I wrote this as a 'Lost' Track from the Kind of Blue sessions, invoking the spirit of Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb. 

All parts written and performed by Resadeb.

Everyone Is A Stranger

The Golden Queen rises to power from a whisper of an echo of her arrival to the full-colored, awesome display of her might.

Based on the opening to Beethoven's 7th symphony, 2nd movement (Allegretto).  3 devices make this buildup so simple and majestic: 
1. Simplicity of architecture
2. Tenacious repetition
3. Nuanced dynamic buildup

Golden Queen

Snoppet

This piece is for all my fellow misfits, loners and outsiders. The fire inside us is burning, it's complicated and beautiful but no one but a few special people can see it. This melody tells us that all we need is one special someone to see our fire burning, and we are no longer lonely. Find that special someone! Never give up: he/she is out there.

The Fire Within

Words and music by Carol Johnson
©1981 Noeldner Music, BMI
www.caroljohnsonmusic.com
Arrangement and Orchestration by Emek Rave

There is a lovely tradition at Central Park East 1 Elementary School in New York City: every Monday morning the entire school gathers in the auditorium to sing the week in. 

Directed by Barry Solowey, children’s pristine voices usher in the exciting week ahead with songs like Red Red Robin, Sunny Side of the Street, Follow the Drinking Gourd and This Land is Your Land.

As the little saints go marching out, each class led by their teacher singing this song: 

Love grows one by one, two by two
And four by four
Love grows round like a circle
And comes back knockin’ at your front door

Note by note we make a song
Voice by voice we sing it
Choir by choir we fill up the world
With the music that we bring it.

Love grows one by one, two by two
And four by four
Love grows round like a circle
And comes back knockin’ at your front door

So let me take your hand my friend
We’ll each take the hand of another
Hand in hand we’ll reach round the world
To our sisters and our brothers

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Acknowledgment: Thank you to Marcus Santos for his invaluable online Samba Reggae master classes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_W6ho5RW-g

Love Grows

A shattered dream inspired this mostly furious but often tenderly delicate piece. 

Did I expect too much? 
Did I have a right to expect at all? 
Maybe it was all just an illusion and the promise was never there to begin with?

Broken Dream (Piano Solo)

Sinner's Heaven

Genesis. 

The beginning of time. 

Out of turbulent chaos emerges life; delicate, tender, fragile, but with potential to become the most powerful and sophisticated force in the universe. 

Will it take root and realize its potential or will it self-destruct?

In The Beginning

Longing For Later

During the long, long month of COVID April 2020 when my wife and daughter were diagnosed positive and it was cold out here in New York and it stayed cold and refused to warm up, I wrote this piece out of an impending dread that the least we hoped for - spring - is not forthcoming this year.

What If Spring Never Comes

The Year Of The Mermaid

Photo by Holly Danger: www.hollydanger.com

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