Improvisational Time Capsules - Meditations

David Cain is a composer, performer and member of the award-winning improv trio, Wertico Cain & Gray. His latest album, MEDITATIONS, is the story of improvisational time capsules, moments of musical meditation. The spontaneous recordings were inspired by the memory of Cain’s composer-mentor, Dr. Roque Cordero. Cain says: “Roque taught me the importance of connecting to musical flow through daily improvisational practice, leading to idea development, orchestration... resulting in possibilities that might exist outside the usual boxes of melody, harmony, structure, and norms.”

Describing his piano improvisations as ‘meditations with the muse,’ David Cain brings together a lifetime of musical influences that ‘honor the past and welcome the future’. Before recording each improvisation, Cain would “ask the muse for inspiration and guidance.” The results: each improvisation creates its own atmosphere: elegiac and ecstatic, soulful and blithe…

Here are 19 Meditations along with their date/time of birth.

1. Sea Is Salt (6:09) 11-9-17 @ 11:49 a.m.  
2. East of the Sun (1:59) 11-10-17 @ 10:18 p.m.
3. West of the Moon (1:10) 11-10-17 @ 10:34 p.m. 
4. Seven Sails (5:18) 11-9-17 @ 1:10 p.m.
5. True and Untrue (1:32) 11-11-17 @ 10:26 p.m.
6. The Hemp Tree (2:25) 11-11-17 @ 10:39 p.m.
7. Tales of Cats (1:20) 11-20-17 @ 9:13 p.m. 
8. Big Glass Shoes (1:23) 11-20-17 @ 9:29 p.m.  
9. The Mermaid's Tale (1:34) 11-21-17 @ 10:22 p.m. 
10. What the Moon Saw (1:35) 11-24-17 @ 10:09 p.m. 
11. The Magician's Daughter (2:01) 11-26-17 @ 12:06 a.m.
12. In a Thousand Years (1:49) 11-26-17 @ 9:52 p.m.
13. The Snow Queen (1:44) 11-26-17 @ 10:01 p.m. 
14. The Red Shoes (2:12) 11-26-17 @ 10:10 p.m.
15. The Races (0:46) 11-27-17 @ 10:34 p.m. 
16. From the Sky (1:58) 11-27-17 @ 11:01 p.m. 
17. Monk's Tale (1:54) 11-27-17 @ 11:11 p.m. 
18. The Best Wish (1:55) 11-28-17 @ 7:44 p.m. 
19. Love Song (1:28) 11-29-17 @ 9:17 p.m.