Name: Crane Song by Spirit Bears
Duration: 4 min 15 s
Description: Acoustic Instrumental written and performed by Philip Bellingham

different in harmony, clear sound, wonderful

Imagine myself looking at an astonishing view with a glass of wine in my hand. So beautiful!

Really nice, and was really nice to play my mandolin along with too

The two latest reissues to spin off from our acclaimed Imaginational Anthem Volume 8: The Private Press feature the solo guitar compositions of Russell Potter, recorded in the last waning days of the initial American Primitive explosion.

A then obsessed teenaged devotee of John Fahey, Robbie Basho, and Leo Kottke at a time when Punk and New Wave were ascendant, Potter harnessed a similar DIY ethos to his own ends by starting his own label & self-publishing his first record, 'A Stone's Throw', while a freshman enrolled at Goddard College in Vermont in 1979. Assembled at the legendary Boddie Records in Potter's hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, and sprinkled liberally with references to his heroes, from the initial record label name of Fonytone (which more than a little recalls Fahey's earliest record label, Fonotone), to the arcane song titles and references to obscure rags.

Even as he looks to his elders, Potter's debut release nimbly evinces a complete mastery of his form and is all the more remarkable for one of such tender years, as only the chutzpah of youth can account for such moves as successfully grafting one of your own composition to one of John Fahey's, as he does here. There's a very immediate, lovely, and real homespun quality to Potter's chiming twelve-string compositions that puts it in the realm of those classic records that seem to simply exist outside of time.

Shortly after 'A Stones Throw', Potter produced & released a 45rpm single by an Ohio bluegrass band featuring the cult singer songwriter Bob Frank performing a cover of Devo's 'Mongoloid', before moving on to his second (and sadly final) album the following year, 'Neither Here Nor There'. Following an independent study with a Goddard College ethnomusicologist, Potter's compositions and performance only deepened on his second release - the recording quality steps up a little but loses none of the immediacy, the playing gets more exuberantly virtuosic -but then more reflective too, particularly on the tunes that are influenced by the gorgeous traditional Irish slow airs. He's still tipping his hat to Fahey occasionally as well, this time with an audacious electric guitar setting of the classic "Dance of the Inhabitant of the Palace of King Philip XIV of Spain."

Though these albums landed at a time when American Primitive guitar music's 1960s & 1970s heyday was in the rear view mirror, they absolutely look ahead to the genre's eventual 21st Century resurrection, anticipating both in form & content many of the same concerns you find in the great contemporary work of the last two decades by Jack Rose, Glenn Jones, Daniel Bachman, et al., and as such provide about as fine a stepping stone between these two eras as you're likely to find.

Neither Here Nor There

Eirigh Suas A Stoirin

Coyote Canyon is a wilderness area behind my daughter's house where coyotes gather and howl before taking off for their nightly foraging. Little Tujunga (pronounced "Tuhunga") is a river running through the Angeles Forest near a house I lived in five decades ago. Half my ideas for this piece came from onshore guitar ruminating. The rest was improvised in studio. Emma was my close and sweet companion during this period, a lifelong deep friend. I composed her song one evening at the kitchen table of our place while she was cooking. Tumbleweedin' describes a desert tumbleweed storm. I menaced every inch of the Yamaha, recreating the effect of these windblown monsters screeching along boulders, smacking into cactus and anything else in their way at often impossible speeds, following the whims of the heavy winds. This song was completely improvised at the moment in studio and forgotten. Roy's Rain is a tribute to my great good friend and musician killed in a car accident in 1973. I found For Marsha Version 2 on a well-worn studio tape. It's a variant of the same composition on the Gentle Wilderness album. I like this loose and flowy version. Movin' On has one thing on its mind - getting away fast and now. Going Home is my improvised take on an American root song. The above seven were recorded between 1972-1975. Three Sisters was recorded on a 20-minute studio break in 1999 describing three barren red hills somewhere in the Arizona desert, a cherished location.

The latest in a series of reissues spawned from Imaginational Anthem Volume 8 : The Private Press, following Conklin/Blum - Jackdaw, Tom Armstrong - The Sky Is An Empty Eye, and Rick Deitrick - Gentle Wilderness and River Sun River Moon, Russell Potter - A Stoneâ€™s Throw and Neither Here Nor There.

Coyote Canyon

Emma by Rick Deitrick

TIME MACHINE 

Absolutely Positively (Canadian version)

A song about the light...

Here are the lyrics:

Don't you know it's OK
don't you know it's alrigh
don't you know it's only you 
boy you got to turn on the light

She was so dark inside
with the devil by her side
Oh God please show me the way
well i got to get back in line

What else could i do back then?
It was nine out of ten
I had no chance to do it right
hiding into the night

Lord you got to show me
brother do you see the light?
On a Sunday morning
man i'm gonna win the fight

Girl you know 
i'll never give up
watch my step 
i know it's a trap

Yes i know she
couldn't stay
What was given
is taken away

Up and down, right and left
sounds around but i am deaf
i only live for one thing now
i 'm gonna get to it somehow

The Light

Drunk On You

Session im Café Grenzbereiche mit Fred Sachser #TravellersTales und Lorenz Thomsen 

Marie & the Hielan' Sodger - trad. / Fred Sachser

Coffee Shop

Written and produced by Kieran Hebden
Artwork by Jason Evans

Loved

Gedro - Medusa - Preview

Acoustic Instrumental written and performed by Philip Bellingham

Crane Song

D E M O - NOVEMBER 2011 - THE COMPOSER STORY
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Band download - DEMO
everything is expendable - ITS A DEMO (Though, I 'aint precious: If you like, share it even, all my own work)
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98bpm -
JAZZ WALTZ - (3/4 - 6/8 over)
includes blank solo section loop.
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<a href="http://www.playback.co.uk/files/webb/PHIL/PhilsFilipChords.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CHORDCHARTS</a> - Guitar voicings
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<a href="http://www.playback.co.uk/files/webb/PHIL/PhilsFilipLead.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">MY ORIGINAL LEADSHEET</a> - &amp; - <a href="http://www.playback.co.uk/files/webb/PHIL/PHILS_FILIPprinted.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PHIL'S REWRITTEN LEADSHEET</a> (This is the tune I actually play on this demo; Thanks Phil for doing this!)
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I recorded this synth guitar demo in Toronto whilst recording other things. I forgot the Music, left it behind in GBR. dohhh..
The melody line is consequently not quite that on the 'original' leadsheet. I *was going for 'Pastoral'.
And the first time I had ever used 'ProTools' on my own! Please excuse the messy execution.
ESSENTIAL ProTools HELP - <a href="http://www.myspace.com/bravestation" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Andrew</a> Heppner
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Lyrics a possibility.... At least BV type thing..
Who? Fantasy band online
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<a href="http://www.myspace.com/christineleakey/photos/12688544" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Chris</a> Gartner: Bass (Toronto)
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OSYH-QpBQ_M" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Great Bob</a>: Drums, (Maybe to be recorded at <a href="http://canterburymusic.ca" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">JD's</a> in Toronto)
<a href="http://www.realworldmusic.com/composers/neil-sparkes" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Neil</a> Sparkes - Bells (GBR) - TBC
<a href="http://soundcloud.com/derek-andrew-orford" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Artie"</a> Ortford: Synth rhythm hook (Toronto) DONE√
<a href="http://www.myspace.com/alexmaguirejazz" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Alex</a> Maguire - Hammond Organ, (I have to get it up 5 flights of stairs though yet! Movers scheduled 29th Nov. DONE√)
<a href="http://www.earthmusic.com/annie.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Annie</a> Whitehead - Bb Horn, Trombone
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Me ? ummmm...
btw
<a href="http://philmillerincahoots.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Phil Miller</a>: (To whom this tune is dedicated) has given me his demo guitar part for it too already!.. Im thrilled :) DONE√
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<a href="http://www.richardsinclair.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Richard Sinclair</a> has the track to work with and I have suggested he might like to sing/gargle on it too. DONE√
It strikes me the exquisite tone of <a href="http://www.earthmusic.com/annie.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Annie Whitehead</a>'s Trombone playing the melody counterpoint to Phil's Guitar..
I can ask her and explore some harmonies with that intent. Partying here (26th), I will see her then DONE√

A TUNE TO THANK PHIL for the inspiration, a dedication..
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DEFINITION: (Can be spelled with a double L too)
fil·lip/ˈfiləp/ filip - Noun: Something that acts as a stimulus or boost to an activity.
Verb: Propel (a small object) with a flick of the finger.
Synonyms:noun.stimulus - incentive - spur - flick - flip... &amp; verb.flip
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RECORDING GURU - Jeremy Darby, <a href="http://canterburymusic.ca" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Canterbury Music Company</a> - Toronto

PHILS FILIP - DEMO

Folk Baroque, AltRock and Acoustic : Ableton Live/Push2
 South Coast Uk

Crane Song

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