Near East/Far West Fusion

Nautilauta, Lâvta — Eric Ederer
Violin, Daire, Darbuka — Daniel Cossu

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Muwashshah Without Words #1: Bayyati Nawa

Near East/Far West Fusion

Ud, yaylı tanbur, octave mandolin — Eric Ederer
Daire (w/& w/o brushes), bowed guitar strings, bass guitar — Daniel Cossu

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Jurjuna

1920s-style cartoon novelty song — the saga of Ricky the Rat. I was pretty sure I would never make an album on which this would quite fit, so here is its new home! Shared credit Eric Ederer and Daniel Cossu — enjoy!

Ricky was a crazy fellah
Barely kept his life together
Some would even say he was a rat
He thought the man on the moon 
Was the working man’s ruin
And the government cheese was making him sneeze
Unless he wore his tinfoil hat.

Ricky one night
Was looking for a fight
So he went into the opium den
But the dragon hit back 
And knocked off his hat
And the man on the moon sent a terrible dream
That he’d never see his hat again.

Rat-a-tat-tat, the tinfoil hat
Without it, it was his ruin 
Rat-a-tat-tat, without that hat
He’ll be a slave to the man on the moon.

When the opium tide receded 
And the white sunlight burned away Ricky’s sleep
He crawled upright and ran scrambling across the Bowery
High and low in search of his shiny salvation
‘Til a stack of bricks and a cold, hard cop
Put a stop to his rambling day. 

Now the man on the moon with a silvery spoon
Is scooping Ricky’s thoughts into a vat
With his mind abandoned like a looney old man
He sails around the city in a sardine can
Looking for his tinfoil hat!
He sails around the city in a sardine can
Looking for his tinfoil hat!

Rat-a-tat-tat, the tinfoil hat
Without it, it was his ruin 
Rat-a-tat-tat, without that hat
He’ll be a slave to the man on the moon


Tin Foil Hat

Tale of forlorn love, here sung in djudeo-espanyol by Dr. Andrea Fishman during a Kalinka performance, June 13, 2019 at SoHo in Santa Barbara, California — nautilauta solo by Eric Ederer for dancer Beth Amine. Violin: Besnik Yzeiri, Clarinet: Fred Nadis, Contrabass: Andrew Fedders, Percussion: Sue Rudnicki.

Çapkın - Kalinka

Beyati Çiftetelli (3:35)	Eric Ederer (music, perf.)

‘70s Intro (1:35)			EE (words, music, perf.)

‘Plane Problems (5:40)	Mark A. Richman (vocals), EE (music, perf.)

Sweetfoot (3:30)		EE (comp., perf.) and Daniel Cossu (perf., mix)

Ithaca/Glömma (3:30)	Andrea Fishman (vocals), C. Cavafy (poem), Oscar Falcini (music, perf./mix)

Begging Bowl (1:20)		EE (words, music, perf., vocals)

Le Groove Eclectique (2:50)EE (comp.), D. Cossu (mix)

Odds Without Ends - Side A

I have never seen you (2:25)	EE (words, music, perf.)

Spy vs. Spy (2:40)			EE (comp., perf.) and Daniel Cossu (perf., mix)

Åskar På Loftet (head, 1:50)	Oscar Falcini (words, music, perf./mix)

Vesuvian Love Scribe (9:05)	Brendan Carroll (words, vocals)(above tune cont’d)

Geçiş (Passage) (6:06)		EE (music, perf.), D. Cossu (perf., mix)

Odds Without Ends - Side B

Tin Foil Hat (2:45)			EE (comp., perf.) and Daniel Cossu (perf., mix)

Nature Interlude (:21)			Mixkit (sound effects), EE (mix)

Bubbe’s Toilet (8:30)			Fred Nadis (story, voice, clar.), Mixit, EE (mix)

Nikriz Longa (2:12)			Tanburi Cemil Bey (comp.), Fred Nadis (clar.), EE(cümbüş, mandola, synth bass, vox; mix)

Hobo (2:10)				EE (comp., perf.) and Daniel Cossu (perf., mix)

Hickory Grove Waltz (2:00)EE (comp., perf.) and Daniel Cossu (perf., mix)

Another Nature Interlude (:21)	Mixkit (sound effects), EE (mix)

Gülizar Mandıra (2:50)		EE (comp., perf.) and Daniel Cossu (perf., mix)

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