I’m making two promises to myself and to you.
1. A new instrumental release every month. Some will be new compositions, others I may have written years ago but never formally recorded.
2. A blog post about each one. The posts will be in English since instrumental music has an international audience.
The story behind the music
After making the decision to release a piano solo, I simply sat down at my studio piano and started playing. I chose the parts I liked, made some revisions, mixed it and sent it out to the world.
That’s all it takes to record a composition. That and a few decades of playing the piano, composing , improvising and learning to record music.
The video
Okay, here’s some inside info only available here. As I said, the recording was done in the studio. A video of my playing seemed appropriate, but I forgot to make a video while recording. Recreating the exact notes took some work. Since it was filmed separately, I could do it on my baby grand.
Then I just had to line it up with the music and add some effects.
The name
I wrote this close to Yom HaZikron, the Israeli Memorial Day, and it felt like music that might have been played at one of the ceremonies. “Memories” didn’t sound like a very original title, I wanted to give it a twist.
We think of memories as something in the past, but every day we create new memories for the future. I hope this piece becomes one of them.
Beautiful, Kara!
Mitch, thank you for listening