Extemporaneous Pianoforte.

Piano Improvisations and Explorations from 2013-2017

(c) 2017 Gary Courtland-Miles

Its Something Like This

A playlist of amazing Music I've heard and collaborated on via SoundCloud recently.

Let it flow and don't be afraid to let it take you somewhere wonderful...

Peace and Love, always.   <3

Creating The Future through the Art of Music

Best of the Cloud 2022 03 05

New Classical

THE END WON'T BE LONG STILL

Some of my Soundcloud favourites #5

April 2022

OFFENSIVE

Music by Ear... nurtured by Heart and Soul.

This came out of a collaboration with my dear friend Julien Morency 
https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/oXmfW  building upon my original piano piece 'It's Something Like This'.  https://soundcloud.com/gary-courtland-miles/like-this

At the time, I was seeking to describe the indescribable; a life experience that elicited feelings more intense than happiness, like the inexplicable emotions felt at the birth of one's first child, or one of those deeply transformational experiences that seem to expand out forever. I suppose it's best known as Joy.

Impossible to describe perhaps...
But here it is, with warm thanks to Julien @musicar for adding his heartfelt touch with Strings.

May you EnJOY!

© Gary Courtland-Miles and Julien Morency 2021
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2021

It's Something Like This_ feat. Julien Morency

"Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters."  
  And from that place let the mysteries and nuances of The Deep 
  be revealed 
  to all who seek... but do not covet.

  Yes, Dare to Ask...
  but only for Wisdom and Understanding,
  for 'Knowlege about' is empty of actual experience and meaning.

Indeed... the Timeless Mysteries of Sound, Light, and Being 
call out our primaeval inner natures 
and beckon us to draw near...
to discern, and to intuit... 
and perhaps, 
to begin to comprehend the Cosmic Simplicity
which pervades the Whole. 

Let us not Be overly concerned 'to Possess', 
but rather...  
to be a Channel
a point through which Creation's intelligence
can flow into this small yet beautiful world.

For is it not enough, brothers and sisters,
that this wondrous Universe not only gifts us Life, 
but also offers us the opportunity to Co-Create? 

I say, Yes!
In-deed!  :)
                              

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This Music seeks to do the impossible,
to describe the indescribable Awe and Wonder of this Timeless Procession of Becoming ...

May it Celebrate the Mysteries of Life itSelf.


© Gary Courtland-Miles 2014
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2014

Mysteres et Nuance

Here's the very latest in the recent Series of Improvs with Guitarist Tim Elliot, the friend and neighbor I never knew i had!  :))

The Sound is rough n dirty but oh so honest and heartfelt.  
It's amazing how things work out when we're open to Letting them happen!  

May you enJoy!  :-D


© Gary Courtland-Miles  & Tim Elliot 2021
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles  & Tim Elliot 2021

Looking Up _ w.  Tim Elliot

@ApproachToSilence2 - 9.2.22

Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/1KUkMaxzvUhotlRG1UlQtD

ApproachToSilence_2022

Vernissage

Thank you for listening!
A new collaboration with the very talented singer Ren Faye.
Check out the great work of Ren: @soundcloud.com/renfaye-1
Lyrics, vocals and cover art: Ren Faye

Lyrics:
You were the gasoline....to my kerosene,
When you lit the rope,
I was going for broke...

Maybe I should learn from my mistakes,
It feels almost like it's too late,
To slam on the brakes,
To slam on the brakes...

Now I look around,
and I swear that I can hear,
Fragments of my heart,
Just beating on the ground,
I'm at our traffic light,
But I won't wait all night,
My car radio you never fixed,
Is telling me, it's calling time...

You're just not right for me anymore...
I've always been a tarmac survivor,
But tonight it seems,
I'm a getaway driver...

When you were with your friends,
It's like I didn't exist,
I watched as you and me,
Fell into abyss,
I never liked the way,
You left me for dust,
Then you were just back,
Saying that you missed us...
Being us...

And now I look around,
And I swear that I can hear,
Fragments of my heart,
Still beating on the ground,
I'm at our traffic light,
But you know I won't wait all night,
My car radio you never fixed,
Is telling me it's calling time,
I'm calling time on us...

I've always been a tarmac survivor...
But tonight it seems I'm a getaway driver...

Getaway Driver(Feat. Ren Faye)

Many Thanks to Saxophonist/Composer Georg Boehme @Georg-Boehme  for offering his sonorous interpretation of my solo piano sketch, 'That Starry Night'.  It's an honor to collaborate with such an accomplished musician.
Stay tuned for more of our adventures.

May you enJoy it as much as I did. 😎


© Gary Courtland-Miles 2021
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles and Georg Boehme 2022
    Arranged by Anomon

That Starry Night .*.*.*.  Feat. Georg Boehme

Desktop

Strength in Numbers - TheDelta57

look into the light written and produced by Jim Manser feb 2022

Sometimes songs i write seem to come out of thin air its almost like i dont have to think about writing them they just come ..this is one of them and its kinda got a spiritual theme about looking at the great beyond .recalling your life your birth and your death all part of your existence ..seek the light dont fear it ..embrace it when it comes 
Jim feb 2022
watch the music video on https://youtu.be/n1WXwSUvvuQ

Look into the light

youtube

Look Into The Light [watch the music video on youtube]

Elmi Aldepo - Last Dance
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A new song ...
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Production Info:
Drums - Ableton
Synth - Streichfett
Percussion - Triangle, several Hand-Percussion, Tambourin
Wind - LowWhistle, Maverick Bagpipe Chanter
Strings - Ukulele, Cister, Hurdy Gurdy
Bass - Arturia MicroFreak
Vox - Soundiron Vocal Suite
Production DAW - Ableton Live 
All played, recorded and produced by Rock Flexible aka Elmi Aldepo.
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(02/2022)

Elmi Aldepo - Last Dance

Pierre Bordetti productions (c) February/2022.
Composed, arranged, performed, and produced by:
Pierre Bordetti

"Morphée m'a fait" 

Trois minutes pleines de légèreté dans une période totalement folle et extrêmement pesante. 
Alors que nous aspirons tous à une tranquillité et une paix durables
dans un monde qui se remets avec peine d'une pandémie meurtrière 
et éreintante, certains ont décidé de nous emmener vers encore 
plus de folie destructive. 
Une pensée très émue pour les peuples qui paient un lourd tribut 
de la démence des hommes.

Three minutes full of lightness in a totally crazy period and
extremely heavy.
As we all yearn for lasting tranquility and peace
in a world struggling to recover from a deadly pandemic
and exhausting, some have decided to take us to still
no more destructive madness.
A very moved thought for the peoples who pay a heavy price for the
dementia of men.

Morphée m'a fait

Sunrise 27/2 2022
My new album   Rainbows End  3/6 2022
https://open.spotify.com/album/2MPPjsmufjUbUXOrHeA6Lq

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Sunrise

Beannaich, a Thrianailt fhioir nach gann,
(Segne, o Dreifaltiger, Wahrer und Gütiger,)
Mi fein, mo cheile agus mo chlann, 
(Ich selbst, mein Ehepartner und meine Kinder,)
Mo chlann mhaoth's am mathair chaomh 'n an ceann,
(Meine zarten Kinder und ihre geliebte Mutter an ihrer Spitze,)
Air chlar chubhr nan raon, air airidh chaon nam beann,
(Auf der duftenden Ebene, an der fröhlichen Bergscheide,)
Air chlar chubhr nan raon, air airidh chaon nam beam.
(Auf der duftenden Ebene, in der fröhlichen Berglandschaft.)

Gach ni na m' fhardaich, no ta 'na m' shealbh,
(Alles innerhalb meiner Wohnung oder in meinem Besitz,)
Gach buar is barr, gach tan is tealbh,
(Alle Kühe und Feldfrüchte, alle Herden und Getreide,)
Bho Oidhche Shamhna chon Oidhche Bheallt,
(Von Heiligabend bis Beltane,)
Piseach maith, agus beannachd mallt,
(Mit gutem Fortschritt und sanftem Segen,)
Bho mhuir, gu muir, agus bun gach allt,
(Von Meer zu Meer, und jeder Flussmündung,)
Bho thonn gu tonn, agus bonn gach steallt.
(Von Welle zu Welle, und am Fuße des Wasserfalls.)

Beltane

Move Your Way

Cover version of the famous Commodore 64 / Amiga game music "The Last Ninja".

Original version composed by Ben Daglish and Anthony Lees, (c) System 3.

I hope you enjoy this 8-bit retro chiptune that feels like time travel for some... :)

Watch the music video:
https://youtu.be/nepckdQ13sk

The Last Ninja (8-bit retro chiptune)

Flaming nightingales

At The End Of Madness

A surfer waits for one last wave as the sea turns to gold in the setting sun...

A Golden Wave Will Come

In the end, as I held my dear wife,
I lay my head down upon her chest,
so as not to miss the last breath of her precious life...
I heard the steady beat of her heart continue for 6 more beats,
as each beat sailed ever more quietly over the horizon.


Who is to say...
might we actually step into the next life
even as we leave this one?

The final mystery...

Photo by: Ashish R. Mishra
https://unsplash.com/@shotoftheday?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText

Hereafter

Droplets Of Life

I had something inside that must fly free.
Tenía algo dentro que necesitaba volar libre.

ARDEA

After Infinity

Jeremy J. Saks - After Infinity

Thank you Jonathan for adding your wonderful guitars!!

OKAY I WON'T                 Janine Levinson 2022

Guitars: Jonathan Beckenstein @jonathan_beckenstein
Song, bass, keys, vocals: me

Don't be sad    
Don't be shy    
Don't give yourself to every guy

Don't be hard 
Don't be small            
Don't be anything at all

Okay Mom, I won't      
Okay dad, I'll be     
Just what you want
But there's one thing 
I won't be me!

Don't be weak   
Do what's right   
Don't stay out too late at night

Don't be fat 
Don't be lazy  
Keep your mouth shut 
Don't act crazy

Okay Mom, I won't      
Okay dad, I'll be     
Just what you want
But just one thing 
I won't be me!

Time will tell if you destroyed me
Or just simply took my joy
Could it be that I annoy you
Or did you wish you had a boy?

Don't be me
Just be them
Satisfy their every whim

Don't be real,
Don’t be ferocious
Don't reveal my real emotions

Okay Mom I won't
Okay Dad I'll be
Your nice little girl
But just one thing
I won’t be me!

Okay I Won't  -with Jonathan Beckenstein

"So Long" Electronic music with vocals and guitar,

So Long

Song by The Devil's Blood

Music, production, artwork: Verulium
Vocals: AK Sanderson

Saturday is a mile away
I still feel  the burning flames
As I walk through death again
Saturday burns my skin with wine
He marks it six with a silver knife
As I feel his breath again

I know he loves me
I know he must
My life for you
Voodoo dust

Drowning only feet from the shore
Sleeping an endless sleep
But violently awake, we wait
We walk the thousand yards he lays for us
We do his work his will is thus
Violently awake, we wait

We know he loves us
We know he must
We die for you
Voodoo dust

Saturday is a mile away
I still feel the burning flames
As I walk through death again
Saturday burns my skin with wine
He marks it six with a silver knife
As I feel his breath again

I know he loves me
I know he must
My life for you
Voodoo dust

Drowning only feet from the shore
Sleeping an endless sleep
But violently awake, we wait
We walk the thousand yards he lays for us
We do his work his will is thus
Violently awake, we wait

We know he loves us
We know he must
We die for you
Voodoo dust

Voodoo Dust

'Silent Secrets' is an easy listening soundscape.

Silent Secrets

Here my friends is a recent Piano Improv in which i seek to describe a life-experience that elicited feelings more intense than happiness, or even Joy; like the inexplicable emotions felt at the birth of one's first child;  or one of those deeply transformational experiences that  seem to expand out forever. 

An impossible thing perhaps...
but ... 
Here it is, 
and... 'Its Something Like This'.

© Gary Courtland-Miles 2015
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2015

Something Like This

Its Something like This

Again my friends...

If... i didn't upload it... it might go unheard for untold ages. :)

Now everyone can inJoy this recent Live Jazz Piano Improvisation (captured directly from my ES7 Kawai Piano) as i played Live at The Lighthouse Pub on Saturna Island in 2015.

It goes out to the Whole Wide World - "There Ever We Are", 
and Beyond...
      
                            Peace and Love, Always...

                                      ~  Gary 


 © Gary Courtland-Miles 2014
 ℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2014

  Photo of myself is from my 'Concert at the Royal', Victoria, B.C.
 ©  Ludmyla Millar 2013

There Ever We Are

Hope you'll enjoy!
Please 'Repost' if you deem it worthy!
Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/3zZFuygq2bubBNoZkpArom
Free Wav/mp3/flac/Ogg/etc: https://aceruleanstate.bandcamp.com/album/singles-2016
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/aCeruleanState
Sheet music (PDF, MIDI,etc): https://musescore.com/user/5451701
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A Cerulean State -  In that very moment

This tune is about 'What We've Said' ... to ourselves and others whilst to-ing and fro-ing in this ol' world. I hope you pick up on the underlying self-deprecating humor in the music. ;)

This also includes what we've expressed non-verbally in the moment, to ourselves and 'others', whether via thought, feeling, or through those invisible cords of connection shared with friends and loved ones around the globe.

That said... here's my latest 'Sound Seed', an upbeat bluesy Piano Improv that came through while jamming with a few friends recently.  

So put on yer Tap shoes... and inJOY!   :)

©  Gary Courtland-Miles   2016
℗  Gary Courtland-Miles  August 7th 2016

What We Said

Songster version was a little ‘copla’ about not being able to be with, nor without, a loved person.  As usual, I’ve ‘upgraded’ it, process from which you only get the final result, normally. 

But, following lyrics’ contradictions, I not only serve parts with different levels of (dis)order in heavy rock - flamenco sauce, but raw vs very cooked parts as well, starting with the improvised phone recording of the very first idea I had to develop the song, so please excuse my failures and noises.

Letra  /  Translated lyrics:

Te veo venir (No te vuelvas a ir)  /  I know where you're coming from (Don’t you leave again)

Te veo venir,                                                 /  I know where you're coming from,
cuando vienes con esa carita de pena,        /  when you come with that sweet sad face,
te veo venir,                                                  /  I know where you're coming from,
cuando vienes llorando sin que te duela,     /  when you come crying without any pain,

te veo venir (x3)                                            /  I know where you're coming from, (x3)

Te veo venir,                                                 /  I know where you're coming from,
cuando dices que quieres hablar conmigo,  /  when you say that you want to talk to me,
te veo venir,                                                  /  I know where you're coming from,
cuando quieres estar al lado mío,                /  when you want to be by my side,

te veo venir (x3)                                           /  I know where you're coming from, (x3)

Te veo venir,                                                 /  I know where you're coming from,
cuando vienes con esa carita de pilla,          /  when you come with that sweet sly face,
te veo venir,                                                  /  I know where you're coming from,
cuando vienes con esa sonrisa, chiquilla,    /  when you come with that smile, little girl,

te veo venir (x3)                                            /  I know where you're coming from, (x3)

ER33FI03 RUIZZO©1996 – FRANCÉS RECORDS®2016


Factor Integrante

Te veo venir (No te vuelvas a ir)

This little Autumn Improvisation came through while i watched the wind working it's magic as it swirled around the trees and meadows outside my studio window.  What Amazing patterns of power and freedom it created; and how effortlessly,  releasing everything within it's sway into an exquisite and random flow. 
 
InJoy the Fall, for  Winter cometh.  ;)

© Gary Courtland-Miles 
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 

Painting by Nickillus @ the Deviant Art website.
http://nickillus.deviantart.com/

Autumn Winds

In The Dark Woods, from the same title's album in 2017.
Sync/Licensing inquiry to: https://www.deccapublishing.com/contact-us/

official site: https://akirakosemura.com/
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In The Dark Woods

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In The Dark Woods (2017)

Composer: DANIELYAN ASHOT MAKICHEVICH (IPI NAME 00855552512), UNITED STATES BMI.

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This is the sixth track from my piano album: "Intimate Piano Movements".

Download Album: http://ashotdanielyan.bandcamp.com/album/intimate-piano-movements

Music and piano performance by Ashot Danielyan.
Cover image by Roman Safin.

Ashot Danielyan - Intimate Piano

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Para Lia
Fade To Grey
Album: Gone With The Flow
paralia.bandcamp.com/album/gone-with-the-flow
Vinyl / CD / Digital

What's the story behind this song and the album as a unit? Find it out: Visit the 3D virtual art exhibition, realized by SophisticatedApe, with the great work of Louis Renzoni and the music of Para Lia with a lot of background information here:
https://www.sophisticatedape.com/gone-with-the-flow-exhibition/
It is like an interactive visit in a gallery: Use your mouse and the left button to walk around, use the arrow keys on your keyboard or the W-A-S-D keys (forward, left, back, right, respectively). On mobile devices, touch and drag in the direction you would like to move.

words and music by René Methner
mix and production: René Methner
mastering: Thomas Heimann-Trosien, TurnstyleMastering, Berlin

Follow Para Lia on:
www.facebook.com/paraliamusic/
www.instagram.com/paralia.music/
twitter.com/para_lia_band

everything fades to grey
since you're gone
my silent film tries to go on
since you're gone
i got no clue where i belong
since you're gone
i am a figurine, a wounded toon
i slowly fade to grey

i lose myself in my cocoon
i slowly fade to grey
i gotta get out of here soon

i feel like losing my mind
since you're gone
the doctor says "those pills are fine
don't waste your time, get a move on!"
i gotta get away
before i'm lost in grey

i lose myself in my cocoon
i slowly fade to grey
i gotta get out of here soon

i hide myself in grey
i lose myself in my cocoon
i slowly fade to grey
i gotta get out of here soon
i slowly fade to grey
i feel like losing my mind
since you're gone
i gotta get away

Fade To Grey

Climate change? Brutal deforestation? Rat race craziness? I composed this 2-minute peaceful piano track ‘Moulain’ to help you find a peaceful moment. Often, we are confronted with challenging contrasts on our beautiful blue and plastic planet earth: beautiful nature scenes versus pollution, deep relaxation versus the crazy rat race, authentic enjoyment versus consumerism, love for nature versus brutal deforestation. If you love it so much, thank you for considering a donation. Best wishes from Bruges!

Moulain

Official website

( REPOSTS  are  routed to Synthgrinder [REPOSTS] )
( https://soundcloud.com/user-813544615 )


++++. PROFILE NOTES ++++

Once a wannabe, not yet a has been.

It had been over a decade since I put together a song,
and for that matter basically walked away from music altogether.
Losing hope that I would ever have the time to put into music again,
I finally gave away my 3rd music studio.
I ran across SoundCloud around 2013,
and thought I might take what few songs I had recorded, 
and lay them to rest there.
And there they languished.

HOWEVER, around 2017 I went back to SoundCloud
and began listening a little more and a little more,
and actively taking a part in visiting the sites
of so many wonderful musicians and beautiful songs.
Also, more and more often I would discover that these artists
were blossoming everywhere around the world,
and most definitely worthy of high praise and compliments.

Then suddenly, these old dead soundtracks right here
began to have a bit of life breathed back into them.
From the kind words that began to come trickling in,
I thought, maybe, someday I might give this music thing a try again.

The thing that finally pushed me into action
was a particular SoundCloud artist…Sander Heerings,
AKA https://soundcloud.com/wane-of-summer
 

Not only was he encouraging,
but he began faithfully responding to a few questions,
then a barrage of them.

The final result seemed to be that after a couple of months,
the Old Grinder now has a 4th studio and, finally, a new song.
I hope there may be many more to come.

Thank you Sander, and to the multitude that have dropped in
to listen to these old songs, 
and most of all, for perking up my spirits.