May you enJOY my latest Pianistic journey into the Continuum of Sound and Flow...

Yes, I went by myself, as I didn't want to risk any eardrums before knowing it was safe.

In any case, this is my adventure, and as i heal, look for more.


© Gary Courtland-Miles 2021
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2021

Continuum

In between Summer and Fall, Nature seems puzzled for a brief period as the transition completes itself; much like us as we merge with our futures. 
But somehow everything works out.

In any case, here is a composition on Electric Piano born in a recent improvised recording session. It merges and flows in waves and patterns that never quite resolve themselves even as they stay harmonious. Puzzling in-deed! :)

© Gary Courtland-Miles 2021
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2021

Photo © by Pxfuel.com

Puzzles

I give you my latest Piano Improv and Arrangement.  

May you inJOY its quiet passion and beauty. 

© Gary Courtland-Miles 2021
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2021

Photo (c) Pxfuel.com   Aurora Borealis in Finland

Quantum Streams

As the Picture kinda intimates...  this is more of 'The Jam'!  :-D

More of the jam that Tim Elliot (on Guitar) and I (on the Upright) shared a few weeks ago in Victoria one magical evening.

So delighted that it turned out as a  top New & Hot track on SC's November 2021 Jazz & Blues chart.

May you inJOY.

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

MiXed by Anomon

Photo by PxFuel

The End Of The Beginning  w. Tim Elliot

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

The Sound is rough n dirty but definitely honest and heartfelt, but it's amazing how things work out when we're open to Letting them happen!  ;)

May you inJOY!  :-D


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

Looking Up _ w.  Tim Elliot

Here's my latest Downtempo Jazz Piano Improv, folks.
My idea of a laid-back Genre that some already call, 'JazZ Hop'!  :-D 

Yep...Slow n flow... so here we go!

May you inJOY! :-D

© Gary Courtland-Miles 2021
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2021

That Kinda JazZ

Like breathing, improvisation is an unconscious flow from within.
Of course, one must understand the basics and have spent a good many hours building a tonal memory, but once one gets the knack of it, improvising, no matter what the instrument, is a Gift that keeps on giving. :)

As you tap into these inner autonomic cycles, you reach a Zone that's beyond anything you could consciously think of or plan. Like one's heartbeat, it's in tune with Life itself. It just happens. 

In any case...I love it when the Music is 'Floating'.......'Levitating' so to speak... not really going anywhere in particular, but tonally and rhythmically totally Present.  And... as we get better and better at finding the door to this experience, more and more wondrous music begins to manifest itself through us. it's almost as if we aren't even present.

Then the hard work of Arranging and Mastering begins!  :-D 

But be that as it may... for the Best experience of this one, I suggest you put it on Repeat at a Medium volume and let it go for 10-15 minutes.  it's sure to help you 'take a breath', become lost in peace, and relax deeply. :D  

May you inJOY. :-D

© Gary Courtland-Miles 2021
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2021

Musings

Another track in the Jazz Hop genre. 
Nothin' fancy, just a simple easy flow....
So tap yer toes, and let 'er go.

It's also the track that bred the collaboration @ https://soundcloud.com/gary-courtland-miles/that-slow-n-easy-flow-w-joerxworx     called 'That Slow n Sassy Flow') with Jorg and his Saxes and Flute, recently. 


May you inJOY. :-D

© Gary Courtland-Miles 2021
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2021

That Simple Easy Flow

That Simple Easy Flow....

Here's my first improvisation of 2022 .  
It's authentic heartfelt Anomon New Age Piano Jazz! 
May you inJOY.......

Each and All of you Listeners are really appreciated. 
At the very least you're an equal part of the musical equation.  
Beyond that...Listening is a Magical power. It transforms music into a many splendoured thing!

May you inJOY.

© Gary Courtland-Miles 2021
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2021

NASA:  Corona Australis

That Starry Night

Another Improv from my last Recording Session.



© Gary Courtland-Miles 2021
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2021

JazzHop Junction

So many feelings well up regarding the invasion of Ukraine by Putin and his massed forces that I don't know where to begin. So I let them rise up and expressed them through this Piano Improvisation, as they are beyond mere words.

However, I do know that in this moment of peril, I stand with 100s of millions of people around the world and the people of Ukraine in denouncing this barbarous attack on innocent civilians. As this unfolds... the suffering, fear, and displacement are already immense as people flee bombed and shelled-out areas however they can, and head west. And a huge thank you here to the people of Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Moldova for welcoming and caring for the 100s of thousands of those refugees! The best and the worst of humanity are highly visible right now. Yet, there is widespread disbelief worldwide that such a thing could occur in today's world.  But here it is. 

Let us celebrate the fact that even in the face of these atrocities, Hope, and Goodness will continue to spring eternal in the human breast!

I pray for the Ukrainians, E.U., and the entire world as 100s of thousands in Russia and millions more around the world demonstrate against Putin's war. (This was before a law was passed that you could get 10 years in prison for such gatherings.) In any case, Putin has succeeded in doing the opposite of what he's been trying to do for 20 years. He's finally United the West! 

Yet still, I ask, when will man's inhumanity to man finally end?

May it be soon. Very soon.

This piano piece goes out to our dear friend Helena Dolgov @Syntaleta in Kharkiv as she and her family weather this terrifying insanity. May they always be safe and warm, and know that they are loved by all in our Soundcloud community.  <3



© Gary Courtland-Miles 2022
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2022

All The Things I  Feel

The Air Raid Sirens wail... the innocents seek cover underground, but the onslaught continues.  Shelling and rockets from afar and bombs from above terrify and destroy without mercy as the cries of ordinary folks punctuate the air day and night. 😢 Such is Putin's war on Ukraine in the Spring of 2022.


This Track was born of a Collaboration with the WindDancer, Georg Boehme @Georg-Boehme  
We used my solo Piano track 'The Night Before Spring' as our stepping off point, with Georg adding improvised Baritone Sax, Bass Clarinet and Flute.

My Arrangement is a Tone Poem that tries to describe the war, and man's inhumanity to man. I pray that like the hopeful crescendos rising throughout the piece, that brotherhood and sanity will dawn and that peace will triumph, as the Weapons of war are beaten into ploughshares yet again.

May the heroic stand of the people of Ukraine continue to inspire and light the way for all mankind. ✌

Arranged and Mixed by Anomon

© Gary Courtland-Miles & Georg Boehme 2022
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles  & Georg Boehme 2022

The War Before Spring  feat. Georg Boehme

Recurring thoughts sometimes circle our minds and get our attention again and again. It's as if they're trying to tell us something that's just a bit beyond us presently. ✨  Same is true of riffs that we discover.

Should we banish them, let them flow... or channel them into music?

Yet another of Life's mysteries. 😎

© Gary Courtland-Miles 2022
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2022

The Thoughts That Roam Within

The passion with which Spring seems to manifest so suddenly, renews the Spirit and paints the world with colour and promise. ✨

In my case, it is drawing forth a dissilience of new music.  May you enJOY! 😃

© Gary Courtland-Miles 2022
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2022

The Radiance Of Spring

Hello people, 

Delighted to share this recently recorded Improvisation with my dear friend, guitarist Tim Elliot. 😊 It's been over 6 months since we recorded 'Autumn Jam' and several other tracks. But you can still hear most of them in the following Playlists @ 
https://soundcloud.com/gary-courtland-miles/sets/looking-up    and 
https://soundcloud.com/gary-courtland-miles/sets/chilled-flowin

'Covid' and one thing or another kept us apart for it seemed an age, but finally... we were able to get together in Tim's living-room around a Stereo Microphone and get back in the saddle to resume our musical conversation.  😊 And btw, that's me on his Upright Heintzman piano. 😎

And yes, it's a long jam... 
But... hey, there are plenty of surprises throughout as tones and patterns rise to the surface and sparkle for a while ✨ then transform again. So do finish the journey with us, for as we both humbly noted at the end, "There's some good stuff in there." 😉

May you enJoy! 😎

© Gary Courtland-Miles & Tim Elliot 2022
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles & Tim Elliot 2022

So Good To Jam Again _ an Improv with Tim Elliot

Here's Part Two of the Jam that guitarist Tim Elliot and I recorded in mid May.

Part One can be found @  https://soundcloud.com/gary-courtland-miles/another-heartfelt-flow_with-tim-elliot  

The Full Session can be found @  https://soundcloud.com/gary-courtland-miles/anomon-elliot-live


May you enJoy it as much as we did conjuring it out of the Silence. 

Cheers! 😊



Upright Grand Piano 
Fender Telecaster and Tube Amp
One Stereo Microphone

© Gary Courtland-Miles & Tim Elliot 2022
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles &  Tim Elliot 2022

Edited and produced by Anomon

Anomon & Elliot Live! an Excerpt

Another Improvisation from from the First Light Session with Tim Elliot on Telecaster and myself on his Upright Grand Piano.

The musical conversation is very low-key... almost subconscious. 
No driving rhythms... in fact, a kind of stasis or balance pervades the piece and it remains right in the moment.  
Let's call it a musical 'Gyre', as is it's namesake, the Sargasso Sea. 😉

 May you relax, dial in a medium volume, and enJOY. . .  😊

© Gary Courtland-Miles & Tim Elliot 2022
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2022 Gary Courtland-Miles  & Tim Elliot 2022

Again - 1 Stereo mic
Massaged and MiXed by Anomon

For more on the Sargasso Sea, see  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sargasso_Sea

Sargasso Sea _ Anomon & Elliot

Hiya people. 😉 

Did ya know that we're all actually Floating within this Universe within a mid sized Galaxy of a few hundred Billion stars...
amongst a few Trillion more Galaxies? 

Wow! 😮

And in such an incomprehensibly Large Space, 
Time passes  O so slowly...  😉

It's a kind of a Way Slow-Flow Cosmic Blues'! 😎

May you enJOY slowing down with Tim & I as we seek to harmonize with all of that awesomeness we're a part of. 😁



© Gary Courtland-Miles & Tim Elliot 2022
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2022 Gary Courtland-Miles  & Tim Elliot 2022

Live on 1 Stereo Mic
Upright Grand Piano & a  Fender Telecaster

Mixed by Anomon
Processing & Copyright of the Photo: Robert Gendler
It is new and  combines an image taken by the new James Webb Space Telescope, the Hubble, and the Japanese land based telescope, Suburu, in Hawaai, of Stephan's Quintet of Galaxies.

Way Slow Cosmic Blues _Anomon & Elliot

Another Improvisational Session with my bro Tim Elliot on Telecaster, and me on Upright Grand Piano.

May you enJOY it as much as we did.  😎

© Gary Courtland-Miles & Tim Elliot 2022
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles & Tim Elliot 2022

Photo :  Andromeda above The Sahara Desert
Credit & Copyright: Jordi Coy

Discoveries * Anomon & Elliot

There's no doubt about it, Music animates my Soul! As an enthusiastic Student of Life and 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 up 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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