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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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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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What started as an interesting hiking concept that I contrived for my sister's next trip out "Hey, what if you climbed up Sleeping Beauty Mountain and I climbed up Shelving Rock. We could get out the binoculars and see each other from different…
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Written while watching a good friend going through the run-up to a divorce. This song isn't a whole lot of fun, and for that I apologize... But when all you have is twenty-eight days, you have to go with what you've got.
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In 1979, my father came home from the record store with an album that forever changed my life, Pete Seeger's Circles & Seasons. Before I knew Pete to be the blacklisted folk icon that had been on the humanitarian side of every fight since…
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Exorcising an old demon. Eight or ten years ago, one of my ninth grade students came up with a permanent solution to a temporary problem on Halloween night. He was the last kid I had spoken to that day on my way out the door. Again, if you…
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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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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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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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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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"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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A blasphemously reverent prayer to the Goddess of Sacred Uproar. The lyrics can be found at bit.ly/PrayerforUs
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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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I was in a very dark place when I wrote this tune. Now I'm back in the light it sounds very self-pitying, but hey. From 2006 album Too many magpies
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Just an old-timey thing I wrote. From 2006 album Too Many Magpies
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Another song from the dark period. Don't get involved in messy affairs is my advice! From 2006 album Too Many Magpies
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Written for my best mate's first son. From 2006 album Too Many Magpies
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Yet another tune from the dark period. To be honest I'm never fond of my slower tunes. From 2006 album Too Many Magpies
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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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Playing with reverberation and stretching, part of a larger ambient piece for the RPM2010 challenge. It uses heavilly effected and modified samples and VST Synplant.
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My second ever foray into GarageBand inna reggae style. From 2008 album Do What I Gotta Do
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My first ever GarageBand experiment. Not a good mix. Contains a sample of Bob Baker - please don't sue me! From 2008 album Do What I Gotta Do
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A reggae version of my country/pop tune. From 2008 album Do What I Gotta Do
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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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The title came to me when I saw what impending maelstrom was headed our way on satellite imagry. Lots of space in this tune...
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This one is named after the resident cat who loved me dearly when I was a visitor. Now that I've moved in I'm pretty much only good for adminstering food and occasional petting- on the cat's terms of course!
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instrumental of a flourishing nature with fun in its veins
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A pop song without the 'ular' about the struggle of the addict and the feeling of obsession.
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Sometimes a tune pops up right to left field. This is one of em! I backed it up with a stand-up bass track which I was intending to re-record before RPM submission but ran outta time.
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bejewled casing flutter inside wink twitch and pacing on a moonlit wing turn...
beautiful song by Juniper set to one of hotwheels most ambient boop jobs..NOW WITH CLEARER VOCALS
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another lively instrumental with mirth and subversion.
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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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I figure if I keep trying long enough, I'll start channeling the great Django Reinhardt. Perhaps it's like squeezing blood from a stone but if I get a drop or two, I'm happy with that!
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I live near the beautiful ocean. This is a contemplative moment viewing the ocean from a small bluff. Dobro and mando.
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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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But don't answer yet, we will DOUBLE the offer if you call right now...
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We play even number of games of backgammon and sometimes it ends in a...
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Inspiration for this quick fun one came from Uncommon Ritual and other works by Edgar Meyer: I wanted to take a run of notes across multiple instruments just to have fun!
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OK we lost power at a critical point in recording for RPM. This one was written and recorded the day I had to pack up all my recording gear and borrow a room at a local public business which was on a different power grid. The wind had caused some…
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an emmotional storytelling through instrumentalism. a whistle transcends the feeling of an explosive bowel movement. a noisy arcane reduction of bass jagged jarring hook and pursed lipped vocals
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sixteen htz: as in the frequency of the majority of the noise in this epoch, reminiscent of kubrick. The frequency is thought to clear up mucus when played on a modified flute
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waves that often crash though each other, meow a rythym guitar, hazy and recollected begins to putter in the mid morning. The howling of the wind grows as the guitar becomes frantic then frenzied in a driven pounding of the upper strings, loosely…
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million billion stars up in the sky
ive got some questions fer you
whyve i gotta die
whyve i gotta live at all
when the world is so riduculous
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theres no reason, no reason why this song is so catchy, so sexxxy, no reason at all. it doesn't make sense.
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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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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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at heart a skitter bopping rythym guitar, overlayed with punchy kick drums and synthy mods at mid and low frequencies. Churreling winds spring through the upper atmosphere.
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a monumentally simple instrumental. that might make you cry.
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It's kinda nasty, kinda funny, kinda sad but kinda true.
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An underwater groove from 2005 recording session.
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it is a strange fetus isnt it doctor?
slide guitar and maraca-bongo play in duet on same track.
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juniper did not know what i would do to her vocals at the end of this song, but she grew to enjoy it.
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your life/is a soft song/ over hard core porn/ on channel one/ sugar smile/ in the milk aisle/ gets yer dog holiday/ you let it out to play/your life/ is a soft song/ over a microphone/ in aisle one/ things of good taste you embrace/ but in your…
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of dog whisperers and dcktttkrs
slow jam with a sexy lead jimmy buffet acid house music.
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a protest song, out of time and space warp. a harmonica predomintates skillfully, while a deep slide guitar bass whizzles around, Her silky voice made distant in a reverb chamber while scant samples patter.
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a simple song about a man, a raft, a bottle, and a monkey. Blow me a jungle. guitars shift seamlessy backwards and forwards ina barely accoustic nod while a hapless sailor drifts in and out of consciousness, the water skipping over his toes and…
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your 4x4 is my four post bed/ the ruffles and patterns really effed up yer head/in a world of strip malls and choreographed tv brawls/ we grow like a wayward chia/ im so happy to see ya/ the texting is no touching/ and heavy petting means no munching…
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so,so vision and quests/choices made/ artillery set/accessories found off a dead mans chest/ nature in pixels/ sight without smells and fingertips felt/ only plastic and components/ binary binds you/binary it blinds you/ the world it waits/ outside…
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a spicy latte instrumental. a little chai. a butch looking cheeseburger. now in stereo
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lyrics by juniper arrangemnt by juniper, vocals by hot wheels.
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that mood is so scary/comes forth quickly/ like im a spooked animal/ I know you have been domesticated/ through centuries/ so what possession/ telltale twitch jettisoned...
There lurks something about/ spillings of toxic oil/ crytalline liquid…
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this song is a take on classicism and neo fascism, and not sounding like everyone else.
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Keep Shining Through- Last minute lyrics…kind of a cop-out, since it’s a song about song-writing. I didn’t have any better ideas and after losing so much time from the outage I had to just bust out what I could. It was pretty much written on the…
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She Didn’t Know- So, someone I know got totally screwed over. The worst part was that her friends knew but didn’t tell her what was happening. I am not sure she will love the fact I wrote a song about it, but that is the least of her worries right…
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Sweet Tomorrow- Well, after the previous downer of a lyrical journey, how about a song of hope? Except, after a big downer, you may bit a bit leery, a bit closed off and nervous about taking a chance. So this song is a conversation between two…
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Derivative- This one was not supposed to be on the album, but I changed my mind and worked on it. The reason for the intended omission was because the riff, which I have been playing with for a few months, just sounded so derivative of Dear Prudence…
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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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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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Love’s Standing- A good change up for the flow of the album, this one is vaguely, very vaguely, country-esque. That’s mainly because of the heavily reverbed slide underneath the acoustic in the verses. I love pounding the strings on the acoustic…
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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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Figure Out- There are about 4-5 takes of this song, all different. The song started off in the key of D, but I couldn’t hit the notes in the chorus. I then tried it in A, but it was lacking drive and energy. I tried it in G, but I couldn’t get…
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Matter Of Fate- This song started as a riff I was doing while tuning my guitar. It sounded cool, so I happened to record it on a small dictation recorder I have so I wouldn’t forget it. When I listened to the riff it just screamed Sticky Fingers…
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With Phil Close on multiple instruments/production. A song mainly about my disrepect for celebrity culture.
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Instrumental assists from Michael Kardos, overall arrangement by Phil Close, additional vocals from Lee Cusenbary. Envisioned as a cheesy Costa Rican Tourist Board jingle framing a love song.
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Everybody loves the Good old Days. Instrumental and production help from Phil Close
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Additional instruments and arrangements by Thom Polimeros.
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I co-wrote the lyric with Bill Liggett, and the music with Michael Kardoff. Don't do business with Ms. Calamari.
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This track replaced the one in this position which was on the orginal RPM album. Based on some tales from real-life Houston Bail-bondsman (and frequent collaborator) Jay Lindsey.
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This song was honored by peers at RPM in '07 by being voted into inclusion on an all-RPM compiliation originally intended for HEAR! music.
The lyric is about the inevitability of bad times. It's good to live optimistically, but let's face it…
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An instrumental "bonus" track for the official release of the album "Thou Shalt".
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Another instrumental "bonus". Sort of a tribute to Danny Elfman, whose soundtracks I'd been listening to quite a bit at the time.
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Instrumental. Not as angry as the title sounds. ;)
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At last, my secret is out. What I really want to be is a Jazz composer. ;)
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During my Animal Collective phase. One of the weirder ones...
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Don't believe the title. Ok, you probably should.
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Also known as "Sequence 6 & 7" in the "Watercolors" project which was my entry to the RPM Challenge 2010.
It is all about that overwhelmingly happy feeling that makes you weak in your knees and you just feel like sitting down and enjoy the…
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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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A problem we all have at some time, right guys?
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When we finally decide to settle down we can find a place like Kansas
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Written for all those who lost their lives in the horrific Victorian (Australia) bushfires in 2009.
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Lyrics Written by a young man with Aspergers!!!
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The Dance moves in all of us. It's our inner nature, our link to the universe, and greatly submerged and denied.
The Dance:
The dance commences,
pulse fills our senses,
To lead us to where we begin…
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Just a garage/fifties fun type of tune. Lots of guitar. I'm a Knucklehead, wouldn't you like to be one too?
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More of theat life stuff that happens to us all at some point!
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A song about a boat or is it about a woman...or both?
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A special song for a very special lady and her son
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Spoken word blues. The words are straight from the Bible.
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Written in a desperate attempt to finish the RPM 2010 challenge!
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Picture an older couple going out for a night of live music and dancing, country-style.
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This song is a brontosaurus of an instrumental, stepping on trees and crushing houses. It is a force of nature which has not walked this earth for many years...now its on the internet. in this song i play a guitar, laminated placemat, etc.
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Juniper reads a movie tag line while an early improv piece explodes into a swirling strutting admonishment.
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This song is actually what i consider a pretty song, well, instrumental. complete with tinkling noises, waveform hums of several pitches and rates
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this song is too funny. make up some words or just pretend its pizza the hut.
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weird beat poet sounding vocals
accoustic meanderings
some strange accompaniment.
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some light rhyming with a twist.
I played the organ loop with the cord plugged in the out jack and couldnt hear what i was playing. that was a formative moment for me artistically. When I realized I didn't want to control how each song sounded…
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tearing up the papers
oh no no thats not what i mean't
rythym guitar accompanies a scene out of an office space disaster where a sexual innuendo may have not been misinterpreted
close with cymbals and wind chimes as the intense situation allows…
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this song is a wild ride out of key. very accoustic rythmyc, and mysterious...
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Himitsu jam session. This little piece reminds me of driving through small towns in Mexico on Sunday morning, with the light just pinking the horizon, and the entire towns' populace heading to mass to the sound of the church bells.
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Himitsu jam piece. I am responsible for the synth slide trombone here.
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Primeira música dos DM (Thomas Gibson e Francisco Jesus)
Composição/Voz: Francisco Jesus
Composição/Produção: Thomas Gibson
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Himitsu jam. Title says it all. Visting hard rock guitarist sitting in this session.
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