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Joel Banner Baird: classical guitar, voice jhaffur khan azad darakth: bansuri, percussion and duck present: Shifting to auxiliary, he realized he’d just been royaling along for a song. until the full scale butterflyby He had no reasons nor questions why nor ever even for a season been wrong. By putting the spare in motion He started rolling, more than a notion Capturing fumes in thin spindled sky....

swing along to this campfire favorite jhaffur khan azad darakth: reeds, percussion Joel Banner Baird: "blondie" electric guitar and acoustic bass

a freely formed instantaneously composed piece in multiple movements based on percussive discussions with elaborated orchestration created by artisinal intelligents wholly out of unutilized prior thoughts unreplicated : jhaffur khan azad darakth: drummed kit, silver flutes, trumpets, conch, oboette Joel Banner Baird, bowed and plucked bass, guitar Painted turtle: ground

An afternoon reverie with Cardinal Singh and his winged orchestra accompanied by the naiFian duo: cardinal chorus - Singh and feathered minstrels Joel Banner Baird: slide guitar and bass jhaffur khan azad darakth: bansuri and percussion *Soon to be available in video format on you tube

set in Raag Shivranjani this little jaunt should turn your heart in to a rhubarb brain jhaffur khan azad darakth: bansuri, melodica, djembe and cajon Joel Banner Baird: Godin Moses guitaram and bass

Keys on a Shoestring He wrangles keys on a shoe-string a lanyard spiral rodeo tightens down the yo-yo coil orbiting lassoos those propellers unlock logic shrink the perimeter fans, man tunnel like a vortex funnel through the cortex, man through a monochrome, twin-cone tin-can telephone keys on a shoe-string ring and ring pick it up, Andy, giddy-up cowboy How’s Trix? How’s Trix? How’s that lariat o...

High in the Oaxacan hinterland, a communidade manages its community forest and the forest the community percussion, flutes and mbira: jhaffur khan azad darakth bass and guitar: Joel Banner Baird

Somethin tells me - takes an old spin on a new yarn and twirls it over jhaffur khan azad darakth: alto saxophone, drums Joel Banner Baird: Godin moses guitar, acoustic bass

new music from the naiFians jhaffur khan azad darakth: alto saxophone, trombone, percussion Joel Banner Baird: keyboards, bass

Joel Banner Baird: bass and schlied guitar jhaffur khan azad darakth: drums and voice \ Old rat snake oil She’s ready to strike She’s all tensed and coiled What’s not to like About old rat snake oil I just drink a big drop Spread the rest on the skin If she still doesn’t stop I’ll just apply it again. I won’t be her fencing foil While I’ve got my old rat snake oil. She might still have a fang or t...

piano: jhaffur khan azad darakth bass: Joel Banner Baird

An old form blues Joel Banner Baird: standup bass and guitar jhaffur khan azad darakth, drums, harmonica

like snippets of cold rice stolen in the evenings - alternating guilt with delight Joel Banner Baird: double bass bowed and plucked, guitar jhaffur khan azad darakth: drums, trumpet muted and not

listen in and shake your pillboxes jhaffur khan azad darakth: pillboxes, alto saxophone Joel Banner Baird: acoustic bass and classical guitar

new music from below the fringe - scurries in an architectural flurry as ants working elaborately - composed instantaneously jhaffur khan azad darakth: keyboards, silver flute Joel Banner Baird: acoustic bass

"lambey ho jah! Out of the way! Bothian nu aan do! Let the young male camels through!" Brought to you from the grain markets of the pre-war Punjab jhaffur khan azad darakth: percussion, bansuri, clarinet, tonga bells, voice Joel Banner Baird: acoustic bass and filmi guitar

brand new composition released by the current and expectant Grandads acoustic bass, steel sehgal and godin guitars - Joel Banner Baird chromatic hohner harmonica, bansuri, silver flute and percussion

Late afternoon the adenoid ablutions as absolute as adamantine are freely administered to acolyte with absinth and coda lite. alto saxophones, conch, percussion - jhaffur khan azad darakth acoustic bass, slide steel string guitar - Joel Banner Baird

Hey momo! An olde Anatolian ballad as told to infants in exile by the light of a kerosene lamp hanging from rafters. Joel Banner Baird: voices, acoustic bass, baby cumbush, skins jhaffur khan azad darakth: clarinet, bansuri, tamburine, backup voice

Liberian balophons: jhaffur khan azad darakth acoustic bass: Joel Banner Baird nothing more to be said

"Let me sing you the ballad of Vertigo Jones he lost his balance, so I've been told not just a dalliance, you know he was gettin kind of old but I don't make no unnecessary bones it's a ballad of Vertigo Jones if he were to go It'd be due to that vertigo now let me give it to you in a common parlance the man had clearly lost his balance if he were to go.... It's the Ballad of Vertigo Jones." with:...

Here's a jaunty outing that reminds us to look up, entranced - against all odds, avians always advance flying as dance jhaffur khan azad darakth plays: drums, silver flute, and trumpet Joel Banner Baird plays: acoustic bass, classical guitar

a fugal dialogue in five voices attests to patterns of the heart , quite a part of each other flute, clarinet and drums presented by jhaffur khan azad darakth acoustic bass and piano arranged and performed by Joel Banner Baird

Duet: Slow-walking blue rag; strings in wind Jhaffur khan azad darakth - bansari, percussion Joel Banner Baird - slide guitar, ankle bells

Contretemps propositions initiated by bass clarinet and then taken onwards by acoustic double bass, voices and marimba add filigree jhaffur khan azad darakth: bass clarinet Joel Banner Baird: voices, acoustic bass and marimba