Tranquil MMVII.10 [piano] Heart Beat Suite

Hey! It's my first Anniversary! Actually it was June 3rd, and i've missed it. I was going to do something special, but i'm the live-in domestic servant to my almost-4-year-old, and that date went out the window. So i've decided to upload something which is ready to go. It is still special, though. ___ This is a recording my brother Brian and i made way back in 1991 (i think). We were jamming in the wee hours with 'JoAnne Wurlitzer' (my 1917 Wurlitzer piano which i'd recently purchased for 400 dollars). We had "a couple of quarts of beer" (as Frank Zappa once crooned; actually they were Mickey's 40-ouncers). This was in the makeshift 'Studio' i had set up in the Fernando Street house in Grand Rapids Michigan (with the two-and-a-half dozen size cardboard egg crate squares stapled across the ceiling), and Brian had come over from next door for an evening of making music. About the performance: Brian is improvising against my ostanada in the upper register. Brian starts out playing a nice melody on the bare strings with a wire brush, then progresses to laying down some nice harmonic structure in the 'usual way'. It was a very good groove (and we didn't even finish the beer). ___ This is from the best surviving copy i have: a TDK SA-90 Compact Cassette copy from the Reel-to-Reel master (recorded through my Sony NR-335 Dolby B CoDec). There's a bit of discernible flutter, but it's the best copy i have. It's still a good recording as i had the piano well miked in my special way. ___ Incidentally: i have posted the prelude to this piece from the same session as 'Tranquil MMVI.35 [piano] Piano For Hands' last year in this same podcast. I figured i would get around to posting the rest of it, and here's my opportunity. ___ Creative Commons Attribution/Non-commercial/No derivatives license 2.5 ___ strandgeist.com ___ "Share and Enjoy" ___ Yes, that picture is of my little son Claude; and tes, that is a cup of coffee he's holding. Hey, this is the midwest. We start 'em early here! ;-)