No. | Title | Length | Comment |
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1. | Lullaby | 1:29 | This song is just one of those well-known lullabies, which is a "must have" in a nursery... One of the songs in Alexandra's Music-Mobile was this lullaby and it kind of stuck... |
2. | Lullaby Impro | 1:16 | Right after recording the above lullaby, the "flow" was still going for similar tunes, so I just started an other recording. 100% improvization... |
3. | Lullaby Mix | 4:12 | After a long night of working on the Amazing Grace and the Lullabies, I though it would be interesting to just play and improvize and see where the music leads... You can recognize several elements from other recordings on this CD. |
4. | Lullaby for Alexandra | 1:40 | This is one of my favourites, since this tune emerged one night, when she had a tummy ache, thus was restless and I had to comfort her. While carrying her on her tummy, I started humming tunes randomly, and in about 10 minutes, this theme stuck. She fell asleep and I sat down and recorded... |
5. | My Child, A Kis Babkahh | 0:52 | One of her name is Babka (Hungarian for little baby), the 2 'h's are there to make it funny-sounding... She gave me this "no way" look one day, and looked quite determined, thus this tune's similar, 'marching' feeling... |
6. | Sakura, Sakura (Japanese Folksong) | 1:17 | It wasn't easy to come up with the "appropriate" chords, not to mention the "fillings". Note how the ending is major, while the whole song is minor... |
7. | Kojono Tsuki (Japanese Folksong) | 1:05 | This is undoubtedly my favourite Japanese theme. Again, the challenge was not to over-do it. |
8. | Érik a Szölö (Hungarian Folksong) | 0:43 | The simplicity of the original song stroke me and I found it quite challenging to come up with a non-intrusive, yet expressing accompaniment. |
9. | Amazing Grace | 1:30 | This old song found itself on my "list of favourites" as soon as I heard it. It's simple elegancy is striking. I enjoy playing it for a warm-up as well as to close a playing session... |
10. | Silent Night | 1:44 | I have wondered how I could play this well-known christmas song good enough to record it as 'noticeably different', so I went for swapping the theme from high to middle range after the initial chordization and added walking-bass in some of the connections. |
11. | Christmas Theme | 1:17 | I was playing on Christmas Eve and thought to myself how 'easy' it would be to compose something christmasish once you are in the mood... |
12. | Requiem Theme | 1:00 | One of my classical experimentings... |
13. | J.S.Bach's Well Tempered Clavier Special | 3:10 | First of all, I LOVE BACH! This composition of his was always an inspiration for me and I played this so many times, it started occupying my dreams, twisting, flying... This recording tries to show you how I heard it in those dreams... Note the base-line, the tingling starry feeling of bells, the waves hitting the shore... |
14. | Fantasy | 1:40 | I sat down one night and just started playing. I must have been tired... 100% improvization |
15. | Magyar Népmesék | 0:44 | One of our favourite Hungarian cartoon's theme song about old folk tales... |
16. | Short Renaissance Theme | 0:21 | We went to the Renaissance Fair in Vacaville several times and had this mood upon arriving home. |
17. | J.S.Bach's Well Tempered Clavier on harpsichord | 3:09 | Just testing how it may have sounded when the Master wrote it... |
18. | Remembrance | 3:48 | I was experimenting with Chopin & Beethowen type chords and started improvizing around them. |
19. | Pulse | 2:08 | As a warm-up, I started hitting the 'C' key with my left hand, than with my right alternating, using all fingers in sequence, than I moved to 'G', than 'F'. This gave me a classical sense, thus started to see how chords would work with the base of repeated strokes... 100% improvization. |
20. | Amazing Grace Special | 1:43 | My very favourite american song in a different, extended style. |
21. | Short Jazz Theme | 0:27 | I tried to write a whole piece around this theme of mine, but than decided, that it is quite appropriate as is now... |
22. | Errol Garner's Misty | 2:18 | I heard this song when I was like 8 and loved it ever since. Finally I grew to be able to actually play it. (kind of...) |
23. | Slow Hammond Theme | 2:04 | I always loved the sound of the Hammond Organ, but was never able to find a tune which brings it out. One night I sat down and started experimenting with the chords. After I found a reasonable sequence, I recorded it and added the percussion and 'solo' part later. Note the rotating Lesley effect!!! ;-) |
24. | Just Jazzy Short | 1:08 | One night I was finally in a jazzy mood and found some interesting chords, thus decided to start recording... 100% improvization. |
25. | Latin Theme | 1:29 | I was playing with the rhytm section and this latin cought my interest. I remembered this song from long ago, thus recorded... |
26. | Lounge Piano | 2:40 | Friends who heard me playing teased me, that I should be a bar/lounge pianist, so one night I turned on "my drummer" and started improvizing to see if I had what it takes... This is the recording of it... Yours to judge... |
27. | Hammondish | 1:05 | This is my other recorded experimenting with the Hammond Sound... |
28. | Lexy Jazz | 1:44 | I was playing to Alexandra one night and wanted to keep it simple, but jazzy. The main theme stuck, thus recorded... |
29. | Masquerade ( made famous by The Carpenters ) | 1:46 | I was always a great fan of the Carpenters, some of their songs are most definitely EverGreens, including this one. I love the 'difficulty level' of the changing keys. |
30. | Just Jazzy | 5:38 | This improvization was also recorded the same night as song #24. I totally forgot that I was recording around the middle, (you can feel it due to changing to 'smooth', than 'strong-base') so it got kind of long. Not to mention some of the unorthodox chords. It turned out quite all right... |
31. | Spring In Kecskemét | 2:21 | I wrote this song when I was 15. We were learning the "Feel of Jazz" with my old friend, Lepe. It felt great recording it after 17 years... |
32. | Moscow Nights Theme | 1:57 | I always had a thing for this tune, due to it's easly recognizeable ethnic melody. Variety is the Spice of Life... |
33. | Joe Cocker's You are so beautiful | 1:46 | I love the chords in this music, thus have to record it... |
34. | J.S.Bach's Well Tempered Clavier on piano | 3:08 | Just a clean version. |
35. | Errol Garner's Misty (v2.0) | 2:02 | Every time I play this tune, it always turn out to be different somehow. This is just an other version of song #22. |
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