Moonflower

Javanese rebab recorded in three layers on June 6, 2022
https://jeffgburekprojects.bandcamp.com/track/red-chamber-music-3-voices

Rebab Song 3 Red Chamber Music

Funky new theme music for the One Two Three Jokes Podcast. https://www.podbean.com/pu/pbblog-bcm97-9dc72
Aaron Kraft - Composer; Tejaswi Gorti - Mixing Engineer

One Two Three Jokes Podcast Theme

One Two Three Jokes - Theme

Written and produced by Aaron Kraft. Lyrics by Erykah Wu. 
Vocals: Erykah Wu, 
Moog Guitar: Brooks Nichols, 
Drum programming: Terry Luan,
Bass/Drum programming/Synths: Aaron Kraft,
Mastered by Frank Angell Mendoza

Rains In Sky

The photo is a Trout Lily. They grow for a very short time in the Spring each year. The mottled leaves are reminiscent of a trout, hence the name.
Mysterious Lady is a deity of approach for Daoist Fu (charms.) She is known to facilitate good results.

Mysterious Lady

This work is an exploration of the Raga Yaman Kalyan in open G minor tuning. Elements of American ragtime, blues, classical guitar and rumba flamenco are woven into the tapestry of this work. It belongs to the body of work known as "Raag & Bone."

Raag Yaman Kalyan belongs to the Kalyan thaat. It is said that all the ragas of this thaat are generated by the ancient Lydian mode of the Greeks. One of the most unique qualities of this raag is that the phrases generate from the 7th degree of the scale and rise up through the swaras before making a cadence resolving from the 2nd of the scale to the root. If one listens carefully to melody the listener will noticed the "Ni" - "Re" "Sa" statement. 

Another exciting thing about this raga is that the drone notes Ni and Ga create a minor chord when combined with the rest of the swaras, thus there is a constant ambiguity whether the minor key (G - Ga) or the major key (Eb -Sa)  is the tonic center. Yaman Kalyan has the special characterist of altering the #4 (Ma Teevra) to natural 4 (Ma) in special phrases like Gmg, R m G P M P m G, etc

Yaman Kalyan:

Ascent: Ni     R  Ga  Ma Dha  Ni    Sa
            M7 M2 M3  A4 M6     M7 Root

Descent:  Sa'    Ni   Dha Pa  Ma Ga Re 'Ni               Sa
                Root M7  M6  P5  A4  M3 M2 M7(below)  Root
Namaste! Aho!

Moonflower Dance - Raag Yaman Kalyan

Written and produced by Aaron Kraft
Featuring Crowyote on Guitar
Mixed by Tejaswi Gorti
Mastered by Silk Road Studios
http://www.silkroadstudios.in/

Tropicoco (feat. Crowyote)

Tropicoco (feat.Crowyote)

Happy "Burns Supper" and New Year! 

This is the audio from a Facebook Live performance that took place on January 1st, 2022 featuring my arrangement of Auld Lang Syne, including a chord melody variation straight and with ragtime feel, a potpourri of fragments of works ranging from "Poor Boy's Long Way From Home" to Zani De Ferranti's "Carnival of Venice," and improvisations in the raag Bhairav (Kalingra).

The audio had been badly reduced and damaged by Facebook's compression algorithm and I managed to salvage it using Izotope RX 10 and Ozone 10. I did reorganize the structure just a small bit to create the intro, but otherwise the performance is left intact fret buzz, flubbed/ghost notes and all.

Auld Lang Syne - Variations and Raag

Mellow, atmospheric, calming with a little melancholia. Reminiscent of a spring day in Paris that never was on a vacation I never took.

Written and produced by Aaron Kraft. Lyrics by Erykah Wu. 
Vocals: Erykah Wu, 
Moog Guitar: Brooks Nichols, 
Drum programming: Terry Luan,
Bass/Drum programming/Synths: Aaron Kraft,
Mastered by Frank Angell Mendoza

Rains in Sky - Remastered

Do Dream........
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azR75YuyMbo
"AlwaysAndForever" Download album at, https://invisibleriserecords.bandcamp.com/album/alwaysandforever?from=search&search_item_id=2168008471&search_item_type=a&search_match_part=%3F&search_page_id=182636118&search_page_no=1&search_rank=2&search_sig=a83b9c0c185428d2ea79ffb5bcc9df2a

Are You Dreaming

"AlwaysAndForever" Download album at, https://invisibleriserecords.bandcamp.com/album/alwaysandforever?from=search&search_item_id=2168008471&search_item_type=a&search_match_part=%3F&search_page_id=182636118&search_page_no=1&search_rank=2&search_sig=a83b9c0c185428d2ea79ffb5bcc9df2a
Won't you run away with me
We can live in the trees
We can eat the leaves
Lets live in the trees
I love the leaves
Lets start fires
Lets dig holes
Lets cook things
Lets never be cold
Lets go today
I know the way
Won't you run away with me

Run Away With Me

An acoustic guitarist making waves in Dallas, TX.

Auld Lang Syne - Variations and Raag

Perry Brooks Nichols

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