Great composition and performance! Really beautiful track!

amazing piece, its always a big big pleasure to come back and experience again something like this!

Song that I and Lawrence made in late 2016 and one of my favorites of the songs that we made together. Hope you enjoy and we thank you for listening!

Lawrence Farr: Vocals, lyrics, bass, drum additions
Me: guitar

Same Old...(with Lawrence Farr)

Romanza [An original improvisation]

A Smooth Rendezvous (Edit: Mastered with Ozone on October 5, 2023)

I am not a professional and I have been very lucky and blessed to have been able to play music using so wonderful instruments as I have in all these songs. With them I have been able to try to mimic or recreate something that once was, something that could be and is "out there"; something that is so clearly and vividly expressed in the music genre often called "smooth jazz" - and in fact in the whole genre of "classical music". So I have wanted to try to demonstrate these amazing instruments, how I love them all and also how I feel playing them. This track maybe conveys some of that affection and the feelings to You and I hope this maybe would bring some joy or happiness to You, even for a brief moment.  

A minor partly improvised "song" (or maybe a basis for improvising) that also demonstrates once again the richness, beauty and potential of the Rhodes electric piano (which to me is maybe one of the world's most beautiful instruments) and hence also the Scarbee EP-88S. This was played by me with my old loyal workhorse Korg SGProX digital piano using the following sounds: 
- Scarbee EP-88S (Rhodes Mk I electric piano),
- Bass and Lead: Lounge Lizard EP-4/Insomnia sound pack,
- Strings: UVI Orchestral Suite/All String Ensemble Vel.

The drums and drum grooves come from Native Instruments Abbey Road 80s Drummer (with some adjustments and additions made by me and with a LinnDrum snare layer added with the UVI Drum Replacer).

Sorry about the large quantity of drum fills... I am an ex drummer (the quality of the fills of course is astounding bc they are from the 80s Drummer). I also am not a jazz musician so the lead lines in this piece truly are not very sophisticated; instead I tried to concentrate on the chords and chord progressions.

This track was inspired especially e.g. by 1) Mr. Bill Evans' song "We Will Meet Again"; 2) by my great hero Mr. Jeff Porcaro, who could easily record this kind of a drum track at one take (using his right-hand sixteenth-note hi-hat); 3) by Mr. Chris Rea's song "The Mention of Your Name" and 4) by a relatively large bunch of popular and classical music and jazz. Of course also everything Mr. Robbie Buchanan does and plays keeps inspiring me continuously.

A Smooth Rendezvous

I'm recording an album 'en homage' to our most celebrated composers. Kickstarting with Chopin, this is a piece based on his famous E Minor Prelude... what do you think?

Stream online: https://li.sten.to/upwsp6vl

Homage to Frédéric Chopin [based on Prelude in E Minor Op.28, No.4] - piano solo

Here's my solo piano cover of 'You Raise Me Up' [Josh Groban/Westlife].

Streaming links: https://li.sten.to/5bl7npom

Happy weekend!

You Raise Me Up [piano cover]

THE PIANO

Le Cheval d'Orgue
Une chevauchée musicale imaginaire par une improvisation sur orgue électronique et boîte à rythme.
Visuel: dessin crayons de couleurs ponctué d'aquarelle.
The Organ Horse
An imaginary musical ride through improvisation on electronic organ and drum machine.
Visual: colored pencil drawing punctuated with watercolor. ​

Le Cheval D'Orgue Patrick Picault

Sketch(2023) + improv 

It's a little bit selfish piece that packs my favorite atmospheres, such as the midnight waltz and the image of a labyrinth. I sketched it with the image of wandering around looking for the exit from a complicated maze…

Piano sketch 11 Lost In Maze

Inspired by the final lines from the poem Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

"The Clouds that gather round the setting sun
Do take a sober colouring from an eye
That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality;
Another race hath been, and other palms are won.
Thanks to the human heart by which we live,
Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears,
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears."



Intimations: A Prelude

THE BOY - WAR

Peace on Earth

Prayer Song

February 24 2022

Coming to Spotify/streaming, welcome to pre-save Apricity (19 March). This is a portion/preview of the work.
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/sharonchen/apricity

Watch the Movie: https://youtu.be/NMV4yRF9Jv4
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Apricity, literally 'the warmth of the winter sun', is an orchestral-ambient work and a collab with https://soundcloud.com/echosonica. I had an idea to make a classical orchestral dronescape. I heard Elena's ambient tracks and believed we could make something different. Given airy, diverging atmospheric pad layers, I then wrote the orchestral lines on top. I used evolving, dynamic string articulations and non-traditional wind and brass articulations to give an evolving, evocative soundscape with themes of light and dark and how despair converges into hope.. 

The whole work is on BandCamp and Spotify later. I used mostly Spitfire Audio software including the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Felted Piano, Orchestral Swarms, and Eric Whitacre Choir. This is my first true ambient work.


https://linktr.ee/sharonchenmusic
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#BandCampFriday is the first Friday of the month. New additions include a newly mixed and mastered 'Spring Serenade' and 'Apricity'. Also in the Spring theme is 'Spring's Hope' and 'Reflections on a Spring Lake Sunset'. (Piano and orchestra). Follow me on BandCamp for the latest.

https://sharonchen.bandcamp.com/track/apricity
https://sharonchen.bandcamp.com/track/spring-serenade
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13 March: My ‘Nocturne in C Minor is now out on YouTube.  After experimenting with various materials including felt and interfacing to make a felted sound, this is the result.  Inspired by my Pleyel, Chopin, nature, and C Minor.
Welcome to pre-save for 9 April release:
https://occ.lnk.to/NocturneinCMinor

Performance: https://youtu.be/4FpHHFu5YhY
Welcome you to subscribe and like for more!

Apricity

What Was I Made For? (Piano Quartet) (18 April, Pre-save): https://gyro.to/WhatWasIMadeFor

New Romance in Time Piano EP
https://gyro.to/RomanceinTime

Most beautiful romantic melodies (Full piano performances of the works in Romance in Time EP)
https://youtu.be/K62TuGv0VL8

25 Feb Jazz Meets Classical Piano Livestream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyP8LHN3sa0

New Year Piano Concert Live: Mon 1 Jan 2024  @8 PM PST (new time)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YuwrQ8sWtU

Also, I was not on SC for several months before because they do not accept my email, cox.net and I needed to switch to another email address. However, their support is very slow. Right now taking a small break because of neck injury.


Thoughts on a Still Night: releases 27 October: https://gyro.to/ThoughtsonaStillNight

Cinema Paradiso for violin and piano now out under new moniker Sharon Chen Music Covers! listen https://bit.ly/3SSHjNl

Thanks for subbing to my YouTube for piano and violin performances/lives! https://www.youtube.com/c/SharonChenMusic

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I am a classically-trained composer, violinist, pianist; an award-nominated composer. Spring's Hope was nominated for One World Music Radio’s (UK) Best Piano with Instrumentation Single (2021). Harvard College grad with honors in Music and East Asian Languages and Civilizations. I was a violinist but became a composer, pianist recently because of ongoing health problems. I am a poet, dreamer, writer..see my poems on Twitter. My songs are twinged with nostalgia, introspection; often incorporate themes of darkness evolving into light.

Watch for originals and covers on both instruments on YouTube and Spotify. Thanks for subbing to my YouTube and following me on Spotify. Find different works on my Bandcamp, One World Music Radio too.
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Dawn of the morning lightly caresses
The moon touch of our hearts reveals 
In the blackest of nights..
In the breathlessness of circumstances 
The embracing hearts slowly heals..

~SEC

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