Curt Siffert

2:56 minutes

The scaffolding from where treasures are stored and later forgotten.

2:19 minutes

She got them in Guatemala, and kept them next to her matryoshka dolls. At night, the worry dolls would dance and try to offer comfort to their counterparts.

3:47 minutes

Think of the opposite of erosion. Sand and swamp, to soil, rock, and clay, and finally vegetation and peaceful structure.

3:00 minutes

That church is always humming to itself a bit. It comes from deep inside the walls. But you can only really hear it after the congregants all leave.

4:26 minutes

It was a young planet, taken too quickly.

2:17 minutes

Something horrible happened the night before. Can the meadow not acknowledge that? Sometimes when morning breaks, there is a rudeness to the peace.

4:31 minutes

At about the time his daughter turned five, a buddy of mine started telling her goodnight stories. Except, this guy grew up reading comic books, so his idea of telling goodnight stories was to tell her the story of Darth Vader, and of Superman. There was something about that that I thought was so funny, and kind of touching too. So that eventually turned into this song.

This new version of the song is probably the last one until the cd. This has drums and upright bass and is closer to my overall concept for the song. Some great energy provided by Scott Townsend on drums and Chris Gustafson on upright bass. Previous versions of the song can be found in the Bone Yard.

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4:58 minutes

You're at a bar and you see someone amazing. What do you do about it?

This one has some great playing from Steve Turmell and Chris Gustafson on drums and bass respectively. From a recent live rehearsal in my living room.

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4:33 minutes

This is actually the first song I've ever written, and I'm not sure why it's taken me this long to post it. I wrote this for In The Buff, the a cappella group I co-founded when I was in college. I hear about this tune popping up from time to time, apparently others have used it or sung it in other competitions. The guys did a great job recording it for having limited studio time. I've always always been enamored with the idea of redoing it for big band. Pete Wright sings lead on this.

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3:07 minutes

The rush of the storm has passed. The only things that got washed away were those things you can do without.