Using cha cha and rhumba beats from the 1958 record album "Rhythm Accompaniment", with all other instruments played by the composer. Written and recorded in February 2009 for the RPM Challenge.

Minor 7ths and synthesizer saxophones.

I could not turn off certain synthesizers while I was programing this one, so I kept it as it was. Desperate sounding, I thought.

The first track begun, the last one finished. My attempto write a techno-middle eastern fugue!

I believe the recording in the background is from a spy station. The other is a Spanish sonnet.

The moodiest of my attempts at writing music using programming instead of composing on manuscript.

Aural and astral travel to fabled lands and back.

Tartessos (possibly the "Tarshish" of the Bible) was a fabulous city in Southern Spain that the Greeks and Phoenecians often visited. I wanted to evoke a sense of adventure.

I thought porgamming would be a picnic, instead it was a zoo. Or a fairground.

A classically-inspired track that totally does not fit in with the rest of the album. Incidentally, Ctesiphon was a capital of the Parthian Empire.