Idyll

This is a slow, musing song. The character is looking at a wall of photos and is thinking back to the day they met the love of their life. How, in that moment, their life was changed and all of the intervening years of cherished memories that sprang from it.

Go totally mid-cen with Gort Braggern's latest tune Prickly Pear. With Prickly Pear Gort takes aim at 1963 hipsters starting on the west coast and ending on the east. Get ready to be snapping your fingers and saying "daddy-o" like you really mean it.

It was a cold October week in Wyoming when our adventurous recordist decided to poke their gear at the fumaroles and other attractions of Yellowstone.

Emerging from his spate of Baroque musings Gerluz movesto a new century with Porphero's Watch Chain a simple two-part melody.

"The Languid Tenderness" Gerluz ends his foray into the Baroque era with François Couperin's silky tune "Les Langueurs Tendres"

Spread your wings and sail away on the Solar Wind. Gort Braggern takes us on an adventurous ride to the outer planets in this lively bit of a tune.

François Couperin titled this song "The Gnat." And truly, this lilting tune evokes the charming image of a cloud of happy gnats dancing over the head of ones beloved. Gerluz brings the song to life with his piano rendering of the ancient and delightful harpsichord piece.

Another Françouis Couperin favorite danced over the keyboard by Gerluz. Again. this is from Couperin's Sixth Suite of Pieces for Harpsichord.

Another Harpsichord piece by François Couperin played on a piano by Gerluz. again this is from his "Pieces for Harpsichord," Book two, Suite 6. ...originally published in 1717, a mere 7 years before Benjamin Franklin was born.

Les Bergeries is a Harpsichord piece written by François Couperin. He originally published it in 1717 in his "Pieces for Harpsichord," Book two, Suite 6.

Taking hot and spicy to the next level, Chiltepin is a fancy, latin-esque tune that is mostly in 12/8 time

Quiet seas out by the tide pools. Low, rolling wavelets that slursh through the channels and gurgle into the chambers that make up the broken and convoluted shoreline. This is a lovely, wet and delicious recording, ... And... there are over two hours of it

The Harbor for Fort Bragg, California is in the mouth of the Noyo River. It is a small port, but large enough for some fishing boats, expedition boats and some good seafood restaurants. The hills around Fort Bragg have been logged for over 100 years. As a result there is a good set of, fairly well developed but not well used logging roads that criss cross hither and yon. One of these roads runs alongside the Noyo River.