this song was inspired from an ee cummings poem. it was composed for rpm 2009. lyrics: i'll tell you a dream i had once up in the sky blue everything flying away a kite on a string i didn't have anything i was cool you were warm…

The lyrics were co-written with Mike Novak. I sent him the music, and we worked from there. I've done that a bunch with friends from Canada (Me Man Jack - check them out) and its fun to collaborate..

I heard someone say to an undergraduate class, 'you're on your way to everywhere' and I loved that line. This is sort of a Beatle-esque tune. My friend Mike Levine stopped by while recording a showed me a new jig on the mandolin. I recorded…

An RPM 2009 song. Well, this was a personal story for me that came about when your past intersects (briefly) with the present. Lyrics: 20 years running through time and I remember all the magic lines that in our younger days we drew…

One of the few songs we've made so far that has a beat :)

Guitar(x3), Drum machine, Synth, Taisho Koto Yeah, the intro goes on a bit too long. Originally from the RPM '07 album; it's been virtually untouched.

lyrics by ouroboros orignally from RPM '07 album, also nearly untouched except for a few tweaks to the middle part.

The original mix (on the RPM '09 album) was drenched in mic hiss. I used noise reduction to remove about 2/3 of it for this version (it didn't seem right to remove it completely). I roll off the noise reduction at the end for the au naturale outro.

I was just playing along with a looper pedal, trying to work out some ideas for a "real" song. I was just recording straight to a single stereo track and not worrying much about my playing or the mix. But when I listened back afterwards, I thought…

This one is dedicated to my dear friend John. Thanks for changing my life for the better.... Also a big thanks to our own Greg Connor who helped me get the chords for my own uke accompaniment, and who kindly played the beautiful guitars…