Álvaro Silveira canta "Um conto de natal" com música sua e letra de Paulo Chagas

If this sounds like it was recorded in a single take on a $7 USB microphone, and then cheesy audacity reverb thrown in, that's because it was. The old guitar and its player are both on their last legs, but unpacking after a move it beckoned…

Dan improvised on guitar over some synth and drum MIDI loops Kevin had pulled from a collection he'd bought the previous day. Quick, easy, and fun way to spend a few minutes at the studio. :)

My personal challenge this month was to create something ambient. #REM

Sometimes writing a song is the very best and only thing you can do.... Cold Winter Moon Oh cold winter moon And the wind that blows Bring me a change For my weary soul Take away this longing That fills my heart Something is over…

Scales of a type with overlaid parts.

via pianteq and alesis Q49

One Saturday afternoon at the studio, Nick played around on the Clavinova, running through some chord shapes and notes to try out the instrument's various piano sounds. Kevin recorded the performance and later chopped up and combined some of those…

Written early 70s. Recorded early 80s at Rosewood Studios

Inspired by a gift from my Cousin Danita, a bird whistle. ___________________________________ I open my eyes to the first morning’s light The Birds sing outside my window And the stars are all gone from the previous night They…

evocation of asmodeus via sound using my method for sigilizing words with music

This is a track that I did in 2010 that appeared on first issue of the dearly departed Ramen Music.

The MN coffee table is back!!!! We have a new member too - Joel Schaubert, who joined Mark Lofgren and Greg Connor - veterans of the coffee table. Once again we wrote this song and recorded it in my backyard coffee table (hence some of the wind…

One Saturday, Nick and Kevin met at Margaret's Lovely Studio to make some music. Nick played some pretty sounds on the Clavinova, and Kevin pressed Record on the computer in hopes that one day, other people would be able to hear and enjoy the…

fretless junk strat, Bass VI

working on a new batch of wurli tunes, might arrange with synth...

I created my own stylophone app last winter using p5.js (https://openprocessing.org/sketch/1779333), and I added in a lot of exotic musical scales, which got me interested in Indian music and scales. For this song I used the Raga Sindhura Kafi…

Another lovely Monroe-Robinson collaboration. This one was originally titled "It's There For Us," but when Robbie's wife really liked the line "it's simple and easy to say the words that keep us alive" in a draft version, Leum was happy to retitle…

Another song about struggling to fit in when you've always been told what to do.

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