enjoying your mellow tunes - very well played and recorded!

Music for Birds

Mass Hans låten

Instruments:
McNally Strumstick dulcitar, Burke tin whistles, Gold Tone tenor guitar, panflute, dilruba, tingsha bells

Chipping Sparrow

The Rigadoon of Prince Hess, a Playford tune, played on a 30 button Lachenal Anglo concertina

The Rigadoon Of Prince Hess

The yellows and pinks here in our little corner of the world are lovely this time of year! 

Sweet Yellows and Pinks

Spring shower outside.  As is the bird singing at the end.  :)  

Same tune as "Sweet Yellows and Pink"s in a different tuning on the mountain dulcimer.

Spring Shower On Yellows And Pinks

To play on a dreary day:) Washburn R305, DGDGCD,
Takamine Classic from 1968, Drop D tuning.

March Of The Melancholy

The gentle breeze on Spanish beaches.

Takamine Classic, Drop D tuning

Beaches Of Spain

Welcome To The Town Again (Clough version)

The Northumberland Lady - Lady Wemyss' Reel

1988 Washburn R305 parlor guitar, regular tuning, capo 3rd fret. Homage to the great Doc Watson, a national treasure.

Doc's Guitar

A tune written while playing a tin whistle as I was wading down a river. Every now and then I'd catch up to a duck, eventually getting fairly close as I continued to wade and whistle, then once I was quite near it, the duck would fly further down the river. This pattern continued for a little while and it seemed I was accidentally slowly chasing the duck. Which is where the name arose from. 

Instruments:
Kentucky mandolin, Killarney D tin whistle

Accidentally Following A Duck Down A River

https://soundcloud.com/ilaria_boffa/foreign-crazy-compass-ilaria-boffa

Our joint track with the Italian poet Ilaria Boffa. I don't read poetry - only sing. Her poem "Foreign" in English is read by Ilaria. It's very significant, and i subscribe to every word, as if they are mine!
At the end of the track, Ilaria’s childish voice sounds.

CRAZY COMPASS: Padua, Italy - Moscow, Russia (october 2019)
https://crazycompass.bandcamp.com/track/ilaria-boffa-foreign-with-crazy-compass

Poem, words: Ilaria Boffa @ilaria_boffa
Singing and some induction: Nata Boundariver @CrazyCompass

FOREIGN

Re-imagine, re-design, reset, rewind, restore, rebuild, recover.
Everything I felt I knew is foreign to myself.
Everything that animates me separates itself from itself.
I am the signifier, the signified, the phoneme.

(Ilaria Boffa)

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Ilaria Boffa - Foreign (with Crazy Compass)

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

Four Pheasants

A tune that arose while watching a documentary on the natural ecosystems of Italy. The tune came about specifically while the documentary was showing a scene of nesting kestrels. 

Instruments:
karatala, Doug Tipple low D flute, tenor guitar, sleigh bells, tingsha bells, Killarney D whistle

Nesting Kestrels

An old time folk tune.

Instruments:
Hugh Tracy kalimba, Doug Tipple low D flute, frame drum, Moroccan clay drums, egg shaker, glockenspiel

Ducks On The Millpond

One track from my duo with Baron Collins-Hill.

www.velocipedemusic.com

Velocipede - Quail is a Pretty Bird

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

Nesting Kestrels

Zach Schneider

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