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Hell
A bad omens country song with my lowest drawly early morning vocals ever and a cool slippery guitar riff in the chorus. [more inside]
Ultrasound
We had our first ultrasound where the baby really looks like a baby, and I of course had to write a song. Guitar is tuned way down (low string is an A). [more inside]
The Thing that Beats like a Cracked Bell
12 string acoustic etc
Bigass Pizza Blues
Trying out an exciting new piece of recording gear, the Strymon Iridium!!
Consolation
Guitar, phone, still a bit clumsy.
Runaway
A change of pace. [more inside]
Two Robots Loitering at Guitar Center
This is a generated guitar piece. [more inside]
Break Me In Half (demo)
My journey of writing pop punk songs from thirty years ago continues apace. This one started as a TikTok and then I banged out this demo in my living room today. I'm trying to get better at writing choruses and actually using my voice.
Lend Me Your Car (instrumental)
I'm doing February Album Writing Month, or FAWM.
My music career has been mostly as a bassist and engineer. I play a ton of instruments. But I never really wrote songs. Once in a blue moon when inspired.
But I wrote one in six hours tonight. Tracking vocals and guitar feedback tomorrow. But here's the instrumental version, because I'm too excited not to post it anywhere.
Is it a masterpiece? No. Is it good? No. But I had zero inspiration and dug in anyway. And I made something!
So go me.
10-27
Using my friend's old Roland SoundCanvas to get the mellotron-esque string sounds and the Yamaha SLG-100 for the acoustic vibes. It records remarkably well, though definitely not the same as the real thing.
Little bit of fretless bass action on here as well!! [more inside]
learningToFade_01-13-2022
I sort of learned how to fade out a song on LogicPro. [more inside]
Another Day
Little song my wife and I recorded this morning on an iPhone. Guitar and cello [more inside]
Leap
All I Have To Do Is Dream
A quick finger style arrangement of the Everly Brothers' classic for baritone guitar. [more inside]
Anabelle
Cover of "Anabelle" by Gillian Welch.
Bass, guitar, accordion, lots of reverb. [more inside]
A Spot of Blue
I bought a new USB microphone, and this is the first song I've recorded with it. Feels lovely to not record onto my phone. [more inside]
Family Day
Just having a play outside a couple summers ago
The Let Go
Another request from my three-year-old grandson, this is Elle King's "The Let Go." Video.
Japanese Maple
Expanded version of this song, but this time we're in control and not in control. Both my mother and my wife's mother planted our placentas under trees, in my wife's case a Japanese maple in West Seattle. I don't know if this was a 90s trend among certain parents, or if it's still a thing or not. [more inside]
Ten
We're trying to release a song a month this year and are kicking things off with 'Ten'. [more inside]
Merry Little Christmas
Yeah, it's the theme song for Holidays 2020.
Irregular Apocalypse
Unexpectedly optimistic instrumental. [more inside]
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.
Mercy Now
This moving song by Mary Gauthier is one of my favorites. Everyone needs mercy. Video.
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]
Outside Context Problem
Guitar + bass + programmed drums. Instrumental. Gets noisy and saturated at times.
The End of the World
Music: Arthur Kent
Lyrics: Sylvia Dee
Originally Recorded by: Skeeter Davis [more inside]
The should have killed us when they had the chance
Slow burn instrumental. Bass, guitar, my son on keys (he's 13 today!). [more inside]
Museum Mind
Self-love song with guitar and lots of synthesizers. [more inside]
A Series Of Unlikely Explanations
Post-rock instrumental. Guitar, bass, programmed drums.
Not Disquieting At All
Free-form dark instrumental jam. Bass, guitar, keys, programmed drums, traffic noise. [more inside]
Hey It's Okay cover
I've been playing with armoured-ant's excellent Hey It's Okay, and I liked this little short version.
Prosthetic Conscience
Guitar Instrumental.
A rework of an old piece of mine. Just got a bass guitar, so of course it's pretty high in the mix.
Obscure Reference
Guitar instrumental. A bit of harmonica. [more inside]
Salaman
This is an West African kora tune recorded by Toumani Diabate, but this arrangement for guitar by Derek Gripper makes it feel like a tango.
I recorded it on my porch in New Orleans. I didn't mean to record the covid ambulance sirens in the background, but I imagine that I'll listen to this later and remember what now was like.
Dislocated
Upbeat and jangly with an orchestral edge. Trying to keep up with posting a song every month or so, this was recorded at the tail end of last summer.
The Bridges of Amsterdam (Original Soundtrack)
Song I wrote for a montage of travel footage. [more inside]
The Bridges of Amsterdam (Original Soundtrack)
It Don't Matter Who's First In Line
My golly, it's been years since I posted here! Shame on me. I miss the MeMu community. I recently released an album of kids' music, and thought I'd share a tune here. It's a classroom song about that age-old problem: cutting in line. [more inside]
Manhattan Skyline
Some recent discussion on MeFi about the band a-ha reminded me that I'd recorded this acoustic cover of one of their songs a long time ago. This is actually based on an arrangement by Kings of Convenience, who made some interesting changes to the original song structure. Me on vocals and guitars (nylon-string and steel-string). [more inside]
The Last Baseball Game
One day in the future, there might be no baseball. For environmental reasons or whatever. Anyways, this is the opening theme song for the Last Baseball Game
Both Hands - cover (Ani DiFranco)
Acoustic guitar and voice. Pretty straight as far as my memory of the proper song goes. [more inside]
lightning strike
I was playing guitar on the back porch, when I was almost struck by lightning. [more inside]
Every Single Last Time
I think I wrote and recorded a Gin Blossoms song? I'm pretty happy with how it came out, but I don't know if I can take any credit. This is just me channeling the 90s. I guess I should ask for advice about how to manage the ceilings when using limiters. (more inside) [more inside]
Little black bird
Just a little song from my weird little indie folk heart. Actually reworking something old and the first thing I've recorded in a while, since I was pretty tired from the whole process of putting out my first EP in January. Also...stuff?...has been happening to my voice because I am trans and recently started testosterone therapy, I really notice the change in how my voice feels and I certainly hope others can hear it too!
No Go
Short, rocking song I wrote about an idiot who's in over his head. It's built around a guitar part that was stuck in my head and a surf drum beat. [more inside]
Dramatic Exit
Post-rock instrumental, guitars, programmed drums, keys and arpeggiator.
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]
2019
It's here
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]