hahaha Yes.. swords and coffee beans, the essential household items.. what a bad omission on my part! Thanks!

@ G-man. You forgot swords. You play the swords too :D

maybe a good place to start is 'brainstorms' playlist to check out stuff I've played. It certainly can be difficult navigating through the pages. cheers, and thanks for the question!

I'm not sure what you've heard or not, but I always specify in the track descriptio when someone else is playing something, and I usually list the instrumentation when it's more than synth+drum programming. If all you've heard are songs with samples from other folks then you haven't heard much... the majority of tunes with real instruments are performed by me. You may here me playing any of the following: two acoustic guitars, electric guitar (usually played with a bow) violin, fretless bass, 7 different bamboo flutes, 4 clay flutes, didgeridoo, kalimba, I was borrowing two tablas and a tambourine from a friend but I had to return them. Also play the kitchen sink, keys, pots and pans, hooves and other household items. DISCLAIMER: I do not claim to be good at any of these instruments! :-)

out of curiousity...what instruments do you play? I think all I have heard on your songs are samples and other people playing? Not sure because you have so much stuff! cya.

did you do this? ALL IN ONE TAKE? wow man...

thanks everyone for all the thoughtful comments, and thanks Su for privileging me with that wonderful piano performance. @ Drakonis: love the pun haha. The 'ebow' part is an actual bow over electric guitar strings, but I wish I had an ebow- they can sound amazing. @ K. Scot Sparks: man you have some amazing sounds and moods, would love to bring some elements together. Hook a brotha up with some stems!

Yeah!!

Crunchy slow driving music, almost a claustrophobic feel imparted... the e-bow and intriguing percussion really do stand out as unique elements, and you pull this all together into a very "cool" piece of music.

jusplainGOOD; thanks.

Thanks for the recent comments --and for the beautiful sophistication you are foisting here upon mi ears. Man! Yeah. Lets make some music some time.

fantastic sound.

Nice one well done this is exelent

mmm, mmm, sexy and sultry! w;-)

Bowed guitar? Unreal. They sound fantastic. Gettin' cold here too.

Wow- all the little parts in the background are great. Nice textures!

...nice work here. Thanks for the kind words on 'For Joy.'

Are you a member of the band Chk Chk Chk now?

300? this. is. spartacular"!" the complex rhythms and languid singing and synthesizer washes take me away. 0x0

love the drums...could I add to this?

I'm disturbed by the love affair people have with institutionalized violence. We inadvertently endorse and legitimize war by saying nothing. Maybe it is because we would rather subdue ourselves with meaningless television shows and those neurotics social networking 'about me' quizzes than challenge the norms by which geopolitical power is executed worldwide, both economically and militaristically. What world did Enlightenment principles bestow us with?

maybe I'm a goob but yeah, I fav my collabs! :-) See what happens when you leave cookies out for Santaglu?

Former South American dictator turned clown? ha! Think I remember reading up on that..sandbagdido?

this is so amazing... just a brilliant montage.

so Airport Columns.. and Opened... I think these might be my two favorite MMI tunes at the moment. This one is magical. I imagine a caravan of nomads wandering through the Serengeti desert in search of a waterhole, but the electronic ambiances suggest that it's some kind of computer-generated dream... like I'm really laying in an isolation tank in someone's laboratory.

droppin' bomb after bomb in this playlist.

yeah, this is a very affective piece. One of my MMI favorites...

beautiful vocals.. and @ 02:20 nice percussion! great cover.

thanks for the comments Glibert! This one was thirty minutes from figuring out the guitar lick to bouncing the tracks. I'm most happy with this brainstorm out of all of these because it just came out when I began recording... more naturally than the others.

hahhaha yeah!!! filthtone ftw!!!

this sounds utterly hopeless in the best of ways.

I think your 'desert gypsy' and my 'it's storming inside' need to meet up for a draw!

hands down... this is my favorite kjwise tune. bittersweet melody + female vox ftw!

really enjoy d&b-esque tunes with piano

just in case you both are clueless.. this is my favorite ACL tune to date. :-)

I'm still waiting for 7/8 done version :-)

oh yeah, why did I not fav' this one sooner?

woah I remember an earlier version of this one! This is gorgeous. The instrumentation is perfect.

if this were a crayon color it would be pensive purple.

poignant. Perfect title.