This is so lovely. Comforting on a chilly winter day.

song gave me goose bumps. very powerful piece!!!

I very much like your feelings as you play.  Being able just sit and play at at will, whatever your day is about,  what ever emotion you feel,  you can express it in music. I love this.

Surrender

Calm.
cold
and broken...
This is an anonymous voice...
who was born on a cold night in the depths of darkness.
composer and piano: Kianoush Koureshi

Anonymous

Michael Griffiths’ first full-length album Things of the Dark is a follow-up to his heartwarming EP Une Chapelle à La Campagne, released on piano and coffee records in 2022. 

After a two-year break and spending time living in Iceland, the Polish composer returns with a sorrow-filled collection of compositions for piano, synthesizers and drums that reflect on some of the darkest parts of life. The album is his attempt to find comfort but also meaning in music while going through the hardest of times he had experienced. “To me, it's not really an album, but more of a compilation of memories,” Griffiths explains.

This record follows a chronological order of finding acceptance in struggle. This process is reflected in pieces such as Yfir, Soma Vol. 2 and Mokka, which depict being at one's lowest, but also Home, Spring and Morning (Mountain Across the Peninsula), which express the feeling of relief and gratefulness.

Things of the Dark releases on the 14th of June, digitally and on limited edition CD, with artwork and design by Celia Bayo.

Things of the Dark

Michael Griffiths - Spring

Paris

Piano track from "Nightsongs" new album released on January 2025

Music, piano, mix: Vicente Bueso

Please, unravel me

Love in her eyes

296 — Piano

This is a track we help promote because we find it pleasant! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0J7EFptNh6K6Qebrsrcx8d?si=ae32df247fdd4a1d

La Parisienne

Sing in Blue  for the Voice of the Sea….    

Like a bird on the road, that has flown too far
feathers stiff, stuck in the gun-metal tar
like a ship out to sea where the people have fled
leaving food warm and waiting, words left to be said

I went walking one day on the turn of the tide    
felt a seeping of blood warming up from inside
Sing in Blue Sing in Blazing, in Sky Colours too
for the voice of the sea holds a memory true

There are faces there dreaming, just beyond reach
voices crooning in golden on a dream-shadow beach
It’s a calling, a drawing, it’s a pink spiral shell
whisper ocean, I hear you in a far away bell

I went walking one day on the turn of the tide    
felt a seeping of blood warming up from inside
Sing in Blue Sing in Blazing, in Sky Colours too
for the voice of the sea holds a memory true

Draw in deeper my darling, draw in wild, draw in wet
for there’s things here a-thriving, that you’ve tried to forget
And they watch as you pass, your body moves by
The yellow-head gannet slides clean through the sky
to the belly of sea and the beat of the sun
running faster we dance as the water colours run..

I went walking one day on the turn of the tide    
felt a seeping of blood warming up from inside
Sing in Blue Sing in Blazing, in Sky Colours too
for the voice of the sea holds a memory true

This is essentially an acoustic track – I was in a bit of a ‘dark celtic’ mode and I’ve been exploring how to play a wooden bass recorder (plus descant and alto) and have also included the ocean as an instrument… I recorded the waves/gulls on the beach where I originally wrote the song – how’s that for synergy??   it was a tricky mix I can tell you!!  The cello added some more grunt… well,  no synths in this piece!!  
That big recorder sure takes a lot of air to play it… but I love that hooty haunting sound… what do you think?  


Sing In Blue... for The Voice Of The Sea

The Commonplace for solo piano. Composed for Piano Day 2016

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I am a pianist and composer in Maine; USA

My album "The Bleak Midwinter" was released October 2016. "A Distant Arcade" was released July 2022.

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Jeff Chipman

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