Your piano playing is stunning very beautiful how it builds tol. 

Great to have the back story to go with this excellent composition.

This track was originally composed as a piano solo, with each section being a remnant of the initial theme.  Eventually, it was expanded to include full orchestra at various sections.  "Remnants" was inspired by the idea that we are made up of memories, and these remnants are what we carry with us into the present and future, there to be called upon as needed.  I chose the cover photo because, like memories, it's varied in color and texture, but the result is the beautiful creation of the whole.

Remnants

My bio says, "here to listen." True, and sometimes I collaborate on vocals. Other times, I hear something that inspires me to make a piece of fan art. Enter: Sakura. The wistful melody is perfectly rendered in @andrei_g's evocative version of this traditional Japanese folk tune, so the chant- and round-like vocal lines I've added mirror the light and shadow already in the music. The different vocal presences nod to the many generations who have sung or considered these words.

Thanks for listening back. Isn't SoundCloud the greatest?

(Native speakers, forgive my self-administered crash course in Japanese pronunciation and some of the rhythmic liberties I have taken with these verses and your beautiful language.)

Evocation of Sakura (after "Sakura" by Andrei G)

This waltz with piano and cello starts slowly and evolves to a melodious dance. Hope you like it....

Waltz Between The Shades Of Light

the newest version of my piece called The Storm, it was finished in a thunderstorm, thats how it got its name.

The Storm - Version 3

No matter how far away you are, you never left my side. Love you Dad 💖✨
on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4clXgNxlUMw

Never Left Your Side (with video)

WATCH OUT! - https://youtu.be/JyYJ0a2MgYg

More meaningful than fighting against the enemies would be to fight against what makes the enemies suffer as much as we do.

Sinnvoller als gegen die Feinde zu kämpfen wäre, gegen das zu kämpfen, was die Feinde ebenso leiden macht wie uns.

Walter Ludin
(*1945), Schweizer Journalist, Redakteur, Aphoristiker und Buchautor, Mitglied des franziskanischen Ordens der Kapuziner

Swiss journalist, editor, aphorist and book author, member of the Franciscan Order of Capuchins.

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After The Battle (Bolero)

Got to work with Marc Freak @marcfreak on this one after he foolishly offered to, in a comment on a track of mine. I spent a bit of time in London in the late eighties. Boy George was king, the food was still mostly bland and there were a million different rules for dress depending on where you went. Funny how sometimes things can be so foreign and familiar at the same time. I have lots of thoughts but I won't bore you. Oh and the music. I knew most of the bands but it did change my perception a bit to hear them in context. Thanks so much Marc for the singing, melody, lyrics and maybe some context. ;)
Lyrics:

PERFECT DREAM
Jumping out of the frying pan into the fire
Like a drug bust with a visible wire
But its worth it for the time that we spend
And I pray they don't end

All I crawled through has the skin busy itching
And my internet is permanently glitching
But I cannot bare the time we're apart
Its a trial of the heart

CHORUS
Is this just a perfect dream that's coming true?
I want to spend the whole of my brief life with you

When you're standing in darkness and a glimpse of light shines through
When you're lit up like a beacon
And although you are freaking I'm loving this dream come true
With you

And the time I have left grows ever shorter
I am drowning in invisible water
Its a failure on my part I can't swim
And the prospects look grim

There's a torch that ever shines in the distance
Hold my hands up - show no signs of resistance
I'm a prisoner of love 
I don't mind in fact I'm pleased to do time

CHORUS

When you're standing in darkness and a glimpse of light shines through
When you're lit up like a beacon
And everyone's peeking 
I'm loving this dream come true

Perfect Dream (A Marc Freak Collaboration)

I am loving these new masters of the tracks I wrote with my sister Jane on fiddle! This one has an oriental feel. Thank you to my wonderful BF Sander for mastering again! @jane-hamilton-1 
@wane-of-summer 😊❤️🎶🎻🎧🎵🎼

The Lanterns (with my sister Jane Hamilton on violin)

Just in time for Valentine's Day! Dedicated to those who choose healthy, fulfilling love. This is for you.

No Lovers

Солідарність з цим винятковим народом, мужність якого є прикладом для всіх
Solidarité avec ce peuple exceptionnel dont le courage est un exemple pour tous
Solidarity with this exceptional people whose courage is an example for all
R.Tastet (03/2022)

For Ukraine

This piece starts off from the repeating 4 notes of the 3rd movement from Beethoven's Tempest Sonata (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRoZgmqlfso) but takes off in a much different direction with new melodies. The piece borrows from Beethoven only those repeating 4 notes and the figuration of the left hand... everything else being my own. Though the feeling is overtly Beethovian too (with all due distances, of course)... And do you sometimes hear echoes of the Für Elise? (To my ear, the Für Elise itself has echoes of the Tempest's 3rd movement, even in its opening theme.)

The title "After the Tempest" has double meaning. It "takes after" Beethoven's Tempest's 3rd movement. And it also represents the sunlight and freshness felt after a storm's atmospheric depression has passed. Triple meaning, actually, as we endure this terrible worldwide depression and wish for the day it will past us somehow...

Played by software, sorry...

The painting shown is by Thomas Cole (1836), entitled "The Oxbow" and represents an oxbow in the Delaware River after a passing storm. Beethoven's Tempest sonata was written 1801-1802 and Für Elise dates from 1810.

After The Tempest (#piano)

Music is a great unifier.  Through music, we bridge the gap between race, gender, age, etc., to raise our unified voice, the voice of the human race.  I am thankful for making friends from around the world through music, and I thank these friends for embracing me as I am.  We can't allow people to suffer oppression based on differences.  Instead, we should leverage our differences to make the world stronger and better, and build each other up instead of tearing each other down.  We are one people.  Love, not hate, is the answer.

Thanks for stopping by my page!  I compose music for all types of media in multiple genres, but favor cinematic orchestral or orchestral-synth hybrids with a strong melody.  I'm currently furthering my skills at Berklee College of Music Online, scored the end credits for the Indie film short "Sides," have music available in various film libraries, and have won awards in several film scoring contests, most notably the "Emerging Composer Diversity Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music Composition" in the Marvin Hamlisch Film Scoring Competition 2018.  You can contact me via Soundcloud or my website listed below if you have need of some custom original or sync music from my library.  Happy listening!

Remnants

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