Soundscape, New Age, instrumental, meditative, pastoral, ambient

That time Stephen Thomas and I improvised the live background music for a yoga class at Riffs Yoga Yard in La Jolla, CA.  Our first and unfortunately last time to do so.  CK--lap steel, Kaossilator, loops; ST-synths, loops

LIVE FROM RIFFS YOGA YARD (La Jolla, CA)-Section 01 (with Stephen Thomas)

My favorite thing for the longest time was Fast Times 80s night at One Eyed Jacks in New Orleans.  This is a tribute to those nights, an all-organic version intending to get as close to how I felt on that dance floor with the speakers shaking your teeth. 

I DJ'd this song every time I guested there and every one of our ActionActionReaction nights. It always makes me happy. I performed live on the same stage at Jacks, many wonderful times with my bands The Public, and Phantom Fiction. There are no synths on the track as a tribute to that experience. Everything beside the bass track is my very first guitar, a hohner acoustic, using modelers and fx.  

Guest stars on this one are two very good friends, my ever-talented wife Elizabeth singing, and my long-time friend Dustin Prince who is a fantastic Drummer working in Los Angeles and had the strange misfortune of being drawn into the New Orleans goth scene with me in our band, New Dawn Fades back in the fetid and fecund 90s.  

So this one is for Jacks and its crew. Good times were had, see you at The Goat. 

lots of my favorite things in one place, hope you enjoy it.

T

Bizarre Love Triangle (for One Eyed Jacks)

Epic piano disco for your booty-shakin' pleasure. You want strings? You want bass? You want funky guitar? You want brass? It's all here.

Taking It Back - 12 Inch Original

My dear friend Marcus Jones, who recently passed, sent me the voice recording found in this piece several years ago.  I proposed that I put some of my instrumental music behind it and perhaps do a video to go along with it and make it into a series.  Unfortunately, we never took it any further than this one piece, but I love it.  "Compassion beats hate at twice the rate" says Marcus in this piece.  Words to live by.  Rest in peace, my brother.

LIVE FROM RIFFS YOGA YARD (La Jolla, CA)-Section 01 (with Stephen Thomas)

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