Surfy Ditty

The Morning After...

My Lady

For guitar, bass, violin, viola, flute and oboe

Morning

Poke Five

December Snow

Duck Dive

If Only I Could Play... (Short Piano Piece)

A sort of "challenge" to play x-rhythms... 
Try switching between the different "feelings" of the straight 4/4- (with a 3/4 bar at the end)-feeling of the riff at one side, and the "rounder" 5/4 triplet feeling on the other side.

Five Finger Discount

This is "Neu Nach Tel" in a more recent version with room for improvisation.
The title implies the place where it was first contrived: Gaukönigshofen.

The County King's Court

Acapulco with a twist...
this is "Acapulco Gold" in a more recent version. It's not about the precious metal, neithter about the pumpkin...

New Gold

The whole band (Odin) had rented a house near Ochsenfurt (Gaukoenigshofen) where we had a nice practice room. One late evening I was fooling around with a very small and simple gadget called "Stylophone", that I had taken apart so that I could put my fingers on the various parts on the circuitboard, thus altering the tone. Wearing headphones, but also using the reverb of the Hammond organ as an effect, I did not realise that the speaker of the organ was also on. Thus my "creative output" of several takes to a 4-track reel-to reel blasted out into the village until the early morning, as I had gotten quite carried away with the possibilities of the sounds.
The next day our landlord called on me and told me: "Das kann teuer werden..." 
Pic by Shutterstock

This Could Become Expensive

For Jan. Happy sounds with a Gambian twist...

The Captain Of The Clouds

This is a short fragment from my sketchbook dated 1972, put in a form and voiced for two flutes. Listen to the bass...😃😊

Miniature 1

Peace In My Heart

My Blue Hat

"A short English Waltz"
This has been lying around for ages, and I thought "why not upload this and see what you wonderful people think about it." 
It's very different from my usual work and it's just an idea that I could work on...

Waltzing To Heaven

A spontaneous jamsession in our Ochsenfurt rehearsal cellar. 
Some 40 years ago... Recorded by Teddy Götz.

Mandy Riedelbauch - soprano sax
Evert Fraterman - drums
Bernhard Mros - bass
Rob Terstall - guitar

Happy Ochsenfurt Jam

Supertube

Surfy Valentine

On a June Day

Latin Strut

Room For Play

Odin

Be the Man You Are

Shanghai Morning

Summer 2017

ODIN

Turnpike Lane

Moçambique

Not A Cloud In The Sky

Just a short idea - played by the computer (thanx to Guitar Pro).

A-Frame Surf

Short Song

My focus is on songs, on composition, not on style or genre. The songs  usually have lots of space for improvisation. 

I use a simple little application called "Guitar Pro", not really fit for producing, but a dream come true for rough little sketches like these...

Hope you like what you hear!
Cheers!
Rob

Rob Terstall

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