Bradley David Lycan
An American Song Writer/Composer/Song Producer
Pianist / Keyboardist
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Kat Bowser sings "Window Dreams." I will complete mixing on this song in April 2025. It was 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.
This collection of songs -- taverns and travelers -- begin our Summer 2025 songs from Lycan Studio. We showcase this late May 2025 my song "My Bargain for Love" (2018), which will be a Blues/Rock genre with mainstream commercial appeal. This song came in the last set of songs during this song writing period for me. Wee will be adding more songs to this collection in 2025. This song will be an interesting trek for the musicians -- Don Carr, Todd Wilkinson and Stan Kessler -- who all been the club players with years of Blues, Rock, and Jazz experience. 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.
This April 20, 2025 we have added a new song to this album:​ "You're in Life."
We will return to this song' s mix in June after we add back-up vocals with Kat Bowser. This will be a great compliment to our song mix.
The city skapes album projects present an eclectic collection of songs about the urban and sub-urban landscapes. There are 6 albums -- some still in production.
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.
This April 21, 2025 we have added a new song to this album:​ "bring me Heaven."
We will return to this song' s mix in June after we add back-up vocals with Kat Bowser. This will be a great compliment to our song mix.
The city skapes album projects present an eclectic collection of songs about the urban and sub-urban landscapes. There are 6 albums -- some still in production.
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.​ These are pre-mixes of these songs now: I have all the parts recorded. The week of April 21, 2025 we added a new song to this album:​ "bring me Heaven." This Spring 2025 I will re-mix the album for this website.​​​​
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We post the final February 2025 mix of 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.
These 2 songs -- "When it Comes to and End" and "How Many Rainbows" -- begin my own album I composed in the Autumn of 2018. I will be working on these 2 song mixes and adding more new songs to this album collection this Spring, Summer, and Autumn/Fall, and Winter of 2025 and into 2026. ​ ​I will be singing these songs on this album myself -- a song-writer singer I can not boast, but this is me. ​​​
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This album how many Rainbows is the very last collection of songs I wrote in a 5-year cycle of song writing (between 2014-2018) -- the most prolific in my life. I was in my 60's when this song work came to me after many years of living in this world. Life's experiences are the source of my song composition. This album how many Rainbows marks the end of a long journey I began as a much younger man. So now at age 70, I am producing these songs for public listening. ​ Contributing musicians for this music album 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 will also be adding back-up vocals.)​ On this album I use the Yamaha Clavinova piano with Synthology Ivory ii Grand Piano virtual piano instrument, Roland Integra 7, Waldorf Quantum ii synthesizer, Moog Subsequent synthesizer, BFD virtual drums, Groove Monkey drum loops, EastWest Opus Forbidden Planet, Orch. Percussion, Goliath virtual instruments, Kurzweil K2600 synthesizer, and Best Services Eduardo Tarilonte's sound libraries.
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 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.
​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 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." 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 May 2025 we will add one more new song to this album:​ the song "You're the One."
This April 20, 2025 we have added one more new song to this album:​ and "You're in Life."
In late May 2025 we will add one more new song to this album:​ the song "2 Worlds Apart"
These 6 city skapes album projects present an eclectic collection of songs about the urban and sub-urban landscapes...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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city skapes iv "somewhere" album will be completed in 2025.
The city skapes v "doorways" album will be ongoing during 2025-2026. We will add songs here as they come amidst our song production.
The city skapes vi "walkways and bridges" album began this December 2024; it will be completed by the end of Summer 2025. This will be our focus in song production over the year or so. ​ The city skapes vi "walkways & bridges" will be Rock-oriented music, urban songs from the heart of city living.​ The city skapes vi "walkways & bridges" contributing musicians will be: 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 our vocalist.
Mountain Paths is a collection of orchestrated compositions recorded in 2013, 2019, and 2022.
Contributing musicians are Todd Wilkinson (saxophones), Stan Kessler (trumpet and flugelhorn), Sarah Nienhiser (violinist), and me, Brad Lycan on pianos and keyboards. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Sarah Nienhiser -- violinist -- recorded her violin tracks for us here in 2019 -- 2020 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 will return in 2025 to add her violin parts to With Eagles Fly and Nocturnal Sarai.
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. Trumpeter Stan Kessler and saxophonist Todd Wilkinson joined me on mountainous trek.
I will complete this album in 2025: with compositions. I will add new keyboard sounds and orchestration to this album - - to update my keyboard parts. I will add new sounds from Eduardo Tarilonte sound libraries, Moog and Waldorf synthesizers, EastWest sounds, and Roland Integra 7 sound module.
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Here we have me writing these songs as I am recording them, performing on piano, and singing. I went back to edit some and added backup vocals to my singing. These are song that showcase me the song writer, Bradley David Lycan -- in solitude, in blue, in the wake of the night. This is "song in process," song sketches.
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).