DIY music recording techniques for a variety of genres from composer and home recording artist Kevin Pike (kpikemusic.com)
This song combines child vocals, playing a guitar using a credit card as a pick, alto and baritone saxes, mandolin and glockenspiel.
This song captures the emotion of isolation and then reemergence experienced during the pandemic. It's a combination of free jazz and through-composed music.
progressive jazz featuring alto sax, bari sax, lap steel guitar, electric bass and percussion
uptempo frenetic funk featuring alto sax, electric bass, drums and funk banjo
The Cannonball Adderly classic played as a country funk banjo jam
sax and banjo in a gospel/roots music treatment of a hymn
Groovy little instrumental featuring kalimba, ocarina, flute, wow bell, wah-wah pedals and saxophones.
Funky solo banjo arrangement of a tune by John McLaughlin and the Mahavishnu Orchestra.
My daughter joins me on the podcast for my 100th episode. We perform a sax/piano duet of a song from Clube da Esquina.
Solo banjo arrangement of the Rolling Stones classic You Can't Always Get What You Want
Classical Jazz: my jazz ballad arrangement of Beethoven's Adagio Cantabile from the Pathetique Piano Sonata
Arrangement of a Henry Mancini composition featuring alto sax
cover version of the Katy Perry pop song
nineties-era groove track updated in 2018 with distorted saxophone and electronic toy sound effects
world music ballad featuring recorder, sax, piano, guitar and percussion
trumpet + alto sax + bari sax + wah wah guitar = funky jazz jam
A waltz made out of crowd noise and middle school band pre-concert warmups
This piece features tenor sax and a killer bass line. Inspired by the Grover Washington Jr classic Mr Magic.
I combine the sounds from my old 1980 Sears Electronic Baseball Game with alto sax and dugout noise from a Little League Baseball game.
jazz/funk composition featuring lap steel guitar and flute
a funky tribute to the old TRS-80 computer featuring keyboard and electric bass, plus sounds from the original Radio Shack TRASH-80
a song I wrote in the mid-nineties, featuring household percussion (scissors, rubber band and key ring)
funky new version of Big Ol Chunka Funk with more saxophone parts and solos
laid-back soul jazz featuring alto and baritone sax
Saxophone and drums jam over ostinato bass
I go deep in the vault to find a fun indie pop song I recorded in the mid-nineties
This piece combines hurdy gurdy with baritone sax, alto sax and drums.
This piece combines saxophone, music box and fireworks with 2 kids and 2 adults playing handheld percussion instruments. It's about the truly magical events in your life.
This piece evokes the power of a storm in the great plains, complete with tornado sirens, rain, thunder and wind.
A piece about the ever-changing landscape due to population sprawl, combining field recordings of a residential neighborhood with traditional instruments
Contemporary composition about the role of technology in the 21st century and the path it takes from idea stage to ubiquitous mass production.
contemporary piece featuring a popcorn tin, alto sax, melodica, bari sax and typewriter
sax-infused DIY house music from 1998 - you're so funky, funky, yeah
Contemporary Classical composition using 12-tone row
indie pop experiment with combining 2 parts in different tempos
Hilarious collaboration with my cats, Milton and Simone. Features alto sax, bari sax, piano and cats.
third stream composition featuring flute, sax and acoustic bass guitar
laid-back instrumental funk as performed by my band Smokehouse
improvisation by Kevin Pike and John Kotchian
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