Les Langueurs Tendres

A fragrant glade and a babbling brook... The Nouveau Guinea Ensemble takes a sojourn from the land of office buildings and parking lots and drags us kicking and screaming into the land pf placid remembrance.

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.

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.

The rosy glow of a late summer sunset folds into the lilac & deep purples of dusk. Almost like water the transformed light flows through the open windows and mingles with the radiance of the single candle in the room. In the stillness of the evening a lone person floats through the room, bobbing and spinning in a slow quadrille..

Here Gerluz is performing with members of the Nouveau Guinea Ensemble in the piano quintet "Untitled-40."