I think this is the kind of song you’re only supposed to listen to at night. It’s one of my absolute favorites. Anastassia and I are planning a studio cut, but I felt like posting it pretty much as we play it, raw. If you’re not already, I highly recommend getting familiar with the work [...]

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I guess I’m still not done raiding the archives for more good old stuff to throw on here. This song has a bit of history to it, actually, even if it’s not as old as some of the other stuff I’ve shared recently. I wrote it two years ago in a southern Russian winter, out [...]

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This is another one from ye olde archives. The song evolved spontaneously, with my dear friend BKP, in 2003 or 2004. I had taken a Teach Yourself Navajo book from the library, and was sitting on the floor practicing basic vocabulary, and BKP started playing the guitar behind me. The chords just came out of [...]

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Like Proverbs, this song is slated for the new album. I wrote it this summer in Russia, literally watching emerald green shooting stars in the summer sky.
It took me a while to get the feel of the song right; I’m almost always trying to play things too fast, and I think this song really has [...]

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So today is my niece’s birthday, and she’s turning 3!
This is a song I wrote for her after she was born, and recorded later for inclusion on a birthday album for my other niece, Isobel. The photograph is old, from when the now big three year old was very tiny and could barely even sit [...]

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