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Samuel Barber - Nocturne

Composed for a 4 chord challenge in February/March 2017 at the Piano Soundboard, with the set chord progression of Dm Am Gm C. Quite unusual for me to stick to these kind of limits!

Dreamcatcher

I hope you'll like my remix of a new song by Billie Eilish - Bad Guy!

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Billie Eilish - Bad Guy (M+ike Remix)

Elliott Smith - You make it seem like nothing ( Cover )

MINDALL x NOUCHI — #002

Allegiance - Won't Ever Know(YVNGCUZ Remix)

BETWEEN FRIENDS - Affection (Late Night Session)

Hand-Built Dream was inspired by a visit with my friend and fellow pianist Greg Maroney at his home in rural Pennsylvania. The idyllic, bucolic musical sanctuary he and his partner have created for themselves was such a magical, shining place that I began writing this piece on his Steinway.

This is Track 5 of The 52, a project in which Rachel LaFond is releasing a new single every week for a year.

Hand-Built Dream

Scottish lute music from the Balcarres manuscript, played on a baroque lute by Rob MacKillop.

1Minuet

Double -eyed Fig-parrot - Cyclopsitta diophthalma

Beautiful Love Piano Ballad Instrumental - Part 30

Beautiful Love Piano Ballad Instrumental - Part 27

A colorful life makes for colorful music.

Rachel LaFond is a composer and pianist living in Austin, Texas, with roots in Seattle and New Zealand. You can find Rachel hanging from the heights on a trapeze bar, deep in creative thought in her home recording studio, and even swing dancing on a historic Austin dancefloor. Or you may have to look a bit further afield for her, traveling the world in search of the best scuba diving spots, trekking into the wilderness for a taste of untouched beauty, and turning up new friends everywhere. But she will always return home to her piano to work her magic, transforming it all into music.

Rachel combines a technically proficient approach to composition with an intuitive ability to draw in the listener and convey profound emotion. Her creative range reflects her enthusiasm for new experience: achingly introspective, whimsical and spooky, gut-wrenchingly powerful, her solo piano catalog covers it all and more. She’s even branched out from solo piano into epic symphonic electronica piano (Lost in the Azure), and angelic a cappella vocals. With a strong musical foundation and a zest for adventure, Rachel is forging a unique path as a composer, recording artist, and all-around creative human.

One of Rachel’s most ambitious ideas came to fruition in 2019-2020 with The 52. She released new music every week for a year, designing distinctive artwork for each track. Her career as a recording artist began in 2017 with the release of Wandering Soul - musical snapshots from a year spent backpacking around the world. She composed Encounters of the Beautiful Kind about the challenges and delights of living as an expat in New Zealand, and her Halloween album, Well Past Midnight, came about as a playful response to literally everyone telling her to write “holiday music”. 

Rachel has experienced many sides of the piano: she's the daughter of a piano teacher, a former piano teacher herself, studied piano performance as a teenager in Vienna, and earned a music degree at the University of Washington. She grew up adoring David Lanz songbooks and discovered Ludovico Einaudi's music in her twenties, which inspired a deep love for passionate, contemporary piano music.

In addition to writing and releasing music, Rachel relishes touring and live performance. Audiences rave about her captivating stage presence and deeply intimate emotional style at the piano. Past performances have ranged from playing on the main stage of a cruise ship (Audiosyncracy at Sea 2019) to inviting the public into her home for a more intimate concert - the best “seat” in the house is lying underneath her Yamaha C7!

Rachel’s always working on new projects, and she loves collaborating with other musicians and artists. Keep an eye out for what’s coming next, because this musical firecracker is far from done!

Hand-Built Dream

Rachel LaFond

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