This Moment Records

08/23/2024

Kitties' curiosity lingers like a summer storm in the night,
Listen to spirits whisper, bringing dewdrops of insight…

As my imagination tends to wander, voices come through me, prodding me to toss aside standard composition and instead compose from or channel how Faeries might conduct a sound mediation. Thus, I warmly present -->

~ Faetrotndronia's Summery Meditation From The Elsewhere ~

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08/04/2024

I'll be doing a book reading tonight --->

Come one, come all! You are cordially invited to join me this Sunday evening (8/4) at 9 PM Eastern on Everybody's Zoom, where I will be reading excerpts from Gathering Sounds. In addition to readings, we'll listen to several intriguing and beautiful recordings. I'll also be giving away a few signed and personalized copies. I hope to see you there. Wishing y'all the very best~

Link to join Zoom directly: bit.ly/everybodyszoom

More info: https://www.everybodyszoom.info/

The books are available in hardcover, paperback, and ebook: https://www.gatheringsounds.org/

07/31/2024

Come one, come all! You are cordially invited to join me this Sunday evening (8/4) at 9 PM Eastern on Everybody's Zoom, where I will be reading excerpts from Gathering Sounds. In addition to readings, we'll listen to several intriguing and beautiful recordings. I'll also be giving away a few signed and personalized copies. I hope to see you there. Wishing y'all the very best~

Link to join Zoom directly: https://bit.ly/everybodyszoom

More info: https://www.everybodyszoom.info

The books are available in hardcover, paperback, and ebook: https://www.gatheringsounds.org/

07/17/2024

Here’s a podcast episode featuring various field recordings - songs, stories, and snippets - from the recent California annual:

https://youtu.be/scpkY0O1JwA?si=XW8djsh-VQMCP_zP

07/11/2024

This year’s collection of field recordings was recorded at the 2024 California Annual Rainbow Gathering, located in the Plumas National Forest near the town of, um, well...where two gatherings happened everywhere all at once (and not at all 'cept in your imagination).

As a result, I didn't record all that much, but nonetheless, there are some noteworthy soundscapes, songs, and stories.

Mule ears, yellow blooms
Water, water quenches thirst
Star show, dark fifty

Feel free to stream/download here (there are also links on the site to download the entire 25 year collection, which features so many beautiful songs, stories, snippets, and sounds): https://soundsfromtherainbow.org/2024-california

06/17/2024

Meet our perennial pollinators: Hail Eris & The Silver Creek Bloom Band

The garden includes wooly thyme, lamb's ears, daisies, choral bells, mountain mint, catmint, yarrow, bee balm, spearmint, Irish moss, cerastium, Russian sage, dragonheads, lavender, hyssop, salvia, phlox, wormwood, tickseed, sweetgrass, pineapple sage, catnip, St John's wort, columbine, chives, buttercups, rattlesnake fern, crawling thyme, and everything else named and unnamed everlasting, onward ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Perennial pollinator garden includes wooly thyme, lamb's ears, daisies, choral bells, mountain mint, catmint, yarrow, bee balm, spearmint, Irish moss, cerast...

06/03/2024

A dreamy, sleepytime harp-scape for the wee ones...or anyone seeking to float away to zzzzzzzzlandia~

. . . plucking moonbeams one by one, silver notes adrift fireflies waltz at easeMusic by Sleepy Time & The Driftaways | Sound Design by Harptriloquist ...

12/28/2023

Gathering Sounds Too: Field Recording with the Rainbow Family

12/20/2023

A winter solstice-themed musical drone piece I whipped up featuring a double-strung harp, euphone, chimes, Peruvian whistling vessel, flute, and gong. May the soundings bestow upon you a state of serene and blissful repose~

"The Jingle of Solstice Haze in Dark Night" drifts upon the enchanting wonder of the winter solstice, where shadows dance and spirits play. A chiming jangle ...

12/07/2023

Thanks to all who attended my book reading the other night. I plan on doing another one after the holidays. Wish y’all the very best~

09/10/2022

Last December, a friend nudged me to compile a Rainbow Heartsong compilation from my +20 year collection of gathering field recordings, and others prompted me to make more. Thus, I curated another set, Omnium Gatherum Vol. 1-10. If you're interested in a unique journey of song, follow the link. Enjoy~

https://we.tl/t-nsf9U1QvKX

Vol. 1 —> folk, old-time, string band, et al.
Vol. 2 —> music from the July 2nd Super Dance Party Prom Revolution Night at Granola Funk Theater (NM 2009)
Vol. 3 —> folk, old-time, string band, et al.
Vol. 4 —> random jams, eclectic, improvisation, et al.
Vol. 5 —> folk, old-time, string band, et al.
Vol. 6 —> various percussion, drum circle, and drum & chants
Vol. 7 —> folk, old-time, string band, et al.
Vol. 8 —> random jams, eclectic, improvisation, et al.
Vol. 9 —> folk, old-time, string band, et al.
Vol. 10 —> folk, old-time, string band, et al.