in performance.

Reinterpretations and Covers – Ragamuffin App

Licensing available with appropriate mechanicals and rights clearances.

Arrangements, voices and instruments by C. Weber (ASCAP).

Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys, by W. Jennings. Reinterpretation by C. Weber.

Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys. W. Jennings. Vocals and parts by C. Weber. Electro version. European mountain music or country music is a unique cultural genre. I’ve written a new original in that style – Two Tracks – sort of in the vein of Seasick Steve, although currently the production seems too full at the moment. But for many of us, Gram Parsons, Carl Perkins and Willie Nelson are or were among the greatest.

Angel – J. Hendrix. Alt Rock. Incorporating the new production sounds, with natural drum sounds.

Angel, Jimi Hendrix. A reinterpretation, instruments and voices by Charley Weber

A number of the tracks I hope to further develop into remix/reinterpretations. Particularly Layla (inviting rural Turkish remixes), Call Me – the Debbie Harry track (supposed to be a deeper Dub reinterpretation). A couple of others, like My Baby Just Cares for Me, I Don’t Claim to Be an Angel and Shine a Light, which I sense need either new vocals or some traditional Gospel backing accompaniment.

Shine A Light – Jagger/Richards. C. Weber vocals and guitar. At the time I imagined this song to be written about the passing of our mum. It was actually written about Brian Jones.

Shine A Light. Jagger Richards. C. Weber vocals and instruments

Layla – Derek and the Dominos, Eric Clapton and Jim Gordon.

E. Clapton. A reinterpretation – instruments voices and arrangement by Charley. A historic song and behind the scenes romance story, which opens itself to explorative questions about love, projection, escape and addiction. Treading a balance between truth and tongue-in-cheek: a modern retelling of the story of Layla and Majnun. An Anatolian Saz player gets banished to the mountains and living among his goats, he writes love songs for his beloved, Layla. Her parents have forbidden the union, deeming him unworthy marriage material for their daughter. It poses the question: does everyone have at least one Layla in their lives? To me the production sounds a bit too straight at the moment. The intention is for a slightly Anatolian mix and feel.

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