I have a love for musical adventures. Sometimes they become inventions. On-offs. Sometimes I work them into a structured piece. Most of the times not. Or if I do, I never lease the original from its’ position of ownership. The pieces included here are some of my favs.

Swannanoa Rising. As stated this is a stream of consciousness piece of music. It was not scripted before I played it. The words were unknown to me before I sang them. With a little work, I could make them better but, then again….

Link to the Bandcamp “Sample Page.”

From the Bandcamp site: This is a beautiful representation of how the music finds me. I have a new Yamaha MODX88 with beautiful sounds and one night came upon this piano sound. And having been reading and touched with the tragedy of Helena on the Swannanoa River in Western North Carolina, this piece came up to me out of the depths. I should say I have been a life long surfer from the Outer Banks and have ridden big waves. I understand Water. I understand weather and I understand how most people do not. I also understand Fear which is something you train yourself to confront. Surfers can practice this. Young moms with two small children trying to escape in a car that becomes swallowed by the highway that turns into a whirlpool could not practice…or the elderly couple in a modest house on the hill where they had lived for 40 years all of a sudden would be overcome, awakened with ragged lumber and mud throwing them out of bed, bulldozed by a wall of chaos in the darkness of night. Swannanoa Rising was written for the 108 deaths, five still missing and two were found six months later in Tennessee.
https://avlwatchdog.org/the-lives-we-lost-to-helene/