This album combines relaxing nature sounds with instrumentation.

Summer night with percussion, acoustic guitar by a bubbling brook, hiking through the forest with piano interludes, rain with flute....

May this music bring you to a peaceful place where the troubles of this world cannot go.


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Cloud Shadows

Solstice - The outside sounds are from my backyard on a warm summer night.  I'm not sure if those are bugs or frogs, but you can hear two loud creatures singing back and forth to each other.  There's also a Native-American shaker and a guiro from Bora-Bora.  The drum is my bass drum tuned to a low A note and played with a giant homemade beater. The primary percussion is a tongue drum.  This is a Mahogany box with a Teak mallet surface cut into several marimba-like bars.  The song alternates between 3/4 & 4/4 time.

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CLOUD SHADOWS

Solstice

Lava Pillow - My wonderful wife and best friend Terri came up with the name for this song.  She loves volcanoes and lava!  It's all Prophet 600 synth with some effects from my Art SGX-T2 processor.  There's an energy chime and shakers in the mix too.

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Lava Pillow

Water of Life - The title could be a reference from the movie "Dune" if you'd like, but I was actually referring to the scripture from Revelation 22-17.  The melody is an Ibanez Artist series electric guitar with effects from the T2.  The brook is a stream at Fitzgerald Park recorded with the Sony field recorder.

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Water of Life

Train Trip - This is my Martin Sigma acoustic guitar tuned to an open D-Major chord, sitting on my lap and struck with my fingers in rhythmic patterns on the harmonic frets.  The compression, phaser and auto-wah effects are from the D1600's onboard processor.   My friend Jackie gets credit for inspiring the title.

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Train Trip

Ice Trees - We had a major ice storm a couple years ago.  As I was leaving work the following evening, I heard how the wind rustled the ice-coated trees and made them crackle.  I rushed home and recorded audio of the trees in my backyard using the NT5 mics into the D1600.  Floor tom, shakers and a Chinese healing gong are also in the mix.

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Ice Trees

Shiny and New - Martin Sigma acoustic guitar, tuned to open D-Major and mixed with some brook noises from Fitzgerald Park.

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Shiny and New

Peace, Hope, and Joy - I went hiking on an early autumn day in Fitzgerald Park, carefully holding the field recorder.  Months later, I decided to mix in three piano pieces I had recently written.  These were performed on a Korg SP-250 stage piano.

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Peace Hope and Joy

Canyon - The light rain was recorded using my NT5 mics pointed out the window to pick up the sounds from the backyard.  It was after midnight and you can hear the train engineer being very careful not to wake people as he quietly sounds his horn when required.  The "flute" noise is a vintage wooden alto recorder.  These are variations on some Native-American themes I wrote while living in Tucson.  I would often take this instrument with me when I hiked Gates Pass.  T2 reverb and digital delay on the "flute".

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Canyon

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