monopoli

The idea of this was to combine Otis Redding’s Sitting on the Dock of Bay with the perspective of a refugee (or of myself as a refugee) sitting in some port trying to flee to a better life. Though not all lines are perfect I’m quite happy with how this turned out and it ties the record nicely…read more

Another unintentional instrumental. I quite like this as a track though it doesn’t really go anywhere.

I had a vague idea to write a lyric about Julian Assange’s daily life in the Ecuadorian Embassy; no sun, being confined to a small office-space… I didn’t get round to it so I added some lame Mellotron (IK Sampletron) parts and called it finished.

The lyrics are pretty bad and I had to record the second guitar through an ampsim late in the evening of the 28th. So I rerecorded that part in march and changed the drums slightly. This is where the record starts to fall apart a bit.

Midlife crisis? I’m not going to reflect too much on these lyrics. It might be interesting to myself to hear again 5 or 10 years from now. I used a guitarnoise with a EH Graphic Fuzz and Hardwire RV-7 with a reverse reverb (I used this too in 3,4, and 5; in 5 with the Tremolator)

I started this one at the end of januari in preperation for RPM. I added lyrics and vocals in february. So it’s kind of a bonustrack. Just another throwaway popsong with the awesome stylophone in full effect.

My Clique-contribution with some added ambientsound recorded from my window. This is partly the traditional filler-track but I quite like the ambientsound. If I do a record next year (I probably won’t) it will most likely be just 35 minutes of sound from my window (or something totally different;…read more

Another attempt at a Carol Kaye-bassline, slightly more succesfull. I quite like how this turned out although it’s kinda slick and not something I could really use in another context (it just sounds like I didn’t make it myself which I quite like but is always a bit problematic when presenting…read more

This started sounding quite Nick Caveish and at the same time I wanted to do something with Joe Meek; so it’s a murderballad-variation on Johnny Remember me. There’s stylophone and theremin in there. The theremin is quite effective at some points and terribly off at others. I should have done…read more

Trying out a Carol Kaye-inspired bassline here (not completely succesfull; gotta work on my timing some more) and again didn’t manage to come up with lyrics. Espresso Martini is a really nice cocktail with coffee you can get at the club/bar where I work.

Made for the 2015 RPM Challenge

Made for the 2015 RPM Challenge

I had programmed a drumtrack based on Can’s Vitamin C at the end of january in preparation for RPM. Last week I read that the drummer Jaki Liebzeit died the 22th of january. The other idea was to stay on one chord for a long time and use reverb to create space like in Cocteau Twins’ Pandora…read more

Midlife crisis? I’m not going to reflect too much on these lyrics. It might be interesting to myself to hear again 5 or 10 years from now. I used a guitarnoise with a EH Graphic Fuzz and Hardwire RV-7 with a reverse reverb (I used this too in 3,4, and 5; in 5 with the Tremolator)

Another unintentional instrumental. I quite like this as a track though it doesn’t really go anywhere.