Tony Anderson - Heirloom
Вставка
- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- I returned to my childhood home in rural Nebraska in October of 2021. It had been nearly 25 years since my parents sold the house and moved our family out of state. I didn't know what to expect upon returning after so many years, and being in the countryside it was no surprise to discover the home had been abandoned. My guess is that nobody had cared for the place (or the 6 acres of farmland it was on) for more than 20 years based on the decay I witnessed.
Entering the home was one of the most surreal moments of my life. The memories flooded back - the home had been suspended in time. Mold and rot consumed most of the structure, but even amidst the decay, the layout was identical. It was completely silent. Outside, the warm October wind carried chaff from nearby fields being harvested in through the open window I had shattered to get inside. Everything around me was alive. I felt as if this forgotten home had been waiting for someone to come back. To love it again.
A decomposing upright piano was leaned up against the front porch outside...the same porch my father built in 1996. With its strings exposed, I recorded a few notes. In the months following my visit, I listened back to what I had captured and realized I had sampled notes in the same key as the song I wrote for my mother (Ariana) in 2019 following her death. I had been looking for something of hers on the property when I broke in - something physical to remind me of her. I never did, but the recordings were more than enough.
I've since returned to Nebraska - its cities and small towns - a handful of times over the last few years while writing my forthcoming album. All of the music I'm developing flows from the places, the people and the memories of my childhood in small town America in the 1990s. And so this song - Heirloom - is the first of many that are my way of bringing you close into the most formative and beautiful years of my life.
The photo was taken in our kitchen. Some of my favorite moments of my childhood were in this room. My mom would cook, clean, sing and sometimes throw furniture when she got really angry. She was complex, and we all loved her for it. When I snapped this photo, I liked knowing that I was looking out the same window she did all those years ago.
Mastered by Brian Calhoon
License my music for your films through Musicbed: www.musicbed.c...
Instagram: / ptonypterodactyl
Support me directly by purchasing my music on Bandcamp: tonypterodacty...
Spotify: open.spotify.c...
Apple Music: / tony-anderson
Say Hi: www.tonyanders...
UA-cam: / @tonyandersonmusic
My mom was passed away three years ago because of cancer, this tone makes me feels like my mom never left， and I wish I had taken more videos and photos when she was alive. Thank you Tony, for making this tone!
la mama es el primer angel que la vida nos da.
@@KN77Music Gracias
Sorry for your loss.
I’m sorry, my mother passed away 2 years ago, and I’m still devastated. God blessed us ❤
Thank you Lucia and I'm sorry for your loss. There's a sentence my favorite movie INTERSTELLAR "Love is the one thing we're of perceiving that transcends time and space.", and I do believe that love can transcend time and space to keep you and your mom both connected. I hope this can help you feel better you're thinking about your mom. God blessed us ❤@@luciacardosos
those silent and slow winter days. A certain coziness mixed with an anxious feeling that nothing is happening. Thats what the picture reminds me of.
Thank you for touching my life like you do, Tony.
Thanks for opening parts of yourself up with every song.
You, your stories and your music have become a place of good soul care for me.
Wow - thank you, Noah
AGREED!
Beautiful, as ever. Even though there are no words in your music, it speaks to me of God, family, hope and so much beauty and goodness.
☺Thank you Monique
Good afternoon Tony Anderson, I'm a fan of your music!
Good afternoon to you! Thank you!!!
@@TonyAndersonMusic sou do Brasil!
Beautiful song, beautiful story. Thanks for all you do
Thanks for listening
I listen to your music on the bike, at home, at work, it's so beautiful. Thank you!
Once again thank you for taking us on the journey with you. I too have memories of living in the heart of the US, just south in KS. I'm grateful that often when I don't have the words, your music can become for me, the words I didn't know how to say. Thanks for doing what you do.
I love KS!!!!
I have been always moved by your music. So am I this time. Thank you. Love your music
Your music is incredible Tony! This is just beautiful - thank you!
!!!! Thank you!
I came across your new song while reading many laments about the troubles of human interaction...There are answers...Silence and life...The wonderful present and here
Thank you for being there and giving us this music! 😊
This is very moving and calm and nostalgic and a bit sad but it's light sadness. And I'm very familiar with such moments when you return to your previous now abandoned home. Thank you for this
A moving piece with a moving story. I can’t imagine the melting pot of emotions you must have felt, entering your childhood home, now abandoned. Take care, Tony!
Mann, this music has brought all my favorite childhood memories and literally brought smile in my chaotic life. ❤❤❤❤
Thank you for taking us with you in this amazing and beautiful journey. With the music I read the story. I feel it all. Thank you!
Thank YOU!
I've been listening to your music every day for years. You are the best. It fits with my mindfulness lifestyle. Thank you for your music🥰
Wow!!! So happy we found one another!
Thankyou Tony. A blessing to the world. They are never apart from us. With love.
This song brings back so many memories
That makes me so happy to hear
Always love calming themes performed on a piano. This song is brilliant!
Wow. Thank you!!!
Beautiful! Maybe the notes in this melody and Ariana is the “smile” your mom reminded you to look for! ♥️🔥
Incredible as always, Tony. Thanks for sharing - needed this today.
A very beautiful piece. 😊
Sunset dancing, while feeling the soft, warm aplause of the Universe. 🧘🏽♂️
C'est incroyable combien ta music nous plonge dans la rêverie, on oublie tout ! MERCI ❤
Your description describing this is so heartfelt Tony. I love your music so much and how it ties in with your memories. Your way of making it bring out what you say is so incredible! God bless you man keep it up!
Thanks for listening so so much
Very nice song, mood… feeling… what a work on the sound ! 👍🏼🙏😊😎
Thank you!!!!
Thanks for sharing. There's no place like Home.
So true
Amazing story behind this track, and an awesome story inside it. Wow!
I really love this song ❤ thanks
Dear Mr. Anderson! It’s amazing!! From Russia with love!!
Я так тебя люблю! Мне очень жаль всего, через что пришлось пройти вашей стране за последние несколько лет. Сначала мои дистрибьюторы сказали, что больше не будут транслировать мою работу в России, и это меня расстроило. Я поддерживаю вас и думаю, что худшее, что мы как артисты можем сделать, - это отобрать нашу музыку у граждан России, независимо от того, что они думают о войне.
@@TonyAndersonMusic Thank you very much for your understanding! Totally agree with you! music should not depend on politics! Ordinary people are not to blame, unlike politicians and political games. There is a wonderful expression from old Soviet cinema: “Everything is transitory, but music is eternal!”🙏
I somehow knew from the first glance at that photo that it was a beloved old house, now abandoned but revisited after many years. Or maybe I knew after a note or two of the gorgeous, haunting song. Tony, you're reaching a point in your work where emotional impulses are coming through with astonishing clarity and specificity. It's a rare thing. Kudos, and thank you.
Love it Bro. Keep up the amazing work. The world need more of this. Thank you
More to come - thank you so much
Beautiful piece. Beautiful story. The photo reminds me so much of the aesthetic of my own childhood home - being of a similar age and similar rural setting.
German peanuts! That's what we are!
@@TonyAndersonMusic *organic
Amazing song and story
Just woke up and found that you released this song with a story behind it: the morning starts with tears of happiness filling my eyes.
Thank you for sharing the moment, Tony.
Thank YOU
peaceful and emotional!❣❣i can hear it again and again everyday... from VIETNAM❤ with love
Love to you and all of Vietnam!!!
Always in love with your music, the sounds, the melodies, harmony...
And I really like the person you are.
I added it to my playlist Broken Piano.
And will stay there for life.
❤
Thank you for sharing a part of yours to the world, it's so therapeutic ❤❤❤
Beautiful Tony! The tunes took me to your home and the track Ariana before I read your capture. So peaceful and calm. I could listen to it over and over! Big hugs!
Eyra - thank you! I love you.
Your music speaks words. It resonates with the hurt, sorrow, and scars of every soul and brings comfort because the heart knows it is not alone. Tony, I thank God for you and your gift. May we trace the sunbeams back to the source of the sun from where it comes.
❤️
I love how this type of music really does translate from your emotions and feelings. I love how you express your feelings to music, really touches to heart on others, I really love that, and you bringing that to this world shows that you care for the good things, and shows that we also can do that too. Pure talent Tony.
Thank you so much 😭
I couldn't agree more about the song sounding like "Ariana" and thank you for this new masterpiece, Tony. Right now, I'm going through a tough season in life. Suicidal thoughts come and go, but I know that Jesus is using you to reach out to those who feel hopeless.
So glad you’re here and alive
Wow. The description coupled with the music is just something else. I think the older we get the more we yearn bits of our childhood. The innocence, the fun, and how it was not stressfull to be a kid. Glad you have some good memories from your home. Amazing music as always
Thank you, Tony, for your songs..... every time I listen to your music, I am on a journey inside me. Pictures of the past, of unfullfilled love, dreams, future....
Touching story
Excellent… couldn’t agree more.. x
While I was listening to the music and reading the story behind it, the story is like being played in front of me what a beautiful experience 🥰
Masterpiece... Listened it many times after you released it but have just read the description. So emotional... Now I feel better everything you've put inside the music. Still made me feel cozy ... Cozy as home. You are so talented and having such a huge heart. Thank you for the music and for sharing your emotions which made you create such a tender, sensual and meaningful masterpiece ❤
Making the feeling of home in my music is what I work so hard for 😭🙏🏼
Thank you Tony
Namaste 🙏✨
You are so welcome
As always, unique wonderful music! Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for listening!
Blessings to you beautiful soul ❤
Amazing as always... Make me feel cozy
Amazing...you are a being of light 🌟🪄🫀
Magic! Healing sounds! We need more of this caind of vibes to heal our souls &minds❤. wish You joy and inspiration🎉
🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Thank you for sharing your feelings, your Gift and your music with us. It makes me cry everytime. I have experienced almost the same feelings when I visited my childhood home. This is so deep😢. We are one Tony. Love you so much.. I am one of your biggest fans from Turkey ❤
Evet haklısın! Eşim küçük bir kızken Türkiye'de yaşıyordu. Umarım bir gün ziyarete gelirim
Oh my god. I can not believe it. You wrote in Turkish. Please let me know when you come to Turkey. It would be one of my biggest dreams to meet you in Person. Seni çok seviyorum ❤
This is so reminiscent of your beautiful piece "Ariana" which you wrote for her. So gorgeous.
it's pure magic Tony! Thank you so much! As long as there's music like this, the world won't go mad.
I hope I can do this until I'm really old - it's the best thing I can think to bring into the world.
You’re music will be played forever, it is timeless, thank you so very much. I hope you continue to enjoy making it as much as I enjoy listening. Every day I might add, as my background music at work.
Hi Tony!! It’s been a while since I got to chance to listen to your music but I’m so glad I started again. This piece made my heart ache in a good way and I got chills while reading the description you wrote. The positive memories of our family are the best heirlooms that can be passed down.
Thank you for translating your experience back home into a powerful performance. And thank you for sharing it with us! 🙏
The Sensitivity ...Palpable. Moving ☺
Such an incredible piece of music, with a beautiful backstory ❤
Thank you so much!
Beautiful work ❤
This is another incredible track of yours which immediately pulled me in. You build the whole thing around these two very warm, comfy and peaceful chords which alternate in an almost clock-like fashion. And then you have all the little melodies and arps on top of that, just beautiful! And I love the slightly out of tune piano which plays the melody :)
Fascinating, how you are able to pack so much emotion and beauty into your tracks! Thank you!
Wow - thank you so much!
The wonderfully described context really adds to the music. You can hear the similarities to Ariana - it's good to have the linkages explicitly described.
The whole album is pretty similar motifs throughout hidden in there - I hope you don't get tired of it!
Como sempre, mais uma composição incrível. Traz pensamentos muito felizes e tranquilos. Obrigado, Tony! 😃🤗💚💚💚
Bom ver outros do Brasil por aqui :)
@@Gabriel-ci6whpois é
I love Brasil!!!
Que bom rsrs, meu sonho é ouvir Tony ao vivo...
Maravilhoso, como sempre! Obrigada por me acalmar tanto ❤
Nós que agradecemos!
this has to be the most beautiful thing I've heard in a long time
the small fine notes go straight into the soul, I am very touched by how beautiful it sounds :-)
💙Solo es volar la imaginación y sientir la música 🎼🎶🎵🎹 Gracias Tony Anderson 🙏
¡Muchísimas gracias por escuchar y apoyar mi trabajo!
Your music is always wonderful, but this is overwhelming; the music, the photo, the story. Good tears- thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much😭
Merci pour cette très belle musique Tony Anderson, vos musiques apaise mon cœur et me permettent de partir rien qu’en fermant les yeux dans mon monde intérieur qui me montre plein de belles images apaisantes ❤❤
Continuez comme ça à nous régaler avec vos musiques que je trouves belle,transportante,douce et poétique !
Et également merci de partager une partie de vous,de vos émotions dans chaque morceau que vous faites 😊
Bravo à vous pour votre travail 😊
Beautifully🥰
Amazing story and music as always
It just keeps coming! 🙌
I hope you like it!
Like your story you wrote about the house you returned to is so shockingly similar my life. My mom had passed away when I was only 11 due to health issues she battled with for years. My family has moved numerous times since her passing. Some years back, my dad had taken us "kids" to one of the houses we grew up in as a surprise when we were vacationing in the area. The farm and house were abandoned and have been for a very long time by the looks of it. Many things were falling apart on the house, but the memories that came playing through my mind was insane. It's was such a surreal experience.
Thanks for sharing! Beautiful music.
Thankyou for the backstory to your music. It allows me to imagine the nostalgia you might feel in that space. I then try to apply your music and nostalgia to places and events that have occured in my own life ( like childhood home being sold and the death of a parent) thankyou so much for your music.
Amo tu musica
Casi siempre la escucho y ahora que estoy deprimida me tranquiliza demasiado 😢❤
Thank you for sharing such preciousness Tony. The place is an evolving canvas, but the people who painted it over the years live with and within us, eternally.
Yes
Wonderfully moving and powerful piece Tony! It is beautiful!
😭😭😭🙏🏼
Wow what a drop! ❤
I wish I could return to my childhood home again. Lived there with my four siblings until I left at 19. My mom had to sell not long after my dad passed 12 years ago. New owners changed the inside. It would never be the same. Our kitchen holds the best memories for me as well. Change is inevitable but the feelings that accompany a memory never change, they just grow deeper in the heart. Thank you Tony, for this beautiful piece.
Beautifully said
Once again, Beautiful! Been a fan since your beginnings. ❤
Thank you Clint!
Ariana was my favorite song of yours. now I'm torn, this alternative version is so good!
The entire album is written with similar motifs and riffs off of her melody. She hope you like it.
I love your work Tony 🎉
Thanks Robert!
Sweetness❤
Another gem. Thanks for sharing
Love the backstory to this piece, what a great picture to look back on and remember your mother by.
Thanks for blessing our Friday yet again
Thank you so much!
We launching at the same time again haha awesome :)
Best of luck, sir!
Tony, your post appeared on my Instagram feed this morning, but I had never heard or seen anything about you, but this song and the short clip with home movie footage drew me in and I too felt emotional. My parents still live in the house my brother and I were raised in and one day that house will be mine. This song flooded me with emotions about that house, the neighborhood and all the special memories I have associated with it. So thank you for sharing it. BTW, I also did a deeper dive into your music and also watched your 9/11 doc, and I’ll now be following and listening to your music. Thank you again. (Sorry for the long comment but I had to let you know)
Wow! The power of instagram. I’m so glad we connected. And thanks for your incredible and kind note. I’m so envious you get to have your home back one day. That’s my wildest dream but sadly someone just purchased it in the last year and their vision for it is…odd?
Thanks for saying hi. I hope debris was meaningful to you. I put everything I had into that film and music.
❤
A wonderfully moving and emotive music track. Looking forward to your next release.
Thank you Alan
hi Tony, tell me, are you going to record a video where you will show the process of creating compositions from scratch? as a person who learns from your music, I would be just happy =)))
just in the studio tour you said this, and I hope that you will do it =)))
The Under the Heavens film is the closest I can think of! It's on my page
I saw this movie) you look good!
tony, please tell me, is it possible to write a joint composition with you? Because I take an example from you, I would really like to do something magical with you (my idol) =) let's face it, this is my dream.If suddenly, somehow you agree, I can throw off my portfolio so that you understand that I am serious) I'm not known as you, so I don't count on it, but I'm not me if I don't try =)@@TonyAndersonMusic
love it ... Sounds Amazing
Thank you!
Tony, I listen to your music every day since I met you, the deep tone doesn't make me sad, on the contrary, it encourages me to continue, today I discovered; Heirloon and I cried, thank you Tony, God is with you, (Brazil)
That’s exactly how I feel about this piece. It makes me feel safe.
Gracias ❤
De nada 😊
@@TonyAndersonMusic Dios lo siga bendiciendo grandemente 🙏♥️
Perfect ❤❤❤❤❤
Amazing! Thank you for sharing ur genius with us ❤
Thank YOU for being there and listening
@@TonyAndersonMusic with pleasure
I am your biggest fan, Tony❤ You have become such an inspiration for me, I started composing music. Thank you for sharing your extraordinary talent with us❤ Much love,
Sabrina
Yesss!!!! How’s composing been going? So happy for you.
@@TonyAndersonMusic
It’s absolutely amazing, thanks to your most beautiful music I have ever heard ❤️
Reaching my soul with this sound ❤
😭Thanks for listening
Incredibly beautiful story and music. Thank you for sharing this and I pray the Lord Jesus Christ will continue to bless you with this gift. Please listen for him and give him glory for all you do that He may receive the praise he is worthy of. You are His creation, as this music is yours, and His alike. God bless you and your family.
This hit me hard. I lost my Dad recently due to cancer. My mom doesnt want to live. As she's missing him a lot. They both got married after a long love. Now it's hurting her as she misses him very badly.
I see Tony Anderson upload...I click of course.