By Genre

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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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
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

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Rott N Roll / Metal

(more in the Hendrix section)

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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