January 12
Taps.
A noisy version of the piece where every instrument is played through at least two overdrive pedals. [more inside]
January 8
if you want me
January 7
These Few Hours (Original Soundtrack)
January 5
Big Indie
January 4
Moab Meteor Discovery
January 3
warm for december (christmas cheese mix)
Song written with my old band, Big Ghost, about unseasonable New England weather. Bit of an oldy but goody, I threw together this recording to send to my old bandmates on the east coast as I live in sin in California. Hope you enjoy. If you can, please help me with toning down the harshness while keeping the excited sound. [more inside]
January 1
Keener Sounds
Ramon Fernandez, tell me, if you know,
Why, when the singing ended and we turned
Toward the town, tell why the glassy lights,
The lights in the fishing boats at anchor there,
As night descended, tilting in the air,
Mastered the night and portioned out the sea,
Fixing emblazoned zones and fiery poles,
Arranging, deepening, enchanting night.
Oh! Blessed rage for order, pale Ramon,
The maker’s rage to order words of the sea,
Words of the fragrant portals, dimly-starred,
And of ourselves and of our origins,
In ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds.
- Wallace Stevens
2019
December 31
Another Year And Most Of Us Have Made It
A song for the new year, about making it through another year, and doing it together, and finding the ways to do it without the folks who didn't. [more inside]
Loro
I did a cover of my favorite song by Pinback. It's as close as they get to church, I think.
December 30
When Green Leaves Spring (It's Good To See You)
This short (1:16) instrumental ditty is what happened when I started learning a new recording platform that came with loops of instruments I'd always wanted to play or include on my recordings: pedal steel guitar (I was super excited about this especially -- I've wanted to work with pedal steel for a really long time), baritone guitar, and mandolin. And did I mention the bossa drums? Not sure if I went overboard but I had fun and liked the result. [more inside]
December 25
2005
December 22
Fucking the Snowman
This is a song that I deeply regret, but it's been going around in my head for weeks now so I have to get it out. I originally thought that it would sound good as a thrash version, but this seems quite nice. Please feel free to add an instrumental and send me a copy :)
December 21
The Barefoot Polka
"Gymnopedie" is just a pretentious word for "Barefoot". I made this for DJ Stashu's Homemade Polka Contest on WFMU. [more inside]
December 18
Three Way Mirror
Track one off our most recent release, a dual album set called Infrared & Ultraviolet. This is the first song on Ultraviolet. For once we get right to the point, & make a short & sweet 8 1/2 minutes. Made up on the spot - totally improvisational. Titled such because there's three of us & we mirror one another as we play. Plus, it breaks space. [more inside]
December 16
Superior Hiking Trail
bluebar wrote a sweet little ditty on guitar, and I doubled him on the wurlitzer
December 8
Georgia
Another weird, haunting indie folk song from yours truly! There is also a weird, haunting music video located here.
This is all part of my first official release, which I am super excited about, under my stage name MK Ellison.
December 7
Prelude & Groove
A groovy bit sandwiched in between two playful piano improvisations a la Kate Bush sort of
3 movements, if you will
1. Prelude
2. Groove
3. Postlude or 'Outtro"
December 4
Pickin'
December 1
Brackish
November 27
Sunroof glass
November 21
Meek
November 20
Scheme
November 19
Third Song, by Bulbs for Leonard
"Space Calliope Noise" is a good descriptor for this, the first "song" from my new la la blah blah dum dum dee dah music thing, Bulbs for Leonard [more inside]
November 17
Told Me So
Sundown
November 16
Nothing but the Rain
So I feel like I owe a thank you to MeFi Music--this is the first place I started putting all my works in progress, even when it was just iPhone voice memos. Getting a few thoughtful comments was really encouraging and lovely. Then I graduated to better home recordings on SoundCloud and here, and today I put out this "official" first single everywhere. Yet another intense, moody alternative folk song with a real guitarist this time. [more inside]
November 15
I Will Work For Honey (Tim Long's Unidentified String Band)
"'I will work for honey!' This girl looks at me and goes, 'what?' I go 'yeah, it goes like this.'" [more inside]
November 12
Dance46
November 6
An Even Newer Kind of Beat 2
Entropic Landing
Wrote it in Garageband on a plane from Seattle to Austin.
Electronic, trying to make synthwave. Maybe it's transgaywave.
November 3
Remote! // Kanye Made This Ok
The last song on the album Magic 8 Ball that I made with my bandmate Ari Brown; Now streaming on Spotify, Apple Music, and everywhere else [more inside]
October 28
The Process
October 27
The wildest place I know
October 26
Squares are the future
October 22
virtual confetti
One great joy of MetaFilter is to read the thoughts of strangers, and to be caused to dream, from even just a few of their words, of their intellect, their talent, their wealth of experience and their great humanity.
Of one of you dreamish strangers, I’d like to take the chance to say (well ... to warble, off-key): congratulations. On her upcoming wedding day. [more inside]
October 16
'Creep' cover on the OP-1
I think I'm getting the hang of this thing. I got most of the way through comping this out and writing a melody when I realized I liked this better. There's singing eventually. [more inside]