Thank you Keith Kenniff, for the Piano Day

Paraply

it's embarrassing sometimes
when the wanting shows.
how i just need someone's hands on mine.
how i just want a soft voice to call me out of sleep,
somebody to drink coffee with while the sun wakes up.
i am so good at being alone until i remember what it's like
to be loved and then i am aching all over again,
and then i am calling you up in the middle of the day and asking for
something impossible. [couldn't you come over?]
couldn't you pretend like i'm not altogether too much,
just for this one afternoon?

i am sad again.
for a while i got to be someone different-
cool girl, fun girl! always up for anything girl.
like playing dress up i wore the persona of someone
easy to love, easy to hold onto. easy to wait
until you were ready. now the air is icing over and
i cannot be this person anymore-
maybe i was never her or maybe she died
at the beginning of the month,
when the air was static silent for ten long days. 
i am sad again, and the afternoons are getting darker.
i won't ask you stay through this tired and heavy winter.

and suddenly, my friends are gone or they're telling me
i had changed. suddenly, my desire to get up in the morning faded.
my grades got lower. my room stayed messy. my followers unfollowed.
my hair had split ends. my cheeks were the hills that 
tears would run over more and more. my imagination faded.
art wasn't fun anymore. i didn't care for the sweet company
between hand and pencil. it took too much effort to read a
book. my attention span weakened. my mother hated me.
life hated me. and the wanting showed.

the truth is, i'm a lonely person.
it doesn't matter how many friends i have or
how many times i am told that i am loved. 
i will sit down at 12AM when the world is quiet
and i am surrounded by no one. or at 12PM
when the world is bustling and i cannot count
the faces around me. and i feel the same lonely. 

and when the wanting shows sometimes i am 19 standing
in the kitchen wondering how you forgot to have breakfast
and lunch today, how you will exit the teenage in 47 Fridays,
how you used to love watermelons four summers ago and
now you can't stand the sight of it, how there were floors
that you saw you wipe them clean off your own tears once,
how you changed your favorite coffee recipe last summer
because your best friend liked it and you guys haven't
talked since then, how the new book you're reading was never
really your type but you love it, how you hated your hair for
nine winters, how the windows of your new house are bigger, how you
feel bad for hurting them, how many making mistakes is okay, how maybe
you go out today, how the wind feels too right whenever you snuggle
into your bed, how you were seventeen and all the winter ache
wanted you to open your kitchen drawers and look for warmth. how
then you didn't know someday you'll be 19 standing in the kitchen
wondering if you forgot to put sugar in your coffee again.

and when the wanting shows, the shame of being seen consumes me.

when the wanting shows

To celebrate Piano Day I recorded a cover version of a piece from one of my favorite piano composers/performers, Michael Nyman.  This piece is titled "Molly" off of the wonderful score to the Michael Winterbottom film "Wonderland". 

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Molly - (Goldmund Cover)

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Hidden Shoal is proud to announce the release of ‘Towards Tragedy and Dissolution’, the stunning new single by acclaimed neo-classical ambient artist Antonymes, taken from the forthcoming album "(For Now We See) Through A Glass Dimly".
 
Sonically minimal yet emotionally formidable, ‘Towards Tragedy and Dissolution’ features the stirring string arrangements of James Banbury (The Auteurs) and Christoph Berg (Field Rotation), which engage in reflective conversation with Ian M. Hazeldine's plaintive piano. Its emotional potency and compositional dexterity draws you into an evocative world, demanding engagement.
 
In addition to James Banbury and Christoph Berg, "(For Now We See) Through A Glass Dimly" also includes contributions from composer Stefano Guzzetti, Joanna Swan (Ilya) and writer Paul Morley. Mixed by Stefano Guzzetti and Paul Humphreys (OMD), and mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri (The Sight Below), the album’s depth of sound is awe-inspiring. It is released by Hidden Shoal on 21st April 2016.

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Antonymes - Towards Tragedy And Dissolution

Taken from the EP Forgotten Postcards.
Release date: March 28 (Piano Day) on 1631 Recordings.

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Violin: Ayako Kikuchi, Kyle Dickson
Viola: Emma Strohbusch 
Cello: Magdalena Sustere, Kelsee Vandervall 
Recording Engineer: Andy Shoemaker
Recorded in St John Berchmans Church, Chicago, IL

Portraits

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Bruno Sanfilippo relaunch and revives his acclaimed album InTRO (2006) as a special remastered & expanded edition on CD and Digital. 

The album (65:28)contains its seven original soundscapes plus two unreleased; InTROpolar (7:10) and InTROsense (6:11), taken from recording sessions in May 2006.
These nine records were recently analog remastered from the original master by Ian Hawgood. The cover art was redesigned using the original photography of Helyn Davenport.
‘In his nine compositions of imaginary 'InTROspective' Sanfilippo explores the interest in the unfettered possibilities of dreams. Its impact is strongly imaginative and cinematic, featuring deep piano interludes, great synthesizer pads, field recordings, soft soaring sound textures and transparent soundscapes’

"A delicate blend of sounds and feelings combining to create a full environment and space. Lovely work. I've often thought that the mettle of an artist is proven in their ability to work equally comfortably in a variety of styles. With "InTRO", Bruno Sanfilippo has shown that he's capable of working in a number of different forms, moving easily between styles and sounds, showing an ear and an ability in all of the areas he presents here. Certainly Sanfilippo's reputation as an artist to watch is well deserved, and I would cite "InTRO" as a fine piece of evidence to support that claim" Pingthings

ANALOG RE-MASTERED by IAN HAWGOOD
ARTWORK by HELYN DAVENPORT
RECORDED & MIXED by BRUNO at ONIX STUDIO · BARCELONA

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InTRO remastered & expanded

InTROpassion

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an improvisation on a "felted" (out-of-tune) grand piano.

I have a bad (fun) habit of collection pianos/keyboard instruments, so in the spirit of Piano Day 2019, I thought I'd give them all some love. This piece features all 14 of my keyboarded friends, some happy and healthy and others... not so much.

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All My Friends

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Mint Julep - In a Deep and Dreamless Sleep: https://ampl.ink/omKoq
Goldmund - The Time it Takes: smarturl.it/ibfvzw

I write music for film and record as Helios, Mint Julep, Goldmund.

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Molly - (Goldmund Cover)

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