March 18
Lea
Something we recorded a bit more properly than we usually manage in the rehearsal room at the start of the year [more inside]
March 13
Waiting Room (Yanni's version)
I woke up this morning and weighed my options. Should I do some work, or record a Yanni-style version of the Fugazi classic Waiting Room? I chose the latter. [more inside]
March 11
Check The Drain
Back with some new modular action - pretty simple patch with a delay as a sound source. [more inside]
February 24
Dotted Lines
A weird shambolic mess of a song about so-called real life intruding on my attempts to appreciate the miracle of existence, the wonder and improbability of life including my own, the majestic splendor of the natural world, blah blah blah [more inside]
February 17
Hungry Eyes / I Want the End of the World
Little bit of angry background folk punk. Quick and dirty. Double feature, today. Mostly recorded while lying down and being sad. Lyrics in fold. [more inside]
February 9
Tomorrow Is A Highway
My a cappella cover of a 1949 folk song ("Tomorrow Is A Highway" -- words by Lee Hays, music by Pete Seeger) that I love. [more inside]
February 2
The sun has got to shine through all this rain
When joy is so close to the surface, when love is right there sitting too, the road to love another is so short, the path of the heart so true. [more inside]
February 1
I Thought You Knew
Here's another song from the new Coffee Sergeants album Racing Shadows.
The drums, bass & guitars are live, take 2 or 3, no edits. Keys and vocals overdubbed the next day. [more inside]
January 30
Grandhorse
January 7
Wanda's Vision
"Everyone is watching Wandavision but only the wise are listening to Wanda's Vision"
- Waikiki Wanda
Selling Tickets
Winter brings that torpor. Here's a slackrock song. Oldish song. Very old riff in the bridge Bouncy, tho. [more inside]
January 2
Don't Look Back in Anger - Voice Memo Oasis Cover
One of my favorite Oasis songs. Just a quick little cover using my iPhone's voice memo app and the built-in microphone. [more inside]
December 31
Everything’s Gonna Be Better On Day One
A writer for Rolling Stone once described Devo as sounding like “fascist clowns”. This is kind of like that.
December 24
Into The Sky
December 11
The New Folk Hero
December 8
Bruce went to CBGBs (to see Suicide)
I just learned that Bruce Springsteen was a huge fan of the synth-punk band Suicide in the late 1970s and used to rock out right up at the stage at their shows in NYC. I decided to do my first weekend recording bender in a while in an effort to assimilate that unlikely factoid. [more inside]
November 25
Nerds by The Great Disappointment
This song came from a thought that had been kicking around my head for several years, but then turned into a song all at once when I stumbled across the bassline.
"When I was a kid I thought the nerds would take over and things would get better. That was half right."
November 17
Angel of Love, by The Great Disappointment
Here is a new lyric video I just posted.
This song, Angel of Love, is a satirical love song to the military industrial complex and a sardonic celebration of drone murder. And there's some sweet trumpet and Fender Rhodes.
November 16
Untitled Chiptune Suite
This is a short (just over 2 minutes) chiptune piece with three distinct moods and melodies arranged into four segments played on a Sega Master System. It's got a nice bop when required, and the melancholy section was a little bit inspired by the theme to Metroid II. [more inside]
November 9
He’s Got A Bad Ass Truck
November 8
The People's Fanfare for the New Kakistocracy (excerpt)
I am so sad, angry and confused by the recent US election result that I created this: a fitting fanfare from the people of the rest of the world. It is puerile and disgusting. [more inside]
Algorithm by The Great Disappointment
https://youtu.be/iTw4VJBx5BU
Above is a lyric video we put together last week. This is a song from an album I recorded this summer that was supposed to be a solo project but then turned into a band.
Above is a lyric video we put together last week. This is a song from an album I recorded this summer that was supposed to be a solo project but then turned into a band.
November 7
12 Minute Travelogues - Jaunt 12 - Miles To Go
The last piece from 12 Minute Travelogues, an ambient music collection of twelve twelve-minute pieces about travel, being elsewhere, and daydreaming. [more inside]
November 3
Way Station
My "new" band The Coffee Sergeants. The first single off our new album, Racing Shadows. [more inside]
02 - red sunset in detroit - vampire deer
the melonhead goes to the big town - more ambient, chaotic stuff for the other half of the album
October 31
01 - melonhead - vampire deer
October 29
Play Guns
Continuing my ambition of actually finishing and posting projects, here's a little love letter to the early 90s. Still has spooky themes! The drums are fine. Could have spent another year doing them properly. Lyrics in the fold. [more inside]
October 26
Interference
October 22
Beach II
October 20
Dyscalyptus
October 17
Saint Voorhees
Quick and dirty lofi folk song. I think it has enough spooky themes to work for October. Lyrics in the fold. Kinda like the lyrics. [more inside]
October 15
rhubarb groove mix
October 14
woken
Still messing around with the updated rig but trying to get more involved with melodies and overall arrangement. The DX7 and the Korg Monologue are both deadly for leads/melodies and FL Studio's famous Sytrus VST came in handy to provide a last-minute pad before exporting the final mix.
October 9
Maddie Tait
October 6
Dee Ex
Skisk Skisk Skisk
I wanted to participate in the 666th Disquiet Junto, so took by first idea and first takes to get this song done. It's built around "six" in reverse sounding like "skisk".
October 5
Beachhead
October 4
Caterpillar
This song, Caterpillar, is the first single from "Apocalypse Pickin' Party" by The Great Disappointment. I think the central theme/metaphor is pretty obvious.
We have also released a lyric video here.
CONTENT WARNING: there is no graphic violence shown but it sure is implied.
October 3
looptober day 3: Bergamot
Mefite aubilenon requested a loop for Bergamot, a cat of strong emotions.
October 2
looptober day 2: hrose
I asked for assignments or suggestions and for this one I chose the assignment "hrose".