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I have preserved the old content from the Superlink website here.  Any information about recordings, and a great deal of general background info can be found by following the links there. Plus, there are still a lot of beer recipes!

Currently I am playing:

Chromatic Accordion (Bayan)
Warr Guitar - also known generically as a tapping guitar, tap guitar, tape guitar, etc.
Keyboards, Piano, Organ, Synths, etc.
Bass Guitar.

The accordions are a relatively new development for me, and I am working on getting a power trio together to play "post-modern accordion rock music".  Until that time I am cutting my teeth with various support and recording gigs.

The Warr Guitar is a special tapping instrument built by Mark Warr.  I think he has built the best sounding tapping instruments ever!  I am most famous (if you want to call it that) for my work as a 'tapper' through the 90's.  The band Three Hour Detour is still together, though on a temporary hiatus.  Please see the old website for more information on this.

Finally, I play the mbira of Zimbabwe.  It makes intricate and beautiful music, in a totally different context than any European music.  This I do for myself (no public performances), but I feel that it has helped my musicianship on other instruments, and mbira music has subtly had an effect on some of my compositions.

Quick Links

My new MYSPACE web page - oh yeah, I am now caught up to the times!
And now, my YOUTUBE page.  Yay! 
 

Broadside Electric
Lidia Kaminska
Frank Jolliffe
Joe D'Andrea
Nicki Jaine
Daniel Schell/Clic Music
Warr Guitars
Jim Popik
Ola
Box Five
Accordion Camp
Mbira
Wally Lawder
Steve Hayden  (New Jersey's most avante garde composer!)

(c) 2006-2007 Ray Ashley/Smoke Detector Productions. 

Photo by Ola Rinta-Koski, Neufchâteau, Belgium 2006