My Nocturne No. 11 in G minor is one of the 11 Nocturnes that feature in my forthcoming album 'Nocturnal' to be released on February 18th. The album version is the original unplanned improvisation, but having created a score, I play it for you here.

Nocturnes

Your Face in the Moonlight

Your Face in the Moonlight - Phil Best

For Phil, traditional classical piano training was something of a straitjacket. He rebelled from a very young age by teaching himself to improvise and play by ear. Fundamentally gentle by nature - he’s a vegan and life-long meditator - the competitive world of classical piano seemed brutal. Phil plays music simply for the love of it and nothing else matters to him. He’s not interested in definitive interpretations or who-can-play-the-fastest performances: what Phil offers is real musical sense, through delivering rhythm and groove, melody and harmony with depth, clarity and unconventional intelligibility.

Phil plays in a refreshingly unpretentious and accessible way, telling musical stories with vivid, straightforward passion. Being a Yorkshireman, he says it how it is, and music for him is profound solace, catharsis and joy: so this is what he offers. Being extraordinarily fluent in the language of music on the keys, he loves to improvise freely, allowing the music to pour forth spontaneously, from a place of deep body-and-soul consciousness. And he aims to make the music of Mozart, Chopin, Rachmaninov, and every piece he plays, come from this place of real transformation and healing.

Original compositions. Some are compositions made on guitar transcribed to piano. From The Soundtrack To Brandano DaPetroio’s Contemplative Vision Of Pandora’s Box & The Holy Grail. The photos are ai and also from the series. Later, in its edited form the story progresses into an apocalyptic dystopian series with ai created characters. There though in its unedited form, now being put in print is a piece of art in of itself. That’s to be used as an index and a guide to the Tolkien like world I created or rather found hidden between the pages of history online.