music by Eric Hirsh and Lauren Ann Schlenger Hirsh, composed for the occasion of their wedding 
lyrics excerpted from "The Prophet" by Kahlil Gibran
recorded December, 2009 in Raleigh, NC
vocalists: Rachel Hirsh, Rebekah Hirsh, Catherine Jones
pianist: Eric Hirsh

Orphalese

Distillation

To Comfort a Shadow

Big Bad Bronto

Snow Day

The Miraverse

The Beauty Is

Part II Of The Chronicles

Somehow It Seems To Help

Music/Production - Eric Hirsh
Lyrics - Ron Stebelton, Eric Hirsh, Rachel Hirsh
Vocals - Rachel Hirsh
Art - Jeri-lynn Gehr
Fictitious Record Label - Zombie Bronto Production Studios

Not the coronavirus jam we were looking for but the one we deserve. It was fun to blow off steam by parodying uplifting corporate EDM video background music that I...legitimately produced...for a video...for the software corporation that employs me.
Bronto = the company, a great team, a fun creative kind group of people
SAFe = Scaled Agile Framework. Yeah, I know.

I am very privileged to write a song about being able to work, from home, and feel 'safe.' Hope you get a chuckle out of it, given the context. 

Lyrics
Isolating, staying good.
Walking through my neighborhood.
(Bronto SAFe at home)
Try my best to stay inside.
Figure out how to exercise.
(Bronto SAFe at home)
Venture out for groceries -
Toilet paper, dire need.
(Bronto SAFe at home)
How much do I have to groom,
if I’m waist-up-only on the Zoom call?

The bit at the end is all Rachel. She's hilarious.

Bronto SAFe At Home

Eric Hirsh is a restless and ambitious musician whose growing, genre-crossing body of work is finally being showcased in “Distillation,” his debut album as a bandleader.

For the past 12 years, Hirsh has lived in Durham, NC where he co-creates as a founding member of progressive hip hop quartet The Beast and as a director of Orquesta GarDel, a large-format salsa band. Increasingly, he has focused on writing and performing with a jazz quartet comprising longtime friends and Beast rhythm section Pete Kimosh (bass), Stephen Coffman (drums), and Aaron Hill (saxophone).

Hirsh is a 2012 recipient of the North Carolina Arts Council Composer Fellowship, and a four-time winner of the Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award. Residencies at the Kennedy Center’s Betty Carter Jazz Ahead, Chicago’s Ravinia Steans Music Institute, and Brooklyn's School for Improvisatory Music each pushed Hirsh closer to the material on “Distillation.”

An enthusiastic collaborator, Hirsh has performed or recorded with the North Carolina Symphony, the North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra, Nnenna Freelon, Jim Ketch, Shana Tucker, Emily Musolino, Greg Humphreys, and The Community Chorus Project. He has performed at Duke Performances, North Carolina State University Center Stage, The Stone (New York), the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the North Carolina Art Museum, UNC Center for the Study of the American South, Lake Eden Arts Festival, Shakori Hills Grassroots Music Festival, and The Art of Cool Project.

Eric Hirsh

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