Name: Brass Quartet, Third Movement by Megumi Okamoto
Duration: 2 min 11 s
Description: I am happy with the energy of this movement, and hope it is playable. (I will likely upload a revised version after I seek advice from brass players). There is an allusion to Debussy’s string quartet- let me know if you hear it!

Your chamber music-writing ability seems to increase with each new piece. This jazz-infused brass quartet is the best yet!

Delightful music and great sounding realization! - thanks!

To equality, democracy, freedom, and hope 💙

A joyful jazzy march to dance the tightrope to 🗽

80-85 bpm

Ordinarily I use original LoFi audio that I have recorded from live subjects, but in this song, I use a single sample in my outro from a campaign video of Vice President Kamala Harris in Philadelphia, PA, October 27, 2024.

DAW: Apple Logic Pro X
MIDI: Akai MPK Professional 
E-instruments:
Concert Grand
Deep Organ
SoCal Ballad Piano
Upright Ballad Bass
Crystals and Voices synth
Rolling Chords synth 
E-percussion used:
Studio Brush Kit 
Warehouse Kit shaker
Classic House Remix Congas

Cover art is a derivative illustration with additions and alterations to the following photos:

Statue of Liberty in the afternoon by Eldar Kamalov in the public domain via Wikimedia Commons
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Statue_of_Liberty_2.JPG

 Didier Pasquette walking a tightrope between the twin statues atop the Liberty Building in downtown Buffalo, New York, as part of the opening of the 2010 Beyond/In Western New York art exhibition, by Dave Pape in the public domain via Wikimedia Commons
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Didier_Pasquette_BIWNY_1.jpg

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Tightrope

Classic

I am trying to record my vocals. I made some changes in the original lyrics as well. I hope I will have a good moment soon while being ill to record my version.

Lost On You (Cover in the making LP)

Video; https://youtu.be/OIH-kBOh1Ao

Made in Februari 2025

Genres;
#Ambient
#Electronic

Forbidden Ruins

Will wanted to do a fun parody of She's Country for his 'Then To Be' wife. Idea being that we played it for the 1st time at the wedding reception!! Unfortunately that didn't happen... so here it is now.  Dedicated to Stacey, Will's Wife

She's Stacey

I am happy with the energy of this movement, and hope it is playable. (I will likely upload a revised version after I seek advice from brass players). There is an allusion to Debussy’s string quartet- let me know if you hear it!

Brass Quartet, Third Movement

Liner Notes by the editors:

Little is known about the band that has created this song. Most of this little information can be gleaned from the website of FMT, whom a previous SHELLF LIFE release can be attributed to. We caution that we do not know if any or all of this information is outdated: https://furicomusicteam.blogspot.com/p/shellf-life-interview.html Unfortunately, the Furico Team was not available for commentary, since they are launching quite a different kind of historic project on kitchen label.  

Some questionable facts regarding STRANGELOVE’S BRAIN’s release are related in quite a verbose and unreliable way tinged with judgemental interpretation and interspersed with pseudointellectual preconceptions here:   https://soundcloud.com/sonic-textures/shellf-life-paraphernalia-and-parerga-2025 (German original, as far as we can discern). According to that ‚account‘, the recording of STRANGELOVE’S BRAIN was found on a self-burnt disc (ha, that ancient Nero joke!) in a forgotten chest. The poem used in this recording is the only item that can be traced to an author (jo richter) who was kind enough to allow us to reprint here. Obviously, the references to the war-inflicted tragedies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki make it of  special importance at this moment in history, not only because of current tensions, but also because those two catastrophies happened about 80 years ago in August 1945. We therefore decided to release the two versions known thus far as a vinyl single to the general public, accompanied by an image attributed to the same author as the poem.


Strangelove's Brain

another pensive pariah
spotted on the outskirts
of Hyperbolea, Parolia
avant, avant, sempre vorwärts

keeping the obvious captive
locked in a by a reverse smirk
another dementia denier
Hiroshima, where shadows lurk

and the moon keeps rising, rising
every other day, socializing
with singed hands on bare rocks

iron out unseemly locks
to keep face, straight, straight
little boys take progress' bait

A: Strangelove's Brain  (nuclear mix)

Collaborating can be a lot of fun!  This is the third released collaboration with Mark Spruce (Original Spruce). 

It was an interesting process. Mark came up with the oven glove line, I sent him a few abandoned lyrics I had from a song before about bulbs in the dirt, and he then developed them into the full lyric about a relationship and moving on and added the melody. He then sent me the main guitar track and his excellent double tracked lead vocals. I then migrated those into GarageBand and then built up the full backing instrumental and added the backing vocals. A bit technical for me but we got there! He then made the beautiful video! 

https://youtu.be/gV-YH0RPLMw?si=3t7aMOlotfAcoYi3

I hope you enjoy it! 👍😃

Lyrics 
You need more than
Oven gloves
To touch the sun
And a 5 ton heart
Makes it hard to run

But hey there now,
Why the long face?
Get up off the floor
Get back in the race

There are plenty more
Bulbs in the dirt
There are plenty more
Leaves on the stem

He was the grub on your shrub
And it’s eating you up
And I know he was

Starting to bug you.

But who knows?
It flows both ways.
Sometimes you didn't call
And you left when
You should have stayed

I'm not judging
I'm just saying
Black and white
Can start greying

The seams
They start fraying
They slowly come apart

Until you're right back at the start
 
Time for both to move on
If it’s wrong then its wrong
It once was special
But now it is gone. 

Lyrics © M Spruce and J Whiteman

Moving On (Collaboration Mark Spruce and James Whiteman)

create human time 4 bar loop with bodhrán / bongo and guiro for the DAW version
50bpm 6/4 I think
it's setup for strings this and that would allow guitar line as is as in it wouldn't need to get fancier

The Love Beside You

Look around
They're right beside you
Love doesn't change
It's forever new
It's found online when local fear deludes
Love, be beside us,
Cue breath merge deluge

Love is strong
It 'need not presence
It's miracle maker
Magic cosmic essence
'The love beside you faces contempt
Judgement of two
You and Me
Too much is meant

See, love is meaning with no explanation
Unconditional first to station
Spacial glow as Earth shines brighter
Heaven alive births peaceful mightier

Love is for now to make forever
It stays as love in accepting clever
Conscious of the mirrored being
Beside you, don't reflect that mean

Mean 'aint me
Mean 'aint you
Tilt away from scenes that don't ring true
Proof of love is just a feeling
Let's beautify Earth's eyes with beaming

Shining out to the other life
Look, Us humans do it right
We love their cells and not their look
We love existence framed how all eyes hook

Look around you
They're right there
Love doesn't change
Love is the forever prayer
It's found online when local fear deludes
Love beside us cue breath merge deluge
Our love is beside us
Our love is beside us

The Love Beside You (Demo)

summer dream

Phenomenon

Hi! My name is Megumi (my former name was “Lemon” on SoundCloud).

There is nothing more fascinating for me than not knowing what music will come out of me today!

Many of the pieces I upload here are for solo piano. (Some are performed by me, but the performances of the recent uploads are created on Staffpad app on my iPad.) My latest projects are a set of pieces for viola and piano, and 24 preludes & 24 etudes for piano. The scores for these are becoming accessible through the link that is provided in the description of the piece, so please check them out.

I am a classical pianist based in Canada. 
Having completed a master's degree in music theory and a doctorate in piano performance, I am currently teaching and composing. I am also learning viola for fun! I would love to meet and connect with other musicians and get to know your works!

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