Musical Archives

Original Music Release A Day #17 In a nutshell ~ this is the story of a an ordinary gnome and the extraordinary adventure he took. Try it. You’ll like it. I promise.  I thought I’d do something a little different with this one.  I’ve been going through lots of old photos and organizing them as…

Original Music Release A Day #16 ~ The Meaning of Life Part of the Small Craft Advisory collection of spoken word pieces This piece has an interesting history ~ I distinctly remember writing the words as follow up from a particularly profound meditation, but I have absolutely no memory at all of playing and recording…

Original Music Release A Day #15 Here’s another original banjo piece, thought I’d just play another one live since that was fun the first time and y’all seemed to respond to it so well.   This piece was written in the early 1990’s after encountering a group called Sileas at the Philadelphia Folk Festival. They…

Original Music Release A Day #14 Blue Waters Spent some time snorkeling in the glorious waters off the coast of Belize a few years back, and the experience inspired this doodad.  I dug up some footage from some of the dives and they seem to go together well with this piece of acoustic guitar work. …

Music Release A Day #13 Glass Uke Ditty This was a bedroom recording from 2012 of a theme I developed for ukulele. It’s very Phillip Glass and I recall that was my intention / creative challenge for the piece. Not much more to it than that, and it’s got a really chill vibe.

Music Release A Day #12 StirCrazyCabinFeverReliever ~ Original banjo & bass Not much more to this tune than it’s now been two weeks we haven’t gone anywhere except the local woods and our backyard and it’s a rainy day and everyone is starting to get a little stir-crazy.  Thought I’d take on a little recording…

Music Release A Day #11 Water Is Life – Standing Rock Standing Tall Part of The Small Craft Advisory collection of spoken word pieces. In honor of the US District Court decision handed down yesterday in favor of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North Dakota, I humbly offer this spoken word prayer. When the…

Music Release A Day #10 ~ 5 Foot 2 COVER I’m choosing to go with a cover song today mainly because it’s so much fun and we need up energy right now.   In the months leading up to our wedding almost five (!) years ago I kept myself grounded and balanced by recording a…

Music Release A Day #9 ~ March 25, 2020 Small Craft Advisory #3 ~ Stewards of the Planet I am particularly attached to this piece as a zeitgeist for the age we live in.  Beyond a doubt, whether we stand up collectively or not in relation to climate will not just define the rest of our…

or The Better Part of our Nature. Music Release A Day #8 ~ March 24, 2020 I was debating whether to share this recording from 20 years ago or to video me playing it this afternoon, and chose to go with the vintage version because there is something so jubilant about this piece and the…

Release A Day #7 ~ March 23, 2020 Ok, it’s time to get some weird on.   There are times in life where after climbing to the top of a mountain you just want to raise your voice and holler I AM HERE!  It’s a celebratory thing.  A declaration of presence.  I’ve made it this…

Release A Day #6 ~ Alchemical Reaction As I stated in my launch post, creating or birthing music has been a vital tool for me over the years to manage my emotional landscape, to give form to significant experiences, and to have a release valve for challenging passages.  Music has been my therapist, and the…

Release A Day #5  I wasn’t planning on visiting any covers for quite some time, but when I was looking through a hard-drive for something else to post today I encountered this video from the Philadelphia Folk Festival in 2014 and just have to pass this one along. The smile this brought to my face…

Mid March 2020 ~ cooped up by the corononvirus stay at home protocols, I’ve set myself the challenge to release a piece of music a day for the foreseeable future, and have realized I need a central location to track it all. So here it is, a chronological list of each release and its direct…

Release A Day #4 ~ 3.20.20 So here’s the thing. I’ve got a lot up my sleeve, but none of this is planned out. I’m really flying by the seat of my pants having set myself up to do this release a day thing, and am taking it day by day and just trying to…

Release a Day #3 ~ Spring Equinox 2020 I moved into a room once when I was in my mid 20’s and found an old banjo in the closet.  It needed a lot of love, but of course I was intrigued.  I nursed it into playing shape, bought new strings for it, asked a friend…

Release A Day #2 ~ 3.18.20 The second in a series of Theatrical Sound Sculpture Spoken Word pieces by Eric Geoffrey, What Will It Take? is a plea for awakening.   I sincerely believe if each of us had to look a six year old in the eye who was asking us this question, and…

Release A Day #1 Our Story is the poem that sparked my explorations with spoken word expression set to music and started this whole Small Craft Advisory trajectory.  It’s birth in 2016 is a remarkable example of a piece of creativity “coming through” as it was hand-written in one sitting with over three pages and…