Brian Crain Moonlit Shore

Brian Crain - Under the Willow

I called it Soundcloud Mix, cause this is what the nature of soundcloud is to me.... collaborating and making friends thru music !

Contains the versions from:
https://soundcloud.com/zeitfaktor/dirk-maassen-east-zeitfaktor
https://soundcloud.com/an-imaginal-space/east-remastered-by-dirk
https://soundcloud.com/soundset-mm/colab-dirk-maassen-dirk

Thanks to all collaborators and listeners..... 

Dirk


Dirk Maassen - East (Soundcloud Mix) -  with ZEITFAKTOR, An Imaginal Space, Soundset MM

This piece evolved from improvised motifs, which I have sorted slightly. 
from the album "2 Days & a Year"
Hope you enjoy...

2 days and a year

A new piano improvisation that is based on Arty's motif that opens the first 15 seconds of this piece :)

Find me on Spotify: sptfy.com/93U

Bittersweetness

Bittersweetness - Milana - iTunes, Spotify

Fivos Valachis has come up with a marvellous idea of collaborating with various artists to create an album to raise money for "Doctors without borders". Fivos supplied me with the original piano track of his tune "Color your life orange" & I added many layers of orchestral instruments. Because Fivos had already taken the piano duties in this piece, I opted for my second instrument, the guitar & basically played it as a duet with his lovely melody line.
Hopefully this tune will be inspirational & uplifting to all those that listen. Enjoy!

Color Your Life Orange- Fivos Valachis & Simon Reich

Op3 Nr8

Music for piano, woodwinds, recorder, brass (euphonium/horns), strings, celesta and harp.

Vision

Blue Fountain Waltz

This is the first track of my new album "Eleven", released on February 11, 2016. 

It's inspired by an Andrea Moro's song, titled "Ho creduto di poterti trattenere", you can listen to the original version here: https://soundcloud.com/andreamoro/ho-creduto-di-poterti-trattenere

I hope you like this piano version, it's available on: 
Bandcamp: https://gianmarcolaserra.bandcamp.com/track/prelude

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/it/album/prelude/id1072670906?i=1072670910&l=en

AmazonMP3:
http://www.amazon.it/dp/B01APTIK7U/ref=dm_ws_tlw_trk1

PlayStore:
https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Gian_Marco_La_Serra_Eleven?id=Bsqygv4up3anf3kx2sdoicu6muu

Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/track/7BEmKsfWluXpABuTHuobNx

Deezer:
http://www.deezer.com/track/117726144?utm_source=deezer&utm_content=track-117726144&utm_term=641814581_1457440062&utm_medium=web

Buy on Bandcamp

Prelude - Eleven

Brian Crain - Imagining

This came to me while I was just about to start practising for a recital I'm performing at in a couple of weeks. I sat at the piano, in a very good, relaxed state of mind and just as I was about to start practising this idea came to me.

This recording is the 3rd play through of the track - it came to me all in one go, I played it a second time, and then I turned on my PC and recorded it, exactly as it was played the first time.

I hope you enjoy it!

The image is "sunflower" by Gabriella Fabri (http://www.sxc.hu/profile/duchesssa)

Bliss

I've created this page just to show my support and spread the word about this very talented and creative pianist. 

Brian was born in Hollywood, California. He has been composing music as long as he can remember. Family members tell him that when he was very young he began whistling nearly all the time. When someone would ask what he was whistling, Brian would usually answer something like, "I don't know. I just made it up."

He was only six years old when his parents bought a baby grand piano, thinking that Brian's musical talents could use a more polished medium. But Brian continued to whistle his songs. He was not drawn to the keyboard.

When he was ten years old, Brian began taking piano lessons, but he soon became bored with the lessons. Besides, the piano took time away from his new passion, baseball. So he gave up the piano. His need to compose, however, would not be stopped. His friends would often hear him whistling his newest compositions during practice or games on the baseball diamond. At this young age, Brian was dreaming of becoming a professional baseball player while whistling his own songs.

When Brian was fifteen years old he began editing award-winning educational films. While he was still a teenager, he began doing sound on Hollywood films. At nineteen years of age, he built his own sound studio to complete the first feature-length film in Hollywood to be finished in R-DAT digital audio. Some of his technical innovations in post-production sound became standard Hollywood practice.

During this time Brian would occasionally sit down at that nearly forgotten piano. He would improvise at the keyboard, just as he had always improvised with his whistling, playing with the notes until something started sounding just right. He was, without realizing it, teaching himself to play the piano.

Also without intending to do it, Brian was training himself to compose at the piano. By his early twenties, he was composing songs for award-winning children's films. He was also still nurturing his dream of playing professional baseball, but after unsuccessful tryouts with professional teams, he sadly let that dream slip away.
It was during this time that his family suggested he record his personal piano works and release them on CD. He had never seriously considered recording for CD release, but when he recorded the first album, it was so well received that he now spends all his time composing and recording his own works. He continues to be encouraged by loyal fans who frequently tell him that his music has changed their lives. Now he jokes that the best thing that ever happened to him was not becoming a professional baseball player.

Brian's compositions Butterfly Waltz, Northern Lights, A Walk in the Forest and Lavender Hills are used as theme music and background music for television dramas and commercials in Asia. The use of Brian's music in this fashion has made him very popular in all of Asia.

In 2005 Brian composed his first two symphonies, entitled Spring Symphonies, which were recorded with the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra. Brian debuted these symphonies with the Dakota Symphony Orchestra on Oct 8th 2005. He also performs regular piano concerts in Asia and the U.S. and is currently working on his eleventh album.

Brian Crain - Under the Willow

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