December 28
The second to last Christmas
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...
December 27
4 Friends Suite
4 short tunes I wrote and recorded as Christmas gifts for some close friends, arranged in a "suite" of sorts. [more inside]
December 25
Let There Be Snow
December 24
Leave Her, Johnny
Lark on the Strand - Irish Trad
December 23
Ding Dong
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.
December 21
Nico's Move
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.)
December 20
Eyes Closed
December 19
Forest of Illusion
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."
December 17
If I Can't Have You
Merry Little Christmas
December 16
Last Night in Christmastown
December 12
Irregular Apocalypse
December 11
Den Første August
December 8
Æ Rømeser
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.
December 7
New City
December 6
Barbie Knows Your Name 2.0
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]
December 5
The Huggy Molly
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.
End Meeting For All
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.
December 2
Pensive
November 30
Legends Of The Magi (Overture)
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]
November 28
Mercy Now
November 26
November 3rd March
November 23
Japanese Maple
November 22
Unicorns Keeping it Real
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
November 21
Moonshadow
The Cat Stevens classic is a favorite of my grandson, so I recorded it for him.
November 17
Tropical Highball Club
November 15
09 - gather by the river - vampire deer
November 14
Here Comes The Sun
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.
November 9
08 - low dragon - vampire deer
November 8
Brittle Hope
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]
07 devil's salt mine
November 7
Grave E Cantible
November 2
06 - king of broken flies - vampire deer
November 1
For a Spanish Guitar - My cover of a Gene Clark song
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
October 31
Nemesis
October 30
05 hermosillo - vampire deer
October 29
DIARRHEA BUM BUM
Rainy season and the goats are poopin' hard. Turned the tagline of the (human) kids into a small song. [more inside]
October 27
04 freedom - vampire deer
October 26
Rat's Gone To Rest
I got this tune from the book "Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes" by Jeff Todd Titon, super fun to play on guitar. [more inside]
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