I took piano lessons for a few months as a kid, then begged my parents to let me quit. They did. Then I never stopped playing. Never learned to read music. Just played — by ear, for sixty years, on piano and whatever else I could get my hands on.
For the last twenty-five years I've been recording — hundreds of songs, fragments, whole albums, things that don't have a name. Jazz, film scores, things that resist any category at all. Now I'm going back through all of it, editing and completing around 300 pieces.
I don't know where the music lives. Or even if it lives. It just fell from the sky. I cannot promote it or defend it. I can simply offer it.
I once counted and it was more than 300. I don't know their genre — I listen to them and they strike me one way or the other, and if they do, I try to label them, but mostly they end up in an "I don't know and really, I don't care too much" category.
Anything posted here has been at least listened to and maybe repaired, roughly mastered, or otherwise made reasonably playable.
Here's something that amazes me when I think about it: I don't think there is a single piece of music on this site that has been performed more than once. Every recorded song was written and played for the first time when it was recorded — and in most cases, not played again.
A short description will appear here once the album is assembled.
A second release can be added here with its own note, mood, or story.
Press play for a taste. Visit Bandcamp for the full catalog — every album, free to listen, free to download.
Many of my pieces have clear melody lines and I've always wanted to find a way to fill them with lyrics and voice. Sometimes I spontaneously hear lyrics — fragments, really — but I am not able to write what I feel and I cannot sing.
If you're a lyricist, writer, or singer and something here speaks to you, I'd love to hear from you.
So it should cost you the same as it cost me. But if you like it and feel like being supportive, please make a contribution. Every cent will go to The Callie Veelenturf For Nature Foundation.