Project: Pablo and Leslie, LP 2018.
Below is a short video and audio montage of my works past, starting with the two "demos" below (from Berklee, this year). These demos are most stylistically, compositionally relevant to the direction I am conceiving for the recording we create.
"In And Out of Love", L. Helpert, 2018 and "Cut the Cord", L. Helpert (2018)
This year, I began the project that is inspiring me forward-- writing 1930-1950's-era inspired traditional-sounding "Ellingtonian" and "Monk"-style jazz with contemporary, female-driven, lyricism. Piano-based compositions. As you'll see in the videos I've included below these two demo audio tracks, my main songwriting tool has been guitar (for over 20 years). This year, I worked hard to compose on the piano, transitioning my compositional instrument and leaving guitar behind for now, spending between three to eight hours a day playing piano as a novice, merging my love for traditional standards and my own musical writing. These song are just student-recorded bare-bones AKSS demos, and I am accompanying myself, which detracts from my performative vocal freedom, but, I believe, they at least relay the basics of the songs' intentions. Ideally, I'd give compositions to other players/a quartet (with bass clarinet). In this vein, I've written four pieces thus far (including "Band of Travelers", inspired by your poem) for the new project: below are the two which I recorded as demos. Note the volume of "Cut the Cord" is quite low, so you may have to listen through headphones.
"In And Out of Love", L. Helpert, 2018 and "Cut the Cord", L. Helpert (2018)
This year, I began the project that is inspiring me forward-- writing 1930-1950's-era inspired traditional-sounding "Ellingtonian" and "Monk"-style jazz with contemporary, female-driven, lyricism. Piano-based compositions. As you'll see in the videos I've included below these two demo audio tracks, my main songwriting tool has been guitar (for over 20 years). This year, I worked hard to compose on the piano, transitioning my compositional instrument and leaving guitar behind for now, spending between three to eight hours a day playing piano as a novice, merging my love for traditional standards and my own musical writing. These song are just student-recorded bare-bones AKSS demos, and I am accompanying myself, which detracts from my performative vocal freedom, but, I believe, they at least relay the basics of the songs' intentions. Ideally, I'd give compositions to other players/a quartet (with bass clarinet). In this vein, I've written four pieces thus far (including "Band of Travelers", inspired by your poem) for the new project: below are the two which I recorded as demos. Note the volume of "Cut the Cord" is quite low, so you may have to listen through headphones.
PAST WORKS (video and links to more below)
below: examples of my own pieces, renditions of others, traditional, contemporary
Below
1. "Band of Travelers" (live, Valencia, 2018)
2. Piano piece in process (2018, raw recording, piano room, Berklee)
2. "Footprints" (W. Shorter) lyrical interpretation, For Berklee: L. Helpert
4. "A-Train" (Strayhorn) lyrical interpretation: Helpert, Barcelona, quartet. 2018
5. "Band of Travelers" (recording session, SALA E, 2018)
6. "Band of Travelers" (rehearsal)
7. AUDIO ONLY: Link HERE to 2004's "You Go To My Head" (with Tim Luntzel, duo)
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