![]() ![]() Pink Floyd, perhaps like no other band, is able to capture painful emotions and put them to music. Listening to Dax has made me want to be a better musician, and it's driving me to a bit more of an eclectic style. ![]() This album has had a huge influence over my style in the last 3-4 years. Merciful Dwelling is the most recent addition to this list. 2112 was my first exposure to a 'concept' album, and concept albums are all I've ever done. I owe that drive for musical perfection, in part, to listening to the music of this band. I'm very paranoid about over-repetition and I want constant progression in a composition. They are also part of the reason why I'm fairly intolerant of playing a phrase exactly the same way twice. Listening to Rush stimulated me intellectually and creatively. It's hard to pick only one or even two Rush albums. They were the whole reason I wanted to become a musician. I doubt the idea of writing for 'solo piano' would have ever occurred to me were it not for being introduced to Winston's piano works. George Winston: December / Winter into Spring / Autumn They are listed more or less in order of their impact: Take any one of these albums away and, believe it or not, my piano music just wouldn't be the same. So here they are.Įach one of these albums had a major influence on my musical direction, particularly during my impressionable 'teen-angst' and college years. Sometimes my music reflects my pain, sometimes my joy, but it always - through the good and the bad - reflects my laying my life and heart down before His throne.īut, I'm sure what you really wanted to know is about my musical influences. My music is how I reach out to Him, I call out and express my heart to Him. My music reflects my spiritual journey, the ups and downs, the good days and bad days of my relationship with my God. It's fair to say that the greatest influence on my music has been my onling relationship with my Father in heaven. So, as you can see, each album comes from a different place, and represents a little chapter of life. influenced by travels and adventures had with my family. ![]() Finally, A Delicate Joy is celebration of life. Both Adoration and Revelation are worship albums, representing a five year period of my live spent exploring both traditional hymns and contemporary praise music. Overcome was a tribute to my father and this faith, and an outpouring of emotion after losing him to cancer. Sweet Dreams and Starlight, is about a Father's love for his children, reflecting my own experiences as a father and learning how that love transforms, transcends and overcomes. Postcards from Germany is a musical account of my travels in Europe and O Come Emmanuel is perhaps my most intellectual pursuit - an album done for the pure sake of making something completely new and different - a Christmas album like no other. The Vigil represents a deep, spiritual quest, from a time when I was testing and proving my faith. The Last Waking Moment is based on a dream experience of such an intense nature that it changed lives outside the dream. While the Trees Sleep is highly poetic, reflecting a poetic time - just out of college, searching for meaning and growing up into adulthood. Thus, the music reflects my youth - it's dramatic, bold, and experimental. The Tower, my first solo piano album, marks a period of transformation between my college 'rock band' days and my 'solo pianist' days. When it comes right down to it, the biggest influence on my music is simply 'living.' In fact, as I look back on my collection of albums,each one seems fairly representative of a particular period of my life. ![]()
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