For those who know me you will not be surprised that most of the song titles are related to Particle Physics or have some Engineering vocabulary attached to them. Song title names like "Wolfgang Poli", (early 1940 Physicist) "Quark and the Jaguar"(a book title written by Physicist Murry Gel Mann who despite age related health issues still lectures when he can and lives up in Santa Fe), QED (Quantum ElectroDynamic, made a bit more "famous" by Dr. Fynman), Perturbation Theory (a mathematical term in which a set of approximation schemes directly relate to mathematical perturbation for describing a complicated quantum system). The rest of the titles I pretty much pulled out of very thin air (6,500 ft where I live) or somewhere from the vicinity of my ass.
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| Cover for 1st Album. "Electronic music with reed and stringed instruments" |
The First Album "Feel Free" is as described above and is my first real album I felt comfortable with and is a solid album with good stuff, or interesting to keep mosts attention. I experimented quite a bit with different sounds and effects, usually making my own loops.
Newer songs from the 2nd album entitled "Feel Free ll" can be found are here and streamed at www.soundcloud.com/naturalextraction
This second album has more of a Robin Trower/ Pink Floyd-ish feel to it with maintaining some jazz influences.
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| Cover for 2nd Album…yea sticking with the motorcycle theme! |
Here is a song I really like that has a great smooth groove with some hopefully, enchanting sounds.
https://soundcloud.com/naturalextraction/wt-factor
You can also here these tunes from a friend of mines on line New music Indi Radio station at www.radioindiefreeform.com there you can also listen to new music from multi-cultural artists across the globe, all amazing stuff.
All Righty then…. So to state, my longest involved hobby throughout my life, is writing music. I have to give props to a cool music teacher Churchill Cook, at my really small school in Capitan NM, who was an amazing giving teacher and willing to share his equipment! If you didn't have any teachers in your past who didn't influence you greatly to pursue things in your life, you probably didn't have a good teacher or two or more! Throughout the life process of connecting with people in the early teen years, I was able to meet and work with Bob Tucker who lived in Ruidoso a town quite near us. I maintained that relationship for many years well after high school. Bob worked in Clovis at the Norm Petty studios. Bob had gained his notoriety for working there on Richie Vallens and Buddy Holly recordings along with many country artists at the time. He was also one of the original Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys guitarists. So yea, he went back awhile! Needless to say myself and my partnering young band members got to record with him and man did we not know jack squat! Big ambitions and no CLUE as to what the music BUSINESS was all about.
That's the advantage to being a fledgling, wide eyed and optimistic kid. I enjoyed many great times and practices with our drummer Willy Kern and guitarist David Beavers with whom I still communicate with to this day….not often but were at least in touch. (Thanks modern social mediums!) Willy and I had started jamming or trying anyway since I was in 6th grade. I think he was in 8th or 9th at the time. He was good then and superb now. Talent of just about any kind is innate, genetic, and nourished by the environments we grow in…or it is not. I'm happy my parents nor my grandparents never stifled me in anyway…how they managed that I'm not really sure being a parent myself.
They always provided an environment of learning and allowing me to do pretty much anything I wanted to try. From riding horses there in Capitan or in Silver City, to driving motorcycles, having a chemistry set, microscope and telescope, all sorts of science goodies and electronic goodies. Remember Edmonds Scientific Catalog and HeathKit? Then of course there was always band camp. Either at a YMCA or up here when a couple times to Humming Bird Music Camp near Los Alamos in Jemez Springs. Learning is where it's all at.
All this is just so that I have something to put on this blog!
I'll be listing the music I make on here after running it through TuneCore and making it available at that point.


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