A dark ambient piece built up from a drone that I created using Mangle. Best enjoyed loudly in a darkened room. For week 4 on weeklybeats.com.

Submission for week 2 of weeklybeats.com

Not up to Avalon standards but I had fun making this. (for week 3)

On Wikipedia I read this about the great jazz pianist Bud Powell: "...his solos could be heard to emulate the horn players' attack — with the use of frequent arpeggios punctuated by chromaticism," so the first thing you hear is a lick that uses…

Didn't turn out as well as I'd hoped (my left forearm was burning like hell after each take). After the acoustic version, there's a distorted version, but the tapped harmonics at the beginning sound pretty crappy with distortion. I also added…

Submission for week 2 of weeklybeats.com

Anyone who knows me realizes I dig electronic music....yet have no idea what I am doing when it comes to creating it! This is just some groovy randomness messing around with new studio equipment.

I was reading about Tosin Abasi and listening to a lot of his music around the time I recorded this, even though it doesn't sound very much like his stuff.

I tried to get my soloing tone to sound like a trumpet. Thanks for listening.