David Creese of the University of Newcastle plays an ancient Greek song taken from stone inscriptions constructed on an eight-string "canon" (a zither-like instrument) with movable bridges. (Audio file is ©BBC)

What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like

1st single and video from my 2021 album, "The Way."  Music and Lyrics Copyright 2021 by Rob Roper.  All Rights Reserved.
For the video, see https://vimeo.com/629726960

The Way

Metadata (We're Watching You)

the Empires we build on the bones of our ancestors....progress waits for no one......

ThE AsSoCIaTIoN - EmPiRes BUiLt On ThE BonEs Of OuR AnCesToRs

This is a song in development for the forthcoming album "Songs of Oceans and Angels."  

Jonathon Chaffee of The Weeds plays the drums on this track.

Tonight

Marsh

Second track on "Roses", the Total Flower Chaos EP, released June 7, 2016.  

Ben Waligoske:  electric rhythm guitar, pedal steel guitar, classical guitar
Rob Roper:  rhythm and lead electric guitars
Cameron Hays:  Bass
Jon Cox:  Drums

Recorded at Evergroove Studio, Evergreen Colorado by Brad Smalling.  Some guitar overdubs recorded by Rob Roper at his home.

Compare to my home demo recordings on the Demo Playlist.


Roses

Schizophrenia

I wrote this song after a recent trip to Asia.  I saw a young lady begging for money on the street in Bangkok.  She had her baby on the ground in front of her like an offering for mercy.
The video is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE1N-rnsRUE&t=7s

A Drop In The Ocean

Minnesota Classics

The Wreck of the Edmund_Fitzge

Demo of a new tune.  Word and music by Kurt L.   Inspiration for the tune came from losing my father and the ancient Greek Seikilos Epitaph.  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seikilos_epitaph

Photographs and Memories

The human voice is spoken word by Kurt Loken added to the bird voice of Enrique Enriquez

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SeeBird
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in now
this 
what do you see now
in it 
this

see
in the way it could be 
see it 
see
see

see
see
what will be will be
see
how?
see

so
what is 
it
it
that is
the questions of you by me
the questions of me by you
see
see

see
see
our time rolls on     
the time rolls on
our time rolls on
see

see 
be

everything in sunbeams
must fade away now

Seebird

NIHT is Kurt L: Bass, tenor guitar, vocals, and other noises.

Seebird

NIHT

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