2025 mix
Anthony Henderson - Harmonica
Paul Greenhaw - Drums

Runnin' with the Devil

Long Way

Happy 10-Year Anniversary to Days Before Rodeo, originally released August 18, 2014. This is Travis Scott's "Quintana Pt. 2" mixed with "Tango" from L'Histoire du Soldat by Igor Stravinsky (1918), performed, arranged, mixed and orchestrated by QWEENJD.

Quintana L'Histoire (Tango) feat. QWEENJD

Penny Winblood - Pink Alarm (Sol In Control Rough Mix)

Late last night (December 28th) I found out that one of my music professors and composition teachers at Cal State Fullerton, Lloyd Rodgers, died earlier that day. He was very influential on me as a composer, a musician, and as a person. I made this improvisation in memory of him. Requiescat in pace Lloyd. You are already missed.

Improv122916 - InMemoriamLloydRodgers

D.I.E f-02

Sex Dwarf

Twenty Fourth Road

Something exciting happened at the Chatham Square Library branch during their 2018 Summer Reading Challenge -- they turned their staircase into an actual music piece!

When each child signed up for Summer Reading, they picked a colored music note to write their name on and then placed it wherever they wanted on the staircase wall (which was transformed into a Grand Staff).

At the end of the summer, after all the notes had been placed, each color was assigned an instrument (e.g. dark blue = piano, green = clarinet, etc.). Then keeping the random placement of each note, the wall was transcribed into a full orchestral score! The piece repeats multiple times so that certain instrumental groupings could be featured until it finally culminates into a rousing tutti (where all the instruments played together -- as displayed on the wall).

What other instruments do you hear?

Special thanks to the children of Chatham Square Library, Chatham Square Library staff, Sean Ferguson, and Christy Lau.

Children Of Chatham Square Staircase Symphony

Piano Song for The Monster

1. Achkeris koon chi kalis / Ervoom em
2. [Interlude] “Sanction Turkey”
3. Sirds haladz
4. Tsoon chi kali
5. Sirds haladz
6. Sirds garagov letsvadz / Sirds gragadz mnats
7. Ambi dagin tsoon gereva

1. Sleep escapes my eyes / I am burning
2. [Interlude] “Sanction Turkey”
3. My melted heart
4. It is not snowing
5. My heart is melted
6. My heart is filled with fire / My heart stays in flames
7. Snow is beginning to appear beneath the clouds

Text excerpted from Komitas

Field recordings from Armenia and of an Artsakh war protest in NYC

All voice and instrumental parts clumsily and joyously recorded by Mary Kouyoumdjian while quarantining during the pandemic

Ervoom em (I am Burning) / a song cycle recorded in quarantine

Vinyl available 
https://hyemenandmetalfunkel.bandcamp.com/releases

Runnin' with the Devil

Highman & Metalfunkel