Sorry I missed this when you first posted it, wow!

Beautiful feeling to this ... best wishes from Ireland

Airy smooth relaxing kewl energy! Very nicely played Simon! :D

Simon as always your music transports... Beautiful

This tune was composed in a one pass improvisation. I video taped as I was "noodling" around on the keyboard in my studio, so you can watch a YouTube clip of how the piece came about. After the full run through, I didn't want to repeat it & lose the "magic" of the event, so I just chopped out the mistakes, but left it pretty much as it happened. I only removed about 1% from the original. I love composing my piano tunes in this way, as I feel it is such a pure way of channeling music.
Here is the YouTube link 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h9SztEz6yY

I am writing a series of articles on improvisation so when they are published, I'll put the link here.
https://pianodao.com/2016/11/28/improvisatiot-1/
https://pianodao.com/2016/12/02/simon-reich-on-improvisation-part-2/

Chrysalis

I started off learning piano at around 6 years old, but only realised my ear for music when I could pick out melodies I heard on the radio & from then on I started writing my own music & playing long into the night, to the point where my parents told me to stop so they could go to sleep!
In my teenage years I joined bands & learnt basically on the fly how to work as a group. Once I realised that keyboards were not as portable & able to be played on beaches / around campfires, I taught myself guitar. By adding drums, harmonica & bass to my arsenal, the stage was set for a fully working band to record in my garage. Since setting up my home studio, I love recording a tune each week & especially love collaborating with all the extremely talented musicians on soundcloud. I'm a full time musician, with many different hats in the music community. Including songwriter, composer, live musician & blog writer.

If you are interested in my electronic page, then visit https://soundcloud.com/electro-pup

Check out my blog at http://simon353.wordpress.com/

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