All music below © David Rotter unless otherwise indicated.
Ambient & Psychedelic
(more in the Bands/Collaborations section under Harley Krishna.)
- Ancient Future – 3/14/23
- Ancient Future "Re-Dux" – 5/18/23
- Birds on Fire – 12/14/22
- Boomerang Well – 7/22/22
- Calls from the Deep – 1/17/23
- Cat Lady People – 4/2/23
- Celestial – 10/25/13
- Cell the Nation – 7/28/18
- Chandrakanta Funk Rubato Marcato – 2/22/14
- Child Dreamer (1993) – 10/7/14
- Curve Ahead – 4/21/17
- Deep Space – 8/10/18
- Dhruvaloka (Electric Piano Version) – 7/28/18
- Don't Drink Ginn & Thomas (5th Amendment Trance Mix) – 9/4/22
- The Endless Boat – 8/27/22
- The Endless Boat – 12/29/17
- Falling – 11/25/13
- Flight 19 – 4/2/22
- Flight 95 – 7/25/19
- Flying Carpet – 2/16/22
- Following Orbs – 12/18/22
- For the Firestarters – 1/5/18
- Fox Knews – 2/25/23
- Freefloat Neptunian Orbit: "Quadrant 18" – 9/2/15
- Fresh Pavement – 1/11/19
- Fungus Among Us – 8/25/22
- Going Through – 9/14/19
- Goloka – 6/21/18
- GuitaRott Dictorielle – 3/12/15
- Hide Away – 7/4/20
- Human Radio – 2/16/22
- Humble Weed – 3/10/18
- Horus Between the Seems – 8/12/22
- I'm Peach Pi – 3/14/17
- Interstellar Highway – 8/25/19
- Ishtar – 6/21/18
- Just a Mile Away co-written with Michael Purtil (1999) – 6/25/13
- Ketu – 7/28/18
- Macro-Chasm – 11/23/17
- Make a Change by Tim Palmatier – 10/19/14
- Map Le' Sol – 4/3/23
- Melting Icicles – 1/1/22
- No End to Know – 4/3/18
- No Sittin' Down – 1/14/23
- No Sittin' Down "Theremin Lo-Fi Mix" – 1/18/23
- Our Glass of Time – 4/16/17
- The Passage – 4/12/24
- Piece Full – 9/14/19
- Pulsar – 2/25/20
- Quasar – 2/25/20
- Sextronica – 12/31/22
- She Rose – 4/5/23
- Skin Chemistry – 4/16/17
- Soul Scraper – 3/28/22
- Stardust – 1/1/22
- Syd Barrett – 7/19/13
- Symbols – 1/1/23
- Synths of the Father – 12/14/22
- Touchstone – 2/7/22
- Trails – 12/18/22
- Transcendental Medications – 8/25/22
- Transcendental Medication (Embryo) – 8/25/22
- Traveler – 1/1/22
- Trypnotist – 8/25/19
- Vernalis-Gem-Antarus Lentando – 2/22/14
- Vraja Bhumi – 8/18/22
- While I Lay My Hammer Down co-written with Black Patti (1992) – 5/26/13
- Will It Go Round in Circles … WELL, WILL IT? by Billy Preston and David Rotter – 11/22/14
- Wino: "The Wrath of Grapes" – 7/7/23
- Wise Children – 4/20/23
- 4th Landing from Planet Ishtar – 4/29/14
- 5th Landing from Planet Ishtar – 6/8/14
- 9 Fathoms Down – 12/2/15
- 9 From Neptune – 7/28/18
- 1827: A Day in a Light – 12/20/17
Improvised Classical
A lot of these are composed as I'm playing them, so sorry if they're not all perfect: I'm untrained and play by feel and color instead of from sheet music or memory, so sometimes the sonic paint brush splashes outside the lines a little. You may hear some Beethoven or other composers every once in awhile – sometimes in the moment, a snippet of their stuff just feels right for where the music is going. I hope you enjoy these pieces.
- Abducted by Sound – 3/12/15
- Alhena Nocturne Dolorosso in D Minor – 6/9/16
- Alhena 6-10-66 Lucigando Dolorosso Nocturne in D Minor - 4/20/14
- All Play, No Plan – 4/12/24
- The Angels Sing – 6/7/16
- Ascension – 7/21/18
- Awaken – 3/4/19
- Bach: Through Infinity – 7/16/16
- Beauty Like Memories, Cut in All Directions – 2/8/15
- Black Whole – 7/16/15
- Blink – 2/25/20
- Blue Skin – 1/22/19
- Bluest Skin – 3/14/13
- Brown Jewels – 4/14/14
- Bouncing Balm – 2/17/22
- Cancri Asellus Australis-Adagio – 2/3/14
- Changeling – 2/16/22
- Child Dreamer (1993) – 7/4/18
- Child Dreamer Revisited (1993) – 5/19/13
- Child Dreamer: Wild Instrumental Version #2 (1993) – 7/16/15
- Climber – 1/1/22
- Color My Shadow – 6/27/15
- The Cosmos – 2/14/19
- The Cosmos – 11/25/14
- The Cosmos: Christmas Eve 2016 Version – 12/25/16
- Creeping Vines – 8/16/16
- C# Celestial – 1/1/17
- A Dance Through Time – 6/13/16
- Dancing in the Trees – 3/14/21
- The Darkest Night – 3/4/19
- Davilanche – 10/13/14
- Derne Exprimere Lubon – 6/19/16
- Disappearing – 1/1/22
- Don't You? Freak Show Winter 2014 Improv Version – 11/23/14
- Drona – 7/4/18
- Encircled – 2/25/19
- Explosions from Neptune – 7/13/15
- The Face of Space – 6/10/16
- Falling to Wonderland – 10/14/14
- Five Notes – 8/8/21
- Flight of the Rotter Bee in E-very Minor – 12/9/13
- For Bach – 2/25/19
- Forest Pools – 10/10/14
- For the Sound of Crystals – 4/20/15
- From the Knower of the Field – 7/13/15
- Genesis: “Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Piano” – 12/21/18
- Gryffindor (for Johnna) – 3/30/19
- Guinevere – 12/22/16
- Haunting – 12/22/16
- Heart Mirror – 4/12/24
- Heavy Water – 8/25/19
- Hey Joe Nocturne in C Minor by Billy Roberts and David Rotter – 5/7/13
- Hollow at Twilight – 6/12/16
- Hollow at Twilight – 11/25/14
- Home – 7/4/18
- The Immigrant – 8/25/20
- Improvisations on Alhena 6-10-1966 Nocturna Dolorosso – 3/12/15
- In the Firmament – 7/4/24
- Invisible Stairs – 7/13/18
- I See You Seeing – 10/28/14
- Kaino´s Cancri Asellus – Adagio in A Major – 11/1/14
- Kevan’s Angels (Goodbye dear bro) – 3/1/15
- Knocking – 2/16/22
- Kulat-Nunu Ricecar Etude in E Minor – 2/4/14
- Landing Party – 7/14/13
- Little Favors – 3/4/19
- Liturgic Lysergic – 2/26/15
- Liturgy en Mass in C Minor (For My Beloved Warrior) – 10/23/15
- Look Within – 1/19/19
- Love on Mars (Piano Version) – 12/9/13
- Maha Shivaratri – 3/4/19
- The Maniac – 7/31/13
- The Maniac: Rests Peacefully in Pieces – 1/11/15
- Manthara Celeritas – 7/21/18
- March of Time – 7/3/14
- Merry Christmas to You: The Variations #1 – 12/18/14
- Mind Open Eyes Closed – 9/30/14
- Moods – 9/14/19
- Moons of Wahcturn – 8/25/19
- A Musical Interpretation of No Man's Land – 7/28/15
- Musical Oozical: Standing Tall in a Slow Motion Sonic Hurricane – 3/22/15
- My Conductor: The Electric Fireplace – 12/13/14
- Nakshatra Ardrabhava – 1/1/18
- Nocturnal Nocturne – 6/27/17
- Nocturnal Nocturne in the Key of E very Minor – 7/13/15
- Nocturne in C Minor with Ricercar C Major – 8/10/14
- Off Planet – 11/28/14
- The Oldest Young Chang – 11/28/14
- The Organist – 6/9/16
- Particles (1980) – 2/7/15
- Particles (1980) – 6/22/13
- Particles: "The Genesis" (1980) – 9/2/15
- Pastel Comet – 5/5/24
- Phantasmagorical – 6/22/13
- Phantasmagorical #2 – 2/1/15
- Pounding Pulse Turns a Stone to Sonic Dust – 4/15/15
- Radharani – 8/25/20
- Raging Under Water 9 Fathoms Deep – 12/3/13
- Raging Under Water: 11 Fathoms Down – 2/5/15
- Rain – 12/14/15
- Rain Thunder Rain – 2/14/15
- Refraction – 6/19/19
- The Return – 8/25/20
- Riding the Great Valley – 7/20/13
- RMS Trumptanic – 2/7/19
- Rottaclysms – 3/22/15
- Mr. Rotter's Neighborhood – 2/25/20
- Rotthoven – 8/18/13
- Rottimentary Rottanini – 7/20/13
- The Rott Less Traveled and the Magical Bookends – 3/5/15
- Rottmanonoff in C# Minor – 8/8/21
- Rottmanonoff in C# Minor – 8/25/19
- Rottmanonoff in C# Minor – 4/14/14
- Rottonomy – 6/12/14
- Rottopia – 1/20/15
- Rottskrieg – 12/19/14
- Rottstille Day: A Blind Man’s Sonic Egress from Seeing – 3/6/15
- Sanandos – 2/24/17
- Schroeder – 4/12/24
- Seeing the Seers in the Scene – 10/29/14
- Service – 3/4/19
- Shield of Themes – 8/3/13
- Slow Rise – 2/16/22
- Snow – 12/8/16
- Sounds of a Feeling – 2/25/19
- Spanish Sojourn – 6/28/16
- Tale of Two Fireflies – 1/1/17
- A Thread Fed Through Time – 3/28/15
- Through a Glass, but Darkly – 6/21/15
- Time to Go – 7/13/18
- To Love – 10/3/14
- Touch You – 2/24/17
- Touch You/Make it Better – 9/15/15
- Tribal – 1/1/17
- The Trill is On – 2/25/20
- Tumblers – 3/7/19
- Two Fireflies – 12/13/13
- Variations for Bach – 5/1/14
- Variations for Bach #5: A Fuller Bandwidth with Alterations – 2/1/15
- Variations on a Dream – 7/3/14
- Wasat Clown Nebula en Manique Sublima – 7/4/16
- Water Falls into Fire Flies – 1/22/19
- Weight of Color – 5/15/22
- The Well Tempered Rottvier – 5/20/13
- The Well Tempered Rottvier 3 – 2/3/14
- What Means Anything: The Whisperings of a Mad Rotter – 3/6/15
- When 11 Meets 9 – 10/18/14
- Who’s Gonna Fill Their Shoes “with cement” by George Jones and David Rotter – 12/14/14
- The Write Thing to Do – 7/2/22
- You See the Seeing – 10/29/14
- ZOROTT: The Masked Defender – 10/19/14
- ZOROTT: The Masked Defender Saves Alice from Wonderland – 1/12/15
- 2nd Landing from Ishtar – 7/14/13
- 402 11th Street: 42 equals Pi = infinity 11 = 2 For Cassie – 8/25/14
- 4 Ways Out – 4/12/24
- 9 Tenths Below – 4/12/24
Mellow Rott
- Asteroid Mist – 5/15/22
- Blood River co-written with Black Patti (1984) – 11/1/14
- Blue July – 8/27/22
- Bye Bye (1982) – 6/24/13
- Cascading – 6/19/19
- Cell the Nation – 3/31/22
- Child Dreamer (1993) – 3/31/22
- Child Dreamer (1993) – 9/14/19
- Child Dreamer (1993) – 8/16/15
- Child Dreamer (1993) – 5/26/13
- Child Dreamer: Piano/Vocal Version (1993) – 4/17/14
- The Crawl – 4/18/17
- The Crystal Ship by the Doors – 10/10/14
- Dhruvaloka – 8/30/22
- Don't You? – 8/27/22
- Don’t You? – 7/26/13
- Eye of Horus – 4/17/22
- Folk Groove Number 9 (written 11/9/92) – 9/2/15
- A Folk Tale – 8/8/21
- Freed Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd, interpreted by David Rotter – 9/29/14
- Freefloat Neptunian Orbit – 7/4/14
- Goppelganger – 5/25/22
- Hide Away – 3/31/22
- It Lies Still – 5/5/22
- It’s Over by Badfinger – 10/3/14
- Like a Rolling Stone by Bob Dylan – 12/25/14
- Like a Rolling Stone by Bob Dylan – 8/3/13
- Lose Your Blues (1993) – 12/26/14
- Love on Mars – 5/11/22
- Love on Mars – 10/3/13
- Lullaby cowritten with JJ Holiday 1985 – 5/14/22
- Lullaby cowritten with JJ Holiday 1985 – 9/2/15
- Lullaby cowritten with JJ Holiday 1985 – 4/27/14
- The Mirrors Find You (1995) – 12/26/14
- The Mirrors Find You (1995) – 8/19/13
- Name of the Game by Badfinger – 5/27/13
- No Net – 4/2/22
- Nothin from Nothin by Billy Preston – 12/25/13
- The Oasis – 1/1/22
- Particles (1980) – 3/31/22
- The Passage – 7/13/18
- The Passage – 6/12/14
- Peace Meal – 4/17/22
- Phoenix – 9/14/19
- Rain Checks cowritten with Michael Purtil (1999) – 2/26/15
- Shapeshifter – 4/2/22
- Sorcerer – 11/23/17
- The Spaniard's Caravan – 9/2/15
- Spanish Sojourn – 8/1/21
- Stroll – 8/27/22
- The Stroll – 9/2/15
- Terra Incognita – 4/22/22
- Till the End of Time – 8/1/21
- The Times They are a Changin’ by Bob Dylan – 2/25/15
- Time to Go – 7/19/13
- Trance – 7/4/24
- What Never Was (1994) – 5/19/13
- When the Chime Stops – 8/1/21
- Working Class Hero by John Lennon – 6/7/13
- Wrote a Song for Everyone by John Fogerty – 6/12/14
- 60 Years On by Elton John – 8/1/13
Rott N Roll / Metal
- Into the Rottosphere – 1/1/15
- Love Thy Neighbor (Loudly) – 7/4/20
- Pyroclastic Flow – 4/22/22
- Rottoclastic – 6/12/14
- Rott Together – 9/18/22
- 3,548 a Day in a Light – 9/18/22
Blues from the Klamath River Delta
(more in the Hendrix section)
- Big Easy Rag – 7/3/14
- Black Light Editions: Blues from the Planet Neptune – 10/15/15
- Blues from the Santa Monica Delta – 4/18/17
- Caledonia by Louis Jordan, interpreted by David Rotter – 10/8/14
- Classic-Hell Rott Mania 13 – 10/11/14
- Cold Ground – 2/2/15
- Done Got Old – 2/28/14
- Flame Thrower – 5/11/22
- For the Ragtimers – 3/9/14
- Front Door Woman Blues – 4/2/22
- Georgia Rag by Blind Willie McTell "interpreted" by David Rotter 4/2/22
- Hoochie Coochie/Catfish/Klamath Falls Blues by Jimi Hendrix and David Rotter – 8/25/13
- Hurricane – 7/9/16
- I’m Walking – 7/21/13
- I Trip Alone (Satire) – 3/1/15
- Killing Floor by Chester Burnett – 7/4/14
- Klamath Falls Blues – 5/19/22
- The Klamath Falls Blues – 8/16/15
- Lookin Out My Window – 8/31/22
- Love is a Bummer: (baby) – 2/4/15
- Miss You Baby – 2/25/19
- Ode to the Ragsters – 6/20/16
- Once I Lived My Life Like a Millionaire by Jimmie Cox, interpreted by David Rotter – 8/16/15
- Rott Mania Ad Infinity – 2/25/16
- Rott Mania in the Key of D Minor – 8/25/19
- Rott Mania in the Key of Mystery – 1/1/17
- Rott Mania in the Key of Mystery #7 – 6/25/13
- Rott Mania in the Key of Mystery #8 – 7/30/13
- Rott Mania in the Key of Mystery #9 – 10/16/13
- Rott Mania in the Key of Mystery #11 – 7/4/14
- Rott Mania in the Key of Mystery #11 – 3/19/14
- Rott Mania in the Key of Mystery #14: "Winter 2014 Black Light Series" – 12/19/14
- Rott Mania in the Key of Mystery #15 – 1/20/15
- Rott Mania in the Key of Mystery #16 – 7/13/15
- Rott Mania in the Key of Mystery #17 – 7/16/15
- Rott Mania in the Key of Mystery #18, Minor n Dark – 8/16/15
- Snails Rag – 8/8/21
- Thelonious Rott in D Minor – 1/1/17
- Trumpty Dumpty – 6/27/20
- 1904 Upright Revival – 5/11/16
Standards & Holiday Music
- Auld Lang Syne interpreted by David Rotter – 12/31/19
- David Rotter's (non-GMO) Christ-Mass Care Rolls by You Choose – 12/13/14
- David Rotter's Wild Christmas Video – 12/25/14
- Elongated Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key – 7/4/13
- God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Abridged) interpreted by David Rotter – 12/15/17
- Happy Birthday interpreted by David Rotter – 6/8/16
- Happy Birthday Dylan interpreted by David Rotter – 1/14/19
- Happy Birthday Mickey! interpreted by David Rotter – 10/4/13
- Merry Christmas to You – 12/18/14
- Over the Rainbow by Harold Arlen, interpreted by David Rotter – 7/31/13
- Silent Night by Franz Gruber, interpreted by David Rotter – 12/16/22
- Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key – 7/4/16
Hendrix Covers
(more in the Bands/Collaborations section under Purple Blaze)
- All Along the Watchtower by Bob Dylan – 5/18/14
- Angel by Jimi Hendrix - 8/16/15
- Castles Made of Sand by Jimi Hendrix – 2/25/15
- Castles Made of Sand by Jimi Hendrix – 10/3/14
- Come On by Earl King – 2/25/14
- D Minor Voodoo Chile Blues by David Rotter and Jimi Hendrix – 10/19/14
- Hear My Train a Comin' by Jimi Hendrix – 6/13/13
- Hear My Train/Voodoo Chile Blues by Jim Hendrix, interpreted by David Rotter– 8/10/18
- Hey Joe Nocturne in C Minor with Mournful Vocal by Billy Roberts and David Rotter – 11/28/14
- Hoochie Coochie-Catfish Blues by Jimi Hendrix – 5/20/22
- Little Wing by Jimi Hendrix – 8/15/13
- My Friend by Jimi Hendrix – 10/14/13
- Peoples Peoples Blues by Jimi Hendrix – 7/4/13
- Red House by Jimi Hendrix - 2/25/14
- Up from the Skies by Jimi Hendrix – 10/25/13
- Voodoo Queen Mother by Jimi Hendrix and David Rotter – 4/23/14
- Wait Until Tomorrow by Jimi Hendrix – 8/16/15
- Wind Cries Mary by Jimi Hendrix – 2/25/14
- Wind Cries Mary on Steroids by Jimi Hendrix – 2/25/15
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- Acoustic Melt w/ Starship Trooper Syrup – 8/1/21
- Apple of Mein Eye – 8/3/13
- Apple of Mein Eye – 6/14/13
- Burn to Learn – 8/1/21
- Carver in a Cheese Suit – 2/23/14
- Celebration Song – 7/28/15
- Click Track – 12/14/22
- The Endless Boat: (Gibson ES 135 Version) – 12/29/17
- Extended Hoochie Coochie Man Auld Langs Syne – 1/1/15
- For Jimi – 2/25/15
- Freak Show Riff – 9/24/13
- Go Getter (Slacker Anthem) – 8/25/13
- Hitler’s Apple – 12/29/18
- Jimi Jam – 7/6/13
- Lightnin' Rag – 2/24/17
- Man Behind the Curtain: Episode 2 by Elvis Presley and Dav – 10/10/14
- Matchless Gifts – 8/1/21
- The Moracle of Rottphi – 8/21/19
- My Daughter Kay: A Fiction Tale (1985) – 12/13/14
- My Daughter Kay: The Acoustic Guitar Version – 12/18/14
- Nobody – 2/23/15
- Nothin From Nothin by Billy Preston interpreted by David Rotter – 8/10/14
- Orbin and Erima – 10/8/14
- Over the Rottbow – 7/2/14
- Peace Meal – 4/17/22
- Rott Mania in D Minor – Alhena Lucigando Doloroso Nocturne in D Minor – 2/22/14
- Rott Mania in the Key of Mystery 12 – 10/10/14
- Rotter Melt with Your Choice of Sides – 12/18/14
- Rott Riff #9 – 3/22/15
- Rottronica (Voyage to Nebula 9) – 9/14/19
- Rott Spangled Matter – 7/4/14
- Rottundra – 1/6/23
- Skin Chemistry (Alternate Extended Mix) – 10/21/13
- Skin Chemistry: "Unplugged" – 9/2/15
- A Slow Quickening into LessLight Land – 1/12/15
- Staccato Flash – 1/1/15
- Thelonious Rott – 5/27/13
- Thunder Clap – 12/18/22
- Twin Speaks – 6/19/19
- Walkin' to the Temple (take 3) – 8/8/21
- The 7 Sees – 7/20/18
Bands / Collaborations
Harley Krishna & the Motor Psychics
Harley Krishna & the Motor Psychics was a psychedelic/trance collaboration that I did with the brilliant violinist Julie Southwell.
- Anuraga Fantastique (HK) – 6/21/18
- Ascension (HK) – 5/25/18
- Astral Monk (HK) – 9/11/18
- Bridge of the Gods (HK) – 6/19/18
- Dark Side of the Room (HK) – 9/12/18
- Dawn of Skullman (HK) – 4/24/18
- Eye of Horus (HK) – 5/13/18
- Freaky Creek (HK) – 3/20/18
- Hummingbird (HK) – 7/4/18
- Impermanence (HK) – 6/19/18
- Manati – (HK) 5/25/18
- Mouse of the Rising Slum (HK) – 9/10/18
- Narada Mundi Gets Funky (HK) – 6/21/18
- Narada Mundi Gets Funky (Extended) (HK) – 6/19/18
- Nila Chandra (HK) – 4/2/18
- Novo Vita (HK) – 6/24/18
- Road Warrior (HK) – 4/2/18
- Shapeshifter (HK) – 6/17/18
- Spanish Solstice (HK) – 6/21/18
- Spiritus Mundi (HK) – 5/15/18
- Tree Whisperer (HK) – 6/17/18
Purple Blaze
Purple Blaze is basically any informal group of musicians that I play Hendrix covers with.
- Fire by Jimi Hendrix – 2/25/05
- Voodoo Child by Jimi Hendrix – 2/25/05