William Joseph

Hello everybody, today I relate to you one of my older discoveries rediscovered. One day I heard a William Joseph song on Pandora, and I absolutely loved it. His album Beyond is my favorite. In it, perhaps Leningrad is best (in my opinion), followed by Standing the Storm. The music is very dramatic, and it incorporates orchestra as well as piano. Pay attention to the beautiful arpeggios near the middle and end of both pieces, and to the awesome key change in Standing the Storm. This music is very good!

If you like these, check out his other music!

New Age Music

New Age. New Age, New Age, New Age. I never really liked it too much. I always thought it sounded the same, even if the composers were different. I mean, occasionally I took a fancy to a particular piece and then learned it, but my general impression of new age was that it was a cliche simplification of romantic music. Recently, however, I have begun to view it in a different light. Some New Age piano music that I found on Pandora was really beautiful. Also, my recent improvisations have begun to have certain New Age qualities, such as the characteristic I VI VII chord progression, the minor V instead of the major, and the polyphonic interactions between both hands. Of course, I still consider my improvisation to be mostly in classical or movie-soundtrack style, but I think that learning some New Age techniques has been beneficial to my experience. I will definitely continue to expose myself to New Age music.