Distant Starlight

'Distant Starlight' is one of the more ambient tracks from my second solo piano CD, 'Scenes from the Neighbourhood'... My younger brother and I would lie out on the back lawn with grandpa on a rug and look up into the summer night sky, watching for satellites and falling stars. Much later in life you realize that you learnt more about life and your place in the universe then, than at any other time. Sometimes I miss grandpa so much it writes itself into a tune. Looking up into the night sky as a man you realize that although he and the light from those nights are long gone, the light from some other distant star, just arriving here, is a comforting link to those well-remembered days...

'Scenes from the Neighbourhood' is available from CD Baby and iTunes. Sheet Music of 'Distant Starlight' is available at www.lulu.com.