C'est une pièce très expressive et bien orchestrée ! Bravo Jacques !!

Taking five, waiting for the time to arrive, searching for the will to survive, on the drive of your lives
Taking four, chilling for another cold war, dreaming of the broken dance floor, falling through another trap door, hoping for more
Taking three, dominoes are falling over me, imprisoned in the land of the free, submerged in a fake reality
Taking two, power trippers calling after you, looking for another breakthrough, rejoicing at the callous menu, it’s true
Taking one, mad dogs running for the sun, fat cats have only just begun, creaming cream, having fun

Counting Down

A colaboration with the composer Oghamyst and the songwriter Mary Kils.

Music Is What Feelings Sound Like

Que fais-tu baby?

Christopher Columbus first came to Portugal to ask for some ships for his idea of reaching India sailing west. But the estimate he presented to the Portuguese court of the distances to reach Cipango and China were clearly wrong, and the request was refused. It was suicide. As he stumbled upon the Antilles, Columbus found his salvation and glory. But he never acknowledged that he was wrong, and that's why the new continent was not called Colombia. Amerigo Vesppucci wrote a popular book about the new territory, which was eventually named after him. 

PARTIR

Pour arriver, il faut partir.
I faut rêver d'une quelque part,
parfois envers et contre tous,
tout enivré de faux espoirs.

Il y a d'étonnantes découvertes 
qui nous attendent à l'horizon
sur les chemins pris par des fous
les Christophe Colomb qui risquent tout
cherchant la gloire d'inouïs voyages
et les richesses, et les mirages
pour étancher leur soif de faire
pour s'affranchir d'être néant.

Mais je ne pars pas, moi.
Je ne suis pas fou...
Je fais partie des sots bien sages
qui restent au port bien prudemment
pour éviter tous les naufrages,
pour échapper aux coups de vent.

Je peux vous dire, prenant de l'âge,
que j'ai vécu sans rien trouver,
que j'ai vieilli pour rien du tout.
Tout, sauf l'ennui et le regret
d'avoir raté la nef des fous.

LEAVING

To get somewhere, we need to leave.
We have to dream about some place,
sometimes against all odds,
inebriated with false hopes.

There are amazing discoveries
that await us on the horizon
on the paths taken by madmen
the Christopher Columbus who risks everything
seeking the glory of unheard voyages
and the riches, and the mirages,
to quench their thirst for doing something
to free themselves from being nothing.

But I'm not leaving.
I'm not crazy...
I am one of those wise fools
who very cautiously stay in the harbor
to avoid all shipwrecks,
to keep away from the gusts of wind.

I can tell you, now that I'm old,
that I have lived without a finding,
that I grew old without a purpose.
Nothing, except the boredom and the regret
of having missed the ship of fools.

Partir JFC (Based on Gérald Olivieri Soundtrack)

Blackout

NAUTILUS_SAMOAENSIS

I fall in love with my Muse and my Piano over and over again. They are faithful and generous lovers whose gifts never cease so long as i Listen Deeply to what's emerging out of the silence. 😊

So... may you enJoy the fruit of today's improvisation. And while war, famine, refugees, and injustice of all kinds are rife in the world, let's not ever forget the Beauty and common decency that are also all around us. 💖

© Gary Courtland-Miles 2023
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2023

Played on my Kawai ES7 Stage Piano
Mastered by Anomon

Photo by Bing Ai : Pianist on a Pink Cloud

And All The Beauty Too

Updated June 7, 2023: Synline has made collaboration work for me.
https://soundcloud.com/synline/the-river?si=d85aada01c7b4a0a9c8e26a590f06cce&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

--
In January this year, we lost the great musician and drummer of YMO, Yukihiro Takahashi. As if following him, last month, Ryuichi Sakamoto also passed away. Having lost two respected musicians, I find myself without emotional support and have been creating music daily, tracing their music and lives. Unconsciously, the songs I create are heavily influenced by their music. This song is one of them. When I listen to the finished piece, I feel it somewhat resembles YMO's "Expecting Rivers." These days, I find "HOPE" in the Milky Way, the heavenly river that spans the sky.

Rivers of Aspiration

“Calling winter”

Art work: Pexels via Pixabay

しみ透れ、つきぬけ
火事を出せ、雪で埋めろ
刃物のやうな冬が来た

高村光太郎（1883-1956）「冬が来た」より

Cold air, soak everything, penetrate everything.
Start a fire. Cover everything with snow.
Winter has come like a blade.

The lyrics are taken from the poem "Winter is Coming" by Kotaro Takamura (1883-1956).

Calling Winter

Sinfonía

01 - SA - BDT - Ensembles - Viola_OACE - Chamber Grid
02 - SA - Earth eDNA - Gorecki Slow MW

Union [OACE & BDT]

the 2018 was a very difficult year for me ...
understanding after so many years of having come to the end of a relationship was not easy to accept. I tried with all my strength to save something that escaped me like sand in my hands.
at the same time I poured all my interior experience into the creative act, as a source of salvation, into a cathartic act.
suspension between abyss and ecstasy ...
I was feverishly working on the realization of my first album.
project which, moreover, was interrupted due to the breakdown of my mac .. I lost several important information, such as sounds created with the help of different vst plugins .. and I still try to recover data etc .. to continue the project.
even today it is not easy for me to listen to this piece again.
it takes me back in time, and inevitably a few tears still line my face.
however, it is one of the few pieces accompanied by a text written at the time. I find it extraordinary how pain is able to take new shape through art.
here is the text to follow:

Packaged lives.

Packaged lives.


And in all our going
Without an arrival

Enjoy the trip, at least

While pretending to be tired

Packaged lives

With the heart immersed
Inside a well

Packaged lives

Looking for my place
In the world.


A place in time, with you

Packaged lives

And in all our going
Without an arrival

Packaged lives

Enjoy the trip, at least

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Many thanks to Freesound.org  and the following user: 
TobiasLudwig - For the sample: heartbeat (on freesound.org)
Timbre - For the sample: Yet more static from another old cheap portable analogue television.flac (on freesound.org)
Rucisko - For the sample: traffic (on freesound.org)
for their great sound capture.

Union [OACE & BDT]

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