kavin.

Cynosure

improv on the Epi

Standard tuning, capo at third fret.

suspended sea

An improvisation on the resonator, played lap style.
Tuning CGCEBE

some summer day

It's a 100 degrees F in the shade here.
Covering a John Fahey tune, which was inspired by Charley Patton.

Eric's Tune (Anxiety)

Been carrying this around since 1982, finally recorded it. Composed when we were expecting our first child, hence the anxiety.

D&K Jam

Sorry I think I've uploaded this before but got deleted...promise to have something new in a few days.

Darrin Kobetich-left gtr
Kavin.-right gtr

Welcome Back To Reality (Strung,Drawn & Quartered)

Live track with Strung, Drawn and Quartered, a free-form guitar trio.
Kavin: first solo
Darrin Kobetich: rhythm guitar
Bill Pohl: 2nd solo

Puma Vivisect (Strung, Drawn & Quartered)

Live track with Strung, Drawn and Quartered, a free-form guitar trio.
Kavin:rhythm 12 string
Darrin Kobetich: acoustic solo
Bill Pohl: electric solo

kavin's tonefreakin' podcast #1

My first crack at doing a podcast. Made up of musicians who I am lucky enough to know personally. WARNING:explicit lyrics at about the 13 minute mark. In order of appearance:
Hentai Improvising... (more)

For The Birds

Recording of birds and other aircraft from my backyard. Plus the National and borrowed mando.

People Are Strange

Yeah, that Doors song.

Hico nightnoise

Stumbled across this in the vault. Some cool summertime nightnoise from Hico, Tx. Listen close you can hear the coyote calls. Feel free to use it.

RPM Boogie

From the Love Light Shine Project.
Ross Reitzammer:flute
Kavin:guitar
Dennis Coble:bass
Mick Fleetwood drum loops

10 Dinardo's Nails

Ok RPM10, I'm done!

08 Sun On Snow

An ebow strained thru octave pedal and pitch shifter.

07 Jack's Gone

Dedicated to the great Jack Rose, who left last December.

09-My Flimsy Valentine

Well, this is just silly.

9,9 & 9

An RPM demo for the Love Light Shine project.
Daughter Brit turned 13 on 9/9/09, this song is for her.

Downwind from the Waxahachie Cement Kiln

The first song (with vocals) I've recorded for RPM month, for the Love Light Shine project.

A depressing tale of redneck angst.

01 The Standing Baba

03 Roko Kun

Used Michelangelo's percussion track.

06 Ofelia Comes Home

05 Cloud Gate

My "challenge" was to do a "tap" tune.

04 Much Is Seen..Nothing Revealed

Fun with live looping and a ring modulator.
E minor open tuning improv.

02-Running Past Minor

This is shaping up to be an instrumental guitar album.

Backporch Jam

A jam from 2008.

Left: Darrin Kobetich
Right: Kavin.

Vortex3 (recorded live @ Modern Art Museum Fort Worth 11/9/08)

Decided to finally upload this, warts and all.

Lone Harbor

Took a gtr part I recorded for a friend's song and made it into a duet using iPod synth app NLog.

Pasty

Some non-guitar silliness. Every instrument is an iPod Touch app except for the drums which is friend Phil on electronic percussion.

The Last Time I Loved You

Sometimes love can be a hard bargain.

Thanks to Richard Hardrick for the inspiration.

Poor Boy

Traditional blues tune.
tech:
MXL993 6in. from bottom f-hole, AKG C2000b 2ft. 45 deg. above guitar.

Propitiation

Fooling around with a friend's mandolin.

tech: Epiphone mando, direct in, 2 tracks, Logic spaces small hall setting.

Stinkbug

Finally changed the strings on Mr. Taylor.

DGDGBD

enihcam/ehtaerb

A reverse take (recorded live at a gig) of a couple of Pink Floyd covers. The amazing Bill Pohl on 2nd guitar. It came out sounding strangely symphonic.

My Own Time

Dennis Coble, lyrics

Just Dreamin'

A sample tune from my 2006 cd "Texas Tonefreak" . Commercially available in all the usual places.

Ruthless Blues Boogie (Mean Streak Blues Band)

This should be the final tune from Nitro's "Wanna Dance" album project. Ruthie's "theme song". I added the slide guitar at the end.
Nitro:Guitar/Drums/vocal
Ruthie... (more)

My Paradise (Mean Streak Blues Band)

Some more Texas boogie from my buddy Nitro. I added the gtr break.
Nitro:Guitar/Drums/vocalsRuthie:vocals Tommy:BassCharlie:harmonicaBull: Keys... (more)

Stuck In New York (Mean Streak Blues Band)

Added a guitar track to my buddy Nitro's blues dance album which will be titled "Wanna Dance?" You can look him up on reverbnation.

Nitro - Drums, writing
Ruthie - Vocal
Kavin - guitar
Rick - bass-
Bull - piano

Between the Day and the Night

Another one written by Dennis Coble. He plays my 12 string, I'm doing the lead bits.

Downtown Love

A song written by my good friend Dennis Coble. Glenn Milam on some scorching lead guitar.

Jump Start

An improv with Phil (drums). Added synth later. At the end you hear the giddy laughter of two musicians who just had a real good time!

gListen

An improv with Phil on drums. Added synth later.

...and then there was light

From 1997. A space rock jam with Phil and Billy. I added some synth later.

Wave

reloaded this in 44.1

a pedal steel gtr improv

04-Halfway to heaven

for the 2009 RPM Challenge album "Sabbatical"

Standing at the edge of Canyon de Chelly in Arizona at sunrise last summer I had an out of body experience.

02-Tree

for the 2009 RPM Challenge album "Sabbatical"

08-Lights Over Phoenix

For the RPMC 2009 album "Sabbatical"
From a news story last year about UFOs over Phoenix. They turned out to be some lighted balloons some guy had set aloft. So this tune about UFO paranoia.

09-Slide Guitar Drag

For the RPMC album "Sabbatical"

DL4test2

More testing. An improv demo for the Breaking Light project for the RPM Challenge.

Way Down by the Riverside

Another fingerpicky gospel instrumental. From the old days.

Something For You

A fingerpicky tune from the old days.
Tuning is DADF#AD Capo III.

Jarhead

A fingerpicky tune from the old days.
The different guitar voices (nylon string classical and Guild 12-string) were attained using a Line 6 Variax 600 modeling guitar. Great for recording, but I returned it because of some minor issues.

The Last Whale

For the RPMC Whale Challenge. All sounds guitar. An experiment with Audacity and using Macbook internal mic for room mic.

DL4 Test

A test run with my new Line 6 DL4 delay pedal. Recorded with a handheld mp3 recorder, hence the ambient room noise. The DL4 was fed into a BOSS loop pedal also. No overdubs, all on the fly.

Knoxville Rag

An Etta Baker (1913-2006) tune.

Aftergloom

This is doomgloomboom reprocessed; backwards, without phone message and piano.

Hope

There is always hope.

It's Just Not Right

A Tonefreak colab from a few years ago. Written by my good friend Dennis Coble. He suggested I give it a reggae treatment. Voila!

Gayane Adagio

A snippet from the Khachaturian ballet suite.

1 - Doomgloomboom

Pedal steel dreamscape and silly panic from the answering machine.

2 - Hot Itch

Industrial strength firecracker

3-where on earth

Didj, koto, african percussion kit midi

4 - In The Woods

Sometimes when I take a walk in the woods I get lost.

The organ sound is from a bootleg recording I did of a Carl Stone concert.

5 - East Of Jazz

The tabla percussion loops are from the great Zakir Hussein.

6 - Favorite Particle

A happy accident.

7 - Dim View

dark ambient

8 - Elastic

pedal steel slop over a tricky rhythm.

Percussion derived from a Pat Mastelotto sample.

Funky Christmas - /Nitro\

Added some backwards guitar on Nitro's Xmas tune, local 4th grade added bg vocals.

God Rest Ye 3 Kings

Christmas medley.

Texas Women - /Nitro\

My buddy Nitro had me add some slide guitar to his song. Texas women the best? Nah, I love 'em all!

02-Bo

Written and produced by Michelangelo. I just added some slide reso. Mick's dad played harp.

04-Pavis Mons #3

lyrics by Mike Adams

07-John's Raga

I know, not really a raga.
Darrin Kobetich on mandolin.

10-Take Me Where You are going

Kevin Emmrich added lyrics, vocals, harmonica and percussion to Walk That Lonely Road. Thanks Kevin!

Vortex2

Sunday aftnoon (11/09/08) took the reso down to the Fort Worth Modern Art Museum and recorded some doodling inside the Serra sculpture Vortex. No effects added, all natural reverb inside the structure.

Vortex1

Sunday aftnoon (11/09/08) took the reso down to the Fort Worth Modern Art Museum and recorded some doodling inside the Serra sculpture Vortex. No effects added, all natural reverb inside the structure.

08-Walk That Lonely Road

This is a remastered version of DJam, uploaded previously, with Darrin Kobetich on mandolin. Look him up on myspace, he's an incredible guitarist! I am playing a National Estralita resonator tuned to double drop-D.

06-Nectarina

Thanks to Sister Savage for letting me add a guitar part to her track.

01-Hippolyte

02-Westward

03-Decent Descent

04-Fly to the Sun

05-Climbin'

06-eulogy-February 5th

07-John's Rag

08-Sunwind

09-Drumznbass

10-Runnin outta time

Free D

A 12-string guitar instrumental in drop D tuning.

03-Shall We Gather At The River?

An old hymn given the John Fahey acoustic instrumental treatment.

Knock Wood

the dark side of the room

(live @ Coffee Urn 9/14/07)

Neutrino

pedal steel

McNot

tape experiment

Improv#2

Improv #1

dwarf