A tune titled in appreciation of a very neat looking and very neat sounding bird.

Instruments:
Gold Tone tenor guitar, Burke tin whistle, Mk Pro low whistle

Starlings In The Oak Tree

One Tear Before Death

One Tear Before

Aftermaths

NaviarHaiku 340
Piano and Clarinet with a little synth in the background

A Star Has Burned Itself Out (NaviarHaiku 340)

A track from "Haunted Houses" album. Released by Laverna label. Digital copy is available for free download here: http://www.laverna.net/releases/Lav85.html

Composed, recorded and mixed by Alessandro Barbanera (march - july 2020)
Mastered by Francis M. Gri

"Haunted Houses" is a collection of seven tracks in slow, melancholy, dreamlike, nocturnal mood. It's a work made of waiting, of grainy sounds and silences full of rustles. It's a work talking about isolation, either in a physical and mental space; which talks about full spaces and empty or restricted spaces, of presences and absences, of memory and hope, of distances, of houses and rooms. Rooms innervated with restlessness and waiting (the opening track "Sleepless"). Houses where memories crowd, layered memories that coexist with the present (the title-track "Haunted Houses" is a short electroacoustic study on perception: indistinct, evanescent sounds, old pianos in the distance, confused and ectoplasmic voices, furniture that moves from the floor above, sighs...). And then there are presences such as those of literary characters, which can come to life in the mind while reading ("The death of Joe Christmas" is inspired by the restless and controversial character narrated by William Faulkner in "Light in August"). 
Even absences find space in the album, manifesting themselves in their impalpable distance (the piece "In Absence"), as memories of a past that has no place in the present. Then the rooms can become places overloaded with pain (the track "Torture Room"), where this suffering and effort can take an expiatory, spiritual, meditative form. And after all this inner torment, even isolation can turn into an opportunity for reflection, "redemption" and sincere change: the final tracks "Pure" and "Endless" try to capture this renewed spirit, following a strongly emotional path. “Endless” closes the circle, but it can also reopen it. 

"Haunted Houses" was made with guitars, contact microphones, an old cassette recorder, field recordings, dusty and grainy lo-fi sounds, found objects, recordings of streets at night, sounds of a carpentry workshop, slowed sounds, manipulation of loops of classical music taken from the radio. Every detail, every sound has been carved and polished day after day, chiseled and positioned with care and devotion, in a work of "sound craftsmanship".

Haunted Houses

Sleepless

In September the trees shake their knees,
This is the sound
As they fall to the ground.

This track is from the album
https://peteswinton.bandcamp.com/album/im-the-god-who-sets-my-head-on-fire

The Echoes Of September Trees

Boson Spin - Cefounte [part 2]

All compositions were recorded at my home during 2020.
Instruments: Acoustic piano (1,5,12,13), e. piano (2,4,5,7,9,10,11,12), synthesizer (1,2,3,5,6,8,10,12,13), sampler (6,9,10,11,12), acoustic guitar (3,14), flute (8), madal (6,11), copper percussion (1,4,9), rainstick (8), shaker (11).

14 CODA - Life by the Road

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)

Drifting at sea.... drowning... coming up to surface again... rebirth at shore

Oceania // sink

Spirit of God hovering over the face of the waters at the start of creation 

Massive credit to @s111y for incredible basis track that was magic in itself

wip so more to come & stay hydrated :)

H/Over Water (◌ + d4n4)

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

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

Zach Schneider