Parisian waltz. Starts simple with clarinet and accordion. Ends with full out orchestra.

Last Night Of The Paris Circus

A swinging, happy-ending Christmas tune with angelic backing vocals by Cristina Cocchi and heavenly keys by Bill Kelm.

How's Santa Gonna Get You Down The Chimney

A verse-melody that came in a dream, complete with the vocal harmony. These dream songs are fantastic catalysts for new tunes but the challenging part is always to come up with the lyrics, intro, chorus, bridge, etc to go along well with the melody. This is about spending all of our love as a currency that we can't take with us.
(Bill Kelm on keyboards, Background vocals by Patrick Olberding / Photo by Jack Moreh from Freerange Stock)

We're Only Human Once

Jennifer Kalpin-vocals
David Beckey-vocals, guitar
Kyle Morrison-engineer, producer

photo by MaryAnn Kalpin

Song written by David Beckey. Vocal arrangements by DRB and Jennifer Kalpin. 

David And Jennie - 01 - The Gentle Spring[1]

Inspired and dedicated to the life of Beatle George Harrison, including a sweet slide guitar solo in his style. The song talks about what George was really trying to learn and understand all along - the meaning of love.

The Big Picture

It's Time We Learn About Love

Cold December

Like many of you perhaps, I have been feeling glimmers of hope these days. And so I wrote a short piece for clarinet and strings that expresses that yearning for hope.

The hope, and the pain of hope, and the patience of hope, and its
    torment, its astonishment, its endlessness.
Delmore Schwartz, from During December's Death

Hope

Sometimes our eyes meet
like distant sides of a lake
that can never touch.

There is an empty boat nestled
in the weeds, drifted to shore.
I take it and go looking for you.

With each bargain struck,
we learn more about
the stranger who sits between us.

I find you on a sun-bleached dock.
When I reach you the rowboat
bumps the planks and the wooden

sound raises your eyes to mine.
Bluegills scatter  
in the sun-drenched water.

Two Beside a Lake

Was baptized by The Beatles at age 7, and since then have continually strived to create music as magical and meaningful as they did...

We're Only Human Once

Mike Nilles

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