Crows are witness to all human foibles and tragedies. They are quick to hold grudges and can remember faces. Watch out for them.

1601 Nickel Smith A Murder Of Crows

Driving on the New Jersey Turnpike, listening to the radio. Radio bits are public domain.

1602 Nickel Smith Crackup

An upbeat track, kind of over the top, but nice.

1603 Nickel Smith Hopped Up

Ken Nickels Music

Town & Country Festival Dance

Musical Canvas of life out west where the buffalo roam. This includes a depiction of an actual buffalo hunt.

Wide Open Wyoming

Percussion Ensenmble with Two Marimbas, Vibes, Xylophone, Amplified Toy Piano, Celesta and Zither.

Squibits And Rampers (from Genus Australis)

An elegy for all the dead in the North Atlantic that went down with The Titanic that fateful night in 1912.

Rose In Repose

The world will not end in an inferno or a cinder. Teeth will not be bared by man nor beast. There will not be a biological disaster that extinguished many of the world’s poor. Not that these things have not occurred.  They all happened in time. The whole of earth’s history demands that they must be so. No zombies, no second coming, no tearing asunder. There will be no pain or even the slightest discomfort. It won’t hurt a bit. When the world ends it will come as a whisper in a dream. As a child leaves its mother’s arms only to be welcomed into the arms of another.

The Emissary

The 1st Movement of my Concerto Grosso, for string orchestra. There will follow a slow movement and another fast (as soon as I write them).

Concerto Grosso - Allegro

From a collection of melodic works called Hither and Yon