©2022 Christopher Elwood songs
We are playing around here with some influences from a distant past.
Who is Brian, you ask?
He prefers you look into your own heart and ask, Who is Brian--for me, to me, with me? 
He wouldn't let me use his real name, so "Brian" should be understood in a symbolic way.

Brian Regards Every World

©2018 Christopher Elwood songs
See what you think about this experiment

Get It Right again

©2019 Christopher Elwood songs
This one is pretty weird, I think you'll agree. If you don't, please let management know.

Angel Eyes

Cover of the Young Rascals’ classic by Felix Cavaliere and Eddie Brigati. “We’ll keep on spending sunny days this way …”

Groovin’

AlhamdullilaHallelujah

Downtown

If You Give Me Love

Acoustic homage to the Stones. Live at DLFM 5-7-16. Featuring Doug Yeager, flute.

You Can't Always Get What You Want

No one equals Stevie, but check out Brad Wigger's amazing congas and Doug Yeager's flute on this cover.

My Cherie Amour

Alex Cuba's song. Mundo Brew interpreting it on a summer's morning at Douglass Loop Farmer's Market. 2016. Brad Wigger on mandolin and congas. Doug Yeager, flute. Izzy Elwood on bgv.

Gira (live)

Our instrumental version of Motown by way of Stax. So that's Ashford-Simpson's song and production delivered by the immortal Gaye and Terrell taken over by Jackson-Jones-Cropper-Dunn and then more recently MundoBrewicized. Doug Yeager taking the lead, Bill Williamson giving a steady bottom, Brad Wigger rocking the groove, and Chris Elwood chugging along with the rhythm. Whew!

You’re All I Need to Get By (live)

Bob Dylan's song, with an island lilt -- Doug Yeager on harp, Bill Williamson on righteous bass, Brad Wigger percussion.

I Shall Be Released (live)

Graham Nash's song for CSN. Mundo Brew's first introduction of this in February 2017. Going out to our friend Cynthia.

Teach Your Children Well

Live from The Bard's Town 3.26.17. Working on our new material. Izzy on bgv, Doug on flute, Bill on bass, Bard on drums, Chris on v and guitar.
(c) 2016 CELWOOD

Someone To Love You (Like I Do) -  live

© 2018 Christopher Elwood songs
This one is by a little-known blue eyed soul group known (by a select few) as The Belle Vues (Belle Views in some recordings). Really a tragic story, if you can dig it up. Perhaps that's why few have.

Summer Rain

©2018 Chris Elwood
We had been in the Yucatan. But the song is set in Brooklyn. There's a connection, but I don't what it is. If you figure it out, drop me a line.

Heaven

©2017 Chris Elwood
An evening in April 1976. The pastor had been watching a popular television comedy when he got the report that my father had died. So he stopped by. We watched the light fade on the wall.

Be A Man

Auld Lang Syne live

Recorded live at The Bard's Town, Louisville, Kentucky before the pandemic descended on us. There are a few languages here, and maybe some that are only imaginary.

© 2019 Chris Elwood

Novena live

Peg in progress

© 2020 Elwood-Carvalhaes

English translation

In the raging storm
The wind knocks us down
Our house shakes, our light trembles
In the dark night of the soul
All the fears and distress
Are encircled with so much heartache

All is well, all is well, 
All is well, all is well,
All is well,
Our God says that all is well

Beneath the shadow of death
The voice of hope arises
The divine light of the day
At night becomes a flame 
It is within the life that we share
The breath of united dreams
That death and loneliness
Become life, become prayer

Tudo Bem

The Morning (So Much Love)

Song composers included Chris Elwood, Tercio B. Junker, Gerald Liu, Ximena Ulloa, Ann Hidalgo, Tom Gaulke, Violet Little
The nucleus of this song was written in Kingston, JA in 2018 in response to the travails of persons and communities living the legacy of colonial and neocolonial violence—and with particular concern for the bereaved survivors of the 2010 Tivoli Gardens Massacre (Kingston, Jamaica)—by an international group of teachers, artists, and guardians of faith communities. 
On the Tivoli massacre, see the reporting by Mattathias Schwartz in the New Yorker: 
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/12/12/a-massacre-in-jamaica
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/traces-of-a-massacre
https://www.thestranger.com/features/2015/08/19/22720945/an-interview-with-mattathias-schwartz-about-a-massacre-in-jamaica

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