MeFi Music

Here's my submission (finally) for the assignment I got for the Great Raffle Request Challenge a few years back. The request: "Record a song (cover or original) on an instrument you don't really know how to play." This one's for Secretariat! [more inside]
posted by rangefinder 1.4 on Nov 17, 2016 - 9 comments

From sort of creepy to really creepy. From cover/arrangement/orchestration to abstraction. This is not your Major's Lucky. [more inside]
posted by askmeaboutLOOM on Jul 16, 2012 - 6 comments

Impromptu version of the holiday classic. This closed out the night for the Smoke Benders' last gig of 2011. Video here.
posted by flapjax at midnite on Dec 22, 2011 - 5 comments

Skist (previously) is my band with singer/sound artist Haruna Ito. Hope you enjoy. I also made a video for the song, which can be seen at YouTube or Vimeo.
posted by flapjax at midnite on Jul 20, 2009 - 9 comments

Aren't we all? [more inside]
posted by flapjax at midnite on Jul 3, 2009 - 47 comments

For this month's MeFiMu Challenge, here's a song first written in 1986 and first recorded and released in 1991. This version was recorded earlier today. Rewrote the last verse. The old is new again...
posted by flapjax at midnite on May 19, 2009 - 10 comments

For the current MeFiMu Challenge, here's a song in a language I don't speak. This bit of Portuguese proto-rap is a longtime standard in Brazil. [more inside]
posted by flapjax at midnite on Oct 6, 2008 - 9 comments

This month's themes (cupcake, brisk, interstitials) didn't exactly turn the inspiration amplifier up to 11, but, goddammit, I ain't one to run away from a challenge, no sirree. I rolled up my sleeves and got to work. So this one goes out to you, my little cupcake. You know who you are. [more inside]
posted by flapjax at midnite on Dec 15, 2007 - 10 comments

Well, it's a few days late for the November '07 MeFi Music Challenge, but my on-the-fritz computer spent most of the month in the repair shop, plus the dog ate my homework, but better late than never, I reckon. So this one's going under the veryfewwords tag, as if the song title didn't give that away. [more inside]
posted by flapjax at midnite on Dec 4, 2007 - 14 comments