MeFi Music

As happens from time to time, a comment someone made here at Metafilter was the spark of inspiration for a song. This was the comment, and here's the song.
posted by flapjax at midnite on Feb 4, 2014 - 6 comments

The second in my new series, Songs of the Mundane. It's written specifically for a video, which is, of course, viewable at YouTube. The version I'm posting here features vocal and dulcimer only: thought I'd start posting alternate mixes here to MeFiMu since I almost always link to a video version, and why not make 'em different, right? The version you can hear with the video has several percussion tracks, and, of course, a butterfly...
posted by flapjax at midnite on Oct 13, 2011 - 2 comments

This song, the start of a new series called Songs of the Mundane, was written and recorded specifically for this video.
posted by flapjax at midnite on Oct 11, 2011 - 9 comments

I took an old 45rpm of a Japanese folk song and started dropping the needle. Took those bits, sliced 'em up and moved 'em around a little, then added some synth and electric piano, some udu and guiro. Et voila! Le Japonisme!
posted by flapjax at midnite on Sep 29, 2008 - 14 comments

... you strive to be elsewhere, but you already are, you know ... [more inside]
posted by flapjax at midnite on May 28, 2008 - 10 comments

Took a look at this month's challenge themes and thought: Tom Waits does a much better Tom Waits impersonation than I could ever muster, and I'm just not a 'lots of notes' kinda guy. But, "spooky"... there you go! Submitted for your listening pleasure, my version of this Daniel Johnston song. With lines like "I saw my own heart laying, black with blood", I guess you could say it's pretty damn spooky. Here's a very powerful clip of Johnston performing the song on organ. [more inside]
posted by flapjax at midnite on Oct 14, 2007 - 7 comments