This piece is ASCAP registered but available royalty free for use with spoken work or as a backing track.  Please message me or reach out at bryancarmody@ me.com.  All rights reserved. Copyright  bryancarmodymusic 2016

BTC Studio Works:  Piano Improvisation " A Winter's Lie"

This is a piano improvisation conceived around the Walt Whitman poem "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"  First Stanza is attached. This piece is meant to accompany the recitation of the first stanza of the poem.

Poem authored by Walt Whitman - first stanza:

"Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"

by Walt Whitman

Out of the cradle endlessly rocking,
Out of the mocking-bird's throat, the musical shuttle,
Out of the Ninth-month midnight,

Over the sterile sands and the fields beyond, where the child 
leaving his bed wander'd alone, bareheaded, barefoot,
Down from the shower'd halo,
Up from the mystic play of shadows twining and twisting as 
if they were alive,

Out from the patches of briers and blackberries, 
From the memories of the bird that chanted to me, 
From your memories sad brother, from the fitful risings and
fallings I heard,

From under that yellow half-moon late-risen and swollen as 
if with tears,
From those beginning notes of yearning and love there in 
the mist,

From the thousand responses of my heart never to cease,
From the myriad thence-arous'd words,
From the word stronger and more delicious than any,
From such as now they start the scene revisiting,
As a flock, twittering, rising, or overhead passing,
Borne hither, ere all eludes me, hurriedly,
A man, yet by these tears a little boy again,

Throwing myself on the sand, confronting the waves,
I, chanter of pains and joys, uniter of here and hereafter,
Taking all hints to use them, but swiftly leaping beyond them,
A reminiscence sing.

BTC Studio Works: Piano Improvisation - "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"

This track is ASCAP Licensed but available for Royalty Free use for Spoken Work or Backing Track.  Please message me or reach out at bryancarmody@me.com Copyright 2016 bryancarmodymusic 

Origin Notes: My Daughter.  Through my heart - 0-6. Overwhelmed, overjoyed, and overthinking everything. Except her. Mostly. This in the parade of improvisations around a theme that I know will go long after I am gone.   I've played it through the end but that's silly to assume such nonsense.  So I've deconstructed it to only include what I know now.  Hence the fade.  

BTC Studio Works: Piano Improvisation: "Claire's Themes - 0 - 6 Years"

Improvisation is a word.  A memory.  A person.  A Season. A feeling.  A mood.  Often it's  a way to "work things out" with an instrument.

This Improvisation comes from a number and a day.    I'll never forget this day and I still don't think we will ever "work it out".

This piece is about that moment "After the fall."  

To those who innocently lost their lives and the the first responders who gave their ultimate sacrifice and did their duty.  May we never forget that to knowingly bring harm to your fellow being is the ultimate betrayal of ones humanity.

BTC Studio Works: Piano Improvisation - "9/11/01 After The Fall" (Raw)

This piece is ASCAP Licensed but available for Royalty Free use for Spoken Word or Backing Track.  Please message me or reach out at bryancarmody@me.com Copyright 2016 bryancarmodymusic.

Origin Notes: Iowa - turn of the century - Hope, Faith, and Struggle.  Same things never change - Improvisation - Single take.  Please forgive musical typos.

BTC Studio Works: Piano Improvisation - "Journey West"

Six years ago my Father Shed His Mortal Coil.  The actual date of his ascension can only be estimated  as he lived alone and died suddenly.  However, not unexpectedly.  Single take. Using  Ivory II Grand Pianos. Originally Recorded 10/6/2013

BTC Studio Works Piano Improvisation "Six Years Gone"

A recent Piano Improv that needed a certain layer - after flailing around with string layers I put it away.  A recent cleaning of the garage uncovered my Dads answering machine.  These are the last messages he never heard.  

BTC Studio Works: Piano Improvisation: "A Reliable Man"

BTC Studio Works: Piano Improvisation: "A Reliable Man" PIANO ONLY

  BLACK TOP COWBOY plays songs from the world of Outlaws, Outcasts Sparkle and Havoc.

The first track - "Mr. State Trooper" is from Bruce Springsteen's  1982 "Nebraska" album.  Words and Music by Bruce Springsteen.  All rights remain those of the author.

Arranged and Conceived by BLACK TOP COWBOY. Stereo Mixed and Mastered by VanGabriel Productions in Woodstock, NY.  

BLACK TOP COWBOY: 
"Fast is good - but faster is better - unless you've got hot brakes."

"Mr. State Trooper" By Bruce Springsteen, "Nebraska" Mix Mastered by VanGabriel

Doing what I can to be heard. Before there is no sound.



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