Bradley David Lycan
An American Song Writer/Composer/Song Music Producer
Pianist and Keyboardist
My website is for a global community -- everyone is welcome.
As Autumn seasons begin, we showcase our song above "Love Passes Slow." Autumn is often a time of reflection -- cooler mornings, warm afternoons, and lonesome evenings. Here we feature vocalist Kat Bowser with contributing musicians: Don Carr (guitars), Dieu Aime Nsikoh (bass guitars), Todd Wilkinson (saxophones), Stan Kessler (trumpet and flugelhorn), and me, Brad Lycan on pianos and keyboards.
The Summer season is now being greeted by Autumn mornings. Here we showcase our song above "August Midst," a song of summer loves, of summer memories, of summer's hopes with new horizons.
Beginning this October of this year, we will share this new song project featuring Adriana Nikole. These are special folk ballads of mine: "August Midst" (2016), "I Hear You Calling" (2017). Contributing musicians will be Kat Bowser (accompaniment vocals), Don Carr (guitars), Dieu Aime Nsikoh (bass guitars), Todd Wilkinson (saxophones), Stan Kessler (trumpet and flugelhorn), and me, Brad Lycan on pianos and keyboards.
So, as we are ending the Summer of 2026, we showcase our song above "Love is the Only Light in the Universe." Late summer winds have blown softly out to sea, the shoreline now quiet and aware...early Autumn breezes are rustling the trees -- the butterfly has come to visit.
The evening Autumn moons ascend and peer -- descend and hide -- return and glow, await and yearn.
Song "Lonely One" featuring violinist Sarah Nienhiser.
Here are 2 more of my newer website links below to showcase our songs:
https://www.bradleydavidlycansongs.com/
AI info. page web link below on Bradley David Lycan:
Here are 2 new October 2026 songs on our album project taverns and travelers: "Love Passes Slow" and "Caught in the Middle." First 1st. pre-mix on "Love Passes Slow" is posted above this October 6, 2026 5 pm and my 1st mix for "Caught in the Middle" posted Oct. 9, 2026. Excellent vocals, Kat. Speaker-Mixes coming this weekend.
Here are some great websites below with Kat sharing more about her life and career: click on links.
https://thequiltshow.com/quiltipedia/who-is-kat-bowser
Vocalist Kat Bowser and guitarist Don Carr came as a special gift to us here in 2019 to join our song production. I met them through Sweetwater Music. Here Kat sings her vocal in our Autumn 2020 recording of "Cinderellia" (recorded at South Florida Voice Studios). Don plays acoustic guitar on this song and then records a secondary electric rhythm guitar (recorded at Sweetwater Music Studios). Don has done all of the guitar work for us here in Lycan Song Studio -- from 2019-2026.
Here is more below about Don Carr: click on links.
Here are some good website links below with more about Adriana's life and music: click on links.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQAu2lPjNHR/
Here is a new October 2026 song to begin our album project city skapes vii "rooms and intersektions" -- "Go Hiding."
"September in Kansas City" is a free-form piano improvisation of mine from the Fall of 2016. Here I am honored to have jazz saxophonist Todd Wilkinson accompany me on this piece.
Here is more below about Todd: click on links.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrPs6eHcRRs
"Song for Jessie" is a free-form piano improvisation of mine from the 2017. Here I am honored to have jazz trumpeter Stan Kessler accompany me on this piece.
Here is more below about Stan: click on links.
https://jazzmaui.org/stanton-kessler-2/
Here we showcase song writer with singer: song writer Bradley David Lycan on piano -- featuring vocalist, singer, artist, song writer Adriana Nikole. Complementary musicians for city skapes projects include Stan Kessler (trumpet), Don Carr (guitars), Dieu Aime Nsikoh (bass guitar), and Todd Wilkinson (saxophones).
Contributing musicians on the city skapes album projects are: Don Carr (guitars), Dieu Aime Nsikoh (bass guitars), Todd Wilkinson (saxophones), Stan Kessler (trumpet and flugelhorn), and me, Brad Lycan on pianos and keyboards. Adriana Nikole is the vocalist for city skapes album projects.
Here we showcase the new taverns and travelers collection of songs we began recording the Summer/Fall 2025 from Lycan Studio. These are beginning mixes to showcase the song ideas and musicians. These songs will include Rock and Blues/Rock genres with a mainstream popular commercial appeal. I will be remixing the entire album so all songs will have complementary instrument and vocal levels and textures.
Studio musicians include: Don Carr (guitars), Todd Wilkinson (saxophone), and Stan Kessler (trumpet) -- who are all seasoned club players with years of Blues, Rock, and Jazz experience. Dieu Aime Nsikoh is the young one of the group, yet his gift as a bass guitarist will be a good compliment to these seasoned players. Vocalist Kat Bowser will be singing these songs: it will give her chance to step out a bit to showcase her craft with Blues and Rock music genres. I will be playing piano and keyboards.
We have added 2 news songs now to this album. Later in the all/Autumn season of 2026, we will add 2 more new songs before Winter: "Blow Away Love" and "I See You." Here are potential songs we will be adding to this album project in 2027: "In My Life," "Still in the Wind," "You Are Free," "Don't Let it Fly Away," and "Late Last Night."
The taverns and travelers song collection comes from many years of song writing, amidst all of the music and songs I wrote during my life. These songs are honest, straight forward, and share part of American culture. I was not surprised that these songs would have so much emotion and experience expressed in them. My original songs files were quite telling; and the album songs here present a good commercial-interpretation for the general public of my original intent with these songs. The contributing musicians of Lycan Studio are seasoned night club players -- they knew what would work to showcase this song album taverns and travelers.
In fact, the American tavern has a defined place in the culture and traditions of America and American music. Here is a good website link to an article on the American Tavern by author Janet Fortran -- a "Celebration of American taverns." https://www.americanheritage.com/celebration-american-taverns
And, as the historical author Henry David Thoreau said: “The tavern will compare favorably with the church. The church is the place where prayers and sermons are delivered, but the tavern is where they are to take effect, and if the former are good, the latter cannot be bad” (From "The Landlord" in Excursions, 1863) [1, 2].
This Fall season of 2026 we will add a new song "How Many Rainbows" (2018) with vocalist Kat Bowser. This song will be a good addition to this album. Studio musicians include: Don Carr (guitars), Dieu Aime Nsikoh (bass guitar) and me, Brad Lycan, on piano and keyboards.
Contributing musicians on the Kat Bowser eclectic song projects are: Don Carr (guitars), Dieu Aime Nsikoh (bass guitars), Todd Wilkinson (saxophones), Stan Kessler (trumpet and flugelhorn), and me, Brad Lycan on pianos and keyboards. These musicians above collaborate on these varied projects, and each musician above writes/composes his own parts. They, therefore, own a % part of the SR (Sound Recording) copyright per song from their recorded track contribution. This includes vocalist Kat Bowser.
The PA (Performing Arts) copyrights to all music compositions, song lyrics and song music on this website are the sole ownership of Bradley David Lycan.
Journey to Yore Land is an eclectic collection of songs with an Alternative Rock edge. When we began this album the summer of 2019, we selected a hand-full of few songs and just started recording them: there was no direction or plan whatsoever, and the musicians had never played together before -- however the songs turned out, and we added them to the album. This project became the 1st album on my website. We will also improve and /or re-record some of the keyboard tracks (Brad has new synths and virtual instruments), some of the horn tracks, some of the guitar and bass guitar tracks, some of the vocal tracks, and improve all of the song's over-all mixes. We will revisit this album: it has some good songs of mine that warrant the extra time investment.
Whereas our 2019-2023, 2026 album Journey to Yore Land is about the desolate archaic lands of our quests for love and ascension: our 2027-28 album Journey to Yore Land ii "ti the end of your love" is about the enduring holly tree branch growing amidst these ancient ruins, the secret winds, and silent dreams that take us to hidden sea shores where we embark on the enduring quest for survival.
In 2027 we begin a new music album venture -- Journey to Yore Land ii "til the end of your love." This will be a collection of songs with a more mellow Rock appeal: it will be a "concept" album with a preconceived theme and direction -- that will include a nice array of instruments, layered vocals, and keyboards. Contributing Musicians: trumpeter Stan Kessler, guitarist Don Carr, saxophonist Todd Wilkinson, bass guitarist Dieu Aime Nsikoh, vocalist Adriana Nikole, vocalist Kat Bowser, and pianist/keyboardist Brad Lycan.
The city skapes album projects 2021--2027
Ideal for television, film, and just listening
The city skapes album projects features vocalist Adriana Nikole. There are 8 albums: city skapes Adriana Nicole "song showcase," city skapes i "inside my room," city skapes ii "the edge," city skapes iii "somewhere," city skapes iv "street signs," city skapes v "doorways," city skapes vi "walkways & bridges," and city skapes vii "rooms and intersektions." The city skapes v "doorways" and city skapes vii "rooms and intersektions" album projects will be ongoing in 2026 and 2027. Contributing musicians on the city skapes album projects are: Don Carr (guitars), Dieu Aime Nsikoh (bass guitars), Todd Wilkinson (saxophones), Stan Kessler (trumpet and flugelhorn), and me, Brad Lycan on pianos and keyboards. These musicians above collaborate on these city skapes album projects, and each musician above writes/composes his own parts. They, therefore, own a % part of the SR (Sound Recording) copyright per song from their recorded track contribution. This includes vocalist Adriana Nikole. The PA (Performing Arts) copyrights to all music compositions, song lyrics and song music on this website are the sole ownership of Bradley David Lycan.
The city skapes v "doorways" album will be ongoing during 2026-2027. We will add songs here as they come amidst our song production.
These 7 city skapes album projects present an eclectic collection of songs about the urban and sub-urban landscapes -- a world of people, rooms, musty halls, familiar shops, old staircases, and walkways -- the pensive hours of village and aloofness, gray illumined days that empty into night, the pacing of clocks with faces that pass over bridges to nowhere but across. Congested streets peer through void and loss in quests that reach into sky and aloneness without, be it butterfly or moth in the flutter of flame there burn into dross -- yet songs and the wind blow gently and always from green to stone in cosmos to the streets. Their eyes never tell as they mill and churn, to speak and look, to greet and story, to hear and leave (2025, Lycan).
We begin the city skapes vii album "rooms and intersektions."
We add our 1st. song "Go Hiding" this October 2026...
My piano improvisation compositions
2013 -- 2018
All piano pieces above are recorded to midi DAW (Logic and Pro Tools) using Synthogy Ivory piano virtual software. I played/performed all of these pieces in real time on Kurzweil and Yamaha electronic pianos; I sat and recorded as I performed the pieces in those moments. Before showcasing these improvisation compositions here, I made minor edits (in midi DAW) to these piano pieces removing any wrong passing notes, clunkers, etc.
Instrumental album projects -- for film and venture
Nocturnal Sarai is an instrumental project -- exploratory in nature. The foundation of the Nocturnal Sarai pieces are my original piano improvisations (2015-2017). In the Summer of 2015 I would sit in the evenings after dinner and just play piano, and record on Logic DAW everything I did. That summer I enjoyed the freedom of working in my home music studio. I did not know then that I would return to that summer piano work in the Winter of 2022, about 7 years later. In the Winter of 2022, I then edited and orchestrated these piano improv. pieces with synthesizers and sampled sound software, virtual instruments for Mac computers. So, the first 3 Nocturnal Sarai originated from my 2015 piano improvisations I played and recorded during that time amidst my song writing. I performed these piano pieces on Kurzweil digital pianos using the Synthogy Ivory virtual piano instrument, recorded to Logic DAW. Now, the final piece, Sarai iv "nocturnal skies," is my 2027 piano improvisation I performed on a Yamaha Clavinova digital piano recorded to Pro Tools, which was among a lot of songs that appear on the city skapes album projects on this website. So, in the Winter season of 2022 and early 2023, I orchestrated these 4 piano improvisation piano pieces by adding new keyboard instrument tracks using Kurzweil K2600 sound samples along with EastWest Sounds, Vienna, Native Instruments, Sweetwater Music sound libraries for Kurzweil K2600, and Eduardo Tarilonte virtual sound libraries. In the upcoming Winters of 2026/2027, I will be adding new song compositions to this album as well as updating orchestrated sounds on the album with Moog, Quantum ii, and Sequential synthesizers along with more Eduardo Tarilonte virtual sound libraries.
Trumpeter Stan Kessler and saxophonist Todd Wilkinson contributed their own original horn parts to my orchestrated versions of these 4 improvisational piano pieces.
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With Eagles Fly is an instrumental project -- exploratory in nature. The foundation of these piano compositions are my original piano improvisations. I performed these piano pieces on my Yamaha Clavinova digital piano using the Synthogy Ivory virtual piano instrument, recorded in Midi to Pro tools DAW. I played and recorded the Eagle compositions within the same one-hour period one Spring morning of 2018. At that time I was not impressed with my 3 piano pieces, so I shrugged my shoulders and filed the songs away for awhile. The Winter seasons of 2022 and early 2023, I returned to this DAW file again, and I chose 2 of the 3 improv. piano pieces to edit and orchestrate with synthesizers and sampled sound software virtual instruments -- and recorded them into my Logic DAW on my Mac computer. I orchestrated the 2 Eagle piano improvisation piano pieces by adding new keyboard instrument tracks using Kurzweil K2600 sound samples along with EastWest Sounds, Vienna, Native Instruments, Sweetwater Music sound libraries for Kurzweil K2600, and Eduardo Tarilonte virtual sound libraries. The Winters of 2026/2027, I will once again return to these 2 Eagle piano compositions: updating orchestrated sounds on this album with Moog, Quantum ii, and Sequential synthesizers along with more Eduardo Tarilonte virtual sound libraries.
Saxophonist Todd Wilkinson and Trumpeter Stan Kessler contributed their own original horn parts to my orchestrated versions of these 2 improvisational piano pieces.
Bradley David Lycan is the sole author/composer/song writer of all music on this website. All music and songs are copyrighted in the United States of America. All music is stored on original DAW, midi, wave, and MP3 files. (Older Music is on CD and cassette tape).