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Join the members of Music Player Network's Keyboard Corner as we share our playing, writing and recording skills with each other and anybody else who wants to listen.  With such an incredibly diverse set of skills and taste, there's sure to be something for just about everybody...

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Quarantunes Volume 1 • The Keyboard Corner

The second volume in MPN's Quarantunes series.

Quarantunes Volume 2 • The Keyboard Corner

THE FLOWERS ARE SPEAKING
 PLEADING MY LOVE TO DIE
 THE FLOWERS ARE DYING                           
  PLEASE LET MY LOVE LIE                                                         

  THE FLOWERS ARE DEAD
  YET STILL THEY SURVIVE
  THE UNSPOKEN RULES
  OF A ONCE LOVED LIFE

This is a song I wrote essentially for a friend (written as though she is speaking) who has suffered much verbal abuse and bullying right through her entire relationship with her partner. Like most women in that position she blames herself and is always trying to "make it right", and never realising she cannot as it is not her causing it! 

It's a song about loves experienced and lost, remembered and forgotten. Much like flowers that blossom, bloom then fade away to nothing, but occasionally, one can recall the beauty the special ones once had.

The Flowers • miden

A Reasonably Difficult Ballad • thatdude

Song written by Carbo/Kimball/Petrucci

Arranged by David Bryce and Stu Kimball

John Carbo - vox
Stu Kimball - guitars and bass
David Bryce - keyboards
Ducky Carlisle - drums
String arrangement by Linwood Bell and David Bryce

Recorded and mixed by Ducky Carlisle and David Bryce

Worlds Apart (feat. BigTown) • David Bryce

Floating On Heaven • Craig Anderton

Composed by Al Quinn
Performed by Al Quinn on 3/26/20

Waltz For Karen • Al Quinn

An Alchemy loop & a boing from my huge EXS24 library were the catalysts. AAA's Strum did the guitars. Pipe organ from a Korg 01Wfd. Phased violin from the Legacy Wavestation. The piece expresses my love of nature and blah blah blah, no it doesn't. It's a cheapo hobbyist's rock gremlin. I claim it as my own despite the warts & scent of madness.

Drunken Angel • David Emm

Composer/arranger: Brad Kaenel
Featuring: Polyhedra
Genre: Jazz

Polyhedra was formed in the early '80s, near the beginning of the "jazz/fusion" era -- me and six of my mates, all of us "big band" geeks.  We still play together; going on 40 years now, still best friends.  

This track was recorded really old school: 2", 24-track tape, Otari MTR-90, in a garage in Costa Mesa, CA.  Keyboards on this recording: Yamaha PF-15, Roland JX-3P, Yamaha C5 Grand

Technicolour

Some Other Time (feat. Polyhedra) • Brad Kaenel

Composed and performend by Carlo Mezzanotte. 

Instruments used: DSI Mono Evolver Keyboard for the solo synth part; everything else is Kurzweil K2600, with a little help from Roland Integra7.

Dream Travel • marino

Mike Timmins- electric guitar
Bazil Donovan - bass
Cleave Anderson -drums
Mike Boguski - electric piano, synth and organ

(That's a Rhodes Mark V, Korg MS-20 and an analog korg cx-3)

December • Mike Boguski

An instrumental electro-prog extravaganza  with maybe  just a hint of Pink Floyd-esque psychedelia.  It even has a Monk chant, courtesy of the V-Synth!

...and yes - that opening "vocal" solo is a synth. Jupiter-8, if you must know...

dB - keys
Zak Claxton - guitars
Don Schiff - N/S stick
Nick D'Virgilio - drums

Balthazar's Dream • David Bryce (feat. Funky Young Monks)

"Miles Apart"
Composer/arranger: Brad Kaenel
Featuring: Polyhedra
Genre: Jazz

Our homage to the father of "jazz/fusion", ala "big band".  We always loved arrangements that had a big, unison "shout chorus" bang in the middle -- everyone playing the same lick, from the bass up to the lead trumpet.  This chart has a HUGE one; wait for it!
Keyboards on this recording: Yamaha PF-15 (bass), Roland JX-3P (organ)

Iridescence

Miles Apart • Brad Kaenel (feat. Polyhedra)

Humping Sexbot Jubilee • David Emm

Luis and Brigitte, my composition and piano, Hernán Hecht on drums and Benjamin Garcia on acoustic bass. 

From my new album HYMN FOR HER.

Luis And Brigite • Jazzooo

THE ONE

Writers: Jarrett / Meister
Band: ROCKETSCiENCE (Vancouver BC Canada)
Simon Jarrett, guitar
Chris Meister, drums
Rod Salloum, keyboards
Billy Mendoza, bass


Song title is from us referring to it as “the one” because we had no name for it during rehearsal

The One • Drawback (feat. ROCKETSCIENCE)

Hymn • Roger Hooper

Probably not known outside Oz, we have a slang term for depression called Black Dog...I wrote this, well just played it really, there was no writing, just noodling around and this came out early one morning, in one take and recorded direct to audio, (no midi) pre-dawn when I was going through a particularly low period, and the piano served as instant therapy. Had it not been there on that night? Well who knows...anyway I hope you get something, as I still do, from this little piece.

Night Of The Black Dog • miden

"Spilling Down All Over the Place" - Samuel B. Lupowitz & The Ego Band
from Songs to Make You Wealthier and More Attractive, released September 4, 2012

Samuel B. Lupowitz - piano, bass, Hammond organ, lead & backing vocals
Will Gelder - electric guitars
Jason MacDermott - drums
Josh Rollin - Korg electric piano
J.P. Feenstra - congas

Spilling Down All Over The Place • Samuel B. Lupowitz (feat. The Ego Band)

Letter to my grandchildren: April 2020 
By Anne Burton (xKnuckles)

This quarantune is a direct product of this strange time. Everything was composed, played, recorded and mixed in isolation during her lockdown by Anne Burton, who also sings the vocals.
It is inspired by the thought of perhaps being asked, at some point in the distant future: “What was it like to live through the great pandemic of 2020?” 
There are three sections: a slow instrumental beginning, a funkier middle bit and the sung part at the end.
Instruments used: Casio Px5x keyboard. 
Akai MPD 218 finger drumming machine. 
Cubase virtual instruments.

Thank you for listening.

All music and lyrics by Anne Burton

Letter To My Grandchildren • xKnuckles

(JS Bach)

All voices and effects from the Moog One.

BWV 478 • ksoper

Love & Alcohol

She Rolls Jaunty • Math Of Insects

"Wayfaring Stranger" is public domain and the first song I learned in voice lessons. No singing here though. 

Keys, guitar, and Native American Flute. Multiple flute tracks and all that fun stuff. It's also a mix that is fun in headphones for an "immersive experience".  ;)

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