In fungal and other words the world of scent remains

jhaffur khan azad darakth: silver flute, drums

Joel Banner Baird: classical guitar, acoustic bass

Just another evening at the lodge in Chitwan National Park, when the bell rings and the call "bagh aayo" the tiger has come rings out - all is then hustle and bustle as the staff takes the clients out to the blinds in the dark to see the great cat at "the kill".

jhaffur khan azad darakth: plays bansuri and percussion

Joel Banner Baird: cat cello and bass

photo from wikipedia

early morning in the Terai moving through tall grasses on elephant back, below the mighty Himalayan ranges hear call of the cuckoos, coppersmiths emerge from the old diesal mill and the partridge refrains as a wedding party marches past

jhaffur khan azad darakth: bird calls, bansuri, madal, percussion, voice

grey partridge: call

bricked in and left out stamp your feet and fill your shout with this instantaneously composed rendition:

jhaffur khan azad darakth: drummage, alto saxophone, mbira

Joel Banner Baird: acoustic bass and piano grande

get a groove that's waxed and wavy

blue glass bottle, slide whistle, bansuri, djembe, 5 gallon plastic water container: jhaffur khan azad darakth

bass bowed and plucked, Gretchenator: Joel Banner Baird

Know Rhubarb by Orchestra naïF

Catagorically Knot by Orchestra naïF

honoring our late guru Paul Haines, we present this spoken word outing:

jhaffur khan on harmonica, drums, clarinet and words

Joel Banner Baird on acoustic bass and guitar

Sad reliquaries pine

Sad reliquaries pine

amidst the rudimentary riff raff

While codgers line the halls

on benches with their distaff

Catalogued and sorted

like curated thoughts online

Their backlogs undated

still bear the stench of brine

As tech designs of Aztec finds

are posited and refined

Flotsam all jettisoned

on beaches of disordered minds

All spit called in to polish

what are merely the remains

Of Viking puke and scattered shot

and addled ducal brains

Figurines of fugitive enshriners

with signet rings off tsars

All gather dust for practice mats

of pugilist Afars

Bold relics wearily opine

with waxen stink and leaky ink

The frayed reminder Ozymandian

That statues chasing statutes

Think they think…..Wink!

jhaffur khan azad darakth - in the thrall of ancient gall

still running in place 2024

Hear the hubris of the bungled bee:

"I can't help it

I'm a pollen robber

the alpha copter

I feed on the high beam

in real time helio

gold dust supper

that's my kind of spectra

extraordinary confectionary

to wallow round in

pixie protein so heavy I am

up to my knees in butter

you think I need an airlift

if its all the same to you no

I'm impaired in paradise

unavoidably so

detained in paradise

unavoidably so

freedom rings and bungles

most benignly"

and later:

I'm a spiritual quack

and I got your back

with my Vegan snack

its a type of cream

its a cashew dream

I'll sew you up

right at the seam

I'm a spiritual quack.

I am up to my knees in butter

with: jhaffur khan azad darakth: drums, saxophone, glockenspiel

Joel Banner Baird: acoustic bass, classical guitar, bungled bee vocals

Cameron Campbell aka mc eucalips: spiritual quake vocalsi

It's not all cheap talk: this hair diviner's hoarse and I'm sayin why.

oh yea, hoarse hair diviner,

on the cusp of what

was meant to be,

laryngitis on unread lips,

untold to me,

hoarse, hoarse hair diviner.

drums, wurlitzer organ, trombone: jhaffur khan azad darakth

voice, acoustic bass, Gretchenator slide guitar: Joel Banner Baird