Listen:

Chewtoy Project demos:

These Chewtoy project demos are arrangement sketches that I put together for a quartet consisting of alto sax or trumpet, keyboards, drums, and bass. Some instruments are programmed and some are recorded live.

Clusterfunk

High Desert

Tiger Lilly

Number Three

Side View

Within Without

A cover of George Harrison’s Within Without You, from the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper album.

Cheek To Cheek

A cover of the standard written by Irving Berlin in 1934 – 1935.

The Blue Thread

SixFour

Adios, Nos Vemos

I composed this song for dance performance piece Familias, by Merian Soto and Pepon Osorio; a.k.a. Pepatian.

Come Get It

Pa Mi Gente

Songs in English:

Some of my songs in English. I sang these and did the guitarwork.

Erika

I met a girl (woman) in NYC who had been in a relationship with singer/songwriter Jeff Buckley right before he drowned in the Wolf river.

The Sky is Blue

I wrote this with some input from singer/songwriter James Combs. We pitched it to Chris Douridas for the Shrek 2 movie theme.

Shine!

Braulio Flores and I wrote and recorded this song in my apartment on West 38th street, NYC.

The World Is Round

It really is.

In Ways We Are The Same

For my daughter, Lilia.

Walk Into The Fire

With Winston Roye on bass and Ed Driscoll on drums.

Rain Rain Rain

Warning: this song’s lyrics actually contain the phrase ‘climate change’.

Shame!

My band, Tarot Kings, with Winston Roye on bass and Ed Driscoll on drums. NYC, 1993. Hey, that rhymes!

Anything You Want

Tarot Kings in NYC ’93. Winston Roye on bass and background vocals, Ed Driscoll on drums, and me on vocals, guitar, and lyrics.

Canciónes en español:

I grew up in Puerto Rico listening to El Trio Los Panchos, El Gran Combo, La Lupe, and many others. In the eighties and through the nineties I performed, recorded, and toured in Puerto Rico, Cuba, Mexico, and Latin America with the Puertorican Nueva Canción group Aires Bucaneros.

Si Me Tocara Ser Noche

1998 Lilica Music

A Largo Andar

Si Fuera Por Mi

I wrote this song for a Hispanic Songwriters workshop at ASCAP in Los Angeles.

El Carnaval Perdido

Braulio Flores and I collaborated on this song. Chris Alfines sang on the demo.

Quiero Saber

Another collaboration with Braulio Flores; Chris Alfines sang on this demo.
©2001 Royce Flores

El Otro Lado Del Sol

This is a Spanish language version of my song ‘Standing On the Edge of the World’. Leonardo De Lozanne wrote these lyrics. It is on Leo’s excellent album Series de Ficcion, on BMG Mexico – 1999. My guitarwork on this album.

With Baker’s Brew – contrabass and electronics.