February 4
Washing Up
February 3
Dark Streets
February 2
you don't like music do you
January 31
ruschtik
January 30
Corelli
It's an allegro but I don't know what work this particular movement is from.
The Beckoning Light on the Marsh
January 29
Rabbit's Shop
Here is some Sunday comfysynth for you. I imagine it playing in an RPG shop run by a rabbit that cycles through 2-3 bits of dialogue.
January 28
The Very Small Starship Rises into the Clear Sky
If you listen closely the five tones from Close Encounters of the Third Kind are almost in there.
January 27
the aldous doors
January 26
rainsleep
Very pleased with how the key change at 1:30ish, just before the synthflute comes in, worked out
January 24
playfect
January 23
Slow Cascade
January 21
routledge
Dear to my Heart
It’s the summer you left home, and you’re thinking about it thirty-ish years later. Thinking of what that summer seemed to promise: a little bit of the shine is still on it, some of it got worn away by vicissitudes and whatnot, and some of it did what it ought to and got used up making a life for yourself.
January 19
Simile
This is one of my partner's songs, on which I played some of the instruments. It's full of wordplay. She recently uploaded her demo album, Nothing New, to Bandcamp. She's a smart and witty lyricist and a great guitarist (and ukulelist). And she plays reed instruments, which are a complete mystery to me.
January 18
never alone
brash, downbeat electro. one part melancholy, two parts wibbly wobbly bass
January 16
phobos anomaly
January 15
HONKY-TONK COUNTRY SINGLE “THAT ONE LAST ROSE”
"That One Last Rose" is an original, traditional honky-tonk country song, in the style of Buck Owens, Ray Price, Dwight Yoakam. Playing on it (and on the album it comes from, Last Rose) are some incredible, truly legendary musicians. Byron Berline, Dan Dugmore, and, on other songs on the album, Jason Carter, and Kristin Scott Benson. See my website for more information. [more inside]
Split the Daylight
I get no sunlight at all in the winter, at my job, so the day when 5pm includes ANY sunlight at all is a big day for me.
January 14
Terrible Realization Music for an Imaginary, Low-Budge
January 13
velocet
January 10
witchcraft
January 9
offworld colostomy
January 5
aerosmith black rhum baba
January 4
red shift
rave-y dnb-lite crudely cobbled together in an early edition of hip hop ejay of all things [more inside]
January 3
Engine of Flowers
January 2
Periapsis
December 29
Action Procedural
While the punchy percussion and funky synth imply action, the final chord in this short instrumental evokes the final shot of the theme song for a procedural drama. If you've got an action procedural series missing a theme song, I may have found it over here. [more inside]
December 27
Small Town
December's release from Sredni Vashtar, staying with the slow, epic, moody sound for the time being.
130 stories high
December 23
Angel
At the beginning of 2019, one of my then-bands Buzzie began to record an album with Robert Harrison of Cotton Mather in the production chair. [more inside]
December 22
Checking In
Third in my series of sequencer experiments - here two voices are sharing some notes and trading off singing to each other. [more inside]
yr alban
a bit of an experiment. old. a series of mostly-drumless electronic vignettes.
December 20
Distant Transmission
A short instrumental. A dream-like reverb envelops an evocative melody and its accompanying synthy chords. [more inside]
Landing
Measure Twice
More sequencer experimentation - playing with changing the note assignment and loop points on a longer sequence. [more inside]
Unsolvable Mysteries
December 19
b1g2
December 18
Exactly How It Appeared
In passing
A quick sketch to start off a series of 3 songs based around some creative sequencing techniques. [more inside]