Wow... This has got the Awesome Factor big time! I let my kid do some Synth for one of my tracks the other day... There is nothing in the world greater than Being able to share time like this with them! I think is is amazing that this is a poem that you heard as a Child as well, and are now recording with your own children.. Warms The Heart Bro! A Wonderful and Well Performed track! It's really Spooky as well! Bonus!! :) Well Done All!! Peace T(OsCKilO)

What a great gift to share with your kids. The drums are done superbly...as is all of it. They will have and cherish this forever....

Talk about original! This was fun to listen to. Thanks for sharing.

your tech. is great. I like the title too! lol. Although I wouldn't wanna surf naked in parts of florida now....that oil spill.

being so high up in those awesome blueridge mountains must be good for the musical soul. :) Thanks for sharing.

great playing! What kind of mics did you use to get such a crisp sound? And..by the way, wouldn't it suk if aliens came and used our skin for drums? lol

I'm a percussionist first and foremost so I love this. Awesome jungle jam. Those congas sound nice and full.

You're funny. I just hope now that his child has had a taste of the caribbean flavor, that he doesn't go to pot.

How did I miss this? Very cool and original - No idea how you managed to perfectly sync with the piano. Love it, though. (And yes, it was a while ago, but I still miss my dog. You never get over it do you? But I really see the humor in a sad dude pining away over his lost dog, too!)

I really enjoyed this. I always read alot to my kids, so I understand the special relationship between the favorite books and the kids and parent. And I love that you included them, still kept the artistry serious, and produced a good product.

When I was young, I remember dreaming about what I called "jungle drums"; I'm not sure why. I dreamed your song...long ago in the depths of some astral flight apparently. Thanks for recording it.

very nice!

My Dad played the drums, ha, I thought he did! This is tribal indeed, there's a little tinkle in there too, nice touch.

Thanks Norm for listening! looking forward to hearing Jarvis lay a guitar down on Surf Naked!

Jarvis, yes it does have a "Wipeout" sound to it - I was trying to get that sort of vintage surf music feel into a drum pattern. Now if I can only find a guitarist to do that quick decending "doodle-loodoo-loodle-loodle-loodle-loodle-loodle" surf guitar lick at the very beginning... what in the world do you call that cool sound anyway?

This has a Bluesy feel to it that is screaming out for a guitar to play over.

Nice sort of Spanish sound to this ,makes you want to weave and flick your hips.....owwww me backs gone !!!

This has deffo got a 'Wipeout' Sound to it which will be interesting to somehow avoid in a gtr track.Imay have a stab at it. Nice drumming.

tight, and sprinkled with some interesting perc's brotha !

You got my groove goin' :) Very cool! w;-)

Great vox! I like the horns as well as the unsympathetic left channel choristers, observing the narrator walks alone. Well done.

Beautiful job, Emily! I love it!

Ha! Very clever! I love the bass lick and vox... and I'm very proud to be a part of your first accoustic recording of cornet, flute and harmonica. Historic indeed. And what an interesting poem. I read up on it. Some highlights: With "Hysteria" Eliot created an unconventional poetic diction by using verse rhythms that were based on the cadences of speech rather than poetic structure. It is possible that the laughter may be a product of the woman’s ‘hysteria’, but it is more likely that the title applies to the narrator’s reaction to that laughter. “As she laughed,” he begins, “I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it.” He begins to feel as though he has physically become the laughter he is observing." "The narrator’s goal is to collect pieces of the details he was able to capture in order to rebuild a coherent reality. The reader is left somewhat skeptical of this goal, however, because of the narrator’s doubtful language. “If” the woman’s breasts “could” be stopped, “some” fragments “might” be collected. Each line contains two distinct words of uncertainty, and by the end we are not sure that the narrator’s hysteria can be cured.

This is excellent! Great percussion and bass groove. Well done!

Here's to the ingenuity to customizing the tool to work for you, rather than the other way around. Sounds really great!

Cool story about Majnun. Very pro sounding production. Horns sound great to me.

I always love your piano work. Now this really works. I had to look up "Euler's Constant" but it's still Greek to me. Quite a mysterious number.

Carlsbad is a great cave... perhaps a bit commercialized: it actually has a US Post office in it's depths - 750ft below the ground. But the reverb in this piece is excellent: fitting of the 7th largest cave chamber in the world. Well done. (It would have been a long process getting that large of a choir up out of the cave on it's small elevator.)

I like your nurse, but whatever she gave me is freaking me out a bit. Who brought the chipmunks to church? Menacing work, V. Menacing. Sounds like a rough week.

Glad I listened up. Great voice.

What a voice! Great, funky, funky funk.

Oh so funky. Most excellent!

Ahh. You saved the best for last on your album. Excellent, all.

Very nice. I'm loving all the Christmas songs on AT today... well done VJ & JV.

Excellent. The percussion work is delightful.

I hope that you've found them by now! Great fun!

Excellent!

This is excellent!

Excellent!

Fire? Check. Snow shovel? Well, check (if I must - but I get to punt on one too, right?) Make music? Check. Congas tuned and awaiting their beating. EWABS? Check. Ready for a blizzard. Thanks for the 4 suggestions... although Monk has a nice addition. We are booked to get mucho snow tomorrow so I'll hopefully have an excuse to stay home and get something really important accomplished for a change, ELM or not.