More often than not, Science Fiction describes fantastic worlds hosting spectacular evolutionary products thriving across exotic terrains in bizarre ecosystems. It's fun to imagine these otherworldly things. But maybe in our familiarity with this planet we are jaded, blind to the fantastic 'Pandora' all around us. Just a thought. 

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Home and Away

Just Passing Through

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The Nice Arrangement of Everything

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The Collision of Two Passions

Slowly the Stars Withdrew
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"When mist shrouds our dim view, and course is not so clear..."
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Slowly the Stars Withdrew

"Life is meant to be an existential crisis. If there's no existential crisis, you're missing the point." - anonymous

A lilting tune to lift your spirits in 8/8 time. Enjoy!

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dubito ergo sum

So many of these gentle songs have been the soundtrack to my life: songs I have played on piano for years and years; songs for cerebral drifting; songs for stillness and reflection; songs for when it's all just too much; songs for flower loving dreamers; songs of previous chapters; songs of my parents; songs of my youth; songs of NOW... and then. 
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🎼 Now I can PRESS PLAY and listen to this dream for 4:43:43 (great number in the end!)
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and yes, there is a theme:
flowers, dreamers and gardens running throughout 
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This morning, this poem came to me conjuring the title: 

GARDEN IN THE SKY

To have faith there is a garden in the sky
that you exist there pottering away
Tending to its transient beauty
Never ending; always changing
Filaments of time pass me by
To have faith there is place
for all the dreamers 
and that their dreams will take shape
like the fantasia of cloud bouquets and 
fantastical fluff beasts calling my name 
A flower is born; way up high,
A flower unfurls; a filament of time
within the boundless fantasia
of a garden in the sky 
- High Hat (Ellen Patterson)


"Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts." - Sigmund Freud

Garden In The Sky

"I don't know much. But what I do know is, I don't know much." - anonymous

Well, I may not know much, but I do know I have a playful tune with lydian affectations here just for you.

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All These Good Things

Like a garden aspires to a sun that's out of reach, a wise man reaches for his  ideals, though unattainable. - anonymous

Well, I may not be so very wise, but I sure aspired a whole lot to bring you this tune.

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So Also on Earth

kalo - touch grass (typhelicia)

"The weatherman would do better flipping a coin." - anonymous

Well, I can't do much better than the weatherman, but I sure predict this is my next tune.

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A Fleeting Glimpse of Things Far Off

Established 2007. All music on this and any jazzCittern site is 100% human composed and handmade by real live musicians. Thanks for listening!

We like to build things and watch them run. We love music, Ambient to Epic, Meditative to Cinematic... We enjoy building backing tracks for enhanced live performance... And we love to discuss NST and fifths tuning.... 

In 2007 I Googled every instrument under the sun, and saw there is a 'jazz' usage of just about every instrument. Even jazz bagpipes. Back then somebody tabulated the term "jazz" and its association with musical instruments, and just about everything was represented - But NO CITTERN.

And that year jazzCittern was born.

(What's a jazzCittern? The 10-string long-scale bouzouki is really the happy offspring of a Mandocello and a Bouzouki. This instrument, when tuned CGDAE, becomes an extraordinary jazz instrument - the extra course illustrates the wonderful symmetries available in fifths tuning. Chord building and scale visualization is a breeze.)

Virtually and musically yours,

CS

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Bird of PARADISE
an eclectic, quirky creature
Quite sure I'm actually from the 70s.. or 20s.. or another whimsical realm

Poet / Milliner / Flâneur Photographer / Nature Child / Empath / Creative Being

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