Chilled Tunes from 2019 -2024. 

May you inJOY.

(c) Gary Courtland-Miles

A Taste of Alchemy

This Album is dedicated to my Very Special Lady - Paige, and represents a Whole panorama of feelings, frustrations, love, intimacy, humor, and adventure!  Over the past 30 years we have experienced every imaginable human emotion, and every permutation of Love. We shrink from nothing and delve into everything! 

And though it's been a constant challenge, all in all, it's been a continual Joy! A kind of 'Relaxed-Intensity'.

However, don't get me wrong folks, she can be a 'Bitch on Wheels' at times!  But at the end of the day, she keeps me Honest and at my Best!  And for this, i am forever Thankful. :)

And in the end, somehow or other...  Paige inspires most of the Music that flows through my soul, and together we believe that ultimately... 'Life is Good'! 

              ~  Anomon

All Music Composed, Arranged, Performed..., and or Improvised 
by Gary Courtland-Miles

All Rights Reserved

(c) Vibrational Arc Music

Blues for Paige

Get Up 'n Move, Feel the Joy and Hit this Beat ! 😃


© Gary Courtland-Miles 2019, 2022
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2019, 2022

Summertime Moves 'n Grooves

Way Outside BlooZe, with a Bang!  ;)

Cheers, always!  :-D

© Gary Courtland-Miles 2021
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2021

Solstice HardGroove

Set back and Let this flow come onto ya ...                                                                        It all began as an impromptu evening visit and morphed into a wonderful evening of musical magic...   
We recorded our Musical Conversations in Tim Elliot's living room with only one middling Microphone an Upright Piano and his Guitar suite, and I'm so glad we did!

Composer/Guitarist @davidjsvensson freely commented, "If the rest of the piece is even close to what the first two minutes were, then this is a masterpiece!!"  

So glad to share the results of this intimate honest and organic Live Jam with you all. I must say that i am looking forward to more such interactions with Tim. And i gotta say, 'Magic is Magic', however much Better one imagines it could have been.  :-D 

May you inJOY 


© Gary Courtland-Miles & Tim Elliot 2021
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles& Tim Elliot 2021

Arranged and MiXed by Anomon

Autmmn Leaves photo by Pxfuel

Autumn Jam _ w. Tim Elliot

Here's the very latest in the recent Series of Improvs with Guitarist Tim Elliot, the friend and neighbor I never knew i had!  :))

The Sound is rough n dirty but oh so honest and heartfelt.  
It's amazing how things work out when we're open to Letting them happen!  

May you enJoy!  :-D


© Gary Courtland-Miles  & Tim Elliot 2021
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles  & Tim Elliot 2021

Looking Up _ w.  Tim Elliot

Tim and I continue our musical conversations and the kind of tonal quantum entanglement we delight in. Just letting the changes come in the flow of the music. Listening deeply and letting whatever will emerge, to do so harmonically and gracefully.  Kinda like conscious living itself. 😉

As usual, I'm on the Upright Grand Piano and Tim's manning his Telecaster.

We trust you'll enJOY this second Improvisation from our early August 'Mystic Heart' Session.

© Gary Courtland-Miles & Tim Elliot 2022
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2022 Gary Courtland-Miles  & Tim Elliot 2022

Mixed and Arranged by Anomon
Photo of Tim in his Teaching and Recording Studio circa 2010.

Let The Changes Come * feat. Tim Elliot

Here's a tune i wrote for my Muse. 💖

Her name was Paige.

After 35 years of adventures, friendship, and love that produced a wonderful daughter, and many grandchildren, she passed as suddenly as the moment we met.

And yes... over the years, there were both passionate Blues and Heavenly Highs.
And I still remember her daily. She was 'another kind of angel'. ;-) One who cared for every single soul she met. Her humanity and common decency knew no bounds, and those who met her were always blessed in some unique and meaningful way.  
. 

I wrote this tune a year into my sabbatical on Saturna Island to which I'd retreated to devote myself to creating music. I wrote it to celebrate her decision to move here full-time and share this part of my life with me.  No longer would i have to travel back and forth between Saturna Island and Victoria to be with her. And i was overjoyed. 

Here's an inkling of the Passion and Love we shared.

May you enJOY!  


p.s.  

Paige loved this Track and asked me to play it often, and at full Volume!  :-D 
Who'd have thunk that only four years later she would die in my arms... and suddenly, at that?  But she did. And she did so Gracefully!  :)

True Love truly is Forever. <3 

These Blues were Composed,  Arranged, and experienced by

© Gary Courtland-Miles 
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles
These Blues were Composed,  Arranged, and experienced by

© Gary Courtland-Miles 2022
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2022


© Tonal Pulse Music

Again my friends...

If... i didn't upload it... it might go unheard for untold ages. :)

Now everyone can inJoy this recent Live Jazz Piano Improvisation (captured directly from my ES7 Kawai Piano) as i played Live at The Lighthouse Pub on Saturna Island in 2015.

It goes out to the Whole Wide World - "There Ever We Are", 
and Beyond...
      
                            Peace and Love, Always...

                                      ~  Gary 


 © Gary Courtland-Miles 2014
 ℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2014

  Photo of myself is from my 'Concert at the Royal', Victoria, B.C.
 ©  Ludmyla Millar 2013

There Ever We Are

I give you today's heartfelt Piano Improvisation for your relaxation.

© Gary Courtland-Miles 2016 - 2024
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2024 - 2024

© Gary Courtland-Miles & Tim Elliot 2020- 2024
℗  Gary Courtland-Miles & Tim Elliot 2020 -2024

© Gary Courtland-Miles & Nadia Solvaggi  2023
℗  Gary Courtland-Miles & Nadia Solvaggi  2023

© Gary Courtland-Miles & Oddrun Eilkey   2023
℗  Gary Courtland-Miles & Oddrun Eikley   2023

© Gary Courtland-Miles &  Jeffrey J Torres  2021
℗  Gary Courtland-Miles &  Jeffrey J Torres  2021

© Gary Courtland-Miles &  Jorg Stohwasser 2021
℗  Gary Courtland-Miles &  Jorg Stohwasser 2021

MiXed by Anomon

In This Moment

This tune is about 'What We've Said' ... to ourselves and others whilst to-ing and fro-ing in this ol' world. I hope you pick up on the underlying self-deprecating humor in the music. ;)

This also includes what we've expressed non-verbally in the moment, to ourselves and 'others', whether via thought, feeling, or through those invisible cords of connection shared with friends and loved ones around the globe.

That said... here's my latest 'Sound Seed', an upbeat bluesy Piano Improv that came through while jamming with a few friends recently.  

So put on yer Tap shoes... and inJOY!   :)

©  Gary Courtland-Miles   2016
℗  Gary Courtland-Miles  August 7th 2016

What We Said

This tune was inspired by the book 'Life Ascending' by evolutionary biologist Nick Lane of London College UK.  I've read it 3 times and highly recommend it. It'll really Blow yer Mind, and get ya thinking.  Very open ended,  with very little dogma, with mysteries aplenty.  Professor Lane invites us to actually participate in solving some of the deepest riddles of Life, from the microscopic to the macrocosmic. And yes.. the incredibly intelligent design inherent  throughout the entire spectrum of Creation reveals an overarching signature of beauty, practicality and  wonder that is awesome to contemplate.                


photo:  The Heart and Soul Nebula

Ascending

A Taste Of Alchemy  (Extended Version)

An Early August Ambient Chillout, folks. :)

May you inJOY....

©  Gary Courtland-Miles 2019
℗  Gary Courtland-Miles 2019

C h i l l 'n

Another track by Anomon's Virtual band.

May you inJOY! :-D

We Make it All Up

A bit of New Music to help get us through the COVID 19 Lockdown is just what the Doctor ordered! ;) Yeah, to stay sane, all we need to do is to stay Creative exactly where we are!  

In this Spirit, this Collaboration features my dear friend Jörg, on Sax @joerxworx. And i Love what he's done in elevating this sketch to a whole other level!

May you all Stay Safe, be Good to each Other, and inJOY!   <3

© Composition & Arrangement by Gary Courtland-Miles 
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles & Jörg Stohwasser  2020

And... if you'd like to enjoy more, here are a half dozen of our other collaborations.

@  https://soundcloud.com/gary-courtland-miles/sets/anomon-joerxworx

Cheers! 😊

Movin' Thru The Lockdown _ w @joerxworx on Sax

There's no doubt about it, Music animates my Soul, and as an enthusiastic student of Life as well as a passionate Improvisational Pianist &  Composer, as far as I'm concerned, our lives would be impoverished without it ! :)  Composing is all about 'Sharing the Joy, Passion and Angst' we experience in Life, as well as connecting with Musicians and 'Creatives' worldwide. This makes it even more wonderful!  That willingness to engage in whatever way makes SC an ever-expanding Movable Feast that nourishes and inspires on so many levels. 

Music Communicates the Emotional and Informational Content and Context of Heart, Mind, Spirit, and Soul. And 'Letting it Flow' is 'Where Its At' as I hear it!  

Over the past few years since becoming part of the SoundCloud Family, my 'Joy in and Passion for' Creative Musical Expression has increased exponentially as has my appreciation of all the wonderfully passionate Musicians and Creatives worldwide who have devoted themselves to Letting It Take Form! 

Here's a bit of a bio, if anyone is interested.  

Somehow, my MUSE got my attention at a tender age. About the time I was completing my Royal Conservatory training. 

My memory being poorer than most, I began improvising in the passages I had forgotten. And while the audience seemed unaware, my teacher chastised me indulgently, saying, "it appears I have a budding composer on my hands"!  And thus began my Odyssey into the wonderful Vibrational world of Sound!:-) In-deed, I have been an ardent, attentive and appreciative acolyte of my Muse ever since. 

During the early 1970s I had the pleasure and honour of a three year friendship and Master Class with the then Octogenarian Composer Manoah Leide-Tedesco , one of Tone Poem giant Richard Strauss` favorite pupils and friend of Maurice Ravel and other 20th century composers such as Stravinsky (whose music he helped popularize). Since then, whether Improvising, listening, studying composition or devoting myself wholly to the visual arts for years at a time, I have been deeply aware that sharing my musical insights , teaching, and or mentoring young aficionados came with the territory!   I love it, although I am afraid that as my consciousness expands...that I know less and less each year! :-)  

The Tonal Oasis called SoundCloud is a fine and wondrous place in oh so many ways.  And with your support and appreciation, I de-Light to share my music with an ever widening audience. I call what i upload ' Sound-Seeds'.  Most of these 'bed tracks' call out to be fleshed out by passionate soloists who somehow Resonate with my Soundz and Ideas.  So please drop me a line, as i am most interested in letting them bear more fruit through collaboration, interpretation, re-mixing or use in other media.    

And on a personal Note, a Huge Thank-You to each and all who listen, inJoy, and Re-Post onwards what finds it's way thru me! :) Bless y'all.  It's my Joy to simply 'Let' the Creative Spirit find expression through this instrument of Body, Mind, and Heart!  I hope you will find some peace, joy, and rest, in at least some of my improvisations, compositions, or soundz. 

Insofar as playing, and composing  ... as you continue on in Your journey into  the infinite 'Cave of Wonders' we call Music, I wish you all the very best in all Your creative endeavours. 

So Be Kind to yourSelves and one another. Be Audacious, Ready to Play, and above all, share the Joy of being able to express whatever you're feeling. 

In-deed, may The Muse continue to 'Sing on and Play on' through each of us !   For this is one way this 'ol world is lifted up, and Changed for the better - note by note, and smile by smile .  

 Yes, may we simply Let our Creativity flow forth without concern for results.
                                   Peace

                                    Gary *+*

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                       Pluto's atmosphere as seen recently by Horizon Spacecraft