Experimental blues, for an extraterrestrial who can't get his vehicle going.

MY UFO Won't Start

A little two-track guitar experiment using an effects box with HP5 effect for the chords, and Flanger for the lead guitar.

Unresolute

A mix of electric guitar and "Chiaroscuro," a poem written and read by Lori Gomez.

Chiaro Mix - 2024 - 04 - 08, 2.14 PM

This guitar instrumental tries to evoke the pleasures and feelings of a walk-in Canada's fall woods. R=The leaves are changing colours, the collar wind rattles them, the flowers are fading. I recorded a backing track of phase-shifted chords with a descending pattern then played a guitar solo on top.

FallingFeeling.WAV

A meditative, slightly done-y, exploration of open D tuning.

OPenD

This is a version of the music I performed live to accompany Toronto poet/dancer/video artist/painter Brenda Clews's performance poem "Ink Ocean."  It is me on electric guitar fed through a Zoom Multistomp box, mostly using delay, reverse delay, and phasing/flanging.

John's Music Track - Ink Ocean Performance Video

Paradise1

A (un)sound version of my John Gone poem (inspired by the deaths of John Ritter and Johnny Cash).  Me on hand drum and guitar in the background.

John Gone

A cautionary tale about driving too fast, with guitar accompaniment in open-D tuning.

johnopoems