March 2014 Archives (all archives)

March 31

River Town (Mind Movies Remix)

Synthpop, Electronica, Indietronica, Electro bliss by the earful and here for the taking. Although it will be a while until this track will be published on any official release, you might enjoy this sneak preview.

posted by Brodyaga at 5:09 PM PST - 3 comments

I don't have the words.

I'm really, really struggling with writing lyrics. I agonize over them and avoid putting pen to paper, which results in incomplete song ideas. Any words of wisdom? [more inside] posted by BlerpityBloop at 9:32 AM PST - 8 comments

March 30

Lama (Mind Movies Remix)

Sometimes the original version of a song can be so cool that you think that any remix might just destroy it… and then someone thrills your tits by creating something new from it that sucks you write in a smooches you from the first note. This is one such rework.

posted by Brodyaga at 9:33 AM PST - 1 comments

March 29

ode to an imaginary bicycle on a grassy hill

I wrote this song night before last because I haven't written much lately. No vocals because, my vocals would only make it worse. Really. But feel free to sing your own! [more inside]

posted by cicadaverse at 5:06 PM PST - 3 comments

Liza Jane

My version of the traditional tune Liza Jane, played clawhammer style on guitar. [more inside]

posted by gorbichov at 9:14 AM PST - 2 comments

March 28

Carry Me Back To Old Virginny

Solo stroke style arrangement on a fretless minstrel banjo. Another quickie from Briggs Banjo Instructor, 1855.

posted by usonian at 9:42 PM PST - 1 comments

vampire deer - 07 pack of cigarettes for the road

last song of my rpm album lightman [more inside]

posted by pyramid termite at 4:37 PM PST - 2 comments

Arp Acquired

Much synth

posted by ageispolis at 2:16 PM PST - 2 comments

Talk To Her

Sometimes a song's strength lies in its lyrics or in the nuances of the vocalist's delivery and tembre… Sometimes the instrumentation speaks volumes all on its own. This is one of those times… This is Ummagma. [more inside]

posted by Brodyaga at 8:03 AM PST - 1 comments

March 26

Lama

This is one of the better (at least one of the favourite) Ummagma tracks out there to date and currently the subject of a whack of forthcoming remixes. Stay tuned! [more inside]

posted by Brodyaga at 1:45 PM PST - 1 comments

March 25

Would You Like To Play A Game?

As my offering to the winner in the "best post about something you stumbled on while surfing archive.org" category of the 2013 MeFitesChoice Awards, I present gilrain with this song about the FPP, "Sans Protovision". [more inside]

posted by not_on_display at 9:23 PM PST - 5 comments

Whoop Jamboree

Instrumental on fretless minstrel style banjo, played more or less as arranged by Phil Rice in his 1858 banjo instructor. [more inside]

posted by usonian at 8:56 PM PST - 1 comments

Memories Of Emerald City

An attempt to get my synth-plugin to sing. The tune I wrote sounds kinda like MPS from Kid A, but it wasn't intentional ;-)

posted by groklock at 4:53 PM PST - 0 comments

Heat Death of the Universe

This morning's pumped-up-for-the-day electronic dance music session, now with more pump organ! [more inside]

posted by TheNegativeInfluence at 12:20 PM PST - 0 comments

March 22

Short Ride in a Fast Chihuahua

A collage for Disklavier and Toy Chihuahua. My toy dog always barks 26 times in a row. I asked composers to send microscores for piano, each 26 beats long, to be synchronized to the chihuahua's voice. Fifteen composers contributed about sixty scores. [more inside]

posted by moonmilk at 6:26 PM PST - 1 comments

vampire deer - 06 trup to jipiter

instrumental

posted by pyramid termite at 5:44 PM PST - 0 comments

March 20

Beautiful Moment

Love generates love generates love. Beautiful Moment seems to capture an element worthy of such progeneration. Harmony, peace, smooth dreaming and a swirl of energy-filled ethereal waves. [more inside]

posted by Brodyaga at 8:34 AM PST - 3 comments

March 19

Tiger Jig

From Buckley's Banjo Guide, 1868. Played on a new minstrel style banjo made by Jeff Menzies and an old tambourine of indeterminate age.

posted by usonian at 9:49 PM PST - 1 comments

March 17

vampire deer - 05 lightman

or the transient beauty of the dairy freeze king [more inside]

posted by pyramid termite at 4:34 PM PST - 0 comments

March 15

vampire deer - 04 super bowl monday

it's time to get to work [more inside]

posted by pyramid termite at 3:55 PM PST - 0 comments

(Another) Sunny Day

This has been the worst winter in 20 years where I am. It's still snowing horizontally as I speak. So I wrote a summer song as a big middle finger to the damn cold. [more inside]

posted by sweet mister at 2:59 PM PST - 2 comments

MY 50th Mefimusic POST!

Thank y'all for 7 fun years. Here's a new tune I wrote for my band Big Ghost called Great Spirit (get it? get it?) Enjoy! [more inside]

posted by es_de_bah at 9:22 AM PST - 2 comments

Cold Cold Highway

From the recent, second gig of my new band the Swamp Root Jimmies. God I love these guys. Video here.

posted by flapjax at midnite at 8:22 AM PST - 3 comments

March 14

vampire deer - 03 chore boy

mama, whacha gonna do when the chore boy's gone? [more inside]

posted by pyramid termite at 3:14 PM PST - 0 comments

March 13

BrighterDays

A rock song that bounces. Come for the guitar, stay for the sing-along ending. [more inside]

posted by BlerpityBloop at 3:04 PM PST - 3 comments

March 12

Travelling musician lifestyle advice needed

Have any of you been travelling by yourselves as a musician/vagabond? Do you have any advice? [more inside] posted by groklock at 11:02 AM PST - 11 comments

Vertnaut

It's just a live acoustic recording I made on my iPad but I enjoy listening back to it. Hopefully you will too. (my own song)

posted by groklock at 8:25 AM PST - 5 comments

March 11

MeFi Radio pre 1.0 beta testers needed

Want to beta test out MeFi Radio, a new iOS 7.x app? [more inside] posted by mathowie at 5:00 PM PST - 3 comments

vamipre deer - 02 scarlet rain

song 2 of lightman - don't ask me what this is about, i don't know [more inside]

posted by pyramid termite at 1:40 PM PST - 0 comments

March 11 2011

Written and recorded on the third anniversary of the Great Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami of March 11, 2011. Video here.

posted by flapjax at midnite at 2:29 AM PST - 1 comments

March 10

au·t·o·syn·crat·ic

auto rhodes; auto keys; auto kit

posted by ageispolis at 10:24 PM PST - 3 comments

March 7

vampire deer - 01 once upon a hero

my new RPM album, lightman [more inside]

posted by pyramid termite at 1:49 PM PST - 0 comments

March 6

rise up

based on a field recording made by me

posted by ergomatic at 7:50 PM PST - 2 comments

Stealers

A song from my album that I've just released through Tunecore. If you like it there's more listen links at my site www.groklock.com. Let me know what you think!

posted by groklock at 6:05 AM PST - 1 comments

March 5

Tooth Reef Wharf Hive

A mellow electronic instrumental from the vaults.

posted by mubba at 7:54 AM PST - 2 comments

March 3

Campfire

Instrumental demo from a little while ago.

posted by dagosto at 10:49 PM PST - 1 comments

Spider on a dream

my friend's daughter had a pretty brilliant mishearing of a classic nursery rhyme, and I remembered that Kurt Cobain once said that he wanted Nirvana songs to be simple and pure like kid's songs. One thing lead to another... [more inside]

posted by es_de_bah at 12:07 PM PST - 2 comments