Sorry this is a bit late and also my first contribution in a decade or so. A tune I despise, played in a manner that wavers between sarcasm and incompetence. Featuring lapsteel guitar, weissenborn and dobro...

posted by peterkins at 4:45 AM - 0 comments

4 short tunes I wrote and recorded as Christmas gifts for some close friends, arranged in a "suite" of sorts. [more inside]

posted by gorbichov at 11:12 AM - 4 comments

Merry Synthmas

posted by CarrotAdventure at 1:01 PM - 0 comments

A sea shanty. Vocals only.

posted by starfishprime at 5:19 PM - 1 comment

one of my favorite jigs! [more inside]

posted by gorbichov at 9:31 AM - 0 comments

Well, we did a holiday song. I have an alter ego as Fluffy the rabbit. (He's a bit prone to conspiracies and is kinda gruff but really has a heart o' gold). He joins Blue the Monster here on a hopefully-pretty-inclusive* holiday number we think will stick to your brainwaves quite nicely. There's a [youtube] video too, if you want the full dancing-potato and revolving-bagpipes immersive experience. Merry Happy everybody. *it is a little anti-bagpipes.

posted by aesop at 6:11 AM - 0 comments

A jazzy little instrumental tune I wrote years ago for a school class assignment. I recorded this version for the audio track of a video in my ongoing Patchouli Project series (see MeFi Projects page for links to the videos.)

posted by TwoToneRow at 1:42 AM - 2 comments

Another pop song with the classic pop band instrumentation [more inside]

posted by CarrotAdventure at 11:30 PM - 2 comments

A ghostly fox materializes ahead on the forest path and "hmm"s at you. "Hmm? Wait, how are you talking?" "A fox appears out of nowhere and your first question is how it talks? Humans..." "Look, it's my first time outside the bounds of reality." "You have a lot to learn. Follow me."

posted by Kye at 6:33 AM - 0 comments

Cover of the Yvonne Elliman song. [more inside]

posted by chococat at 7:00 PM - 10 comments

Yeah, it's the theme song for Holidays 2020.

posted by backseatpilot at 5:22 AM - 2 comments

Someone asked me recently what I thought was the worst Christmas song... [more inside]

posted by ba at 11:35 AM - 2 comments

Unexpectedly optimistic instrumental. [more inside]

posted by signal at 12:23 PM - 2 comments

A Danish folk song (Sønderhoning). Fiddle and Irish flute.

posted by starfishprime at 11:43 AM - 1 comment

This is a Danish folk song called Æ Rømeser. All parts recorded by me, since I'm alone...so alone :P. Fiddle, guitar, Irish flute.

posted by starfishprime at 1:39 PM - 0 comments

Wanderlust Baroque rock song with a real quartet (and electric guitar solo). [more inside]

posted by Corduroy at 10:52 AM - 5 comments

In 2017, I posted this piece (using the Barbie voice samples from this post. At the time, it capped out at around five minutes due to a limitation in the Sonic-Pi, the software I was using. I've now learned enough SuperCollider to be dangerous and as a result have worked around those limitations, producing a full hour-long piece containing all of the names. This is not that piece. It is a shorter version (a Radio Edit, as it were) that doesn't exceed this site's file size limits. [more inside]

posted by suetanvil at 11:31 AM - 3 comments

Excerpt from a streamed performance last night of music & stories loosely organized around some of my childhood anxieties. It's off-the-cuff storytelling with a live improvised electronic soundtrack in a mode inspired by itinerant handymen roaming the back roads with a harmonica and tales to share on the porch.

posted by sonascope at 7:27 PM - 0 comments

This stupid hellscape means that not_on_display and I are spending a lot of time zooming when we'd rather be smooching. How do you end a zoom when you'd rather kiss someone goodnight? So we came up with this song which we were singing to each other, and we put it to music. My vocals, his Casiotone CT-605. We will make a video that neither of us are in but that prominently features a hyrax.

posted by jessamyn at 10:08 AM - 7 comments

An instrumental song sketch from a couple of years ago. [more inside]

posted by srednivashtar at 12:53 AM - 0 comments

Here is an unused overture for "Legends Of The Magi, A Christmas Rock Opera" - six songs done in collaboration with eight musicians (bass, cello, violin, keys, vocals). [more inside]

posted by AppleSeed at 2:02 PM - 0 comments

This moving song by Mary Gauthier is one of my favorites. Everyone needs mercy. Video.

posted by Johnny Wallflower at 4:40 PM - 3 comments

A little marchy tune that came to me around the beginning of the month. [more inside]

posted by gorbichov at 10:56 AM - 2 comments

Baby, we're not in control. [more inside]

posted by Corduroy at 11:28 AM - 4 comments

Another song from my early 20s. Going through some old files and finding some stuff that I hope is worth posting on here. I will try

posted by CarrotAdventure at 9:13 PM - 3 comments

The Cat Stevens classic is a favorite of my grandson, so I recorded it for him.

posted by Johnny Wallflower at 11:28 PM - 1 comment

An older one. Circa 2008

posted by CarrotAdventure at 9:37 PM - 0 comments

this is the 9th and last song of the album - thanks for listening [more inside]

posted by pyramid termite at 8:15 AM - 0 comments

2020 has been a hell of a decade, and George Harrison's classic is a great expression of relief over the election outcome. Acoustic guitar, recorded on iPad Pro. Video.

posted by Johnny Wallflower at 8:26 PM - 4 comments

it's guitar o rama!! [more inside]

posted by pyramid termite at 5:35 PM - 0 comments

Made this somewhat experimental ambient-ish piece last night, feeling a tiny bit of hope about the world. It's based on slowed-down samples of a hang-drum, with a keyboard part doing most of the rest. [more inside]

posted by edlundart at 3:38 PM - 5 comments

more cheerfulness [more inside]

posted by pyramid termite at 6:32 AM - 0 comments

Franz Joseph Haydn [more inside]

posted by AppleSeed at 10:42 PM - 2 comments

can't even manage to be king of regular flies, no .... [more inside]

posted by pyramid termite at 1:07 PM - 0 comments

Hi Everyone, This is my cover of Gene Clark's classic For a Spanish Guitar, a song Dylan praised by saying anyone who have been proud to have written it. All my own playing, and I recorded myself in my bedroom a few years ago. Let me know what you think! Talltaleheart

posted by talltaleheart at 6:50 PM - 4 comments

Spooky music for a spooky night. Lossy video here.

posted by Johnny Wallflower at 4:20 PM - 0 comments

i feel like this a lot [more inside]

posted by pyramid termite at 5:42 AM - 0 comments

Rainy season and the goats are poopin' hard. Turned the tagline of the (human) kids into a small song. [more inside]

posted by youarenothere at 6:39 PM - 2 comments

well, did it happen 150 years ago or last night? [more inside]

posted by pyramid termite at 4:04 PM - 0 comments

I got this tune from the book "Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes" by Jeff Todd Titon, super fun to play on guitar. [more inside]

posted by gorbichov at 5:31 PM - 6 comments