Jazz

Avant-garde jazz tune played on Akai EWI4000s electronic woodwind instrument, completely improvised, multi-layer with guitar and Yamaha keyboard as drums.

Actualization

Multi-layer improvisation using old Yamaha keyboard and actually using my BOSS RC 50 loop pedal for what it was originally intended for.  I think this is the only song I have up where I am actually live looping.

Aquamarine Chives

This song is intentionally off-beat and glitchy, in case you were wondering.  That's the best that gerbils can do when they are making music on an all-expense paid cruise ship.  Multi-layer improvisation with me on alto saxophone, and my girl on old Yamaha keyboard.

Gerbil Jerky

I played every single instrument separately completely improvised, combined onto a single track on my BOSS RC 50 Loop Pedal.  EWI4000s, old Yamaha keyboard, guitar.

Every Friday

What is the Christmas Mouse's secret?  Multi-layer original composition performed by me on guitar and old Yamaha keyboard and my own vocals.

Christmas Mouse

I've been addicted to nicotine for like 20 years.  I quit smoking like 15 years ago, but I can't quit the gum.  Multi-layer original composition with guitar, EWI4000s, old Yamaha keyboard, harmonica, and vocals.  I recorded this in my old apartment in Williamsburg, VA.

Nicotine Attraction

This is my little sister singing.  It was recorded on a phone.  I wrote this song years before we recorded it.  This recording was performed on my mother's grand piano.  There is a new remastered version available.

Wish I Were A Butterfly

Pick up your clothes off the floor.  Multi-layer improvised song with me playing harmonica and keyboard.  My girl improvised on alto saxophone.

Purple Shorts

Multi-layer improvised song of me playing alto saxophone, singing with echo pedal, and playing my old Yamaha keyboard in drum mode.

Oxygen

Multi-layer improvised, me playing Korg Radias keyboard (mostly as drums), me playing Akai EWI4000s in Flute mode, and me playing alto Saxophone.

Magnesium

Completely improvised song on Korg Radias keyboard, with multiple overdubbed improvisations.

Parsnip

Somewhere Under The Rain Cloud

It's a shame that some apples die on the branch.  A nice song for a calming walk in the Fall.  I improvised this on a Korg Radias keyboard.

Sweet Melancholy

This is some weird avant-garde keyboard organ improv song. No clue what I was thinkin.

One Grape At A Time

Ok, so you see these clouds?
Imagine them slowly descending into the ocean below.
That's all you need to think of.

Clouds Falling Down

This is the first song of my "Nullanon" series, which kind of correlates to a depression section of my life.  Little bit of funk at the end.  If you like the funk there is an extended version of that called "Turbulence Of The Nullanon".  The Nullanon is an anthropomorphized nothingness.

LYRICS:
Behold unto, O gentle love,
The nothing, Nullanon.
'Tis said on many scroll
He knows neither fate, nor reason.
Shall his will be evident?
His image sung through gifted tongue,
(Shall his will be evident?)
A voided hope and without shame,
(Shall his will be evident?)
Regardless of his coming seen,
Bring us to thy empty shell,
Shall his will be evident?
To others, an evil anathema,
Nay man is he, nor solid Earth.
Apathia, athambia, aphasia.
Man is but self-serving.
In hobo form, or merchant storm,
A wanderer o'er land and sea,
O Nullanon, join him now,
All nightmares expound from thee.

The Nullanon

I forced my little sister to sing some lyrics I wrote on a napkin, and I recorded it into my phone for the original version: https://soundcloud.com/nostrumuva/wish-i-were-a-butterfly
This is a remastered version with more of a jazzy trio middle section.

Wish I Were A Butterfly (Remastered)

This is a remastered version of my old Magnesium song that I improvised on my EWI4000s.
https://soundcloud.com/nostrumuva/magnesium
The old song was too quiet based on standard loudness normalization of -14db.  This version has more reggae feel to it.

Polished Magnesium

It was very difficult for me to combine jazz and dubstep to work together, but I think I got it.  This is all original there are no samples.  The trick was to use some big band jazz style melodies that are more syncopated, which works with the syncopated dubstep, and then occasionally I can launch into a smooth jazz legato solo with some dubstep background.  I also find a latin jazz supporting bass line to be able to carry the song through to the next concept. Tiny flute section at end.

Dub Jazz

Brendan Dempsey on bass.
NOSTRUMUVA on organ, EWI 4000s in flute mode, and cymbals.  Avant-garde jazz.

Emerging Tempest

For reasons unknown but time will tell...
Multi-instrumentalist, all types of music, all types of methods.
Occasional collaborations with other artists.
Sometimes I post the sheet music if it's piano.
Lately, my favorite instrument is a TE OP-1 Field keyboard.