A hand picked selection of my piano recordings that will help you concentrate or simply relax and enjoy

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Composer Monica Xiao
@monicaxiao

From her album "Piano Droplets"
https://monicaxiao.bandcamp.com/album/piano-droplets

Exquisite piano music with a jazzy touch!

Background texture by Skeletalmess
flic.kr/p/9z9xef

Monica Xiao: Mother's Childhood Story

This Mendelssohnian theme came to me in a dream two years ago.

Impromptu for Cello in D Major

Photo taken and edited by me.
https://www.deviantart.com/leehon/art/I-Know-That-You-re-Unhappy-With-The-World-847318915

I'm Shorter Than Danny DeVito

Live Concert - Gotland

Composer: Tuukka Jokilehto https://soundcloud.com/tuukka-jokilehto
Piece: A Love Story
Performer: Carlos Márquez

About the composer:
"I live in Finland and I compose for the piano. I take a special interest in composing easy music for beginners, music that hopefully makes learning the piano interesting and fun."

Composer scores available:
musescore.com/user/204621

Background image by Sami:
https://flic.kr/p/5b9D2V

Tuukka Jokilehto: A Love Story

Composer Arthur Breur writes about this piece:
An interlude composed by request for a Jewish wedding; elements influenced by "Sunrise, Sunset" from Fiddler on the Roof.
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Piano: Carlos Márquez (@cmdigital)
Composer: Arthur Breur (@arthurbreur)
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Recording ℗2014 Carlos Márquez
Dance ©1987 Arthur Breur
Sheet Music (free/buy): www.ArthurBreur.com/sheet-music
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Background image by Frank Black Noir www.flickr.com/photos/frankblacknoir/7728870164

Arthur Breur - Dance - Carlos Márquez, piano

Many thousands of years ago, our ancestors lived here on our little globe. Did they have any idea of the future..... and if so what was "future" for them? "Tomorrow, next week, or next year?" Did they even have a word for future? Or was life exclusively about develop and expand the group and getting food for the day? Or did they, too, have other goals and meaning with their lives?

Lyrics and vocals: Our dear poet Peter, https://soundcloud.com/user-264930040/tracks
Music, Mix and Production; Seagull, https://soundcloud.com/farout-music-studio

Calm Stream

    I have no words, just thoughts, like these
    Of primal cravings, fears and needs.
    My leathered skin, yet young, seems older
    Browned and cracked I shiver colder
    Depicting beasts muralled large within my cave, 
    Their fatty flesh my empty gut to crave.

    Bursting fires from the frozen mountain thread
    And weave and belch and burn and spit of ochres red.
    The very poison whence my paintbox palette grows
    'Neath the toxic gases twixt congealing lava flows.
    In these extremes we live, but few, the young into
    the perma-sleep will often fall 
    And not so old, our eldest ageing too, follow close
    upon the darkest terror's call.

    Meat and heat is all I need,
    Stone and bone, all I own.
    Skin the flesh, strip it clean.
    Cleanse it in the calming stream.

    Strip the skin, spit the pips,
    Moisturise the burning lips.
    Skin the flesh, strip it clean.
    Cleanse it in the calming stream.

Ancient Man - Seagull & Peter

Dear friends, this song is a tribute to all people who volunteer to make sure that even poor children have a meaningful and fun free time. 
It is our Swedish National Day today - we are a peace-loving folk and hope that every war will take an end!

Volunteer Leisure Leaders

There are some people who try to take care
of kids - that are poor - they come from everywhere
their parents have not any money to spend
for the benefit of their kids
The ingenuity - has no limit
their reward is the love from all the kids

The leaders can bring all the kids out of town
where they never have been - for to see what there are
they look at flowers and all lovely trees
and maybe animals they can find
as squirrels or lovely birds who are singing
for the children from the dark side of the town

And sometimes they are travelling to the islands in the sea
an exciting trip  -  they got salt in their hair 
and winds are blowing and waves can be high
and sometimes they got scared
They are amazed by all the wonders that there are 
They will remember these days until they die

Volunteer Leisure Leaders

Passage of Time

Recent My Weekly Video Magazine of piano ten thousand leaves
https://youtu.be/nn5_M4Nrvhg?si=N7hL_xrnDqc46si_


#3869 (667 left): Jul. 18, 2024: Earth has not anything to show more fair (from William Wordsworth from Mar. 16, 2024) 
Today's pure primal piano music here. Happy if this music makes you feel peaceful.. : )
Looking for absolute natural beauty every day for Piano Ten Thousand Leaves. Target number is 4536 and 3869(85.30%) (Only 667 pieces remain) achieved today. Find my project.. : )
This piece may might have good 1/f fluctuation characteristic although I stopped investigating it each piece.

My new message: "Does it make sense to preserve it for 1000 years?

Today's cover ART is created by #Midjourney (Art Generating #AI), according to my wish. Happy if you like it.

spotify playlist 18 hours 449 songs, makes you fully relaxed.
 https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0RCxA8SaySzoFzpQmTCLfo?si=92c44191513340ff

Recent My Weekly Video Magazine of piano ten thousand leaves
https://youtu.be/yCCufZCMnDQ?si=pLt98vOleJcioH-m

Weekly Piano Ten Thousand Leaves Magazine ; super beautiful video .. 
https://youtu.be/nn5_M4Nrvhg?si=N7hL_xrnDqc46si_

I'm now making Archive site of Piano Ten Thousand Leaves project by utilizing #wordpress. Basically nice direction I've already gotten.. : )
Currently 1100 pieces already achieved. 
But this week I need to do something else, so I'm going to stop this task for a bit.



######## NEW 27th SELECTION ALBUM JUST RELEASED ########
"Thousand Years Slumber" - the 27th selection album of piano ten thousand leaves

youtube: FULL VIDEO with 20 full songs in very high quality sounds
https://youtu.be/iBbCbNpxD3U?si=Hg6WWu4hV6qP1c-D

spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/0cJbK83sUPo0FdsfElwmw8?si=-A46B7V-Qj-zIQWOEh8V-g

appleMusic:
https://music.apple.com/jp/album/thousand-years-slumber/1756622015

amazonMusic:
https://www.amazon.com/music/player/albums/B0D971MC37?&_encoding=UTF8&tag=tcjaz-22&linkCode=ur2&camp=247&creative=1211

all music streaming services:
https://linkco.re/FGZDZn9u

Earth Has Not Anything To Show More Fair - #3869 (85R30 667 Left) By Chair House 240718

Piano Fountain

Heartaches (2021) Anthology CD2 Track 11

method: recording guitar (an electromatic in an open tuning it tends to lose), voice, tube xylophone (via contact microphone) and cheap ewi (set to horn, orchestra and shakuhachi respectively) via pedals
narration: in this phase, I am to spend quite a lot of time in such areas (waiting rooms, sometimes reminding of Kafka, sometimes of Sartre, sometimes of Beckett and nearly always reminiscent of the non-places described by Augé and made famous by Eno) - what better is there to do than compose expressionist poetry (and later forget to use a phaser in the far background, not shying away, though, from making old and new impairments part of the process, as usual)?
image: copyright jo richter

poem / copyright jo richter:

ausgestanzt und plastiform
da sitzen wir und warten
abmontierte pferde
mit lichttriefenden nüstern
die silhouette einer großstadt
aus bakterien und hoffnung

interlinear translation: indoor waiting area - a cacophony // punched out and shifting shapes / there, we are sitting / dismantled horses / with nostrils dripping light / a city skyline / made of bacteria and hope

wartesaal - eine kakophonie

Wartesaal - Eine Kakophonie

Composer: Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Piece: Kinderscenen Op. 15 (1838)
Pianist: Carlos Márquez

More information about the piece:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinderszenen

Background image:
"Kids on swings silhouetted against the sunset"
https://flic.kr/p/aWguhB


Robert Schumann: Kinderscenen Op. 15 - 12. Child Falling Asleep

I'm not asleep... but that doesn't mean I'm awake.  ~Author Unknown

piano: Carlos Márquez

Reflections

Dirk Maassen: Lullaby for the Sleepless

Classically trained pianist. I enjoy playing not only the traditional repertoire but also pieces from unusual composers.

Robert Schumann: Kinderscenen Op. 15 - 12. Child Falling Asleep

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