Tag: Concertina

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Rain light

“Rain light” drawn and painted with ink and water color by Sanford Ross Bender

“Rain light” drawn and painted with ink and water color by Sanford Ross Bender
“Rain light” composed, performed, and recorded with concertina and guitar by Sanford Ross Bender on March 20, 2022.

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The old dog left home

“A dog who won’t stay in the same place for long” drawn with pen and ink on paper by Sanford Ross Bender
“The old dog left home” composed, performed, and recorded with two guitars and concertina by Sanford Ross Bender on February 26, 2022,

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Opening my darkened heart for Valentine’s Day

“Opening my darkened heart” composed, performed, and recorded on two tracks with guitar and concertina by Sanford Ross Bender on February 13, 2022
“Opening my darkened heart” drawn with charcoal on paper by Sanford Ross Bender
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When cats, cougars, and lions dream

“When cats, cougars, and lions dream” composed, performed, and recorded with guitar and concertina by Sanford Ross Bender on January 29, 2022.
“Sleeping lioness” drawn with colored pencil on paper by Sanford Ross Bender
“Sleeping cats” drawn with charcoal on paper by Sanford Ross Bender
“Seemingly asleep cougar” drawn with colored pencil by Sanford Ross Bender
“Lions in reflection” drawn with colored pencil on paper by Sanford Ross Bender

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Interrupted Anger

“Interrupted Anger” composed, performed, and recorded with guitar and concertina by Sanford Ross Bender on January 15, 2022
“Earth Quilt” drawn and painted with colored pencil and watercolor by Sanford Ross Bender in 1983.

Anger interrupted,

Dissolving dissonance,

Like ephemeral streams,

Quilting prairie terrain,

Meandering,

Through music,

Of my own making.

Poem written by Sanford Ross Bender on January 18, 2022

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Waves of Leaves

“Waves of Leaves” painted with acrylic paint on canvas board by Sanford Ross Bender.
“Waves of Leaves” composed for guitar, concertina, harmonica, wind, and red tail hawk by Sanford Ross Bender on December 12, 2021.

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Silver Sky of Sadness

“Silver Sky of Sadness” composed, performed, and recorded on three tracks for guitar, clarinet, and concertina by Sandy Ross Bender on December 4, 2021.
“Silver Sky of Sadness” painted and drawn with watercolor and charcoal by Sandy Ross Bender from a while ago,

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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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Sea Coast

“Sea Coast ” drawn with color pastels on paper by Sandy R. Bender
“Sea Coast” composed, performed, and recorded on two separate tracks for guitar and concertina by Sandy R. Bender on October 30, 2021.

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She Runs Through My Mind Like an Apparition

Listen to my recent musical composition entitled, ” She Runs Through My Mind Like an Apparition” for guitar, concertina, and mandolin. My boxwood engraving of a vine covered oak is evocative of the haunted James River floodplain in Virginia. The musical composition is reminiscent of stories sung in ballads that migrated from Europe and Africa to the southern regions of North America. The diverse musical instruments express the fleeting polyphonic thoughts that run through my mind, forever changing in time. I fondly acknowledge my son, Adam Bender for assisting me with graphic layout and production. Sandy Bender