“Remember the Sun”
(Composed and arranged by Reynold D. Philipsek copyright 2011 Zino-Rephi Music BMI)
All voices and instruments by Reynold
Recording engineer: Stymie Seamans
Greetings.
I hate to see summer end. For my entire life this one season I love so much always seems to fly by. This year was no exception. Such is life. (I do like the month of October though.)
I am a sucker for certain mid-1960’s music. The Beatles of course, Burt Bacharach, Antonio Carlos Jobim and much of the movie music of the time like Henry Mancini’s and European (mostly French and Italian) film scores. A certain emphasis on bittersweet and slightly nostalgic melody and harmony sometimes including the use of vocalization without words was a hallmark. Pat Metheny often makes use of wordless vocalization.
In my own small way I try to reproduce the atmosphere of one of those European film scores on this piece. There is a certain magic to that music that still gets to me. (The theme from the 1966 French film “A Man and a Woman” is a prime example).
When composing this theme I tried to imagine the end credits of a film as the camera pans some Italian coastal scene. So I really wrote the music with the specific intention of creating a faux 1960’s European film score.To my ears that music always tried to reach for a certain wistful magic or what an old music teacher of mine used to euphemistically refer to as “the subtle opium” in music.
Be kind.
Love,
Reyn