Also, both our mothers were only married at the relatively late age of 30. Exactly twenty two years ago to the day, the beautiful and beloved Princess Diana passed away.Hello ladies and gentlemen! Many of you know me as Khai or Khai-Wei (鍾凱維). First, please let me acknowledge your...
“Sleep Sees Her Opportunity” offers up a rangy, mesmerizing environment, struck through with muted, atonal sprays of piano: frosty, one-handed runs that splinter into fragments in their flight and that put me in mind of the chillingly spectral prepared piano from the second movement of Arvo ...
With this first recording in the company of his European trio, Erskine made a lasting, if subdued, statement of intent. Its contours feel familiar, its moods even more so, and its overall feeling is one of peace and quiet passion. Considering the talent girding every corner of this triangle...
What old Dmitri would do was start the thing very innocently, with nice, slow minor chords, and then put a bunch of crazy stuff in the middle, when the government suits in the audience had dozed off. The cool thing was that even the stuff he supposedly wrote to be "simple" was ...
Understand the concepts covering music theory! In this video, you will understand the musical alphabet, chords, intervals, inversions, melodies, scales, modulation, borrowing, modes, and more! https://92bpm.com Songwriting is a creative art form that involves crafting lyrics and melodies that reso...
more false security before diving in for a meal. The Adagio practically floats on its own ineffable air, wafted ever higher with each beautifully articulated trill. A compellingly woven Minuetto prepares us for a masterful Rondo as bidirectional runs travel into two succinct and conclusive chords....
Here is the second part of my analysis of Howard Shore's score for the first part of the Hobbit trilogy. Unfortunately I could not present it in one piece as it was too long for a single post. I am just that verbose. Check...
“I Loves You Porgy,” the physicality of his playing is immediately apparent as every stretch of sinew and bone works itself back into flexible life. Treading a fine line between linear melody and cloudbursts of chords, between song and circumstance, it is the Rosetta Stone for all that ...
(1990), which in its cerebral upholstery offers respite for the weary self. Like a tour of a stroke-ridden mind, it holds fast to memories even as it struggles to lasso the words to articulate them. All we emerge with instead is a series of notes, chords, and mosaic rhythms. The ...
It was kind of Brazilian and I scatted over a simple intro of descending chords and John came up with that fabulous ending that unexpectedly stops dead on the 5. Then just before we recorded Obsession Jason re-did the arrangement so that it had more of an African feeling in the playing,...