Nostalgic Keys

There is, in all honesty, only a handful of songs that inspire me to linger at a corner of the upstairs sitting room where my neglected piano resides.

Piano lessons were one of those things that were fashionable (and perhaps some would say appropriate) for a shy, rather lonely girl with a mind that's constantly wandering. Stubbornness, a sentimental streak and dogged refusal to throw in the towel saw me through a decade of tear-fraught lessons with 5 hard-fought grades to show for it.

Needless to say I'm not a good pianist. I don't have the patience and concentration to keep working on melodies without words, and I've never really found appreciation for classical music - definitely not a desirable recipe of traits for someone training as a classical musician.

Sometimes though, nostalgia and a really inspirational assembly of notes make me wish I tried harder at mastering the ol' black-and-white keys.


A Drop In The Ocean//Ron Pope

  River Flows In You//Yiruma
Yiruma's my absolute favourite instrumental maestro. I'm so tempted to string together words and be the lyricist to his compositions; they're always just so exquisitely beautiful and hauntingly elegant. The keys to my soul.