New music coming

Watch “Virtual Improvisation (Andrew Ortega – clarinet, Dan DeChellis – piano)” on YouTube

Ignorance Abounds

New release and experience

download: https://dandechellis.com/album/1444664/random-milestone CD: https://dandechellis.com/product/531632 Tomorrow marks the soft release of “Random Milestones” by the Stehly / DeChellis Project. Burton Stehly / words and spoken words…I did the music and sounds…I’ve never worked with a poet / writer before, so this was a first. I think it turned into to something unique…poignant, funny and dark…I’d love

Hours on Earth

solo ambient piano piece I did tonight….enjoy if you’d like to own a copy: http://dandechellis.bandcamp.com/track/hours-on-earth

Rush

Heroes… I am listening to “Signals” by Rush on a Thorens TT in really good condition on headphones, the drums sound amazing! Rush has always been an example of what to strive for, what I aspire to be…within the rock genre… creative, clever, proficient, surprising and sneaky….altogether, what you wanted in a good band…. they

it’s the small and not so small things…

i was given my first record player when I was in 1st grade, i was also given, or I adopted from my moms collection, “Rubber Soul” by The Beatles…at some point early on I was also given the Horowitz recording of the Tchaikovsky piano concerto by my Uncle Gary and Aunt Joanie…as I recall my

life, career and age…

as i near the inevitable 50 years old, half century, 5 decades…i think about goals, or were they dreams, or are they still goals and dreams….either way, they are things I often think about…how many are still obtainable, how many have been achieved…another factor has entered, not dictated by health as of yet thankfully, but

Twogrow live stream

Sunday…

Any day I can sit on my deck and listen to an album and sip a scotch is a good day….”Excitable Boy” by Warren Zevon today!