This has been up for a bit, but a performance of Lament In G Minor No. 2 (Sorrow) has been added to Youtube. It’s the third track on my EP Volume 1: On Trials And Overcoming. Enjoy!

Caedmon’s Call has always been an inspirational to band to me. The song Dance on the album Long Line of Leavers really stood out to me among the rest. It’s really hard to describe why. The song production is generally fun and up beat. However, the lyrical content contains a difficult subject matter (that of age, society’s dealing with age, the tragedies of life, and death), but the way the subject matter is approached and addressed is amazing. I just really connect with it.

Oh, and it’s really only about five minutes long, but for some reason the video has about three minutes of silence. Hope you enjoy:

I just added a performance of Lament In G Minor No. 2 (Sorrow) to Youtube. It’s the third track on my EP Volume 1: On Trials And Overcoming. Enjoy!

I just added a performance of A River Runs Through to Youtube. It’s the fifth and final track on my EP Volume 1: On Trials And Overcoming. Enjoy!

I just added a performance of Lament In G Minor No. 1 to Youtube. It’s the second track on my EP Volume 1: On Trials And Overcoming. Enjoy!

It’s said the original instrument is the voice.

To be honest it’s not that great of a saying in the practical sense! What it’s really saying is that no one invented instruments before someone sang.

What is intriguing about the saying is that originally music, songs, melodies, harmonies were all inside human beings and the voice was the just the means (or instrument) of getting it out. There is something beautiful about returning to the basics, to the original, to the voice. To the wonderful simplicity, yet innate complexity of the human voice.

This concept has always intrigued me, and I’ve been deeply enamored and awed by choral music. More than that, I’ve always had a desire to compose it. So recently I composed a piece of choral music with the help of lyricist and good friend Andrew Mauzey. I’m pretty excited about it and made a rough draft of it with automated voices and piano. It’s my hope to perfect this piece, and continue my explorations in this genre. Feel free to check it out below.

I’ll keep you posted on performances and recordings.

Even in this world, of course, it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.

C.S. Lewis – The Silver Chair (page 661)

The EP has been officially released everywhere today. Pretty exciting! All the information and links are up at www.ryanmusique.com.

If you’d like to stream the whole thing go to www.soundcloud.com/ryanmusique or www.youtube.com/mrryanmusique.

If you’d like a free track go to www.ryanmusique.bandcamp.com or www.noisetrade.com/ryanmusique.

And of course if you’d like to buy a copy it’s on bandcamp, amazon, itunes, and a good chunk of the rest. Enjoy!

The 1^st track on the EP is called On Trials And Overcoming. This track is also the title track of the EP. It has also been featured Will Rosenberg’s time lapse painting of Hold On Hope (here). Without further adieu, here it is!

For those of you that are bigger fans of youtbe, here it is on there

Been working hard with amazing artist and friend Will Rosenberg (willrosenbergart.com) to create a video and it’s here! The video features a time lapse painting by Will called Hold On Hope. It also features the title track of the upcoming EP On Trials And Overcoming. I’m pretty excited! Check it out here: