music

Once upon a time I made a lot of music and played in a lot of bands. This page will mostly just track what I have been enjoying listening to lately, but will also include some links to music I have made in the past.

Recent Listens

These get updated manually, so may go awhile without an update. Some stuff may come and go and others may hang out here for awhile. I'll provide a link to bandcamp where possible (I like that they have a comment in their code about pirating music and how it helps musicians — which I agree with). If there is not a link it is because there was not a bandcamp one and I will not link to [insert other music service], but I'm sure you can find most things.

Artist	Album	Fave Song(s)	Genre
Annie Briggs	Annie Briggs	The Snow It Melts the Soonest, Young Tambling	Folk, Trad
Planxty	Planxty	The Blacksmith, Sí Bheag, Sí Mhór	Folk, Trad
Otto A. Totland	Exin	Rift, Fivril	Instrumental, Piano
James Blackshaw	Litany of Echoes	Infinite Circle, Shroud	Folk, Instrumental, Guitar
Ole-Bjørn Talstad	Ferd	Spire, Før	Instrumental, Piano
Hayden Pedigo	The Happiest Times I Ever Ignored	Looking at the Fish, The Happiest Times I Ever Ignored	Folk, Instrumental
Earth	Hibernaculum	Coda Maestro in F (Flag) Minor	Drone-metal, Western, Ambient

Sheet Music/Arrangements

I have taken to making sheet music with lilypond for traditional songs that I want to learn on my dulcimer. I use folktunefinder.com to find melody lines, rework them into a key that works for me, and then work out a dulcimer arrangement and add the tablature, lyrics, and sometimes piano music to the score. On occasion I start with someone else's dulcimer arrangement, but modify it so that it fits how I like to play the piece.

My Music

I don't end up playing too much music these days aside from noodling around on my piano. But I used to play a lot of music... did some local/regional touring, ran a record label for a few years, etc. Some of it is available on various streaming services, though I don't have much to do with that at this point. Click on an album cover below for more information about the album, including reminicenses, alternate art (where available), release information, and whatnot.

I'm hoping to get back to music eventually. Life has taken me in other directions for awhile now, which has been great. I feel the itch, from time to time, to play/record again. We'll see. Even the recently released items in the following list were recorded a long time ago (but are only just being released). It would be nice to have something truly new. Fingers crossed.

The albums listed here are albums that I played a significant role in. There are a number of albums that I engineered/recorded, or did a backing vocal on, or the like... I have not included those here for the time being, in favor of focusing on albums that I wrote songs for, bands I gigged with, or albums that featured me playing instruments more prominently.