I told the [good Sister](http://alonetone.com/sistersavage) that I wanted to try using vocals in a track and she offered to do me some abstract, stylized, vocals that I could play with and this little number is the result. Working with wet (pre…

DREAMS OF THE OCEAN Your kids'll be waking up in the morning Just a couple of hours after mine have gone to bed I've got the coffee warming While dreams of the ocean are in your daughters' heads I taught them all 'bout it late last evening…

(Tolar & Savigear 2010)

My girlfriend was born in the Middle East, that's why I've come to listen a lot to Arab, Persian, Turkish, and Tuareg music. I improvised this song within a few early morning hours after coming home from a concert by the incredible Tuareg rock…

Several listeners told me that this song reminds them a lot of Air. By that time I only knew that there was a band with this name, but I had never listened to any of their songs. But now they're one of my favorite bands and I listen to them in…

Someone said, this song sounds like a meeting of Leonard Cohen and Brian Eno in a Bucharest nightclub. Someone else said, it sounds like someone fell down the Nick Cave well. You decide!

A not very cheerful Christmas song I wrote for the RPM Holiday Challenge. Based on the classic Arthur C. Clarke science fiction story "The Star". http://faculty.winthrop.edu/kosterj/engl510/star.htm Light years out and an eternity back to…

an improv with the ol pedal steel, with loads of fx. Spent a lot of time trying to get the noise off this track, but had limited success.