These songs are written, performed and intended for easy listening. Acoustic thoughts if you will. But complete thoughts at the time they were written and recorded, hence the vignettes idea to describe them. I have been partnered with guitar since 1971 where I began learning to copy songs off my vinyl back in the day.

The realms of genres I've been deeply immersed in, tangentially connected to, met in passing, drawn into by music comrades, studied, investigated, absorbed, tolerated, interconnected and redrawn, and have been carried by, are as varied as it gets, dating back to the early 60's listening to all styles on record players and radios everywhere. You will hear bits and pieces of these influences and more edged into the vignettes here. That's why I coined my own genre "Independent Acoustic" way back when I was first going online with my music on the Internet in 1995, as there is no single genre that applies to my work.

So this collection of what I'm calling acoustic vignettes has cohesion in whatever genres it might get assigned by others; sometimes quasi classical sometimes celtic irish sometimes light jazz/pop, mexicali, ballroom dance style, old timey, new age, strong hints of bluegrass, jazzy r&b or blues or folk. Even a touch from Hawaii on spontaneous uke. But the instrument for once gets to say it all. At least nearly all, as I felt the 2 songs with lyrics also belonged here as unsung styles to the past where the voice is still not exactly forefront.

Most tracks here can be found on the more complete Hawai'i recordings release "Voice Memo: Songs from Hawai'i. The tunes are collected and remastered here as sibling instrumentals.

Many tunes here are on the soundtrack to my Eternal Double Rainbow live footage video over the Kilauea Crater in Hawai'i Volcanoes Nat'l. Park. See some strong nature at work with mellow acoustic behind the scenes.

youtu.be/soUrVrGwfcQ?si=U5sgDapmF6Ix1rXT

YouTube video with Kilauea Volcano Eruption footage: https://youtu.be/xXyiec66kUs

Within reflective spaces there are no anchors though implied beats craft a path. So it is with all sounds in a naturally unnatural world and universe. What is artifical requires anchors. Nature does not. Movement is optional.

Glossy Space Rhythms - Analog

"What is artificial requires anchors."

Meaning:

Things that are artificial (man-made, fabricated, or not natural) need anchors—stabilizing elements, references, or grounding points—to be understood, accepted, or function properly.

Contexts:

• Art/philosophy: Artificial creations need familiar reference points to be meaningful to viewers.
• Engineering/design: Artificial structures/components require physical anchors to stay in place.
• AI/technology: Artificial systems require anchor data or grounding to avoid drift or hallucination.

Many artworks are designed to require no external "anchors" (no prior context, explanation, or fixed reference) for observation. Examples and reasons:

• Abstract visual art (e.g., Rothko, Kandinsky): viewers respond directly to color, form, and composition without needing narrative or real-world references.
• Minimalist sculpture/installations: objects present themselves as self-contained; perception alone is the experience.
• Purely sensory works (sound art, ambient music, some performance): the immediate sensory input is the work; no explanatory anchor is necessary.
• Conceptual pieces that intentionally leave meaning open: they invite personal interpretation rather than supplying anchors.
• Nature-based or found-object art: the object’s presence in a setting can be experienced without deliberate contextualization.

Why this works:

• Perception supplies structure: gestalt, pattern recognition, and emotional response create internal "anchors."
• Formal elements (color, texture, rhythm) communicate without narrative.
• Viewers bring their own associations, making external anchors unnecessary.

A bonifide ecclectic collection of live studio creations from the prolific singer-songwriter. "Slipper Sessions" is perhaps the closest landscape of sounds that David Elias and his ensembles and band (The CasualTees) performed live each week in the San Francisco Bay Area and particularly along the San Mateo Coast in San Gregorio, La Honda, Half Moon Bay.

You can hear this live studio collection of a California sound that was hard to categorize, but easy to listen to.

Originally recorded direct to DSD Sonoma by Charlie Natzke. Mixed DSD stereo by Charlie Natzke. Mastered by David Elias.

This studio remaster has been converted from DSD to DXD with MQA encoding. It will unfold to 24/352.8kHz on the proper MQA compatible DAC. You may need to rename the audio files to end with .mqa.flac as required by your playback software/DAC setup.

Contact the artist if you have any questions before purchase.

It plays as 24/44.1k download format with any non-MQA music player or Smartphone. No special hardware or software is required.