Here dear Listeners, is 'Synergies'. It was born 'in one take' over Christmas in 'The Living Room'.

Created with Tim's Telecaster, an ancient Upright Piano and our passion for musical conversation.

May you enJoy!  🤗

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

Synergies

Hello Listeners,

We're delighted to share Part 1 of the 'Synergy Jam' which was born 'in one take' during Christmas 2022. Tim's on Telecaster and I'm on his ancient Upright Grand.

May you enJoy! 😄

And please... dare to Let go, and dig 'the RelaXed Intensity' of Part 2 as well.

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

Synergy

Hello Listeners and Improv lovers,

Soaring into the New Year... we give you the fruit of our first musical conversation of 2023.  

Tim Elliot is on his Telecaster and I am on his ancient Upright Piano.

And yes, it was recorded in 'The Livingroom'. 😉

May you enJOY. 😊


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

Soaring *  Anomon & Elliot

Here's the first Anomon & Elliot recording in a New Series of musical conversations in 'The Livingroom', in February 2023. And today (Feb. 21st it's #2 on the SC New & Hot Ambient Chart in North America. 

The tones and textures Tim created on his guitar as we began improvising reminded me of the Erhu.. the two stringed Chinese instrument played with a bow. It felt like we were actually looking out over the amazing horizon in the photo above, filled with wonder. Shortly after, we found our way into the musical equivalent of Para-Gliding over the clouds in very cool n joyous groove that continues to pulse through until the finish.

We hope you'll enJOY, too. 😊

© Gary Courtland-Miles & Tim Elliot 2023
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2023 & Tim Elliot 2023
 
Tim Elliot on Telecaster 
Gary Courtland-Miles on Heinztman piano.

The Photo is from the Annual World Garden Photography Contest
© Tony North, who won First place for it.
Titled: Breathing Spaces Blue Tajinaste,
it taken high in La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain.

Tonal Pulse *

Hello there Friends and Listeners 😊

Here's my January 2025 Re-Master and Radio Edit of the second of our February 2023 musical recordings in 'The Living Room'.   🤗
(The first can be heard @  https://soundcloud.com/gary-courtland-miles/shekinah-fire       )                      

Anyway ... 

There's Slow 'n Flow... and yeah, as you know, we do a lot of that. 😉
And then there's Smooth 'n Funky... and everything in between. And in this one, we change it all up!

But when Tim and i somehow fall into a groove, it's time to Let 'er Rip and Let our Freak Flag Fly! 🤣 

If you enJoy it even half as much as we did, we'll be more than happy. 🤩


Tim Elliot is on Telecaster with his Fender Reverb tube amp,
and I am playing his ancient Upright Grand Piano.

© Gary Courtland-Miles & Tim Elliot 2023, 2025
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2023 & Tim Elliot 2023, 2025

Just Flowin' *

Welcome back Listeners!  💕  

Let's all take a breath... and just let the Music take us where it will...  🎶
                   
After all... Summer has given way to Autumn's flow and transformed the lands of the North... even as Winter gave way to Spring in the South. 
                               
So go the Seasons... even as our Lives give way to the future, and Life unfolds as it will...  

Tim and i got together again on the 21st of September and Let 'The Music' flow through us..., creating a wholly different Tone than our last piece.

This time i asked him to bring his Telecaster back into the MiX, and OMG... he obliged in Spades, with his often understated but passionate panache and aplomb.
                                                                                                                            
 In-deed, we Tone Painted something wonderfully New and Mellow together. 

May you enJoy. 😎

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

Autumn's Whispers *   Anomon & Elliot

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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New tracks tagged #Telecaster &amp; Piano

New tracks tagged #Telecaster & Piano