Track consisting of 1 bass, 1 guitar, 1 drum and heavily processed vocals, this is arguably a bit of an album filler. Started out jamming and it turned into this, didn't really go ahead and polish it (like, making the drums more interesting, and so)

I remixed it in a functional/minimal style this year to be included on the Overland album, and now making it public here on the Cloud as well to bridge the time until I can actively work on new material again.

I like the lyrics, mostly:

grinding out the foresight
moon is up and fullbright
feeding back on the insight
burning taste of the mind

final words are spoken
prayers of dead and omen
giving hell a token
of passing by, unbroken

save for skies on fire
narrowing the wire
slowly fade the choir
angels too expire

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Angels Too Expire (2021 remix)

Bend The Bow is a Jazz Fusion track inspired by the Martial Art posture of 'Bend the Bow To Shoot the Tiger' and wandering down some untreaded pathways.

Alan Hamilton

Bend The Bow

Whose woods are these I’ve no idea
Lost in the snow like this you must think it somewhat queer
Stopping here in the dead of night
I should know better but I’m still mystified
The heart confuses what the cold clarifies
That there’s no one, that there’s no one by my side
A cold front descending the snow piling high
I’ve no worries about it my worries behind
A walk in the Winter woods with the one I love

Lovely woods dark and deep where we’d come to know
Each other’s heart each other’s soul
All the while, all the while the falling snow
I think of you then your face brilliant and bright
Flush with the moment, flush with our lives
And a future, and a future that knows no time
A Wintertime walk under snow covered boughs
Each word that you spoke precious to me now
A walk in the Winter woods with the one I love

We’d hold on to each other tight
I’m still holding on to you tonight

There was a story  you’d tell me every now and then
About two people in love is this where that story ends
If you could tell it again
Cause I’ve gone miles and miles to find some peace
To find a place to rest, to find a place to sleep
All the while, all the while it’s surrounding me
Now I’ve done what you wanted
Ashes in snow
Got no promises left I got no place to go
A walk in the Winter woods with the one I love

Whose woods are these…

Whose Woods Are These

The sacred chant ‘Salve Regina’ is a beautiful thing and to paraphrase Stewart Copeland and Caroline Shaw ‘...transcends religion itself’. This is one of a few rearrangements/improvisations I’ve tried. The harmony etc. is still there but the tele leads the way.

Salve Regina

November Mist (Respirando Una Fitta Nebbia...)

Escamotable Fantasy

Mood Exhibit - Pop Sketch

Recorded In Modesto Ca.   Featuring Vibraphone solo. Flute solo. Acoustic Piano Rhythm. Godin Nylon Guitar Rhythm. String Section, 1st & 2nd Violins, Viola, Cello. Bowed Contra Bass. Trap Drum set, Bossa Brazil. Percussion Timbales, Tree Chime, Crash Cymbal, Rain Tree.

Groove street

Groove Street

Bossa Nostra

I like many am shocked and appalled at what is unfolding before us. In the midst of this darkness I salute the people who are opening their hearts and offering assistance to the refugees from this disastrous conflict.

Here are some UK links to appeals providing humanitarian aid. I'm sure each country has equivalent appeals happening now.

https://www.dec.org.uk/appeal/ukraine-humanitarian-appeal
https://www.oxfam.org.uk/oxfam-in-action/current-emergencies/ukraine-crisis-appeal
https://www.unicef.org.uk/donate/donate-now-to-protect-children-in-ukraine/

Empathy For The Agony

the lovely Belle on flute
Straddie at full moon

can you hear that sound

high above the full moon glows
throwing shadows on the world below
far below

can you hear that sound
rising up with the northern wind
climbing up to heaven on high

maybe it's the sound
turns it all around
maybe it's the mood
you do

we'll be coming off high
as the innocence dies
we'll be running on low
as we hit the open road

something tells me that it don't get better than this right now


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_HpsMZXiPQ

Whose Woods Are These

Paul Haas