Thank you for sharing Syrel, so touching, so sad. And so beautiful, in memory of your friend. So pure, so pure...

Syrel , thank you so much for sharing. Yes, this last part is sad and so very beautiful. And it`s Life. Life is all this. I thank you for this moment.

Nice, i love this music, it's very well done 💯

A tragic end even if shrouded in mystery. The music captures the mood perfectly as the suite comes to a close. This is quite an amazing suite and fascinating journey.

This is a set of miniature dramatic musical pictures of what we discovered in our grandparents house after they left their house forever. The house contains a lot of history but mostly mysteries. Go see the scene description and the picture in each song to better appreciate the intention behind the music. 

NOTE ===> The short stories for each chapter are in the songs. Clic on each song in order to read those captivating stories.

Music & Production: Syrel
Photography: Syrel (1981 to 1986)

1.	Hiding In The Attic
2.	The Forgotten Insurance Policy
3.	Grandpa's Secrets
4.	Fishing and in Love Forever
5.    Grandma Concert Dreams
6.    The Twin Bathroom
7.    Uncle Rudolf’s Minimalist Bedroom
8.    The glorious Dining Room
9.    Aunt Daisy's Bedroom
10.    The secret wedding
11.   The Last Trip - Short Requiem


“This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.”

The Grandparents Haunted House - Orchestral Suite

Track 1 of the Album soundcloud.com/user-461764443/sets/the-haunted-house
As we visit our grandparents house attic we discover that something from the past has been hiding for a long time ... can you say what?

Music and Production: Syrel
Photography:  Protect-Yourself Magazine Cover (1981) by Syrel

“This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.”

The hideaway

Hiding In The Attic

Vocal and vocal composition: Oddrun Eikli
Piano and instrumental composition: Torbjørn Vagle https://soundcloud.com/tobbenv
Orchestral composition and performance: Ad Van Nederpelt https://soundcloud.com/ad-van-nederpelt
Production for all instruments and vocals, the final mix and mastering: Ad Van Nederpelt
Poem: Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886)
Photo Torbjørn Vagle and Cover layout: Vetle Vagle
Thank you so much Torbjørn and Ad for this great JOY.
Poem:
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson  was an American poet. Little-known during her life, she has since been regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry.

In this poem, Dickinson discusses her love for a man. She is jealous of everything around him, the water "He rides", the Chariots, the hills that watch him going by, the sparrows, the fly, even the leaves.
"I envy Seas, whereon He rides --" can be seen as a love poem for a man, but it can also be seen as a religious poem. The mention of Heaven and Gabriel can easily make this connection. The love of God and the love of everything he created.

I envy seas whereon he rides

I envy seas whereon he rides,
I envy spokes of wheels
Of chariots that him convey,
I envy speechless hills

That gaze upon his journey;
How easy all can see
What is forbidden utterly
As heaven, unto me!

I envy nests of sparrows
That dot his distant eaves,
The wealthy fly upon his pane,
The happy, happy leaves

That just abroad his window
Have summer’s leave to be,
The earrings of Pizarro
Could not obtain for me.

I envy light that wakes him,
And bells that boldly ring
To tell him it is noon abroad,—
Myself his noon could bring,

Yet interdict my blossom
And abrogate my bee,
Lest noon in everlasting night
Drop Gabriel and me

I envy seas whereon he rides. Torbjørn Vagle, Ad Van Nederpelt, Oddrun Eikli.

Track 2 of the Album soundcloud.com/user-461764443/sets/the-haunted-house
Hiding in the attic was Grandma’s belonging and her souvenirs in an old wood trunk. It looks like those insurance policy where contracted in a different century. Do they have any value today and whose life is insured on those forgotten insurance policy?

Music and Production: Syrel
Photography: Protect-Yourself Magazine Cover (1981) by Syrel

“This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.”

The grandparents haunted house

The Forgotten Insurance Policy

Track 3 of the Album soundcloud.com/user-461764443/sets/the-haunted-house
After we found grandma’s belonging and her souvenirs in an old wood trunk, we found Grandpa’s safe. Thank god, Grandpa had the bad habit of using his birthday date as a combination and password on his Commodore 64. We expected to find some old money, a nice leather photo album of his adventures in the deep see and the fish he captured in the Caribbean Sea with his friend Charlie Walton, which we never met by the way. However, we did not expect to find this insurance policy on grandpa’s life and the recipient of the insurance being Charlotte Walton. 
Music and Production: Syrel
Photography: Protect-Yourself Magazine Cover (1981) by Syrel

Musical Note: Based on a chord progression of a song I made 20 years ago.
https://soundcloud.com/user-572843385/hip_hop_my_night

“This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.”

Grandpa's Secrets

Track 4 of the Album soundcloud.com/user-461764443/sets/the-haunted-house
In Grandpa’s Henry fishing photo album that we found in the safe, there was all the catch he made along those trips supposedly with Charlie Walton. There was pictures of large fish like halibut, shark, swordfish, tuna, vampire fish, etc. However, only this picture from 1953 was showing two little fish that looked like a nice couple ready for a feast. The hand written note on the back side was quite disturbing and explained why grandpa’s Henry life insurance beneficiary was not grandma. 
The note was: “Charlotte & Henry. Lovers Forever”
Could it be that Grandpa Henry had an affair with Charlotte Walton?
Music & Production: Syrel
Photography: Syrel (1987)
Music Notes: 
The first and second part of this piece is based on a chord progression I made for a jazz song 10 years ago called “Way Down” https://soundcloud.com/user-461764443/way-down
The third part is a set of cameos starting with a melodic 6th as Tchaikovsky used in one of his violin concerto as well as John Williams for the “Princess Leia's theme”,  “Han Solo and the Princess (Love Theme)” and “Marion’s theme”. Then few notes from “Voyage in the bottom of sea” by Paul Sawtell and finally 3 notes from the “White Swan”  again from Tchaikovsky.
“This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.”

The Grandparents Hauted House

Fishing And In Love For Ever

Track 5 of the Album soundcloud.com/user-461764443/sets/the-haunted-house
Grandma Margaret was a very good pianist and her Baldwin piano hand painted by artist Alfred Faniel was the living room “piece of resistance”. She was quite overdoing the playing while constantly adding notes and ornaments like the American Pianist Liberace. While playing she was also singing the orchestra parts at the same time but obviously we could not hear the orchestra like she was hearing it. Curiously, now that the house is haunted, each time we come in that living room we hear two movements of her favorite piano concerto from the composer … “Syrel”, including the orchestra that we never heard before.

Composed in 2001 by Syrel
Photography made 1986 by Syrel
“This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.”

Grandma Concert Dreams

Track 11 of the Album soundcloud.com/user-461764443/sets/the-haunted-house
During a trip between Helsinki and St-Petersburg on the ship "Empress of Finland", Grandma Margaret and Grandpa Henry perished when the ship they were on board hit a lost container floating on the see. The ship drowned shortly after the hit as it was understood from the short radio communications made by the captain. Everyone on board perished but strangely Grandma Margaret and Grandpa Henry bodies could never be found in the wreck even though their name was written on the ship manifest. We hopped that they were not on board during the accident but after few years we had to admit that they were indeed on board as they never showed up after.
Music and Production: Syrel
Photography: Syrel 

“This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.”

In memory of my old friend Louis Philippe Villeneuve. RIP

The Grandparents Haunted House

The Last Trip - Short Requiem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sts1UUOTAYM

Floating Mountain Insomnia

浮かれインソムニア Puzzling Chamber♯4 F＃100

Brian Butts - Guitar, Drums, Bass, Keyboards
Stu Head - Vocals, Lyrics https://soundcloud.com/stoojmusic?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
Kristopher Bolin - Vocals, Lyrics, Master Mix https://soundcloud.com/bawl-slant?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Fluxional

Bandcamp

Horologe (feat. Stu Head of The Welton Shipwreck and Kristopher Bolin)

I have this habit of revising favorite old materials whenever I come across something new (such as new instruments, new software, new arrangements etc.) but this song I'm sharing here today is one which I have revised the most.    This is by far the fifth version spanning almost thirty years and I truly believe it is going to stop here this round.

I wrote this song back then as a present for a girl on her first birthday since our acquaintance.  She eventually became my wife.

Just hope you like the song.

[CREDITS]
Music / Lyrics / Vocals / Arrangement / Programming – Michael C. Lynn
Cello/Violin/Viola –  Avery Bright @Band_in_a_Box
Clean Electric Guitar –  Brent Mason @Band_in_a_Box

[LYRICS]
I used to think of myself as a seed that falls by the wayside				
Then you come with hair softly cascading onto mine, so refined,				
The moments I've been longing for					
Come true before my eyes				
					
Stories of love are simply not convincing					
Till you decide to give it a try				
Put in your faith and you'll find it promising				
Shine with sparks in your heart					
Your doubt, your hesitation, will be lost along the way				

(Chorus)						
Don't be afraid						
Light your candle and watch it glows						
Don't turn away						
Plant your seeds & see them grow						
						
When you see the sky spangling with stars					
You'll know that love won't be too far away					
						
Repeat Chorus twice						
						
And you will see the weather looking up in time for the rhymes of life

Candles

le courage d'aimer is an introspective end to the Trois petits morceaux piano EP.. it starts with a waltz but then the dream journeys on to tell a story of the heart..tribute to Piano Day.

Close your eyes
Let it go…
The feeling of impossibility
Lurking in the depths of the mind
Suffocating your Dreams

You can make it subside
Keep Hope Alive
The impossible is possible
The unreachable is reachable
Through the Love of others

It will come..
~SEC

Trois petits morceaux releases to streaming:
31 March: https://gyro.to/ladansedebbcygne
21 April: https://gyro.to/Troispetitsmorceaux
24 Feb: https://gyro.to/rendezvousdumatin

Trois petits morceaux

le courage d'aimer

Random Thoughts

Mercy

Wings

Just heard this song from David of ELT project and had to make some morning music to go with my Philz coffee and the breathtaking sunrise. 

Music by ELT project  https://soundcloud.com/extremeloungeterror
Vocals, Hamond B3 and Hofner bass, mix and master by conover

© 2015 Conover/ELTProject

Live Life at your full potential with
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Those Things That Matter [Conover/ELT project]

Composed and recorded during lockdown 2020, Bridges is about accepting unpredictable change, unexpected transitions, and going with the flow. Enjoy!
#pianoday2021

Bridges

SYREL : C’est un algorithme de fiabilité symbolique basé sur la méthode des Cutset utilisées en ingénierie.

Mais sérieusement, Sy...rel était photographe publicitaire à Montréal dans une vie antérieure avant d'être ingénieur et maintenant compositeur et producteur de musique orchestrale, de bande sonore, de jazz et d'électro tout en profitant de sa retraite. 

SYREL: A Symbolic Reliability Algorithm Based on Path and Cutset Methods used in engineering.

But really, Sy...rel was an advertising photographer in a previous life before being an engineer and is now an orchestral, soundtrack, jazz and electro music composer and producer while enjoying retirement. 

https://soundcloud.com/user-461764443

The Last Trip - Short Requiem

Syrel

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