yea - that's some real fine blues Geoffrey!  More please

Great piano playing, beautiful…!!🌍☮︎👍🐞🍀

Here is the version of "La valle delle Farfalle Orchestral version".
This new orchestral version released on May 12th. 

Produzione: Nearfield Studio
Composer: Daniela Spadini

The solo piano version (felt piano) is on my Yt.
My channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk5RJY9GJPDQsYqCNK-ulRg

La Valle delle Farfalle Orchestral version

For Tom Blackwell.  Tom was a very active funk drummer on the Portland ME scene in the 80s and 90s. I played with Tom for about ten years until 2017 or so. We had a lot of fun. Tom's ability to write music is unusual for a drummer. Tom's compositions were always well thought out, fun, and interesting. He usually sang his songs too. Tom was also a first in class sound engineer. I had hoped to spend time learning sound from Tom after I retire. Alas, I'll be using a Quija board to get tips now.

I'll keep plugging away at this piece. I have to say, it felt like Tom had input. Maybe I don't need a Quija Board after all.

Of the Black Well

A song about a Song that went into the world to start a life of it’s own, on a helluva Ride. And also about heartbreak, heartheal, the path of the Heart, the Only Always of Being, and the comicosmic circus of cycles and circles. Wholeness, oneness, wonderful weirdness. About losing yourself and finding yourself and staying true to the Path of the Heart, no matter what. Embrace your inner Clown, jump on your Kangaroo and Ride away!

Clown's Ride on a Kangaroo

This is a piece I wrote many years ago, and recorded this duet with myself on Mandolin, and my good friend Allan Cook on Guitar.

I uploaded this piece some time ago as private, and shared with a few people whom I have come to be friends with here on SoundCloud, but have decided to release it publicly, at the urging of one such friend, Liz Dicker (Thank You Liz).

This is a special piece to me, as I wrote it when I was much younger, about 20 or so. In addition, my sister Kristina requested it for her wedding in place of traditional music.

It was also a defining moment, when Allan and I realized we had a special musical connection. I wrote the mandolin part, and when I showed him what I had written, he picked up his acoustic guitar, and like magic, he just knew what to play to perfectly accompany what I had written. This was not the only time this was evident, but it was the first time it was crystal clear to us both.

This recording is an excerpt from an extended improvised jam session we had with other friends, and for which he has the entire recording on his channel. It was recorded informally, and as a live performance, or perhaps better described as a group of musical friends having fun. We opened the recording with Allan and I playing this piece, and then went where the wind took us from there.

I hope you enjoy listening.

If you are interested in hearing the entire recording, it is at the linked track below.

https://soundcloud.com/amcook1971/youre-only-baroque-if-youre-out-of-monet?si=a2f1d65d48914aeca3e88c54e9886086&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Baroque Mandolin Guitar Duet

Lyrics:

We are we are
We are just sculptures
We see we see
We see how you sculpt us

What do you see 
Whenever you sculpt us
Well it isn't me
I ain't not sculpture

I've been asked to intervene
I've been asked to call you out
I'm gonna have to open extreme
I'm gonna have to scream and shout

We are we are 
We are our history
We see we see we see
We see what you quarry

What do you find 
Whenever you mine us
Our footprints align
You know they define us

I've been asked to intervene
I've been asked to call you out
I'm gonna have to open extreme
I'm gonna have to scream and shout

Take your sadness
Take your pain
Wrap it up in all this madness
Turn it into something we gain

I've been asked to intervene
I've been asked to call you out
I'm gonna have to open extreme
I'm gonna have to scream and shout

Sculptures

Orchestral Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra about the main emotions of our life.
The first part contains an introduction and describes flavors of fear and anxiety.

Season of Mind

Fear

Season of Mind - 1. Fear

Missed the sound of my beautiful harpsichord and wanted to get back to my  symphonic meets  beats  phase  lately. As I put this together I am just reminiscent of the winter wonderland outside...

Electric Winter Sonnet

Shirley Temple Cover🍭

I’ve thrown away my toys
Even my drum and train
I wanna make some noise
With real live aeroplanes
Some day I’m gonna fly
I’ll be a pilot too

And when I do, how would you like to be my crew?
On the good ship lollipop
It’s a sweet trip to a candy shop where bonbons play on the sunny beach of peppermint bay
Lemonade stands everywhere
Cracker Jack bands fill the air
And there you are are …happy-landing on a chocolate bar
See the sugar bowl do the tootsie roll * …eat the big bad devils food cake
If you eat too much yer gonna get a tummy ache

On the good ship lollipop….
In to bed you hop
And dream away
On the hood ship lollipop
It’s a sweet trip…..

Ghost Ship

The Seer's Prophecy

SmokingTaps

Sky Children

Sky Children (Kaleidoscope cover)

Maine jazz, classical, roots, rhythm & blues pianist. Accompanist, keyboards, special band projects, musical theater, composer, & teacher. Let's talk music.

Of the Black Well

Geoffrey Ives - Piano Music from Maine

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