The Garden Waltz is something I wrote for a time lapse movie project. The idea was that every day for one year, we would should a few frames of the Dora Efthim Healing Garden in Wayland, Ma, so that when viewed at normal speed the entire year would go by in less than one minute.
While the film was never completed, due to technical problems and other issues, this piece was the intended soundtrack.
Lurking Delirious is creepy as hell. It even creeps ME out. The idea came from a late night conversation with a friend about the D.C. shooters back in 2002. I woke up in the middle of the night with this dark melody in my head and wrote it down.
The song is a bit tongue-in-cheek, but is nonetheless an attempt to get inside the head of such a person - whether those particular snipers, the Columbine shooters, or your average suicide bomber.
After the Storm was originally written in the very early 80's, when I was one of about 400 people in the world who splurged on a strange new woodwind synthesizer, called the Lyricon. The only people of note that I'm aware of who put the Lyricon to good use were Tom Scott of Tom Scott and the L.A. Express, who backed Joni Mitchell on at least one album, and jazz player Wayne Shorter.
More recently, I recorded this abbreviated version of After the Storm for a short video piece I made for a Parmenter Community Health. Here the original Lyricon part - the oboe sound - was recorded with a Korg Triton Studio. The guitar is the same Takemine that I used in the original recording 27 years ago.
Acid Jazz is an incomplete idea, a beginning. There'll be more to it at some point.
Gone is also not complete yet.
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