Song.land Podcast

why do so many old people take up painting? paint explores the drive and motivation to create, to make, to push publish and share with others the fruit of our mind, bodies, souls. See full notes at https://song.land/paint

welcome to song dot land, a soundscape of improvised song. it’s longform improve for acoustic guitar music and singing. you may hate it. you may love it. thanks for listening!full notes: https://song.land/pieces-ashes-kroger/

song dot land has, alas!, ventured in shakespearrecording a podcast as long as hamletas sonically vibrating as inception (i lie)upon which we end our hour with helena’s vision

tonight’s episode of song dot land explores regret and contentment. pop comes from one line in the set, “your flowers are starting to pop”. this refers to beautiful daffodils i saw earlier in the day. they’re opening up! POP spring is here! please enjoy. transcript every little thing you didi told youevery little thing youContinue reading "pop"

this song dot land explores how we wouldn’t be here without the pain of life. song dot land is improvised guitar with passionate singing. barrenclimbing outtheregoing out even when i don’t understand the roadi have confidence, new, deep confidencethat all is well that all is wellso welcome back here to song dot land well, iContinue reading "wineskins"

Song dot land’s new episode is powered by nature. Jesse improvises music to a journey through tall grasses as autumn begins in his part of the world. Watch the video for the full experience! The video and cover art were taken during sunset on 2020-09-28, with audio recorded on the morning of 2020-09-29. Notice theContinue reading "nature 1"

As the sun rises on the autumnal equinox, the summer drifts off as a chilling cool arrives. I welcome it, but—how did it cool so quickly? 12 hours of daylight. 12 hours of darkness. On today’s song dot land, we celebrate a model day for equality and balance. Cover art taken the evening before. EpisodeContinue reading "foxtail equinox"

On this energized episode of song dot land, journey through audio landscapes of story and song. Where do I come from? How am I here? My land is where the chords fight. They fight like the waves that splash and reverberate, bouncing all around what was once a calm pond. This episode was recorded onContinue reading "explode"

Go West. I sing of the rockies in metaphor as I make up these songs. The topic crosses between relationship love and my love for music itself, weaved in and out of metaphors and ideas. [Update] Watch this episode in full on YouTube! Enjoy enjoy enjoy!

This is one of my more esoteric episodes. I’ve been fasted for 22 hours and exercised a bunch today. I did that to have good brain energy for this recording, but I don’t know if it worked. I’ll listen in the future and find out! Good luck if you enjoy it, and make sure toContinue reading "mystery 2"

O my godwe sailed like ferdinand magellano my godyou give it away o my godthere in my every momento my godoh love, love, love is our rescue Struggle and hardship gives me what I need to thrive. I would not be where I am today without hard situations, like losing my job and my marriage.Continue reading "gw"

This week’s Song Dot Land journeys across the dimensions of difference. What ground sits between your understanding of life and your neighbor’s? Who do you want your future self to be? It’s a vision of where we can find our strength through our difference. And Monty Python gets recounted at one point. And about howContinue reading "across difference"

Welcome! Song Dot Land is a wild, created-on-the-fly-and-it-shows musical program. Today’s ‘tent delivers themes of imagining what can exist when we accept what is. It ends with the benediction to go and have a great week. So, please do!

Song Dot Land travels to encouraging dimensions in this week’s episode of the long, improvised idea sharing podcast. The title comes from a mistake where the guitar cable had a problem. May you find encouragement and compassion for your own self as we all deal with coronavirus and another step in the long road ofContinue reading "cable problems"

Join song dot land as we sing and adventure through summer, then move to heavier topics of police and power (black lives matter). The only moment we have control of is right now, so choose well in the moment you’re alive.

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“You have to learn to look around” is the message in this first celebration of the sun and the energy she offers us. The photo is a swamp milkweed sharing nectar with a friend. At the end, at about 28 minutes, everything gets quiet and you can hear the active birds in the background.

This rambling song.land ventures through the topic of making your life your own. You are responsible for how your life goes, as I am mine. It ends with a story where a banker’s life is changed by the article a freelance author sacrificed so much to write.

Today’s short-and-sweet song.land speaks of growing together, of tender love, of life. The “you” in tonight’s music goes out to mother nature. “Ooh-ooh-ooh, we are oneAnd we find it all, find it allFind it in your eyes “I came back down deleterious and so afraidInto arms warm for embraceA thousand miles would not be ohContinue reading "deleterious"

Tear into another hike through musical forests in today’s song dot land. Jesse sings about what’s important in life: our ethic, our integration, our fight, our love. Enjoy, and kick shame (your worthlessness) in the ass.