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- Hometown:
- Daytona Beach, Florida
- Relationship Status:
- Single
- About Me:
- Art, Music, Reading, Spirituality, Sports, Writing
- More About Me and My World
- Hope to have my own music website in 2008 and I am publishing 2 CDs of my jazz piano music through Lulu and other music sites. I would like to post music and lyrics, poetry here. Age 53, books published: one so far, a novel entitled: "The Last Renaissance Man", see the LINK BELOW which is my Book page at AuthorsDen
As you can listen in the player, I play piano and have done so since my New York City years back in the 1970's and early 80's. I lived in Manhatten and Brooklyn after growing up on Long Island. I worked as a typesetter in publishing and also briefly for Warner Brothers Music in Rockefeller Plaza in 1984. But fate intervened and in 1985 I had to return to Florida (a sort of cultural backwater) to go on kidney dialysis and eventually get a transplant in 1990. Still, those were good years with my now deceased parents, in which I played and composed much piano music. Of course in those years there was no internet; computers were primitive to say the least--but I've paid some dues, so enjoy this music, some of it recent and a lot recorded in the late 1990's
- Website:
- http://www.theLastRenaissanceMan.net
- Favorite Music:
- jazz, solo piano and guitar, then some country, and classical. A few favorite artists living or deceased: Pat Metheny group, Keith Jarrett, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Chick Corea, Thelonious Monk, Sade, Mary Chapin Carpenter, and so many more of the great Jazz Composers, many now gone.
- Favorite TV Shows:
- NONE-I used to like the Weather and History Channel but tossed the Cable when I moved
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BUY my Jazz/NewAge piano/electric CD, AUGUST OCEAN OVERTURE Here from Amazon's CreateSpace
This is my new personal website, which has a lot of my music on every page to listen to while reading excerpts from my two novels. There is also a JzCDz.com MUSIC PAGE with about 4 music players embedded which require NO DOWNLOAD to listen to my songs & solos. There are of course LINKS to download my mp3s. You can enjoy my music & other music while reading from my 2 Novels: The Last Renaissance Man & The Golden Flute
http://stores.lulu.com/miguy7
The above LINK is to all MY MUSIC posted at my LULU STOREFRONT. Have a look and a listen to PREVIEWS and inexpensive Downloads (2 always available FREE)
The first CD thumbnail is the cover to my upcoming Piano Jazz/new age release called; "August Ocean Overture". Also, I have been loading in the player at right, tracks from a CD I compiled in 2005 after the death of my parents: "In Memory Only" I will release that back to back with "August Ocean....
Today's track (01/23/08) is the last track to my upcoming CD: August Ocean Overture, Titled "The DEEP Abyss". The CD is finally finished but waiting registration to CDbaby. This is one of my few vocal songs and is definitely a JAZZ Song. Here are the lyrics full of ocean imagery and the emotions of pondering the Oceanic as well as the "personal abyss" we all face at one time or other -- but over all rules a Supreme Love that we "must renew, as the HURRICANE spins abouv YOU!"
NOTE: this song is on my upcoming CD and is fully registered copyright as Published.
the DEEP Abyss
KEY: in Bb minor> Sequence/groove with guitars & digital keyboards
1.
There’s a watery LOVE that surrounds us...
And the Eternal WAVES that ever pound us.
The schooling Blue(s), a Dolphin’s arc and the Last Whale, (and that’s sad)
2.
I look in your eye, but I can’t see through,
All the glitter of the Love the SUN knew
{2nd time:} // (…of the Love I once knew)
And above the GOLD Transparent, STARS hint at the abyss below (within)
3.
And there’s a WAVE that will sweep aside, in a SURGE this cultural High Tide,
And sweep clean, the PEARL SAND Beach of Your Love…
Chant: (in unison with bass & piano)
DEEP within the ABYSS… of Your PEARLY LOVE
Deep within the Abyss… of Your Love…
Deep within… I too shall swim.
[ Refrain OR play one instrumental verse with choir ]
And they move through a LOVE they must Renew
And the HURRICANE, it spins above you.
While deep within the ABYSS, the (predatory) SHARK still swims. (but only one left)
{2nd time:}./repeat: high chorus
And there’s a WAVE that will sweep aside, in a SURGE this Cultural High Tide-
And sweep clean, the PEARL SAND Beach of Your Love…
Sudden stop after …Love> then pause and Repeat the whole song with Vocals given a faded distance (further from microphone)
© 2003/2007, michael a. guy, all rights reserved for music & lyrics Original Verses written 10/27/2003
>>OCEAN PRELUDE was recorded in my last recording session on the evening of July 20th, 2007. Too bad it takes all this time with my problems to get it out on the net, but that's how it goes when you are essentially forming your own recording company.
Thanks for stopping by AND more of my poetry and lyrics along with other writings can be found at AuthorsDen @:
http://www.authorsden.com/michaelaguy
LINK to my novel page at AuthorsDen
Click this link to view my novel page at Authorsden
http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewwork.asp?AuthorID=66063
My novel, "The Last Renaissance Man" is available for purchase at the above page at AuthorsDen. You can purchase it directly at AD (signed copies) at a special discount, or if you more comfortable ordering direct from my publisher or Amazon, there are links to do that.
This novel was a product of my intense interest in English music history back during the 1990's. Perhaps, if I was trying to be commercial, I would have tried to write the Great American Novel like so many others, but being "Mr. Practical" I followed my heart and imagination into writing instead, a great English Novel! -- I will be releasing my second novel, a rewrite of my first novel, "THE GOLDEN FLUTE" in 2008.
But wherever you are, ENJOY MY MUSIC, its on my page here and samples are on my Bio at AuthorsDen.
Thanks for your interest
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Jazz Piano and Electric New Age CD, AUGUST OCEAN OVERTURE released on Amazon & CreateSpace
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The Children of Light
We are the children of LIGHT,
We are the hope of the future
We are the singers of songs
And the lovers of life...
WE are the seekers of wisdom, the sowers of Treasure - and WE
are the lovers of life (and) the searchers of freedom -
And when the darkness covers
We become destroyers of hate - With Power to Conquer
And that POWER is LOVE.
We are the children of the future,
the seekers of light
We are the makers of MUSIC,
WE are the Destroyers of Night....
from a song composed and sung with the dis… Continue
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And You Could Play Me
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The Lyrics to: theDEEP Abyss, the 1st song in my page player from CD: "AugustOceanOverture"
>if you would like to listen to my jazz song> "the DEEP Abyss" while reading the lyrics here they are - this is the last track from my CD: "August Ocean Overture" as posted on MY PAGE in the player (1st selection) - They are also posted on the page, just scroll down towards the comments wall and they are in bold. I hope you get a chance to listen to the song
>As many here know my album is primarily instrumental piano jazzz/new age and digit…
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Hope all is going well as you prepare to hit the road and share your musical gifts with the world. You're the only the artist at CTI represented so far in two creative genres on Amazon so you will see yourself twice in the widget that follows. We're working on a few things to help escort visitors to artist products and this is an early sample. Hope you like it:
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I use the one, though at http://www.kotoworld.com/kids.html
There is a virtual tabla at http://www.talastudio.com/tabla.html and a virtual djembe at http://www.risottodirk.de/the_virtual_djembe/
I've dedicated my life to music, really. I want to learn all that I can, instrument wise. I will send a list of what I play. Right now, I'm in a hand drumming phase, particularily the riq (egyptian tambourine). Hows that for exotic? :)
Your kind and beautiful words are flowers that feed the hummingbirds of my heart.
May You enjoy an inspiring National Poetry Month.
In respect and admiration,
Andre Emmanuel Bendavi ben-YEHU
Keep on composing!
Robert M
Goodness, what I'm hearing right now is sweeeeeeet!
mlm
Congratulations on the release of your new CD. This being Jazz Appreciation Month as well as National Poetry Month, I hope to pick up a copy of it very soon. Your music definitely deserves a huge worldwide audience and the appropriate prosperity to go along with it.
Aberjhani
Greetings.
Happy Creative Season.
You probably read "The Knight-Errant Of Big Apple" to change Your idea;
or You got that idea from my poetic-romantic-socio-politic tetralogy written in Spanish: "ADALIDES DE LOS CIELOS", "ALFABETO ANTIGUO DE UNA INQUISICION MODERNA", "EMBAJADORES OF HELICON", and "TRUCOS DEL AMOR".
Yes, New York was the first SEAT of The Government of USA, and is the First SEAT of The Owners of our planet.
Healthy accomplishing week my firend.
In respect and admiration,
Andre Emmanuel Bendavi ben-YEHu
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