other stuff i never finished

other stuff i never finished

For our beautiful son Willem, in French Guillaume. recorded in my livingroom, 16-7-2009. I called the song Guillaume before because of the beautiful sound. Since 2012 I changed the title of the song into : Willem. Because that makes much…

The first version. This is the first and only song I wrote on [arrsuarez](http://alonetone.com/arrsuarez)'s Christmas gift to me, a mbira that he lovingly crafted by hand. ![mbira](http://img.skitch.com/20090309-qan7jaha9gtbge23e6d3aqh2td…

I do three things after waking up these days: I shower. I make coffee. I play this song and drink my coffee. Nothing complicated. Nothing fancy. Just some basic fingerpicking to test my motor skills and bring some aural sunshine into my day.

Using the waltz beat from the 1958 record album "Rhythm Accompaniment", with the composer on all other instruments. The spoken bits are of xenophobic Utah State Senator Chris Buttars. Written and recorded in February 2009 for the RPM Challenge.

A Tonefreak colab from a few years ago. Written by my good friend Dennis Coble. He suggested I give it a reggae treatment. Voila!

While I was a grad student in the Boston area, I performed regularly with an Afro-Caribbean drumming group called the Jah Jah Drummers. It was during this time that I first began making beats in hip-hop and dub styles. This was recorded at the…