Music for the painting session

Instruments:
Burke tin whistle, WuYou tongue drum, bongos, egg shaker, finger cymbals, tingsha bells, seed rattle, temple blocks, ghungroo bells

The Boulder By The Birches

Instruments:
Gold Tone tenor guitar, Doug Tipple flute

Jade By The Window

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

Chipping Sparrow

Instruments:
Burke tin whistle, WuYou tongue drum

Daffodils Beside The Barn (version 2)

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

Four Pheasants

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

A tune that arose as I was on my way to buy celery and cabbage for my soup.

Instruments:
Tenor guitar, Killarney D whistle, Burke low G whistle

Celery & Cabbage

Instruments:
Burke low G whistle, tenor guitar, organ

White Goat

An original tune written while watching a line of ducks waddle through grass and dandelions.

Instruments:
Kentucky mandolin, sleigh bells, claps, tenor guitar, Doug Tipple Flute

Ducks In The Grass

This composition arose while sitting beside a window with my cat and listening to the birds chirp in the morning.

Instruments:
Gold Tone tenor guitar, Doug Tipple low D flute, Jerry Freeman low A whistle

Sitting Beside A Cat And Listening To The Chirps Of Birds

A tune written on a strumstick after watching a documentary on condors. 

Instruments:
McNally strumstick, Killarney whistle, shruti box, organ, tingsha bells

Condor

This whistle waltz was written at the same river spot where I wrote my first whistle tune, Waltz of the White Caterpillar. I often title a tune for what was occurring in the moment the tune arose. When my first tune came about there were white caterpillars crawling on the stone I was sitting on. In this instance the animal that seemed the most prominent was black flies.

Instruments:
Killarney D whistle, Burke low G whistle

Waltz Of The Black Fly

This piece was written after seeing a broad-winged hawk and a northern harrier flying above a meadow. 

Instruments:
tenor guitar, tin whistle, melodica, tingsha bells

Northern Harrier

Written while blue jays were outside my window.

Instruments:
Gold Tone tenor guitar, Burke tin whistle, Doug Tipple flute, glockenspiel

Blue Jays

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

Yellow - Rumped Warbler

Instruments:
Gold Tone tenor guitar, Burke tin whistle, glockenspiel

Northern Flicker

Written after visiting a beautiful spot called Farrar Marsh.

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

Farrar Marsh

Instruments:
Doug Tipple flute, Burke tin whistle, Gold Tone tenor guitar, triangle, iPad organ

A Long Line Of Yaks (version 2)

Instruments:
Burke tin whistle, Doug Tipple flute, bongos, conga, frame drum, karatala, egg shaker, shruti box, organ effect on iPad

Downy Woodpecker

Instruments:
tenor ukulele, tin whistles, flute

The Wren On The Roof

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

Music for the painting session

Zach Schneider