A presentation of instantaneously composed collaborative production with:

jhaffur khan azad darakth: flute, clarinet and drums

Joel Banner Baird: acoustic bass and guitar

A club date taken lying down with or without

Joel Banner Baird: acoustic bass, Blondie electric guitar

jhaffur khan azad darakth: trumpets, clarinets, trombone, drums

Le demi monde as percieved directly by compounded Black Walnut leaves.

jhaffur khan azad darakth: plays batterie, zauberflute

Joel Banner Baird: plucks bass, plays piano grandee and vocalizes

jhaffur khan azad darakth: drums, bansuri, trombone, shehnai, trumpet

Joel Banner Baird: acoustic bass, piano, organ

related lyrics:

Lawn chairs sinking in the thunda* tundra

Afford an arctic view of diminishing returns

For peats sake and carbon if I do

I’ll take two tickets for the northern passage

Open return by air mattress as levels rise

Upended ice bergs left leaning all akimbo

Northern polar wear for warming bears

Or two times tanned in tropical acetone

When rain on steroids rewards more errant flames

Fooled forensics fuels free association with all truth

Zoonotic or robotic these flu shots swigged like tonic

I’ll put on the profusion and raid the radiation.

What’s not too climate? what’s not fair change?

*cold (Hindi)

Jhaffur khan azad darakth 2025

Turgut dreams of revenge during his long hours of captivity

jhaffur khan azad darakth: Kyrgyz transverse flute, clarinet, Tajik folk flute, percussion, duduks

Joel Banner Baird: acoustic bass, cellos

synaptic resilience through instantaneous free association helps illuminate journeys through the mindscape informed by mental bravery a head.

jhaffur khan azad darakth and Joel Banner Baird hold an elaborated spontaneous conversation on varied instrumentation including but not limited to: melodica, kanjira, cumbush, cello,, laquerware, voices, bells, ocarina, biscuit tins, glockenshpiel, mbira, madal, hands on drums, measuring cups, hands on hands, tambourine, bansuri. Lyrics unavailable.

Just a short reverie inspired by Esther

Esther: voice

Joel Banner Baird: acoustic bass, Gretchenator slide guitar

jhaffur khan azad darakth: bansuri, percussion, clapping

a low down dirty classic blues from the back flow on the old Western Delta

Joel Banner Baird provides principal voice, guitar, acoustic bass

jhaffur khan azad darakth accompanies on brushes, silver flute, supporting voices

lyrics (Joel Banner Baird):

you hear about someone hereabouts

messin’ with the Western Delta?

yep: outranked ranger

too polite for trouble

picks his own groans,

rolls and tumbles, yep

gets sober seeing double

smokes a sign in the interim

plenty plentiful so please

keep him off the intercom

shooting stars

wherever they are

lit round his horoscope

like lariats wrap his banjo

like, this fella is

justice lookin’ for a home?

I hear someone hereabouts

messin’ with the Western Delta

Borrow another man’s scalp

if he wears the same size

one for me and a mule named Sal

(‘scuse me while I ventriloquize)

Hmmmmmmm.

Joel Banner Baird: lyrics, piano, voice, acoustic bass

jhaffur khan azad darakth: silver flute, percussion, shehnai, clarinet,

the ballad in actual verse:

"Buffalo Gals in Tinker Town

frolic and adventure

rings around your toes

so much of which

goes to show

this ain’t no ordinary rodeo

rope tricks are a no-go

I’d settle for a string of bling

‘cause that’s the way

the bee stings

pop goes the pipe-dream, oh"

a dancehall roadeo bluester blascapade bhangropera

Joel Banner Baird: acoustic bass and Gretchenator slide guitar

jhaffur khan azad darakth: drums, blues harmonica, voice, whistle