Orchestra naïF

La mantis religiosa crede in Spinosa prega per non essere mangiato dalla sua sposa Guest vocalist Arturo Bolondi contributes to this sassy sacerdotal sketch joining Joel Banner Baird on guitar and acoustic bass and voice and jhaffur khan azad darakth on percussion and clarinet, bird calls and some voice with percussive support from Natalie Y Campbell.

A slowly evolving blues tribute to the hummingbird whisperer - we all know who she is! Ooh you know I love the way she flaps her wings! I just have to say the word And she'll come flying I just have to say the word Cause she's my little hummingbird. I just have to say the word and she'll flap her wings Cause she's my little hummingbird..... jhaffur khan azad darakth: blues harp, vocals. Laotian Hm...

Just pop that hello question, no need for further reflection. Joel Banner Baird on acoustic bass and classical guitar jhaffur khan azad darakth on trumpet and cajon and kit

liturgical lucidity crystalized instantaneously 1st movement The Invocation: bowed bass -and voice Joel Banner Baird clarinet and voice- jhaffur khan azad darakth 2nd movement: The Spirit Gigue harpsichord and acoustic bass- Joel Banner Baird soprano and alto recorders and madal - jhaffur khan azad darakth 3rd movement: Benediction acoustic bass plucked and bowed - Joel Banner Baird clarinet - jha...

Joel Banner Baird strokes the keyboard, vocalizes and plucks acoustic bass while jhaffur khan azad darakth blows a horn, vocalizes and taps the drum kit for this late night burner circulating around the aTonal Centrem. Lyrics embedded.

An live afternoon club session from the eponymous album, replete in and of itself with a reverse in the usual naiFian line up: Joel Banner Baird brushes the drums and swings on guitar. jhaffur khan azad darakth walks the acoustic bass and punctuates with silver flute. Arturo Bolondi populates the club.

Imagining a one meter long proboscis, a papillonic contact microphone embedded in some deep soil profile with the merry songs of the bio-perturbators and the earthworm's arias and moles about their nail sharpening. Joel Banner Baird - accoustic bass, guitar, voices jhaffur khan azad darakth - Laotian jaw's harp, bass ocarina, Bolivian flute percussion.

I'll take mine "deep tan gentry" lazy riverside lament led by Joel Banner Baird's lyrical classical guitar with some bansuris from jhaffur khan azad darakth

Laconic old blues bantered down bannister and along the bye ways. Joel Banner Baird: acoustic bass, slide guitar jhaffur khan azad darakth: battery, clarionet, voice oh! Give us a little bit of that scuttlebutter pie! oh! Now don't ask me why. You like to make me cry All I'm askin for is a huh little bit of that; scuttlebutter pie!

jhaffur khan azad darakth: lyrics and voice, percussion, piano and silver flute Joel Banner Baird: acoustic bass, electric guitar, slide guitar Humid trees breathing out air sense Thicker than buttered drops on thought patents The rain gone, the air still greenly latent I’m saturating serenely in layers of oxy-content. The soil pores, still barely sated, strain To suck the air force into continued...

A post-scythian canvas etched along the sylke road of caravansarai's and stone filigreed balconies breathing intrique and memories of musk and ambergis revolving -attarly perfumed. jhaffur khan azad darakth : papua new guinean flute, kyrgyz flute, clarinet, dumbek Joel Banner Baird - bowed accoustic bass

a freely forming flamenco redondo by the naiFian duo Joel Banner Baird on classical guitar and bass jhaffur khan azad darakth - silver flute, voice, cojonita and kanjira

a post Baroque prequel to the unsung ensuing with jhaffur khan azad darakth on trumpet, euphonium, harpsichord and tympony mc eucalips aka Cameron Campbell on vocal, beat box and jaw's harp Joel Banner Baird - bows bass

Cobblestone Strut by Orchestra naïF

My, my my my scarlet flame my deep smoke my hammer stroke bang anvil iron anvil broke in two this town shake this fever break we all break break that oven bread break that oven bread break that oven bread on a hot coal fire Joel banner baird: lyrics, accoustic bass, slide guitar, voice jhaffur khan azad darakth: silver flute, alto saxophone, drums, harmonica, voice

metric reaction from the clockworks Joel Banner Baird: classical guitar jhaffur khan azad darakth: vibraphone, hand drums, bass Balinese Suling

an element of asafetida tinged with twisted tips of leopard lemon and rewound on filament abundantly. Composition: Orchestra naiF Joel Banner Baird on pianoforte jhaffur khan azad darakth on alto saxophony and percussion

Three instantaneously composed vignettes from a trio set mastered at Winooski studios in Burlington Vermont with guest artist Lewis Wendell on cojon. Joel Banner Baird on accoustic bass and guitars jhaffur khan azad darakth: piano, trumpet, saxophone, voice (depending on the song)

Three instantaneously composed vignettes from a trio set mastered at Winooski studios in Burlington Vermont with guest artist Lewis Wendell on cojon. Joel Banner Baird on accoustic bass and guitars jhaffur khan azad darakth: piano, trumpet, saxophone, voice (depending on the song)

Three instantaneously composed vignettes from a trio set mastered at Winooski studios in Burlington Vermont with guest artist Lewis Wendell on cojon. Joel Banner Baird on accoustic bass and guitars jhaffur khan azad darakth: piano, trumpet, saxophone, voice (depending on the song)

Joel Banner Baird: piano and lyrics jhaffur khan azad darakth: percussion, voice and silver flute Tea High Tea every other sip a frisson we sweeten and strain remaining leaves of liquor on lips and tipple as foreplay to croquet who's to say? Sit you still I'll brew a tempest of a tease I'll dip sauces in the saucer and hyphenate the cheese in uniform this evening Team High Tea Team High Tea

orchestra naiF is packed and ready with a dual carriage quintet jhaffur khan azad darakth: alto saxophone, trumpet, drums Joel Banner Baird: acoustic bass and electric guitar Banwari Lal and EYC with bistarbund bundobast appear courtesy of the photograph from the archives of Jeffrey Y Campbell

Jonquil in jodhpurs admires his rajput waist Inter=phases Q r thirds ad nostrum, a trio in deeds, composed accordingly at the time of performance. Joel Banner Baird: guitar and autoharp Andrew Alter: keyboards jhaffur khan azad darakth: West timor cow call, bugle, percussion

An alphabetized introduction to the one, the only Howard's House band playing live in the trans-incidental express lounge car with outsized scenery. Joel Banner Baird: voice, bass viol and guitar jhaffur khan azad darakth: flutes, clarinet, voice

angled and ambient with ambits both anaerobic and anti- anodyne, classically brained for an easy access wash and change. instantaneously composed and performed by: Joel Banner Baird on classical guitar jhaffur khan azad darakth on silver flute, mbira, Lao jaw's harp and trombone.