(Composed and performed by Reynold D. Philipsek copyright 2007 Zino-Rephi Music BMI)Engineered by John Hammond The title means “the sweetness of doing nothing.” I learned this admirable phrase in Italy quite a few years ago. Generally speaking, Italians are people who have a healthy attitude about such things. The idea here musically was to try to find a quaint and […]
(Composed and arranged by Reynold D. Philipsek 2022 copyright Zino-Rephi Music BMI)All of instruments and vocal by Reynold except drums by Mo EngelRecorded by Stymie Seamans This is the seventh and final new song and recording from the summer of 2022. All have been posted on my YouTube channel which is my current mode of sharing music. Many of these
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(Composed and performed by Reynold D. Philipsek 2015 copyright Zino-Rephi Music BMI) First off, I hope you are all well. During the last six years of my mother’s life, she had dementia. Part of that included aphasia. Meaning she couldn’t speak. During those last years, I accepted the fact that she couldn’t speak. Hard fact but real. One day as
(Composed and arranged by Reynold D. Philipsek copyright 1997 Zino-Rephi Music BMI) In the late 1990’s, I came up with this idea and went to great lengths to record this song by bringing in so many instrumentalists to play their part. I really thought this song would make some sort of deep impression and while the Minneapolis Star Tribune gave
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(Written and performed by Reynold D. Philipsek copyright 1993 re-released and mastered 2012)Reynold-lots of guitars, bass, knee slap horse hooves, wooden “train flute”, whoops and hollers, tambourineRecording engineer-Stymie Seamans This song originally came out in 1993 and I re-released it on the “Last Summer” album in 2012. On all of the more successful “solo” recordings, my friend Stymie Seamans was
(Traditional) This is the first song I ever learned on guitar though I first learned it to be played entirely in the first position with open string notes included. I was ten years old then and have been working on a “definitive” solo version ever since. Though more commonly played in D minor my version is in E minor because