Lycan Studio
Bradley David Lycan
An American Song Writer/Composer/Song Producer
Pianist and Keyboardist
My website is for a global community -- everyone is welcome.
Piano Impressions is a collection of my original piano improvisation compositions from 2013-2018. I entitled this collection "impressions" because these piano pieces express experiences in my life that have left their emotive and psychic imprints. This 30-song collection above expresses my experience beginning in my early 20's when I left my home of family and old friends to live my own life -- to enter a world of my own making. My solitary journey would prove to be quite a challenge and arduous adventure over the years. So, I am happy today to share some of my impressions about my time here on Earth and the roads I have traveled. I hope you enjoy my piano compositions in improvisation.
My piano work will not fit into any one genre of music, of course, as my piano improvisation compositions draw from many music genres. I grew up listening to and playing all kinds of music with piano -- from Beethoven and Henry Mancini to the Beatles and the Supremes -- and I was trained with formal piano lessons from age 8 to age 16. I also enjoyed listening intently to the great Rock, Popular Music and Jazz pianists and keyboardists of the 1970s and 1980's. In college I had the opportunity via the college library to listen to piano music in historical time periods from all over the world. (These music people taught me a lot.) My piano compositions, therefore, explore and discover along their own paths; they follow their own trails of emotion, wonder and thought -- they are free, they observe, they tell their stories.
These piano pieces above are the original real-time Midi recordings of me sitting at one digital piano during my song writing periods. There have been minor edits only to this piano work (with no alterations in song tempos or additions of multiple-piano track recording). These piano compositions are recorded via Midi to Logic and Pro Tools DAW. I composed and performed the piano work on Kurzweil and Yamaha digital pianos using Synthogy Ivory piano software with a Great River EQ 2NV in the channel inserts. I will one day (sooner than later) in my early to mid-70's create a piano music notation e-book and printed book for other pianists who would like to play these piano pieces. I will add more pieces as I remix and edit these songs a bit more this year of 2025 and 2026.
Thank you Stephanie Coulter for your photography of me over the years, and thank you Claude Gruffy for contributing your unique artwork to my website.
Our Summer 2025 Lycan Studio Project is city skapes iii "somewhere." This July 17 we share a first-listen to our new songs "Away Away" and "You're Inside." In late August Kat Bowser will add her nice choral vocals with Adriana's lead vocal here on this new song "You're Inside." Also in late August we add these 4 new songs: "I See You Walking," "Do You Want," "Running in the Night," and "Was it Somewhere." In early September we add our last song "Peace and Love."
Further down this website page is the more completed album to date. Contributing musicians for Adriana Nikole's city skapes music albums are: Don Carr (guitars), Dieu Aime Nsikoh (bass guitars), Todd Wilkinson (saxophones), Stan Kessler (trumpet and flugelhorn), Kat Bowser back-up vocalist, and me, Brad Lycan on pianos and keyboards. Thank you everyone for your support and contribution to these songs.
Here we showcase the new taverns and travelers collection of songs beginning this Summer 2025 from Lycan Studio. I will be doing monitor and speaker mixes next. In late August or early September, we will be adding 2 more songs to this collection to end our Summer 2025 work here. This song will be a Blues/Rock genre with mainstream commercial appeal. This song will be an interesting trek for the musicians: Don Carr (guitars), Todd Wilkinson (saxophone), and Stan Kessler (trumpet) -- who are all 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 this song: 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. I waited for many years to write and then share these songs.​​
Kat Bowser sings "Window dreams." This song was originally written in the winter of 2016. This song reminds me of songs from the 1960s I would hear at times on the radio. "Window dreams" is that kind of song: a song about people, about life, about this world, about our social selves -- a song for reflection and thought.
​The city skapes album projects present an eclectic collection of songs about the urban and sub-urban landscapes. There are 6 albums on this website -- some still in production. These album projects are ongoing in 2025 and 2026. ​​Contributing musicians for Adriana Nikole's city skapes music albums 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.
​city skapes vi "walkways & bridges" will be Rock-oriented music, urban songs from the heart of city living.​ Featuring vocalist Adriana Nikole.​ This Autumn season 2025 I will remix this album. We added the final song "You're the One" to complete this album July 31, 2025.
Here is my song "Winter Bird" -- with vocalist Kat Bowser. When I asked Kat to sing this song, I told her this song was about a "noble quest" -- and so she delivers this song with that intent. I hope everyone enjoys this special song. This song is ideal for film and animated film media as well as Easy Listening music. The original version of this song was composed/written the winter of 1986-87 while I was living on the edge of the city in Columbus Park. "Winter Bird" is from my 1986-87 song/music album Dhyana.
Kat Bowser sings my song "lonely one" (2019): featuring violinist Sarah Nienhiser, trumpeter Stan Kessler, guitarist Don Carr, saxophonists Todd Wilkinson, and pianist/keyboardist Brad Lycan.​ In mid-Autumn of 2025 Kat Bowser will be adding the song "How Many Rainbows." Both of these songs are well suited for film and television venues.
These 2 songs -- "When it Comes to and End" and "How Many Rainbows" -- begin my album how many Rainbows. I will be working on this song collection this coming Summer, and Autumn/Fall, and Winter of 2025 and thru 2026. ​ ​I will be singing these songs on this album myself.​​​ These album songs are from the very last collection of songs I wrote in a 5-year cycle of song writing (between 2014-2018) when I was in my mid-60's -- the most prolific in my life. This album how many Rainbows marks the end of a long journey I began as a much younger man.
​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 the album. This project became the 1st Yore Land album.
Now in 2025 we begin a new music album -- 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 (songs taken largely from no more than 2-3 original song albums of mine from 2017-2018) -- that will include a nice array of instruments, layered vocals, and keyboards.
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Contributing Musicians: trumpeter Stan Kessler, guitarist Don Carr, saxophonist Todd Wilkinson, bass guitarist Dieu Aime Nsikoh, vocalist Adrian Nikole, vocalist Kat Bowser, and pianist/keyboardist Brad Lycan.​
So, in the Autumn/fall season of 2025 we will begin the new music album Journey to Yore Land ii "til the end of your love." Whereas our 2019-2023 album Journey to Yore Land is about a discarded rose flower in the desolate lands of the cosmos: our 2025 album Journey to Yore Land ii "ti the end of your love" is about the enduring holly tree branch growing amidst the ancient ruins, the secret winds, and silent dreams along a hidden sea shore. This is where we find the enduring quest for survival.​​
the city skapes album projects 2021 -- 2026
The city skapes album projects features vocalist Adriana Nikole. There are 6 albums: city skapes i "inside my room," city skapes ii "the edge," city skapes iii "somewhere," city skapes iv "street signs," city skapes v "doorways," and city skapes vi "walkways & bridges." ​ These album projects are ongoing in 2025 and 2026.
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.
In late August or early September we add our last song "Flying Clouds."
Our Summer 2025 Lycan Studio Project is city skapes iii "somewhere." This July 17 we share a first-listen to our new songs "Away Away" and "You're Inside." In late August Kat Bowser will add her nice choral vocals with Adriana's lead vocal here on this new song "You're Inside." Also in last August we add these 4 new songs: "I See You Walking," "Do You Want," "Running in the Night," and "Was it Somewhere." In early September we add our last song "Peace and Love." Contributing musicians for Adriana Nikole's city skapes music albums are: Don Carr (guitars), Dieu Aime Nsikoh (bass guitars), Todd Wilkinson (saxophones), Stan Kessler (trumpet and flugelhorn), Kat Bowser back-up vocalist, and me, Brad Lycan on pianos and keyboards.
These 6 city skapes album projects present an eclectic collection of songs about the urban and sub-urban landscapes -- a world of people, rooms, musty halls, 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. Songs about hope yet 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.
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The city skapes v "doorways" album will be ongoing during 2025-2026. We will add songs here as they come amidst our song production.
​city skapes vi "walkways & bridges" will be Rock-oriented music, urban songs from the heart of city living.​ Featuring vocalist Adriana Nikole.​ This Autumn season 2025 I will remix this album. We added the final song "You're the One" to complete this album July 30, 2025: I am still adding final parts and edits on my keyboard tracks tom sync them up better.
Mountain Paths is a collection of orchestrated compositions recorded in 2013, 2019, and 2022. I will be remixing and adding new keyboards sounds and parts to his album in 2026.
Contributing musicians are Todd Wilkinson (saxophones), Stan Kessler (trumpet and flugelhorn), Sarah Nienhiser (violinist), and me, Brad Lycan on pianos and keyboards.
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Sarah Nienhiser -- violinist -- recorded her violin tracks for us here in 2019 -- 2022 on Mountain Paths project and some other project songs such as "Lonely One" with vocalist Kat Bower (see audio player at the top of this web site).
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She might return in 2025/2026 to add her violin parts to With Eagles Fly and Nocturnal Sarai projects.
This 2025 I will be returning to complete Nocturnal Sarai projects: adding new keyboards tracks with Moog and Quantum ii synthesizers; Roland Integra 7; Eduardo Tarilonte soundscapes and instruments; and EastWest "Forbidden Planet." Sarah Nienhiser -- violinist -- will also be adding some violin tracks to these music project albums in 2025. Nocturnal Sarai is an instrumental project -- exploratory in nature. The foundation of each composition are my piano improvisations (2015-2017) I edited and then orchestrated with synthesizers and sampled sound software, virtual instruments for Mac and PC computers. Trumpeter Stan Kessler and saxophonist Todd Wilkinson joined me on this ancient celestial trek.
With Eagles Fly is an instrumental project -- exploratory in nature. The foundation of each composition are my piano improvisations (2018) I edited and then orchestrated with synthesizers and sampled sound software, virtual instruments for Mac and PC computers. Saxophonist Todd Wilkinson and Trumpeter Stan Kessler joined me on this mountainous trek. I will be remixing and adding new keyboards a sounds and parts to his album in 2025/2026.
Video: Lycan Studio June 9 2025
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).