The live show of my new album 'Nocturnal' was on Friday October 12th at St Paul's Centre in Hammersmith, featuring my own nocturnes and some of Chopin's amazing pieces. As part of my explorations, I improvised this short nocturne.

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Nocturne No. 6 in C# minor - P. 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.

ما زال قلمي يخط رسائله إليك بحبر روحي. لعلها تعيدني إليك يوماً 

اللهم أعط لقلبي حياةً تسعى إليه بالحُب ، وأحبني يا الله

Nocturne No. 6 in C# minor - P. Best

Phil Best