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Crack Spit-
Produced by Bradley Logan
Lyrics by Bradley Logan
Lyrics by Mike Guetto
Lyrics by Ryan Dawes
recorded Feb.2010 at Belowzero Studios
copyright 2010
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Baller Rap Is Dead-
Produced by Adam West
Co-Produced by Bradley Logan
Lyrics by Bradley Logan
recorded Feb.2010 at Belowzero Studios
copyright 2010
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the highway is so close now, /the night sounds like a projector/ even the racoons fled / so close to my heart/ it plays tricks on my sight/
industrial slugs over rotting logs/ pour condominiums/like maple syrup/ pleasing corporate hounds/ who…
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Some girls have had it far too rough for their very few years.
How old were you when you'd seen enough
How old were you when your hide got tough
Your wounds have scarred
Sometimes they still sting
Close your eyes and hear her sing
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From my 2006 RPM album,, I am working on eventually producing a collection of mystic/sufi, inspired pieces,,, for which this will be one
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A quick little tune written in appreciation of a small expression of contentedness.
I can see in that little smile
You're living for the moment
Every once in a little while I catch it
No one else could match it
You're more than meets the eye
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Believe it or not, this track was written as a pretty tame little song... Then I put new strings on the guitar and it simply refused to be played slow. Enjoy it for the drive and energy. Listen to the lyrics. For whatever reason, I hope you…
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Cthulahoop recording commenced after a peculiarly strong dream. Uses samples of a friend's digerido run through an analog filter. Definitely dream state.
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A simple as it is musically, this song pretty much sums it all up for me. What started as the simple appreciation of a hiking t-shirt evolved into this song about the duality of this domesticated artist who recognizes the importance of wandering…
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My response to John Denver's "Rocky Mountain High."
The first time I dropped my lowest string
Was for Rocky Mountain High
Last night I caught a flight
To see the fire in the sky
Where John found twenty-seven
Now I'm turning thirty-five…
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At the beginning of a Himitsu jam session we had an impromptu trio of guitar, theremin, and electronic drums doing a snippet of this classic theme.
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A special song for a very special lady and her son
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A song about a boat or is it about a woman...or both?
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Written for all those who lost their lives in the horrific Victorian (Australia) bushfires in 2009.
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When we finally decide to settle down we can find a place like Kansas
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A problem we all have at some time, right guys?
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"Senses" is all about Spring where all our senses are sharpened and we look at all the beautyful things that rises before our eyes.
Watch the video from Second Life too...very well made by Soundr Productions;o)
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This Lovin’ Cup- I was watching the idiot box and just holding my guitar when this little vamp on a B chord came out of nowhere. Using the same recorder, I recorded about 20 seconds of the riff. The lyrical idea came on the trip to Chicago, while…
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Allelujiah-This was supposed to be a completely different song, but this one just wrote itself instead. It’s almost all first take, except for the bass, which took a while to get straight so that it wouldn’t overwhelm the song. It has this tone…
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Summer Grass- I didn’t originally intend for this to be the title track, but since most, though not all, of the songs on this album sound like summer to me, I decided, why not? The guitar even sounds humid and warm, but in that nice July way…
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i actually got to kidnap a real live drunk sax player for this instrumental kick in the face of traditional arrangement.
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i lay my head down on my pillow
outside i can see the evening sky
you are just over that Western horizon
and i dream that i can fly
the earth shakes '
my water breaks
we have given birth to something new
i see you standing hear before me
we…
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Written with thoughts for Nodar Kumaritashvili who died at the 2010 Olympics. It was a one in a million chance...
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Named after a painting which was named after a lovely little daily ritual I share with my best friend.
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Late night, last piece from a Himitsu session. Very laid back. All electronic. Recorded on minidisc and rescued later from a random hard drive.
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Haitian rhythm bed with kalimba and Ney and synthflute. Rejected for its original purpose as being 'too jazzy' ;)
The rhythmns and kalimba were old favorites that I had not adapted to anything. Added flute and textures for a website project…
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Power outages, deadlines, and needing to leave home. A Girl Named Sam lends some beautiful vocal harmonies.
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"You gotta put your pencil to the paper. Don't bother with the intricate chords. Hell it doesn't matter if the damned thing doesn't rhyme. Write it down. Run it through. Make some noise." These were actually the first words I wrote when…
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All right, so one of those silly songs needed to find its way onto the album. In an effort to teach the students on my middle school team about rhythm in poetry, I wrote this little bit of foolishness about a fictional character (so yes, you…
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Three years ago, I brought my two youngest up to the summit of a local mountain (actually, we went up Shelving Rock Mountain, but that song wouldn't be as good). Have a listen to see how that hike went.
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This year will be my fifth year coaching one of my daughters in tee ball, and although I played ball competitively into my thirties, coaching the kids is easily the most fun I've ever had on the diamond.
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Thank God!... Something up-beat. One of my colleagues has THE party of the year on Labor Day weekend every year, and I play around the bonfire from dusk until everyone is unconscious... and the ladies like to dance.
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Believe it or not, this song was written while swimming laps in the high school pool (I had to have the life-guard kid write down lines for me every time I returned from the deep end). Oddly enough, the first line I came up with was "Swimming…
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"The pictures that she paints while you're keeping time might just make you think again if you don't believe in the divine." Simply, it's a delicate little song appreciating the talents behind a beautifully written and performed song with the…
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Wrote this song this weekend. Based on an idea from a good friend Sherri Silverwolf. The chorus comes from a saying she came up with. She suggested I write a song for it. So here it 'tis. I think it turned out pretty good. Demo style, just…
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Tried to capture the spirit of the e.e. Cummings poem, didn't quite make it.
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A song about roads not taken, regrets, and a girl I knew in junior high school.
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Inspired by a series of springs in the Hill Country, that are said to be so full of life that you can even see the ghosts. Or if you know the right time, the hummingbirds. A recent composition using samples and FS1R.
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I know, you think I've completely lost it. This is actually a cover tune. Originally done by Wall of Voodoo around 1979. I did it from memory and ear, so I'm not sure if I got the notes or the Key right. It don't matter though, It was fun.
I…
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From the Himitsu jam sessions. Electronic punk jazz or almost anything else. A group of 3 to 5 musicians meeting weekly to just play. All improvisation, no planning or themes, just what you bring.
Heavy use of Kaos Pad and vocoders, as a…
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From the Himitsu jam sessions. Electronic punk jazz or almost anything else. A group of 3 to 5 musicians meeting weekly to just play. All improvisation, no planning or themes, just what you bring.
This one's a three piece set, after the keyboard…
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From the Himitsu jam sessions. Electronic punk jazz or almost anything else. A group of 3 to 5 musicians meeting weekly to just play. All improvisation, no planning or themes, just what you bring.
Our guitarist led this 5 player piece, though…
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This is a live recording from a club that had a studio built into it. Unfortuntately, the club shut down.
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I recorded this one to a dimming flashlight on the 25th after a windstorm took out my power. I couldn't see the lyrics anymore so I ad libbed and hummed the rest out. My recording device is battery operated, which is cool.
This predicament…
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still ain't done, but wanted to share progress. really grateful for the feedback. thanks!
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This is the centrepiece of the album; my self-confessed preferred track to RPM HQ. Powerful vocals by Jen Gibbons and heavy beats supplied by Chris Thomas. The drum track was heavily overdriven to crispen it up and the kick was given a lot of…
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Paper Girls is one of those tracks which I wrote based on my experiences that I hope others can relate to in their own way. Soft, breathy vocals courtesy of Anezka Piska.
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The album kicks off with one of the gritter, darker songs. The amazing, gravely voice you hear is that of Linda Harrison.
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We move miles away from Bristol trip-hop and take a trip to Paris. This Daft Punk-inspire piece really allowed me to lighten up a bit during the lonely production stages.
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Self-explanatory. Sorry if it breaks your speakers :)
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The obligatory ambient piece. I really wanted to experiment with balancing the bass and treble; it seems to have worked quite well. Bonus marks if you can identify any of the samples.
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Beware all ye who enter here. This song's a stern warning that being the front man of a band is not what it's cracked up to be. Consider yourself warned.
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An obvious reference to the classic movie, "Blues Brothers" (which takes place in Chicago -- where we're from), this song tells the cliched story of the band that reunites after years away from each other thanks to "creative differences", "growing…
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This is us tempting fate. Jumping the shark refers to a defining moment on the TV show "Happy Days" when Fonzie literally jumps over a shark on waterskis -- all while wearing his leather jacket. Everyone watching immediately knew the show would…
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Girls! Women! Birds! Chicks! This song's about all the pretty girls out there (and you know who you are)! This song celebrates each and everyone of them.
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Inspired by the book Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks. An earworm (or brainworm as Sacks espouses) is that catchy melody that sticks in your brain that you just can't shake.
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The execution is not perfect, but the concept works.
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The lyrics continue the theme of the previous track, if you care about that sort of thing.
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Short(?) intro to the album; counterpoint to the extended outro "Mantra 2"
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Demo #3.
We've all been there - so we all know this conversation VERY well.
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Post RPM Challenge song about one of my favorite drinks to whatever lyrics I wrote that was written after rpm 2009 but never recorded. Recorded guitars one day and added vocals the next. Cool tuning of B-A-D-G-B-D.
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2010 RPM Challenge Track. Lyrics
The thin veneer
That thin film of fear
What have you started
And what of your dreams
they tear away
And they won't return
We won't return here
Anymore
Dont they tear away (the thin veneer…
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This is a cover of a song by Sister Savage, from her kickin' 2010 RPM Challenge album, Juped 2k10. It also introduces the genre of acoustic crossdressed spacecheese (these damn kids today with their flying cars and their hyperspecialized genres…
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Cave Street posted a track recently, their contribution to the Woody Guthrie Project, organised by Akron Family.
http://akronfamily.com/woodyproject/W.G.A..html
I wanted to take a shot at this too, so here's my demo. It was really just half…
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My attempt at being the male version of Sister Savage. I apologize in advance if you think it sucks.
As requested, the lyrics...
"She"
Lyrics and Music by Daniel Parkhill
She's ripped the fabric of my world with harsh intention.
She…
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A filler track, obviously. Also, I got a cowbell for Christmas...
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Archtop Guitar, electric guitar and Roland vocoder. Drums are BFD2 and a tabla I picked up that week at a thrift shop.
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Archtop, electric guitar. No vocoder.. Not so sure on my voice for this one as I had a cold for pretty much the whole month of Feb.. Also think I put too much over all "warm plate" reverb on every track (that was a last minute RPM deadline decision)
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Started with a little guitar riff on the archtop, Played roland rs9 string synth through tremolo amp. Also has my tenor steel pan played live.
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Archtop song... usually I play this faster... Vocoder for the lyrics... Drums BFD2.
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Started with three blind mice clav bassline. Added RS9 strings, vocoder. same strange loops...
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Lyrics influenced by a conversation with a friend whose daughter was in a really bad way. Kind of set the mood for large parts of the challenge for me this year.
New version uploaded 12 Dec 2010.
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Publicado bajo autorizacion y sin animo de lucro.
www.carranga.org
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Sentiments I think most of us feel at one time or another.
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Many of the most harmful things seem small and/or innocuous.
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I have a love for solid, well-crafted love songs. Unfortunately, that's not what you're going to get here!
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Daft Punk and Wire hire Le Tigre for an homage to Bert Convy.
And the password IS 'raincoat.'
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The Creation meets The Three O' Clock meets (unwittingly) Oasis. I plunder shamelessly in a pair of striped trousers and mod 'target' t-shirt.
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A track from my 2010 RPM album. This is the 2nd installment of the Fear Trilogy.
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3rd track for 2010 RPM Challenge. This song has been kicking around for well over a decade but was never recorded.
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