Going out is best enjoyed with someone as excited to return home again as you are.

This is another nugget from the archives. I love the tradition of the train song. I’m not sure how long the locomotive was around before some musician heard one and said to themselves, “You know, that thing makes a pretty good shuffle.” Probably not that long. The elevator in my building does a convincing bossa…

This is a song I wrote more than ten years ago. I intended to add some vocals, but after a decade, it’s probably too stale to bother with. I’ve always been fond of it. The name came from an incident at a Pixies concert in Frankfurt, Germany, where Black Francis threw a guitar at Kim…

Over the Thanksgiving holiday, I decided to try writing a piece for wind quintet. I set myself a one-week deadline. At the end of the week, I had this.

To celebrate the relaunch of BPO, we’ve dug up some previously unreleased music from the archives. This one is called Drty Planet. I imagined it as the theme song to a 90s science fiction show that wouldn’t have aged well. It was recorded sometime in 2020 at the old studio in Shiloh, IL.