- just messing. - three guitars and an improvising night tripper ;~) My mind is gone all the way back round to the beginning ... So listen up!

Guess who's reading a Tom Waits biography - he gets in yer soul I says!

A one hour track start to finish - words music and all the faffing around at the end to get the levels right. It's a ghost story. So go get your cocoa now! And a Murder ballad and a love story (but aren't they all). Old Conor Higgins…

Some impromptu mandolin chords and a bit of harmonising. The view from the window is very pretty today.

Fiddling around with an open G tuning and I found the chord that 'Prodigal Son' is based on (a Robert Wilkins tune from the 30s made famous by the Stones) so I had a play around with it, stopped for dinner and came back and wrote the lyrics…

From today's one hour session: acoustic guitar, fretless electric bass, tabla, tambourine, and the synthesque sound is the electric guitar played with a violin bow

unable to concentrate on work so I had a short music session/creative brainstorm/ emotional fleshing.

a beautiful thought during a dark hour. nylon acoustic, electric piano, electric guitar with bow

KICK SNARE AND HI HAT are from my limited one-shot sample collection on this computer. The rest of these sounds are samples of mosquitoes. They basically fly around my short shotgun mic while I try to record saki monkey vocalizations. I figured…

This tune was made with a single sample of some oropendolas feeding on capotroche.