Liner Notes
It is said that the point of art is to provoke an emotional response in the observer. I don’t know whether this album qualifies as art, but I hope it gives you a favorable emotional response just the same. I certainly poured every bit of my heart into making it.
Falling was composed in a single day in February 2010 based on a melody (the first thirteen notes) heard in a dream. Watch for another version on my next album, Music and Lyrics.
Cafe Caprica and Ambrosia and A Six were inspired by a television show; and if you are as big a geek as I am, you know which one I mean. The very first time I heard Bach’s Air on the G String I have wanted to do a bass-buzzing light jazz version of it, and Bach to Bassics is the sound I have been aiming for all these years.
I composed The Last Goodnight upon the occasion of my father’s passing.
Though it’s a little loud in places, Being Held was originally composed as a lullaby for a friend’s infant niece back in about 1986. Until I met her, babies were just noisy, smelly nuisances. She was the first “cool” baby I met, and the one that made me want to have one of my own. Karlee Ann are you reading this?
The Four Walls version of Fur Elise is special. They say when Beethoven wrote this piece, he was deeply in love. So rather than perform the piece straight the way it’s written, and the way we have heard countless keyboard students play it, I tried to imagine what Beethoven was imagining when he performed it for his Elise, if that was even her name. It’s called the “Four Walls Version” because it’s about a man and a woman and the four walls around them, but it might as well have been called the “Covered with Kisses Version.”
Wedding Dance was composed for my friends’ wedding in 1988. Maybe if I had made it sound this good at their ceremony they’d still be married!
The balance of the tracks on this album were composed for reasons which have escaped me over the years.
All songs (c) 2010 Patrick Bishop
All songs performed on the Casio WK200 Keyboard, recorded and mixed using Audacity.
Tracks 6-8 (The Warm Fuzz Set) recorded live at Cafe One Two Trio.
Tracks 9 – 16 (The Soft and Suite) recorded live at the Villa of the Whispers.
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