This song is intended to reflect the ups and downs of a reulationship, and its sudden end.

Tumbling Start the day Like you do Get up and at 'em Hit the road No redo It is your anthem Find your spot Start it up Better start working Get back home Kisses wait I can't stop smirking Food and fun Day is done Head hits the pillow In your…

I'm a big fan of the volume swell or Slow Gear effect, and finally found a great opportunity to use it here. Can't get to sleep, mind racing, can't get thoughts out of your head...

Let's have fun with the sliders on the synth! Modulation through the reso and cutoff filters on a Roland XP30. Tones built and held with a sustain pedal and released during transitions. What would it feel like if a painful thought just kept…

The lyrics are inspired by King Crimson's "The World's My Oyster Soup Kitchen Floor Wax Museum" where each word is connected only to the next word. This piece takes some liberty with that idea and incorporates phrases, verbs and connecting words…

Our son loves using the phone even if it's one handset to the other. Occasionally he would get close enough to cause feedback. Using a cell phone on speaker, along with the handset on speaker, creates a different kind of feedback with delay and…

Noodling around one evening, playing with harmonics with a crunchy autowah patch.

A simple three note progression moved around the fretboard.

This particular song was intended to be more uplifting until the G/G# line was laid down. The tension provided by that pairing changed the nature of the song, so the vocals changed to suit, a distortion effect was added, and the low toms finished…

The idea for this song came from an article on thescope.ca that profiled Dan Aykroyd and his skull vodka, which is made from Newfoundland and Labrador iceberg water. As soon as I saw the title of the article, I had the chorus, and knew that I…