"Let me sing you 
the ballad of Vertigo Jones
he lost his balance, 
so I've been told
not just a dalliance, 
you know he was 
gettin kind of old
but I don't make no 
unnecessary bones
it's a ballad of Vertigo Jones
if he were to go 
It'd be due to that vertigo
now let me give it to you
in a common parlance
the man had clearly lost his balance
if he were to go....
It's the Ballad of Vertigo Jones."
with:
Joel Banner Baird performing on slide guitar, upright acoustic bass 
jhaffur khan azad darakth - blowing alto saxophone, with congas and voice
Andrew Alter returns on piano

Ballad Of Vertigo Jones

Joel Banner Baird: bass and schlied guitar
jhaffur khan azad darakth: drums and voice \
Old rat snake oil
She’s ready to strike 
She’s all tensed and coiled
What’s not to like 
About old rat snake oil
I just drink a big drop
Spread the rest on the skin
If she still doesn’t stop
I’ll just apply it again.  

I won’t be her fencing foil
While I’ve  got my old rat snake oil.

She might still have a fang or two
We had a good thaing but now I’m through
I’ve had too much of her trouble and toil
I’m pulling out the last of th’old rat snake oil 

Jhaffur khan azad darakth 2023

Rat Snake Oil

set in Raag Shivranjani this little jaunt should turn your heart in to a rhubarb brain 
jhaffur khan azad darakth: bansuri, melodica, djembe and cajon
Joel Banner Baird: Godin Moses  guitaram and bass

Dilrhubarb

swing along to this campfire favorite
jhaffur khan azad darakth: reeds, percussion
Joel Banner Baird: "blondie" electric guitar and acoustic bass

Nodulariousity

a shimmering fugal song all summer long
jhaffur khan azad darakth:  alto saxophones, percussion
Joel Banner Baird: acoustic bass

Iridescant

Shine your tail it's skink's big night out
jhaffur khan azad darakth: silver flute and drums
Joel Banner Baird: acoustic bass and guitar

Skink's Night Out

Coated with cunning jungle butter, listen as if your ears depend on it.... unwaxed.  
Joel Banner Baird: upright acoustic bass, organ and piano
jhaffur khan azad darakth, percussion, clarinet, Peruvian bird whistle, Laotian jaw's harp, pan pipes, alto saxophone, gourd dove call, Hmong raj Nplaim.

Cunning Jungle Butter

House Of Bamboo

On the occasion of the arrival of their majestic personages this piece presented without presentiment. 
jhaffur khan azad darakth: "french horn", "trumpet"
Joel Banner Baird: cello, acoustic bass,

Flanfare

Gastric ethology abounds in contra indications
Combatting lethargy with intuitive ultra sounds
As rhinos chew their saccharum grass while passing farts
So sacerdotal remedies are deemed infatuations
For the answers simply rendered in preheated coffee grounds
Or smushed beneath the crumpets piled in squeaky grocery carts.

One banana two fofana catch them by their tales
Tell the one that got away their story’s bailing hay
Crush internal grinding stones with toxic powdered bones 
The millers charging by dead weight and slippery as a rail
While twiddlers at their desktop dials are failing in their play
Whatever long-robed extras say, just treat as fevered groans.
-jkad apprilled 24

jhaffur khan azad darakth: trombone, trumpet, alto saxophone, drums
Joel Banner Baird: piano, acoustic bass

Gastric Ethology

the naiFian duo bring you this instantaneously composed ode to counter the verbing trend vestigially. 
Joel Banner Baird: acoustic bass and guitar
jhaffur khan azad darakth: djembe, clarinet, alto saxophone

Peripherally Nouned

Always all-new. Spontaneously composed. Impossible to ignore.

Gastric Ethology

Orchestra naïF

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