It's music like this that makes me feel not only the song, but the best parts of life.

your piano playing is wonderful, but I also love the subleties you add to your music...that flute is lovely and so well placed ;))

Keep the window open so your misery can escape

07/June/2021

You're My Life/Featuring David Wayne Hardy

I needed some shorter/lighter pieces for Southwest Passge so I went back to the beginning for an idea, all the way back to an 8-bar riff I wrote in 1987.

Southwest Passage

Flora & Fauna

Walk in Harmony with each other and The Planet we live on.

Walk In Harmony

PERI. P.E

Here's A link to the extended video;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKnT6v0Aj18

5 Minutes Peace | Relaxing Harp And Ocean Sounds

This is a track that has been in the works for a while.  Doing a collab is  something Fullyard  @steve-fullyard and I had talked about since last Fall really.  It finally made it and it's pretty far out. Big thanks to his fiancé Night Owl  for the amazing vocals there in the 2nd half of this thing.  I expect we'll do more of these as it was a lot of fun and getting to know Fullyard better was cool.  For more background on the tune and the process - check out the song on his page @steve-fullyard

Way Out Here ft. Night Owl - collab with Fullyard

White Wedding Ballad

Some of the vocals are embedded due to track bouncing, but it'll have to do...

Rooftops and Chimney Potts

You Could Come Home (1993)

Another song written by Patrick Zelinski and the strings (violin and cello) are written and arranged by me. It ended up very beautiful, thanks to Ryan and Roxane. And Patrick of course for his brilliant guitar play!

Miles To Walk - with Patrick Zelinski (feat. Ryan Dimmock and Roxane Genot on Violin and Cello)

Inside The Forbidden Outside

Keeping Time

Piano improvisations expressing emotions. My music tell stories without the words. Most of my recordings have been completed in about 30 minutes. When I feel the desire to express my emotions I sit at the piano and press the record button. I prefer playing in minor flat keys. They feel and sound different to me. I don't think about what I'm going to play. I don't plan a chord sequence. I just play and record straight through until it's done. I then lay 1 - 4 tracks on top of each other mentally mixing the sounds to each other. I don't know how to mix sounds electronically or fix mistakes. It's all done by ear, sometimes in the dark, my favorite way to play. 

I've been composing and performing most of my life.  At this point in my own history I started playing the piano 60 years ago and teaching and playing in piano bars for 48 of them, starting in college. The music I play now is beyond what my capabilities were then. I am far from technically the best keyboard player, but the music I play is the music I heard in my head as a child but didn't have the ability to play. 

I was ten when I decided I would teach people how to play the piano.  I don't care if I am well known. I have no drive to make money with my music.  Being able to play is reward enough. My one and only desire is to tell my stories - the music that comes out with no planning or crafting. I feel what I feel, close my eyes and my hands play those thoughts.

This is what I leave of me to my generations to come who wonder where their desire to make music comes from. I learned recently that my grandmother was an accomplished pianist when she was young. Her husband made her stop. She was to be a housewife. No one told me. I read a diary she left.  Now I have great-grandchildren. They will know who I am through my music.

Keeping Time

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