Particularly following a very recent piece, Nordic Noir, I may have slipped into movie/TV/Game trailer mode!!! So here is a piece featuring solo violin that has been titled An Awakening...and listeners can then put their own imagination to work…

After many months, the return of the Grackle Live Straw Drawing improv jam! Darrin: percussion,gtr Mark: 7 string gtr Kavin: gtr, percussion Rek: acoustic gtr, percussion Matt: percussion

After many months, the return of the Grackle Live Straw Drawing improv jam! Darrin: percussion,gtr Mark: 7 string gtr Kavin: gtr, percussion Rek: acoustic gtr, percussion Matt: percussion

three EOBs doing their thing

Me and Mrs Rottenhead nearly parted our ways, but we pulled through stronger than ever. Phew! When you pull at that thread And watch the world unfurl Around you Please don’t pick at that scab Leave it well alone Or it will never mend…

Moog Subharmonicon Drummer From Another Mother Microcosm As usual, one take, very little mixing. (NOTE: this ended up not being the REM 2021-05 submission, came up with something I liked better)

I lived in the Red River area of north Texas just south of Lake Texoma for many years. It's a growing area, like most of Texas now, but at one time it was the best kept secret in the state. Also the latest addition to the Cheap Peavey Blues.

"Horse with No Name" by America

This is a single mono synth, in one take, doing everything at the same time (plus some external effects, also recorded live). Just an experiment, first jam on the instrument, so it's a bit poor, but promising, IMO. (EDIT: eq-d out the worst…

RECLINER G There's nothing much sadder G Than an old brown recliner F G Waiting by the road in the rain... (C) 2021 Royal T Music

MISS HER I hardly know her But I miss her more each day...

A real, real old one ........... from another Time & Space .......

Back to the tremolo pedal for some seasonal melancholy

Some stylistic things borrowed from AJFA, hat tip to the golden progression (Unforgiven, Fade to Black) with reference to James' fondness of harmony guitar. Lots of Guitars by Sean S.; Vox/drum machine/bass by Tom; Solo Guitar by Sean H)

Sue is really serious about skateboarding.

A collab with K.Davidsen, Dave Berry and Speed Demon (Gene) that I never put up but it's a cool tune and these guys rock so I floated it up to the cloud!

I'll be honest... I was somewhat disappointed with my RPM Challenge 2021 effort, so I took it down. I've remixed, and heavily re-edited this track, as it used to be a tortuous 13 minutes long. I'm redoing another track as I was a bit slapdash…

Here is the full Work comprising the three previously individually uploaded movements of my first Piano concerto in C Minor.....loved the experience of putting this piece of work together....

Cat Stevens cover. I listen to the wind, to the wind of my soul Where I'll end up, well, I think only God really knows I've sat upon the setting sun But never, never, never, never I never wanted water once No never, never, never I listen…

A moment of silence at 3:00 for the half million lost from the pandemic this past year.

This is a test of the emergency broadcast system...or my take on it

As I have mentioned in other years, I am so very blessed to have some songs come to me in my dreams. Grace is one of them. The specific line "Grace, grace, grace! You don't have to be a lonely child" is what I retained in my waking moments so…

We're so quick to judge others. We really shouldn't. This one follows the tone of It Mattered To No One Else. I actually had a lot more song ideas like these two that I thought would end up being the whole record. But it didn't happen that…

Similar to a couple of other tunes this year, the How Many More? chorus idea has been floating around my addled head for a few years, but again, it wouldn't come to shore. But in promising my ideas that I never give up on them, I tried it again…

And now a complete change. I like variety, and this introduces a new feel to the record. Until the mid-section, when the spacey connection returns, though in a subtle way.

Another one where the riff came first, on the last day of RPM 2020 actually. Before all the craziness struck. I thought to myself "Oh self! That's a good riff! I will need to revisit it next year for RPM 2021." So I did. It also has a call-back…