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Attack of the Pasta Party Pirates
An original song by my old band, Selected Letters. Alto Sax, Oboe, Violin, Guitar, Bass, Drums, and a good mix of tight arrangement and improvisation. I miss this band a lot, but it was great while it lasted.
posted on Jun 26, 2008 - View this thread
Spider Song
On the Count of Three
I wrote this song last week and started playing with it this weekend. I'm excited about its potential, but I would looove love love some feedback.
posted on Mar 23, 2008 - View this threadOr The Tide
This is the first song I've recorded on my laptop for my band, Low-Tech Riff Raff. Suggestions on the mix are eagerly accepted.
posted on Feb 11, 2008 - View this threadEnough #2
Some Other Boy/Girl
Wherein I discover you can lyrically abstract and obscurely rearrange an interpersonal situation, but you can't make it blink.
posted on Jan 22, 2008 - View this threadOptimistic
Bad Dream
Rivers That Run Within (Rough mix)
A mellow song by my band, Low-Tech Riff Raff. The lead singer had a cold, but I kind of like the mood anyway.
posted on Oct 9, 2007 - View this threadFreezeframe Shutters
Easy (Thus Do All)
This is a demo (sans vocals) I'd like everyone's honest opinion on before I go an upload the finished thing. Guitars/piano/bass/drums.
posted on Sep 25, 2007 - View this threadSecond Ring
Wherein I discover writing a song about kissing off an ex is easier and more satisfying than kissing off an ex.
posted on Jul 9, 2007 - View this threadRain in the Desert
This is a slightly older song, released in '06, but I thought it fit the challenge. I wrote it shortly after moving to L.A. when I was awakened by a thunderstorm, and fell back asleep to some strange dreams...
-Leland
posted on Jul 1, 2007 - View this threadA Song for Dolphins
Another track by Selected Letters (my sadly defunct band). Music by J. Sher and I. Ochs, lyrics by R. Witte. Enjoy!
posted on May 21, 2007 - View this threadWhen We Sleep
We'll Drive This Car
We'll Drive This Car ('Til Hell Is Shooting Out the Stars) - Selected Letters
We just played our last show ever this Friday night (a house party at Kenyon College in Ohio - we're all former or current students there) and I wanted to post one of our best songs to commemorate a great year. I miss them already.
Selected Letters is:
Ira Ochs on the bass guitar
Joe Donohue on the guitar
Alex Murphy on the drums
Evan Axelbaum on the saxophone
Riley Witte on the oboe
Jeremy Sher (that's me!) on the violin
posted on May 13, 2007 - View this threadLight a Candle
Dan and Leland are an acoustic duo blending great guitar playing and vocals with melodic songwriting and thoughtful lyrics.
posted on Apr 30, 2007 - View this threadCars That Go Boom
A rough folk-cover of L'Trimm's "Cars That Go Boom", with me on guitar, mandolin and vocals.
posted on Dec 9, 2006 - View this threadCHRIS GARVER - Wasp in the House
A selection from the recently released album "
e4/e5" ...songs about elected servants and employed servants. Songs about shock and awe, the beatniks, & holy Moses. Songs about Paul Bunyan, Tammy Faye, & Zelda Fitzgerald. Posthumous songs, sacreligious songs, contradictory slanderings... Jewelry store robberies, the language virus, & the reawakening of the languished American dream?
posted on Oct 1, 2006 - View this threadDrunken Brawl
Pick up the Phone
punchy, tuneful and melodic - written by a quiet phone in London. Brrrr Brrrr
posted on Jul 3, 2006 - View this threadGlass Eye
Off the album released in January, here's a blues written almost two years ago featuring Colin Keller on the Drums.
posted on Jul 3, 2006 - View this threadUseless
I made a record, then I had a kid. I don't get to play much anymore, and I sure would like to get rid of some of my hundreds of CDs I have left! :) Mellow, mopey, been described as Chris Isaak meets Coldplay...
posted on Jul 3, 2006 - View this threadFeeling Down
I'm not angry . . . I'm just feeling down
posted on Jul 3, 2006 - View this threadmagic bullet
Small sad song about seeking a quick fix. This and other texts
here, music
here.
posted on Jul 1, 2006 - View this threadI've got something
Recorded 7 or so years ago with a friend. It's missing something in the middle, but I like the way it disintegrates towards the end. I've no idea what genre it is, but I guess it shows influence from all the country/folk/lofi music I listen to.
posted on Jul 1, 2006 - View this thread(End of the World) Big Fall
Indie acoustic fock. Written and recorded some time in 2002.
Sorry the vocal's a bit quiet.
posted on Jul 1, 2006 - View this threadRed Sky
A fading red sun and black trees. Written in a fleapit of a kitchen under the glare of a striplight in West Ealing. Be patient and wait for the drums to kick in.... ...the song got us all our gigs in 2005
posted on Jul 1, 2006 - View this threadRubik's Cube
Faded Afternoon
Ah, those long hot sticky days of Summertime, waking up hung over and stumbling bleary-eyed through breakfast at one PM before dragging your alcohol-bruised body outside and collapsing in a deck chair beside the overflowing ashtrays and empty pizza boxes while the neighbors’ air conditioner hums and cats prowl through the backyard grass... and your buddy hands you a can of sorta-cold beer still dripping with melted cooler ice from the night before and someone else lights a cigarette and everyone stares straight ahead at nothing, totally dazed, eyes squinting in the afternoon sun... yeah.
posted on Jun 30, 2006 - View this threadSobering Up
Upbeat acoustic indie folk rock blues! Most of my songs are about drinking.
posted on Jun 30, 2006 - View this thread
