Believe it or not, this song was written while swimming laps in the high school pool (I had to have the life-guard kid write down lines for me every time I returned from the deep end). Oddly enough, the first line I came up with was "Swimming…

Written while watching a good friend going through the run-up to a divorce. This song isn't a whole lot of fun, and for that I apologize... But when all you have is twenty-eight days, you have to go with what you've got.

Exorcising an old demon. Eight or ten years ago, one of my ninth grade students came up with a permanent solution to a temporary problem on Halloween night. He was the last kid I had spoken to that day on my way out the door. Again, if you…

"You gotta put your pencil to the paper. Don't bother with the intricate chords. Hell it doesn't matter if the damned thing doesn't rhyme. Write it down. Run it through. Make some noise." These were actually the first words I wrote when…

A blasphemously reverent prayer to the Goddess of Sacred Uproar. The lyrics can be found at bit.ly/PrayerforUs

I was in a very dark place when I wrote this tune. Now I'm back in the light it sounds very self-pitying, but hey. From 2006 album Too many magpies

Just an old-timey thing I wrote. From 2006 album Too Many Magpies

Another song from the dark period. Don't get involved in messy affairs is my advice! From 2006 album Too Many Magpies

Written for my best mate's first son. From 2006 album Too Many Magpies

Haitian rhythm bed with kalimba and Ney and synthflute. Rejected for its original purpose as being 'too jazzy' ;) The rhythmns and kalimba were old favorites that I had not adapted to anything. Added flute and textures for a website project…

Playing with reverberation and stretching, part of a larger ambient piece for the RPM2010 challenge. It uses heavilly effected and modified samples and VST Synplant.

A reggae version of my country/pop tune. From 2008 album Do What I Gotta Do

Late night, last piece from a Himitsu session. Very laid back. All electronic. Recorded on minidisc and rescued later from a random hard drive.

Hard dance track. Check out the bass line.

This one is named after the resident cat who loved me dearly when I was a visitor. Now that I've moved in I'm pretty much only good for adminstering food and occasional petting- on the cat's terms of course!