Song #5 for RPM 2023 - half way to the completion of the album! Wrote this after a very long late night walk of meditation. And the rain came down It wouldn’t stop As we made our way to the mountain top And the rain came down, the rain…

Okay, RPM Song 3 finished. It's a weird song melodically speaking (yup, that's actually intentional lol). Oddly, it took an extremely long time to produce this one and my eyes are now very blurry. I guess this is an "urban" song (though I…

Here we go..Song 4 for my RPM challenge. This one was a blast to do because of its simplicity. It's a bit dark but with a hint of humour. I never thought I would need to return to nuclear allusions in a song - it isn't 1985...oh well. They…

Song #2 for this year's RPM album....another one from the basement in the middle of the night. Experimenting with minimal lyrics and a lot of repetition. The song probably has something to do with how we left our home of many years last February…

Its been a while since I jammed with Norm so i've used his mile of sorrow and turned it into a Christmas song........Merry Christmas Norm ..... Christmas it is here Christmas everywhere On a moonlight drive with the midnight sun The…

This an old, old one from way back, Merry Christmas to everyone

Foolishness - A A J Russe Written 3rd January 1988 Recorded 1st March 2022 The Shoebox Demos Vol 1 **** While writing and recording songs for FAWM 2022 I discovered that I can create acoustic demos of nearly any song I've ever written…

As If It Really Matters - A A J Russe Written 16th January 1999 Recorded 12th March 2022 The Shoebox Demos Vol 1 **** Crumbs, even this is 23 years old! We used it as a set-opener in the last band I was in. I've been trying to make…

I Want You To Know - A A J Russe Written 21st June 1987 Recorded 6th March 2022 The Shoebox Demos Vol 1 **** This was to the same lady who inspired Foolishness. There's a couple of others from the same period, related to her, that will…

Thought I'd share something from my latest project: Putting together instrumentals of public domain songs to use as intermission music for a community theater production. We got dinged for streaming copyrighted music in our previous production…