Wonderful and so gentle composition!!!  <3 <3 <3

A wonderfully thoughtful story told by you and your piano. Very sensitive, warm and tender. Comforting and conciliatory. Simply beautiful :)

beautiful shades of pastel colouring through musical magic

Those perfectly complementary strings, again

2018_07_11

Working in my farm is a constant source of inspiration...

*** LUCKY THING ***

Look! Praying mantises!
Praying mantises don't have religion.
Like most of the Universe, 
these amazing creatures don't display compassion.
Just an insatiable appetite.
They hastily devour their preys while they're still alive 
and struggling to get free.
This mindless cruelty is somewhat at odds with my tender christian feelings.
The only things I gladly chew in my mouth, 
although I know they're still alive,
are fruits and salads.
It's a lucky thing they are unable to scream.

Lucky Thing

This is a re-upload of a track that was recorded a few years ago.  It was originally recorded in 2023, and it consists of 3 different segments of sitar and drum jams spliced together with subsequent sitar and bass tracks added after.  Drums were played by Mick Mack, sitar and bass by Gremescer Fuckburger.  I generally like the way it turned out, but I always wished I had tuned the sitar better before recording.  I have edited this track a bit to fix some of the tuning issues, but there is only so much I can do.  Either way, I hope you enjoy.

Orchid (Remastered)

Produced & mastered by BotNikStudio2, Bottna, Sweden.

HOT AIR BALLOON UNDER A COLD MOON

Here today

Written, performed and recorded by Neli CoKo, all rights reserved, 2025. 
Thank you for listening :) 

City Blues

Drifting Tide (Remix)

Löse dich von mir

stratocaster(from the half life on Bandcamp)

Music: Little Man & Janne Hennie
Lyrics & vocals: Janne Hennie
Instruments & Mix: Little Man

Listen to Little Man : @user-474544459

Lyrics:

Dudurududu
So many plans were made
Dudurududu
A lot that was ment to happen
Dudurududu
But it didn't turn out as you thought
Dudurududu
Long time ahead ,became too short

What may feel right to you today
May feel wrong to you tomorrow
What makes you laugh at this moment
Can suddenly turn into sorrow

Dudurududu
A direction was chosen
Dudurududu
It was supposed to go straight ahead
Dudurududu
But something got in the way
Dudurududu
A u-turn suddenly appeared

What may feel right to you today
May feel wrong to you tomorrow
What makes you laugh at this moment
Can suddenly turn into sorrow

Dudurududu
Dudurududu

What's the point of making all these plans
If you're no longer there to enjoy them?
You know about today
But nothing about tomorrow

What may feel right to you today
May feel wrong to you tomorrow
What makes you laugh at this moment
Can suddenly turn into sorrow...

Life Is Now

Beneath the Bodhi Tree

We shall not rise until we know
Come noble truths
Salvage this show
Why do we suffer?
Why do we crave?
Say,
Cessation of desire to meet light old age

Prove pure path
The right eight show way
Good vision
Good thought
Good speech
Good day
Good livelyhood
Effort
Mindfulness and action
Weaved wisdom concentrated
Content has traction

To Dukkha debonair
Satisfied with real
Ruse rooted Samudaya
You suffer thirst by feel
Nirvana, be known
Nirodha find light
From Mārga
Our eight fold path meant right

Born beneath the Bodhi tree
Cyclic Samsāra sits
Transcience for fear food free
Karmic Dharma fits
Not torn with our time
Minded body synced
Not shocked
Transcendence through rhyme
Be harmonic miner clocked

We shall not rise until we know
Come noble truths
Salvage this show
Why do we suffer?
Why do we crave?
Say,
Cessation of desire to meet light old age

Notes 🎶

Key B Harmonic Minor
Tempo 33bpm

Instrumentation
-Vox drone backing x 4
-Vox Backing melodic x 1
-Vox Narration
-Vox Lead x 1
-Pads x 3 played on keys
-Acoustic Lead line

I don't quite believe in reincarnation of a single spirit although the discovery of DNA in a way sheds a bit of light on it being possible at least in potential code as traits that are passed on. They are either honed and retained or lost through long term positive or negative behavior and discernment of honest or dishonest action from our beings. Epigenetics looks to be starting to show that nurture, particulariy early in life actually enables and disables chemical signals in our genes. This has been shown in rats by a mother that licks her offspring vs a mother that doesn't and the different effects on those baby rats growing up and those scientists believe that translates to humans although they can't stick us in labs to prove it yet. So it looks like nurture may end up holding more influence then early geneticists told us and less is set in stone then we had previously thought. Epigenetics is a young science so it's difficult to make a solid reality from is so far but it does appear to have huge relevancy with our tendencies throughout life and towards addiction and habits. 

Whether we have a spirit that inhabits a body and fully comes back I'm not sure we will ever know that but I guess elements of past spirits and all past life does exist in our code at some level.

This has a lot more potential to bear fruit with our world of knowledge of course because we can actually teach ourselves what other humans think and have thought and what they did with their lives and make our own version of those truths based on our unique life experience.

This track is paying homage to Buddha

Buddha, as far as I am aware is one of the rare old teachers who said go find yourself and the power is inside you and around us. We generally escape the reality of ourselves with desires and indulgence in materialism but have the ability to find our true spiritual selves with discipline and an honest lifestyle. His main realisation was, we suffer, like it or not and his teachings allow us to not amplify that suffering with cravings or self harm but become one with it via a balanced approach  ⚖️  Re-living or re experiencing feelings from the difficult parts of our lives so they don't become a controlling factor in how we react to any situation seems to be central to finding that zen place where we can respond rationally to any situation no matter how trivial or significant. The reason I mention epigenetics and early life is a few scholars seem to allude to a lot of our problematic traits and strengths being born from trauma or solid nurture early in life and are not something we would usually medically consider when contemplating our own shadow searching for that oneness in ourselves...

So in that light I think rebirthing thought in our heads may actually be quite important to deal with any grief from our experience so it doesn't manifest itself as physical ailment from the hidden stress it causes us.

Beneath the Bodhi Tree

Hi there,
UNCHAINED is a piece of my recent album Free Polarity
I wish you a good listening
Video: https://youtu.be/bJ7R31QqHZY
All original by C.J.ROGERS | Free or high quality download here: https://www.cjrogersmusic.com/single.php

Free Polarity

Unchained

UNCHAINED

Annie Smart

Closer Than You Know (Classical Glass and Annie Smart)

I almost made it to the portal, the one that would take me home, but then the sky suddenly darkened, the wind picked up, and  I could feel an ice cold chill in the air.  The sand beneath my feet began to shift, and before I knew it I was being taken away by a massive ghost ship.  There are clearly forces that don't want me to leave this place.  

It took me through a violent sand storm.  It was full of flashing lights, and images of people and places I once knew played like a movie on a screen made of clouds.  I must have passed out because once the dust settled I could see that I had traveled all the way to the edge of the desert.  Trees.  Lots of trees up ahead....

The Phantom Sandship

Yo! Last one from the Highly Questionable Strings EP - please feel free to go snag it if you haven't already: https://mayorofdonutville.bandcamp.com/album/highly-questionable-strings

Finger picking. I wrote this one on uke, wearing a baby in a baby sling underneath, pacing the apartment for hours while he refused to sleep every night for a month or two. It's conceivable that the melody belongs to someone else? It seems really familiar, in that familiar accidental-purloinery way (like the time I "wrote" a song that was already a Beach Boys song, and it just sounded soooo familiar!) Oh well. At very least, it borrows heavily from elements that have existed for a long time. 

What else? Glad you asked! Micah and I have released our first EP as Letterpress Mighty. I'll tell you more about that later, because we're still in the process of releasing tracks here:
https://soundcloud.com/letterpressmighty

And the EP is here:
https://letterpressmighty.bandcamp.com/

That EP is hard-won, and represents about two years of writing and recording work, through an irreparable computer crash, some broken equipment, a replacement computer and new software, three grueling semesters of school, a new house - I could keep going, but you get it. It's been hard, and it took longer than I wanted. That's partially why I'm soo excited that it's released. I'll be sharing each of those tracks to my page here as well, and I sincerely think you will enjoy it. 

That's all! Happy weekend!

Tumbleweed

The music was written for a chapter in my upcoming book "Inside The Forbidden Outside".  There is music written for every chapter. Music videos are also being made and can be seen at my:
YouTube channel - Sonni Quick Piano Improv
Website - http://sonniquick.net

The story is about the life of a prison inmate - Jamie Cummings - as he has lived his life in the school to prison pipeline. Losing almost all connection with his family, the woman he loved and the son he has never touched. Currently in year 12 of a 17 year sentence.

Inside The Forbidden Outside

Unintended Consequences

One Horse Town (Live at UNO Fest)

My music pieces are all piano improvisations expressing emotions. It is music telling stories without the words. In my earIy years I sang and played piano in piano bars or fronted bands of different styles, from country to heavy metal and to 40. I've been composing, teaching and performing most of my life.  I'm getting old(er) now 😔 but the great thing about creating music is it gets better the longer you play, and you have more to write about! 

This is what I leave of me to my generations to come who wonder where their desire to make music comes from. My mother, grandmother and great grandmother were both accomplished pianists when they were young. My son is also exceptional.  My great grandmother and gr grandfather sang and danced in minstrel shows (vaudeville) in the early 1900's. Kids today have no idea what life was like before moving pictures.  I now have great-grandchildren. They will know who I am through my music. When I am gone my music will still be here. What a wonderful thought! 

Unintended Consequences

Sonni Quick

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