106 tracks by *is

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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&hellip;
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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&hellip;
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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&hellip;
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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&hellip;
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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&hellip;
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Just a little blues jam. Cover of Andrew Bird. Tom: guitar Kat: vox, piano
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Just a little break. ~Kat
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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&hellip;
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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&hellip;
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