I am very pleased after a relatively long break to release this new piano piece.  Thank you for listening and I hope you enjoy.

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DAWNS SURVIVORS

The presents are opened and the children are playing with boundless energy.  This is the image I wanted to capture with the solo Requinto guitar.  I thought about putting an adult in the room (bigger guitar) but decided no, let the children play:) There is also a wee little story line; there is playing and playing, trying out a different toy, playing some more, then the fatigue sets in and they start to wind down for a nap only to dream of playing some more...

Child's Play

A rough mix taken from the desk @ The Brunswick a couple of weeks ago. The rain was torrential that evening but it didn't deter the  hardcore audience from turning up.  A little tip of the hat to Thelonious in this one.

Tobie Carpenter (electric guitar) Hamish Livingstone (double bass) Will Barber(drums) Chris Carpenter(subtitles/trombone) (burn.it.smith (vocals/keys)

Ah ben dis donc (Blimey)
 Ça... tu entends? (Can ya hear that?) 
Le mec sur la pétrolette (The bloke on a moped)
 Il monte la colline (Going up the hill) 
Pour voir sa copine (To see his girlfriend)
 Mais ça me donne mal à la tête (Does my head in)
En première vitesse (Always in first gear)
 Roulez jeunesse (Move it youngster) 
Remets le pot d’échappement (Put that exhaust pipe back on) Fous-moi la paix (Leave me in peace) 
Tu me casses les oreilles (Ya breaking my ears)
 J’en ai marre d’entendre ta ronflette (Tired of hearing that dam hum)

Errrrrrrrmmmm
 I think he’s on his way
 Errrrrrmmmmm 
Must love that girl, anyway 
Squiddly deet dat doot doo dat 
Well you know that where I’m at
 Squiddly deet dat doot doo dat doot day

 Ça, tu entends? (Do you hear that) 
Poile au bidon (For Christsakes) 
C’est le mec sur la pétrolette (A bloke on a moped)

Solo

En première vitesse (Always in first gear)
 Roulez jeunesse (Move it youngster)

Le Mec Sur La Pétrolette (Live)

Seagull magically touches with symphonic splendor Peter's erudite songwriting, singing, and playing, but still remains deeply personal as Father Time is personified.
Lyrics:
Did you commence, at once, or have you always ever been
And will your pounding heartbeat ever cease?
Are you a sense, or force, or something other in between?
Simply ticking down to each and every last release?
Is your pulse rate constant in this exponential universe?
Or does my biology speed the tempo of your rhyme?
Why are the lifespans of your subjects so potentially diverse?
Do you hear me cry your name, Old Father Time?

Is your mission merely measure, or are you yourself the cause
Of evolution and decay of matter's elementary doom?
Are you the seemly pressure on the future's pending pause
Ethereally benign or other natural force subsume?
Can you shift like rays in prisms, temporal rainbows to behold
Are you the cause of age or do you simply count it's lines
Is your rounded face imprisoned in a cell numbered twelvefold
Do you hear me cry your name, Old Father Time?

At terminal expansion of our present universe
For its destined re-contraction to begin
Will your hands slow to a halt then slip into reverse
Or count us down in forward time back to our origin?
Will the ultimate compaction trigger seasonal adjust
Predicate upon your base the final great rewind?
Then will you recommence or revert back to gently ticking dust?
Do you hear me cry your name, Old Father Time?

Old Father Time (Peter, Seagull, Dan-t)

Blue Dress

Oddrun Eikli: vocal and vocal composition https://soundcloud.com/oddrun-eikli
Dairv Dubbleyew: Guitar https://soundcloud.com/dairv-dubbleyew
Torbjørn Vagle: Piano, organ, synth, strings and instrumental composition
Production and mix: Torbjørn Vagle
Cover: Vetle Vagle
Poem by Emily Brontë (30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848)
It`s been a privilege making this song with Oddrun and Dairv.

The result of this collaboration is bigger than I could wish for.
When I wrote the instrumental for the song I had a vision of life reaching for the light, like  dew in the early morning`s  that makes life sprout
With Emely`s poem, Oddrun`s crystal clear warm voice and Dairv`s intense guitar we are right where we want to be.
VIII
The battle had passed from the height,
And still did evening fall;
While heaven with its restful night
Gloriously canopied all.

The dead around were sleeping
On heath and granite grey,
And the dying their last watch were keeping
In the closing of the day.
·⁠·⁠·⁠·⁠·
How golden bright from earth and heaven
The summer day declines!
How gloriously o'er land and sea
The parting sunbeam shines!
There is a voice in the wind that waves
Those bright rejoicing trees.
·⁠·⁠·⁠·⁠·
Not a vapour had stained the breezeless blue,
Not a cloud had dimmed the sun,
From the time of morning's earliest dew
Till the summer day was done.

And all as pure and all as bright
The sun of evening died,
And purer still its parting light
Shone on Lake Elnor's tide

Morning`s Earliest Dew. Oddrun Eikli, Dairv Dubbleyew, Torbjørn Vagle

Well Oh Well

The third piece in my duet set of Songs without Words
A piece in ternary form with lugubrious slow outer sections surrounding a more flowing central passage. The opening theme heard 3 octaves apart returns in the ultra-bass in the final part

SWW24.3

http://piano-midi.de/debuss.htm

I got the initial midi from here. But, the rest of the adjustments for the midi to make it sound more authentic are all me!

Clair De Lune

'Air' from the 3rd Suite in D minor (From 8 Keyboard Suites) by G.F. Handel

Recording at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, 2018.

'Air', Suite in D minor no.3, G.F. Handel

When I write music, I try to go on a journey to feel emotions, whatever they may be.  To me, music is a celebration of life; for all the pain and suffering we may endure, it is a gift to be alive. 

I hope music can take you on journeys of your own to places where you may want to be.  Thank you for listening.

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Christopher Larkins | Composer