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Through Rose Colored Glasses

(Composed and performed by Reynold D. Philipsek 2015 copyright Zino-Rephi Music BMI)Recording engineer: Stymie Seamans For some listeners very acquainted with Chopin you might be able to spot a fragment from his “Barcarolle.” I use this fragment to create the piece. I feel an affinity for Chopin as I have Polish ancestry (my grandmother was born there) and I am […]

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In Perpetuity

(Composed and performed by Reynold D. Philipsek copyright 2022 Zino-Rephi Music BMI)Recording engineer: Stymie Seamans The world seems like it is going through some real changes the past couple of years and that has me pondering the bigger picture. I remain hopeful (difficult sometimes) that people will find their inner light. The main recurring theme in this piece is supposed

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Sasha and Dinu

(Composed and performed by Reynold D. Philipsek copyright 2015 Zino-Rephi Music BMI)Recording engineer: Stymie Seamans This piece in C sharp minor is a particularly Slavic melancholy key. Chopin, Scriabin, and Rachmaninov all wrote short pieces in this key. I use the title to commemorate “Sasha” (Scriabin’s nickname) and Dinu (Dinu Lipatti a Romanian 1917-1950). If you are not familiar with

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That Grand Horizon

(New Video)(Composed, arranged and performed by Reynold D. Philipsek 2022 copyright Zino-Rephi Music BMI)All instruments and voices by ReynoldRecording engineer: Stymie Seamans On March 16, 2022, I spent a few hours recording this new song. My friend Rene Erickson created this video for it on my YouTube channel. The video follows the general idea about the “grand horizon” being our

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Prince of Samois

(Composed and performed by Reynold D. Philipsek 2022 copyright Zino-Rephi Music BMI)Recording engineer: Stymie Seamans(Recorded April 20, 2022) May 16, 2022 will be the 69th anniversary of gypsy guitar great Django Reinhardt’s departure from this quaint old vale of tears. The town of Samois-sur-Seine, France (near Fontainebleau) is where he made his home toward the end of his rather short

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Tempus Fugit

(Composed by Reynold D. Philipsek 2008 copyright Zino-Rephi Music BMI)Guitar-ReynoldBass-Matt SenjemPercussion-Michael BissonnetteRecording engineer: Stymie Seamans I have made very few recordings with the typically “dark” sound of an archtop electric jazz guitar. That was the typical sound of most jazz guitar records in the 1950’s and 1960’s. Though guitarists like Jim Hall and even Pat Martino to some extent played

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