Richard J. Birkin - Old Dreams
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Old Dreams is an old piece. Written around 2011, it’s never been properly recorded or released, because there was never a home for it on an album…and I never felt it was quite finished.
While completing and recording some brand new piano pieces, this piece popped into my head and, on its first run through, seemed to have finished itself. My playing, more fluid and confident now than when I wrote it, sounded good too. So I hit record and after a few takes it was done. Like it had been sat there in memory waiting for the time to come out, my hands feeling like they had been practicing the piece for days even though they’d not played it in years.
Music is like that sometimes. It decides.
While completing and recording some brand new piano pieces, this piece popped into my head and, on its first run through, seemed to have finished itself. My playing, more fluid and confident now than when I wrote it, sounded good too. So I hit record and after a few takes it was done. Like it had been sat there in memory waiting for the time to come out, my hands feeling like they had been practicing the piece for days even though they’d not played it in years.
Music is like that sometimes. It decides.
