Lycan Studio
Bradley David Lycan
An American Song Writer/Composer/Song Producer
Pianist and Keyboardist
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In autumns and moons above I share some of my songs as I am writing and recording them for the 1st time: I am playing and singing my new songs as they are emerging.
I have edited some of the songs so you might hear some drops outs and wrong notes here and there where I cut and then pull together song parts.
And, perhaps I can label this collection of my ballades -- Folk songs. That would be the music genre they would be placed. ​
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So, from whence did these song ballades come? These songs are from years of autumns and moons: seasons of love, loss, longings, reflection, and hope. These songs might be as much a part of others I have met and encountered along the way; meaning, life brings its stories thru all people -- that these songs reflect a part of humanity I experienced along my journey.
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So, here I share these ballades with other travelers who will find themselves walking along on a special Autumn day.
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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." This Fall 2025 Kat Bowser will add her nice choral vocals with Adriana's lead vocal here on this new song "You're Inside." In September we add these 4 new songs: "I See You Walking," "Running in the Night," and "Was it Somewhere," and "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. 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 September, we will be adding 3 more songs to this collection to end our Summer 2025 work here -- "Do You Want," You Run-Away," and "We're Here Forever." These songs will include Rock and Blues/Rock genres with a mainstream commercial appeal. 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 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.
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." This Fall 2025 Kat Bowser will add her nice choral vocals with Adriana's lead vocal here on this new song "You're Inside." In September we add these 4 new songs: "I See You Walking," "Running in the Night," and "Was it Somewhere," and "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. Thank you everyone for your support and contribution to these songs.
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.
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.
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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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).