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We teamed up with Jagermeister to drop an update of the Christmas classic Coventry Carol

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Coventry Carol

Piano Impro May 15th

Save Me (Music from the Original TV Series)

Opening

Delicate piano from my album "Image and Reflection" https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/image-and-reflection/962069707
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First Flakes Of Snow

Just Beyond the Horizon is my first piano+cello piece, and my first time releasing music that I’ve written for something other than solo piano. This music is soulful, sweeping, and epic. Take my hand, tap the play button, and come on a journey with me. 

I’d love for you to share with me what you hear in this music. Tell me what it means to you, what sort of journey it takes you on. My partner David and I hear and experience completely different things in this music, so I suspect the experience of listening to this piece will be highly personal for each of us.

This poem by R.L. Heyen is a particularly apt companion to this piece:

Out there… 
Beyond what your eyes can see 
Lay dreams you didn't even know you had 
Don’t settle for just as far as you can reach 
Lay seeds full of big dreams 
You have roots of potential greatness 
Your best days have not been seen yet 
Your best ideas not thought of yet 
Mediocrity can be left just beyond the horizon 
-R.L. Heyen 

I’ve also included the solo piano version of this piece in this week’s release. It has a different emotional signature and is called Approaching the Horizon. 
Find that track here: soundcloud.com/rachellafond/approaching-the-horizon

There’s a bit of a play on words there: ‘Approaching’ the Horizon is the solo piano piece, covering the familiar ground of writing for piano alone, and ‘Just Beyond’ the Horizon is the piano+cello piece, having pushed myself beyond the familiar to compose for a new instrument. 

Just Beyond the Horizon and Approaching the Horizon are release 25 of The 52, a project in which I am releasing a new single (or sometimes two!) every week for a year.

Cello performed and recorded by Christoph Pracht 
Art Design by Rachel LaFond, David Mason, and Scott D. Davis 
Mastering by Mike Bloemendal

Just Beyond the Horizon

Just Beyond The Horizon

Here are five songs I wrote, presented in a series with transitions and stuff. It probably doesn't sound like much you've heard before. People seem to like the track "Wormholes" best.

* WITH EXTRA FLAVOR *

The Lemon Circuit Mixtape (Continuous Mix)

L'Hannah

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!

Just Beyond The Horizon

Rachel LaFond

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