always exploring, finding new directions on the map and somehow getting back perfectly to the destination you are looking for.  Love your travels - and the truth that is within

Gorgeous music and performance 🎶😊🎹

great improvisation, with lots of variety

Recent compositions posted to www.brianmcdonald.com

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This is a light-hearted, teen boy aspirational girl crazy song written in the late 80s early 90s. Used a new condenser mic for vocs with layering, didn't use any EQ or effects yet on this mix and need to boost the bass a bit. Morry and I can't get together for about the next month so we'll probably remix then. Hope you enjoy this one. Not too PC by today's (or any) standards but we were truly teens when we first wrote this 30+ years ago. All the best to our SC friends.  

Image from Stef at Tumblr: https://stefwards.tumblr.com/post/10581061308

When It Rains It Pours

MLB - Brooks (ESPN Feature)

皆様、いつも本当にありがとうございます🙏🙏7月から私は少しだけお休みさせて頂きます。皆様の健康と幸せな毎日を祈っております😄😄6月中に100曲を目指したのですが、無理でした・・悔しい(笑)。

すべての友人に本当に感謝しております！

Thank you so much everyone for your continued support🙏🙏I will be taking a short break from July. I wish everyone good health and happy days😄😄I aimed for 100 songs by the end of June, but I couldn't do it...I'm disappointed (lol).

Thank you so much to all my friends!

Thank you

TELL ME SOMETHING

Composed and performed by Megan Jennifer Lewis
Mixed and mastered by Chris Adams

After a bit of an emotional time, I found myself beginning to come back to "me" and what I love to do....A Return to Centre.

Return to Centre

Reflections on the life of a boy working in a glass factory in Glasgow, Scotland over 100 years ago.
Copyright 2024 Brian James McDonald (ASCAP)
Copyright 2024 Hoon Toons Publishing (ASCAP)

Measure Of A Life (Piano)

A piano fantasy based on the Japanese children's song "Bride Doll" (1932) composed by Haseo Sugiyama. Arranged by Kouichi Hashimoto

I found this beautiful piece among old sheet music while sorting through my bookshelf. I played it in my own way.

Fantasia on ” Bride Doll” - Piano Cover -

Never Too Late

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Copyright Hoon Toons Publishing (ASCAP)
All rights reserved worldwide

The Truth Within You (Improvisation)

Zitter und Harfe

#3982 (87.78% 554 left): Nov. 8 2024: There in that bower where first she owned her love (E.H.Coleridge from Sep. 2, 2024) 
Today's pure primal piano music here. Happy if this music makes you feel peaceful.. : )
Looking for absolute natural beauty every day for Piano Ten Thousand Leaves. Target number is 4536:
This piece may might have good 1/f fluctuation characteristic although I stopped investigating it each piece.

My new message: "Does it make sense to preserve it for 1000 years?

Today's cover ART is created by #Midjourney (Art Generating #AI), according to my wish. Happy if you like it.

spotify playlist 18 hours 449 songs, makes you fully relaxed.
 https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0RCxA8SaySzoFzpQmTCLfo?si=92c44191513340ff

Recent My Weekly Video Magazine of piano ten thousand leaves
https://youtu.be/yCCufZCMnDQ?si=pLt98vOleJcioH-m

Weekly Piano Ten Thousand Leaves Magazine ; super beautiful video .. 
https://youtu.be/nn5_M4Nrvhg?si=N7hL_xrnDqc46si_

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Piano Ten Thousand Leaves - Tweets Creation Note: An epic story of wandering music creation
https://a.co/d/0RN78Ga ( 1.36US$ #amazon #kindle, #Paperback also available: 20.11US$)
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I'm now making Archive site of Piano Ten Thousand Leaves project by utilizing #wordpress. Basically nice direction I've already gotten.. : )
Currently 1100 pieces already achieved. 
But this week I need to do something else, so I'm going to stop this task for a bit.



######## NEW 28th SELECTION ALBUM JUST RELEASED ########
"Forest in Moon Light" - the 28th selection album of piano ten thousand leaves

youtube: FULL VIDEO with 20 full songs in very high quality sounds
https://youtu.be/CwTVgfDHCn4?si=1QktmBR1FEGA-tQH

spotify
https://open.spotify.com/intl-ja/album/1RxJBVCU5vdt5O6kGUMbnv?si=hLjW3kbTThegEBOjgTHUbw

appleMusic
https://music.apple.com/jp/album/forest-in-moon-light/1773383143

amazonMusic
https://amazon.co.jp/music/player/albums/B0DJVSVF5K?marketplaceId=A1VC38T7YXB528&musicTerritory=JP&ref=dm_sh_V1XCbECO4uUYzRVs8apKAEEBl

all music streaming services:
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there in that bower where first she owned her love - #3982 (554 left) by chair house 241108

"What Did You Expect?" (Fusion)

Let The Good Fight Begin
Lyrics & Music: Brian James McDonald (ASCAP)

Hold on tight to the pain within, it’s all right, just let the fight begin 

When it begins, there’s no stopping you 
When it’s happening, there’s no way you lose
And when it’s over, I just count my bruisin’, 
I get back up again, I stand back up again

Hold on tight to the pain within, it’s all right, just let the fight begin
She saw the light just like she saw God
Here in jest, you fly, just let the fight begin

And when it’s over, I just count my bruises and I get back up again. I stand back up again.

So let the fight begin, yeah, only then I can begin again 
We can rarely step away - another hell

So here it is — my final plea of need
in a world where I long to be, to be free.
With the weight of silence, I break the chains, calling out the fury — a pouring rain.

Hold on tight, true love, the stars we sail
It’s all right, let the music flail 
She saw the light just like she saw God
Here in jest, you fly, can we just find a life?
She saw the light just like she saw God
Here in jest you fly,
Can we just find a life? 

Copyright 2025 Brian James McDonald (ASCAP)
Copyright Hoon Toons Publishing (ASCAP)

Let the Good Fight Begin

"Forever's Just A Pain In The Ass"

Solo Piano.  Created in Real-Time at the Midwest Music Conservatory, St. Louis MO.

Photo by Greg Carr, my brother.

Year of Music: September 29, 2025

01 - SA - Woodwind Evolutions - A Simple Start
02 - Sonuscore - Elysion - Felt Piano
03 - Sonuscore -  The Orchestra Complete - Flute Staccato - Clarinet Staccato - Violin 1 Staccato - Cello Staccato - Horn Staccato

The Truth Within You (Improvisation)

Brian James McDonald

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