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Original music that is raw, all created in the morning by a vocalist who had the audacity to play on a keyboard and record all of it in the front of his window each morning at the Piano Craft where he lived in Boston. He did his thang hoping to inspire others to do theirs, having major fun.

Off to War

Music created by Vocalist channeling
Made this song originally before my window while on Tremont Street in SouthEnd at the Piano Craft Guild. Sure, I have hopes of redoing these pieces with a band and recording them again in a studio. However, the pleasure of composing, singing and recording this was immense. Tools for joy were simple.

JazzHip Hoprockindie rock pop funk


Made this song originally before my window while on Tremont Street in SouthEnd at the Piano Craft Guild. Sure, I have hopes of redoing these pieces with a band and recording them again in a studio. However, the pleasure of composing, singing and recording this was immense. Tools for joy were simple.

Bebop blue Sunday

Music by a vocalist channeling
Made this song originally before my window while on Tremont Street in SouthEnd at the Piano Craft Guild. Sure, I have hopes of redoing these pieces with a band and recording them again in a studio. However, the pleasure of composing, singing and recording this was immense. Tools for joy were simple.

JazzHip Hoprockindie rock pop funk


10 minutes of distorted love

Soulful channelling of raw sounds
Made this song originally before my window while on Tremont Street in SouthEnd at the Piano Craft Guild. Sure, I have hopes of redoing these pieces with a band and recording them again in a studio. However, the pleasure of composing, singing and recording this was immense. Tools for joy were simple.




Sounds from Saturday evening: the Popo

Made this song originally before my window while on Tremont Street in SouthEnd at the Piano Craft Guild. Sure, I have hopes of redoing these pieces with a band and recording them again in a studio. However, the pleasure of composing, singing and recording this was immense. Tools for joy were simple.

JazzHip Hoprockindie rock pop funk

#alternative, #YokoUno,#R&B, #Jazz, #Soul, #Original


L O  v E 2

Music created by vocalist channeling
Made this song originally before my window while on Tremont Street in SouthEnd at the Piano Craft Guild. Sure, I have hopes of redoing these pieces with a band and recording them again in a studio. However, the pleasure of composing, singing and recording this was immense. Tools for joy were simple.

JazzHip Hoprockindie rock pop funk


So Insane is Love

A Crazy Conversation bout LUV

Music created by vocalist channeling
Made this song originally before my window while on Tremont Street in SouthEnd at the Piano Craft Guild. Sure, I have hopes of redoing these pieces with a band and recording them again in a studio. However, the pleasure of composing, singing and recording this was immense. 

JazzHip Hoprockindie rock pop funk

Hey Momma

Music created by a vocalist channeling.
Made this song originally before my window while on Tremont Street in SouthEnd at the Piano Craft Guild. Sure, I have hopes of redoing these pieces with a band and recording them again in a studio. However, the pleasure of composing, singing and recording this was immense. Tools for joy were simple.

JazzHip Hoprockindie rock pop funk


Sounds from Sunday morning

Music created by a vocalist channeling. 
Made this song originally before my window while on Tremont Street in SouthEnd at the Piano Craft Guild. Sure, I have hopes of redoing these pieces with a band and recording them again in a studio. However, the pleasure of composing, singing and recording this was immense. Tools for joy were simple.


JazzHip Hoprockindie rock pop funk


Twenty minutes of my life...

So Insanely In Love March 17, 2018 2:52:47 PM

Channeled improvisation from a generation ago.

How Good God Feels March 18, 2018 5:21:48 PM

3 Tsunami Generation March 18, 2018 4:19:22 PM

4 Tsunami Generation March 18, 2018 4:21:38 PM

Song “Broken Rainbow” created by Michael Gordon Penn, Brianna Fischler
Orchestration by Jesse MacDonald

February 10, 2019 4:40:15 AM

A great moment to get to sing my own music with Palaver Strings, wow!

February 21, 2019 11:08:36 PM

Palaver Strings Chamber Orchestra with Michael Gordon Penn, a “life Project.” An original song created by Michael Gordon Penn, voice, music arranged by both Jesse McDonald on Violin, and on viola Brianna Fischer.
Recorded by Matt Brady. Thank you to Matt Smith and the entire orchestra.

Broken Rainbow (Final Cut)

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Quarantine II

My noise. I will create in one way or another always. Constantly transforming...
“But there’s something even more fundamental, too... improvisation is one of the most crucial elements in what we think of as black music: “The raising of individual creativity/expression to the highest place within the aesthetic world of a song.” Without improvisation, a listener is seduced into the composition of the song itself and not the distorting or deviating elements that noise creates. Particular to black American music is the architecture to create a means by which singers and musicians can be completely free, free in the only way that would have been possible on a plantation: through art, through music — music no one “composed” (because enslaved people were denied literacy), music born of feeling, of play, of exhaustion, of hope.

What you’re hearing in black music is a miracle of sound, an experience that can really happen only once — not just melisma, glissandi, the rasp of a sax, breakbeats or sampling but the mood or inspiration from which those moments arise. The attempt to rerecord it seems, if you think about it, like a fool’s errand. You’re not capturing the arrangement of notes, per se. You’re catching the spirit.”
New York Times: Why they Steal from Black Music 
Www.mpenndesigns.com

Michael Gordon Penn

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