Dulcitar Music (also known as stick dulcimer & strumstick)

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Astronomical Tunes

Music in Appreciation of Various Forms of Water

Moon Tunes

Music for Nature

Original Folk Tunes

I wrote this poem when I was 20 years old. And it's dedicated to my mom.

CRAZY COMPASS: Moscow, Russia (march 2021)

music: Sergey Kobzev @Jasny-Svetly, @Assembly-Of-Honey
photo, text, vocal, fr mixing: Nata Boundariver @CrazyCompass

~

ТАКСИ

Я пыталась поймать такси.
Остановилась машина.
Моя мама сидела за рулем.
Двадцать лет назад.
Я сказала: подбрось по пути.
Она ответила: садись, буду рада.
И мне было так просто, так легко и уютно внутри.

Я пыталась поймать такси.

~

TAXI

I tried to catch a taxi.
The car stopped.
My mom was driving.
Twenty years ago.
I said: give me a ride on the way.
She answered: sit down, I'll be glad.
And it was so simple, so easy and quiet inside.

I tried to catch a taxi.

~

from: http://jasny-svetly.ru/faq/2-1#24

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ТАКСИ / taxi (with Ясный-Svetly)

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

Little Daydream lyrics

Describing the strange yet very real world of dreams. Instruments are bass, kalimba and tanpura. Vocal track too. The dreams are ones I've had many times, put into one story.

Dreamhead - 9:24:21, 1.22 PM

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

This composition is titled in appreciation of a series of various forms of flowing water, which I often meditate at throughout a trail near my home. There's more or less forms of flowing water to experience along the trail depending on the time of year & amounts of precipitation. 

Typically, I first encounter a muddy region; where in certain spots, when standing quietly, gurgling water can be heard flowing beneath the leaf litter & stones. Usually in spring, when saturated by melting snow, small trickling streams flow out of this muddy area and down a subtle hill into the forest below. 

The next stop along the pilgrimage of flowing water (as I eventually grew to affectionately nickname it) is another stream, with a somewhat stronger current, trickling in the form of several small waterfalls; over stones, sticks, and leaves.

A little ways beyond all this is a small brook (or maybe it's a large stream, I'm not entirely certain). The height of the body of water, as wells as the mellow flat sandy bottom creates little sounds to hear. While I find the sight of flowing water beneficial for meditation, the main meditative fuel of these pilgrimage spots is in their auditory experience. Though usually, if quiet enough, subtle trickles & gurgles can be heard. 

Shortly beyond that location is a large & energetic brook, with lots of varying tones & depths. 

And lastly, a little was further, lies a small boggy region; with lots of deep mud (which is fun to step into) & sphagnum moss. To the far corner of small bog-like zone are two small waterfall streams, which have a pleasant gentle bell-like trickle. 

I'm quite grateful to these series of flowing water locations for several very helpful meditations they've been the doorway to.

*I also thought that the title could be interpreted as a river's journey to an ocean. Where water molecules can journey together in the form of a river; with stops at varying bodies of water, until they eventually return to the mother source of all water.

Instruments:
Wildwood dulcitar, Burke tin whistle, Gold Tone tenor guitar, ghungroo bells, sleigh bells, tingsha bells, triangle, bodhran

The Pilgrimage Of Flowing Water

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)

Water Droplet Song

Cane Toad 2

There's always a prelude to something n'est-ce-pas?

Pictured is a view from Grožnjan (pronounced "Grožnjan", like in "Grožnjan"), a hilltop town in Istria, Croatia

Perso

Prelude (to something)

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

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)

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

Sand of Dream

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

Four Pheasants

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)

An original tune, titled in appreciation of one of my favorite fungi to encounter and eat. 

Instruments:
McNally strumstick, Doug Tipple low D flute, Moroccan clay drums, frame drum, egg shaker, tingsha bells

Black Trumpets

Dan Jones: acoustic guitar
Rob Newton: Snapple cap
Zach Schneider: McNally strumstick, Killarney whistle, frame drum, tingsha bells, tambourine

Rob for the Win

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:
McNally strumstick, Burke tin whistles, sleigh bells, karatala

Yellow - Rumped Warbler

Written after visiting a beautiful spot called Farrar Marsh.

Instruments:
Gold Tone tenor guitar, Doug Tipple flute, karatala

Farrar Marsh

Instruments:
Seagull Merlin dulcitar, Burke tin whistle, Gold Tone tenor guitar, tingsha bells, tambourine

Dark - Eyed Junco

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)

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