Music For The Various Creatures That Inhabit the Farm I Work At

Instruments:
McNally strumstick, Burke tin whistles, tingsha bells, sleigh bells, tambourine

The Hog & The Bog

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

Instruments:
tin whistle, bongos, tingsha bells, triangle, egg shaker, sleigh bells, frame drum, seed rattle, tongue drum, claves, ghungroo bells, guira

Chickens In The Pig Pen (version 2)

Instruments:
Burke tin whistle, WuYou tongue drum

Daffodils Beside The Barn (version 2)

Instruments:
tenor ukulele, tin whistle, sitar, tingsha bells, organ, triangle, tambourine, tongue drum

The Spotted Pig

I was a sphere in the soil
But once the water did flow, my green and white limbs did grow
As my leaves did reach the sun, photosynthesis had begun
Before I knew it I was a super food

Kale
My name is Kale

Kale Tale

A song written and recorded shortly after visiting a large sleeping pig.

The drawing is of ferns playing a kalimba.

Instruments:
Kalimba, Tin Whistle, Synthesizer, Bell

The Sleeping Pig

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

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

Black Cat Sitting in a Field of Clovers

A fellow at my job did a troll dance, and I thought it would be fun to write a tune for that dance. So here's the tune for the troll dance.

Instruments:
Melodica, Key of C Killarney Tin Whistle, Low D Kerry Optima Tin Whistle, Kentucky Mandolin, Darbuka, Tinghsa Bells, Jaw Harp, Guira, Clapping, Patting a Table, and a Jubo ocarina

The Troll Dance

Instruments:
Acoustic guitar, Doug Tipple flute, Jerry Freeman tin whistle, glockenspiel

The New Donkey

An original tune written while watching ducks waddle in the mud.

Instruments:
Killarney tin whistle, Kentucky mandolin

Ducks In The Mud

A tune I began singing out of the blue, as myself and another were on our way to visit some pigs.
The tune's played upon a Killarney D tin whistle.

On Our Way To See The Pigs

An original tune that I suddenly found myself humming when I saw Venus shining brightly above a chicken coop at the farm I work at.

Instruments:
Doug Tipple flute, Burke whistle, tenor guitar, ghungroo bells, tingsha bells

Venus Above The Chicken Coop

An original tune that came about while looking at daffodils. 

Instruments:
Doug Tipple low D flute, tenor guitar, glockenspiel

Daffodils Beside the Barn

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

A tune written after visiting some chickens that left their coop to reside among the pigs in the pig pen.

Instruments:
Killarney tin whistle

Chickens In The Pig Pen

Instruments:
Gold Tone tenor guitar, Burke D whistle, ankle bells, tambourine, melodica, Doug Tipple low D flute, Kentucky mandolin, glockenspiel, frame drum, cymbal

Pig Party

Written back on a summer night with lots of heat lightning and toads.

Instruments:
Mandolin, tin whistle, tambourine, claps, claves, karatala, tingsha bells, sleigh bells

Toads Below The Lightning

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 Various Creatures That Inhabit the Farm I Work At

Zach Schneider