This is a live piano improvisation recorded and broadcast live from the studio of NPR affiliate WUKY FM Lexington.

John Rose Early Works Piano Improvisation No. 10

Hi,

I am a Soft Classical, 1930s-40s British Dance Bands , Big Bands, Jazz music listener and small time amateur composer.

I play the saxophone and piano by ear and I normally only play tunes that I know well from memory.

Thank you for taking the time to look at my first album and tracks.
These compositions are some of my musical ideas and experiments in assorted styles of Soft Classical, New Age and Tudor England style music.
I am not a musician and cannot read or write music down and I have had no formal music lessons or piano training in my life. 
I play very basic piano, on my old 1994 Yamaha Clavinova … a real pianist will hear this straight away, so I prefer the composing side of music more.

I usually get my inspiration whilst sitting at the piano or if I see something outside of the window or if there are any special occasions at the time.
Some tracks, you might be able to hear that I am recording them straight off as I play, in an unedited improvised way, so some tunes are a bit of a mystery tour, all 100% original, albeit raw…
My long-term aim is for someone to convert some of my composed tracks down on to manuscript and then it would be great if a professional orchestra could make a full orchestration of certain tracks and then may be used for a TV theme, or a film score etc.

One of the hardest things for myself to take on board is that once a new tune has been finished, I can only ever play it again if it is still fresh in my mind or practice playing it repeatedly…time passing is not good for my recount.
I did not ever envisage that I would put an album out to the public, so apart from the newer tracks, which sound better as they were recorded directly from my piano to my upstairs PC soundcard with a 7-metre cable.
Some of my earlier composed tracks were recorded with just a Smartphone, so they are no way near to approaching studio quality…. saying that…hopefully they give you some atmosphere and charm with a flavour of what I was trying to achieve.
I have put this album out mostly for my family and posterity …. music is for sharing and I have nothing to lose.

Best wishes,
Nick
(Album also on Spotify, iTunes and Amazon Music)

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John Rose is a composer working out of Lexington, Kentucky. John has worked for many years doing live radio, outdoor festivals, art openings and planetarium performances. John has been a pioneer of electronic music in Kentucky since the 1970s. He continues to work on solo recordings, and is a sound tech and stage hand. He recently started recording and producing music for other people. John also loves to teach wilderness survival and awareness and has been doing so at camps and workshops around Kentucky and Tennessee.

John Rose’s music is created primarily from his own experiences, what he calls “life’s soundtracks”. He utilizes elements from his diverse musical background, which includes early music (especially the Medieval and pre-Renaissance era), Baroque (owing to his direct musical lineage to J.S. Bach through oral teaching tradition), Middle Eastern Music, Gregorian chant, traditional Celtic and Appalachian music, and experimental electronic music.

Music and musicians who are of interest to John Rose are J.S. Bach, Arvo Part, Tangerine Dream, Dead Can Dance, Gregorian chant, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Alan Stivell, Morton Subotonic, John Jacob Niles, Debussy, and Chopin. He considers Nature and Silence to be the foundation of all music.

John’s music is timeless and pensive, interwoven with images of nature, expressive rhythms, deep space pulses, and industrial ambience. Other compositions contain intricate piano passages dancing across waves of geometric ostinatos.

“Music is structured in silence and has its foundations in the rhythm of nature, out of which springs the language of humanity and reflections of the energy of life. I wish to express this to the listener through my music.”

JOHN ROSE SOLO DISCOGRAPHY (cassette format):

Evening Thoughts (90min)
I Could See Them In The Distance (60min)
Rainsongs--also available on LP
Oceans of Contradiction (90min)
Reflections (90min)
Chemical Dreams (90min)
Night Songs (90min)
Meditations (90min)
Zeitreisen (90min)

The Natural World (90min), a recording of live music from the woodland art fair in lexington
Diane Timmons Live at ArtsPlace in Lexington.

CD Format

Cosmogenesis  April, 2001 on SpaceForMusic.com Records
Conversing With A Rainy Night 2004
Unsound 2023


with Tony Gerber
2001 - Airwaves (Electronic Instrumental, Released in January 2000 on MP3.com)

with SPACECRAFT
1997 - Spacecraft: "Spacecraft" (Lektronic Soundscapes LS97009 CD)
1998 - Spacecraft: "Hummel: Live" (Lektronic Soundscapes LS-1012 CD)
1999 - Spacecraft: "Earthtime Tapestry" w/Giles Reaves (released August 4th, 1999 on Lektronic Soundscapes)
1999 - Spacecraft: "Kaleida Dreams" w/Giles Reaves (released November 25th, 1999 on SFM Collective at MP3.com)
2000 - Spacecraft: "20th Century Mix (Best of)" (released January 12th, 2000 on SFM Collective at MP3.com)
2001 - Spacecraft: "Musical Meditation for World Peace" (released January 1st, 2001 on SpaceForMusic.com Records via mp3.com)
2001 - Spacecraft: "Summer Town" (release Feb. 15th on SpaceForMusic.com Records SFM12001)
2001 - Spacecraft: "Cybersphere" (released May 19th on SpaceForMusic.com Records SFM22001)