Well, I think I need to come over to your house sometime and hear it myself on your system!

I play guitar(s), electric bass and tenor saxophone on those recordings.  There is some what I would call rudimentary percussion using home found objects like, for example an empty water jug, a wine glass with a pen or pencil tapping it on one track, hand claps, and hands rubbed together slowly ...

On some of the instrumentals I did use a drum machine external and one internal to the board, which I programmed.  For example on Yea though I Walk, there was a very cool Latin sounding preset, which I then added/over some timbale licks in real time.   A lot of the tracks were very spontaneously put together, and I wish I could do that again, instead of "planning" things, because there is a liveliness there you can't get any other way.

I have some "spoken word" tracks, for lack of a better term, that are really mini-plays of a sort (you get a little taste of it on Shakeswayandance,  with various voice "characters" that I did not include, talk about spontaneous....but I might slip those on in an upcoming volume.  I'm writing some new things, which I might do in a recording studio, but I'm still leaning towards the home stuff.....mo' fun.  Unforturnately some of the tracks I love the most, are sitting in a damaged hard drive.  My little board fell to the floor one night....and there went 1-2 years of work..puff.   Some was already downloaded and burned to CD, and those tracks were included on what you have, but some is gone forever..sniff,sniff.   There's a nasty one, I titled Kissmeallova, that I particularly miss...a funky ass riddim track with no guitar, just two basses jamming, spoken word voice passages, and the very fortuitous pickup of some children talking and laughing outside....sigh...

One of my personal favs is that rainstorm.....Let me know what you think of that if you turn it up on your home surround system. 

Gene

P.S. Thanks for listening, Block!