Hi Laurent ,you know ,Morricone was the reason for me to start create music ... one of the most talented ever.

A great musical performance with your personal cover. Awesome  ++

Très grand travail musical, plein d'effets de sons divers et fantastiques. Versions très réussies

Richard Rodgers is a genius and a jazz master. Outside of the broadway and musical world probably a bit under respected, although it's hard to argue he's overlooked. This is a relatively early one, 1935. I've done it in the style of a 1960's Holiday Inn lounge/surf/garage band.

My Romance

At some point, a long time ago, I gave up on creating a "new" musical language. It was still possible, in the late nineteen eighties and early nineties when I came of age, for me to see music as a linear progression. In my early twenties I would compose pieces that I thought of as new jazz. Of course they weren't. Just very individual songs in older styles with some ideas for other styles. A dash of Duke Ellington arraignment, a snippet of Monk perhaps a teaspoon of Syd Barrett mixed with some rock and roll harmony. Eventually, after a long pause in playing at all, I came to make music, I see as, more in line with the pop artists like Warhol and, especially Lichtenstein. My own musical ideas are still there but slyly inserted into pieces that are consciously, imprecisely, modeled on other works or styles. Anyway I went to see the new version of West Side Story with my wife the other day. The original show made right before that "pop" era. It was so sincere. No irony with an honest attempt to bring musical theater "forward". I so enjoyed it even if it's a bit middle brow Americana. I'm writing this description in hopes of being equally sincere. The melody borrows a bit of "Somewhere" as a tip of the hat. I hope. My big musical ideas, besides that, are as follows. The key may sound a bit vague at times but floats between B major, E major and A major so that classic one four five, if somewhat buried. the time signature changes a few times, briefly, and syncopates when it doesn't. There's the Syd Barrett influence for those keeping score. There's also some willful changes from major to minor in the harmony that are classic rock ideas. Even if, in this context, they eventually become key changes. Well that's enough sincerity. Oh except for the photo. It's Miss Place. My wife maiden name and me back when I would have written something like this. ;)

Miss Place

All the Tea in China

Always Something There To Remind Me

Wist

Call Of The Kookaburra

V1

 DESTITUTE
 AND WITHOUT A CLUE

 DISSOLUTE
 WITH A BONE TO PICK

 ONCE IN A WHILE
 THE LOCK AND KEY

 OVERNIGHT
 DEBAUCHERY

V2

SCORPIO
DUPLICITY

MIND YOURSELVES
OR HE’LL HAVE YOU ALL

MOUTHFUL OF GUILE
AND FALSITY

RADIANT 
HYPOCRISY 

(TRANSITION / INSTRUMENTAL)

V3

AFTER ALL 
ARRIVING HERE

DIDN’T FALL
DIDN’T FUCK IT UP

ONCE IN A WHILE
EPIPHANY

GRATITUDE
AND HARMONY

Photograph is mine, and is the view from my room.

Many thanks to Amy Kaufman, Janine Levinson, Cheesemont Paisley-Paisley, Wheelwright, David Weiss, and Wodwo for their generosity and patient advice as I tried to sing my own song, a project that I found both thrilling and terrifying!

Gratitude And Harmony

Cocktails For One

Rough piece on the mandolin for this afternoon. You can even hear some sloppy fingering - proof that it's not generated by a computer (although...).
In French, "arbre à palabres" refers to the tree under which people gather to discuss, debate or listen to the village sage. It's a tradition usually associated with some African cultures but you've probably seen it somewhere else - people talking under the shade of a tree.

Perso

Arbre a palabres

L'arbre à palabres

I learned this morning of the death of Ennio Morricone. I wanted to broadcast again this tribute to the master which had been inspired by mister Linir song: https://soundcloud.com/liniror/the-good-old-westerns-guitar-morricones-stylecomposed-by-linir-or The original from Linir was so good… Ennio —I know— should like it !!!! https://soundcloud.com/liniror
Sorry Linir, can’t be able to listen these days anything. 
Merci pour cette musique, Linir…
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Pour les insomniaques et fans du Maestro : https://www.francemusique.fr/emissions/retour-de-plage/ennio-morricone-hommage-au-grand-compositeur

The Good Old Ennio [Linir Revisited]

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