The first of six movements, Eden's Children reflects the time in America from the first wave of Europeans through the year 1900 or so.  I'm playing guitar and bass, https://soundcloud.com/user-290918585 is playing keyboards.

Requiem - I. Eden's Children

A collaboration with EK (https://soundcloud.com/user-290918585) on a piece that reflects on the relationship between humans and technology.  Automation has eliminated jobs and amplified the divide between the haves and have nots, while the internet and social media has allowed information to be weaponized so as to pit us against each other.

Requiem Part III: Manchines

Part 2 of my Requiem concept piece, "Colossus" reflects America during its era of ascendance to its apex on September 10th 2001 -- the industrial revolution, the rise of the American empire and post WWII boom.  This is America at its most powerful. Primary writing and arrangement goes to ek (@user-290918585).

Requiem Part 2: Colossus

Lou Reed/Velvet Underground always struck a melancholic chord with me, and this is a little experiment conducted with his music in mind: what kind of composition and performance could I render with simply a single guitar, a little EQ, some reverb and a looper pedal?  This is the result, all played with my Gibson ES-330.

The “drum beat” is played thumping the strings and slapping the pick guard.  An 8 bar chord progression is looped over and over.  Then I have to turn those simple and potentially monotonous elements into something interesting to listen to for some minutes, with only a single guitar lead/melody track to do it.

Here’s the result of the experiment.  Does it work?  I dunno, you tell me.

Pretty - Little - Thing

Cletus was wandering along the creek when he stumbled upon a patch of magic mushrooms.  He ate some, and began to feel funny.  Then a giant nutria attacked from the dark waters of the creek.  Cletus was corned, and resigned himself to his death.  But as the Nutria attacked, Cletus transformed into a rhinoceros and fought back.  Cletus and the Nutria slashed and charged and gored each other.  In the end, Cletus had killed the nutria and he transformed back to his toothless human form.  Cletus was proud of his triumph and wandered home to live happily ever after.

Hillbilly Trippin'

A jazzy & bluesy backing track for a solo guitar show I'm putting together.  This is centered around E-minor, but shifts between the keys of D, G and A.  It can have 5 scales played over it at different parts of the song, but Em pentatonic works over everything and can be a life raft if you get out over your skis playing the changes.

E dorian
E aeolian (natural minor)
Em pentatonic
Em blues
E mixolydian
Bm pentatonic (over end)

Miles & Miles - Jazzy Backing Track - 90BPM

This is a backing track for a solo improv guitar performance I am putting together.  It is centered around D-major, but varies a bit between the key of G and D (except for the interlude).  You can play D-major pentatonic over everything but the interlude as a safe zone, but depending on where you are at in the song you can play D Ionian (major scale) or D myxolydian, with the only diff being the the 7th or flat 7th.  As neither of those notes are in the major pentatonic, it fits over all the chords.

At the interlude, I switch to the key of A and you'll want to play A major/D lydian over that section.

Sangre Stomp - Backing Track - 100bpm

An improvisation session with my Gibson Tennessean and its new Fralin P92 pickups.  I love the sounds of these.  Unfortunately, this is just the audio track of a video captured from my phone, so sound quality isn't great.

Tone provided by my Axe FX 3 using a Fender Bassman amp model & cab.

Video here on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i5668DAojM

Fralin - P92s

This is an orchestral/symphonic piece I composed and recorded about the arrival of Spring.

Herald Of Spring

Some quick soloing over a backing track using my new favorite set of gear -- a Barber Gain Changer into a UAFX Ruby into a GFI Synesthesia and then from there into the DAW where I added delay and reverb.

TrippingBalls - Barber Gain Changer -> UAFX Ruby -> GFI Synesthesia

A song for my son for a dramatic work her is creating.

W's Lament

A demo of my new UAFX Knuckles pedal which emulates a 1992 Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier.

knuckle-sandwich

Guitarist Lance Woodson (https://soundcloud.com/devquixote) and synth composer Eric Krause (https://soundcloud.com/user-290918585) have collaborated on a new ambient track, "The Wonder Of It All." Combining Woodson’s expressive guitar with Krause’s synth arrangements, the song creates an uplifting and ethereal soundscape. "The Wonder Of It All" explores themes of awe and interconnectedness, offering a reflective listening experience.

The Wonder Of It All

A looper rendition of Sinatra's "Fly Me To The Moon"

Fly Me To The Moon

On November 13, 1885, ten miners were killed in a premature explosion deep inside the Bull Domingo Mine near Silver Cliff, Colorado. Working in close quarters while handling multiple charges, they were victims of the era’s perilous mining practices—where speed often outweighed safety, and flickering lanterns lit the fuse on tragedy. “The Tomb at Bull Domingo” is an ambient elegy for those lost souls and the silence left behind. Wind-blown and mournful, it echoes the sorrow of a mountain that once swallowed men whole and never gave them back.  Guitar by Devquixote.  Everything else by Ek https://soundcloud.com/user-290918585.  Cover art credit to Bob Reed.

The Tomb at Bull Domingo

Night Drive is a haunting meditation on memory, grief, and the silence between the living and the dead. With a vocal performance by Stephen D. Wilson, the song unfolds like a midnight journey through Monument Valley, with a skeleton crew of ghosts riding shotgun. Minimalist, cinematic, and emotionally raw, Night Drive is best heard alone, after dark, with the volume up and nowhere to be.

Learn more about Stephen D. Wilson and his work:
🌐 https://stevedwilson.com/home

Night Drive

This is a spacey guitar instrumental with soloing inspired by David Gilmour and Danny Gatton.

Emergence

An instrumental anthemic ballad I wrote.  Get your lighters in the air!

Wayfare

Covid-19 can't kill creativity! This is a new song I've been writing and finished a final mix of today. It is kind of a mutant Pink Floyd (Breathe in the Air), Neil Young (Killer Cortez) hybrid with a walking bass line that swings to some interesting places. At least to me!

El Paseo - Final Mix

I have always been a big spaghetti western fan, and thus a huge Ennio Morricone fan.  This song, while perhaps overly ambitious, was inspired by Ennio's scores.  I was already composing and recording it before his recent passing, which seemed a strange coincidence.  At any rate, here's to you, Ennio.

Spanish Gypsy Jihad

El Paseo V2

A very prog-ish song about a fool's Quixotic journey, their tribulations along the way and eventual arrival to where they should have been all along.

Promised Land (parts I-VI)

Me playing along to Hey Joe with my new Fender Strat using a Texas Blues preset I found for the Line 6 Helix.

Hey Joe Solo

This is a guitar improv done with my strat using Fralin Vintage Hot pickups.  A sustainer pedal is used to give a bagpipe droning type of effect while playing melody over it.  A couple bars of the melody are shamelessly stolen from the song Sgt Mackenzie.

Sgt - Mackenzie - Improv

To find ‘the place where the sky and the earth touch,’ and open the mysterious gateway which separates this world from the other.

—Camille Flammarion

Piercing The Veil

I am a musician & producer with influences from rock, R&B, funk, metal, jazz, folk and Americana.  I enjoy making my own music, and collaborating with others.

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