Satie, Replacement Satie, and pseudo-Satie
A friend of mine, Nada Kolundžija, has made some excellent recordings of some of Erik Satie’s piano music. You can hear samples here.
I’ve often thought that Paul Westerberg’s (I assume it’s his, anyway) piano solo in the Replacements’ “Here Comes a Regular” has a Satie-like beauty and simplicity.
Finally, last and least, here is my attempt at writing a piece in the style of Satie. This is about a girl with an Irish name that I knew (not very well) in San Francisco. It might sound like it’s badly recorded, but I did that on purpose. I wanted it to sound like it was coming from far away and from another age: Listen to “Sive”.