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I am posting this track from my new piano CD, 13 Masks, to help promote the Macjams' Benefit Sale: all proceed from sales of this album (when purchased from Simig Media), goes to the development of MacJams.com.
You Make My Heart Skip A Beat has a little bit of everything the album offers: Progressive Ragtime, fugue variations, avant-garde harmonies, New Age moments of peace, fanciful trips through the subconscious, lots of intensity, and even a Celtic phrase or two. I named it because the piece does skip beats throughout, but also has a romantic quality.
I have posted 5 tracks from the CD (see below), but there are still 8 tracks on the recording that won't be available online. I hope you give it a listen. Its fun to listen to them in order, like a song cycle. (And also see the other 8 masks.)
Here's to hoping Macjams keeps making us all skip to the beats of each other's imaginations...!
You Make My Heart Skip A Beat has a little bit of everything the album offers: Progressive Ragtime, fugue variations, avant-garde harmonies, New Age moments of peace, fanciful trips through the subconscious, lots of intensity, and even a Celtic phrase or two. I named it because the piece does skip beats throughout, but also has a romantic quality.
I have posted 5 tracks from the CD (see below), but there are still 8 tracks on the recording that won't be available online. I hope you give it a listen. Its fun to listen to them in order, like a song cycle. (And also see the other 8 masks.)
Here's to hoping Macjams keeps making us all skip to the beats of each other's imaginations...!
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Lyrics
Other pre-mastered recordings from 13 Masks posted at Macjams:
Chromatisome Swing (tribute to Oscar Peterson)
Two Peas in a Chili Pod (dedicated to McBoy)
A Monk Caught In The Thelonious Sphere
The Gumshoe Wears A Rag
Chaos of the Subconscious
Chromatisome Swing (tribute to Oscar Peterson)
Two Peas in a Chili Pod (dedicated to McBoy)
A Monk Caught In The Thelonious Sphere
The Gumshoe Wears A Rag
Chaos of the Subconscious
Dharma Logos
You somehow managed to take Joplin and throw in Chopin's odd timing and Stravinsky's weird scales. The first part of it is sort of an odd but commendable intellectual exercise that is emotionally unsatisfying and actually a bit aggrevating, but then it goes into an unexpected romantic thing that reminds me of Mussorgsky and Satie. The aggrevating anticipation pays off when the romantic beauty hits. Then when you end the piece with the Joplin-esque riff again I heard it from a different perspective and it was satisfying.
This is not the easiest piece to get into at an emotional level although it is intellectually stimulating. However, I think that repeated listenings would be well-rewarded. I get the sense that this piece is very deep.