there are mountains in the north
they're so high
they're always white

there are deserts in the southland
they're so dry
they've forgotten the name of rain

there are prairies to the east 
they're so wide
all they know is emptiness

there's an ocean to the west
and you might think that's the best
but I, I'm gonna bite me off a piece of the sky
I'm gonna bite me off a piece of the sky
a piece of the sky

ocean deep
mountain high
I'm gonna bite me off a piece of the sky
a piece of the sky
I'm gonna bite me off a piece of the sky
a piece of the sky

written and performed (voice, saz, reeds, drum machine) by Cameron Bobro the other day in the KIBLA gallery (copyright 2013 Cameron Bobro). Oud improvisation by Peter Tomaž Dobrila (first take, m*therf*cker)

I'm gonna bite me off a piece of the sky Cameron Bobro

Four clarinets "motion-tracked" into a sci-fi landscape using Csound.

Cameron Bobro and a coupla beers, 23 February 2014

Gamboge Descent CBobro

The Sunlight's Arms written and performed by Cameron and Živan Bobro
recorded in KiBela gallery, KIBLA, Maribor, Slovenija,
December, 2013

Sunlights Arms Cam And Zhivan Bobro

He Did A Houdini 
Album Version
a song about money 

Written, performed, recorded and mixed by Cameron Bobro, vocals, clarinets, slide phin, in the KiBela Gallery, KIBLA, Maribor, Slovenia, 2013  bobro(at)kibla(dot)org

Mastered by Marko Gutman, marko(dot)gutman(at)gmail(dot)com

Lindbergh lost his baby
the papers had a field day
fear is worth a fortune, in the right hands

Every mansion is a prison
if they can't get in, you can't get out

"One big dope deal, I will be real
'cuz I'll be rich
I can make anyone my bitch"

Someone told me about this guy
he used to live on Mulholland Drive
He did a Houdini
they never found him alive
He did a Houdini...
they never found him alive.


He Did A Houdini Album Version Cameron Bobro

The Shape of the Shadow
a song for Dejan Pestotnik

Written and performed by Cameron Bobro, recorded in the KiBela gallery, KIBLA, Maribor, Slovenia, 2014 Copyright Cameron Bobro, SAZAS rights agency

Vocals, cura saz, Bb and Eb clarinets 

the medieval tuning of the Islamic musician and philosopher Ibn Sina is, in quartertone notation including chromatics,
 Ab,(Bbd),Bb, Cd, Db,(Ebd), Eb, Fd, Gb, Ab. 

ShapeOfTheShadow Cameron Bobro

Music and performance by Cameron Bobro (SAZAS rights agency). 
bobro (put the "at" sign here)kibla(put the dot here)org

Recorded November 2013 in the KiBela gallery of KIBLA, Maribor, Slovenia. Mastered by Marko Gutman
marko(put the dot here)gutman(the at sign here)gmail(the dot goes here)com

There is a whole story of how the lyrics and music fit in with the album (coming soon!), but that'll be in the liner notes. No "autotune" or any of that kind of junk. The tuning is based on the tunings of the famous medieval Islamic philosopher, musician and physician Ibn Sina, known in Europe as Avicenna.

copyright 2013 Cameron Bobro
music written and performed by C. Bobro
lyrics by Edgar Allan Poe, 1849

Eldorado

Gaily bedight,
A gallant knight,
In sunshine and in shadow,
Had journeyed long,
Singing a song,
In search of Eldorado.

But he grew old-
This knight so bold-
And o'er his heart a shadow
Fell as he found
No spot of ground
That looked like Eldorado.

And, as his strength
Failed him at length,
He met a pilgrim shadow-
"Shadow," said he,
"Where can it be-
This land of Eldorado?"

"Over the Mountains
Of the Moon,
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
Ride, boldly ride,"
The shade replied-
"If you seek for Eldorado!"

-Edgar Allan Poe

Eldorado Album Version CBobro

Whistle That Lonely Note

Train riding down the rails
whistle, whistle, whistle,
whistle that lonely note

The ocean is on our left,
the mountains to our right
hey...
whistle, whistle, whistle
whistle that lonely note

written and performed by Cameron Bobro, in a multitrack improvisation on a Sunday morning in the KiBela Gallery, KIBLA, Maribor. copyright CBobro


Whistle That Lonely Note Cameron Bobro

Jackhammer Lily

a bit of fun while experimenting with different recording techniques in the KiBela gallery, KIBLA, Maribor, at the crack of dawn June the first 2014

Saz, clarinet, footstomping, written and performed by Cameron Bobro, copyright C Bobro 2014

Jackhammer Lily Cameron Bobro

Flower Petal Ballerina
dancing the day away

flower petal ballerina
dancing til night falls down
dancing til the first fall of the autumn leaves

flower petal ballerina
I never meant to leave you
I always meant to live forever
to dance with you forever,
flower petal ballerina
copyright 2014 Cameron Bobro


Flower Petal Ballerina Cameron Bobro

Once In A Moon

having a little fun, sort of a modern take on the songwriting tradition of Kurt Weill

written and performed June 27, 2014, Cameron Bobro
saz, vocals, clarinet



Once In A Moon CameronBobro

Uriah the Hittite (I Sing No Hallelujah)

El was married to Asherah
She's just ashes now, long forgotten
oh, I sing no hallelujah
I sing no hallelujah

Uriah the Hittite
he opened up a little gas station
it was on Route 66 
about halfway across the nation
oh, how he loved his wife
her name was Beth
she was his life

they say that you are made of shining light
that means I see right through you
oh, I sing no hallelujah
I sing no hallelujah

oh, I sing no hallelujah
you can have your magic and your angels
I look at things from a different angle

Uriah the Hittite
he was loved by his mother
just like you and me and any other
and I never have heard yet
what the lady was thinking
they never interviewed his wife Beth

they say that you are made of shining light
that means I see right through you
oh, I sing no hallelujah
I sing no hallelujah

Written and performed by Cameron Bobro the morning of July 3, 2014 copyright Cameron Bobro



Uriah The Hittite Cameron Bobro

Cameron Bobro is a musician living and working in Maribor, Slovenia, working at the renowned Kibla
multimedia art institution. 

In order to contact by email, type "bobro", followed by that lovely "at" sign, then "kibla", followed by that cute little dot, then the abbreviation "org". Smoke signals and psychic love-vibes are effective as well.

The painting I'm standing in front of in the profile photo is currently hanging in the bar of our institution and is by the fabulous painter Marko Jakše. As to whether that's a banano I'm smoking in the pic is a matter of debate.

Cameron Bobro

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