wow. Utterly brilliant. Magnificent tone. I love this.

can't get enough of this. I'm going to stop commenting so just assume that I love it. ❤️

What a stunning piece, and your interplay is fantastic.

This is the 1st track in the "Seven Dreams of the Orb Weaver" medley.  It serves as a prelude to the rest and for the subsequent track "Ocean Star" in particular.  (If you like this one, you might like listening to the whole medley in sequence--you can find it in the album section soundcloud.com/skai-eriksson/sets/seven-dreams-of-the-orb-weaver.)  I wrote this track after the others were finished.  The medley overall is rather dark and emotional, so in this prelude I aimed for something light, calm, and peaceful with just a hint at some of the later darker themes.  The impressionist-style waterfall just after the middle of the song is indeed Debussy-inspired (it is just a simple pentatonic pattern similar to ones that appear in plenty of songs, but for me this type of pentatonic run is iconic of Debussy's Arabesque).  I like how the 6/4 time signature gives a little extra space to elaborate on this riff, and I was pleased with how it sounds as a resolution to the cadence leading up to it.  While the song has a shifting tonal center, it is certainly not as tonally destabilized as Debussy's music, and this (along with the simplicity of the locomotive rhythm) affords an opportunity to prepare the listener for a climactic sense of arrival as the pentatonic run appears.   I wanted the middle section of the song to offset the minimalism that is present at the beginning and end of the song, and this Debussy-style riff serves as a nice centerpiece for that.

Ripples In Spacetime

Pièce instrumentale composée et produite par Didier Ganache. Instrumental piece composed and produced by Didier Ganache.
Copyright © 2022 Show Devant/Ganache Didier. All rights reserved. The reproduction of the music herein contained is prohibited without the express consent of the author.

Show - Devant

"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing"
- Archilochus. See also  e.g. Ronald M. Dworkin, Justice for Hedgehogs (2011)


A song to the one and only who knows it. 

This is an improvised song I played and recorded the other day (my apologies for the mistakes). It is not much but I just had to play it. I am not in the advertising business and I have to mention as a private person for non-commercial purposes that this song is also a mellow celebration of the Rhodes Electric Piano which is one of the most beautiful instruments I have ever encountered in my life (after my U1 upright piano..). I first heard Rhodes electric piano when I was a little child, and for many years I wondered "What is that?". Now after all these years I got enough resources to get the official Rhodes V8 Pro virtual electric piano.

In a larger context this song is also - despite the fact that it's played in the minor key - a mellow celebration of life. It is to celebrate this particular day and everything this day brings with it.

This song was inspired especially by a particular performance of an old song loosely translated from Finnish to English as "The Vagabond's Night Star" (composed by Mr. Toivo Kärki and arranged by one of the greatest jazz pianists in this country, Mr. Olli Ahvenlahti); it was the song where I for the first time heard the amazing sound of an electric piano many years ago. This song was also inspired by the song "Eternal Child" composed by the late great musician and composer Mr. Chick Corea, and also especially by the memorable music of The Alan Parsons Project.

The song was played by me with my Korg SGProX digital stage piano, using Yamaha Montage 8 synthesizer as an audio interface and using e.g. the following instruments: 
- Rhodes V8 Pro electric piano (Mk8);
- UVI T20 Electric 2 Chorus (cf. MKS-20);
- Arturia V Collection / 1982 Acoustic Grand;
- Arturia Mellotron V (guitar, strings);
- UVI Kroma (brass);
- UVI PX Memories (brass, pad; cf. Memorymoog, LAMM);
- UVI Ultramini and Arturia Mini V (bass) and
- UVI Soul Drums. 

Once again I use this opportunity to present a wish: Please let us have the strength to take decent care of each other and ourselves and let us always try to treat each other with due concern and respect.

The Mellow One and Only

'The Ink Is Still Not Dry' is a fun latin/Jazz track with a hint of Bossa Nova.

Light The Candle Please

The Ink Is Still Not Dry

Sonata Per Pianoforte by Boghos Gelalian 2nd movement 'andantino' 
 Pianist Zina Asfour
Extrait du cd intitule Folklore
Enregistre a Studio Malambo en FranceI Mixage Studio MARS I Mastering D. Brouillet I Edits Kawar Studios
Photo de couverture par Usama Tamimi a Petra Al Beida en Jordanie.

Sonata Per Pianoforte by Boghos Gelalian 2nd mvt - pianist Zina Asfour

Sonata per Pianoforte by Boghos Gelalian 1st Momement performed by Zina Asfour
Extrait du cd intitule Folklore
Enregistre a Studio Malambo en FranceI Mixage Studio MARS I Mastering D. Brouillet I Edits Kawar Studios
Photo de couverture par Usama Tamimi a Petra Al Beida en Jordanie.

Sonata Per Pianoforte 1st mvt - Boghos Gelalian performed by Zina Asfour

Boghos Gelalian Sonata Breva Bis pour Violoncelle et Piano 3eme mvt
Adrien Frasse Sombet I Violoncelle
Zina Asfour I Piano
Extract from the cd entitled Folklore
Enregistre a Studio Malambo en FranceI Mixage Studio MARS I Mastering D. Brouillet I Edits Kawar Studios
Photo de couverture par Usama Tamimi a Petra Al Beida en Jordanie.

Boghos Gelalian Sonata Breva Bis pour Violoncelle et Piano 3eme Mvt

My amazing friend Jake passed away in May aged only 26. He was an amazing singer, poet and creative wizard. His parents recorded his heartbeat and asked for friends to compose music with it if they could. I will miss you always, Jake. Taken far too soon.  💕🎵

Thanks to my lovely Sander for mastering. ❤️

https://youtu.be/MMebQaU7k60 
And for making this beautiful video. ❤️🎶

THE WIZARD (for Jake)

https://youtu.be/wklFeuxtLW8?si=nRRpeQR8uLxX-hVr

promenade

Colorful Colorado – Autumn (feat. Video)
Watch the YouTube video featuring beautiful photography by Heidi Schnicker at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_JLb9uDbrc
October 2023
Duration: 3:10
Cover art photo: Heidi Schnicker 
Originally composed November 2016, revised and re-orchestrated October 2023
For strings, flute, oboe d'amore, bass flute, heckelphone, piano, vibraphone, virtual instruments, sound effects and percussion.

Colorful Colorado  - Autumn (feat. Video)

Original_God Has Given Us Freedom_AkkiD

www.zinaasfour.com

I'm a pianist. I play solo classical music and accompany musicians. I'm very interested in contemporary music and have founded Ateek which is a platform representing new composers from the Middle East. I hope you enjoy listenning to my music ..

Boghos Gelalian Sonata Breva Bis pour Violoncelle et Piano 3eme Mvt

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