Moon Tunes

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

Moon Glowing On The River Flowing

A tune written while playing a tin whistle during this month's full moon.

Instruments:
Burke tin whistle, Gardner mountain dulcimer, Doug Tipple flute, shruti box, ipad synthesizer, sleigh bells, tambourine, tingsha bells, triangle

Strawberry Moon

This tune was written during the Guru Poornima full moon of July.

Instruments:
Carbony "leading tone" whistle

Guru Poornima Moon

This tune was written back on the full moon of December. 

I recently came into acquiring a pair of tall waterproof boots, which have been wonderful for exploring wet & muddy places in nature when it's too cold to walk barefoot. 

I particularly love going for walking meditations in or beside various forms of flowing water, so now in the winter I can continue wading through water and passing my mala beads with each breath. Anyway, this tune was derived during one of these muck boot meditation experiences. 

It was a very foggy day, and while wading through the river and fog I found a particularly large oak tree to sit beside. The tree surrounded by the flowing river, dense fog, a stone wall, as well as lots of mossy logs made for quite beautiful scene. While playing flute there a mink ran along the stone wall, and inspired a fairly pleasant sounding tune to arise out of the flute. 

I originally wanted to give appreciation to all of the elements of the scene, thinking I might title the tune "Mink running along a stone wall beside a river, in dense fog, below an oak tree, before the rising of the December full moon". But I decided to go with simplicity and title it "Mink Moon". 

Instruments:
Kentucky mandolin, Burke low A whistle, Carbony high D whistle, Gold  Tone tenor guitar

Mink Moon

A tune written back on the full moon of May.
The tune's played on a Galeón whistle.
And this tune was recording while looking at a photo of Anandamayi Ma.

Flower Moon

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

Guru Poornima Moon (version 2)

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

Apples In The Moonlight

Instruments:
Seagull Merlin stick dulcimer, Burke tin whistle, Gold Tone Irish bouzouki, sleigh bells, tambourine

Full Moon Reflecting on the Ice of a Frozen Flooded Meadow

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

Moon Tunes

Zach Schneider