Bradley David Lycan
An American Song Writer/Composer/Song Producer
Pianist and Keyboardist
My website is for a global community -- everyone is welcome.
These are my piano improvisation compositions from 2013 -- 2018. All 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. These piano compositions are amidst the songs I wrote during this time for album projects that now appear on this website. My plan is to use a notation software and convert these piano midi files on Logic and Pro Tools to music notation so other pianists worldwide can play my piano improvisation pieces. My piano compositions will always bear the Bradley David Lycan name (remaining in my family), and the music notation will be left to Public Domain sources for all people to share.
This month of March 2026 we post our new song here: "Love is the Only Light in the Universe" 2016. This song arrangement will include eclectic musical elements. This song is in the World Music genre/category. Is is about our human experience, the nature of life, the power of compassion and love on the Earth in an otherwise turbulent cosmos.
This is a song for the month of March 2026. When I listen to my song "How Many Rainbows" (2018) it reminds me of my life growing up: sharing those rare but treasured moments of freedom and joy with my father and family. This artistic rendering by Claude Gruffy captures that gray, windy cloudy day in March around my 7th. birthday on a hillside across the street down from the school. Those were still innocent years with our family in the early 1960's. I could not get the kite into the air; my dad rescued me and the kite -- and set it to sail into the sky. Once in deep sky, the wind broke the string of the kite, and we let it blow deep into the distant sky. I stood and watched as the kite drifted farther and farther away.
My father and family experienced a lot of life's hardships and challenges, and I remember observing my father's humility and conflicts each day in our family's quest for survival and harmony among others. So, this song is not only about learning to fly the kite, but also about knowing when to let the kite go. This song is about the rainbows that rarely appear in our lives, those fleeting dreams and lost hopes that blow away with the wind. “How many rainbows have you lost – in your heart. How many stories have you talked about. How many dreams come alive – you and I. Did you hold them -- to let them go?”
Here is the song "I Hear You" from our city skapes album project "Somewhere" this January 16, 2026. We have a first mix and edit here: Still working on it. Enjoy! Contributing musicians: Vocalist Adriana Nikole, Don Carr (guitars), Dieu Aime Nsikoh (bass guitars), Todd Wilkinson (saxophones), Stan Kessler (trumpet and flugelhorn), and me, Brad Lycan on pianos and keyboards.
This month of February 2026 we will be adding these final 4 songs to complete this album project: "Why is Love so Hard," "Rainy Lady," and "Isn't You." I need to add my keyboard parts and mix the songs.
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I now have all of the instrument tracks, and will be adding my keyboards parts soon to these new songs. I can then post mixes here.
Here we showcase the new taverns and travelers collection of songs we began recording this Summer 2025 from Lycan Studio. These are beginning mixes to showcase the song ideas. These songs will include Rock and Blues/Rock genres with a mainstream popular commercial appeal. I will speaker-mix these 5 songs above in January 2026.
Studio musicians include: 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 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 will return to this album in March of 2026 . Here are songs we will be adding this album project: "Caught in the Middle," "Blow Away Love," "Love Passes Slow," "I See You," "In My Life," "You Are Free," "Don't Let it Fly Away," and "Late Last Night."
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I begin a new album of mine in 2026 -- featuring me just on piano and vocals along with Dieu Aime Nsikoh on bass guitar and Don Carr on guitars. Some of the yet to be published songs I will begin re-producing here from my original songs files from 2015-2018 are: "Winter Eves," "You're Still in my Heart," "Cowboy Song," and "Whying." We will begin with these songs, and then add more songs to this album in years 2026 and 2027. These songs will be a blend of Rock and Folk with a blue edge.
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.
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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.
This song -- "When it Comes to and End" -- begins my own album how many Rainbows. I will resume working on this song collection in 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. Contributing musicians for this 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 and vocals.
​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 2026-27 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.​​
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In 2026 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 Adrian Nikole, vocalist Kat Bowser, and pianist/keyboardist Brad Lycan.​
The city skapes album projects 2021 -- 2027
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 cite 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.
In February 2026 we will be adding these songs to complete this 3-year album project: "Why is Love so Hard," "Rainy Lady," and "Isn't You."
In 2026 we add our last song here -- "The Lone Wolf."
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 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 instrumental album projects -- for film and venture.
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. In 2026 I will return to these pieces to add new keyboards sounds: I will be adding Eduardo Tarilonte sounds library sounds, Moog, Sequential, and Roland synthesizers.
Trumpeter Stan Kessler and saxophonist Todd Wilkinson joined me on this venture. They 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 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. In 2026 I will return to these pieces to add new keyboards sounds: I will be adding Eduardo Tarilonte sounds library sounds, Moog, Sequential, and Roland synthesizers.
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Saxophonist Todd Wilkinson and Trumpeter Stan Kessler joined me on this mountainous trek. They contributed their own original horn parts to my orchestrated versions of these 2 improvisational piano pieces.
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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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Below are my song-writing audio files from 2016-2018. These audio recordings are of me sitting at the piano writing/composing, playing and singing along with what I felt at that time reflecting about my life. These songs were recorded on the Yamaha Clavinova digital piano using Synthogy Ivory virtual piano sound-ware. The song files were recorded to Logic and/or Pro Tools DAW. I went back and added some back-up vocal layers after each song recording. So, these songs in the audio player collection below are sketches, ideas, songs in development, working-draft songs, songs in flux.
Lycan Studio Jan 10 2026
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).