pianogonzology

Tuesday, February 9, 2016

How . . .

. . . Is Where We Go . . .

. . . another can't-get-it-out-of-your-head-composition by Jay Graboski. With Jay, David Reeve, Ray Jozwiak (OHO) and Bill Pratt in the studio last Friday. Good people, good fun . . . good music!

How Is Where We Go
by Jay Graboski with OHO and some additional musical friends (with Bill Pratt on vocals, keys and assorted wisdom)

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Monday, February 8, 2016

Third . . .

. . . is a charm . . .

. . . the wonder of modern, digital, recording technology enables one (literally. . . ONE, although not in this case) to conceive a composition of the musical persuasion and to create a record ("As in a record of an event, the event of people playing music in a room". . . Ani DiFranco) documenting a performance of said composition for posterity. Well that's what we're doing here. And, like most of like, good things are worth waiting for.

This tune was conceived quite a while ago as a sort-of 12/8, 1950s-style ballad (think Unchained Melody-like), lyrics dealing, somewhat nebulously, with the phenomenon of gossip. Jay took the tune and OHO-ized it, introducing a heavy rhythmic guitar riff to underpin the introduction (and repeated turnaround) and the unusually-timed, uptempo mid-section to incorporate sonic variety into this longer-than-pop-radio-boss-hit-bound-single-running piece.

Drums are soon to follow. We kind of like how its coming along. You? . . . .

Third-Hand Intelligence
work-in-progress recorded at The Bratt Studio (Bill Pratt at the helm) by OHO- Jay Graboski, David Reeve & Ray Jozwiak

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The Ocean City Ditty Video is now on YouTube

My latest solo offering, Just More Music by Ray Jozwiak, featuring original, instrumental piano music is now available at - Just More Music by Ray Jozwiak

Sunday, February 7, 2016

Arbitrary . . .

“When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.”
Louis Nizer quote

“Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers”
Hans Christian Andersen quotes (Danish Author whose fairy tales are famous throughout the world, 1805-1875)

“Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.”
Dorothy Parker quotes (American short-story Writer and Poet, 1893-1967)

"I'll be your Blood Brother, by your side through thick and thin. I'll be your Blood Brother

just as long as I don't have to bloody my hands."
OHO quotes

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Saturday, February 6, 2016

AEFD . . .

A - Alpha
E - Echo
F - Foxtrot
D - Delta

An instrumental improvisation titled for the four notew which comprise the turnaround which separates each verse (descending chord pattern).d The piece reflects the emotional state of the performer at any given performance and which is intended for inclusion in the upcoming Gonzo Piano release tentatively titled 'No Frills'.

AEFD
©2016 Raymond M. Jozwiak, demo recording by Ray Jozwiak

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The Ocean City Ditty Video is now on YouTube

My latest solo offering, Just More Music by Ray Jozwiak, featuring original, instrumental piano music is now available at - Just More Music by Ray Jozwiak

Friday, February 5, 2016

Health . . .

(from http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/topstories/if-socialist-candidate-bernie-sanders-was-president-heres-what-would-happen-to-the-us-economy/ar-AAfpAhN)
". . . "The great thing about Bernie Sanders is that there's no guile about him. His authenticity is pretty much based on him saying what he believes," said Middlebury University political science professor and expert in presidential politics Matt Dickinson. . . While the U.S. economy would certainly look different under a socialist Sanders presidency, it might not be as crazy as you'd think. . . (his) most significant proposals are implementing a single-payer health care system. . . As president, he would toss Obamacare and replace it with a "Medicare for all" system that he says would cost $1.38 trillion per year but save people and businesses more than $6 trillion over the next decade. . . (Gerald) Friedman . . . says the health care overhaul would enable up to $10 trillion in savings for the general public. And the other programs? Another $1.1 trillion in additional savings over 10 years. And excluding the issue of likely higher taxes, the programs could mean seven million more jobs and a nearly $4 trillion increase in economic activity in 2026. . . "

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The Ocean City Ditty Video is now on YouTube

My latest solo offering, Just More Music by Ray Jozwiak, featuring original, instrumental piano music is now available at - Just More Music by Ray Jozwiak

Thursday, February 4, 2016

Works . . .

(from Jay Graboski at https://www.facebook.com/ohomusic/?fref=nf)
". . . So much in the works for the next OHO album: tomorrow into The Bratt studio to "fiddle about" with Ray's "3rd Hand Intelligence." In the queue are "Where Is How We Go" (lyrically based on the Guitar Craft aphorism: "Where we're going is how we get there"; "Plunge" (originally recorded by The Weaszels), David's "The One"...and new arrangements of "Your Luck Is Awake" (from "UP") and a 3/4 time version of "Lost & Found" from "Audition." These are in addition to the "Ahora!" suite, Ray's "Blood Brother" and other tunes that are in the process of revealing themselves. So many songs...so little time. . . "

Where Is How We Go
by Jay Graboski, in progress mix February 2016

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Get your copy of OHO's Where Words Do Not Reach now!

The Ocean City Ditty Video is now on YouTube

My latest solo offering, Just More Music by Ray Jozwiak, featuring original, instrumental piano music is now available at - Just More Music by Ray Jozwiak

Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Bad . . .

. . . all over . . .

(from Outsider in the White House by Bernie Sanders with Huck Gutman, afterword by John Nichols)
". . . After the "Republican wave" election of 2010 gave the GOP control of the U.S. House, a stronger position in the Senate, and dominance of statehouses across the country, Sanders argued that the Obama administration and congressional Democrats needed to draw dramatically clearer lines in the sand on economic issues. Instead, President Obama cut a deal with congressional Republicans to extend Bush-era tax breaks for billionaires and create a sweeping estate-tax exemption for millionaires. It was not just bad politics, Sanders said, it was bad economics. . . "