Lyre Harp

Written while playing a lyre harp on a boulder beside a brook that flows through a meadow, as woolly aphids flew slowly through the air.

Instruments:
lyre, tin whistle, flute, low whistle, tongue drum, wing, ipad synth

Woolly Aphids Floating Above a Meadow

A song for spring peepers with a miniature kinnor harp, tin whistle, sopilka, bansuri, a bell, and spring peepers.
The picture is of a vernal pool I encountered in the woods here in New Hampshire.

Spring Peepers

Porcupine

Lake Toad in the Fall

Blob Goblin
Oh Blob Goblin
Blob Goblin
Oh Blob Goblin

In early spring 
When spring peepers sing
The blob goblin rings
It's bells

To awaken a flood 
Of early spring mud
Since blob goblins love
To dance in the mud

Instruments:
Lyre Harp, Tin Whistle, Sitar

Blob Goblin

A cover of Tyrannosaurus Rex's "Stones for Avalon" with lyre harp, tin whistle, and finger cymbals

Pitcher Plant

Improvisation with a Lyre Harp and Tin Whistle in a Japanese Mode

Instruments:
Lyre Harp, Tin Whistle, Synthesizer, Small Greek Baglama

Elephant King (reprise)

Lyre Harp and Tin Whistle improvisation with a Babbling Brook

Lyrics:
Oh to be
On a river made of ghee

Instruments:
Lyre Harp, Tin Whistle, Synthesizer, Bell

The River of Ghee

A song recorded the day after recording "The Sleeping Pig". And before recording this song, I visited the same large sleeping pig as it was waking up for dinner from a nap in a mud bath. 

The photo is of myself playing the adungu used in this song, and Bomba the cat.

Instruments:
Adungu, Tin Whistles, Synthesizer, Bell

The Waking Pig

Lyrics:
A good day for soup
Air is cold, broth is warm, let us have soup

Instruments:
Lyre Harp, Tin Whistle, Guiro, Morrocan Clay Drums

A Good Day for Soup

Instruments: Lyre Harp, Tin Whistle, Bell

No Cry Babies

As Dan and I parked our boat on an island of Lake Moussam in Maine, Dan began playing lyre harp and I joined in on tin whistle. Shortly after he began playing the lyre harp, this purple haze began rolling out of a cove. So the song was named for that moment. Yet since there's already a song called "Purple Haze", this one is called "Purple Mist". The photo is of that mysterious purple mist.

Dan Jones: Lyre Harp
Zach Schneider: Tin Whistles, Strumstick, Synthesizer, Whistling, Glockenspiel, Percussion

Purple Mist

Instruments:
Lyre Harp, Tin Whistle, Flute, Synthesizer, Bells, Whistling, Humming

Black Cat Sitting in a Field of Clovers

Instruments:
Lyre Harp, Low D Whistle, High D Whistle, Synthesizer, Glockenspiel

Douglas Fir Tree

Instruments:
lyre harp, Doug Tipple flute

The Lyre Of The Shire

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