how do you give a daughter away? I have no clue...

an attempt to evoke the urban Brazilian scene - which has a rhythm all its own.

how do you give a daughter away? I have no clue...

an attempt to evoke the urban Brazilian scene - which has a rhythm all its own.

wrote this song while i was all alone in the middle of a nameless creek in the amazon jungle - beautiful spot! This is from 2006 - the only song in this album that is more recent. Here I tried to use bossa chords and a modified bossa beat to…

The berimbau is a brazilian percussion/string instrument that is the foundation for this tune. Thanks to Dana (Alontoner) who added the sweet backup vocals to make this a much better piece. And thanks also to K. Scot Sparks (Alonetoner…

this was an attempt at making a tune where the vocal melody was nonredundant with the chords (or never found in any of the notes of any of the chords). Almost succeeded - but it was fun trying.

Musa means "the muse" in Portuguese. Trumpet improv and digital production provided by AloneToner K. Scot Sparks. Lyrics for the bilingual version: Ela vem, ela vai ela tem o que eu quero mais toque de fada conversa que sara esse…

Vocals and percussion are courtesy of another recent alonetoner, K. Scot Sparks. While recording a simple guitar track in Kev's garage, things got intersting when we opened the garage door, and let the sounds of this huge flock of birds in the…

This is a total remake of an earlier posting. Lead vocals courtesy of fellow Alonetoner, Dana. In the lyrics, I was trying to capture a sense in which there is something else beyond - something which draws me as it were homeward. A son…