Improvisation ( Landscape Angel )
I have recently finished a large image in soft pastel of a vast Landscape Angel and both Alice and I felt that this piece of music was connected with it and helped to express its gentle influence over the land.

LANDSCAPE ANGEL

The world needs to soften its heart. This is my contribution to that.

SOFTEN YOUR HEART MP3

LAUGHING WITH DAVON

MARCH HARE

SILLY TICKLING MUSIC

I think this theme, or something like it, came to me while just walking along

WALKING

This is the first recorded piano improvisation I did, hence the name,
 "First Theme"

First Theme

The gentle beauty of almond Blossom......

Almond Blossom

Tender

I called this track 'Curly Boy' after a happy young chap in the family whom I imagined dancing in the innocence of childhood,

CURLY BOY

I decided to call this improvised track 'Pleasantries' because it reminded me of the pleasant conversational noises that people may make at ,say, cocktail parties that all sound very nice but don't actually lead anywhere or mean anything.

PLEASANTRIES

I improvised this track in a very quiet frame of mind, and later as I listened back to it, visualised  a very gentle stroll on a warm night under the canopy of stars perhaps  in and out from beneath trees.

WALKING BENEATH STARS

SONG OF FLOWING WATER

I was not trained as a pianist, so can only improvise these tracks. I am always on the lookout for expressions of natural rhythm such as  moving water, tolling bells or in this case a ticking clock and added to this my very limited understanding of baroque counterpoint.

Baroque Clock

Summer Days

PUNTING MUSIC

This improvisation was really just a happy moment of playing around, so later I gave it its name. I did this pastel painting of a day out with my son-in-law with a pony and trap in  a Devon lane and it seemed to fit with this music.

OUT WITH THE PONY

Like all these tracks, this quirky little item with its lopsided rhythm was improvised and only named later.

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