 Welcome to the Sound Post Sessions. I'm Jessica Carson. Tonight on the program we have Thomas LeFond and Cornelius Duncan. Thomas is a multi-instrumentalist, multi-talented character who is in a band called Banshee Tree and the Rose Room as well as many other projects. Cornelius is a fascinating person. If you've been around the Longmont Music scene at all, you'll recognize him. He's the only person I've ever seen in town playing kalimba. He does a mixture of kalimba and improvisational spoken word to give us a very unique performance. I'd like to thank the Longmont Creative District for making the show possible with creative district grants that have been helping the artists and musicians keep putting out content during this time. So thank you for joining us. If you enjoy this program, please consider donating. We have a Venmo and a PayPal. Subscribe to the YouTube. Check out our Patreon for archive material as well as future shows. So thank you and enjoy. This song is called Silvery Waters. My name is Thomas LeFond and you're listening to the Sound Post Sessions. I want to give a shout out to Longmont Creative District for making this possible today. And also for you guys at the Sound Post Sessions for having me. That song is called Spare Me. I got an album coming out with my band Banshee Tree. And we're going to put that song on there. It should be ready sometime before Christmas. Here's one I'm working on. It's a song I recorded a little while ago, but I'm going to fix it up and put some more lyrics in it that I just wrote pretty recently. See if I can paste it all together. The song is called Darkness Wandering Cold. Letting as it speaks is to win the feathers in seven tones on a day. Darkness is wandering cold, waiting for it to turn in my skin. Ruthless, I've gone cold, waiting to let you in. I'm haunted. Stella J. My tongue tear it from my teeth like the wild ones. Bleeding out like a wound on my own. Roaming search or shelter. Stella J. You're away, rolling to my bed instead. Is it fate or is it freedom? Is it so wrong of me to taunt? I feel you're ever circling footprints. Is there something that you want or come to me? Cause I know what you've been here before. Sweet mountain lion, come and crawl into my bed. Is out there dying when you come to me instead. Oh come to me, sweet mountain lion, come and crawl into my bed. Some poor soul is out there that you want. Stella J. You're away, Stella J. You're away. That's kind of a dark one. It's about birds sending messages to animals. There's a mountain lion out in the woods and there's a stellar J and it sees like, maybe I tripped and fell and my leg is hurting. I'm like struggling through the forest. The stellar J is like, hey, hey, hey, mountain lion, come eat this struggling human. And so it's kind of about how the birds give the bigger animal signals to eat the food. Anyway, circle of life. Super wholesome music. I got a song that's less dark though and I think I'm going to finish out on that. This one is called Getting Busy in the Wild. Oh, in all of Seattle we roll around and bid our goodbye. Out my teeth and that apple, I get blue from all the red in the sky. We'll take a walk in the garden, suffocate on the stardom, get free on either side of the ice. You get so busy in the wild, you're gonna leave somebody behind. But it's strange, it's the same words you need to say to get by. You're hues up into my side, but now I'm out in the yard. You get so busy in the wild, you're gonna tear somebody apart. Need for explanation to try to keep this moving instead. Teeth on my left side and some on my right. Drag me out to Arizona where you left me to die. Get so busy in the wild, you're gonna leave somebody behind. Just take a walk in the garden, suffocate on the stardom, get free on either side of the ice. You get so busy in the wild, you're gonna leave somebody behind. Yeah, every day I dream of that. My shades of delight. Cocoa you. I need some cocoa you. Afro blue. My spirit, my aura, it's supposed to be from. I'll be dreaming of that land each and every day. And so you gotta pray for everybody. I gotta pray for the crookless clan. Yeah, you gotta pray for the crookless clan too, boy. And mostly, yeah, you gotta pray for them too. I said grandma, I gotta pray for these villains. Yes, how come? Because I don't want my grandson growing up with no kind of hate in his heart. In his music, his art, or whatever he wants to do. Be not hindered with hate. Hate is too heavy a burden to carry in the first place. I try to tell myself that every day. That's why I say that. I remember my grandmother grabbing me, say, Fortin. See that man over there? I say, yeah, grandma. That's my grandfather. He's the biggest racist you ever want to meet in your life. One day you asked him why. My grandfather saw his friends he grew up with. He went to school with. Hung and castrated on trees. But that didn't stop my grandmother from trying to raise me the right way. Thank you, grandma. I keep hitting the mic with my hat. I'm sorry. I'm sorry about that. I'm sorry about this hat. Mind me of what? What's the treasure to see in my trade with healthy bogey? Huh? My thanks and blessing to all the musicians in the world. I try to bring forth positive energy. Healing energy. It ought to give you favor in anything that you need to do for yourself. Give you traveling mercy to and from where you gotta go to. Favor in anything. Take the evil. Yeah, this is a different type of tuning. The first one I played was in a tune. U-Tracy, a kalimba tuning in G. And then I played the alto, which is a special tuning for my baby brother Phillip Allen. Boom, boom, dunking in the dunking tuning. Like this one. Dunking tuning, like this one is right here. I'm gonna call it Angel's Breath. Thank you, Tracy, for inventing this instrument. It's been a journey. You said something else, too. That's what you said. I'd like to thank the music goddesses for protecting me on this journey. The whole planet, great humanitarians out there in our world. Well, so, praying for you and your families. Positive thinking human beings. Great humanitarians on the planet Earth. Calling planet Earth. Calling planet Earth. Wake up planet Earth.