http://improvfriday.ning.com/ recorded for the Japan benefit happening this weekend (right now) over at improvFriday. Stop by and help or just give a listen. My father brought a koto back from Japan after WWII, I thought this might be a good time…

Pretty Girls Enjoy!

“Bela Lugosi's Dead” recorded and mixed on 10/14/23 and 10/15/23, for October’s 30 Day Songs challenge (30daysongs.com). “Bela Lugosi's Dead” written by Ash/Haskins/J/Murphy, originally by Bauhaus. Released on October 20, 2023. Happy 141st…

“Bats in Flight” composed, recorded, and mixed on 10/20/2023, for October’s 30 Day Songs challenge (30daysongs.com). “Bats in Flight” was also submitted to October’s REM Challenge (via RPM Challenge). “Bats in Flight” composed by W. Ng…

It's October and that means time for ghost stories. This one came out of a couple of songs posted last month in Hungarian Minor. I found that to be a spooky scale, so I built on it for a couple of songs this month.

October 2023 C-side? Because it was appropriate for the monthly theme, I decided to butcher a song I wrote in 2005.

October 2023 B-side? Halloween/spooky music always calls for theremin. I don't have a thermin, so I made do with what I had.

October 2023 A-side? It started with the stupid singsong thing I remember hearing as a kid and then mutated into Meshuggah... with a special cameo at the end of the track.

Recorded around a campfire in the San Rafael Swell.

had this one on the back burner for several months now. This is how it is and has been sitting for several months.

Inspired by the Max Ernst painting.

Inspired by a huge Cottonwood tree I found washed up along the Mississippi River near Red Wing MN. D When your roots can’t seem to hold you When you’re A footing falls away Your D left to feel unstable With the A change that’s underway It…

guitar with a lot of manipulation

Inspired by a work by composer David Beardsley titled Pause. This is in that influence and is more thought out composed than improvised and using the oscillator waves more Enoesque. For the new year.