December 2017 Archives (all archives)
December 30
16 - bear trap - vampire deer
still thinking about it all - this is the last song on the album - time, perhaps, to have more fun ... [more inside]
posted by pyramid termite at 10:59 AM PST - 1 comments
posted by pyramid termite at 10:59 AM PST - 1 comments
Auld Lang Syne Chimes (chorus)
Short recording of me playing the chorus of "Auld Lang Syne" on bar chimes. Bonus background vocals by crickets outside. Total running time: 51 seconds. Happy new year, MeFi! [more inside]
posted by rangefinder 1.4 at 2:24 AM PST - 4 comments
posted by rangefinder 1.4 at 2:24 AM PST - 4 comments
December 29
Lift
Get your fingers snapping and your toes tapping. [more inside]
posted by alexx51 at 6:47 AM PST - 3 comments
posted by alexx51 at 6:47 AM PST - 3 comments
15 - avenue song - vampire deer
the thing was, i was a mess in the 70s and he was the together fast talking con artist - in 2013, i heard that he'd killed himself way back in the 80s - that left me to wonder how i could be wrong about so many things, because it just wasn't what i expected to have happened [more inside]
posted by pyramid termite at 6:29 AM PST - 0 comments
posted by pyramid termite at 6:29 AM PST - 0 comments
December 27
Keeping up with my friend's five year old on drums
My friend posted a 50 second video of his daughter with her new christmas present drum set, and I decided to try to play along. It ended up turning into a free jazz fusion freakout of sorts. Here is the video.
posted by umbĂș at 8:47 AM PST - 5 comments
posted by umbĂș at 8:47 AM PST - 5 comments
December 25
14 - draw the lines - vampire deer
things were getting weird but they were worse for some others ... [more inside]
posted by pyramid termite at 3:53 PM PST - 0 comments
posted by pyramid termite at 3:53 PM PST - 0 comments
December 24
13 - captain's walk - vampire deer
you can't come home again because you never left [more inside]
posted by pyramid termite at 1:34 PM PST - 0 comments
posted by pyramid termite at 1:34 PM PST - 0 comments
December 23
A simple (yeah, right) question:
Why do you record your music?
posted by flapjax at midnite at 5:35 AM PST - 13 comments
December 22
12 - jack of assholes - vampire deer
December 21
Saint Simon
I came up with an arrangement of Saint Simon by the Shins on the wurlitzer. It's in some sort of 3/4, 6/8, 12/8 I'm-not-sure-what waltz/not waltz time signature.
posted by umbĂș at 8:37 PM PST - 4 comments
posted by umbĂș at 8:37 PM PST - 4 comments
Palo Alto
Featuring the Line 6 M9 providing a little bit of chorus, delay and reverb... and the old classic, the Line 6 POD providing the 'amp'. Full Line 6 rig today.
posted by CarrotAdventure at 8:17 AM PST - 1 comments
posted by CarrotAdventure at 8:17 AM PST - 1 comments
December 20
11 - instruction set - vampire deer
Christmas Creep
December 18
A Salvo
December 17
10 shadow - vampire deer
i wrote this in 1997, cribbing considerably from psalm 91 - i'm not as optimistic or as confident as the psalmist was - i'm also pretty disturbed to see how much more relevant it is now than it was then [more inside]
posted by pyramid termite at 3:52 PM PST - 0 comments
posted by pyramid termite at 3:52 PM PST - 0 comments
December 16
09 holler at the sky - vampire deer
actually this is the first song of the second cd, not that anyone's burning this to cd, but ... it's also another monologue and dulcimer based tune ... [more inside]
posted by pyramid termite at 1:47 PM PST - 0 comments
posted by pyramid termite at 1:47 PM PST - 0 comments
December 15
08 magpie - vampire deer
this started as a duet between a korg monologue and mountain dulcimer [more inside]
posted by pyramid termite at 6:23 AM PST - 0 comments
posted by pyramid termite at 6:23 AM PST - 0 comments
December 14
Everything That Isn't Bolted Down
New work in progress, aiming for pissed off radical lefty sludge. [more inside]
posted by Existential Dread at 3:57 PM PST - 2 comments
posted by Existential Dread at 3:57 PM PST - 2 comments
07 crazy party - vampire deer
some people keep going until they can't - i wound up watching more than i did, but got to the point where i couldn't watch either [more inside]
posted by pyramid termite at 5:45 AM PST - 0 comments
posted by pyramid termite at 5:45 AM PST - 0 comments
December 13
(Gettin It On) On Christmas Eve
Bro-country Christmas wishes to you and yours. Apologies for the paucity of pickup trucks and SoCo.
posted by uncleozzy at 5:19 AM PST - 5 comments
posted by uncleozzy at 5:19 AM PST - 5 comments
06 robot morning - vampire deer
back in 1976, the guy who owned the bus and was going to take it out west was an artist - and what he liked to sketch was pictures of things like dead puppies with the new NCR barcodes on them - it was punk and conceptually on it ... [more inside]
posted by pyramid termite at 5:08 AM PST - 0 comments
posted by pyramid termite at 5:08 AM PST - 0 comments
December 11
05 blessed are - vampire deer
the more things change the more they remain the same [more inside]
posted by pyramid termite at 4:20 AM PST - 0 comments
posted by pyramid termite at 4:20 AM PST - 0 comments
December 10
Advent Prelude
Advent Prelude by Charles Callahan. Written for flute and organ, but played here by flute and piano for various reasons. [more inside]
posted by SemiSalt at 10:31 AM PST - 1 comments
posted by SemiSalt at 10:31 AM PST - 1 comments
04 careful - vampire deer
i've never been comfortable with flag waving and now i'm even less so [more inside]
posted by pyramid termite at 3:33 AM PST - 0 comments
posted by pyramid termite at 3:33 AM PST - 0 comments
December 9
Fluid Bonded - John The Rabbit
After co-writing and producing an album for a friend this year I decided, what the hell, Trump is President and we're all gonna die, may as well get over my fear of singing and write a solo album. This is the first compositon that gelled from that effort and made it onto the final album (which album can be heard on Bandcamp here).
Recorded entirely in my spare bedroom, using Logic, Ableton, various iOS music apps, and my own human body.
posted by eustacescrubb at 8:13 PM PST - 2 comments
posted by eustacescrubb at 8:13 PM PST - 2 comments
call on me
03 make it rough - vampire deer
so small compared with the size of the world [more inside]
posted by pyramid termite at 3:00 AM PST - 0 comments
posted by pyramid termite at 3:00 AM PST - 0 comments
December 8
Arps-speriment
December 7
02 division avenue - vampire deer
division avenue is a street in grand rapids - it's the few blocks south of downtown i have in mind - used to live in a residence hotel in 77 for a bit there - it's changed and it's not changed - but there are many places like it [more inside]
posted by pyramid termite at 5:36 PM PST - 0 comments
posted by pyramid termite at 5:36 PM PST - 0 comments
December 6
01 appaloosa springs - vampire deer
this is a rather complex album or story - parts of it seem like 1977 and parts of it seem like 2017 and it's inspired by both ... [more inside]
posted by pyramid termite at 5:16 PM PST - 0 comments
posted by pyramid termite at 5:16 PM PST - 0 comments
December 3
Songfighters: help me get my submission in!
So after several years not submitting to Songfight.org, my daughter contributed to a song late last week and I submitted it a few days early. Unfortunately, they are having email troubles and haven't received any submissions, and asked submitters to post a song link in the forum...which I can't do because my forum account is currently disabled. Help! [more inside]
posted by davejay at 1:00 AM PST - 2 comments
December 2
Tapeworm Dreams of the Beehive
there are phonemes and bells and some textures. [more inside]
posted by The Vice Admiral of the Narrow Seas at 2:27 PM PST - 1 comments
posted by The Vice Admiral of the Narrow Seas at 2:27 PM PST - 1 comments