Name: Le 3 avril by Brique a Braq
Duration: 1 min 38 s
Description: A charming, brittle vignette told by a warbly piano.

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Misty” began life in 1954 as a wordless piano miniature by Erroll Garner – a slow, harmonically rich ballad that seemed to float more than walk. Sitting at the very edge of the post‑war era, it belongs to a world that was trying to learn how to be romantic again after years defined by headlines and loss. Where earlier standards often kept a trace of wit or swing, “Misty” is unabashedly tender: its entire shape is built around the feeling of being overwhelmed, disoriented, gently undone by love.

Garner’s original recording is almost like a private conversation with the piano. The melody doesn’t rush anywhere; it drifts, pausing, circling back, slipping into unexpected harmonies. The tune rises as if reaching for clarity, then dissolves into soft, descending lines that never quite settle. When Johnny Burke added lyrics a few years later (“Look at me, I’m as helpless as a kitten up a tree…”), he simply put words to what the music was already saying: that particular mix of wonder and vulnerability, of being happily lost and a little afraid of how deep this could go.

Over time, “Misty” became one of the defining ballads of the mid‑20th‑century songbook. Singers like Johnny Mathis and Sarah Vaughan turned it into a showcase for long, sustained lines and orchestras that wrapped the melody in strings and soft brass. Yet no matter how lush the arrangement, the core feeling stayed the same: a strange, weightless state where the world blurs at the edges and only one person remains in focus. It is not the bittersweet resignation of the interwar songs, nor the jaunty brightness of pre‑war dance numbers, but something more introspective – a late‑night realisation that you are no longer entirely in control of your own heart.

In a felt‑piano setting, that intimacy is brought sharply to the foreground. Stripped of the big arrangements and famous vocal lines, “Misty” becomes once again what it was at the beginning: a pianist alone with a fragile, wandering melody. The softened attack of the keys makes the harmonies seem to breathe; chords emerge and fade like passing thoughts. Without the lyrics, the iconic opening phrase is no longer “Look at me” but simply a hesitant, rising question in sound – a few notes that don’t quite know where they are going, only that they must follow this path.

Heard this way, the song feels less like a polished showpiece and more like someone carefully tracing the outline of their own uncertainty. Each modulation, each unexpected chord, is like a small emotional shift: hope, doubt, surrender, a brief moment of clarity before the haze closes in again. Placed alongside earlier pieces in Between The Wars, “Misty” acts almost like an echo from the future – a reminder of how the language of popular music evolved from waltzes and swing tunes into these weightless, hovering ballads that seem to take place entirely inside a single, complicated feeling.

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Man Night Music is a record label and production entity founded by American songwriter, producer, composer, and instrumentalist Derek Mount.  Mount has written and played on an impressive palette of art, including significant releases in pop, rock, indie, funk, hip-hop, orchestral music, electronic music, and more.

As a songwriter, Derek has co-written eight number-one hits and fifteen top-ten songs across various radio formats.  He has also released three albums under the moniker of his dynamic compositional project, Brique a Braq.  Mount's songs have been used in feature films (NBCUniversal, Lionsgate), commercials (Nokia, Target), television programs (CMT, MTV, VH1), retail stores (Journey's, Forever XXI), sporting events (ESPN, WWE, NHL, CBS, etc.), corporate presentations (BMW, Wells Fargo, KCRW), and much more. Propelled by an ambitious work ethic, he has scored several independent film projects from tour buses, hotel lobbies, and studios around the world, including a recent collaboration with partner Riley Friesen on several custom soundtrack pieces for RGH Entertainment's animated feature film "Postman Pat: The Movie."    

He performed eleven-and-a-half years as the bombastic, multifaceted guitarist and background vocalist for the electro-dance-infused rock band Family Force 5. The group has performed thousands of shows worldwide, including appearances at some of the world's most prestigious tours and festivals (Sonisphere, Bamboozle, Warped Tour US & UK, AP Tour, etc.).  FF5 has sold several hundred thousand albums to-date, charted over forty million collective YouTube views, and garnered considerable recognition in the press (Rolling Stone, Billboard, Spin, Pollstar, AP Magazine's Live Band of the Year, Yahoo's "Who's Next," etc.).

In August of 2017, Mount collaborated with producer Philip Zach to create "Versailles," the debut album from their adventurous new project, Juno Kids.  The duo forged the minimalistic record using only one analog synthesizer, and are quickly cultivating a following in the IDM/synthwave scene.

Derek plays guitar at various local churches, and he also teaches online guitar lessons to aspiring students spanning the globe. Mount lives with his wife Sarah, and is a passionate fan of football, basketball, podcasts, grilling, and patterned socks.

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