105 tracks by *is
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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Remastered.
Kat: keys, vocals, lyrics
I’ve had enough
Gonna call your bluff
If you’d just concede, this wouldn’t be so tough
I’m not listening
You’re out of line
What gives you the nerve to say I don’t deserve
what I know is mine…
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