106 tracks by *is
          Recently, I dreamed I was in heaven searching for my soul mate. When I found her, we couldn’t face each other. I gave her the gift of enlightenment because I had been there so long, that was all I had to give. I told her I didn’t need her anymore…
        
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          Cover of Bruce Springspleen...er Springsteen. Please take as a whole and listen through...
Tom: vox, guitar
Kat: vox, keys
        
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          Now that 2020 is hindsight* and we're probably on the cusp of civil war, I decided to resurrect my Covid-era song written in June 2020. It seems to have new meaning. Hopeful? Resentful? Inspiring? Deeply pessimistic? Maybe yes. 
Kat: lyrics…
        
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          Because y'all like weird crap. Thanks, Tom, for the idea of writing from the perspective of a dead person watching their body decompose. 
Kat: lyrics, keys, vocals
Once I was composed 
eyes of stars, lips like a rose but
what am I worth…
        
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          The beginning soundbite was my attempt to record a seething pile of maggots nom-nom-noming on a critter of indeterminate identity off the side of the road. Cleaned it up, slowed it down. It's not that effective, I know, but you get the picture…
        
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          A soundscape inspired by Juliana Burwick. Thanks to Tom for the textural guitar effects. Almost sounds like thunder (or bombs?) 
Kat: keys, vocals
Tom: guitar
        
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          Sublimity: the instant something becomes something else
For Dr. R: Not gonna lie, you were often a difficult person to be with. But it was also an honor to be present during your final moments. I hope I represented what that might have been…
        
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          Cover by Pet Shop Boys. For the bestest friend, housemate, ally, travel companion, musical partner and co-conspirator, a gal could ever have. 
Tom + Kat = BFF <3 
Kat: vox, keys
Tom: guitar, bass
        
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          True story. Christmas day, I met a black woman named Jesus living on the streets of Des Moines. I brought her water and she named me Water. Still, I find myself at the intersection of white guilt and white saviorism. To succumb to either is to…
        
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          Cover by Collective Soul
Tom: guitar, vox
Kat: keys, vox
        
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          To all of you hitting a musical wall (mine seems to be in my throat), this song has been giving me major issues. I had lyrics and vox but it never sounded convincing. But I love the chord progression so I'm sending it out into the world to maybe…
        
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          In honor of my unabashed love of 90's Eurodance (thanks, Tom, for the impromptu nightly dance parties; da dada dee dada da daaaa....) and our feline companion. <3 Kat 
Kat: vox, lyrics, keys
Tom: guitar
Niandra Simone McMurderfeet: meows…
        
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          For R. Thanks for not walking away. 
Kat: vocals, lyrics, keys
Came ‘round to see you just to say ‘hello’
but you were gone
I’m writing your story, the parts that I don’t know
I’ll never know
If we could believe our dreams, then I’m…
        
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          Recordings of grackles, slowed, added vox, whistles and sound effects.
Kat: vox, whistles, composition
        
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          Reposting of my short story with original music and sounds of an awaking spring. ~Kat
A long, long time ago, there lived a family of Grasshoppers. They had descended from many families before them and, as far as they could tell and as far…
        
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          Just a little blues jam. Cover of Andrew Bird.
Tom: guitar
Kat: vox, piano
        
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          Women's march, Salt Lake City, Jan 18, 2025. What will 4th wave feminism look like? How are we perceived by the world? Opening lyrics and melody from dreams.
Kat: vocals, lyrics, keys
It isn’t over 
they won’t leave us in the dust
It’s never…
        
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          For the rare one without a cell phone or shackled to the virtual world. I know. I know. You are not the only one. 
Kat: lyrics, vocals, keys
And you are born 
to a world of plastic and bone
torn between here and home
So, so alone…
        
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