“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 Lipatti again and my personal favorite Arthur Rubinstein (my yearly Autumn pilgrimage to the land of solo piano) and so this piece came to mind.
Over the years I have made quite a lot of “guitar only” recordings either solo or with an overdub or two. This is a process I began when I was 12 years old and my mother bought a tape recorder for me from (of all places) Penney’s.
That reel to reel deck ran quarter inch tape at 7.5 IPS and could overdub sound on sound (two tracks). I began to record either 2 guitar tracks or a vocal and guitar track nearly from the first day I got the machine. This was the real initial impetus for me to write music. I was enthusiastic about “making up” songs. Still am.
Be kind.
Love,
Reyn