https://youtu.be/-d0YYoYp9Vg https://jasonaustin.bandcamp.com/track/buzz-kill-bob

I have a hybrid conure named Chiku!, and he's pretty neat.

A bit of lo-fi chill, with assistance from Kent Nugent

A bit of lo-fi chill, with assistance from Kent Nugent

h92o with me on drums

h92o with me on drums

https://youtu.be/mMfwo0xoPKw

https://jasonaustin.bandcamp.com/track/nickholette https://youtu.be/tN5D6yYVQPA

THAT CLOSE TO CRYING - a Waltz in G I'm THAT CLOSE TO CRYING all the time. Just the mention of TOGETHER AGAIN and I cross that line But lately I'm learning to act/look like I'm fine But, I'm THAT CLOSE TO CRYING all the time I'm THAT…

Created and Sung By: Andrew Ezell (BigDru) Wash

https://youtu.be/a6HkU6OLg-Y

Real drums, bass, and guitar. Think the "vocals" were taken from another track and heavily manipulated. I like 'em. :)

Another "the chord sequence spells something" track. I'm fond of those.

I wrote the main riff at least 25 years ago, and finally got around to recording it. The drum part was recorded at band practice. I got a wild hair and sped it up to about 1.8 speed, liked it, and used it. "Eggbeater Jesus" is a local artistic…

Test recording of the Cat Head Lowebow #4 that I bought from Johnny Lowebow a couple of years earlier. The Lowebow ended up being a studio mascot, and "Cat Head Blues" a theme for that year's RPM Challenge, so I recorded some drums and added this…

Makes me think of a small New England port town in a storm, for some reason.

Another pastiche/casserole of studio scraps and robot voices. Tulip, our youngest cat, has a ray gun keyboard solo just after the 4-minute mark.

Paean to a local state politician who stepped up to the national stage. Also, this track is one of the reasons we started using a click track in 2018...

Another one on the Cat Head Lowebow, this time with more effects.

I like Captain Beefheart, but I'm not good at showing it. :)

The words come from a story by Robert Chambers (public domain, and available on Project Gutenberg). Think I recorded the weird noisy guitar part first, then played along on drums, then added the voice.

This one combines a bunch of things I like: rain, storms, weird keyboard patches, auditory snapshots of a particular time, sleep, and NOAA weather radio. (I developed an affinity for that last one while working third shift alone at Kinko's way…

Some resonant arpeggiated synths

A solid groove with a little organ on top

Assembled some drum and keyboard loops to try out some new plugins, then added live bass (over numerous takes), and finally recorded my dumb voice narrating a trip to the airport. Really wanted to fall back on my usual trick of employing speech…

Recorded on my laptop in a hotel room 750+ miles from home. Programmed drums. Bought the guitar (a blue Alhoon) from a pawn shop when I arrived, then sold it back before I left. Worked out to about $2.45/day to "rent" it, and I didn't have to…

Manipulated "field" recordings, either from the hotel room or from the studio, after I got back.

Obviously built on a crappy Dillinger Escape Plan knockoff. Was messing around with the pawn shop guitar and programmed drums, and it just happened. :) Added the second guitar track and bass after I got home.

Programmed drums and pawn shop guitar through plugins.

Ham-fisted Primus mimicry with robot vocals in place of my voice. Drum loops, but me on bass and guitar.

Manipulated field recording.

Just how my brain works: nine lines and nine columns in a Sudoku puzzle... Take a six-string guitar and 3/4 of a bass, and that's nine strings. The number in each box is both the fret number and the number of quarter notes to hold. Puzzle number…

Can't remember where the chord sequence came from. (Maybe Loblolly later in the album?) Programmed drums and keys, me on guitar and bass, and my old robot friends on vocals.

Manipulated field recording.

Drum loops, pawn shop guitar, and rain recorded from the hotel room window. Intended to add more guitar, or at least more chords, but never got around to it. Feels like longer than 3 minutes, 30 seconds...

Keyboard loops over manipulated field recording.

Another Sudoku puzzle track. Appropriately queasy and loopy, as the road weariness settles in.

The phrase "Ugly Ass Pine Trees of Home" had been stuck in my head for at least 5 years. Glad to finally get the words down. Tried numerous takes "singing" this one, but the recitation works much better than any of them. (Note that "better…