Name: Une Pensée pour L'Ukraine by Liz Dicker in Classical Instrumental Pieces
Duration: 3 min 20 s
Description: Art picture by Max Kukurudziak on unsplash

such nice expression in your performance!

I had to revisit this one Liz, great composition. Johnny

This piece and performance cry with passion. You sure tell a story with your mind and fingers....it just flows from the soul on this one. Really powerful Liz. I really felt your heart and loved every second! ~Jackie

Such a gorgeous emotional composition and performance.

there is a bitter sweetness to much of your music and I always love the French titles. the suffering of the Ukraine is there is your music yet the beauty of sound never drops for a moment

Classical Instrumental Pieces

℗ © Copyright Ian Stokes. All Rights Reserved
Recorded and mixed using Logic. Mastered in Soundcloud
Photography: Thanks go to Nigel and Libby Hume at Hume Photography.
Guitars played on this track:  Taylor T5 (Koa Top) standard tuning; 
Taylor 714CE tuning C♯ G♯ C♯ F♯ A♯ C♯ (Capo 9th Fret)
LYRICS: 
See the lightning on the skyline
Hear that thunder roll
Feel the storm rising in the midnight air
Reaching out for my soul
Tell me can you hear 
Can you hear that thunder roll
Tell me can you hear 
Can you hear that thunder roll

See the snow capped mountain in a big blue sky
Hear that mountain stream begin to flow
And that stream becomes a mighty river
Reaching out for my soul
Tell me can you hear 
Can you hear that thunder roll
Tell me can you hear 
Can you hear that thunder roll

So many questions
Where are the answers to be found?
Is my head way up in the clouds?
Are my feet on solid ground?
Tell me can you hear 
Can you hear that thunder roll
Tell me can you hear 
Can you hear that thunder roll

From this headland looking out to sea
As the ocean breeze begins to blow
Wave after wave washes over me 
Reaching out for my soul
Tell me can you hear 
Can you hear that thunder roll
Tell me can you hear 
Can you hear that thunder roll

Hear That Thunder Roll

This heartfelt sketch for Piano and Strings is born out of a recent Improvisation that seeks to suggest the power and passion of Love's eternal nature. Impossible to do perhaps, yet if it is freely expressed... Love seems to travel like Light and bind giver and receiver together in a warm, rich, and almost unfathomable Oneness. 

So, here's to what is called 'Forever Love', and may everyone find it!  💖



© Gary Courtland-Miles 2021
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2021

Love Is Forever

www.continental-collision.com
Available on Bandcamp - https://continentalcollision.bandcamp.com/track/boring-town. 
Now on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/album/5wf5isry5VTiOJo93dU38E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD_ThUpLBk8&list=OLAK5uy_lzXT1QxPKHH__ERx2AeZbUlK8tnKV7IIo

The second song to be released under the name ‘Continental Collision’ but this time with special guest and good friend Dave McKeown. Rodolfo first let me hear the original basis for ‘Boring Town’ back in June, yet somehow he didn’t sound excited about it. However from the first I knew it could be great. I was looking for the story in those two words as well as in the mood of the music and fortunately it came quite quickly and fitted like a glove. Singing this was a challenge for me, like everything we do, but it was exhilarating. I had introduced Rodolfo to Dave’s cloud and it felt right that we should ask Dave to help us complete the song. I hope we will have the opportunity to work with him again soon. 

Composition, instrumentation, arrangement and production: @rplanes
Lyrics and vocals: @markjbennett
Saxophone: Dave McKeown: @https://soundcloud.com/dave-mckeown
Photograph: Harlem NYC by Douglas Corrance

When I look around I see the light’s gone out this town,
Realising just a bit too late.
Streets have all gone quiet and feels like all the wires are down.
Tell me why I’m feeling in this state?
Not so long ago we felt that we’d be happy here,
Not just for now, but for always.
That’s all turned around now at least that much it is clear,
Not the old days, instead separate ways.
Like the loser on a game show.
Can you tell me where did all the fun go?
Darling without you,
It’s such a boring town,
Only coz you’re not around.

The bar, where we first met, is still there, though I never go,
Realised it’s lost its old appeal.
Crossing the park, where we might meet and stop to say hello,
Couldn’t deal with how it made me feel.
All the places we once loved I feel I must avoid
Not just for now, but for always.
I no longer know what I want, I feel I’m paranoid,
Not the old days, instead separate ways.
Like the loser on a game show.
Can you tell me where did all the fun go?
Darling without you, where did the love go?
Such a boring town,
Only coz you’re not around.

Boring Town - Continental Collision (with Dave McKeown) - Now on Spotify/Bandcamp

All i can say is .. thank you to my talented friend Debra !!

Frozen Lake - Co written w/Debra Buesking

Art picture by Max Kukurudziak on unsplash

Une Pensée pour L'Ukraine

Some of Us is Me

2022 Janine Levinson
Guitar: Jonathan Beckenstein  @jonathan_beckenstein
   
I’m sorry that I’m not somebody else    
I’m sorry if I let my people down
I didn’t ask for anybody’s help        
I’m sorry that I waited for this long

But it’s like trying to move your life ahead with a stranger at the wheel 
While trying very hard to get along

I’m sorry that I wrecked my lover’s heart
I hope he knows I wrecked my own heart too
I should have looked somewhere outside myself
I hope there’s room for me inside of you

Cause I’ve been trying to stand up straight when I am broken past repair
And still trying very hard to fix what’s wrong 

Some folks have got it made 
Frolicking in the shade of live oak tree
But some of us we don’t sing so loud, 
And we’re looking down
Some of us is me

I sometimes wish tomorrow wouldn’t come
But yesterday has problems of his own 
Next to you’s the only thing I’ve got
I wish I knew someplace where I belonged   

And I’ve been trying to stand up straight 
‘Cause I was thinking you might share--
And make my little world not feel so wrong

Some folks have got it made 
Frolicking in the shade of live oak tree
But some of us we don’t sing so loud, 
And we’re looking down
Some of us is me

Some Of Us Is Me - with Jonathan Beckenstein

Hiya folks,

Time to change up my flow, Listeners. 😉

I realize I've only been posting  Ambient-Jazz Improvisations with my friend and guitarist Tim Elliot for the past few months, so now it's time for one of my Ambient Solo Piano Improvs.  

So here's my latest exploration of the sound and flow my Kawai ES7 Electric Concert Piano gives me access to. And while there is always something that folks feel is worth complaining about or being offended by... as usual, my focus is on 'the Beauty' in this Life!  

So may you enJOY both. 😉

© Gary Courtland-Miles 2022
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2022

The photo is not a Sunrise, my friends.
It's a Moonrise over Denmark, with Crepuscular Moon Rays radiating into the evening sky.

The Beauty

I’M GOING DOWN THE RIVER
JUST LIKE A ROAD OF WATER
FLOWING MY LIFE BUT YONDER
SAME WAY THAT WENT MY BROTHER

A MILLION DESTINATIONS
AND NO NEED OF DIRECTIONS
NO CHOICE AS FAR I KNOW
THERE’S ONLY ONE WAY TO GO

THERE’S A BIG ROCK AT THE CORNER
SOLID AND SOLIDAIRE
AND WHEN I NEED CONSOLATION
I KNOW I’LL ALWAYS FIND HIM THERE

I’M GOING DOWN THE RIVER
DRIFTWOOD FLOATING BY
AND I’VE GOT INTUITION
SOMEONE’S WAITING FOR ME THERE
SO
FORGET ME NOT MY BROTHER
YOU WHOM I NEVER KNEW
THERE MUST HAVE BEEN SOME CONFUSION
ONCE BETWEEN ME AND YOU

THE ROCK (Lyrics)

Awakens this video https://youtu.be/3b__QrjTi3Q and others of mine on Youtube from their slumber, please 😁

This is the fourth part of the actually completed trilogy/album: The Sovereign & The Chambermaid - https://on.soundcloud.com/VEvX

The maid - the sovereign lord's former mistress - has come into possession of volatile documents that could compress the lord's entire stately family....
So the story continues?

"Bleeding Hearts!"

🎞️ Video

The Sovereign & The Chambermaid | Bleeding Hearts

Music & Piano: Debra Buesking
Jan Schonander invited me to participate in his Four Seasons for Piano project with "summer" as my assigned season.  Since I am no Vivaldi I reached back to the Tin-Pan Alley "Good Old-Summertime" (1902) for inspiration.  Not really an arrangement per se, but rather a quote.

Summer Interrupted

A small poem with no words.

Many thanks to David Dunham @david-dunhamuser589535203 for his generous help in mastering my track.

Table for One

"Dream a Little Dream of Me" was written in 1931 by Fabian Andre and Wilbur Schwandt with lyrics by Gus Kahn.  I have loved this song forever.

Thank you, David Dunham @david-dunhamuser589535203, for your very generous help mastering my track.  Go listen to David!

Dream A Little Dream Of Me

Recorded September 2025 at San Francisco Community Music Center. Performed on a #Yamaha concert grand piano. Converted to MIDI using #Eldoraudio. Piano rendered using CFX Lite by #Garritan. Edited and mastered using #LogicPro 11. Album cover created using #AdobeExpress. The photo is one I took.

By George Weiss and Bob Thiele
Copyright Concord Music Group, Inc. o/b/o Abilene Music LLC, Round Hill Songs II o/b/o Bienstock Empire Music, and Round Hill Songs II

What a Wonderful World

Wanted- Hunter Hayes (piano)

Happy autumn lullaby

My daughter's quote...






























"Angels talking through your music....."

I hope you will enjoy listening......

Thank you for your time here....

Life without music would be too bleak to endure!
#Indie

Une Pensée pour L'Ukraine

Liz Dicker

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