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User Error: Solo Piano Improvisations by Jay Peele

6/6/2019

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In the summer of 2012 during a heartbreaking time in my life, my good friend John Shaffer allowed me to plunk around on his piano while he was cooking dinner for his family. This proved to be a cathartic experience and although I am not a piano player (hence the title: User Error), I did purge some frustrations during the process. I'm flying by the seat of my pants. User error and system failure. I hope there is something here of some value despite the futility of the pursuit. 

Jay Peele
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Rafael González
6/6/2019 13:33:06

There is a lot of value here, of course! I really like the title of the album and its concept.

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Jay Peele
6/9/2019 18:56:12

Gracias amigo!

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Leslie Singer
6/6/2019 15:25:05

Really nicE! EmbracE the ErroR!

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Jay Peele
6/9/2019 18:56:35

Thank you Leslie!

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Chris Phinney
6/6/2019 19:36:45

Yes sometimes errors are a great thing! Nice man.

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Jay Peele
6/9/2019 18:57:08

Thank you so much Chris!

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CIII Goff
6/6/2019 19:48:05

Yes, Mr. Wax, pianos can be like keys for unlocking emotion. I can indeed feel some releasing going on in these pieces, thanks for sharing.

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Jay Peele
6/9/2019 18:57:31

Namaste!

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P-A.H
6/6/2019 20:04:01

Great stuff, Jay! Listen to the entire album earlier while working on some artwork.

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Jay Peele
6/9/2019 18:58:17

A very sincere thank you is in order to you for supporting this!!!!! Thank you so much Mr. Hognert!!!!

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Penny
6/6/2019 22:56:50

Bravo!!! I really enjoyed.
I love going to thrift stores and finding the badly tuned pianos and just enjoying them.
This is really good Jay!!!

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Jay Peele
6/9/2019 18:59:43

Thanks Penny! I have a trashed piano I've used for a piece or two and aspire to trash it further while capturing the sounds.

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Penny
6/10/2019 01:56:36

When i get back home i want to mess with my snare with brushes and use some of the percussion metals i have collected as cymbals. I really like what u did.

Jeremiah
6/6/2019 23:40:41

I found this oddly cathartic for myself, thanks Jay.

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Jay Peele
6/9/2019 19:00:07

Good deal! Thank you!

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Chris Phinney
6/7/2019 08:36:03

Al Margolis ( If, Bwana) has a piano board the guts of the inside of a grand piano fun as hell to play contact mics all over & miced, we used it on the Angwana Slither cassette on Matt Howarths bugtown label, great cartoonist, been commisioned for a few works, cds to accompany some comic books, all back in the day Slither, comic cds 90's

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Tom Furgas
6/16/2019 14:17:18

This is really the best kind of improvisation, since you are not a pianist you do not have the taste, memory, and habits of a piano player, so the music is as free and unhampered as can be. Beautiful results, naturally.

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Jay Peele
6/21/2019 15:49:17

Thank you!!!!

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Aimee Naworal link
6/18/2019 23:24:58

I totally dig this cathartic use of a piano. Thank you for sharing your music therapy with us!

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Jay Peele
6/21/2019 15:49:46

Twas fun! Thanks for checking it out!

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    Jay Peele
    (Fiver's Stereo,
    DJ Shatter Wax)
    ​is an active musician,
    song writer, experimentalist,
    vinyl DJ, poet,
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