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Bonjour les amis, 🎹🎼💖
Voici ma composition pour Piano "La Danse des cygnes".
J'ai toujours été fascinée par l'univers de la danse classique et par la musique du ballet de Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski "Le Lac des cygnes".
J’ interprète au piano « La Danse des cygnes » extrait de mon recueil « Voyages ».
J’ai souhaité aborder le style impressionniste.
Image par Willgard Krause de Pixabay
https://youtu.be/ki8xEv7xjx4
Hello friends,🎹🎼💖
Here is my composition for Piano "La Danse des cygnes".
I have always been fascinated by the world of classical dance and by the music of Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski's ballet "Swan Lake".
I perform on the piano "La Danse des cygnes" taken from my collection "Voyages".
I wanted to approach the impressionist style.

La Danse des Cygnes – Original emotional Piano

Driving by a cupcake shop after hours, I witnessed a horde of rats devouring a stack of cupcakes left out in their trash. I said, "Cupcake Rats...that sounds like a pop punk band!" And, with an assist on lyrics from my brah Roger Vaughn...on the vocals from an incredible StudioPros vocalist...and on the mix from our buddy Peter Pope...a delightfully silly confection was born. I'm playing all instruments, and cut the drum loops.
LYRICS
Cupcake Rats, masters of the night
A sticky-sweet blight on polite society
Cupcake Rats

In the alley, they're on a mission
Sugar-starved rats near Cupcake Kitchen
In the moonlight, a shinny vision
Castaway cakes some bum has pissed in
Scurry, scurry, in a hurry
A seedy feeding frenzy, furry ball of fury
Chocolate icing, so enticing
A gutter buttercream dream in food porn lighting

When we're sleeping, rats are feasting
Cupcake Rats, masters of the night
A sticky-sweet blight on polite society
Yeah, that's right, Cupcake Rats
I know you saw that rodentia, didntcha?
Cupcake Rats!!

The air is grimy, slimy smells
Putrid sewer steam, swirled with sea salted caramel
Loaded pistols, assorted sprinkles
Slashing, gnashing teeth--all intermingled
Teaming vermin are a-squirming
Mangled angel food cake, squeaky rat sermons
Be sympathetic, it's pathetic
Most of those rats are Type II diabetic
CHORUS
GUITAR SOLO
CHORUS

Cupcake Rats (Silly Lyrics in Description)

The title "Ballad for Alma" reminded me of an episode in the Book of Mormon, where the son of a presiding high priest went among the people, telling them to disbelief his father. Here I imagined what could be the father thoughts, with a small meditation on the nature of hope, faith, and charity.

BALLAD FOR ALMA

No one wants to be alone,
either in bliss or sorrow.
Angels above invite.
Demons from hell entice.

In the great fight for the souls
you chose to disbelieve it all,
join the skeptics, praise  the world,
delighted to play with fire.

Still I hope you'll come back home.
Hope is belief and desire.
New hearts are given to some.
Beliefs are our choice alone.

And then there's faith.
Faith is more than wishfull thinking.
Faith is hope with revelation
from the subtle mighty voice
that can burn, but cannot lie.

Thus I trust that voice to warn you.
Then you'll see and then you'll cry.
From the deepness of despair,
in the dire and lonely night,
all will seem beyond repair.
But what I told you will come to mind.
And then you'll remember the name you should call,
and it's going to be allright.

There's no charity in darkness:
It's a feature of the light.
Demons from hell entice,
but love will always invite.

Ballad For Alma JFC (Based on Neno J. guitar piece)

Music Video: https://youtu.be/Ii_itHSinRU

Beneath The Tides

This piece was inspired by listening to a piece of music by my good friend Jean-Pierre Dubois (JiPé)....he allowed me to use his theme, for which I'm very grateful....

I hope you will enjoy listening...

Art picture is by Larisa-K on Pixabay.....

Une Fantaisie Poétique

How to cope with a grave personal loss ?
This concert tells the stirring story.

First, you go through pain and despair. Then follows a rebellion and call for encouragement, repeatedly interrupted by flashbacks and sweet but painful memories.
In the finale, you accept the new reality and you move boldly to new horizons.

The 1st movement "Keys of Letting Go" begins with deep sadness, melancholy and dejection.
Slowly, note by note, chord by chord, the piano rises from the vast valley of sadness.
It throws itself into a wild dialogue with the orchestra. Angry interjections interrupt the flow several times, but the piano and orchestra always manage to pick up harmonic motives.
The movement ends powerfully, but in a minor key.

Keys for New Horizons

Keys for New Horizons - 1. Letting Go

Keys for New Horizons - 1. Keys of Letting Go

Some people suggested it reminds them of a butterfly at flight. I preferred the imagery of a Luna moth, flying and drawn to the moon.

Some influences are Debussy, Ravel, and Hisaishi in the harmony and melody and Rachmaninoff and Chopin in the piano stylings

Luna

Christmas Morning Remastered

Sorrow

Rites Of Imagination

The Faun

The Faun - Igor Stravinsky

Thank you for listening!
A new collaboration with another SoundCloud Artist.
It has been a pleasure to work with jh0st, a fantastic musician, songwriter and vocalist.
Lyrics and vocals: jh0st.
Check out the great work of jh0st; https://soundcloud.com/jh0st

Lyrics:
East -- to West
Your tears and oceans
Flying between your words and mine
Smoke and light
Faint-- perfume 
of garden's dark surrender to 
the time we were…
…More than us
…Now famous for
now we weren't, echo of the last thunder
… eyelid stains
That chilled night 
of murderous nurture
Let nature take its course you said
and kneeling we both prayed for rain
And when it came you drove for more…
All the mind's eye staring at the sky
all we started for we left behind
All the gods that left us searching more 
never enough …
All the broken glass we carry on…
All the lonely fame of mirrors
Just me and you, now only you…

The time we were (Feat. jh0st)

"Music expresses what cannot be put into words and on which it's impossible to be silent" - Victor Hugo

Austro/German neo-classical composer.

Trained as a classical violinist, member of orchestras and chamber groups, and being a passionate improviser on the piano, 
the Pandemic Lockdown has enforced and encouraged me 
to start composing and recording the music in my home sound studio.

Thanks for your kind listening, commenting and any hints to improve,
Helmut 🙂

Keys for New Horizons - 1. Keys of Letting Go

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