Phil Best, virtuoso pianist and composer releases new album - 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘴 & 𝘔𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴.

An album of 20 short piano improvisations, occasionally with sections repeated, Phil creates a completely spontaneous outpouring but with a powerful sense of rhythmic unfolding or storytelling that renders even trivial events, dramatic, momentous or pivotal. Nothing is planned or contrived but never whimsical or random. Just true! Phil uses improvised piano music to describe deep inner states - beyond the scope of language - and does so with real precision and clarity.

Forces & Moments

This is everything to me

It seems like yesterday

You can’t catch me

the journey goes on with the fifth fragment. 
from the album "2 Days & a Year"
Hope you enjoy...

fragments of a journey #5

THOMAS GOULD, violin
Emerald Concert Orchestra
conducted by Christopher Ball

Christopher Ball - Violin Concerto I. Allegro Moderato

Composer Frank H. Grey wrote this waltz in 1924.

Free score transcribed by Œnanthic:
https://musescore.com/user/3636436/scores/6148114

Frank H. Grey: Marianna Valse (1924)

just a little blues for a Sunday afternoon.

Walking Through Town On A Saturday Night

Thin (a Piano Improvisation) 18 - 02 - 2015

For Piano Day 2017 - 29th March 2017
www.pianoday.org

This began as a piano improvisation. I kept that recording in its raw state and added other instruments and sounds

Taken

Facet 5

A set of 11 original piano nocturnes by pianist composer, Phil Best. 

Nocturnes are dark, melancholic virtual love songs full of pathos and longing. Each one feels like an intimate soliloquy about unrequited love, heartbreak and desire.

Inspired by Chopin's masterpieces of this genre, Phil explores a more contemporary approach, mixing in jazz, blues, pop and filmic elements.

Nocturnes

Come Back To Me

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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.

This is everything to me

Phil Best

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