My rendition of Small Worlds by Mac Miller. Love this song. RIP Mac.

James Robert Clark - Small Worlds By Mac Miller

I wrote and recorded this as a commission for a friend. He wanted to give his brother a gift for the first birthday of his twin sons, so he asked me to write a lullaby that he could perform himself. It was written for two guitars and piano, and designed so that the theme is carried by the first guitar, so the entire piece can be performed on one instrument. I was going to orchestrate it and make a full 5 minute version, but I haven't gotten to it yet. So as I was writing, i went ahead and replaced the guitars with pizzicato strings/harp to get in the right mindset. The other track is actually a live recording of me on the guitars (my cheap electro-acoustic eBay classical and my dad's old Crown City Import steel-string) and me playing a midi controller through a steinway piano patch. 

Lullaby

Baritone, Jeff Tarver
Folk Songs From Somerset (1906)

O Waly, Waly

In Confessions by Moonlight Richard Rhys O’Brien’s piano and Bruce Knapp’s guitar interpret Beethoven’s wonderful sonata - from Richard Rhys O’Brien’s new, third and innovative album Sense in our brains. With Richard Sadler on bass and Tony Shepherd on drums and percussion.

Confessions by Moonlight

Primeiro movimento da Suíte Alagoana para Quinteto de Cordas.

Manifestação praticada por sertanejos do Brasil inteiro. Durante toda minha infância e parte da adolescência entoei aboios. Usei em contraponto ao tema principal uma citação melódica de uma frase de um aboio que ouvia muito um tio cantar, "Se um dia Eu deixar de ser Vaqueiro, vou chorar com saudade da boiada".

I - ABOIO - Suíte Alagoana para Cordas (Áudio: Finale 2014 + Kontakt)

O Coco de Roda foi a inspiração para o segundo movimento. A dança mais popular de Alagoas, apesar de presente também em outras regiões do nordeste, em formas diferentes da nossa, surgiu na serra da barriga, quando os escravos faziam a quebra do coco. As melodias desse gênero têm geralmente uma rítmica bem acelerada, diferente do que fiz aqui. Trabalhei bastante a parte percussiva do coco através dos pizzicatos.

II - COCO DE RODA - Suíte Alagoana para Cordas (Áudio: Finale 2014 + Kontakt 5)

Katelin Albert - vocals

A few parts of Stephen Chatman's Go, Lovely Rose (with an ending to make it work for 2 voices).

Katelin Albert's Album

Go, Lovely Rose

Arrangement by Galit Zadok
Based on Estonian folk melody and folk poetry

Performing: Johanna Földesi (singer), Galit Zadok (recorder) and Liis Lulla-Knape (flute)

Lauliku lapsepõli - Singer's Childhood

Lauliku Lapsepõli - Singer's Childhood

Sarah Asher quietly released "Daffodils" on 7” vinyl this past May as the last daffodils were blooming and the country was still strictly quarantined. The single was recorded at Herzog Music in Cincinnati (where Hank Williams recorded “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry”) and was released on Little Cricket Records.
Her plucky baritone ukulele and lovelorn voice is set amongst the dreamy aura of cellist Kate Wakefield and pianist Nick Keeling on Rhodes. Laden with beginnings and endings, Asher’s emotive songwriting weaves melancholia with threads of hope and resurrection.
Artwork by Jason V Mann
https://www.theartofmann.com

Daffodils

Arrangement by Galit Zadok
Based on Estonian folk melody and folk poetry

Performing: Johanna Földesi (singer), Galit Zadok (recorder) and Liis Lulla-Knape (flute)
Sound: Lukas Smulskis

Mu süda ärka üles (Awake my heart)

"Good enough for me" live recordings of covers and originals performed by James Robert Clark.

I like many styles and finding communication through song.

Sarah Asher is poised to release a collection of songs, some stretching back to her time spent on the 300 acre farm where she once lived. In the summer of 2020, while making the most of grounded musicians, the songstress traveled to Echo Mountain Studios, in Asheville, North Carolina, where guitarist Elias Leisring paired her local band comprised of Eric Bates, 4th chair violin, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and drummer, Casey Campbell (Buffalo Wabs & The Price Hill Hustle) with bassist Michael Libramento (Grace Potter and the Nocturnals), jazz pianist Andrew J. Fletcher, and Moog master Harvey Leisure. The band spent 4 days recording 10 songs. The album was produced by Hank West (trumpeter, Squirrel Nut Zippers) and Mixed and mastered by Bronson Tew at Dial Back Sound, Water Valley, MS. The first single All The Days is set to be released July 6th
This new album finds Asher right where she’s longed to be, among an array of talented artists painting a visceral landscape of the epic internal world she inhabits.

Katelin Albert relocated to Toronto, Ontario in 2011, but hails from Powell River and Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. 

Katelin was originally trained in classical music but has had fun over the past 10 years writing and singing folk music. She musical vision is to bring her own spin to old folk tunes.

Richard Rhys O'Brien is a singer songwriter, whose first two albums - I know a little place - and - Anguneau sunset - with guitarist Bruce Knapp, bassist Richard Sadler, drummer Tony Shepherd, and singers Callie Howard and Christine Axelle -  presents an entertaining and thoughtful set on love and contemporary life.  

His third album in almost as many years, Sense in our brains, is now released with previews provided on Soundcloud and his website.  

Living and working in the Netherlands, missing their home-lands sparked the interest and the wish to revise. Exploring new ways to perform the musical standards with their own arrangements, the ensemble, established in 2016, brings together their musical heritage, inspired by folklore, traditional and art-music; their repertoire also consists of compositions by Béla Bartók, Naomi Shemer, Miina Härma and others. 
The unique combination of flutes, recorders and voice emerges in one musical universal language.

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