23 tracks by jimbouchard
I'm still sort of working on this and may upload a revised version
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This is a song for my RPM 2009 album. An echoey ambient piece with Tibetan bells and piano in deep space
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This is written by my friend Stuart Walker, and he gave me permission to record this for my RPM 2009 album. It reminded me of early Leonard Cohen so I took it in that direction with the finger picking and spookiness
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This is written by my friend Stuart Walker, and he gave me permission to record this for my RPM 2009 album. It seemed to be a meditation on everyday life so I decided that I'd whistle for the solo as it's the kind of thing I do when walking down…
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Another song for the RPM 2009 Challenge. This is sort of an interlude that reminds me of Penguin Cafe Orchestra but with a sort of industrial edge. Vocoder is featured.
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The whole piece was 24 minutes long. It's a whole bunch of short poems that I wrote back in 1976, read one after the other, under which I added ambient sounds, playing some harmonica and banjo and using samples and effects of various types, synths…
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The whole piece was 24 minutes long. It's a whole bunch of short poems that I wrote back in 1976, read one after the other, under which I added ambient sounds, playing some harmonica and banjo and using samples and effects of various types, synths…
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The whole piece was 24 minutes long. It's a whole bunch of short poems that I wrote back in 1976, read one after the other, under which I added ambient sounds, playing some harmonica and banjo and using samples and effects of various types, synths…
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The whole piece was 24 minutes long. It's a whole bunch of short poems that I wrote back in 1976, read one after the other, under which I added ambient sounds, playing some harmonica and banjo and using samples and effects of various types, synths…
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This is a cover uploaded with permission of the writer, Michael Marquesen. He lives in L.A.
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This ambient track features backwards vocals by Lisa Purdy
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This contains a sample of a Studs Terkel story. My tribute to the great American voice.
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sort of a work in progress inspired by the music of Juana Molina. Looking for a vocalist to add something. I've got some ideas but not the correct sort of voice.
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The title comes from reading "The Willows in Winter" to my son Maurice, which is the sequel to "The Wind in The Willows" and thinking of Toad and the sort of idyllic natural landscape. While messing around in Logic, I ended up creating a "Drag…
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Just a little song about delusional thinking aided by substance.
Lap steel guitar and acoustic and interesting exotic instruments.
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An old traditional sea chanty with a long intro that's influenced by the playing of Bill Frisell
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Global warming addressed in a semi-traditional song borrowing the form and some words of The Crawdad Song
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Words written by Gray Bouchard, everything else me.
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Sometimes you have to tell someone how you feel.
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