Definitely my cup of tea….outstanding track, guys

Some great guitar bleeding it's way through Jamie's fine keys here Mike mate...

Cracking job with Jamie here Mike and you guys got down on it and got the funk out very well indeed my good friends...

Mike Orzek lives and breathes great music.  One of the most passionate and active musicians here on SoundCloud, Mike brings a deep understanding of music to everything he does.  And he's done a lot with many from around the world.  Serious on both the electric and acoustic guitars, Mike finds the right sound to fit in with many genres he records and performs.  A recent quote someone wrote during one of his fine solos was "Master Class" and that just says it all.  When serious musicians are discussing his chops and musical ability, that's a great sign of approval.  Happens a lot here.

Mike first approach me with a recording he had made with a funky tune I had composed Getting Down, asking if he could lay down some guitar on it.  Worked beautifully, and now we have done 5 things together - funk, blues, fusion, R&B...just about anything you throw at Mike he handles with ease.  

Mike's living in Atlantic City, on New Jersey's shoreline, but has developed a true world view of music.  A number of years in Texas helped shape his serious blues chops and now he's a gambling man.  

So sit back and enjoy our music....and let Mike know if he should change his SoundCloud stage name from Mike "Land of Orz" to Master Class Mike.  A treat Mike.

Check out and follow all the great music in Mike's gallery:  https://soundcloud.com/lando-orz

Thanks as always for your time listening and your shares.  

BUY JAMIE'S MUSIC

Master Class With Mike "Land of Orz" Orzek

Music composed and piano performed by @tom-r-gnier
Guitars performed by @juswel
Vocal, Organ, mix and lyrics by @conover
© 2023 Conover/Régnier

She tamed the lips
Extraordinary hips
and when she went home
She left it on the shelf
and I knew her well
St. Thomas bridge is where I met her
and on Saint Valentine's Day, she was gone gone gone
It's cold out there..... bundle up

The St. Thomas Bridge is a 1,500-foot-long suspension bridge, crossing Los Angeles Harbor in Los Angeles, California, linking San Pedro with Terminal Island. It is the only suspension bridge in the Greater Los Angeles area. The bridge is part of State Route 47, which is also known as the Seaside

St. Thomas Bridge (Conover/Régnier/Welin)

Guitar, Lead Vocal, Lyrics and song by William Paterson 
@w-paterson-1-1
backing vocal, mix and production by conover
© 2015 Patersongs/Conover

This song is basically about relationships where two people love each other unconditionally.
Take the good with the bad and support each other no matter what.
That to me is what love is meant to be. 

When You Love Someone

I love you
You love me
That's the way its meant to be

Good or bad
Yours or mine
That's the way its meant to be

Sometimes life can get you down
Just call my name I'll come around

When you love someone it feels so good
When you love someone it feels so good

Good or Bad
Yours or mine
That's the way its meant to be

Up or down
Smile or frown
That's the way its meant to be

Without your love my soul would die
Without your love then who am I

When you love someone it feels so good
When you love someone it feels so good

First or last
Future or past
That's the way its meant to be

Sometimes life can get you down
Just call my name I'll come around

When you love someone it feels so good
When you love someone it feels so good.

END
The download is your free to share with friends ;  )

When You Love Someone  (Patersongs/Conover)

Jamie Rhind – music, keyboards, production (@jamie-rhind)
Michael Orzek – guitar (@lando-orz)

I was very happy to come across Jamie Rhind recently.  Jamie is a true purveyor of the art of American jazz and blues music.  This tune really grabbed my attention with his performance of some really great Hammond B3 style playing.  Not to mention the spanking clavinet sounds.  I added some spanking telecaster sounds to go with it, and Jamie liked it enough to allow me to publish it here.  Thanks, Jamie!

Find his version here:  https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind/gettin-down

His description:  “Time to do something funky and thought this had the right amount of down home cookin'. Has that great Clavinet sound that guys like Billy Preston and Stevie Wonder pioneered, and then some tasty jamming with some Hammond and Vibes patches. This one grooves like the great Jimmy McGriff did back in the '70s and '80s with his organ led bands. If you dig this one, check out Jimmy's awesome groove oriented B3 playing here on SC or online.
Thanks as always for your time listening, your comments and your generous shares.”


Gettin' Down - Jamie Rhind (featuring Michael Orzek)

Here's another collaboration just packed with funk and great players from around the world.  Represented on this tune are musicians from Germany, Spain, Scotland, France and the US (3).  Pretty sure you will enjoy this one.  It's an original funk fusion tune that lets everyone here stretch it out a bit.  Germany's Mirko Borach (Stringburner) holds down the deep groove on bass, with Barcelona's multi horn player Santi-Caballero Mendez creating the head.  Solos from Mike "Land of Orz" Orzek with a fuzzed out wah guitar, Santi-Caballero smoothing it down on sax, Scotland's finest Ian Tait bringing it back up again with his signature electric funk guitar playing, France's wonderful keyboardist Julien Apelian on a great synth patch, and then New Jersey's fine jazz guitarist Stephan "Pinner" Lipinski bringing it home with his serious Scofield funk guitar style.  Wow.  So much playing here.  Great job guys!

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares here on SoundCloud and on social media.  Please check out and follow these superb players. 

Funk The Blues   -  Stringburner, Land of Orz, Santi-Caballero, Ian Tait, Julien Apelian and Pinner

Delay Of Game is a soulful trio interplay between New Jersey's Mike Orzek's bluesy talking wah guitar, Germany's Mirko Borach's funky bass playing and my delayed Rhodes groove.  These guys found the pocket immediately, and together have turned out another fine one...just in time for your weekend listening pleasure.  

If you are not following them, head to their impressive galleries immediately - Mike https://soundcloud.com/lando-orz has a ton of great music across many genres, and Mirko's https://soundcloud.com/stringburner doing his serious funk and slap bass and fusion tracks with other world class guitarists.  

Thanks as always for your time listening, your comments and your shares.

Delay Of Game - with Land of Orz / guitar and Stringburner / bass

Mike Orzek and I thought we'd break out some blues here, and created this 12 Bar blues to let off a little steam.  (12 am Bar Blues).  It's the standard form for the blues, and we've got a lot of guitar and organ in this one.  Mike has done so many fine collaborations with people on SoundCloud, and his command and understanding of the blues is impressive.  Some of that is from his years living in Dallas, Texas, where he lived just a few blocks from a serious blues bar and was able to perform there regularly.  

Check out Mike's extensive gallery at https://soundcloud.com/lando-orz .  

Thanks as always for your time listening, your comments and your shares.

12 (am) Bar Blues - with Mike "Land of Orz" Orzek

Hope you enjoy this Classic Blues song... Wonderful guitar by Fingerstyle guitar..please listen to more great songs on :- https://soundcloud.com/fingerstyle_guitar

Lyrics

Well I've been trying
For many years
Just forgetting
Hope you'd disappear
But as hard as I try
These feeling won't let you walk on by

They say that time makes
Someone forget
This kind of heartache
It can but yet
I feel just the same
As the day I said to you goodbye

It make me so blue
That I'm never gonna see you
I've put all my feelings away
Their never gonna see the light of day
I can cry so many tears
Won't make things change
Your gone forever
And I'm the one to blame
If you find in your heart
Please....Please...... let me in


Been Trying To Forget   (Ft Fingerstyle guitar)

Excited to release this heavy fusion tune with the always superb Mike Orzek on electric guitar https://soundcloud.com/lando-orz.  Mike is such a talented player and has a unique ability to find the right sound and mood and note selection for whatever is put in front of him.  I just love what he has added with conception and playing to Creeping Around, his ability to bend notes and sound and to complement the other instruments.  This is our 9th tune together and a really exciting one for me.

Check out Mike's deep gallery of solo work and collaborations at https://soundcloud.com/lando-orz   

Thanks as always for your most generous listening time, for your comments and for your shares.  

Creeping Around - with Mike Orzek / guitar

Video: https://youtu.be/pNpDmfVF8W8
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When you are about to wake up but still balancing between the dream and the reality, when your thoughts are full of reflection on what was and what is going to be, when rays of the first light sneak through the curtains to reflect off the walls.. it's 6am on my musical clock... it's the time of Reflection..

...Night... Notte... the time of silence, dreams, reflections.. the time when the music happens in between notes more than in the notes themselves. 

I am happy to announce the release of the printed sheet music book! All twelve pieces are carefully transcribed and engraved. It's available in both perfect and spiral binding variants. If you want to play these minimalistic pieces, leave a comment and I'll send you the link for ordering an autographed copy ;-)

"Notte" is released on all major platforms! You can listen to the entire album on Spotify or Apple Music, or get it on Amazon, Google Play or BandCamp. I can also send you an autographed CD!

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/1XxXuipva4MjptSkfvgmQD

BandCamp: https://milana.bandcamp.com/album/notte

Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/album/notte/1463908431

Amazon MP3: https://www.amazon.com/Notte-Milana-Zilnik/dp/B07RNC5VZK/

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/music/album?id=Bc7lkxwftw3cwj6c4n3xlrblf4q

Notte

6am. Reflections

"6am. Reflections" from "Notte" by Milana Zilnik

Lavande De Provence

Do colors have their own special sound? What if colors sounded like piano? Red of the warm and cozy fireplace? Yellow - playful and sunny? The relaxing serenity of Green? The deep and moody Indigo... I invite you to the world of colorful piano! Today is the time for YELLOW!

Artwork by Anastasia Frenkel

Spettro

Giallo

"Giallo" from "Spettro" by Milana Zilnik

Mirko Borach, aka "Stringburner", takes a super nasty, funked up groove here with his slap bass extraordinare.  Our original, Slap It, also features the wonderful Mike Orzek on guitars.  Follow these guys and their terrific playing
Mirko Borach:  https://soundcloud.com/stringburner
Mike Orzek:  https://soundcloud.com/lando-orz

And for playlists with our expansive music together:
with Mirko:  https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind/sets/stretching-it-out-with
with Mike:  https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind/sets/messing-around-with-mike-land

thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares.  And remember please - Social Distancing saves lives

Slap It - Mirko Borach / Mike Orzek / Jamie Rhind

It’s tough to get my acoustic piano tuned at the moment but I love playing it anyway.  I hope this song brings some light to someone....😊🎹🎶🎤🌷

SPARKLE (acoustic piano)

We're all On the Lowdown these days, trying to understand the significance of the issues around us.   And I couldn't think of a better way to spend some time than to bring together some of my very favorite musicians I have met from around the world, with our original On the Lowdown.   Special musicians contributed to this - two exceptional guitarists from the Philadelphia area - Audric Jankauskas and Stephan Lipinski, Barcelona's Sam Mendez on tenor sax, and Germany's Mirko Borach playing the beautiful fretless bass.  Audric has the first guitar solo and Stephan the second.  The final mastering was done by Audric.  Follow these wonderful players and creators: 
Mirko Borach bass:  https://soundcloud.com/stringburner
Audric Jankauskas guitar:  https://soundcloud.com/audric-jankauskas
Stephan Lipinsk guitar:  https://soundcloud.com/pinner
Sam Mendez - tenor sax:  https://soundcloud.com/santi-caballero

And please keep your community safer by remaining On the Lowdown

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares

On the Lowdown - Mirko Borach / Audric Jankauskas / Stephan Lipinski / Sam Mendez / Jamie Rhind

Some heavy original blues.  Joined by the wonderful guitarist Mike Orzek.

Follow his fine blues and blues rock music:  https://soundcloud.com/lando-orz

And for a collection of the tunes we have recorded together:  https://soundcloud.com/lando-orz

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares

Get Out Of The Kitchen - Mike Orzek / Jamie Rhind

Welcome to the Land of ORZ! A place for musical creation.  



"..you dreamed of a big star, he played a mean guitar..."

;-)

Jazz/Fusion keyboard player, composer and producer.  Marketing, advertising, publishing and sales career.  Originally from Chicago, where I developed a strong appreciation for the blues and classical, and moved to New York, where jazz and the fine arts are so deep.  Key musical influences include Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Zawinul and Weather Report, Chick Corea and Return to Forever, John McLaughlin and the Mahivishnu Orchestra, Stanley Clarke, Scott Henderson and Tribal Tech, Jeff Beck and Jan Hammer, Mike Stern, John Scofield, Pat Metheny, Emily Remler, McCoy Tyner, Bill Evans, John Coltrane, Jimmy Smith, Joey DeFrancesco, Larry Young, Buddy Guy, Santana and Earth Wind & Fire.   Former classical clarinet and piano player.  Unless noted, my music on SoundCloud was composed, recorded and performed using only keyboards.  An avid photographer.  Many covers here are my shots.  To see my photography look for Herbiejazz on Instagram or search for Herbiejazz on Google.  And a big thumbs up to SoundCloud and the SoundCloud community, and so many friends who have joined me to create.  Thank you all.

Gettin' Down - Jamie Rhind (featuring Michael Orzek)

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