I drive at night when the streets are half asleep—engine low, eyes steady, nothing but the road and whatever’s left in my head. City lights pass like broken memories, soft and scattered. This album isn’t about getting somewhere. It’s about not needing to. 

Rain on Chrome and Everything I Missed

This is a musical climbing, a melodic essay (or expansion) for sythesizers and drums.

The Climbing

Slow Dance

Jennifer Washington - Vocals
Frank Bianco -  Gtrs, Bass, Keys, Production

Painting by Josie del Castillo
"My culture, my body, and my soul"

Skin

This tune came out of a wonderful convergence (happy accident); my collaboration with @devin-locke on "Theme and Variations" and a renewed interest in the painting of Bob Ross. One of the variations I became so taken with, I wanted to develop it into a full track using the original steel string voice of the collaboration then adding nylon string to enlarge the melody line.  "Happy Accidents" was a favorite saying of Bob Ross as he would go about his painting on Public Television.  I saw how it applied to me in how I have composed guitar music over the years;  the unexpected note or chord I first thought a mistake became a turning point for a phrase or melody line.  Some would call it "serendipity", for Bob Ross it was a "happy accident".  If you listen closely toward the beginning, you can hear my granddaughter Lily in the background, a bit of a cameo and very much a happy accident:)

Happy Accidents (For Bob Ross)

Under A Sun Called Hope

If gravity is the only thing
That keeps you from leaving me
You’ve got to find your wings
And learn to fly

I’ll find comfort in these things
The things you have taught me
And search for forgiveness
In what you leave behind

So leave me your courage
Your strength and your wisdom
This precious sorrow
These tender tears

The strength of a lion
The love of a lamb
I feel it around me
All through the years

There’s so much that I regret
Those unkind words I said
Were born from frustration
And not from my heart

I know there will be peace
The sadness will be released
I’ll put back together
What’s torn all apart

Life is a mystery
Who knows what the world will bring
But I know you’re beside
When I’m ready to start

Gravity

Written By Addison Brady and Mark Certo
Chalk Mountain Music Publishing, BMI
Copyright 2020
All Rights Reserved

Byron Burke-Drums
Jeff Roberts-Bass

Lay Down Your Arms

The Art of Hoquet - D'Amore
November 2020
Duration: 2:45
Cover Art: John-Marc Ventimiglia

Based on the 14th century 2 part Ballade, Je ne cuit pas, by Guillaume de Machaut.  
The composition is written in a contemporary style using the technique of hoquet.

The term "hoquet" is a French word (in Old French also hocquet, hoket, or ocquet) meaning "a shock, sudden interruption, hitch, or hiccup".  Although the term is in reference to the secular music of the 13th and 14th centuries in France, the technique, under other names, could be heard in different types of music across the world as early as the 11th century.  Hoquet is the rhythmic linear technique using the alternation of notes, pitches, or chords.  In medieval practice of hocket, a single melody is shared between two (or occasionally more) voices or instruments such that alternately one voice sounds while the other rests.  Hoquet is also used in Indonesian Gamelan music, African music, Classical music, Jazz and popular music.

For strings, woodwinds, harp, bandura, celeste, virtual instruments and percussion

The Art Of Hoquet - D'Amour

A song about leaving a toxic relationship...

Caught in a dry spell, dead as a door knell
Praying for a drop of rain
When the rain fell down I thought I’d drown
And I've  never ever prayed again

It’s a great temptation, a strange sensation
To be beaten down, broken in
But I’m taking it back gotta stay on track
And I’m never going back again, my friend

You built me up and you cut me down
And your jabs are hitting close to home
You loved me so till I let you know
You’re twisting it into the bone

It’s a beautiful pain, that I’m feeling
It’s a hell of a day to be leaving
The more that you take the more that you gave to me
It’s a beautiful day for the misery

Time after time man it felt so fine
When we found a little common ground
But to save my soul you run hot or cold
And we’re off to fight another round

What is the price for your way of life
What did I pay for my freedom?
I didn’t count the cost of the love I lost
And you know I have my reasons

A Beautiful Pain

Here's A collab with the multi talented IPG1. You can listen to his music here;

https://soundcloud.com/ipg1

Here's A link to the original vocals;

https://soundcloud.com/ipg1/taking-it-back-vocals-95-bpm

Enjoy...

IPG1 & RiZLiX - Taking It Back

Feel the music & Enjoy your life.

Music Producer of House, Dance, EDM, Hip Hop.

Slow Dance

ZAK

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