Passage (instrumental)

November 16, 2025, practice of Aphex Twin's "Avril 14."

Aphex Twin's "Avril 14"

🎹 Gentle Echoes – Soothing Piano & Dreamy Instrumentals (Jaded Sounds Records)

Gentle Echoes is a tranquil journey through the art of piano music, blending the intimacy of solo piano, the warmth of lo-fi piano textures, and the ethereal beauty of dreamy, whimsical string arrangements. 🌙🎶 Released under Jaded Sounds Records, this collection captures emotion in its purest form — soft, reflective, and timeless.

Each composition drifts effortlessly between tenderness and imagination — the sound of quiet mornings, starry evenings, and moments of calm between thoughts. With gentle melodies and cinematic grace, Gentle Echoes invites listeners into a world where every note feels like a breath of peace. ☁️🕯️

Between Us

Wishing everyone a blessed and Happy New Year.....
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Un brin de plaisir

As another new year rolls around again, it's almost as if we get to start our lives again from scratch. With this thought in mind, I improvised this solo piano tune. May 2019 bring you all the things you wish for.

New Again

Surfacing

Watching the snow inspired me to improvise this piece. It could do with being polished up a bit but then it may lose it's sparkle so I decided to leave it as it is.

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Snowfall

Right at bed time I get this urge to record a longer improvisation, so of course had to do that!  Okay, NOW its bed time - good night.

Stormy Calm

So much bitter in the world, it's hard to find the sweet. If you look hard enough, it's there.

bittersweet

In the last few months haven't we all felt like we're on a fairground carousel? In lockdown, out of lockdown, R number lower, R number higher, can travel, can't travel?

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Revolving [Solo Piano]

Piano improvisation on Pianoteq's Bechstein Cinematic. Musical tonality has a beautiful symmetry to its structure, especially when we see it within the piano keyboard. The shimmering patterns that this creates are like some of the most spectacular patterns in nature, such as we see when watching a butterfly slowly opening and closing its magnificent wings.

Beautiful Symmetry

When I was about 12, my dad bought us a Wurlitzer organ that I was immediately drawn to.  I took lessons for a couple of years, and then started playing (for pay!!) at a local church near Eureka, CA.  Then we moved back to Sacramento and I played at a couple of churches there (still getting paid, wow).  Anyway, when I moved to college in Moses Lake, WA, where I still live, there was no organ around but there was a piano.  From that day forth I became a lover of the piano.  I've played on church worship teams for over 30 years, as well as several rock bands, but my real passion is writing music.  I find it fascinating that from 12 different tones, an unlimited amount of music can be written - kind of like snowflakes, or God, even.  Over the last few years I've been influenced greatly by Yanni, as well as Brian Crain, Giovanni, and others.  I write instrumental music, featuring the piano and often supported with strings, etc - plus I get out my bass guitar on some songs.  I hope my music will bring healing and rest to you.  My first album is called "A Time of Refreshing", the second one is "A Time of Hope", the third "A Time of Healing" and the fourth "A Time of Reflection".  They are all available on Amazon, iTunes, CDbaby, etc.  The CD versions have all the final revisions and are also in WAV files which is supposed to be better quality than the MP3.  My current project will be called "A Time of Joy" (seeing a pattern here?).
My lovely wife and I have nine kids (yes, all ours), several of whom have followed me musically and I'm sure will surpass me at some point.  (They just told me they have ALREADY surpassed me......oh well).  We love each other, we love God, and we love music.  I'm thankful for SoundCloud as well.  Have a great day!

Stormy Calm

Steve Kohl Music