Kuda Lumping - played this piece during my secondary school days... which is probably 20 years back?! 
Decided to take out the yellowed score and record... pardon for the mistakes!

https://soundcloud.com/tcj-1/kuda-lumping

It's the time of the year to reflect what I've done for the past 11 months. I guess it's mostly about work and career, which I think I have been giving a bit too much resources and attention onto this. When I get too engrossed in work, I will remind myself that "nobody is indispensable".

WorkThis year has been an extremely challenging year, ( Read more... )

Bought a nice Sony recorder a day ago for my upcoming Japan trip next Jan : )
Tried recording a relatively simple song Auld Lang Syne to test out the quality... need to practise more! Shaky rhythm!

Auld Lang Syne by tcj

Chanced upon this song - Gift by Mr Children - when I was touring in Taiwan. It is the theme song for Shiseido Maquillage range of lipsticks advertisements (I think I have a better knowledge of these products than my female peers, but I must clarify that I *don't* use any of these lol. Lipbalm doesn't count.) What attracted me initially was the ( Read more... )

Think my blog has turned into a place where I (shamelessly) post the recordings that I've done :P

Received the book "Disney on Brass" for the Electone (More info at http://www.disney.co.jp/records/brass/, though it's in Japanese) 2 weeks ago, and I wanted to do a series of ( Read more... )

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Anyway, a remake of a song which many piano students would be very familiar with... some mistakes here and there :S

Clumsy me fell down on my knees while I was doing a jog a few days back. Now my knees have abrasion and are oozing a bit of pus, I'm wondering if they will recover on time for my race next week. Wouldn't want to back out at the last minute as the Stanchart race is one of my most enjoyable races I've taken part so far, plus next year I should be ( Read more... )

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Been some time since I've touched the instrument, getting a bit rusty now... So now posting this song "Symphonic Rhapsody No. 3: Time and Space". Just some background, this 4-part suite was composed by Saori Iwauchi, and "No. 2: Genesis" was her 1st prize winning song in the International Electone Competition in 1988(?) and has been since performed ( Read more... )