Thanks for your interest in my music. I never had the chance to make an actual CD, but I have some scattered recordings - of wildly variable character and quality - which you will find below... I am still working on this, so forgive any that don't work, they should be working by 3/31/11 if my "rebuilding the website" stays on schedule!
I am (as of 3/31/11) hoping to remove myself from the too-commercial-anymore MySpace Musician page I used to have, and will be transferring those tracks here bit by bit. I'm still on YouTube, and there will always be some videos up on youtube that are not on this mp3 page, and vice versa. So there are videos on YouTube, and mp3 audio files here, and remember that the lyrics are available as well.
The only thing I beg you NOT to do with these songs is claim that YOU wrote them, and try to use them to make money. Other uses are invited - you have my permission to download them, choreograph to them (credit me if the choreography goes to public performance, okay?), learn and sing them yourself for your own pleasure, etc. In fact, if you need the chords or anything, just email me and I'll send you chords kashainwords - at - gmail - dot - com. Enjoy.
ALL items on this site are originals © 1968 - 2011
GUITAR/VOCALS You See Me, a guitar song from when I was living in the Arkansas Ozarks in the 80s. This recording is from later, probably recorded in the Doane Dance studio in about 2002, I'm not sure?
MULTI-TRACKED ELECTRONICS/MULTI-TRACKED VOICE I Took That Risk, from a wonderful moment in the late 80s in Maryland when I actually owned a fantastic used Korg M1 synthesizer, a little 4 track cassette mixer, and a mic, and my daughter and I would take turns staying up all night making stuff like this.
GUITAR/VOICE TattersAndRags, a guitar song from 1983. This recording was done in the living room/studio of a fellow named Al Gould, in New Hampshire.
GUITAR/MULTI-TRACKED VOICE Fold Your Wings, the other song from that day at Al Gould's. It's hard to resist multi-tracking your voice if somebody has the mixer to do it, back in those pre-digital-mixing days...
PIANO/VOICE From The Very First, a piano song from 2002, I think the version on YouTube is better though.
PIANO/VOICE So Simple, another piano song, and in the same key, about the same person, from about the same time, 2002 or 2003.
PIANO/CELLO/VOICE a version of So Simple with cello (Aaron Coffin) Aaron put up his own money to get us into "Collapseable Studios" in West Asheville just before I had to leave Asheville in 2009.
(a note thoguh - I prefer the version of So Simple on YouTube)
PIANO/CELLO/VOICE a version of Fireflies, from that same day with Aaron Coffin in Asheville 2009. I wrote Fireflies as part of the course I was teaching called "Exploring Musical Composition" at Asheville's Reuter Center, that was a great time with those students...
(again though, I prefer our live version that's on YouTube)
PIANO/CELLO/VOICE a version of Stars, from that same day with Aaron Coffin in 2009. Stars was written specifically for Aaron and I to play together, it practically does not exist without cello.
(in case you couldn't guess, I prefer our live version on YouTube)
PIANO/CELLO July, no text, just piano and cello. This was written for choreography, in summer 1986 in New Jersey Pine Barrens. This recording was at Sheffield Studio in Maryland in 1988 or 89, with David Shumway on cello.
PIANO/CELLO/FLUTE/VOICE August, another wordless one, companion to July, from the same time. Originally designed for "any available players" and having its first New Jersey performances with cello and piano and voice and violin and marimba, this version from Sheffield Studio has just me on piano and a little voice and David Shumway on cello and Joan daSilva on flute.
PIANO/CELLO/FLUTE/VOICE an excerpt, the end of Distant Christmas, this was the third and final part of the July/ August/ Distant Christmas tryptich. Sheffield Studio, David Shumway cello and Joan daSilva flute. We just played through all three of these sections, "live" to two-track.
CELLOS/GUITAR/LOOPS untitled for choreography, another of my "cellos" and "wordless" ones, here's my "electro-acoustic" experiment from Ohio 2006, where three cellos played brief guided improvisations, then I went into the lab and added electronics and some guitar and so forth, it's a long track, and probably only of interest to choreographers, but I still remember the fun it was at the time... I'd like to do more of this sort of thing someday... cellist Aaron Coffin and I have something slightly like this on YouTube called One Day In Asheville...
PRE-DIGITAL-MIX-DAYS MULTI-TRACK ELECTRONIC an excerpt, the opening of Desert Night, speaking of electronics, this was made on the same pre-digital-mix equipment as the song I Took That Risk above: Korg M1 synth through a Fostex 4-track onto cassette, and then the Korg memory was completely used up every couple minutes-worth and you had to clear the Korg's memory completely (sigh!) and go on to the next cassette-tape-destined section. It's all-Korg, made for the choreography of my great friend Dana J Martin, in Maryland, in 1992.
PRE-DIGITAL-MIX-DAYS MULTI-TRACK ELECTRONIC an excerpt, the ending of Desert Night, return of the "A" theme after a long middle section that I don't have any copy of anymore. See details of Desert Night above.
Back to songs with lyrics:
GUITAR/VOICE Home, a guitar song from the mid-90s when I was caretaking at the Goat Farm in Maryland, recorded onto the world's cruzziest pawn shop boombox but still nostalgic for me.
GUITAR/VOICE If You Taught Her To Fly, a "live" guitar song from when I was living in the Arkansas Ozarks in the late-80s. I did a couple of "house concerts" and this and the next one are from those, recorded onto the same cruzzy boombox as Home was, and from farther away amongst the little audience... There's abit of tuning and chatting before the song begins...
GUITAR/VOICE Restless Desire, "live" from the same late-80s house concert as above.
GUITAR/VOICE Shoulda Been You, a "live" guitar song from when I was living in Ohio in 2003 or 04. This recording was also basically a "house concert" but in the Doane Dance studio.
PIANO/VOICE Safe Distance of a Song, a piano song from when I was living in Ohio. This recording probably from the Doane Dance studio in about 2002, I'm not sure?
Three short tracks recorded in Maryland for Nancy Romita and Dana J Martin to use in their dance classes after I left Maryland, I think these recordings were 1999...No lyrics, no other musicians, just me at a piano with the drum at my side like "for regular work, accomapnying dance classes"...
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