Music for Plants

Astronomical Tunes

Moon Tunes

Music for Nature

Songs for Food

Original Folk Tunes

Instruments:
Nick Metcalf tin whistle, Kentucky mandolin, Gold Tone tenor guitar, Gold Tone tenor banjo, shruti box, tingsha bells, ankle bells, tambourine, bongos, cymbal, triangle, egg shaker

Milkweed

A tune written after encountering some ruby-crowned kinglets.

Instruments:
Dante Music telescopic tin whistle, Gold Tone tenor guitar, Doug Tipple flute

Ruby - Crowned Kinglet

Instruments:
Burke tin whistle, Meinl egg shaker, seed rattle

The Moon Above The Marsh

A tune that came about while watching the full beaver moon.

Instruments:
Hora octave mandolin, Burke tin whistles

Beaver Moon

Instruments:
Burke tin whistle, WuYou tongue drum

Daffodils Beside The Barn (version 2)

Instruments:
dulcitar, tin whistle, tingsha bells, sleigh bells, triangle, egg shaker

Moon Glowing On The River Flowing

Written a couple years back, during the full moon of July.
Instruments:
mandolin, tenor guitar, whistles, jaw harp, glockenspiel

Guru Poornima Moon (version 2)

Cane Toad 2

I was a sphere in the soil
But once the water did flow, my green and white limbs did grow
As my leaves did reach the sun, photosynthesis had begun
Before I knew it I was a super food

Kale
My name is Kale

Kale Tale

A tune written on a tin whistle at Mud Pond Bog in Fox State Forest of Hillsborough, New Hampshire during the winter.

Instruments:
Shruti Box, Tin Whistle

Mud Pond Bog

Lyrics:
Oh to be
On a river made of ghee

Instruments:
Lyre Harp, Tin Whistle, Synthesizer, Bell

The River of Ghee

A waltz that was written while sitting on a stone above a river, surrounded by white caterpillars.

Instruments:
High D Killarney Tin Whistle, Low D Kerry Optima Tin Whistle, Jerry Freeman Tin Whistle in the key of A

Waltz Of The White Caterpillar (version 2)

An original whistle tune written on a tree above a river.

Instruments: Burke low G whistle, Killarney C whistle, Kentucky mandolin, bells, karatala, jaw harp, Moroccan clay drums, sitar

On A Tree Above A River

Instruments: Gardner mountain dulcimer, Kerry Optima low D whistle, Burke low G whistle, Killarney high D whistle, glockenspeil

*The photo is of striped maple bark

Striped Maple

I made my friends some homemade vegetable stock as a gift for their wedding, though i felt another gift to accompany the vegetable stock would be nice, so here's an original waltz written for my friends to accompany their vegetable stock. 

Instruments: Killarney D tin whistle, Kentucky mandolin, Jerry Freeman low A tin whistle, ankle bells, tingsha bells

Vegetable Stock Waltz

A tune written after purchasing some apples while the moon was shining brightly.
 Instruments:
Killarney tin whistle, shruti box

Apples In The Moonlight

Instruments:
Doug Tipple flute, Moroccan clay drums, sleigh bells, karatala, guiro, tongue drum

Four Pheasants

An original tune titled in appreciation of a tree with particularly neat looking bark, that I especially love to see in the Bradford Bog, here in Bradford, New Hampshire. 

Instruments:
Tenor guitar, Jerry Freeman low A tin whistle, glockenspiel

Atlantic White Cedar

Dan Jones:
acoustic guitar
Zach Schneider:
tenor guitar, Killarney D whistle, Doug Tipple low D flute, ghungroo bells

Romanesco Broccoli

An original tune that came about while playing a tin whistle and watching the sun shining on an icy pine tree.

Hilary Dirlam:
melodica

Zach Schneider:
tenor guitar, Killarney D tin whistle, karatala, ghungroo bells, frame drum

Sunshine On An Icy Pine (with Hilary Dirlam)

A tune that arose as I was on my way to buy celery and cabbage for my soup.

Instruments:
Tenor guitar, Killarney D whistle, Burke low G whistle

Celery & Cabbage

An original tune written after eating a sweet potato and listening to the nice singing and mountain dulcimer playing of Jean Ritchie.

Instruments:
Gardner mountain dulcimer, Doug Tipple flute, Killarney tin whistle

Sweet Potato

An original tune titled in appreciation of the giant hexagon at the top of Saturn.

Instruments:
Parks tin whistle, bongos, karatala, egg shaker, tambourine, frame drum, tongue snaps, tingsha bells

The Great Blue Hexagon

Instruments:
WuYou tongue drum, Doug Tipple flute, Burke tin whistle, glockenspiel, bongos, egg shaker

Bright Sun Shining On Singing Chickadees In A Snowy Marsh (version 2)

Instruments:
Gold Tone tenor guitar, Burke tin whistle

Wintergreen

Written during the night of the snow moon.

Instruments:
Gold Tone tenor guitar, Burke D & G tin whistles

Snow Moon

Original compositions played upon various acoustic instruments. 

At the moment, the majority of music I record is original folk tunes. Most of these tunes arise whilst out in natural ecosystems or shortly after visiting a natural ecosystem. The titles often reflect an aspect of the ecosystem I had noticed while the tune came about. Lately this is usually a species of bird.

Tin whistles and flutes appear the most often in my recordings; though mandolin, tenor guitar, lyre harp, jaw harp, dulcitar, and a handful of other instruments show up fairly often as well.

And here's some more music I've made along with my friend Dan Jones:
https://soundcloud.com/user-453898279