I didn't know about the piano day but this is such a lovely piece. Your playing sounds so gentle and tender. no idea how you do that!

Madam the Fairy of notes, your fingers bring out of your piano a very pretty murmur which pleasantly tickles my ears. Thank you for this moment of sweetness.

A beautiful piece, Deborah! So tender when the piano line emerges from the intro

Musical tranquility for the soul Debra. Warmhearted & wonderful

Mmmmh!!!How much grace and sweetness in this wonderful piece Debra!!

I found your music again in my likes - and that's also fitting to this time of contemplating...

As soon as I got serious about putting this playlist together I was afraid of missing something or someone from among the many wonderfully talented and supportive people here. And it can't be helped. So this is best described as a sampler of some tunes I really liked a lot, but it certainly isn't an exhaustive list. If I were David Geffen I'd be working on getting people the listening public they deserve. But in the meantime here's a list of great songs by you for you.

2023 Sampler  (not ranked)

To the beauty of simple things, like that of this beautiful Spanish Sparrow

SPARROW

This piece is based on a traditional Scottish-Gaelic waulking song - a highly rhythmic song that would accompany the waulking (beating and finishing, or fulling) of woolen cloth. Though traditionally, waulking songs and other Gaelic puirt-a-beul (mouth music) songs would have been sung unaccompanied and in unison, we put together a little arrangement for SATB.
We hope you'll enjoy it.

soprano - Diane Roberts
alto - Abby Bryden
tenor - Angus Bryden
baritone - Rob Llewellyn 

words:

Hé mandu 
'S truagh nach tigeadh
siud gam' iarraidh
gille 's litir
each is diollaid
Hé mandu hì ri oró hó ro hù o
'S mise dh'fhalbhadh 
null thar sàile 
le mo leannan
's cha bhiodh dàil ann
Nam biodh agam
sgiath a'ghlaisein 
iteag an eòin 
spòg na lachainn 
Shnàmhainn na caoil
air an tarsainn 
An cuan Ileach 
's an caol Arcach 
Rachainn a-steach 
chun a' chaisteil 
's bheirinn a-mach 
as mo leannan 

translation:

It's a pity that what I want isn't on its way - a lad and a letter, a horse and a saddle.
I would go across the sea with my lover, without delay.
If I had the wing of a finch, the flight of a bird, the webbed foot of a duck,
I would swim the narrows, right across the Sound of Islay and the Orkney Sound.
I would go out into the castle and bring out my lover.

Hé Mandu (Scottish Waulking Song - SATB)

Dedicated to lunatics. Let them remember that even on the darkest nights the moon is up there to guide their steps.

ABOVE THE CLOUDS

Accidental interest

equilibrium

I composed this piece inspired by my mother-in-law, who one day told me the story of the warrior Benkei. The music was created directly from Finale software.  Art by Haruno Kanemitsu.
Youtube video: https://youtu.be/MoYYL89BCWs?si=X9Ht1x5fvn02k4NT
© 2013 Pamela Illanes-Tatsuoka. All Rights Reserved."

Benkei

Original Fouglas.


Lyrics:

She’s living in a tomb
amongst the insects and ghouls
Fallen from earth
in a land beyond sleep and waking
Whenever she closes her eyes
she’s lost to the spirals
Spinning in a hex,
in an echo of truth,
in a dream that can’t die

Yet you carry her like an ache in your head
And as you walk through your days
just thinking and seething, 
though you know she never was
and never will be 
Gone, gone
Gone

She’s broken into fragments
of ugly scenes you must forget
You still feel her
and, of course, she still haunts you
Is she still buried out there 
in Satan’s junkyard 
‘neath the iron and rust 
and red rotting branches?

Yet you’re driving her like a nail in your coffin 
And as you swallow more pills
all wasted, sedated,
‘cause you know she never was
and never will be 
Gone, gone
Gone

Nail In Your Coffin

A quiet contemplative moment for Piano Day.  Piano Day takes place on the 88th day --this year March 29th--because of the number of keys on the instrument.  This is my own little celebration.  Thank you for your kind listening.

Song For The Morning | Piano Day 2023

Sono questi i giorni decisivi della nostra vita. Da molti punti di vista. 
C'è chi ve l'aveva detto, senza compromesso alcuno, e non da pochi mesi, ma da subito.
Non perché medico, ma perché libero nell'intelletto e nello spirito, perché cosciente dei mali del mondo. Perché nemico dei servi del Male.
Sappiate riconoscere il valore reale delle persone. La cosa più difficile al mondo. 
Ma oggi più che mai necessaria.
Uniamoci e denunciamo. E combattiamo uniti, contro i servi della menzogna, per la verità e la libertà, per noi e per il futuro dei nostri figli.
E che Dio ci aiuti e salvi.
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These are the decisive days of our life. From many points of view.
There are those who told you so, without any compromise, and not for a few months, but immediately.
Not because he is a doctor, but because he is free in intellect and spirit, because he is aware of the evils of the world. Because enemy of the servants of Evil.
Know how to recognize the real value of people. The hardest thing in the world.
But today more than ever necessary.
Let's unite and report. And we fight united, against the servants of lies, for truth and freedom, for us and for the future of our children.
And may God help and save us.

Apriti a Dio  *  Open up to God

I’m delighted to share my new piano track, “Branching Comfort”.
It has some of my most expressive playing, in an improvised style, driven by feeling.
I hope you enjoy the emotions conveyed- somber/melancholy that navigates it’s way towards a near spiritual resilience. 

Thanks for  listening

Mood Exhibit - Branching Comfort

When my songwriting friend Colin Macduff (find his beautiful debut album 'The Past and the Sky" here: https://www.birnamcdshop.com/product/colin-macduff/) shared his poem 'The Rope', I asked if he'd mind if I tried to put a melody to it.

I did. This is the demo version which I'm hoping to record in a studio soon. There's an accompanying video created with footage from my phone: https://studio.youtube.com/video/yhxZxWGo0wY/edit


The Rope

Coiled, crossed, entangled in a corner
Old and wise and silent, silent as a snake
Left aside beside the new, unwanted
You dream of hands, the touch, their grip, their shape

Once you ran the span and moored our vessels
Safe between the capstan, the capstan and the quay
Once you were the rope that held us steady
Once you were the rope that cast us free

The push the pull, the swing, lasso and ladder
The tug of war when we were in our teens
The give, the take, that bound us all together
The start, the end, the knot, the way and means

Life line, last line, frayed and poorly
In my hand your strands so soft, soft and slack
In my dreams you’re running on beside me
With me all the long way – the long way out and back
With me all the long way – the long way out and back

© C Macduff & S Barr 2023

The Rope - Demo

Fun jam on ipad
Coverart Painting by Pia Steingruber

Initial thoughts on the drums. The whole drums were created by the on bord pro logic ai.
I just let them play tweaking a around a bit.

Fallout Edge

I bought a used accordion in 1993 at a thrift store, greatly upsetting my college roommate when I brought it back to our shared dorm room.  

More recently, I'd been wanting to dust it off and use it in a song, and I tried playing it rhythmically along with a funk guitar riff I had. I had also been wanting to write a song in Spanish, so I decided to incorporate some rhymes en espanol I wrote. Thirdly, I had been looking for some new types of rhythm loops to use in my music, and I randomly tried a cha-cha loop. These three elements together gave this song a latin feel that wasn't intended when I began this song. I hope you enjoy it.

Dime lo que quieres
Que sea un poco de mi
Y esos placeres
Si estoy loco por ti

Dime lo que tienes
Dentro del corazon 
Dime que sueñes
Con mi acordeon 

Dime, dime, dime
Dime otra vez

Capto el sentido
De tus palabras
Esta bien entendido
De que tu hablas

Quieres que yo sea
Participante 
No me parece fea
Ser tu amante

Dime, dime, dime
Dime otra vez

Music and lyrics by David Wagoner

Dime Otra Vez

From the Album: "The Curse Of A Good Looking Ghost" (2023)
Lyrics:
It's a nitroglycerin bomb sniffing skirt
That's a lollipop night stick
She only hits you where you need to hurt
A Marie Laveau shotgun shack
Don't ya know there's gambling in the back?
In a shotgun shack
I'm reading the tea leaves  by the smoke stack
We've all been bitten by the maharishi's baby teeth
It's hotter than a Sacramento summer
(And I don't mean that as a bad thing)

I'm gonna have to lay real low for a while
My trouble follows me
I'm waist deep in the marsh
That's been thickened up with
Gumbo voodoo mule skin starch
I hear the Hellhounds on my tail
And I don't know what their motivation is
Maybe it's the Mississippi hog maw fizz?
If you think you know me
It's because I'm the guy that shows up
And all the trouble begins
Hotter than a Sacramento summer
(I don't mean that as a bad thing)

I'm down at the racetrack
I'm sleeping on a mattress made of blister packs
It's hotter than a Sacramento summer
(I don't mean that as a bad thing)

Oh, I'm up on the rack
The executioner is sharpening his ax
He says: the world is ruled by fools
"And I'm sorry, man, but I don't make the rules."
It's hotter than a Sacramento summer
Wherever I'm going
I'm looking forward to what the cool weather brings...

Hotter Than A Sacramento Summer

I wrote this piece a couple of years ago, and just came across it....
i hope you will like to listen to it....

Art picture is by Artem-sapegin on Unsplash

Il était une fois....

Enjoy the repair of your body cells as you feel the peace within you...

Peaceful body cells

Best described as eclectic, my style is a soothing mix mirroring my personality: mostly mellow with the occasional outburst. Although I have a background in classical piano I have always loved to create and improvise.  Since early childhood I have been trying to duplicate on the piano what I hear in my head.  Now I see how formal studies and improvisation fit together perfectly. I hope to always keep growing and learning, reflecting the beauty of Christ in all my endeavors. Thank you for your kind listening.

There is so much talent and variety here, and most of the people are pretty cool too. I love being part of this community. Listening to your music and being heard in return is enough.

Still reading? OK I'm gonna muse a bit. It's hard to fully convey how much this forum has meant to me. There are people I've never met that feel very much like old friends -- and in a very real way they are.
If I follow someone I make every effort to listen to and support their efforts. It's certainly not a transactional relationship but I do tend to limit my follows to people who engage in mutual listening and engagement.

Song For The Morning | Piano Day 2023

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