My family always sends me prayers, which made me think of a haunting chorus melody that is carried by the wind from afar, like the clear sound of bells. This theme returns over and over, with an increasing sense of inevitability, evoking an image of something that is constant and unchanging. The piece is remotely modeled on Liszt’s La Campanella, which is quoted at the end.

いつも遠くから私のことを祈ってくれている両親を思い出して書いた。何度も現れるコーラス部分は鐘のように透明感があり、繰り返されるたびに必然性を増す。リストのラ・カンパネラをゆるくモデルにして書かれていて、最後にはその旋律が引用される。

Etude in G# Minor "Prayer from Afar"（遠くからの祈り）

Le Soldat De Bois

23/September/2022

I'm Open

Solo piano composition with rolling arpeggios on Noire Felt piano with plenty of atmospheric reverb and delay. It's origins date back to the 1980s but has been dusted off and bought up to date for YouTube and SoundCloud and to be shared and hopefully enjoyed. Whilst finalising the track I was trying to decide on the cover art and looking though my various images I found this one by my 10-year-old grand-daughter and it just seemed to fit the composition, so the title "Dawn" was born and an experimental video has been created.

Dawn

I am very pleased after a relatively long break to release this new piano piece.  Thank you for listening and I hope you enjoy.

Return To New Beginnings



------- Catherine Healing Hearts

She takes a bold courage
Of silver delight
And calls for the thunder
To rescue her knight

With leaves of chamomile
Her hands bound in moonlight
And shadows of pain
In the fields of the fight

Oh heavens
Bring mercy
Oh heavens
Be kind

She holds her knight’s head
In her cold trembling hands
A ray of warm blood
Running over the sands

A deep open wound
In his wild heaving chest
She kisses his forehead
Praying him to be blessed

Oh heavens
Bring mercy
Oh heavens
Divined

She will always wander
From mornings to sighing nights
In ruinous wars’ battlefields
For the broken in violent fights

She carries compassion
Unending floods of care
With waves of sweet tenderness
And healing hands everywhere

Oh heavens
Bring mercy
Oh heavens
Be kind

-------

I was in Stalingrad
The cold winter the cold winter over forty two
In the shadows of the Volga river
The rat war
I was in Stalingrad
At Mamayev Kurgan
And Pavlov’s House
Oh heavens
Your mercy
Oh heavens
Your mercy
Oh heavens
Your mercy

I was in Hastings
And Vienna
And also in Cajamarca
And in Yorktown
And then in Trafalgar
And also in Leipzig
And Waterloo
And Hiroshima

-------

Again a bold courage
Of silver delight
And a call for the thunder
To rescue her knight

A new place of battle
With deep scorched holes
And wounds of shear terror
Of harsh suffering souls

Oh heavens
Bring mercy
Oh heavens
Divined

------- George and Dragons

Eight
Eight times before you smile
Fate
Fate washing hands in time

While
While hearts cry

While
While hearts cry

In vain

Composition and Poetry: Diederik Aerts
Vocals: Oddrun Eikli and Diederik Aerts
Piano: Diederik Aerts


Eight Times (Oddrun Eikli and Diederik Aerts)

The earth visitor  & ɳøìŕoŗĭőn - Autumn Hearts

Please check the video for the collab version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koXO6iwxxGo

Snowdreams

Who knows what tomorrow will bring? Hopefully something calm & relaxing. Enjoy this tune & see the future you really want. This track was specially written for 2017 Piano Day. This is the 88th day of the year (88 notes on a piano keyboard) which this year falls on 29th March 2017.
Here is the YouTube clip for this tune  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DqLQbBXiUw&t=6s

Tomorrow - Piano Day 2017

I have the immense pleasure in sharing another Nocturne by Olivier Marin, I hope you will enjoy my interpretation of this beautiful piece...
Thank you for listening....

You can watch the performance of this piece via this link….
https://youtu.be/8bE5v5R4LaU

To listen to more of his music here please follow this link...
https://soundcloud.com/olivier-marin-1

Nocturne No 1 by Olivier Marin (+video)

the orchestration is by guillaume pearson, guitar arrangement by naldo and the original song is by hitoshi yasui of chairhouse. it's been wonderful to work on these arrangements of chairhouse songs with my musical cloud friends guillaume and hitoshi over the last trying months of covid quarantine and separation. hope you can find some similar, perhaps temporary comfort from their beauty. 

you can hear original chairhouse piano here:
https://soundcloud.com/chairhouse/ayant-servi-pour-plusieurs-parfums-1371-by-chair-house-09162017

more of guillaume's songs & beautiful cinematic orchestrations:
soundcloud.com/guillaumelecompositeur/tracks

artwork by Alphonse Mucha

Plusieurs Parfums

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/

Tomorrow - Piano Day 2017

Simon Reich