Name: Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring by Brian Higgins
Duration: 2 min 57 s
Description: from J.S. Bach's cantata, "Heart and Mouth and Deed and Life" BWV147

Reminding me of the great Parkening version, you play it beautifully and with feeling.

This is, truly such a joy to listen to and admire the inherent passion with which you played!!

from J.S. Bach's cantata, "Heart and Mouth and Deed and Life" BWV147

Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring

Recorded by Brian Higgins
Mixed by Steve Steckler at Asparagus Media Studios
Cover Art by Juliana Barnet: Horse at Standing Rock
Composed and arranged by Frederick Noad
#1 Theme by Hook
#2 Theme by de Visee
#3 Folk Theme
#4 Theme by Albinoni
Solo Duets, all guitars by Brian Higgins

4 Studies for Guitar

4 Studies For Guitar

This music has be been edited and mastered from an upload several years ago that needed new light shined upon it.  I hope you enjoy.

Someone Time Forgot (remastered)

“It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed. If I’d known, maybe I’d have kept tighter hold of them, and not let unseen tides pull us apart.”

Never Let Me Go

Somewhere and Anywhere (revisited and remixed)

The Lake

Happy New Year to all my Soundcloud friends..✨

DON'T TURN AROUND.  🎧

To the memory of Wilbur and Orville Wright.
The guitar sound is very rudimentary, like the ‘heavier-than-air’ machine that first lifted off the ground with a pilot on board in late 1903.

Cover picture: first successful flight of the Wright Flyer. 17 December 1903 at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina (Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress - cph.3a53266)

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Composed by Michele Ansani (2025).
Posted on SoundCloud: 2025, January 17.

Will you fly with me? *

I'm very pleased to share our first collaboration with the talented pianist Vicenzo Piano. I hope you enjoy this beautiful piano and orchestral piece!
https://soundcloud.com/vicenzopiano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArJWBJ3_olE
Composition & piano performance: Vicenzo Piano
Arrangement & orchestration: Franck Charles

Vals De La Luz

Soundpaint have just launched sampled guitar plugin called Instant Acoustic. There are a lot of strumming patterns and arp settings, but for this, I concentrated on a solo setting and another solo setting that incorporated some synth sound. The recording took about 10 minutes in total.
As we are experiending some rather windy weather today, I have called the track "Windswept" and included a photo of the beach, taken during lockdown.

Windswept

Somewhere Above

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Born in Virginia, raised in Maryland; survivor of an alcoholic  family; graduated High School and Union Carpenters Apprenticeship; a student of Algebra, a student of Life, a  brown belt Samurai Chess Player; gave up clarinet in 2nd grade because he was too young to understand;  gave up French class 5 years later because he could not speak the language; turned down Ms. Maria Blautzig for the Sadie Hawkins Dance because she had turned  down his request earlier in the school year; walked out of typing class on day one, hell HOUR one, because he could not handle the stress of it;  walked out of Oklahoma State University because he really needed help at that point and did not know how to ask for it, so ‘tear it all down and blow it up’ seemed to be the only way to find any; experienced the deepest loneliness of his entire life to date out on that highway, with no direction anywhere.  He has worked as a ditch digger, a grass cutter, a TV Guide door to door salesman; he has been a farm worker, carpenters’ helper, apprentice, a Journeyman carpenter in Local 132, a Home Improvement contractor and a Facilities Maintenance Engineer.  He has passed up more opportunities than cars on a freight train; he has hitchhiked, hobo’ed and walked across tens of thousands of miles of America's roadways, and a few in Canada, for good measure.

By virtue of  a chance encounter one snowy January night in 1993, when he met and eventually married the revolutionary communist, aspiring novelist, multi instrumentalist soprano and as yet unheralded expert at fitting leftovers into the refrigerator, the  beguiling, and sumptuous Ms. Juliana; this union subsequently created the talented, smart, bubbly, and eye-catching Ms. Sophia, she of the musical pipes.
Mr Higgins first picked up the guitar at age 23, the harmonica at 57, and wrote his first book at age 5, or 6. It shall remain forever unpublished, as the only handwritten master of it is lost to the dustbin of history.


Numerous of the photos here are by my friend Charles Steck, who recently unexpectedly passed away. Thank you so much Charles, we are missing you .Thank you for listening to my music.  Voting link for Distrokid/Spotify playlisting
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