wrote this song while i was all alone in the middle of a nameless creek in the amazon jungle - beautiful spot! This is from 2006 - the only song in this album that is more recent. Here I tried to use bossa chords and a modified bossa beat to…

this was an attempt at making a tune where the vocal melody was nonredundant with the chords (or never found in any of the notes of any of the chords). Almost succeeded - but it was fun trying.

Musa means "the muse" in Portuguese. Trumpet improv and digital production provided by AloneToner K. Scot Sparks. Lyrics for the bilingual version: Ela vem, ela vai ela tem o que eu quero mais toque de fada conversa que sara esse…

how do you give a daughter away? I have no clue...

an attempt to evoke the urban Brazilian scene - which has a rhythm all its own.

This is a remake of Samba do Bonde, now with portuguese lyrics. A loose translation below: Priviledge, the two of us here to sit, converse, to feel the warmth of friendship always too brief just a give and take between immortals (close…

A song that came to me when I was fishing in the rain with some of my Mamainde buddies. The Mamainde is a small endangered Amazonian tribe of 230 people in west-central Brazil. This song attempts to tell their story…

This song is in memory of my son, Micah Eberhard (Jan 27, 1987 - Aug 8, 2007) ------------------------------- Neath the clay, iMago dEi glory keeps while beauty sleeps from the womb a flower blooms brights the day, blesses the clay…

Vocals and percussion are courtesy of another recent alonetoner, K. Scot Sparks. While recording a simple guitar track in Kev's garage, things got intersting when we opened the garage door, and let the sounds of this huge flock of birds in the…

another half-baked idea