Al : Guitar, Vox Jess : Bass (as drum), Vox

Al : Harmonica Jess : Guitar, Vox

I was rushing like crazy every time I touched the piano, this one may have been worst. Al : Piano, Vox Jess : Vox

Al : Bass Jess : Guitar, Vox

Al : Piano, Vox Jess : Vox

Just something I wrote recently. Inspired by something I saw out running, and someone's Slashdot signature: "Computers allow people to make mistakes faster than any other invention, with the possible exception of handguns and tequila". I am…

I (Al) wrote this song way back, just before the start of the current Iraq war. But it comes back to my mind every time a politician utters words matching a regex something like /(capture and )?kill (Osama )?Bin Laden/. It happened to be Obama…

through the dead branches, through the dead branches

Started recording this with no idea what to do with the sound. Wound up with three different vocal takes to choose from, didn't like any of them, used all of them.

This song was recorded illegally. Please don't rat us out.

I lit a string on fire...

I'm going to get all pretentious again and say this one is about the concerning strain of what I might call "religious modernist traditionalism" espoused by technological singularity fanatics (Ray Kurzweil) and authors like Neil Stephenson.

Words are from a sestina of the same title by Steve Davenport, who asked us to make music out of it! This was a terribly fun song to record. We did it, of course, while drinking. Thankfully no instruments were harmed.

Good old dulcimer bash-up. This is certainly the most aggressive song I've played on dulcimer. I'm sure all those people with solid-body electric dulcimers have done worse...

Original working title was something like, "And after six years I finally understood why they sing in the streets here, and could go home." It's sort of about anonymity in the modern city. If that sounds pretentious, that's because it is.

I am concerned with the values of my generation.

Musical tribute to the ideas of Jane Jacobs (author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities) and Christopher Alexander (author of The Timeless Way of Building).