just a very mellow piano jam, I'd love to contemplate about something while listening to this

Thank you, sometimes it works out and sometime not

I am curious what you felt while playing this piece. The title maybe suggests a little bit of helplessnes? Hope you are doing well and thank you for your music 🤗

O yes...the N.I. Giant is one amazing piece of software. And under your hands it's sounding o so lovely.  Be sure to try out the Una Corda! :))

you truly feel the words I know,...or this melody wouldn't be here

An improvised composition created whilst experimenting with the Native Instruments Giant VST piano. It seemed to compliment the ideas that were being generated at the time.
Why the title?  I hear the words in the melody, sometimes what seems so important in life and must be achieved suddenly becomes far less important a feeling of liberation.

What Does It Matter Anyway

Pastorale

My choral work "Meditation", grown from "Meditation for Cross-Strung Harp", now has its text sung as well: a couple of members inspired me to redo it using Emvoice voices, and SynthV voices were added, giving it more feeling. Headphones recommended

Look to this day, for it is life, the very life of life
In its brief course lie all all your verities and realities
Bliss of growth, glory of action, splendor of beauty
For yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow only a vision
But, well-lived, today makes every yesterday a dream of happiness 
and every tomorrow, a vision of hope
Look well, therefore, to this day

Meditation on "Look To This Day"

Kalidasa meditation, "Look To This Day"

This is a cover of a cover, so to speak.  The original by The Marvelettes from 1961 was covered by The Beatles in 1963 on their second album, "With The Beatles", and it is The Beatles' version that I am covering here.  It's a repeated four-chord, doo wop progression from the Motown era. Although the lyrics revolve around snail mail  it's still a good, fun song and I like it.

Please Mr. Postman

"Please Mr. Postman"

Cloud Hound

Morceau réalisé avec le programme Sibelius et le player Note Performer (Sons BBCSO)
Lien video score :
https://youtu.be/NllP3R-2zJk

Skeleton (Sibelius score)

I’ve been up I’ve been down
I’ve been all over the town
I can find my way home

I’ve been kissed I’ve been kicked
I’ve been everything but taken in
You’d think I’d take the hint

Down by the corner 
Of Cottage and Sawyer
My heart has been left on the vine

You’ve been warned
Seraphim Son

I’ve been in I’ve been out
I’ve been filled inside with doubt
I tried to play by rules

I’ve been praised I’ve been decked
No good deed goes left unchecked
I tried to play it cool

Down by the corner 
Of Cottage and Sawyer
My heart has been left on the vine

You’ve been warned
Seraphim Son

Nightbird EP

Seraphim Son

Don't miss the video: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9vqX68K9x0&feature=emb_title

Para Lia - 'Riders On The Dike' (Feat. Amanda Kim Sanderson)
Taken from the new album ‘Gone With The Flow’
https://paralia.bandcamp.com/album/gone-with-the-flow

3D virtual art exhibition:
http://www.sophisticatedape.com/gone-with-the-flow-exhibition/

Thank you everyone for listening and supporting Para Lia!

words and music by René Methner, Copyright 2020
mix and production: René Methner
mastering: Thomas Heimann-Trosien, TurnstyleMastering, Berlin
cover artwork: Louis Renzoni

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‘Riders On The Dike’ features the vocals of UK singer/songwriter Amanda Kim Sanderson. Thank you for your friendship and the way you rock the track Amanda! :) It is such a pleasure to work with you and we are mighty proud that you joined us for this song! Follow the amazing Amanda Kim Sanderson on Soundcloud: @phoebeelena


The cover artwork comes from an original idea from the New York Artist Louis Renzoni, who said something like that Para Lia uses the same colors like he does - so the idea of a collaboration was born. Louis artwork runs throughout the album where the artists’ work features more extensively with both featuring in an online virtual music/art exhibition:
http://www.sophisticatedape.com/gone-with-the-flow-exhibition/

Thank you @mrcagey @three-photons @andrew-borderick @subjecttorevision @terrywigmore @fadysporz for your feedback on the mastered stuff!

follow me, we're on the way
to make more out of today
and when we fail we change course
milestones won't move
but our creeping paths are pretty cool
we're the today's soft option fools
i don't know if it's too late
i don't know how long we'll stay
the idea is to go higher
fly over by my side
with curiosity in mind
we are on the loose
we are the riders on the dike
hand me over my fate
and stay with me along the way
if you come around i am okay
i don't know if it's too late
i don't know how long we'll stay
the idea is to go higher
fly over by my side
with curiosity in mind
we are on the loose
we are the riders on the dike
the riders on the dike

Riders On The Dike (Feat. Amanda Kim Sanderson)

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Laniakaea - Valhjim - Remastered 2023.

"Laniakea" captures the awe-inspiring beauty of the universe through sound. Brace yourself for an auditory expedition that mirrors the grandeur of the cosmos, where the harmonies of synthesizers, the resonance of electric guitars, and the pulsating beats converge like stars in the night sky.

--(C) JIM VALERO 2020 (all rights reserved)>
REMASTERED 2023.

Laniakea - Valhjim - Remastered 2023

Feeling very lucky to be involved in this recent festival project. Link to website at the bottom of this info. There is a lot to this one! The short version is under the guidance of Composer Madeleine Flynn myself and 6 other musicians performed a beautiful work on two different rivers in my home state of Tasmania during the MONA FOMA 2021 festival. The instrumentation included horns, strings, sirens/fog horns, intonarumori and many other sound and trad instruments as well as a beautiful and moving text from Theresa Saintly. Here is a small summary from the program guide. ...
Relay / Country Remembers Her Names

Madeleine Flynn, Tim Humphrey with Theresa Sainty

A slowly unfolding relay of land and sea signals echoes across our fair island, opening and closing the festival. Foghorns streamed from Low Head, boat horns, sirens, experimental intonarumori instruments, palawa kani (the language of Tasmanian Aboriginal people), bagpipe streamed from Queenstown, and other sound-making apparatus call each other over land and water, and ask us to reflect on where we are. From wukalina / Mount William and pilawaytakinta / Low Head, to Queenstown, Launceston and nipaluna / Hobart.  

You will hear the work projected from a moving vessel meandering close to shore. In Launceston, listen from the banks of kanamaluka / Tamar River around Riverbend Park, Royal Park and Seaport. In Hobart, listen from the banks of the Derwent around the Hobart foreshore, to Long Beach, Sandy Bay, and on the eastern shore between Howrah and Bellerive. 

The full story and list of all involved (there was lots live stuff streamed to the vessel as well as the onboard musos) can be found here
https://www.relaysound.art/

relay//country remembers her names

In my early years I took piano lessons, regretfully I stopped them in my teens. I've always had a piano in the house and over the years have composed a number of songs (without words). What’s important to me is the melodic nature of the pieces and I wanted to share them with others. The origins of the music are probably influenced by my early classical lessons, Chopin and Schubert to name a couple. I love Liszt’s Hungarian and Rachmaninoff’s Russian styles but sadly my technical ability hampers the inclusion of their techniques.
Today’s home recording software allows many opportunities to develop compositions using other instruments to compliment the piano however, using the software has been a challenge, trying to get the “right” sound for the piano has been the most difficult part of the process. I’m slowly learning and will probably remix some of my current tracks as my experience grows.
Once I have recorded my heritage pieces, I plan to write a new selection of music predominantly piano but also experimenting with more or different instruments, watch this space!
Thank you for listening and commenting on my compositions and for the reposts, please don’t hesitate to offer constructive criticism, it could speed up the learning process.
Best Wishes,
Chris Cummins

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