“Dervish”Composed and performed by Reynold D. Philipsek 2015 copyright Zino-Rephi Music BMI)Recording engineer: Stymie Seamans This piece is a little exuberant but a quick 6/8 is pretty buoyant by natural design. This brisk music is supposed to be light-hearted fun. As always, there are improvised “choruses” after the statement of theme. I’ve been listening to the late virtuoso Romanian pianist/composer Dinu […]
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(Written and arranged by Reynold D. Philipsek 1994 copyright Zino-Rephi Music BMI) Guitars, vocals, keyboards-ReynoldDrums-Steve Read-SmithBass-Luke KramerTrombone-Zane Schaefer, Lowell LarsonEngineer-Stymie Seamans This song’s lyrics were derived from a list of pub names from the London phonebook. Musically, I really tried to capture the late sixties English pop vibe and I think Stymie and all of the involved players made that
(Composed and performed by Reynold D. Philipsek2015 copyright Zino-Rephi Music BMI) 17th-century Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer had such an effect on me that in my early thirties, I decided to go to art school part-time to learn how to paint with oils. After two years, I realized that as a painter, I was merely an enthusiastic hobbyist but I’m glad
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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“Hong Kong Harry”(Composed by Reynold D. Philipsek, 1994 copyright) I originally wrote this piece for “Global Home Movie,” which was inspired by my 1994 trip around the world. On that trip, I visited Japan and China first, then Hong Kong. I wrote tunes for nearly every leg of the trip (China, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Athens, Rome, Switzerland, Paris, Amsterdam, Bonn, and
About 1977 I attended some composition and theory classes through St. John’s University. The emphasis was on early 20th century composers. Stravinsky, Webern, Schoenberg, Berg, Prokofiev, Bartok, and Debussy were the main focus. But Maurice Ravel became my favorite and remains so until this day. At the time, a friend of mine who was majoring in piano performance (and with
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