I decided to start a series of instrumentals, most likely all piano, or keyboard, rather…  

When I play piano, I generally look at a print or a picture.  I recently got a book of Japanese prints from the library and some of them are really inspiring.  For this series, I am going to concentrate on Hiroshige.  Many prints are related to actors of the time or historical events, but Hiroshige did more landscapes, which I particularly enjoy.  

I mainly write piano music by playing things over and over and slowly changing it to how I like it.  This song here was written a little last night and some the night before.  Perhaps it isn’t finished, but it seemed like a good place to record it.  I tried to keep it short.  As with most piano work, it is recorded in one take, improvised on some themes, and is minimally processed - just a bit of compression to control the crazy highs and lows of my keyboard.  

The song is based on Tsuchiyama: View of Mount Suzuka from the series “Fifty-three Stations along the Tokaido.”  It is called Another View of Suzukayama under the moniker “ukiyo-ki.”

You can download it here: http://soundcloud.com/ukiyo-ki/another-view-of-suzukayama

Enjoy.  More to come.

I will also post a big version of the picture soon.