I thought I would add a little “track by track” analysis to better explain what I was thinking when I assembled this album. “St. Germain Street” is the name of the Main Street of the hometown of my childhood. Though I have not lived there in nearly 40 years, I still harbor some fond memories of this street. These memories […]
Written and performed by Reynold D. PhilipsekCopyright 2011 Zino-Rephi Music (BMI)All Rights Reserved When I was a kid, my parents had a small oval miniature of a Frans Hals (17th Century painter) painting called, “The Laughing Cavalier.” I think (not sure) that this small replica artifact came from my great grandmother who was born in Holland (most of my ancestors
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Composed by Reynold D. PhilipsekCopyright Zino-Rephi Music BMIAll Rights ReservedGuitars by ReynoldAcoustic bass by Matt Senjem The title is taken from the typical beatnik or bebop musician look. The music is essentially a minor blues but the changes go through some channels that are a bit more out of the typical pattern. The whole point of the piece is to
Halloween has always been a special time for me. In October of the year I turned 12 years old, I was so under the influence of Edgar Allan Poe that I took to going down into the basement each night to write some pretty bad Gothic poetry by candlelight with a homemade quill. My mother was amused by this phase
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I’m at an interesting point in my musical life. A turning point. I’m trying to figure out exactly what my musical personality is. Some might say this is a mighty late stage to be figuring that out but it is what it is. I do think I have made my very best records in the past ten years. The best moments
“Kiki”(Composed and performed by Reynold D. PhilipsekCopyright Zino-Rephi Music BMI) All Rights Reserved Kiki was the female Lhasa that lived with us for 18 and a half years. Though she inevitably had a very long life for a dog, that was nearly not so. When she was barely one year old, she contracted a lung disease and the local vet