(this track's a bit hot, mind it doesn't hurt your ears, please) So many reasons for sorrow. One sees from within sorrow, and sees only sorrow. But we must look awry at these weeping walls, these streaking-blind windows: they are of our own…

Well, it's like I went down town last night to see Guthrie playing with Ray and I came home with a song. NOBODY KNOW ME IN TOWN ANY MORE Capo @ 1 in G There’s a bird in the gutter that’s so sound asleep He can’t hear the music that’s sweeping…

CROOKED - 052310 There is an outfit that hires Latinos to push these little wheeled boxes (some are actually tricycles they ride) cooled with dry ice and filled with all flavors of popsicles that they sell for 50 cents. At some point it became…

My mom is 91 and still holding on. The people that help her make it thru each day have learned that there is no sense in arguing with her about who they are or when it is...thus the song. MAMA HAS A TIME MACHINE key - Em Mama has a…

For this Mother's Day week, a conga improvisation dedicated to Saint Monica and all the other mothers who surreptitiously provide for and incessantly pray for their children. Thanks Mom! ** this could really use a tasty melody to go with…

CROSS-OVER POLYRHYTHMS This is actually a type of enharmonic polymeter, where 2 rhythms with **different meters** (i.e., a different numbers of beats/measure) are played at the **same tempo**: the measures do not line up each time. These rhythms…

I encountered a lost tribe of pseudo-urban Animistic shamans along the Baltimore Freight Railway in a dark and dismal tunnel. They allowed me to sit down and record this before i was on my way.

Year: 2010 Album: Cosmo Contributors: absynth 5 (1 track) Korg MS2000 (several tracks) garritan personal orchestra choir and percussion free lecture

Improvisation on congas and very fragile, clay Moroccan bongos (which my brother found for me from an African display at some zoo!). These bongos are basically clay pots with permanent, very thin goat skins stretched over the top - they can not…

Improvisation on congas and very fragile, clay Moroccan bongos (which my brother found for me from an African display at some zoo!). These bongos are basically clay pots with permanent, very thin goat skins stretched over the top - they can not…