It's always a pleasure to work with Michael Orzek (@lando-orz). Funny, how we do it in turns: either Mike adding his guitar magic to my original piano compositions or songs or me adding piano line to Mike's original compositions. This piece is composed and produced by Mike. Here the same track on Mike's cloud:
https://soundcloud.com/lando-orz/though-i-walk-featuring-milana
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Michael Orzek: acoustic and electric guitars, bass guitar, mandolin, acoustic drums, drum programming.
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From Mike's cloud:
Music has an amazing ability to attach itself to our memories and emotions. I originally recorded this song in 2010 (less the piano and electric guitars) at a time when I was very ill with a yet to be diagnosed disease, POEMS Syndrome. At the time of those recording sessions I was suffering from pain and weakness as the disease was attacking my peripheral nerves. Though it was difficult to perform the instruments, particularly the acoustic drums, I was determined to compose this song in spite of my deteriorating condition. I was finally diagnosed in the months after the original recordings and have been through radiation therapy, relapse, and chemo and stem cell transplant in 2012. I would occasionally listen to the demo recording and be instantly transported to those feelings and emotions I felt during those days. I knew that I wanted to complete the song, but would never feel like I was ready to re -immerse myself in the emotional memories it stirred in me. Until now.
The title “Though I Walk” is double entendre, highlighting the reality of having had to be pushed in a wheelchair or using a walker and a cane to get around, and a reference to Psalm 23 “…though I walk in the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil…”
Photo Credits: Skarphéðinn Þráinsson @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/skarpi/4019918303/in/faves-109402094@N04/
