A very elegant sonata and the beautiful performance. So impressive!

the sensitivity in your performances is inspirational

Tender, tiny, loving, like you, sweet, a great piece, with highs and lows, complexity and gentle moving river of delight. So much color and light.

Dedicated to some folks in my life who've picked me up along the way, especially through music...

This is one I'm pretty proud of.  Oddly, it's the first time I’ve written a full original song with me singing my own lyrics. I'm joined by the uber talented @TexMex-Shaman, who is wielding the lead electric guitar starting at the first verse through to the end. (this is the second time now where my vocal melody is partly inspired by his magical playing!) He also lends his mastering skillz to great effect here. Thanks TMS for truly bringing this to life with your playing! 
All other instruments are played by me on the keyboard - acoustic guitar, bass, organ, Wurlitzer electric piano, 2nd electric guitar (the higher one in verse 2), horns, drums & percussion, words and voice. The chorus is supposed to sound like a 60's soul song, like Marvin Gaye meets Van Morrison. 
If you play this more than once I'm sorry but I'm afraid you'll be stuck with it in your head all day.  :)

This one's a personal one for me, so thanks for listening, and for picking us up with your music!

LYRICS: 

Verse 1
alone in the corner, that old six string whispers to me
ah but when daddy played, he could set your spirit free 
like the drops in the rain, or a forest tall and green
there's music alive all around
and mamma she told me, you must listen for more than the sound
and hear with your heart

Chorus     
(And then she’d) 
pick me up higher, pick me up higher, pick me up higher
pick me up, lift me up, build me up,  
pick me up higher, pick me up higher, pick me up higher
pick me up, lift me up, build me up, 
pick me up higher 

Verse 2
Now I’m writing my own song… makin’ music with old friends and new
But the joy of my days, are my beautiful daughter and you
And when you play that song, she would close her eyes and sway
all the while as she sings
And man when I hear her, whispered memories they lift me up still
like a bird on the wind

Chorus  

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Other credits: 
-second verse sample of 'Take Me Home, Country Roads' (by John Denver), performed by my 9 yr old daughter
-image design by me using Chat GPT
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here's a link to just the final chorus vocals and horns isolated: 
https://soundcloud.com/user-432503709/pick_me_up_vox_isolated

and here's a link that features mainly the sax solo & horn section:
https://on.soundcloud.com/y1PR8xv69y77n5CY5w
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here's some pictures I took:
https://500px.com/p/MrMark?view=photos

-mark

Pick Me Up (with TexMex Shaman)

DENIZ (Turkish for sea) 
Piano . Lady Maple Leaf #LadyMapleLeaf
Sitar . R.J.Walker
Waves recorded on the Turkish South coast near Kemer. 
by Lady Maple Leaf / Walker

Deniz . PIANO / SITAR and THE SEA . :-)

Following the somber opening of the Pandemic Suite, this hymn of hope begins to rise. Echoing Mendelssohn’s chorale from Elijah— "Wer bis an das Ende beharrt", engl: “He that shall endure to the end”— the brass instruments proclaim a steadfast call to persevere through the weight of troubled times.

Pandemic Suite – 02. Hymnus

Sonata No.88 Op.9

Bonjour à tous,  🎹🩰

Voici ma nouvelle composition.
J'interprète au piano "L' Etoile".
Ecrit en 2017 et enregistré le 9 juillet 2025

Bonne écoute.

https://youtu.be/e6yBDBfFCL0

L'Etoile  – Original emotional Piano

Cloudland

Alive (Poem and Notes)

Breathy Bells (2025)

dancing on my own (lovely piano)

Choisis tes fleurs, ne t'y pique pas 

Chose your flowers, don't prick yourself on it 

Les bouquets

Solo Piano.  Created in Real-Time at St. Stanislaus Church, St. Louis MO.

Year of Music: September 6, 2025

Away until 16th September 2025. I shall miss my piano enormously.

Sonata No.88 Op.9

Paul Maurice Roche | Composer

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