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Ring-necked Pheasants are not imaginary

“Ring-necked Pheasant” drawn with colored pencil in sketchbook by Sanford Ross Bender on July 29, 2023
“Ring-necked Pheasant” drawn with colored pencil in sketchbook by Sanford Ross bender on July 29, 2023
“Ring-necked Pheasant” drawn with colored pencil in sketchbook by Sanford Ross Bender on July 29, 2023
“Ring-necked Pheasants are not imaginary” composed, performed, and recorded with solo guitar by Sanford Ross Bender om July 30, 2023.

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Goblin Hot Pot

“Goblin Hot Pot” drawn by Sandy Ross Bender with crayons and colored pencils on red paper a while ago.

Dancing around a fiery cauldron bubbling with delicious goblin cuisine ingredients is in stark contrast to coping with real time global dangers that encroach upon our conciousness. Living in art and music is starlight as darkness and its inky blackness thicken and roll out the last glimmers of the day.

“Goblin Hot Pot” composed, performed, and recorded by Sandy Ross Bender with guitar, banjo, glockenspiel, and concertina on November 19, 2021.

And then there is music for the next morning…

“Beautiful Banjo Morning” composed, performed, and recorded by Sandy Ross Bender on banjo, guitar, and concertina on November 20, 2021.
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Creekside

“Creekside” (“My first concertina piece!”) composed, performed and recorded with guitar and concertina on separate tracks by Sanford. R. Bender on July 31, 2021
“Creekside” painted and drawn with watercolor and colored pencil by Sanford R. Bender a while ago

I just bought a 40-button “Anglo” concertina a week ago. Wind instruments operated with bellows and their “old world” sound had intrigued me for quite a while. I was also fascinated by the difference of this instrument from the harmonica and clarinet where I have to rely on breathing and embouchure. Producing the joyful or wistful sound of a concertina would however, require the dexterity and theoretical understanding of pressing buttons on each side while pulling and pushing the bellows in rhythmic time. The painting “Creekside”, seemed appropriate to the music in its depiction of a meandering stream flowing through its carved channel of forested and stone armored embankment.