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Written for my friend Rafael, this is a little takeoff on the baroque dance and rhythm known as a courante. In Spain, Falo is often a nickname for Rafael.
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A Bach cantata with a jazzed up intro and ending, leaving the remainder with more or les the original harmonies. Straight in the middle and bent at both ends, you might say!
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The repetitive bass note in this piece is meant to convey the tedium and barrenness like sometimes presents. However, after a little fun with some not-so-barren chords on top of the bass line, it ends up as one of my `optimistic melancholy` works.
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The verse is the alchemist. The bridge is the dream.
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A house built under a scandal. A deliberate fire and murderous rampage. Its rebuilding. Frank Lloyd Wright, the quintessential architect and one of my heroes, was still married when he built Taliesin for himself and his recently divorced mistress. In a deranged fit, one of his employees set fire to the house and took and axe to those trying to flee the flames. No one knows why. Wright`s paramour, her two children and four others perished and the house was destroyed. This story still haunts me.
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Sunrise over beautiful Slocan Lake in British Columbia. The sun slowly ascends with bursts of light between dawn`s clouds until - a final flourish - the morning sky explodes with light.
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A somewhat unusual rhythmic `dance` inspired by a couple of jumpy parrots during a visit to Mexico.
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Ideas inspired by the music of the grand reinventor of the tango, the Argentinian bandoneonist, Astor Piazzolla. They highlight, as did his works, chromaticism, dissonance, rhythmic and tempo variations and of course, intensity.
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A lullaby. Good night!
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