Listen to solo piano music by Louis Landon on his new album Feel Good Piano. I have also included three other albums released this year, as well as my playlist of his songs.
I hope this makes you feel good too, like it does for me. We can all use that now. He keeps making great solo piano music.
Albums
Feel Good Piano (2020) – 13 songs, 52 min
Thanksgiving Piano (2020) – 14 songs, 52 min
Southwest Solo Piano (2020) – 14 songs, 55 min
Panama Piano (2020) – 13 songs, 50 min
Playlist
Louis Landon (Playlist) – 70 songs, 5 hr 18 min
Listen to more of his music at Louis Landon for more of his albums, videos, and links.
Listen to solo piano music by Joe Bongiorno on his new (11th) album When All Is Quiet. I love all his music, and this is wonderful too. Wow!
This is vintage Joe Bongiorno doing his solo piano… radiating melodies and emotions from start to finish. It’s been almost 4 years since Joe’s last release, and this album doesn’t disappoint! Inspired largely by the quiet times during the pandemic and the loss of his father to COVID-19. Enjoy the glorious sound from his handcrafted Shigeru Kawai grand. Sit back and relax!
Album
When All Is Quiet (2020) – 10 songs, 45 min
Videos
Imagine This – 4 min 13 sec
Facebook Live Concerts
Joe Bongioro & Ryan Marvel – Nov 22 & Dec 6
Click on the following link on Nov 22 and Dec 6 to watch Joe perform live with Ryan Marvel from his Piano Haven Studio in Sedona, Arizona.
There were recorded live previously on Facebook (Oct 17-18), and are still available to watch.
Live on the Red Rocks – Sedona, AZ – 1 hr 53 min
This starts about 5 minutes into the recording so you can advance the play bar to skip the beginning.
Piano Haven Studio – Sedona, AZ – 1 hr 51 min
Click the following link to watch the previous recording of a Facebook Live concert by Joe Bongiorno & Michael Martinez from Piano Haven Concert on Oct 18. The video will start in another tab where you must watch it on Facebook (it wasn’t able to be embedded within this post directly). It actually starts about 7 minutes into the recording with an intoduction and music starts about 4 minutes later.
Listen to the a Conspirare virtual concert of Unity: Songs of Invitation presented over the weekend as a streaming event via YouTube.
Unity invites viewers into a reverie that breaks new ground and elevates the virtual concert space from the familiar grid of squares. Artistic Director Craig Hella Johnson will ground the concert in two selections of Bach, connecting with the organization’s musical roots and including Conspirare favorites “Requiem,” “1000 Beautiful Things,” and Samuel Barber’s iconic “Agnus Dei.” The timely poetry of Joy Harjo, Erika Fine, N. Scott Momaday, and Herman Hesse complete the program. South African Director Andrew Timm and his team have masterfully combined the elements of the artists’ audio and video recordings and will stage them in a virtual 3-D amphitheater design. Timm and his team were influenced by Kintsugi, the Japanese art of using gold to repair cracks in a piece of broken pottery.
The program is available as a PDF document for viewing and/or printing here. If you prefer to watch this video directly on YouTube in another window (or even full-screen), click on this link or “YouTube” on the bottom right in the embedded player below. If you don’t have time for the entire program, you might just watch them perform God Bless America.
Videos
Unity: Songs of Invitation (Nov 2, 2020) – 1 hr
God Bless America (from Unity) – 3 mins
Listen to more of his music at my Conspirare post with additional albums, videos, and links.
Listen to free live solo piano concerts this weekend by Michael Martinez and Joe Bongiorno from Sedona, Arizona. On Saturday Oct 17 at 6:30 PM Central time, they will perform out in nature amidst the Red Rocks, and on Sunday Oct 18 at 8pm Central time in Piano Haven Studio. These studio-quality live HD concerts will be presented live on Facebook Live. Please consider leaving a tip for the artists.
How to Watch
Click HERE, “like” the page, and the show will should appear in your feed at start time. You can also go straight to the page at concert time and the broadcast will show up as the first “post”. Click the “play” arrow in the post image and un-mute the volume in the player. In the meantime, sit back and enjoy the videos below.
Listen to indie folk music by Darlingside on their new album Fish Pond Fish. I also included another instrumentals album, as well as a full live concert video.
Listen to solo piano music by David Hicken on his new album Sagas. Watch videos of him playing all the songs from this album; maybe you can learn something to try.
Listen to instrumental electro-acoustic harp music by Andreas Vollenweider on his new album Quiet Places. I remember seeing his live performances in Dallas during the 80’s at both the Granada Theatre and Majestic Theatre.
QUIET PLACES is a musical treat for precious, quiet moments, for the more subtle feelings, a source of strength for the wild ride out there in the crazy world…
10 thematic improvisations, calm, moving, intimate, personal, close. Of course Andreas plays his harp and here and there the piano, the young cello player Isabel Gehweiler slips “under our skin” with her haunting, soulful and vibrant playing and now and then Walter Keiser joins in with filigree grooving drums.
New Album
Quiet Places (2020) – 10 songs, 41 min
Videos
I have also included 9 live mini-concert videos (over 2 hours) that he performed from his home studio in Zurich, Switzerland during the COVID-19 pandemic. His next super mini-concert #10 has been postponed until Oct 21 while he celebrates the release of his new album. Also he is publishing an audio-book of his first novel Im Spiegel der Venus (Reflections of Venus) with music, which is currently being translated into English.
Listen to piano music by Michael Logozar on his new album Currents.
Album
Currents (2020) – 17 songs, 41 min
Playlist
Michael Logozar (Playlist) – 37 songs, 2 hr 31 min
Listen to more music by Michael Logozar with additional albums, videos, and links. This new album will be included there as well, along with an updated playlist.
Listen to Americana country music by Hayes Carll on his new album Alone Together Sessions. I also included an earlier album, some videos, and 18 live streams from his weekly Alone Together Sessions during the pandemic.
Album
Alone Together Sessions – 11 songs, 41 min
What It Is – 12 songs, 38 min
Videos
None’ya (with wife Allison Moorer – Acoustic from front porch) – on What It Is (2019) – 4 min 6 sec
Times Like These – on What It Is (2019) – 3 min 6 sec
Beaumont – for Austin City Limits (2017) – 3 min 30 sec
Bad Liver and a Broken Heart – for Austin City Limits (2017) – 4 min 23 sec
The Love That We Need – for Austin Music Limits (2007) – 3 min 53 sec
Wild As a Turkey – for Music Fog (2010) – 3 min 3 sec
Another Like You (with Bonnie Whitmore) – for Music Fog (2010) – 3 min 38 sec
Drunken Poet’s Dream – at Paste Magazine (2008) – 4 min 7 sec
It’s a Shame – Live at Saxon Pub, Austin (2006) – 4 min 13 sec
Live Streams – Alone Together Tuesdays
These are weekly live streams by Hayes Carll on Alone Together Tuesdays from his home during the pandemic – 18 episodes, each about 1 1/2 hours from May 5 – Sep 8.
Watch as many you like. Each one is a different set list. You can select any in the list if you want to come back again, or just select individual streams in the list.
Episodes 1 – 18 (May 5 – Sep 8, 2020) – about 1 hr 30 min each
Episode 1 – Set list:
Good While It Lasted
If I May Be So Bold
Beaumont
Times Like These
Barroom Lament
Jesus and Elvis – w/ Allison
That’s The Way Love Goes – w/ Allison (Lefty Frizell & Whitey Schafer)
None’ya
Easy Come Easy Go
The Pilgrim #9 (Kris Kristofferson)
Drunken Poet’s Dream
Bye Bye Baby
KMAG – YOYO
Good Friends
I Will Stay Magnolia Wind (Guy Clark, Gary Nicholson, Rob Roy Parnell)
It’s a Shame
I Don’t Wanna Grow Up (Tom Waits)
Listen to more music by Hayes Carll on my earlier music post from 2015 with more albums, videos, and links.
