DULCIMER TIME EVERYONE.

Just something to get the recording flow going again...

This will sound way different after I, um, fix all my mistakes on my computer. Or at least the most egregious ones. Wevs.

This is the cautionary tale of a guy that becomes addicted to coffee to fit in with his friends, investigates harder drugs, and decides to give himself low-level lead poisoning and toxoplasmosis.

There's no way I'm actually going to finish RPM 2013 in February (my weekends are booked solid and I don't feel like rushing) but I'm still going to do this album... and probably finish in late March or something. This is a rough mix of 99 Bottles.

Lyrics by Steve Davenport, who also wrote the lyrics for "The Sestina Has Been Drinking" (on "Arthur Unknown").

this one almost didn't make it. jess turned in heroic gtr+vox through a sore throat.

titus passes by his old home, decides not to go back.

(um, what the title says)

titus and gertrude throughout Gormenghast

in our vision of this world these guys live out in the foothills and are threatened not by floodwater, as in Gormenghast, but by landslides, as in The Control of Nature (John McPhee).

this is titus alone and the brown dog affair. that, combined with the slowness, makes for a long-ass song.

what is that?

the thing, cast outside the gates of gormenghast.

watch out

the brightest comes inside

thump thump thump

i like this song as a song but i have NO DAMNED IDEA how to arrange, perform, or record it. acoustic it's missing intensity. i can't make it work with drums and bass. this version with electric gtr and kbds is barely listenable. if there's one…

I (Al) love this song that Jess wrote for our first album (Manhattan-Monee). I recorded this version while learning to play dulcimer in late 2008, with my horrible crappy recording setup. Randomly stumbled on it cleaning out some files, thought…

Another demo for the Gormenghast-y project. This one kind of takes a tangent.