Gerluz
2020-06-11
Coffee Time Rag
It's a song... lend it your ear.
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Piano, Gerluz, Coffee, Song, Ragtime, Jazz,
2020-05-01
My Latin Bouquet
It's a song... lend it your ear.
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Gerluz, Piano, Song, Latin, Relaxing,
2020-04-23
Lazy Day Waltz
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Song, Piano, Waltz, Gerluz,
2017-07-27
Skipping Over the Lily Pads
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Music, Piano, Gerluz,
2016-02-18
Gravity Wave
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San Francisco, Music, Song, Gerluz, Gravity Wave, Gerluz,
2015-10-22
Playland
It's a song... lend it your ear.
The Mondrian-esque artwork.... Well I think it represents everything about a playground. Blue & white for a Summer sky with fluffy clouds. Green for grass, brown for the dirt and red for the skinned knees and whatnot.
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Gerluz, Playland, Parlor Passages, Music, Music,
2015-09-15
The Optimistic Nihilist
It's a song... lend it your ear.
This song follows one of those weeks... In fact, it was written during one of those weeks. With no awareness of the outcome or title. Each statement was written at the end of a different day. On Saturday when I played it through I was surprised at how dreary it started out... That's not how I was writing Friday night... Then I recalled Monday. Ah yes, Monday.
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Music, Piano, Gerluz, slog,
2014-12-22
Starlight
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Piano, Music, Gerluz,
2014-10-15
Parallax
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2012-12-20
Plays Antonin Dvorak
It's an Album
I like Antonin Dvorak, he's OK in my book. His Serenade for Strings OP 22. is one of my faves. Of course, being written for strings means I needed to transcribe it for piano... two of them to be exact. if you listen on headphone you will find one piano in each ear... um..., either side. I don't know if it would be playable by four hands on single piano. simply because on some of the slower sections I have the pianos trading off backings so the music moves over the sound field.
I also enjoy the Humoresques... ...Read more
Gerluz, Piano, Dvorak, Music,
2012-10-26
Plays Scott Joplin
It's an Album
I guess I was a weird kid. While other adolescents were listening to Pop music of the late-60s and early-70s, I was captivated by Scott Joplin, George Gershwin, Spike Jones, the Korn Kobblers and anything on a 78 that I could scrabble from the neighbors. Anyhow, I launched into puberty with a penchant for ragtime music and science fiction books that distracted me somewhat from the stuff that puberty does to one.
If you are quite familiar with these Joplin tunes you might notice this set might sound a little different. There are different schools of thought on how Ragtime should be played. There is one school that it should be played strictly to the format of the sheet music, just as you are supposed to do with Beethoven, Mozart & others.... but I think I stated it best on the CD liner notes: ...Read more
Ragtime, Piano, Music, Gerluz, Scott Joplin,
Gerluz is the name I use for piano work. Though I write most of the songs, Gerluz is the tiny person inside my computer who follows the arrangements and detailed instructions for how I want them played.
Being virtual being doesn't mean Gerluz can't have a biography. Here is the bio used on the first CD.
The first piano sounds produced by the young Gerluz were far from musical, but they had a steady beat and that was all the dancers required, so he was given encouragement and repaid their kindness and tolerance with years of the most wretched experimentation. But as long as he kept it rhythmical no one would complain because then they could "have dance."
When he was 17 both of Gerluz’s parents were killed in a tragic donkey cart accident. Without family structure Gerluz’s world collapsed. The landlord evicted him from his home. No one in the poverty-stricken town could afford an extra mouth to feed so he was forced to make his own way in the world. The only thing he wanted to do in the world was to play the piano and in his home town there were no paying jobs for piano players. He wrapped his worldly belongings in a blanket and started to walk to the big city where the piano came from. Surely, if they had pianos, they would need piano players.
In the city it was not as simple as he had hoped. Eventually, he was able to able to convince a kind-hearted madam to allow him to entertain the guests in her establishment. It was here his skills were polished. He was exposed to people who knew music was supposed to sound like and his instruction began anew. The kindly innocence of the villagers was replaced by the worldly opinions of the denizens of the wearied and worn little brothel.
Though the criticism may have been harsh at first, Gerluz expanded his knowledge and repertoire, learned how to read music and became what he now calls “a real Piano player.” In the years since, Gerluz has traveled throughout the E.U. playing in brothels and bars on what he refers to as “the slowest world tour in existence, now in it’s third decade.” In 2005 his unscheduled tour jumped the Atlantic to the U.S.. One of these days he may be playing in an establishment near you.
I have found the level of control the computer allows when designing the performance of music often brings the final result far more accuratly toward my intentions than other means. And my friend Gerluz always follows my instructions to the tiniest detail.... repeatedly.
Anyhow, here is piano music by myself & my friend Gerluz... Enjoy.