A spy movie kind of soundtrack. This is #5 in the series of 'Sonnets,' which are songs-they have lyrics and soon will have vocal tracks.

Breaking the Rules of Harmony

Sonnet #5; Breaking The Rules Of Harmony

The second movement of the Piano Concerto in a minor, a modern classical work.

Piano Concerto No.1

Piano Concerto No.1; 2nd Movement

Piano Concerto No 1;  2nd Movement

It's kind of Russian, Rachmaninoff-like. I like the rhythms and the horns. It's kind of back to the short form and using key relationships rather than worrying about transitions.

Caprice Number 1

A rondo is sort of an extended song form only instead of A B A, it kind of goes; A B A C A D and so on. This is a happy hardcore look at an old form.

Heavy Metal Rondo

As I embarked on this project of creating the Electra Suite, I started reading about the character Electra to see if I wanted to go with the Greek tragedy or the Marvel character and I decided they were both the same character; she is not a happy character. The Marvel character reforms a bit but the one in the Greek tragedy just gets the Furies dancing over her. This movement is the entrance of Clytemnestra, Electra's mum, who murdered her husband Agamemnon.

The Electra Suite

Electra Suite Movement 2; Clytemnestra

Electra Suite Movement 2; 'Clytemnestra'

This is the part of the story where Electra realizes 'you don't have to live like a refugee,' and seizes fate by the throat, so to speak. This synthpop track, as well as the other movements, reflects my own take on the story, minus the early propaganda which was introduced in the early plays. I wrote a blog post about this.

Electra Suite Movement 5; Twisting with the Fates

Electra Suite Movement 5 Twisting With the Fates

A bluesy kind of track with electric guitar, piano, saxophone and brass.

New Blues

An alternative rock track with no keyboards. More experimenting with modes.

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Mad Funk

This is a soundtrack for the music of the spheres; the Cosmic sounds of the universe in a film score version with themes.

The Cosmic Symphony

It's a kind of a blues shuffle but a bit more driving than laid back.

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Reshuffle

This is the reverse vector of 'Sturm Und Drang.' So many rules of Harmony to break, so little time!

Sturm Und Dang

The title is a play on words, since we're referring to a musical cannon and I contend that the original cannon was improvised parts over a set chord progression. So perhaps we come full circle with this. In this one, the chord progression gets some variation as well since who can handle the same chord progression over and over, (except thousands of newlyweds?)

Loose Cannon

In the book, Tea With The Alien, the characters must cross back over the Pool Of Tears, to get out of The Tulgey Woods.

Across The Pool Of Tears

Lately I've been naming tracks after things I hear in my dreams. The phrase usually goes 'tomorrow is another day,' something usually said after a loss or when making a justification. But today is that day, when you think about it. 

Today Is Another Day

Halloween is my favorite holiday and this track has a sort of macabre glee to it.

October Dance

This alternative rock track just has a kind of uplifting feel to it, so I named it Sanctus.

Sanctus

I tend to name my works after listening to them and this alternative rock track could really only have one title.

Latin Rhapsody No 1

This alternative rock track is a dark and mysterious jaunt through the Black Forest.

Black Forest Murmurs

This alternative rock track is the prelude to a new suite called Secrets of the Heart.

Secrets of the Heart

Secrets of the Heart Prelude

1st Movement of the Secrets of the Heart Suite. A driving, alternative rock track, invoking flight (of the Heart) and chasing after it.

Secrets of the Heart 1st Movement

The second movement of the Suite called Secrets of the Heart, this one more introspective

Secrets of the Heart Movement 2

This is the third movement of the Suite called Secrets of the Heart

Secrets of the Heart Movement 3

This alternative rock track is the fourth movement in the Secrets of the Heart Suite.

Secrets of the Heart 4th Movement

Secrets of the Heart Movement 4

The fifth movement of the Secrets of the Heart Suite. Each movement is a different sort of secret and this one is about the godhead in everyone.

Secrets of the Heart Movement 5

The finale to the Secrets of the Heart Suite and a bit of a metamorphosis ensues.

Secrets of the Heart Finale

Those in the know, know about the underground railroad and parts of it still exist beneath Baltimore as my buddies and I discovered one snowy evening. I suppose this is my own version of 'Music Concrete.'

Charm City

Train to Baltimore

Something out of the blue. I wanted to do a small pipe organ concert work.

Toccata No Fugue

This is the (painstakingly) remixed and (somewhat less painstakingly) remastered version of Last Train Out, from the 4 Good Measure Album

4 Good Measure

Last Train Out

Moving back into the '4 Good Measure' realm, hence playing around with E flat Dorian. Don't ask where Romanian Rhapsodies 1-8 are.

Romanian Rhapsody No.9

Romanian  Rhapsody No.9

Appalachian Swing has a dark ambient feel that reflects the mysteriousness of the Appalachians.

Appalachian Swing

Indie rock track Breakout No.2 is from the '4 Good Measure' album. (Don't ask where Breakout No. 1 is.)

Breakout No.2

Dizzy O'Brian's music encompasses everything from alternative rock to electro and ambient. A classically trained composer and performer, his major influences include classical composers such as Mozart and Beethoven as well as classic rock groups such as The Beatles, The B52s, Yes and Frank Zappa, to name a few.

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