Couldn’t go to sleep with the tune in my head. Written for my best friend. Written October 2022.

Equinox

WHEN WE WERE YOUNG

Dreamed I was playing this with my band from the 70’s. Written January 2023.

PLAYA VENADO

Written during my birthday December 2022. Got Covid and had to quarantine.

IMPERFECT SOJOURN

Couldn’t sleep with the tune in my head. First song I’d written since the 90’s. Written September 2022.

EQUINOX

The tune got me out of bed in April 2022, I didn’t write it until October.

FLYING LESSONS

I woke up one day last fall 2022, with the Ukraine war, the terrible geopolitical hatred, and the divide in our own government as this tune in my head. This song has the constant beat of war making machines, the futility of diplomacy and the appeal of the angel of our better nature being drowned out by the war mongers.

DISCORD

This is the companion piece to Discord. I didn't want the power and emotion of Discord to stand alone and needed to create a song that was as uplifting and hopeful and Discord is as divisive.

Accordance

BETTER ANGELS

This song almost was included as an instrumental on Relativity in the late nineties.

CAMENA SIMPLEX

Sometimes a brisk walk is the only way to clear a troubled mind.

CLEAR WALK

Woman's Work is never done, as is the left hand in this song.

Woman's Work

I wrote this about the beautiful sunsets in Costa Rica. The waves, the blowing palm fronds, the animals scurrying in to roost or nest or out to hunt, the humans stopping everything to face the west, the light and color are all in the song.

Pacific Kaleidoscope

PACIFIC KALEIDOSCOPE

One of the last songs I wrote in the late 90's before stopping for 20 years.

HOME FOR THE HOLIDAY

This was written in the mid 90's and edited in the last year.

TREASURE HUNT

I wrote this around the time I did the Relativity album. My lyrics for it were pretty lame so I never put it on. I reworked the song in the last couple of years.

Turn Around

This was written in the early 90's and redone this year. The poor song had an identity crisis since it had a half dozen titles before settling on Roundabout.

Roundabout

This weird little number was one of the first songs I wrote, in the early 70's.

Decade Stone Idol

I wrote this in the late 70's and actually did nothing to change it, except the production. It's simple and sweet.

Remedy

This was written about the same time as Remedy, about getting over a bad relationship. I used to love it, then felt it was too trite. Once I arranged and produced it, it finally got the life it always deserved.

Resolution

Innocence

I woke up with this tune in my head April 2023. I didn't want humans dancing for the art work and asked Paul to find something with foxes "dancing" (like when we see the kits tumble around in our yard).

Spring Waltz

This song was on a tape that I had made in the late 70's. I had a piano that couldn't be brought up to tune, so it was fun trying to figure out the key.

Trail Ride

I found the germ of this song on a tape that I had recorded in the mid 90's. Paul did the art work, as he does for every song.

Down on Main Street

Down On Main Street

The germ of this song was written in the late 90's. Paul traveled frequently for work and would not be able to communicate from many countries.

Lost Message

Energetic dance imbued with tension frenzy and eventual release into the major key. It reminded me of a tarantella.

Dance of Redemption

Dance Of Redemption

AULD LANG SYNE

Together Again

Jazzy piece describes the chaotic fun of toddlers.

Kids

When the situation seems dire, buck up, work together, make it better, make it work.

This songs speaks of joy, contentment, appreciation and celebration.

Grateful Heart

When you have done something that you regret, and you berate yourself. But then stop with empathy.

Fool's Remorse

Finally the Muse visited me on Wednesday night. Since I'm happily retired, I sat down and started writing this on Thursday and Friday; arranged it on Saturday; and polished it on Sunday. The next week, after listening to it multiple times, I edited, edited, edited until it felt right.

The Muse

After a twenty-year hiatus, composer and lyricist Kathleen Russo woke up one morning with a song in her head. That wasn’t unusual. As a veteran of the NYC indie music scene in the Seventies, she had written scores of songs. As life took a turn that included kids and a career, she wrote dozens more. But that day, with that song in her head, Kathleen didn’t pick up pen and paper. Technology had given wing to Kathleen and her music, helping her to both create new works and begin to produce her extensive collection of songs.
Kathleen Russo’s music is not easy to classify. Influences—from Dave Brubeck and Joni Mitchell to Johann Sebastian Bach—are as diverse as the subjects from which she draws inspiration. “Discord” is Kathleen’s response to the war in Ukraine and political tension. “Pacific Kaleidoscope” is her attempt to capture the music of a sunset. “Better Angels” rises from the hopes she has for mankind.
Kathleen is grateful to have returned to creating music and for the opportunity to reach a wide audience. She is delighted to share with you the work of her lifetime.

Kathleen Russo

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