Trolls in the Cloud

Had a Hissy

Together We Are Great

A music representation of the land of the morning calm: (South) Korea.
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Photo by Håkon Grimstad on Unsplash

The land of the morning calm

Looney Tunes
Duration: 16'
For More Information: https://robertpaterson.com/looney-tunes
Publisher: Bill Holab Music: http://www.billholabmusic.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=103_137&products_id=1428
Perusal Score: https://issuu.com/robertpaterson/docs/looney_tunes_-_fs_bound_perusal

Instrumentation: flute (doubling piccolo), alto saxophone (doubling baritone sax), violin, cello, electric guitar, electric bass guitar (not acoustic contrabass), percussion (drumset, bongos, xylophone, amplified Udu drum and misc. small instruments) and piano (doubling synthesizer). All players doubling misc. small percussion instruments, bird whistles and sound effects.

PROGRAM NOTES (SHORT VERSION FOR PROGRAMS)
(Long version: http://robertpaterson.com/looney-tunes)
In Looney Tunes, each movement uses a specific well-known cartoon character as a musical influence and point of departure. The first movement, Taz, is inspired by the Tasmanian Devil character and plays upon all of Taz’s traits with loud, dissonant outbursts, gyrating transitions, quiet, reflective sections and a few references to his attraction to music. The second movement, Foghorn Leghorn, is inspired by this character’s loud, vocal disposition. The ‘Foghorn’ part of his name makes me think of real foghorns, and a foghorn-like interval begins this low-sounding, baritone sax-heavy movement. The third movement, Tweety Bird, provides contrast with a somewhat high tessitura and includes prominent parts for piccolo, violin, xylophone and alto sax. Although the entire movement only abstractly references the animated Tweety, I try to make all of the high instruments sound bird-like from beginning to end. Two of my favorite cartoon characters of all time are the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, so it seemed appropriate to end the work with a fastRoad Runner movement. I have always been fascinated by the seemingly infinite array of ACME inventions the Coyote uses to try and capture the Road Runner, and the last movement reflects this and incorporates a number of exotic, gizmo-like sounds and instruments.

Guerilla New Music

Looney Tunes - II. Foghorn Leghorn

The reflections of a man recognising the strength of the woman who has shouldered all of his failures.

YOUR TRUEST FAITH
(Paul Ariss)
Every time you look at me
I know just what you’re thinking
You wish that I would change my ways
And maybe stop this drinking
It’s too much to admit I know
But I’m not the man you married
I’m not the man you knew before
I’m just the man you’ve carried

Even when the child was born
I was somewhere else instead
You never even asked me why
When you should have wished me dead
I carry all the benefit as you
Suffer all the blame
I took from you the years of youth
And you took from me my name

And now as you see another line round your eyes
Do you think of the years passing by
Do you wish for that optimistic wind on your face
As I hang on to your truest faith								   As I hang on to your truest faith

A man as weak as this one before you
Will always find excuse
To seek a home for his easy anger
With occasional abuse
I still hide behind your charity,
But I know the price you pay,
Do you still believe in me
Or has hope just blown away

REPEAT CHORUS 

If you would only scream a little and let me see the pain
Would I carry on regardless and do it all again?
Or take another chance to show you the man I wished to be
Recall those years I stood beside you so strong and straight and free






Every time you look at me
I know just what you’re thinking
You wish that I would change my ways
And maybe stop this drinking
It’s too much to admit I know
But I’m not the man you married
I’m not the man you knew before 
I’m just the man you’ve carried

And now when you see another line round your eyes
Do you think of the years passing by
Do you wish for that optimistic wind on your face
As I hang on to your truest faith
As I hang on to your truest faith
As I hang on to your truest faith

Your Truest Faith

I wrote those lyrics a few years ago, and today I felt like adding some music to it. Guitars and vocals only !

Another Kind of Love

Michael Drexler performs his original arrangement of Bohemia Rag by Joseph Lamb

Bohemia Rag

I'm taking the piss (liberties) here I know, but I've had this SKA influenced number knocking around for a year or so and I've just got to move it on from the pending songbook. I'm very influenced by post-punk/new wave and just love the Specials (the AKA bit is in-part a tribute to them), Madness, The Beat, Selector and so on. Love the Trojan Reggae that goes with that too. The song is an imaginary tale about a range of different perspectives involved in a fictitious knife crime. It'll make sense when I make the video :)

Charles Hardin

Anywhere in England

A song for my daughter and my son

Remixed June 23

SINK OR SWIM

take all the time
you need
to get by

you know that sometimes
just breathe
it’s alright…

take all those books
and throw them away
you know every rule
was meant to be overruled someday….

till you see that way you won’t feel that way
till you feel that way you won’t be that way

you know there are some fools
stealing cues
what to do, what to choose

when it comes down to you
make your to do
got nothing to lose...

take all all those lists
and hurl them away
crossing some lines
was meant to be overlooked someday…
until you see that way you won’t feel that way
until you feel that way you won’t be that way…  
until you jump right in
you won’t sink or swim

oh yeah…
til you jump right in
oh yeah…
gotta jump right in…

take all those charts
and chuck them away…
cos being the odd one out
was always gonna pay some day…

until you see that way you won’t feel that way
until you feel that way you won’t be that way…  
until you jump right in
you won’t sink or swim

take all the space 
that you need
to fly….

don’t worry about me
I’ll be here
watching the sky…

take all those books
and hurl them away
you know every rule
was meant to be overturned someday….

until you see that way you won’t feel that way
until you feel that way you won’t be that way…  

until you jump right in
you won’t sink or swim

Sink Or Swim

Jimmy Reed did "Big Boss Man" which I truly like. Here is my follow up, "Bossy Old Man"

Bossy Old Man

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Michael's recent piano solo project "Songs for Healing" features sounds, melodies and harmonies designed to lift our spirit, increase our conscious presence and promote our overall well-being.

Grammy Nominated Michael Drexler developed a unique style at the piano, combining soundscapes that bridge the gap between nostalgia and the freshness of the future.  

Award-winning pianist Michael Drexler has entertained crowds as big as millions of people to the humble intimate settings of piano bars. His influences range from Scott Joplin, Albert Ammons, and Meade Lux Lewis to Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock and modern pop artists. Drexler says, “Some people speak through words, I speak through piano keys.”

Bohemia Rag

Michael Drexler The Pianist