Starting "proof of concept" recordings with cleaner separation of parts while retaining live flow.

This is an updated mix.

Meditate Truth (3-7-23)

Meditate Search For Truth (3-7-23)

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ALLJA + ROK ZALOKAR :: ᑎīᗩᑎᔕᗩ_2k23 | Sunday Mid Evening

Wow! 

It's Wonderful to be back with a New Track and a New Direction after an almost 2 month sabbatical.

Tim is playing an Attila Custom Electric guitar and i am playing his ancient Heintzman Upright Grand piano.
 
Here is the harmonic fruit of our Deep Listening, Letting Go... and simply Letting the Music reveal itself!  🎶  🎹 🎻

May you enJOY.   😎

© Gary Courtland-Miles & Tim Elliot 2023
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2023 & Tim Elliot 2023

Through The Looking Glass *

So excited about this second piece from our Recent recording Session in The Living Room, that i just have to share it fresh n live!  :-D  

* This is a raw, live recording... but we love sharing it with you now.

Joy is what everyone yearns for... but rather than spending so much energy Trying to find it... let's Embrace it in the little things that make our hearts smile. :-D

So  please... have a Deep Listen, 
and let your imagination tell it's own tale.

Stay tuned for much much more, dear Listeners.

 🎹 🎶 🎸 ❤️ Love, 🕊️ Peace

© Gary Courtland-Miles & Tim Elliot 2023
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2023 & Tim Elliot 2023

Edited and Produced by Anomon

Seeking The Joy *  Shekinah Fire

Recording: Flemming Hinnerskov. 
Subtle Dan Moi ducksound player: Flemming Hinnerskov.
Tuning: Hirajoshi. 
Location: Løgumkloster Church & Refuge.

Koto, Løgumkloster

Here's a tonal nugget we came 'Ear to Ear with' during a mid-November 'Living Room' Session whilst improvising.                             

Tim was playing his Attila Custom guitar, and i was on his Ancient Upright Grand Piano.  As we approached the tonal center that came within earshot from various angles during our conversation, and i think we found a lovely thread that sewed it all together into a larger Whole.

We hope you'll enJOY what we discovered.

© Gary Courtland-Miles & Tim Elliot 2023
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2023 & Tim Elliot 2023

Edited and Produced by Anomon

Coming To Know * Shekinah Fire

Here's one of the first improvisations Tim and i got up to in this New year of 2024.

I'm on the ancient Upright Piano and he's playing his Attila Custom electric guitar... and all we can say is, it is what it is.  :)

© Gary Courtland-Miles & Tim Elliot 2024
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles  & Tim Elliot 2024

Scintillations

Extended JAM

T'was on the Ides of May during my last visit to family and friends in Victoria B.C. that Guitarist Tim Elliot and I recorded this Improvisational conversation. And it's all about the Journey... 

May you enJoy!

© Gary Courtland-Miles & Tim Elliot 2024
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2023 & Tim Elliot 2024

Edited and Produced by Anomon

Photo : © Giorgina Hofer 
Captured in the Alps during the mid May 2024 worldwide Aurora event.

The Ides of May *

Hiya Listeners,

Here's another unpretentious, rough n ready, yet wistful and gentle  Improvisation for you.

ilio and i improvised this piece right around the time ilio's dear friend and octogenarian artist David Reid passed away.

David was a multi-talented artist, jeweler, gardener, father, husband, and much more throughout his life. He lived on Saturna Island over last 20 years of creativity.

When we listened back on the music we'd improvised and recorded on our  Stereo Zoom Mic, ilio sensed that we should call it 'A Song for David'.
I heartily agreed, and so we have.

May it capture even a little of the wide and creative swath he cut through life while incarnate here on our amazing planet.


I am on my Kawai Electric Piano, and  ilio is playing his acoustic Classical Guitar

May you Relax, Unwind and enJOY what transpired!

© Gary Courtland-Miles & ilio bertolami 2025
℗  Gary Courtland-Miles & ilio bertolami 2025
on Saturna Island B.C., Canada

Release date:
March 3rd 2025

A Song for David

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Nordic Bossa / New Folk / Earthy Lovesongs. 
Here's a lush sketchboard of compositions in motion happily intermingling with final productions and free jamsessions.
For a pruned overview of (downloadable) albums, please visit Bandcamp profile.

There's no doubt about it, Music animates my Soul, and as an enthusiastic student of Life as well as a passionate Improvisational Pianist &  Composer, as far as I'm concerned, our lives would be impoverished without it ! :)  Composing is all about 'Sharing the Joy, Passion and Angst' we experience in Life, as well as connecting with Musicians and 'Creatives' worldwide. This makes it even more wonderful!  That willingness to engage in whatever way makes SC an ever-expanding Movable Feast that nourishes and inspires on so many levels. 

Music Communicates the Emotional and Informational Content and Context of Heart, Mind, Spirit, and Soul. And 'Letting it Flow' is 'Where Its At' as I hear it!  

Over the past few years since becoming part of the SoundCloud Family, my 'Joy in and Passion for' Creative Musical Expression has increased exponentially as has my appreciation of all the wonderfully passionate Musicians and Creatives worldwide who have devoted themselves to Letting It Take Form! 

Here's a bit of a bio, if anyone is interested.  

Somehow, my MUSE got my attention at a tender age. About the time I was completing my Royal Conservatory training. 

My memory being poorer than most, I began improvising in the passages I had forgotten. And while the audience seemed unaware, my teacher chastised me indulgently, saying, "it appears I have a budding composer on my hands"!  And thus began my Odyssey into the wonderful Vibrational world of Sound!:-) In-deed, I have been an ardent, attentive and appreciative acolyte of my Muse ever since. 

During the early 1970s I had the pleasure and honour of a three year friendship and Master Class with the then Octogenarian Composer Manoah Leide-Tedesco , one of Tone Poem giant Richard Strauss` favorite pupils and friend of Maurice Ravel and other 20th century composers such as Stravinsky (whose music he helped popularize). Since then, whether Improvising, listening, studying composition or devoting myself wholly to the visual arts for years at a time, I have been deeply aware that sharing my musical insights , teaching, and or mentoring young aficionados came with the territory!   I love it, although I am afraid that as my consciousness expands...that I know less and less each year! :-)  

The Tonal Oasis called SoundCloud is a fine and wondrous place in oh so many ways.  And with your support and appreciation, I de-Light to share my music with an ever widening audience. I call what i upload ' Sound-Seeds'.  Most of these 'bed tracks' call out to be fleshed out by passionate soloists who somehow Resonate with my Soundz and Ideas.  So please drop me a line, as i am most interested in letting them bear more fruit through collaboration, interpretation, re-mixing or use in other media.    

And on a personal Note, a Huge Thank-You to each and all who listen, inJoy, and Re-Post onwards what finds it's way thru me! :) Bless y'all.  It's my Joy to simply 'Let' the Creative Spirit find expression through this instrument of Body, Mind, and Heart!  I hope you will find some peace, joy, and rest, in at least some of my improvisations, compositions, or soundz. 

Insofar as playing, and composing  ... as you continue on in Your journey into  the infinite 'Cave of Wonders' we call Music, I wish you all the very best in all Your creative endeavours. 

So Be Kind to yourSelves and one another. Be Audacious, Ready to Play, and above all, share the Joy of being able to express whatever you're feeling. 

In-deed, may The Muse continue to 'Sing on and Play on' through each of us !   For this is one way this 'ol world is lifted up, and Changed for the better - note by note, and smile by smile .  

 Yes, may we simply Let our Creativity flow forth without concern for results.
                                   Peace

                                    Gary *+*

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                       Pluto's atmosphere as seen recently by Horizon Spacecraft

Various musings from Rich and SoundyAudio

New tracks tagged #Ambient Improv