Midday field. I watch the lark, which serenely rises in circles up to dissolve there, forever. He sees no danger around. Why [should] I care? --- I recall that in childhood we all watch adventure films (or performances), and here the children…

from the album "the Machine" such delight to find you in my mind moving around my point of view press escape, there's no return once you made the choice it's yours but you can not refuse whats your game, once you choose stack the deck…

The earliest research into vaccines actually involved milk maidens, who got cowpox from the cows they milked, and couldn't get smallpox later as a result. Sample used (from Freesound) : 256994_afleetingspeck_singing-voice-3-octaves

drums, bass, 6 string x2, 12 string x2, vocal, effects oh i see you in the sky dot by by dot trace the line be where you are and i hold and i hold this memory of you in mind of you in my mind dot to dot line to line i feel your…

My daughter joined marching band at High School and the this is a little song about how crazy it is during Band Camp.

For Sound-In "Fireworks" event

mix of bill and charlene .. the dryer connection to the washing machine. :)

I have a new love Of course she doesn’t know How can a work of art Know when lovers come and go And when the artist is the art! My eyes are the eyes of the beholder And my eyes are the eyes of the world… …when the artist is the art…

For this track I used a scale that John McLaughlin once mentioned in an interview, which I later figured out was a Phrygian Dominant scale with the flat-6 omitted. Thanks for listening.

Vocals, Vocal Melody, Lyrics: Gerry Finan Saxophone: Jan Kopcak Bass: Amadeo Zunino Drums: Robert Cudmore Original Music & Production: Steffen Offermann

This is one of 13 songs I have recorded lately for an album of Northern Minnesota songs. It's been a lot of fun!

by Jeremy Messersmith

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