Summer Breeze

Resilient Spirit

It was a few weeks ago that we went up to the Jack and Jill Windmills. A walk in the downs before seeing our oldest off again.  I couldn’t find any music to fit the little bit of video I shot. I tried a bunch of stuff. Drones, chimes, synths, acoustic guitars. Nothing felt gentle enough. Nothing was filling that soft happy lamenting place that was that morning. Seeing him grow, then gone. So full of love but wishing time would freeze forever. I know it can’t. I don’t even want it to. Not really.  But I found that inexpressible feeling come back as I watched the Ryuchi Sakamoto movie “Opus”. Just a man, old, unwell, knowing the end is near,  sat playing at a piano, playing his favourites from a long illustrious career. It’s a beautiful film. And it got me sitting at the piano again. The guitars and synths could take a break. I needed to work out how he makes things sound so pretty, simple, tender, full of longing and calm.  I wanted to be able to play like this. I wanted to conjure the fleeting nature of cherry blossom. I wanted to make it last whilst knowing that it couldn’t.  To cherish the cherry blossom for its brief bloom and Ryuchi Sakamoto for being able to evoke feelings that could never be put into words. i sat down last night and played the music you hear now.  it just came out as i loosely played something similar in tone and harmony to Merry Xmas Mr Laurence. And then i added a bit of birdsong that I recorded on a walk to the @ecomusicologyproject. It felt finished. 

Mikkaminumanosakura (三日見ぬ間の桜)

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#solopiano #jazz #happysad #southdowns #windmill #Sakura-fubuki (桜吹雪) #Hana-akari (花明かり) #ambientmusic #jazz #filmmusic #jackandjill #southdowns #windmill #timepassing #MerryChristmasMrLaurence

Sounds of Sukara (Jack and Jill Windmills)

Improv 2024-05-04 01

Eythan: Sustainability, Dynamo Theme Reprisal

nada cinta untukmu

Verdant Dreams

Harmonic Herbs

Due Tramonti - Ludovico Einaudi

KAWAI CA9500GP. 442hz, Loudness
ZOOM h1nvp 48 16

https://pulchraflow.blogspot.com/2024/10/241011-improvisation-hello-to.html

https://unsplash.com/ja/%E5%86%99%E7%9C%9F/%E7%B7%91%E3%81%AE%E8%8A%9D%E7%94%9F%E3%81%AE%E6%B5%85%E3%81%84%E7%84%A6%E7%82%B9%E5%86%99%E7%9C%9F-Ps2n0rShqaM

241011 improvisation hello to ... 即興

45.4 Chords 20250804-4

Incarnation

Footsteps On The Moon (instrumental)

Thank you for listening.



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pulchra: meaning of the first Kanji 美　of my name.
flow relates to the left part of the second Kanji 江　of my name.
p f pianoforte

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I subscribed to NextPro because of no upload limit.
- I practice a classical music piece which I want to play and upload a recording which has less mistakes.  
- I record an adlib/improvisation when I want to play, move my hands.  

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I had played the toy piano.  My grandfather gave me mahogany Kawai upright piano. -- more than 40 years ago.
I learned piano from Ms. Kazuko Makishima from 5 to 17 years old.  She was an elderly women in my neighbourhood, she wore colorful clothes and liked electone as well as piano.  
I played electric bass in a rock band with friends in a club in high school.  (Since then I have not played/do not play bass, though.)

I entered university (not music) and joined in a piano club, piano-no-kai.  The club members, friends liked playing piano and played various classic composer's music, popular music, jazz, etc in various ways.  

After graduation, I bought my first electric piano to play it in night after work.  (My mahogany Kawai piano was sold.) (I replaced electric pianos since some parts were broken.  My present electric piano is the 3rd one for more than 10 years being repaired.)

I went to learn jazz because I want to know music theory. (I did not, do not play jazz well.)  
First, I learned  from Mr. Shu Sugawara who works as a writer, a translator. 
After that, I learned from Ms. Miki Hayasaka in Kawai music school in Omotesandou.  I learned theory and created a little music piece together with her.
I joined in a small free jazz band where one of colleagues in the job at that time was playing.  

After that, again I began to learn classic piano from Ms. Yukiko Asami in the music school.  She taught me how to play classic piano music in detail more fluently elegantly than when I learned before.

After that, I learned harmony and counter only a little by myself.

- others -

 
I like watching Animes and movies with my husband.


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