From the album Synthesizer and Percussion 1974

Alan Hawkshaw & Brian Bennet - Mile high swinger (Version A) 1974

Free The Robots (Alpha-Pup, LA) remix BT3 tune from their latest LP - TOAST 

http://butteringtrio.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zS2fGLLERDE

TOAST LP

Buttering Trio - No Joke (Free The Robots Remix)

[Intro – The First Breath of Now]


We are the present
inside the gift,
time folding in
on the smallest shift.

A bow on the moment,
a whisper on the air,
existence handing itself
to the one who’s there.


[Verse 1 – The Science of Presence]


Neurons don’t fire
in the past or ahead.
They live in a window
where now is fed.

Three seconds wide,
that’s the brain’s stage —
the present is a rhythm,
not a cage.

Physics hums:
“There is no ‘now’ in space,”
but awareness carves
a sacred place.


[Chorus – The Gift Opening]


Open your hands.
Feel what they lift.
You are the present
inside the gift.

Every breath
is a wrapped unknown.
Every heartbeat
is being shown.


[Verse 2 – The Philosophy Thread]


Buddha said:
“Do not dwell on past or dream ahead.
Live the moment.
Be the thread.”

Eckhart whispered:
“The power of now
is the only place
the soul knows how.”

Your presence is the loom.
Your gaze is the weave.
The cloth of being
is what you breathe.


[Bridge – Your Words]


We are the present
within the gift,
existing sight
into the inner loom’s lift.

As time tunes into being present,
our presence shifts to being heard.
As mind tunes into its thinker,
light collapses into word.


[Verse 3 – People in the Moment]


A child’s laugh
in a quiet room.
A lover’s hand
in the afternoon.

These are not
just passing days.
They are eternity
wearing your face.


[Second Chorus – The Gift Opening Wider]


Open your hands.
Feel what they lift.
You are the present
inside the gift.

Every breath
is a wrapped unknown.
Every heartbeat
is being shown.


[Verse 4 – Time as Life’s Canvas]


Time is life
for mind to arrive
in any particular
moment alive.

Mind is time
for life to depart,
leaving its print
on the map of heart.

Presence is the ink
that doesn’t fade.
Every now
is a vow made.


[Bridge – The Whisper of Awareness]


I imagine being presently here
when I am not aware of my affair.
I imagine being here
where present exists
in awareness’s air.


[Final Chorus – The Gift Unwrapped]


Open your hands.
Feel what they lift.
You are the present
inside the gift.

Every breath
is a wrapped unknown.
Every heartbeat
is being shown.


[Outro – The Silent Bow]


A bow on the moment.
A whisper on the air.
The universe giving itself
to the one who’s there.

The present Within The Gift

Overdub instrument at Home Recording - 8/27/2025
Performed on Yamaha DTXtreme III Drum Kit with a Yamaha M12 Percussion Drum Pad

What I can say - Vocal n Percussion.wav

Port Of Spain Hustle

From Cochemea's debut album, All My Relations, out now on Daptone Records.

LP/CD /Digital:
http://dapt.one/Cochemea 

Cochemea Gastelum is coming home to connect with his roots. After nearly 15 years of touring the world with Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings, the saxophonist offers a deeply personal album of jazz and indigenous-influenced rhythms. All My Relations is 10 tracks of mesmerizing and spiritually ascendant instrumentation.

A California native with Yaqui and Mescalero Apache Indian ancestry, Cochemea grew up surrounded by music - both his parents were musicians, and they gave their son a heavy name meaning “they were all killed asleep.” Cochemea has spent much of his diverse musical career – as a soloist, musical director, composer and ensemble player – exploring and iterating on roots music, and All My Relations is a capstone meditation on his own ancestry.

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All My Relations

Cochemea - Al-Mu'tasim

The Cranes were one of Uganda’s most popular teenage bands in the 1970’s. Founded in 1965, they metamorphosed at the end of the 1970’s into the Afrigo Band which is still, up to today, the number one band in the country. What’s love and Joy, both written by singer and guitarist Tony Senkebejje, appeared in 1974 on the only Cranes’ LP ‘Top Ten Hits’.
When the album hit the record stores in Kampala, bad luck had befallen The Cranes. A month before the recording of the album their bass player Jessy Kasirivu was killed because of President Idi Amin’s amorous association with his girlfriend. Senkebejje, scared for his life, fled to Kenya, only returning to Uganda 15 years later. The song What’s love describes how confusing love can be to a young soul and is partly inspired by Kasirivu’s death. Joy is a love song for Senkebejje’s wife Rachel who followed him to Kenya and who has been singing lead and playing guitar with him in their Simba Sounds Band ever since. Both songs feature prominently in the documentary Bwana Jogoo: the ballad of Jessy Gitta (2019 – 70 min – UG/NL/FR) which investigates the death of Jessy Kasisirvu at the hands of Idi Amin‘s State Research agents. Bwana Jogoo, directed by Dutch filmmaker Michiel van Oosterhout, showcases many great 1970’s songs from Uganda while letting Uganda’s musicians of yesteryears recount fond memories of one of their own, Jessy Kasirivu. These are the folks that worked and socialized with Jessy and knew him better than most. Their accounts of the events that led to Jessy’s disappearance are riveting and haunting. It lays bare a hitherto unexplored subject and one deserving of serious interrogation and scholarship – the naked power of authoritarianism and sexual predation.

The Cranes

The Cranes What's Love/Joy New Afro7 single - snippets

In advance of her Columbus debut at the Wexner Center for the Arts on Thursday, Oct. 10, Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist Angel Bat Dawid curated this playlist for fans & fellow music lovers. Enjoy!

*Audiobook* Make Some Space: Tuning into Total Refreshment Centre

Angel Bat Dawid, Transition East

Recorded Live at Pizza Express Jazz Club, Dean Street, London. 
October 2012

Taken from the album Girl and Robot with Flowers

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Have Space Suit Will Travel, pt 1 - The Greg Foat Group

Kit Sebastian are back with a special stand- alone 7” release that presents an appetising taster of what is to follow from their much-anticipated sophomore album.

After losing themselves in the magic of the French countryside to record, the band have delivered two gems that we initially thought were a soupçon of the said new album. In fact, though recorded during the same sessions, they felt these tracks were best served up as an aperitif to the album.

Francis Lai, Vladimir Cosma, Fikret Kızılok, Jane Birkin, and Selda Bağcan all served as inspirations during the recording sessions. Though their idols can be heard in ‘Ennui’ & ‘Abandoned’, the fusion of Anatolian Psychedelia, Brazilian Tropicalia, 60’s European pop and psych-folk vibes result in a sound that is drenched in their unique signature style and can only come from Kit Sebastian. The beautiful, heartfelt, longing vocals on both ‘Ennui’ & ‘Abandoned’’, makes it hard for the listener to resist falling in love with the world of Kit Sebastian and they leave the heart longing even more for their next longplayer to drop.

Kit Sebastian - Ennui

Smokey off-beat quest for love, a bouncing bass coated with soft electric piano stylings. The portuguese poetry of Minadosom is sung beautifully by Tita Lima, brasilian star with a magnetic voice. A perfect soundtrack for making out on the beach.

Beijos Seus Labios W/ Tita Lima

Baron Rétif & Concepción Perez