From Alex B's Beat Tape Volume 1 www.alexbeats.com www.1320records.com www.myspace.com/pnuma

Flow is all around us, and sometimes there is a lack of flow. This show explored the different facets and associations of flow.

This was the first song Shreya played me, and she said it came to her in a dream, and I believe it. It's flooring, and her vocals/acoustic guitar are relatively untouched. I added the other virtual instruments, and if you listen carefully, you…

Just one of my ambient "places to go live for a while" pieces

The sad part of a violent robot operetta. SPOILER: the robot dies.

A little trip on the underground

there are two reasons that i decided the cover this song of peters. A. its easy B. it has a wonderful sense of irony the strong things of this earth will be made foolish.

This piece is my original almost-fugue-sounding arrangement of my favorite Ukranian “Christmas Carol”, Carol of the Bells, as if J.S. Bach had written it. Ingredients: Warmth, depth, complexity, eternal romance. Dedicated to my Belle. This was…

A music for a girl, a music for the music, muses...

Do your best, not another one's

Try to get to the moon for a girl, and discover that you are alone in space...

Originally a very different song, slowed to a dragging pace and laced with dense moans of twisted agony. There's a little bit of John MacDonald on lead guitar in the build too.

Feeling a little New Order style roadtrip music.

Another thanks to Desoto for giving this song some necessary atmosphere.

it is a winter blanket of snow. it smothers life. it attempts to silence all sound. however, small ghosts of music escape. they always find each other. every winter they dance together. they are the notes of christmas past. 0x0 hw: quicksilver…

This is based on a recording of a meeting between 2 pairs of dolphins. Moody perhaps.

An electric monk is a device which believes in things for you so you don't have to (Dirk Gently). This is a quick little rif.

The third installment of a series of reports I did for KUSC taking a closer look at the recording industry from a classical music perspective. A profile of the LA-based Yarlung Records. Interviews with: Bob Attiyeh (Yarlung Records founder…

A slice of a childhood transition. Enjoy! Doug

are you listening tonight? or am i talking to a wall a stone wall in your heart will you talk to me? just say anything, i will hear it in my heart night after night i sit here and listen to you night after night i speak to myself day by…

tomorrow i have sold my soul i saw you, you were alone i saw me, white as a bone can we feel the distance as much as the empty hearts? it wasn't too easy yesterday i tried to talk to you, but my mouth was so sore it burned with words that…

Jeff Archer - Guitar Joe Lafata - Keyboard Bass Matt Stahl - Drums This is my personal favorite of the 5 jams.

The flute on this piece is done by a very gifted flute player by the name of Melinda Eckels. You will hear Melinda on any of the songs where I use flute. Her abilities have spoiled me so, that I can never use keyboard or my limited flute skills…

What seemed like the solution to a deficit of music after having been up for 40 hours - FillBot is available in 2 minute increments, inquire within.

I originally built this up to some cliche rocking acme but there is no need, so I peeled it back kept it raw. Thanks Su for the critiques on the levels. Since I am not participating in the 24hr album today, here I am in spirit! This track was…

you know them little voices in your head that appear sometimes, go away, come back ... ??? these are mine ... peace, rei

The second installment of a series of reports I did for KUSC taking a closer look at the recording industry from a classical music perspective. A profile of the French/LA-based record label Harmonia Mundi. Interviews with: Rene Goiffon (Harmonia…

A rare interview with British composer Thomas Ades I did for Classical KUSC, Los Angeles. Originally aired: 11/15/2008

almost everything that i write starts on acoustic guitar... I wrote this one as I was driving... so by the time that I got to my studio, i really heard the whole thing finished (both lyrics and the music)... and it was more of a NY bluesy piano…

an exposition,traditional of the raga,bilaskani todi,transformed into a slightly ,dark ambient piece of music,exploring musical landscapes,with a scenario,as if for film music,which my pieces normally are.

an exposition,traditional,of the raga ,bilaskani todi,transformed into a slightly dark ambient piece of music,exploring musical landscapes,inspired by a scenario,as if for a film,which my music normallt is.

I do three things after waking up these days: I shower. I make coffee. I play this song and drink my coffee. Nothing complicated. Nothing fancy. Just some basic fingerpicking to test my motor skills and bring some aural sunshine into my day.

Finger style folk guitar with vocals... things are not always what they seem YOU WON’T FIND HIM AMONG THE PROUD MEN WHO INSIST THAT THEY ARE STRONG YOU’LL FIND HIM WITH THE MAN WHO CRIES OUT GOD FORGIVE ME, I AM WRONG YOU MAY NOT FIND HIM IN…

Just a mellow track I whipped up last night before bed. The field recording is from the Peruvian Amazon- I forget which habitat it was recorded in, but my guess is near bamboo... during the morning.

A song about not wanting to feel for someone that has treated you badly and left you behind. Despite having these feelings you still feel this person is above you. As they fly freely and you're left lost on the ground. When they come flying…

You're girlfriend is cheating on you. You know it but can't walk away from her

Merry Christmas!

hopelessness. if you succeed now, you'll fail later. i wrote this song on a banjo :) but never got it in the recording.

Guest vocals by Speak N. Spell

From the "Northville" project. I played acoustic and electric guitars and an ARP Odyssey synthesizer on this track.

Imagine that you are that lump of enchanted wood on the workbench.... and instead of Pinocchio you can be anything... maybe even a stratavarious... thanx to my friend Dave Edwards for the real violin trax

Pulled this one together in bits and pieces as time permitted. This has been one of my favs, lately! Doug Oh, yes, this is my loopless experiment, too!

This little ragtime number began life as just a snippet, written as background music for a home movie years ago. For the hard core ragtime buffs, I know this is not quite syncopated enough to be true ragtime, but hopefully its fun and bouncy…

This is a song I wrote with Lisa Purdy (who sings the harmony vocal) about the experience of depression. Jim Bouchard plays lap steel - I'm playing/singing the rest.

Just another song to help try help express myself while honing my limited skills

A Dark and Brooding rendition of and old Christmas song... yet hopeful... starting out subdued with and ancient vibe, and building in drama...