What a beautiful story behind this wonderful piece of music! Heart touching playing too… Congratulations, dear Carolyn, it sounds truly divine!

Beautiful piano and strings and the orchestration for this part, amazing!

Lovely track!  Digging the sensitive feel here

Very beautiful, and the live strings are fantastic.

Hear,  my heart 's beating for you!

In The Ghetto (Elvis cover Mac Davis).mp3

The Winner of Thieves

From the tips of my toes
To the end of your nose
Tap to the rhythm
You know how it goes 

Wanna see all ages
from young to old
Get up on their feet
Now don't be cold 

There's a summer of fun to be had
Life is hard but best be glad
Cos it aint gonna get any easier
If we mope around it'll send us mad 

Well we all got inside the magic
That drives us forward past the tragic
Of life's ups and downs
We gotta stop the frown 

Well that's the way it goes
No time to overload
Snap to it now
Or forever you will bow


221. stop the frown (harding).mp3

I'm excited to share my first song with live recorded violins and cello, thanks to the extremely talented duo at String Fever Studio.  

"The Music Box & Other Stories" is a poignant nod to my childhood and my mother's music box, which played "Waves of the Danube," and which I found completely mesmerizing.  That was my first realization that every song had a story to tell, and instilled a longing in me to tell my own musical tales.

The Music Box & Other Stories

The Music Box & Other Stories (ft. String Fever Studio)

Hiya folks,

Time to change up my flow, Listeners. 😉

I realize I've only been posting  Ambient-Jazz Improvisations with my friend and guitarist Tim Elliot for the past few months, so now it's time for one of my Ambient Solo Piano Improvs.  

So here's my latest exploration of the sound and flow my Kawai ES7 Electric Concert Piano gives me access to. And while there is always something that folks feel is worth complaining about or being offended by... as usual, my focus is on 'the Beauty' in this Life!  

So may you enJOY both. 😉

© Gary Courtland-Miles 2022
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2022

The photo is not a Sunrise, my friends.
It's a Moonrise over Denmark, with Crepuscular Moon Rays radiating into the evening sky.

The Beauty

Sweet Hard

Music & Piano: Debra Buesking
Jan Schonander invited me to participate in his Four Seasons for Piano project with "summer" as my assigned season.  Since I am no Vivaldi I reached back to the Tin-Pan Alley "Good Old-Summertime" (1902) for inspiration.  Not really an arrangement per se, but rather a quote.

Summer Interrupted

From the new album A Certain Rapture - https://moodexhibit.bandcamp.com/album/a-certain-rapture

Mood Exhibit - A Certain Rapture

Glydermyth

ᕼOT ᗷᒪᗩᑕK ᑕOᖴᖴEE BLUES [DEMO]

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!

The Music Box & Other Stories (ft. String Fever Studio)

Carolyn Barela

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