mind cogs set to grind,
but life is an illusion,
still I can't seem to find,
my way past the door,

why can't I be,
faithful be me?
if I, 
if I could only stop it for a minute,
preened on the pain,
couldn't explain,
if I, 
if I could only stop it for a minute,

the light is all around you,
the Sun has finally found you,
it's you that's turned away,
to live your life astray,
chasing eternal grey,

pick it, pick it GOOD,

I'm losing the moment,

I'm not killing time,
time is killing me,

I'm a lesson unlearned,
I'm a bridge to be burned,
I'm staring at the wall,
doing nothing at all,

I've got nothing to say,
but I'll say it with conviction.
I thought I knew the way,
but it didn't mean a thing,

why can't I be, 
faithful to me?
if I,
if I could onlly take the world and spin it,
lonely denier,
must pass through the fire,
if I, 
if I could only stop for a minute,

wringing in the wrath,
and there is no path,
so tell the stumbling block,
it's the way that you walk,
that's the key in the lock,

Peace Of Trash

Sergei Rachmaninoff: Prelude in C Sharp Minor, Op. 3 No. 2. 

Played by me with my Korg SGProX digital stage piano controlling Yamaha Montage 8. The piano preset: Yamaha Montage CFX Stage. It sounds even better than my 2005 Motif ES synthesizer's piano sound which was already quite impressive. 

Played substantially slower than many pro players and e.g. the honourable Mr. Rachmaninoff himself on one recording (it may be also that I prefer this piece to be played a little slower than it is usually played). I got some speed however somewhere in the middle part.. I played it a lot faster however when I was young and didn't have to think about tomorrow. Because that's what this Prelude is about (much like the Scriabine etude Op. 8 No. 12): you really have to play it like there would be no tomorrow, so to speak, meaning, among other things, that you cannot think about some "secondary" things like hand injuries..

I learned this prelude initially in the 1990's at the time when also the piano movie "Shine" was released (the movie definitely was an inspiration). I practiced it countless hours with my Korg M1 synthesizer which was indeed not the best machine for this kind of piano music.  This was one of the first classical piano pieces I ever learned and, since I have learned it by myself without receiving any formal piano training whatsoever, this warrants the following conclusion: Anything is possible, remember that!

Sergei Rachmaninoff: Prelude in C Sharp Minor Op. 3 No. 2

C-Poznań

Alex Zuzuk - Harmoniky

This piece is taken from the artist's composition series "Post​-​Orientalism No. 0". The album was released on this label on May 17, 2023 as an episode Zero, throughout an ongoing composition project by then. These episodes include pieces that are referred to as 'Sound Blocks', and are dedicated to many people who have lost their lives, therefore it demanded a longer production process (between winter and the spring in 2023) considering the social condition in Iran. It is now released again as a part of this compilation.


Ehsan Saboohi is a composer and music theorist, he considers himself a post-orientalist composer, a term he has coined to describe a music language for analyzing the aesthetics of his and his colleagues’ compositions. He demands a different language of common Contemporary Classical music trends by taking inspiration from the philosophical-social ideas of the famous philosopher Edward Said.


“Post-Orientalism is a modern music language that uses microtonal sounds and intervals alongside altered sound chain and block structures to achieve a post-orientalism musical piece in different acoustic and electroacoustic compositions.” It is also one of his composition series.

Read more:
ehsansaboohi.musicaneo.com
postorientalism.com

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