Orchestra naïF

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...

an old favorite from back up in the hills presented on: blues harp, voice, drums: jhaffur khan azad darakth slide Gretchenator guitar, acoustic bass, voice: Joel Banner Baird what the man said: "Well I'm just piddlin on the Pawpaw tree Just grandaddy and me (Bro!) well I know its the last straw but sometimes you gotta remember the Pawpaw. If you come down to the old man's shack don't get your self...

"I got the Om less in the Shanti towns haven't gotta prayer, haven't gotta mat just gotta breathe the air that's where its at in the Shanti town with the Om less. Joel Banner Baird, acoustic bass, cello, churango, voice jhaffur khan azad darakth, keyboards, percussion, voice

Undress unknown, unless you send it by phone. Joel Banner Baird: acoustic bass, guitar, voice jhaffur khan azad darakth: brushes and percussion, blues harp, voice sketch of Gairal bungalow, Corbett National Park, Rupak Roy

jhaffur khan azad darakth: bansuris, melodica, trumpet, voice, kaniira, tonga bell Joel Banner Baird, acoustic bass, slide Gretchenator Darya ke kinare pe e jhaffur sun (on the banks of the river Oh jhaffur hear!) Khugi ki pukar aur khudrath ki aram (the call of the dove, and nature's peace) Chalti paani ki ye pyasa dhun (the thirsty tune of running water) zindagi ka subha insaaniyat ki sham (the...

A free and swinging blues to commemorate the olde folks who still talk the walk! Joel Banner Baird plays the acoustic bass and sounds guitarage jhaffur khan azad darakth responding on drums and blows on silver flute

"Eugena ,vote while your tickets hot, cause even when its not your ballots got a special spoti no matter how you toss it it'll come out in the faucet so Eugena vote while your tickets hot." Joel Banner Baird: guitar, acoustic bass, voice jhaffur khan azad darakth: trumpets, trombone, brushes

a young naturalist and his wild cohort co-create this afternoon idyll in the South Asian forest. jhaffur khan azad darakth: veenu, kanjira Joel Banner Baird: acoustic bass wild soloists: peafowl, Asian elephants, coppersmith, jungle crows, red-whiskered bulbuls, grey and black partridge, common hawk cuckoo (brain fever bird), red-wattled lapwing, Eurasian cuckoo, green pigeon, rose-ringed parakeet...

Inspired by Norwegian elk calls and their heavily antlered dreams this essentially trio work includes: Joel Banner Baird: acoustic bass jhaffur khan azad darakth: drums, Norwegian elk call, alto saxophone,

Satu hari sajah - one day only - a song of love (the poem in Bahasa Indonesia accompanies the tune) jhaffur khan azad darakth aka Jupri dari Lampung: silver suling, gender, kanjira, Laotian jaw's harp Joel Banner Baird: acoustic bass, cello Satu hari saja hanya satu hari saja yang harus saya gunakan untuk memahami sepenuhnya bagaimana orang yang unik dan luar biasa sepertimu bisa datang ke dalam h...

this one simply flies itself jhaffur khan azad darakth: clarinets, recorder, tambourine Joel Banner Baird: acoustic bass, classical guitar.

and olde central Appalachian ode recently recovered by the naiFians: Joel Banner Baird plays the Gretchenator jhaffu khan azad darakth contributes voiced flute and voice

A classical conversation silver flutes: jhaffur khan azad darakth acoustic bass, classical guitars: Joel Banner Baird

the naiFian duo bring you this instantaneously composed ode to counter the verbing trend vestigially. Joel Banner Baird: acoustic bass and guitar jhaffur khan azad darakth: djembe, clarinet, alto saxophone

reflections on floating between opposing banks neither left nor right jhaffur khan azad darakth: bansuri and percussion Joel Banner Baird: acoustic basses and slide guitar North Fork of the Shenandoah: streamflow

New music from a Xinjiangian angle. jhaffur khan azad darakth: erhu Joel Banner Baird: classical guitar

Gastric ethology abounds in contra indications Combatting lethargy with intuitive ultra sounds As rhinos chew their saccharum grass while passing farts So sacerdotal remedies are deemed infatuations For the answers simply rendered in preheated coffee grounds Or smushed beneath the crumpets piled in squeaky grocery carts. One banana two fofana catch them by their tales Tell the one that got away th...

The sound of approximate perfection distilled and redesigned spontaneously by Orchestra naiF reunited virtually with memories of the legendary Gairal bungalow (drawing by Rupak Roy) guitar: Rupak Roy accoustic bass, voice: Joel Banner Baird bansuri, trumpet, drums, voices: jhaffur khan azad darakth

Featuring Rupak Roy on electronic guitar Joel Banner Baird, verses, voice, acoustic bass jhaffur khan azad darakth: alto saxophones, percussion Svengali gopali gropes in sub-zero subzi ropes see him seek his home alone see him seek his peacock throne see him seek the food he feeds ya see him seek his exit-visa see him seek his roofy thatcha see him seek his Appalachia see him seek his finger-tips...