Love the way the flute flys off improvising, grounded by that steady rollin' piano 😊

this is too much fam keep up with this awesomeness 🔥🔥🔥

Movie makers, television drama makers, you should have your ears on this & the rest of the  J.L catalogue.  No doubt these sonic pieces would add II your visuals.

These tracks are played on the whistles and flutes that I make and sell. You can find them on my website, DrJohnLaurence.com/Takahe-Flutes. Also on my Etsy store TakaheFlutes, or search eBay for Takahe Flutes! In New Zealand, try TradeMe. Some instruments also feature in YouTube videos https://www.youtube.com/DrJohnLaurence/videos

Takahe Flutes, Whistle Demos

Piano: Branksome Spiders feat. Mellownightz

Hear me play my Blues for the Rifleman on a 'Rifleman' Bb Penny Whistle, from Takahe Flutes. The blues was adapted from my piano blues 'Back to Work Blues'. The 2nd and 3rd verses were improvised. Note that the piece is almost entirely in the upper octave of the whistle. Note also that a penny whistle is great for the blues in the key corresponding to the first tone-hole, in this case a blues in C on the Bb Rifleman.

Blues for the Riflemqn

Blues For The Rifleman, Piano & Bb Whistle

ColdRoads

10 Milk.WAV

Maybe this year
Gonna have to write it all down
Maybe this year
Gonna have to let it all out
Found your voice now get it right
No more lonely restless nights
12 months gone 12 more to run
Wasted days just chasing sun

Chorus
A new year has come
What do you do
When the clock strikes 12
Did you do what you do
A new year has come
Are you holding someone
I’m probably sleeping
But you have some fun

Always something beyond our control 
Leads us into a greater unknown
Feel your freedoms taken away
Get up start the new day, so
Maybe this year
Gonna have to knock them all out
Maybe this year
Gonna have to shut them all down

Chorus Repeat

(Maybe this year)
Resolutions bound from the soul
Maybe this year
(Maybe this year)
Only you can stand on your own
Maybe this year

(c) BMICALMUSIC 2022

Single

This Year(Resolutions)

This Year/Resolutions

LYRICS:

Go!

Infinite expanse
Infinite growth
Caught in their deathly dance
They'll see you choke

So we've seen it come to this
We have reached the precipice
Weary hands will scale the cliff
Find a reason to exist
Like a lantern light the way
Show them they can still escape
There's a future, a new day
We must free it from its grave

To give hope a chance
Give it a soul
When forces advance
Let your fear go

So we've seen it come to this
We have reached the precipice
Weary hands will scale the cliff
Find a reason to exist
Like a lantern light the way
Show them they can still escape
There's a future, a new day
We must free it from its grave

Raging fires and broken glass
Hierarchy reduced to ash
Where are those who can't atone
Don't leave one unbroken bone
Raging fires and broken glass
Hierarchy reduced to ash
Where are those who can't atone
Don't leave one unbroken bone

So we've seen it come to this
We have reached the precipice
Weary hands will scale the cliff
Find a reason to exist
Like a lantern light the way
Show them they can still escape
There's a future, a new day
We must free it from its grave
So we've seen it come to this
We have reached the precipice
Weary hands will scale the cliff
Find a reason to exist
Like a lantern light the way
Show them they can still escape
There's a future, a new day
We must free it from its grave

What Is To Be Done (Demo)

Let's all take a breath... 
and just let the Music take us where it will... 🎶

After all... Summer has given way to Autumn's flow and begun to transform the lands of the North... even as Winter gave way to Spring in the South.

So go the Seasons... even as our Lives give way to the future, and Life unfolds as it will...

Tim and i got together again on the 21st of September and Let 'The Music' flow through us..., creating a wholly different Tone than our last piece.

This time i asked him to bring his Telecaster back into the MiX, and OMG... he obliged in his often understated way, but nevertheless with passion and aplomb.

In-deed, we Tone Painted something delicately New and Mellow together.

May you enJoy. 😎

© Gary Courtland-Miles & Tim Elliot 2023 -2025
℗  Gary Courtland-Miles 2023 & Tim Elliot 2023 -2025

Autumnal Whispers *

orchids-and-butterflies.mp3

Demo of my Bluebird flute in Gm pentatonic, dedicated to the Spix's Macaw, sadly now extinct in the wild. There is some hope that a breeding program will be successful.

Just Whistling Thanks!

Spix's Macaw Blues

Buy Flute

A piece for low whistle and piano, in particular, my 'Matuku' large-bore low-D whistle. This is the prototype. The production whistles are now available. Matuku is the Maori name for the Australasian Bittern, which is endangered in both Australia and New Zealand.

Matuku Pastorale

Buy Whistle

A blues for the extinct Pouakai Eagle (AKA Haast's Eagle). The song features my Pouakai low Eb penny whistle, playing in Fm. 

The Pouakai was the biggest and most powerful eagle that ever existed, as far as we know. They lived on the ostrich-like Moa. When the Maori people became established in New Zealand, they preyed on the Moa until they became extinct, leaving the Pouakai to the same fate. By about 1300AD there were none left.

Pouakai Blues

A cheerful instrumental in Celtic style, featuring my Kokako Chrome, an alto-G penny whistle. The piece is based on a riff played on a Harmony archtop four-string tenor guitar, with bass line and a bass solo on a fretless P-Bass clone. Piano is from XLN audio, and the last verse includes harmony from my Kereru II low-D whistle. The intro birdsong is played on the Kokako whistle which sounds remarkably like its namesake!

The Kokako is from a unique family of wattle birds native to New Zealand. They were in peril of extinction, but are recovering thanks to conservation efforts. With about 1600 pairs, they are now enjoying something of a Kokako Spring!

Kokako Spring

A raindance featuring American Indian style tom-toms. The theme and one variation were played on a Bluebird four-hole pentatonic minor flute. Backing harmony and another variation were played on a Kakapo low-C whistle. Piano by XLN audio and bass by Ample Sound.

"After being pushed to the brink of extinction by unregulated hunting and loss of habitat to just 21 wild and two captive whooping cranes by 1941, conservation efforts have led to a limited recovery. The total number of cranes in the surviving migratory population, plus three reintroduced flocks and in captivity, now exceeds 800 birds" (Wikipedia).

Whooping Crane Raindance

My track has been remixed by one of my inspirations, Grendel!
Check out Grendel's Spotify page!
https://open.spotify.com/artist/28D0LIS1y01QS8fbh9dXVk

Spotify

Degenerate (Grendel Remix)

Tribute to our lost furry friends!
(C) 2021
All me
Click for video! https://youtu.be/O2tZ-LhBqO0

Pure Love On 4 Legs

Lyrics from an anonymous poem I learned at school (turns out was a 17th century jibe at the monarchy)... music originally written for an acapella group I sang with, then recorded by another band I was in, but never released...

remixed Dec '21

MAN OF WORDS

A man of words and not of deeds
is like a garden full of seeds
and when the seeds begin to grow
it's like a garden full of snow
and when the snow begins to fall
it's like a bird upon a wall
and when that bird away does fly
it's like an eagle in the sky
and when the sky begins to roar
it's like a lion at your door
and when the door begins to crack
it's like a stick across your back
and when your back begins to smart
it's like a penknife in your heart
and when your heart begins to bleed
you're dead indeed.

A Man Of Words

"Aging rock legend in my mind."
johnlaurence@drjohnlaurence.com
John Laurence is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and singer/songwriter, with a wide range of influences from Heavy Metal to Mahler, Folk to Baroque, with a healthy dose of Blues, Classical and Jazz. Instruments he plays include keyboards, acoustic and electric guitars, bass guitar, ukulele, Godin Merlin, dulcimer, recorders and whistles, and brass including cornet/trumpet, mellophone and trombone.
  
In 2011 he was diagnosed with attention deficit disorder (ADD) which had affected him undetected since childhood. Although he has a PhD and has had two successful careers, he has begun to see life with a whole new perspective. He has always been a musician at heart and is making up for lost time with a new career as a musician and composer. His music is  influenced by blues, jazz, folk, classical and rock. Given his eclectic tastes and creativity, it is not surprising that John's music has evolved in to a World Music style. A new EP has just been released, named "Last Song of the Dove".  Feedback on the album has been encouraging, especially from countries such as Canada, USA, Mexico, Japan, Israel, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. John is now producing a full length album "Takahe Toccata" building on the style of the EP and dedicated to the World's endangered birds.

Blues For The Rifleman, Piano & Bb Whistle

John Laurence

Recent comments

altIIneo

Living Roots

Baxter OG

Meskalino

Related tracks