Indeed you are right Gary….and the older I get the better I get at appreciating the moment, as do you apparently

The grande dame Heinzman is older yes but oh how she yields such glorious tones under your loving caress.

love how you let the track breathe and a wonderful atmosphere

Outstanding performance again 🎩😎👌

great atmosphere you have created - good thing someone hit the record button - it's often impossible to recreate that improv!

The world is forever scrabbling for our attention,a constant jabbering commotion drowning out other things of importance.

Take time out to listen,to be at peace and to charge the batteries.

What are you afraid of,when you hide behind the noise
Fill your head with clamour,so you never hear the voice

I like the peace and quiet
I love a mind at rest
Well,don't be afraid to try it
Chilled out,laid back and unstressed

Alone with your thoughts may give you cause for doubt
So turn up the volume,drown everything out

I like the peace and quiet
I love a mind at rest
Well,don't be afraid to try it
Chilled out,laid back and unstressed

Still

Half Blind Lucy - Morning Face

This track starts with a well known theme from the movie "The Godfather". In fact, I have never seen the film and I erroneously thought I had invented the theme, until I learned that it is actually not by me 🤔. I must have subconciously heard it from street musicians and then my brain sneakily declared it as its own invention 😉. Anyways, I am certain, my piece is sufficiently different from the original film music that I will not be sued for copyright issues ...😉.

The tune starts with the theme of "The Godfather" and then relatively quickly turns into an arpeggio-like part. Originally I had named the song "Rain on the Fields" as this passage reminds me of rainveils floating through the air. 
After a very reduced middle piece, the arpeggio piece is repeated again, but this time with a delay of 1/16 note in the right hand which gives it (at least for me) a distinctly different, more airy, feeling. After an elegic (more ore less) triolic part, in the end, the piece touches again lightly on the Godfather theme and finally vanishes in thin air 🎈

I hope, you like it! In any case, I would appreciate your comments (positive and negative). 

All the best, Konrad

PS: You can find this track also on Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/album/7DG31Ozi5aIGQl8PRsAodO?si=dd923565b0ce4a63
and Youtube (albeit with a different title when I originally uploaded it)
https://youtu.be/0g-jmDrEnHU

A Tribute To The Godfather (Solo Piano)

After a trip through the Mediterranean with the paramour of my life years ago... these lyrics emerged as an expression of gratitude and love. Yesterday those lyrics found home in this new original composition.

Forever thinking about you and the family we've made baby.

Thinkin' About You

Music by AudioBake, based on "This Dystopia" open-collab
https://soundcloud.com/audiobake/this-dystopia-open-collab-stem-downloads-available?in=audiobake/sets/this-dystopia-open-collab

Additional bass, synth, vocals & lyrics by Cosmic Keanu

Lyrics:
You try to run, you try to flee
But the streets are filled with mutant freaks

Your Mylar suit has sprung a leak
Now head crabs crawl up your feet

My Dystopia! My Dystopia! My Dystopia! Ma-ma-ma my-dystopia!

Everything sucks and it always rains
Zombies roam the streets, looking for brains

Giant rats crawl from sewer drains
Look at them close they have a human face

My Dystopia! My Dystopia! My Dystopia! Ma-ma-ma my-dystopia!

You huddle round a garbage fire
Think you’re cool in your ripped attire

The only food is mystery meat
It’s most likely made of Soylent Green!

My Dystopia! My Dystopia! My Dystopia! Ma-ma-ma my-dystopia!

Drink your Lightning Claw, it’s all the rage
Head in the cloud, mind in a daze

How we got here is now a haze
Wear hockey pads and pierce your face

My Dystopia (AudioBake open collab Feat. Cosmic Keanu)

With my good friend Dan-DT, who is a master of his musical genre, and his help with his fantastic strings, choirs, piano and not least Clara's beautiful voice to lift this little observation of fairies in the first light of the morning into something that became magical . ;)

Try to feel, experience and see this in front of you.....
When you went out into the morning light in the forest you love to walk in to find serenity, stillness and quietude, you suddenly heard quiet music, and after a few more steps, you saw them dancing and singing there in a clearing in the shimmering morning light. 
The fairies. ;)

To sit down in the soft moss and experience the joy and love they gave you with their music, dance and song, above all the beauty we are surrounded by in our world, and to bring their world into your mind, was an otherworldly experience. And a very strong realization that our earth is the only home we have, and it is our children's future. ;)

My warmest thanks to you Dan, for your friendship, and your magical musicality. You are very much appreciated in my world my friend!

You can find more of Dan-DT's wonderful music here: https://soundcloud.com/dan-t-3

Fairies Morning Light - Dan-DT & Seagull

I recorded this track back in 2001 when my friend Molly and I started the project "Moving Air". https://soundcloud.com/moving-air
If you like you can buy the digital remix track in high quality here:
https://crumius.bandcamp.com/track/moving-air-into-the-light-c-r-u-m-i-u-s-r-e-m-i-x

Into the Light Remix

🖤Buy

Moving Air - Into The Light - c r u m i u s - r e m i x

takechee

Lady Phantom

Hello Listeners, 

Tonight, i give you a recent piano improvisation born on an ancient Upright Grand Piano whilst i was in a quiet and pensive mood...  
one of reflection, remembrance and thankfulness.  
And... i had no idea it was even being recorded.

Such pauses... are truly nourishing.

There's no need to be in such a hurry all the time. 
There's so much to Life that we best appreciate it when we Chill Out...
take a few moments... 
and savor it! 😉

May you enJoy. 😊


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

Memories

This one started as a collaboration with Cosmic Keanu, but evolved to include my good friend Chris (cgmaness). Keanu gave me the baadass riddim, and Chris added the high vocals and the mix. I played bass, guitar, organ, and slide. I also sung the low melody. this was a true collaborative effort for one of my favorite Radiohead songs. We hope you enjoy it.

Optimistic (with cgmaness and Cosmic Keanu) Radiohead cover

Mood, F#m  II  DR000196

There's no doubt about it, Music animates my Soul! As an enthusiastic Student of Life and 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 up 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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