Alternative
From March to Fall
Genre: Alternative
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All songs and lyrics written by Erik Yager
Produced by Erik Yager and Brandon Busch
Recorded and Mixed by Brandon Busch at Sound Media Productions
Mastered by Rachel Field at Resonant Mastering
Album Cover by Will...
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Meadowlark for Warren
Genres: Ambient, Alternative
This was a breakthrough piece for me, written in 1989 or so. I lived in a junkie old trailer in Evanston, Wyoming, where I was happily no longer working as a counselor for the seriously mentally ill. I was sitting in my...
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ALBUM: Fetus
Genres: R&B, Alternative
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The word “fetus”, coming from the Latin means, small child. I think every artist-or unborn child in the womb for that matter, starts off simply as that: a “small child”, that grows into the man or woman that God created them...
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Via Zammata
Genres: Rock, Alternative
$16.00
Dweezil Zappa solo album #6. Produced and Arranged by Dweezil Zappa. Released in 2015....
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SINGLE: An Evening Like This
Genres: R&B, Alternative
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An Evening Like This
I went through a pretty rough patch in my early twenties. I was having a hard time because I just got out of a sinful relationship and by Gods providence, (hard providence) he used that sin to show me...
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Particles
Genres: Alternative, Ambient
Notes for Particles
I was working on trying to get as much movement and sound as possible from one
note, and got to the notion of elementary particles. 1. Just One Quark This was made from holding down just one note...
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I was working on trying to get as much movement and sound as possible from one
note, and got to the notion of elementary particles. 1. Just One Quark This was made from holding down just one note...
LIVE: Sound Collective: Speakeasy-Giggle Water Junction Pt.III
Genres: R&B, Alternative
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SOUND COLLECTIVE: SPEAKEASY-Giggle Water Junction Pt.III
This is the final installment of our three part SOUND COLLECTIVE series: Speakeasy Junction III. Here is an example of applying what we know into PRAXIS (hopefully...
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PRAXIS III:BLONDE
Genres: R&B, Alternative
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These are recordings taken from my old bands practice sessions (Blonde). When I say “old band”, I mean the band that got back together after our split (because of The Grace of God through the kindness of an old...
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LIVE: ST.PETER'S
Genres: R&B, Alternative
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This is a collection of recordings taken from a practice session in preparation for a gig; a showcase my producer Larson Ghormley had for his artists. Said gig was located in San Pedro, California (during “First Thursday” on...
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Charlotte Dreams of Winnowing
Genres: Alternative, Ambient
A snipe is a bird which has the wonderful ability to soar down through the sky, making the air “winnow” through his tail feathers, producing a wonderful hu-hu-hu-hu-hu. He will make huge loops over and over, supposedly to...
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Performance of Living With My Donkeys
Genres: Alternative, Ambient
William Scharnberg played a great performance of the entire set at the International Horn Symposium, summer 2024. The recording we got wasn't the greatest, so I'm in the process of remastering that. So some of the pieces...
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Our Great Friend Nook
Genres: Alternative, Ambient
Nook the Magnificent Sheep was a 4-hour old bum lamb when he went to live with Savanah Salisbury, a young 4-H student. For the first 6 months of his life, he lived in town, and became the darling of the neighborhood, going...
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The Sandhill Crane Suddenly Recalls He’s a Dinosaur
Genres: Alternative, Electronic
My niece Sophia took these photographs. She is a wildlife conservationist who loves Sand Hill Cranes and had just gotten a new 300-500 camera lens. In this era of the war on our environment, I'm posting this just to...
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Coyote Songs
Genres: Alternative, Ambient
When I was in the mountains I heard the most incredible coyote song. It echoed across the mountain valleys I was camped above, and off the canyon walls. Surely the coyotes knew what a wonderful place that was to sing. All...
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On the clock
Genres: Instrumental, Alternative
A collection of songs that I wrote/performed for commercials and videos over the years.
Enjoy......
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The Evening Visitor
Genres: Alternative, Ambient
All of the sounds you here are from a bird call I recorded one evening from my window. I never heard it after that one time. For program notes and then technical details, please click here. The fourth movement, The Sun...
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Living With My Donkeys STAND ALONE VERSION
Genres: Alternative, Ambient
This recently received the International Alliance of Women in Music Honorable Mention for the Pauline Oliveros New Genre Prize. This is the Stand-Alone Version. Click here for the Donkey Bray part for the Horn Version. You...
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Take Your Medicine
Genres: Alternative, Ambient
For notes on how I used the "pop" of the plastic cork of these two bottles to create this music, click here....
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Five Little Mountain Mice (1988)
Genres: Alternative, Pop
When I am in the mountains, I am very careful to hang my food high and keep a clean camp. Although I’ve never had a bear in my camp (that I know of), I’ve seen my share of them. The animal that most frightens me, however,...
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Shaker Weeds
Genres: Alternative, Pop
These are a series of little pieces written back in 1990. At that point I only had an EPS Ensoniq sampler keyboard--no dedicated computer. I sampled my little harmonica, a little drum, a tiny crotales bell, a meadowlark,...
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Wintering Well
Genres: Alternative, Ambient
All the sounds you hear are from various pieces of frozen things around the farm, enduring a 30 below winter.... For notes about this set of pieces, click here.
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A Frog's World of Love
Genres: Alternative, Ambient
I was reading an article about Arnold Lobel and his Toad and Frog books from The New Yorker by Colin Stokes when, strangely at the same time, my friend Mark sent me some sounds of frogs he had heard on a walk in his Iowa...
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Snow Snakes on the Road
Genres: Alternative, Ambient
All the sounds you hear are from recordings I made of varioius toy cymbals and bells, with just the attacks in most cases. Thinking my pieces were beginning to sound all the same, I decided to do a piece of just rhythms. I...
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Piglet Sampler (1988)
Genres: Alternative, Pop
These five little fat pigs were written between 1988 and 1990 when I just had a used Ensoniq EPS sampling keyboard with an onboard sequencer. I recorded a few pizz sounds from an old violin I had, and a few other things--a...
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Living With My Donkeys HORN VERSION
Genres: Alternative, Ambient
This is the Donkey Bray part for "Living With My Donkeys, for Horn and Donkey Bray." Contact me if you'd like a copy of the score and accompanying sounds on CD, MP3 or Card. Click here to see how I composed these...
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Pepper Chew's Balloons (1990)
Genres: Alternative, Ambient
First I'll tell you about Janelle Pepper Chew (long), then I'll explain how I wrote these little pieces (short).
I worked with Pepper in 1990-91 at Central Wyoming College. She was Director of the TRIO Student Support...
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The Rhubarb Stalks
Genres: Alternative, Ambient
My sister, pictured here with rhubarb from her garden, tapped out a couple sounds on those rhubarb flower stalks for me. All the sounds you hear in "The Rhubarb Run" are from that initial tapping (which you can hear in the...
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