a ballad pure and simple

Joel Banner Baird on acoustic bass and classical guitar

jhaffur khan azad darakth on bass clarinet, silver flute, and percussion

red-shouldered hawk calls

A touch of Cumbia in memory

Joel Banner Baird sings, plays guitar and acoustic bass

jhaffur khan azad darakth adds percussion, trumpet and voice

passcode to the unearthed sound

Joel Banner Baird on acoustic bass and piano

jhaffur khan azad darakth on percussion, voice and trumpet

A gut wrenching homage to that cross old bear deep down inside that just can't bare to be apart.

Joel Banner Baird on the slide guitar

jhaffur khan azad darakth on percussion, harmonica and voice

photo: Melanie Marla Campbell

Time to fruitify so loquat serves up it's leafy sililoquy

with Joel Banner Baird on acoustic bass and marimba

jhaffur khan azad darakth on silver flute, trumpet

just give me chavannia *four annas"

char anna dedeyo tumare gari main tota bolega (give me four annas and a parrot will speak in your car)

a little swinging ode to the humble four annas or 25 paise once enough to buy a bottle of coca cola.

Joel Banner Baird lays out the bass and classical slide guitar adding voice

jhaffur khan azad darakth brings the brushes to play and filigrees with silver flute and some voice

The Innkeepers of sound welcome fellow travelers

jhaffur khan azad darakth plays clarinet, flute, cojon, finger cymbals, tonga bell

Joel Banner Baird sings and plays bass and cumbush

a departure from an old traditional tune

Dormez who? Dormez Who?

Sonny lay between us

brother's on the john.

Are you sleeping? Dormez Who?

jhaffur khan azad darakth: voice, silver flute, clarinet, cojon, drumkit

Joel Banner Baird: voice, classical guitar,acoustic bass

another spontaneous composition by the lads in the exstream classical genre

classical guitar, acoustic bass: Joel Banner Baird

trumpet, silver flute, mortar shell, turkey call, Hmong jaw's harp, whistling, shaker, sticks on cojon, bells: jhaffur khan azad darakth

Just a simple question - Who' that? This conversation responds.

Joel Banner Baird on acoustic bass

jhaffur khan azad darakth on drumkit and some silver flutery