family thoughts

crimson should have been my cleanser...

when your stuck but you see where you're going.

You're girlfriend is cheating on you. You know it but can't walk away from her

A song about not wanting to feel for someone that has treated you badly and left you behind. Despite having these feelings you still feel this person is above you. As they fly freely and you're left lost on the ground. When they come flying…

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100 bpm, db see my face in the mirror wondering what i've become though things, couldn't be clearer i can't explain the things that i have done weird and probably crazy my sanity is an enormous doubt in my life no ghost no monsters or…

110 bpm, d there are a lot of angry voices that do not belong to me inside this skull that i sometimes call home every time i try to tune one or tune one out they gang together and whisper softly to me surrender, give in, let win don…

120 bpm, eb it's the sound, getting in my brain deep inside, and on a dusty day it feels like rain falling down and fills me up with song there's a note i almost hear it now and it grows and on a quiet day it sounds like a promise…

80 bpm, g when she's away i go out escape when i wake up all alone escape return to where i was in this song i make excuses all day long in this song forever, now together when she's away i cry out escape when i wake up all alone…

70 bpm, ab she trys too hard to be the master of her everything what will be will be random chance has no place here if it can't be cleaned or put away and her highway stretches far and wide selfish seeking silence in the fray simply…

Just a mellow track I whipped up last night before bed. The field recording is from the Peruvian Amazon- I forget which habitat it was recorded in, but my guess is near bamboo... during the morning.

Cròniques d'en Joaquim Torner des de Copenhaguen per a ràdio Sabadell. Episodi 3

I decided to tap into my latent '80s Depeche Mode subconscious, and this bouncy tune popped out! Ian Beardsley heard an earlier version of this and immediately detected Spanish flamenco hidden in the techno dance chords. I opened up the stage…

this a blues tune I've been playing around with and last Saturday lyrics just starting popping in to my head. I did a demo of it. I'm going to try and flesh it out with some harmonica and bass. Thoughts on what else to do to it are welcome!

This is my little society statement... who knows? Enjoy! Doug

almost everything that i write starts on acoustic guitar... I wrote this one as I was driving... so by the time that I got to my studio, i really heard the whole thing finished (both lyrics and the music)... and it was more of a NY bluesy piano…

Preliminary version of the soundtrack accompany my most recent video experiment, a convoluted collage of appropriated material heavily distorted and blended together.

The first installment of a series of reports I did for KUSC taking a closer look at the recording industry from a classical music perspective. A couple of experts weigh in on the state of affairs in the classical record industry. How bad are…

The second installment of a series of reports I did for KUSC taking a closer look at the recording industry from a classical music perspective. A profile of the French/LA-based record label Harmonia Mundi. Interviews with: Rene Goiffon (Harmonia…

I originally built this up to some cliche rocking acme but there is no need, so I peeled it back kept it raw. Thanks Su for the critiques on the levels. Since I am not participating in the 24hr album today, here I am in spirit! This track was…

this is the first thing I've ever recorded on guitar. (or mountain dulcimer).

Ok I loaded this up previously, but after listening to the mix in the car I had to re-mix it. The wife says it's much better now.

A song written earlier today.