Joe Gianono

1. OHANA 02:00
(Joe Gianono Music Publishing/ ASCAP)
Slow, emotional expansive String melody with French Horn counter- melody and suspended chords. Reminiscent of “Out Of Africa”.
In the Hawaiian language Ohana means “family”.

2. ONE LAST LOOK FOR CHIEF THUNDER CLOUD 02:32
(Joe Gianono Music Publishing/ ASCAP)
The title of this piece is descriptive enough to allow you to draw your own conclusions. At the risk of seeming flighty and over artistic, I will describe how this piece came to be. I thought I had invented the name but then soon realized that surely there must have been a real Chief Thunder Cloud somewhere in history, aside from the character name in the old TV show, “The Lone Ranger”, which I also discovered after the fact. One night I was reading about a form that seems to be very prevalent in many hit songs and other things in our world. Two important elements of its success are familiarity and repetition. I woke up 4 times in the middle of that night. Each time I would hear