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"What Goths have wrought No mangrove left arrear The flute has taught The bass refined To please the listening ear" reviewed anonymously libretto and voice: Girl George II flute and percussion: jhaffur khan azad darakth acoustic bass: Joel Banner Baird

Tales told somewhere to the East of Trieste remain embossed in memory Joel Banner Baird: acoustic bass and classical guitar jhaffur khan azad darakth: bansuri, clarinet, cajon, maracas and voice

subscriptions applied to recharge the foghorn relief fund solicited through a short suite in three parts: prelude, groove, postlude jhaffur khan azad darakth: alto saxophone, percussion Joel Banner Baird: acoustic bass, classical guitar

Just naturally with demeanour in D Joel Banner Baird plays acoustic bass and Gretchenator slide guitar jhaffur khan azad darakth: blows mouth harp in D natural, plays drums and hums

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Celebrate with us the ancient itenerant practioners of the craft of tinning copper and other metal cookware https://www.instagram.com/brownhistory/p/C4LTv4Grngg/ who are in danger of disappearing. jhaffur khan azad darakth: bansuri,percussion Joel Banner Baird: acoustic bass, slide guitar

Join us for some Smoky Tea deep in the Smokies. Joel Banner Baird, classical guitar and acoustic bass jhaffur khan azad darakth: clarinet, transverse bawu, percussion and voice

In fungal and other words the world of scent remains jhaffur khan azad darakth: silver flute, drums Joel Banner Baird: classical guitar, acoustic bass

Inauthentic kleptocracies predominate in global charaderie, sincere redistributors being remnants of merely imaginary governance Joel Banner Baird: acoustic bass, piano jhaffur khan azad darakth: trumpet, trombone, conch shell, drums

Just another evening at the lodge in Chitwan National Park, when the bell rings and the call "bagh aayo" the tiger has come rings out - all is then hustle and bustle as the staff takes the clients out to the blinds in the dark to see the great cat at "the kill". jhaffur khan azad darakth: plays bansuri and percussion Joel Banner Baird: cat cello and bass photo from wikipedia

early morning in the Terai moving through tall grasses on elephant back, below the mighty Himalayan ranges hear call of the cuckoos, coppersmiths emerge from the old diesal mill and the partridge refrains as a wedding party marches past jhaffur khan azad darakth: bird calls, bansuri, madal, percussion, voice grey partridge: call

bricked in and left out stamp your feet and fill your shout with this instantaneously composed rendition: jhaffur khan azad darakth: drummage, alto saxophone, mbira Joel Banner Baird: acoustic bass and piano grande

get a groove that's waxed and wavy blue glass bottle, slide whistle, bansuri, djembe, 5 gallon plastic water container: jhaffur khan azad darakth bass bowed and plucked, Gretchenator: Joel Banner Baird

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honoring our late guru Paul Haines, we present this spoken word outing: jhaffur khan on harmonica, drums, clarinet and words Joel Banner Baird on acoustic bass and guitar Sad reliquaries pine Sad reliquaries pine amidst the rudimentary riff raff While codgers line the halls on benches with their distaff Catalogued and sorted like curated thoughts online Their backlogs undated still bear the stench...

Hear the hubris of the bungled bee: "I can't help it I'm a pollen robber the alpha copter I feed on the high beam in real time helio gold dust supper that's my kind of spectra extraordinary confectionary to wallow round in pixie protein so heavy I am up to my knees in butter you think I need an airlift if its all the same to you no I'm impaired in paradise unavoidably so detained in paradise unavo...

It's not all cheap talk: this hair diviner's hoarse and I'm sayin why. oh yea, hoarse hair diviner, on the cusp of what was meant to be, laryngitis on unread lips, untold to me, hoarse, hoarse hair diviner. drums, wurlitzer organ, trombone: jhaffur khan azad darakth voice, acoustic bass, Gretchenator slide guitar: Joel Banner Baird

Moisture permeates the crowns of trees in the Nilgiri biosphere reserve: jhaffur khan azad darakth: veenus (Carnatic flutes), saxophone, percussion Joel Banner Baird: acoustic bass, Gretchenator slide guitar

Untrain your ears, unleash your brain, retrain your fears grease your drains as Gogonzola releases gut grief, with: shehnai, trombone, clarinet, trumpet, drums - jhaffur khan azad darakth acoustic bass, keyboards: Joel Banner Baird

A trans-genre interlude of juxtapositions jhaffur khan azad darakth: piano, bansuri Joel Banner Baird: acoustic bass, Gretchenator slide guitar

Just reel it up and roll it out jhaffur khan azad darakth: drumsn, silver flute, alto saxophone Joel Banner Baird: acoustic bass and classicalguitar

"I've got my burlap overalls and my teflon bib I'm still looking for that gig I shall not I shall not be deterred! I've got a reed pipe whistle and a drum thats made of goat I'm Just waiting for that boat I shall not I shall not be referred. jhaffur khan azad darakth: melodica, drums, voice Joel Banner Baird: slide guitar, bass, voice

Thoughts of a Green Heron presented by: Joel Banner Baird: acoustic bass and piano jhaffur khan azad darakth: silver flute, bansuri, trumpet and trombone, drums

all the bother's just not woodchuckin jhaffur khan azad darakth: trumpet, percussion, Kyrgyz jaw's harp Joel Banner Baird:slide Gretchenator guitar, acoustic bass been called all kinds of things: Wood chucker Cord stacker Ground hogger Pit dweller Tail dragger Thickwood badger Culvert skulker Sod subverter Pig whistler Marmot slogger Forecaster Moonack digger Runway tuner Whistling salooner Not tu...