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Bury Your Tracks
A more ambitious song I've been working on for a while. Would really,
really love any feedback.
posted on Apr 10, 2008 - View this thread
Goldfish Jingle
The Last Time I Saw Moscow
A very lo-fi one-take recording by The Grandma Sylvias. Acoustic guitar and vocals only; all apparent distortion is coming from knobs turned very high.
posted on Mar 4, 2008 - View this threadShelter
This is a song a friend of mine named Audrey Johnston wrote that I think is pretty.
posted on Feb 27, 2008 - View this threadSo, Why Not?
More 4-track clearance. This time, it's a happy, bouncy ditty from 1993: two guitars, some whistling and happily mumbled lyrics. Recorded probably with Fleetwood Mac's
Tusk on the brain, with all knobs turned up to eleven.
posted on Feb 21, 2008 - View this threadI fell in Love with the Bearded Girl
More from my 4-track dump onto the PC. Lyrics written very loosely and improvised on the spot; it is about a 6-year old falling in love with the bearded lady midget at the fair, and running away. The song has an anxious, circus-gone-wrong aura to it. It was recorded on 1/26/94 in my bedroom, in the middle of the night so that my roommates wouldn't hear it.
posted on Feb 20, 2008 - View this threadSissy Mean Jeans
Wishing Well
It's a song about playing make believe games, and pretending that everything's going to be alright, when really it's all gone to shit. It's also somewhat of a sea shanty.
posted on Feb 7, 2008 - View this threadMore Songs About Oven Mitts
This is a song about a decommissioned Killbot, forced to work in a kitchen baking and whatnot. He is pretty angry about it.
posted on Feb 1, 2008 - View this threadJettison
Another song by the Goddamn Handclaps.
posted on Jan 24, 2008 - View this threadDr. L'Amour
A friend of mine had a terrible crush on her podiatrist, so I wrote a song about it.
posted on Jan 19, 2008 - View this threadyours not mine
It's Been So Cold Since We Left Earth
Space-y, shoe gaze-y little number I put together some time back. Left pretty much everything up to chance and was very pleasantly surprised with all the different sounds that came out.
posted on Dec 31, 2007 - View this threadKing of the Road
Tape really does sound better. And good mics, preamps, compressors, consoles...
posted on Dec 28, 2007 - View this threadYesterdelilah
Tryptophantastic (2007 edit)
A happy happy holiday fuzzy buzzy song. Play at loudish volume.
posted on Dec 16, 2007 - View this threadI Love Tea Parties on the Ceiling
Turing Test(icles)
Recording for a day, mixing for a week. Time to let it go. Thanks, mefi.
posted on Dec 2, 2007 - View this threadPsychedelic Unknowns
Fare you well, you fortunate star
On your journey out of the dark.
posted on Sep 9, 2007 - View this threadYour Guess is as Good as Mine
love is great
vintage me, but the more songs posted here the better, right?
posted on Jul 31, 2007 - View this threadworkshop
Rehearsals : three tunes that we (a big band) were to play on stage in a small jazz festival in Millau, Aveyron, southern France.
posted on Jul 23, 2007 - View this threadGreat Big Kiss Off
An early song by The Action Items, which was usually just me, but on this song also includes dainty dave on the drums. Posted in response to the song that is hopefully still immediately preceding this one.
posted on Jul 9, 2007 - View this threadto dream
late night meeting with a street musician, near saint anne, in Montpellier. Lots of things to say, many songs in his bag, mostly sharing the same chords (!?). Nice feeling.
posted on Jun 20, 2007 - View this threadHere Lies a Lonely Man
Under an archway, cross a cobblestone floor through an old wooden door. There's an apartment, and someone lives there, but does anyone care?
posted on Jun 18, 2007 - View this threadseafront
Two short and very meditative improvisations from some time ago.
posted on Jun 5, 2007 - View this threadBells
Taking a stroll somewhere in France. Sonic snapshots : Purchasing food. Driving. Walking in the street. Listening quietly. Playing the guitar.
posted on May 30, 2007 - View this threadold french song
hi,
what about a trip to southern France, with an occitan traditional sung by a choir ?
posted on May 9, 2007 - View this threadreal book
Hi, This is not what you can call a song : rather a collection of recordings pasted together. As in the Real Book, some standards are included. But this track also includes sounds taken from the real world, like a street scene, or rehearsals. It is a deliberate effort to try to match apparently unrelated recordings, from different sources. The Real Book, paradoxically, features charts for some idealistic land. Here, I wanted to use sounds both from the inside (music) and from the outside (raw field recordings) to see how ironically they are related and to provide some contrast. What you're about to hear : a saxophone playing Don Quichotte, a late night Dulcinea, two versions of a standard, and guitar comments.
posted on May 6, 2007 - View this threadlo fi vamp
hi. This is actually my first attempt at improvising over a vamp. It was recorded with a 500 mhz computer and a webcam. First track recorded first, then played through the speakers so as to allow me to improvise over it, and then the whole recaptured by the webcam again. Hence the muddy sonics. The computer had trouble to play and record at the same time : results in clicks. On the whole.. I like it. Listen to my next post to compare with a cleaner version. Sometimes the rawer the better.
posted on Apr 29, 2007 - View this threadBefore I Met You
Tanto Como Debería
The Hard Way
Knives Come Out (God Damn Radio)
Las garras del destino
I'm always unsure about posting the songs in languages other than English here, so I'll post this one with the question, would you listen to the song even if you don't understand the lyrics?
posted on Feb 28, 2007 - View this threadBueyes y palmares
A quick snippet, to keep you entertained while a proper song is ready. This one was recorded for a TV program here, some time ago.
posted on Feb 22, 2007 - View this threadLembro
The Real Moon Song
My pal Jeff 'Hotlicks' Gulley and I recorded this tune one afternoon. 'Hotlicks' called it a day and left but the song just didn't sound finished so I hit record and started singing. This is what we were left with.
posted on Jan 28, 2007 - View this threadMan or Astroaletz
Someone asked for more rockabilly. This is a song written by some friends,
Los Esquizitos, performed and recorded here by us, with a drum track laid by their drummer.
posted on Jan 11, 2007 - View this thread
Loretta
Another song about a girl. Her name was Loretta. By Esther.
posted on Jan 1, 2007 - View this threadThe Greatest Days
It's Like Your Heart's the Color Yellow
This is a song from the concept band Heroes that Hurt. My roommate writes the lyrics, in which he explores the futility of super-love. Then we all get together and set them to music. This one is about the Green Lantern.
posted on Dec 9, 2006 - View this threadOne Thing's For Certain
Another from Esther. The vocals could use quite a bit more post-production work, but overall, I'm happy about how this one turned out.
posted on Dec 6, 2006 - View this threadHit me in the Head
An entreaty to hit me in the head, but good. By Esther.
posted on Dec 1, 2006 - View this threadHold Together
More fuzzy lo-fi goodness from Esther. We always enjoyed the hell out of playing this one live, but were never able to capture that same energy on disk. This was our best effort.
posted on Nov 28, 2006 - View this threadWarren Peacetime
I wrote/recorded this song when I had moved to a new city and was shopping around for a new band/songwriting collaborator. For a lot of reasons, that didn't happen and am thinking about resurrecting it and putting vocals to it, but I have a niggling sense that it sounds too much like some tune from the 80s I can vaguely remember. Any ideas? Guitars, bass by me, drumming by my faithful drum machine, whom I call "Steve".
posted on Nov 27, 2006 - View this thread(not) Polished
Rough track I wrote when mired in a bit of a funk. Wanted to see if I could write a song that contained both 3/4 and common time and not end up sounding like Rush. I think it works... sorta.
posted on Nov 22, 2006 - View this threadBullfighter
A very, very low tech recording of little pop tune my band put together. Vocals definitely not for everyone.
posted on Nov 19, 2006 - View this threadTechnology Let Me Down
A simple and intimate recording about the fallibility of technology.
posted on Oct 29, 2006 - View this threadUntitled Bossa Nova
Here is a mellow bossa nova flavored tune with a bit of a free jazz outro that I recorded with my friend and principal musical co-conspirator Jeffrey "Hawtlixxx" Gulley. Our friend Zach, who is in a really great band called Telenovela btw, provided the atmospheric guitar drone in the background. This is one of my favorite home recordings so I hope you enjoy it.
posted on Oct 23, 2006 - View this thread« Older songs
