Windwalker

Vision

"A mistake that keeps being repeated is not a mistake, it's a choice." - Unknown

It's about taking chances, riding the river of life, and inspired by my love of those classic songwriters and their lo-fi vibe.  

Ride the river.

"The Same Mistakes Again" written, arranged, recorded, produced & performed by Eric Alexandrakis.

Mixed by Eric Alexandrakis and Zach Ziskin.

Mastered by Zach Ziskin.

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Lyrics:

Well i've been down that troubled road before, many times afoul.
And i know every stone and tree and pothole, I've stepped on them and howled.
Yet still looking down that dusty road temptation calls my name.
Oh how does the painful sensation pull me to make the same mistakes again?

Oh there's a bridge over the river, which takes me home with ease,
But if life was always so easy, we'd never scrape our knees.
Yeah the trees, the bees and blades of grass get teased by the breeze and terrain,
But if we never ride that river, we'll make the same mistakes again.

That old uneven road has made me trip surely more than thrice,
And yet somehow I keep taking the same path, and I keep paying the price.
That bridge up ahead is an easy route that keeps me safe and sound,
But if I take that river, I might cover greater ground. 

Well there's a bridge over the river, which takes me home with ease,
But if life was always so easy, we'd never scrape our knees.
Yeah the trees, the bees and blades of grass get teased by the breeze and terrain,
But if we never ride that river, we'll make the same mistakes again.

BRIDGE

Well this boat is a bit flimsy, but in life there are never guarantees.
Things look so much different when rowing on one's knees,
But I'm moving forward living life, and always seeing new things.
Just looking to see what the future says, and what new things it brings.

Now an unsuspecting wave rolls by, and knocks me in the water.
Sometimes the cards we're dealt in the game of life, fold and burn or prosper.
As I gasped for air I swore that life will keep me, I'm no martyr.
When I regained my footing I stood real tall, and the world was mine to conquer.

Yeah there's a bridge over the river, which takes me home with ease.
But if life was always so easy, we'd never scrape our knees.
Yeah the trees, the bees and blades of grass get teased by the breeze and terrain,
But if we never ride that river, we'll make the same mistakes again.

Oh there's a bridge over the river, which takes me home with ease.
But if life was always so easy, we'd never scrape our knees.
Yeah the trees, the bees and blades of grass get teased by the breeze and terrain,
But if we never ride that river, we'll make the same mistakes again.

The Same Mistakes Again

The inspiration for this piece came about in late March of 2015 after I overheard two women talking about the fact that it was snowing in late March.  I heard someone say, "I can't believe it's snowing on the last day of March," and she answered saying, "I'm from Massachusetts, there's always snow on the crocuses." That image of beauty in imperfection and in unlikely combinations inspired me, even despite the fact that it conjures the impending doom of climate change. Regardless of disliking snow in late March in NYC, and the signs of climate change, the image is still comforting to me because it is a reminder that our expectations of things we wish for are often marred with undesirable things. 
The second verse is about the light, the way it literally streams in the room in slivers that illuminate the dust particles.  When I'm teaching preschoolers, this phenomenon is always distracting to them. They love to touch the light, a thing that can't be felt. And I love to touch the light too, and we all feel its power. We are all striving towards the light, reaching for our desires, reaching for what calls to us, and yet, those things are often untouchable, but we all know that experience of reaching, which is fulfilling in itself. 

Crocuses

Title: My Mommy Is a Mummy 
Artist: Lucy Kalantari & the Jazz Cats
Album: It's the Holidays!

Lucy Kalantari - voice, ukulele, piano
Linus Wyrsch - clarinet, responder
Larry Cook - upright bass, responder
Rich Kulsar - drums, percussion
Erich Schoen-René - cello
Austin Biss - responder

Recorded and mixed by Denise Barbarita at MONOLisa Studios
Mastered by Alan Silverman, Arf! Mastering
Produced by Lucy Kalantari

Written and arranged by Lucy Kalantari
© & ℗ 2017 A Few Little Notes, ASCAP


Single release date: September 29, 2017
Label: A Few Little Notes

My Mommy Is a Mummy (single)

My Mommy Is a Mummy

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“Love To Me” is Bob Mundy's much anticipated follow up to his hit 1st album "Something Beautiful". It's a smart & alluring look at the kaleidoscopic and contradictory allure of Love!
The album reunites Bob with Dan Kaufman on piano, Peter Slavov on Bass, Dominick Farinacci on Trumpet & Lage Lund on Electric Guitar and also features Joel Frahm on Tenor Sax, Sean Harkness on Acoustic Guitar, Mark Ferber on Drums, Sam Sadigursky on Tenor & Soprano Sax, Keita Ogawa on Percussion & Yves Dharamraj on Cello. 
This 2nd album “Love to Me” started with the song “But Beautiful”, one of my all-time favorites.  As Dan Kaufman, my co-producer & pianist and I were going thru other music to decide what was best to put on this album, I had brought the song “Love to Me” for him to hear.  This song is from one of my favorite Broadway Shows “The Light in the Piazza” and, to me, perfectly represents what love is.  I was dying to record it but I fully expected Dan to say there would be no way to do this with a Jazz arrangement so I didn’t get my hopes up. To my surprise, he fell in love with it at first listen and the rest is history.  I tried out quite a few album titles but “Love to Me” seemed the only choice, one that encompasses the whole experience of love.
One of the great things that came out of the success of my 1st album “Something Beautiful” was that it connected me with several incredibly successful songwriters including Chris Caswell, a very well-known Jazz writer who has worked with many greats including Nancy Wilson, and Phil Galdston who is best known for his Vanessa Williams chart topping hit “Save the Best for Last”. It also connected me with a lesser known composer named Steven Cagan who writes incredible songs and should be known by the masses.  Thanks to these writers, half of this album is new music that has never been recorded. I am thrilled to be the 1st person to present these new songs to the world!
Whether you are in-love, in-between love or simply have no time for love, “Love to Me” has something for everyone!

The Good Life Long_v2 MASTER 96KHZ

Carvin's Agreement

May all the sounds keep us connected.

Lucy Kalantari: vocals, piano, ukulele • Linus Wyrsch: clarinet, responder • Larry Cook: bass, responder • Rich Kulsar: drums, percussion, responder • Michael Irwin: trumpet • Secret Agent 23 Skidoo: rapper • Darius Kalantari: little cello, responder • Erich Schoen-René: big cello • Adelmo Guidarelli: Mr. Opera Man

Singing Kids: Astoria Madden, Hazel Marcus, Jane Marcus, Declan McGuigan

Friends around the world: Alexis, Camila, Catalina, Darius, Elsa, Eman, Erdam, Fabiana, Ganza, Jackson, Jacob, Marianne, Max, Natsumi, Robert, Satoshi, Stella, Winnie

All songs written by Lucy Kalantari © & ℗ 2018, A Few Little Notes, ASCAP, except for rap in “Are You Afraid of the Dark?” written by Secret Agent 23 Skidoo

Recorded and mixed by Denise Barbarita at MONOLisa Studios, Long Island City, NY
Additional recording by Lucy Kalantari at Kalantari Palace Studios, Brooklyn, NY
Mastered by Alan Silverman, Arf! Mastering, New York, NY
Design and Illustrations by Rina Miele, HoneyDesign

Produced by Lucy Kalantari
www.LucyKalantari.com

Travelin' All Around

Tim Kubart's Building Blocks, the follow up to his Grammy award winning album HOME, is a pop celebration all about growing our circle of care. As we grow so does our capacity to care, to our family, our pets, our neighbors, and our communities, both locally and globally. Building Blocks is about watching our hearts grow as we do.

Building Blocks

Jump Right In

NightTrain57

On Our Way

There is a rock it's stable and true its beliefs are of an ancient view. 
They have no reason to love. Give them a reason. Give them a reason to love. 

Break that rock, drive your hammer to stone, without guns and without glory, without a pinning down, with mercy. Give them a reason, because there is a reason to love. 

The walls come, and the walls fall, and the people they deal with it all. The red faces and the sad lies, and the moments we hide in disguise. Give them a reason, give them a reason, there is reason, there is a reason to love.

Rock Heart

FYC in the 63rd Grammy Awards (R)~ American Roots Performance

Jane Siberry ~ Music and Lyrics
Martha Reich ~ Vocals, Electric Guitar and Arrangement
Larry Mitchell ~ Electric Guitar and Piano
Michael Kott ~ Cello

Engineers ~ Larry Mitchell at The Chocolate Room, Jason Reed at Frogville Studios and Martha Reich at Moonbird Studios
Mixed and Mastered ~ Larry Mitchell at The Chocolate Room
GrindEthos Records
Producers ~ Cindy Paulos and Martha Reich

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An award-winning Santa Fe-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Martha Reich is often compared to Joni Mitchell and Joan Baez. She is deeply inspired by nature and her unique style features an honesty and vulnerability that evokes “a sound almost woven out of the earth.” Reich sings from the brittle openings of the heart and her songs possess exquisite poetry, capturing the depth of personal and universal subjects.

Calling All Angels 

A man is placed upon the steps a baby cries
and high above you can hear the church bells start to ring
And as the heaviness, the heaviness, oh it settles in
Somewhere you can hear a mother sing

Then it’s one foot then the other as you step out on the road, 
step out on the road
How much weight? How much weight?
Then it’s how long? and how far?
and how many times oooh before it’s too late?

Calling all angels 
Calling all angels 
Walk me through this one
Don’t leave me alone
Calling all angels 
Calling all angels
We’re trying, we’re hoping 
But we’re not sure how

And everyday you gaze upon the sunset
With such love and intensity
Why it’s almost as if
If you could only crack the code
You’d finally understand what this all means
But if you could do you think you would
Trade it all, all the pain and suffering?
Ah, but then you would have missed
The beauty of the light upon this earth
And the sweetness of leaving

Calling all angels
Calling all angels
Walk me through this one
Don’t leave me alone
Calling all angels
Calling all angels
We’re trying, we’re hoping
But we’re not sure how

Calling all angels (calling all angels)
Calling all angels (calling all angels

Walk me through this one (walk me through this one)
Don’t leave me alone

Calling all angels 
Calling all angels
We’re trying, we’re hoping
We’re hurting, we’re loving
We’re crying, we’re calling
Cause we’re not sure how....This goes

My Mommy Is a Mummy

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