Hi
For any that might be interested, I just u/l'd a couple of new tunes with my new toy on them. I played all the percussion in manually on both cuts.

Current Work page under the photo.....
Mother Earth and Home. http://imjazzed.homestead.com/Index.html

If you go, thanks for the visit.
jam on,
Terry

Terry,
I am listening right now to "Mother heart"; well, let me say that I like this kind of music a lot; I have a feeling that this kind of percussive drive is giving your music an hefty injection of energy. I liked your other songs too but maybe, like Scott wrote, you were roaming around without a clear direction to aim to. Right now it's like your music has finally found a backbone, a light; yes: your music is finally going somewhere.
Right now I am listening to "Home"; frankly I don't like that "cuica" sound much and the beautiful energy present in "Mother earth" is somehow vanished; the song is kind of New Age but the beat is maybe too fast.

If I were you I would emphasize the beat, the groove, however you call it, and then, on that solid groove, you could play your liquid guitar licks at will.
What I mean is, if I were your arranger I would say: your music is too much undetermined, there is too much "fluid in motion" and that can confuse the listener at times. If you like that kind of phrasing it's fine, but at least build a fundament with a solid groove.
In another topic you made a reference to Miles Davis, and I agree that he too used to play that kind of melodic lines, but he had also a solid rhytmic background; heck, in his bands he had the finest drummers /percussionist available (Jack de Johnnette, Bill Cobham, Airto, etc)
Okay, just a few thoughts...

Andrea,
Thanks very valid input and all well taken....about Miles....yeah he did have the best percussionists in the world....unfortunately, I don't, I have to settle for me.
jam on,
Terry