(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 […]
(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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(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
(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
“Imagine That”*(Written and performed by Reynold D. Philipsek 1998 copyright Zino-Rephi Music BMI)Recording engineer:Stymie Seamans The music I am posting here is a bit different than my usual fare. More than 20 years ago I endeavored to do a completely A Capella (all vocal) album. This can be tedious work as the songs have to accommodate that approach and then
(Composed and arranged by Reynold D. Philipsek 2008 copyright Zino-Rephi Music BMI) Guitar-Reynold Cello parts- Dianne Tremaine Violin parts- Carolyn Boulay Recording engineer-Stymie Seamans I wanted to write a sort of “antique” and plaintive theme. I then wrote a sort of faux string quartet accompaniment. The violin and cello each had two parts to overdub creating four individual string parts.