As we walk along the beach, sometimes the waves wash beautiful shells up on shore for us to pick up, and sometimes the waves wash all the shells away, leaving us with nothing but miles of sand. Sometimes we gaze at the dazzling sunset, and sometimes…

A test run with my new Line 6 DL4 delay pedal. Recorded with a handheld mp3 recorder, hence the ambient room noise. The DL4 was fed into a BOSS loop pedal also. No overdubs, all on the fly.

Solo acoustic guitar (open Gm - DGDGBbD) - another of my arrangements of a hymn from the Methodist Hymnal.

Short, simple, melodic guitar track written and recorded in an afternoon. Written to suggest love, longing, and dedication.

This song-congratulation happy birthday. ..Angels have gone down from the sky for you to begin to whirl in magic dance...

Short cartoon music written in the style of Loony Tunes/Merry Melodies...

Short theme for a French laundry detergent commercial...it didn't get used, but I like the melody. I Originally wrote it for piano.

Short French accordion tune I wrote and recorded a few years ago.

It's my first jazz arrangement song with sax played by Nikolay Panchenko (Novosibirsk,Russia). This song is about love, about fine love.

Straight ahead stone city electric blues for an old friend who used to spend hours spinning BB King and Mike Bloomfield records for me. Recorded back sometime at the end of 2006 on old analog equipment

A simple solo acoustic guitar track for a dear departed four legged friend. Written 2005. Recorded Jan 9 2009.

This is the same piece recorded once with octava mikes and then with AKG mikes as a final for the protools class

A short project in a community college protools class where we had to create a song from what ever we could record in the class, like key chains ect.. It made me think of a scene in a movie where the submarine is diving.

the sweet and sorrowful song of my favorite indian instrument ,the sarangi,the indian cello,three major chords,and 32 sympathetic strings,i needed to go to india in order to learn how to play,studying with a guru,in jiaphur,in the rajastan,i still…

It is created between the cracks. it is amplified. if you listen, you feel the space between time. it is created in a life without time. caught in a shadow of light. nothing can exist here. but this does. it is beautiful. it is ephemeral. it is gone.

"Markets For Fleas and Stocks of TVs" is the first part of Act Two of a space rock piece I am working on. The story may change, but this if you'd like to know what this piece is "about" at this moment then read on. It is meant to be a ballet…

Short sad piece of longing...written on the shores Inish Mor. Low whistle, keyboards.

Short orchestral theme...keyboards.

Traditional Irish Reel - Released on the companion CD to the book "Heart of a Mother." Guitar, penny whistle, accordion, drum loops.

Short orchestral piece somewhat in the style of Henri Mancini.

Written after visiting a farmhouse I was considering moving to. Piano, accordion, bass.

Original Irish air. Lush, ambient theme. Penny whistle, keyboards.

Simple piano tune...whimsical, somewhat in the vein of Enya.

Publicado Bajo Autorizacion y Sin Animo de Lucro. www.carranga.org

Publicado Bajo Autorizacion y Sin animo de Lucro. www.carranga.org

Publicado Bajo Autorizacion y sin animo de lucro. www.carranga.org

a sweet guitar jazz improvisation ... I hope ... peace, rei

Trad (Reels) - acoustic guitar - from a tune book. Can't recall the name of the second tune. Backup in DADGAD melody is standard tuning.

Trad/Hymn - got this one from the Methodist Hymnal. Fingerpicking acoustic guitar solo in DADGAD. Shawn Colvin does a great vocal version on her Christmas/Lullaby CD.

Trad - I learned this tune from the Robin Williamson penny whistle book. Electric/acoustic guitars, penny whistle.

Two jigs I wrote after returning from Ireland. Sorry for the horrid splice between the two tunes...I'll fix that when I get a chance. Penny whistle, mandolin, acoustic guitar.

Trad (Reels) - a couple of session tunes. Mandolin, guitar, penny whistle.

Trad (Reel) - I learned this reel from a Bothy Band album. Flatpicking acoustic guitar - backup in DADGAD, tune played in standard.

i made this song to correct all the people who have callen me an emo due to my long hair

Hey all! I reworked this old tune of mine. This is the fourth version, I think. It might be good! I prepared it for an event on another site for early next month. Enjoy, Doug

Get up the Yard!

first in a series of five pieces for the noble and ancient sarod,exploring scenes from the life of the virgin mary,the first being the annonciation,this is the full version,the film version being only 2 min 40 sec.