This beat was made while teaching my Sound I summer class about making sample-based beats in Reason software. It is named after the new Circulator energy-efficient free bus in Baltimore. My main non-drum samples here are from my piece "Granite…

'...to the part-time narcissist and dear one...'

'...to a relative restoring of relative, East African peace...'

'...to the dynamic depths between good Friday and Resurrection Sunday...'

"Working on a new style that's been in my mind for ages, learning to record in my kitchen, experimenting with the guitar and the amp ..." this is the kind of thing that Quill gets up to when he's not kept properly busy. Y'all are just lucky he…

(this track's a bit hot, mind it doesn't hurt your ears, please) So many reasons for sorrow. One sees from within sorrow, and sees only sorrow. But we must look awry at these weeping walls, these streaking-blind windows: they are of our own…

The salient lines in this traditional song, for me, are these: "... and still I hold, / that the time will come / when he and I will be as one ..." What need is expressed in this "holding"? Against what, does our singer hope? The resistance…