this is stunningly good! amazing musicianship!

Very beautiful sadness feeling🙏🏻🙏🏻

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Hi Brad,  very smooth guiter piece. 😎
I’m glad to know you.  Jeffrey

My absolute favortie peaces for guitar. Beautifully played!

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Piano and arrangement........Philip/Classical Glass (@classicalglass-1)
Lyric and voice ....Paolo Pieraccini / MayaDog

Philip did yet another masterpiece with his piano and I was inspired to write and sing a love song ... a poignant love

"Let there be light" Classical Glass - Vocal version by MayaDog

Ładny Dzień

Some people say
That life is just a game
Seek your fortune
Adventure and fame
Is there a meaning
To all of this?
Or does that question
Just prove my ignorance?
Quite a trip 
Quite a trip its been
If you don’t play
You can never win
Quite a trip 
Quite a trip its been
If you don’t laugh
You can never win
Quite a trip 
Quite a trip its been
You can try
You can never win

You can’t win
If you don’t try
You can’t win 
If you don’t cry
You can’t win
I wonder why?

You can’t win
If you don’t try
You can’t win 
If you don’t cry
You can’t win
I wonder why?

Quite A Trip It's Been

Song created & played by The Boilerman & Marc Freak
Marc created & sings: all vocals
Eric created and plays: all drums, bass, lead & rythm guitar, ambient, atmo instruments

Big thanks to The Boilerman Eric for all the hard work on this!!  Check out his page https://soundcloud.com/boilerman-615719656

SMALL
Sunlight slowly tainting my skin
Too right I should have known
Listen I don't know where to begin
This life is one that I've blown

Darkness oh be still there my friend
Who knows what's instore
Hold tight as we skip to the end
I guess I'd have liked some more

CHORUS
I'm passing away the waning sunlight
I'm passing a chance at it all
Its fruitless to fight a certain darkness
I'm small

Sunlight where the tunnel may lead
I think I've a view
Glistens like some shiny new treat
I'll be there just with you

Counting - its a waste of my time
This I can't control
Thank you its been mostly sublime
Now I'll sink back in my hole

CHORUS

Small (The Boilerman and Marc Freak)

YOU CANT FUCKING STOP US
YOU CANT KILL US
YOU CANT HANDLE US

HATE CATZ

We Are The Fallen ( Parts I II III IV ) Dead For 30 Seconds

I posted this piece many years ago, I had added the strings from my Yamaha, but on advise of some Friends, I have made a second recording, with a slight change in notes, and thus only piano...
I hope you like it....

Art picture by Dave Ellis on Unsplash

Que Pour Toi

I made this for my little sister; it's a string of cameos about the town where we were born and raised - a suburb of Newcastle Upon Tyne.  Low income, but real world, real people, real troubles, real joy, real love, real communities, real humour, real music, real life.  All in gloriously rough 1960's industrial working class North East England monochrome.

For those of you not from that part of the world, lyric translations back to English are available upon request. :)

Started as a scribble, pretended to be a poem for a while, then I decided to noodle along and then.....  Ah, you know how it is.....in Byker town.
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Byker Town

Wallpaper of steam trains
Where the sweeping headlights sprawled
‘Cross the ceiling to the old piano
Up against my bedroom wall
In ‘67 the lid came down
Never played again so fair
I’m walking back to Byker town
I’ll meet you there.

Cross the bridge to get to school
Rope swings underneath
Bull’s eyes from the slaughterhouse 
Bombed out rail yard stark relief
Billy Smart’s big top’s coming down
But I don’t care
I’m walking back to Byker town
I’ll meet you there.

Stench of old men in the Raby Arms
A bottle of dog to take back yem
Dominos and baccy tins
Were all that mattered way back then
Every retail product to be found
In Ernie’s shop just six foot square
I’m walking back to Byker town
I’ll meet you there.

Quayside Sunday mornings
Champion, just the job
A week of meat to feed the bairns
For only fower bob
Scranshins from the chippy van ‘round
The side door of the Mayfair
I’m walking back to Byker town
I’ll meet you there.

Sent out on the Wednesday
In Charlie Shepherd’s finest rags
Over to the smokies
To get free broken kippers by the bag
Dad got paid when Thursday came around
Treats for us to share
I’m walking back to Byker town
I’ll meet you there.

Front step full of babbies
Grazed knees on skinny legs
Back lane rows of nappies
Her face is full of wooden pegs
He’s on the dole no work to be found
Torn bookie slips by his chair
I’m walking back to Byker town
I’ll meet you there.

Nets twitching down the road
Never washed in years
Kids with mucky faces 
Almost clean behind the ears
Never seem to have a frown
Owning only what they wear
I’m walking back to Byker town
I’ll meet you there.

Give up all the baggage I’ve got now
Of life in disrepair
I’m walking back to Byker town
I’ll meet you there.

Byker Town

“Third Passacaglia for String Orchestra” was completed in August, 2022 in Fairview, TX.  The work is in one movement. Performance time is about 10 minutes.  

Printed and electronic copies of the score and parts for this work are available from www.CreativeSpiritOnline.com

Performance notes:
•	Tempo, expression, and dynamic markings should be strictly observed.
•	There is no key signature. Accidentals apply to the end of the measure or to the note or notes tied over the measure, and only to notes of the same pitch class, in the same octave.
•	Hairpin pairs (e.g.: mp <>, mf ><) indicate a temporary volume change of one dynamic level.
•	Passages marked  fff  or ppp  indicate playing as loudly and as quietly as possible, respectively.
•	Double-bass “C-extension” is required.

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Third Passacaglia for String Orchestra - "Appassionata"

Usher Valse by Nikita Koshkin

Turns out that happiness consists of a guitar, a tambourine, an old song, and a very good friend.

singing and strumming - Karen "Kiki" Jackson
singing and operating the tambourine - little old me

Where You Lead (Carole King Cover with Kiki Jackson)

Homage to Wayne Shorter, may his music live on...
Ver. 1, feat. the wonderful Sergio Párraga - Percussion
Andy McLean - Tenor saxophone, Keyboards, Drum/Bass programming, production.
Follow-on versions will feature other amazing guests!

Listen to Sergio Párraga's fabulous work here:
https://soundcloud.com/sergioparraga?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Palladium I

Improvisación para guitarra inspirada en el Dios afro cubano.

Xangó

This is a Romantic to Powerful Symphonic Drama written for full orchestra.
I started with the piano track which is the bed for the whole piece and then wrote the upper melodies and orchestration. This was originally composed in 2005.

In My Senses

Down Where The Sage Winds Blow
Words and Music by Pravinand Maharaj

You took a long drink from the cup of truth
Squeezed fresh from your favourite fruit
Picked ripe in the misty woods
Down where the sage winds blow

People live and people die
You made a point of staying alive
Can’t always see it with the naked eye
All you got to show

Easy smiled the face you met
Who knew what’s beneath the flesh
Laying low behind its breath            
The things you never saw

It’s a rat race out there I hear you say
 A leaky roof for a rainy day
Nothing more could make her stay
You knew she had to go

You can’t freeze ice on a burning flame
You can’t be called by another’s name
Can’t build a wall without a frame
On which to hang the door

Easy smiled the face you met
Who knew what’s beneath the flesh
Laying low behind its breath            
The things you never saw

Night falls and shadows play
Beneath a mocking moon
You can’t help thinking the mark of Cain
Was but a lover’s wound

You took a long drink from the cup of truth
Nocturne birdsongs play like flutes
From the tree of the forbidden root
Down where the sage winds blow

Where the boughs of promise stood
Down where the sage winds blow

Down Where The Sage Winds Blow

Brad Rau received a scholarship to attend New England Conservatory (NEC), and received a Master’s degree in 2015 with academic honors. At NEC, he studied classical guitar under Eliot Fisk who was the last pupil of Andres Segovia. Brad has performed in countless masterclasses with instructors including; Sharon Isbin, and Andrew York both Grammy award winning guitarists. Brad’s personal learning methods have enabled him to memorizing over 8 hours of the most difficult repertoire for the classical guitar. Brad was a semi-finalist in the International Texas Guitar Competition of 2008.  Brad currently studies under Grammy awarding winnings guitarist Jason Vieaux. Brad has been performing music for over 20 years all over Boston, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, as a classical guitarist, rock guitarist, and rock drummer.  Brad currently teaching music lessons at Taylor’s Music in West Chester, and performs every Friday at the Brandywine Distillery.  Brad has mentored hundreds of students of all ages, styles and levels. Many of Brad’s students have gone on to develop their own music careers and teaching studios.

Brad’s unique teaching style combines music, physics, philosophy and humor, making him a well-rounded instructor for a variety of students.

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Brad Rau Classical Guitar, Music Teacher. bradraumusic.com
Brad Rau has been performing music for over 20 years all over Boston, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, as a classical guitarist, rock guitarist, and rock drummer. Brad received a scholarship to attend New England Conservatory (NEC) and received a Master’s degree in 2015 with academic honors. At NEC, he studied classical guitar under Eliot Fisk who was the last pupil of Andres Segovia. Brad has performed in countless masterclasses with instructors including; Sharon Isbin, Andrew York and Jason Vieaux, all Grammy award-winning guitarists. Brad was recently a featured performer on Live WRTI Performance Studio. Brad’s personal learning methods have enabled him to surpass his competition memorizing over 8 hours of the most difficult repertoire for the classical guitar. Brad was a semi-finalist in the International Texas Guitar Competition of 2008. In addition to his performing career, Brad has mentored hundreds of students of all ages, styles, and levels. Many of Brad's students have gone on to develop their own music careers and teaching studios. Brad's unique teaching style combines music, physics, philosophy, and humor, making him a well-rounded instructor for a variety of students.
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