Words by Will Gough and Jana Persson, Music by Jana Persson Additional musicians: Janne Hedlund - drums Hank Johnzon - guitar solo Johan Dereborn - bass guitar

Words by Will Gough, Music by Jana Persson Additional Musicians: Janne Hedlund - drums Hank Johnzon - pedal steel guitar

Words by Brent Kinder and Jana Persson, Music by Jana Persson Additional musicians: Janne Hedlund - drums, backing vocals Hank Johnzon - lap steel, additional electric guitar

Words and Music by Jana Persson Additional musicians: Janne Hedlund - drums Hank Johnzon - pedal steel guitar

rpm 2012 #7

Named by a friend, there is a little island that appears and disappears with the tide. We go there sometimes in the Great Bay in New Hampshire. Bob Kordas on dobro.

rpm 2012 #8

from my 2009 album, 'Texoskeleton...' This song says as much as I dare to mention in a tune...

Tess Savage - composition, synth, strings, voice Mr Sandbags - beats & reichatron samples Deep in the night I remember Euphoria (Savage 2012)

The final version, at last!

We were running out of time during the RPM Challenge 2012, so Tess applied a shedload of effects to Matt's piano motif from "Breaking Arrows".

This is an out take reversed. We liked it. (Savage & Mower 2012)

rpm 2012 #9 so short! if you're rushing a project, I recommend not choosing five part wind ensembles

Frankenstein Sound Lab pays homage to the Shangri-Las. After a fashion.

rpm 2012 #10 I decided that after that last one I had earned a drone

From the vault of early computer recordings. It was in WAV format til I converted it to mp3. $10 LabTech mic,brand new strings.

Feels like a lifetime ago that I wrote this back in 2002; sometimes it's good to remember .

Is it time for shouting yet?

Sometimes I need to play a sad one.

Shouty 12-bar. Just because.

I never managed to get this one to work before.

Just a mellow one to round things off. Thanks for listening.

rpm 2012 #11 boom

About twenty billion years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the earth and Roland's D50 was new, I found this patch called "spanisheart" and plunked down a new-agey tune. Which I promptly forgot about for years. Every now and then, I catch myself playing…

I wrote this to be sung by a dear, now-departed friend who sadly committed suicide while working on a new album of very exciting material. I have a whole mess of "dead Kevin" songs which are in the wrong key, which I've been avoiding like the…

A song about a rather unsavory character. Fathers, lock up your daughters!

Completed 1 minute to midnight on February 29th 2012. RPM, we are win! Sandbags took some of Savage's homemade stems and grew this in the closing hours of the RPM Challenge.

Another strictly me-and-an-acoustic track. Mostly about a kind-of-unstable girl I knew way back before I knew better. Now I know better! Good closer.

rpm 2012 #12 hello finish line

each time I’d look at you I was looking for a breakthrough some emptied sigh, some reasons why everything I’d left behind reckless provisions for some blooming vine followed me, in the back of my mind forgive me, mother for the lamb…

It's over baby it's over It's too late to explain Before we Blow up again Oh we thought that We were so much better than those People with their Problems why Couldn't they just Solve them So why Are we the Ones that get those stares…

Step away step away Don't you dare That's your pedestal Don't you care about falling from grace? When we first met You sent me straight to the top without caring I didn’t care either I was so proud I'd say with a shout I'll take you all on So…

It's the end of the modern queen Before we ever knew her She was gone from the scene So hurry and revive her Search and subscribe her today No no, ooh She went all Crazy barbarous, She so Needs a new publicist Slumming wasn’t part of the plan…

I’m Breaking loose I’m Tearing loose Shattering it so hard They'll Call it abuse of the world Take it out i’m Ditching it out Driving it so far They'll call it a theft of the world It's just another revolution it Just another way around Till…

You said you left me Years ago when My blind sight burned away Only silence cured this endless ringing To cue this passion play I could have loved you years ago now I left you in a haze I never knew that i Never really loved you anyways…

Walking through the fields Red peppers were stinging Climbing up the hill Webs were cast away Now etched in your history I begin to pray I pray For you to sing your song a final time it’s The only song that you ever knew I’m already forgetting…

This is my valentine to Shelley.