A little Weltschmerz every once in awhile.

first upload of the recording-a-day project, eight weeks in now... all sound from a farfisa.

It's almost Christmas Eve, and some of Santa's best elves have walked off the job. Candy Cane, the local news reporter, joins the disgruntled elves outside the North Pole to find out what's happening, and discovers that "something's going down…

P.D., Santa's person-elf director, explains to the other new elves that the true spirit of Christmas is about being there for each other, and helping other people out. In this rousing "elf gospel number", P.D., and the cast help "lift each other up."

Belle tells a young Ebenezer that she can no longer love him, releasing herself of his selfishness in "Look Inside Your Heart."

Scrooge, now a changed man, steps out onto the snowy streets of London to share the newfound joys of Christmas morning with his nephew Fred, their family, and Bob Cratchit and his family. This is the finale of the show.

Piano version of a tune written by guitarist John Guth.

Leafless trees hung low in the cold. I saw myself kneel, fall, die all alone. No pity, no tears, no profound song. Just gone. The limbs of the trees broke in the wind. Worn and old from beckoning, again and again. But no god came. In the end…

A song for my friend, Eric. Eric changed his diet and drank some green gunk every day and he's cancer went into remission. It's 12 years later and last time we talked he said it was all back...now. He hasn't called in a while. I assume he has died.

As Dave rightly guessed, Elvis is not dead. He is alive and well living in our cellar in Sheffield. He kindly agrees to do a bit for us now and again, as he is getting on a bit now and gets out of breath easily. So here he is possibly for the…

The circus is leaving, for good. Adults are happy (oh, at last they were gone!). Children are unhappy (there was a lion and clown, acrobats and candy and ... all that!). Ahh... ~You'll not believe, but: nothing lasts forever. Lollipop even~

Song originally recorded in 2005, new remix as of 2011!

More on the "Freak" end of the Orphans and Freaks designation. Most of the time I'm making music for myself, and this one just makes me happy, no matter how hard I try to resist.

second track, recorded day of. all farfisa again.

Jonathan looks at what it means to examine yourself before you take communion

Combined two separate segments from the performance for this remix. I'm posting live recordings on Soundcloud now. To hear the rest of the set go here and bookmark: http://soundcloud.com/breaking-light/sets/no-audience-breaking-light-live

This is what this song sounded like before I put an imaginary rock band behind it. It's the exact same vocal as on the album version.

Guess where I dreamed up something like this? When the choir members started walking up the aisle in a cadence of the Monastic Walk (3 steps forward followed by one step back, followed by a brief pause), the backbeat appeared in my mind. I worked…

Entry for the January Challenge - the Death Scene Sample used: Barret50 by DarkoZL http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=104631

Richard Lindsey on bass, Eric Siegel on Piano great Alec Wilder tune

Gershwin's great tune with Richard Lindsey on bass and Eric Siegel on piano

Sunday Morning Service 1/16/2011 #1103s1

sci-fi kook-groove with microtonal elements?

Second track unveiling

Third song idea unveiling for new album

Fourth song idea unveiling for new album

Fifth song idea for new album unveiling

Sixth track unveiling for new album...I really can't wait to truly record this song. For now I used some royalty free loops with various different methods of manipulating them. Cheers.

The didgeridoo track manipulated and ran through effects all one track ( I had it ran through a guitar distortion effect but unfortunately I don't own that plug-in so I couldn't use it, but it had sounded fantastic). With some picking and what not.

oboe, accordion, sine waves

We don’t have a cloud hovering by day or the appearance of fire at night to show us the way to go and when the time is right http://devotionalpoetry.bandcamp.com/

multitracked improv for faulty yamahaQY20 january 2011