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A short, lyrically strange new song partly based on a dream.
posted on Jul 20, 2008 - View this thread

I was walking around in the garment district at night on valentine's day years ago, and spotted a beautiful woman walking alone across the street. Despite being glamorously dressed up, she looked like she had lost all faith in men. She was carrying a heart-shaped balloon and huge flowers. This song is sort of about that.
posted on Jul 9, 2008 - View this thread

A song written for my oldest nephew (he's the giggling in the beginning and the talking at the end). His nickname is the monk, not little sprout.
posted on Jun 30, 2008 - View this thread

A very dumb cover of Tonight You Belong To Me, written by Lee David, 1926.
posted on May 24, 2008 - View this thread

First mix of fer-realz recording of one of my songs: Chester. Per my last AskMefi post, please critique it!
posted on May 7, 2008 - View this thread

I suppose this is the equivalent of my last yay new instrument song. Banjo, 'lectric guitar, 'lectric drums, singin.
posted on May 6, 2008 - View this thread

We totally spelled this wrong on our EP. Hope y'all like it.
posted on Apr 9, 2008 - View this thread

For no good reason, here is a random cover that came out of an evening spent trying to get to grips with multitracking in Cool Edit pro...
posted on Mar 18, 2008 - View this thread

A brief petrological survey.
posted on Mar 13, 2008 - View this thread

Uninspired cover of a Radiohead tune.
posted on Mar 9, 2008 - View this thread

Loopy, mostly off-the-cuff, more-or-less-zero-production bass-and-vocal thing? Primusoidal TomWaitsishness with the slop cranked way up? Lyrics and vocals courtesy of this guy over here.
posted on Feb 12, 2008 - View this thread

This is a rethink of a song I posted earlier this year.
posted on Dec 31, 2007 - View this thread

I think this is one of the catchier songs I've come up with in a while, though I never seem to be a good judge of that. At any rate, it's a short and simple track about intense love gone missing... or something like that.
posted on Dec 19, 2007 - View this thread

A "drifty" and atmospheric song about life and death and love, complete with harp.
posted on Nov 24, 2007 - View this thread

To appease (or perhaps aggravate) your curiosity, here's a tiny little teaser compiled from the Mefi Music Collaboration tracks.
posted on Nov 15, 2007 - View this thread

This is a lazy pseudo-live cover of the Bruce Springsteen song, recorded on a whim a couple of years ago.
posted on Aug 29, 2007 - View this thread

The Smoke Alarm Sessions, cont'd. I've been learning Caravan. I love the way Ellington did it a lot. Nowadays so many people play it very straight ahead, & I think that gets boring. So we experimented. At first Barry tried to put a funk beat behind it, but I'm not sure about it. On the second chorus I was thinking that since I've been to Egypt I should use that as inspiration to experiment with different melodies. I think in the future I'll probably take that a lot further, I kind of liked the feel. So, we'll see.
posted on Apr 19, 2007 - View this thread

4/10/07 rehearsal recording in LA. Trying out some new repertoire... well, new for me. This adorably sweet little song was written in 1928. I decided not to put any kind of modern spin on it, but to just sing it slow and straight. (Guitar by the always adorable Barry Zweig.)
posted on Apr 12, 2007 - View this thread

A new(ish) song by The Harvey Girls
posted on Feb 24, 2007 - View this thread

If I was to describe this song with sarcastic overtones, I would say this is a regular run-of-the-mill ageispolis techno song. Well, it's not. This song is anything but typical of what I usually produce. Vocals, emotion, melody, structure... christ, what's gotten into me!?
posted on Feb 20, 2007 - View this thread

This is a very rough recording (of quite possibly my favorite ballad ever) from a rehearsal in LA a year or so ago. I was working on possible CD repertoire with jazz guitarist extraordinaire, the oh-so-adorable Mr. Barry Zweig. (Written in 1942 by Bill Carey & Carl Fischer, You've Changed has been beautifully recorded by Dexter Gordon, Billie Holiday, Nancy Wilson, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Nat King Cole, Kay Starr, Diana Ross, Charlie Shavers & Eva Cassidy, among others.)
posted on Jan 17, 2007 - View this thread

Happy Sunday, hive mind! Well, I haven't been performing jazz much since moving to the Bay area. I'll confess, I've missed my musicians in LA (see song title) & just haven't found my niche/comfort zone up here yet. For a while, I was commuting down South to work on a CD but it got to be too difficult... so my musical life has been in limbo & this year I REALLY hope to change that. If you folks say you'd like to hear more mp3s, I do have some. And hey... if there's someone out there who would seriously like to collaborate with (or hire) this chick singer... I'm all ears and open to advice. I also take requests! :) I miss singing for people... (Incredible basswork courtesy of the fab-u-lous Chris Conner, my dear friend)
posted on Jan 14, 2007 - View this thread

I put this together days after being given a banjo as a gift. It is made up of the one roll and four chords I knew at the time (about a year ago). It doesn't really kick in for like :40 so give it a bit. (horn stabs at the end are sampled.)
posted on Sep 4, 2006 - View this thread

The first track I recorded for my college course (so technically the first track I recorded properly...sort of). The brief was to record a track using layered vocals - 24 vocal tracks in all. I dug out this old song (think I was about 16 or 17 when I wrote it) to do the job.
posted on Jul 12, 2006 - View this thread

Song from the band I used to play in, Go On Red. Rock and Roll song with a ska edge.
posted on Jul 4, 2006 - View this thread

I am a lonely man, with only Audacity for company.
This is my first attempt at a multitrack recording. I don't have a real microphone, so it's really lo-fi. I also apparently have no clue how to master, so the levels will scare you. I welcome suggestions, death threats, etc.
posted on Jul 2, 2006 - View this thread