Merry Christmas!

hopelessness. if you succeed now, you'll fail later. i wrote this song on a banjo :) but never got it in the recording.

this was just a little doodle that was fun. someday i'll buy a mandolin and actually learn how to play it.

with special cameo appearance by Gene Kruppa

MUSIC: MR FUNKYMONK LYRICS, VOCALS, MIX: Anne YOU'VE GOT GIRLS i told you once i told you twice you'd have to go if you couldn't play nice so tell me have you been good let's chat i told you before i made it clear you keep on actin that way…

Guest vocals by Speak N. Spell

The first track I built, back when I was still full of hope for this exercise. I'm not convinced the hope survived it :)

I sang and played acoustic and electric guitars, bass, and Moog synthesizer on this track.

There was a director who was so happy to show off his lead singer to the playwrite... she was young and beautiful and a talented singer... when he finally got to present her to the playwrite... the playwrite nodded, and smiled.. he told the director…

From the "Northville" project. I played acoustic and electric guitars and an ARP Odyssey synthesizer on this track.

Imagine that you are that lump of enchanted wood on the workbench.... and instead of Pinocchio you can be anything... maybe even a stratavarious... thanx to my friend Dave Edwards for the real violin trax

Pulled this one together in bits and pieces as time permitted. This has been one of my favs, lately! Doug Oh, yes, this is my loopless experiment, too!

This little ragtime number began life as just a snippet, written as background music for a home movie years ago. For the hard core ragtime buffs, I know this is not quite syncopated enough to be true ragtime, but hopefully its fun and bouncy…

This is a song I wrote with Lisa Purdy (who sings the harmony vocal) about the experience of depression. Jim Bouchard plays lap steel - I'm playing/singing the rest.

Just another song to help try help express myself while honing my limited skills

A Dark and Brooding rendition of and old Christmas song... yet hopeful... starting out subdued with and ancient vibe, and building in drama...

While my wife and I were travelling back down the coast of California (near Big Sur) from a vacation around New Years, we stopped at a turnout over a cliff, and took a bunch of video of at least 15 California Condors, flying and hanging out on…

This is it. The final shiny genuine complete done version of the Rob and Steve's Christmas single, Christmas On My Face (A Terrible Case Of Xmas).

Just a funky song about the world, economy, what we want, what we have.

While living in Seattle I knew a guy named Larry. Larry was one of the "pretty" people of the world and had most women drooling over him. He met and married Denise... Also one of the "pretty" people of the world. But Denise could not seem to…

I started off playing around with the piano and I played a part that sounded to me like the world gone crazy. From there I just had fun and let lyrics come as them may I guess reflecting some of the things on my mind. I finished the song or at…

This is maybe the first track written entirely by This Caustic Autumn as a group effort. I'd been to see Sigur Ros play at Massey Hall in Toronto the night before we wrote this, so that's where the idea for the bowed Les Paul came from. Other…

Just to set the record straight I wrote this song before the movie Wall-E came out. If you've watched the movie Wall-E my song is basically along the same lines of how humans have messed up Earth. It's not a happy song if that's what you are…

Cover of the Brownie Song from musical Reefer Madness.

you probably just shouldn't listen to this :D

Christmas medley.

The harder remix of a song I did together with my sister. It's called the dirty mix because I have started working on it again after the crash, which means I'm layering on top of some mp3 bounces I had lying around :-) I'm still aiming for a good…

This one I might redo if I can ever find the spirit… It wasn't that much work though, so it should be doable. PS: Yeah that's me on the mic :-) Part of “The big crash of '07” album. Which is a collection of mostly prototypes of songs that are…

A fun song my brother, girlfriend and I made after hearing our sister in a musical singing about “the key to my heart”. Part of “The big crash of '07” album. Which is a collection of mostly prototypes of songs that are lost because of a harddrive…

"Vanishing Point" was an attempt to force myself to write a full song. I had been playing in Break Even for about a year and found myself completely unable to write music. I had just set up a nice little 8-track studio (sort of) at home and I…

I dubbified this tune by the Simple Carnival.

This is a clip from our show on Friday 28th November. It's just a taster of what the Rob and Steve Christmas song might end up sounding like. There are a few wayward vocals and off-beat bell-jangles, but you get the idea. It's called "Christmas…

This fantasy was composed for a guitar several years ago. Later I arranged it for an orchestra. I tried to reach the baroque sound.

This is my view of an old masterpieces. I used to play it while I was studying guitar.

a musical landscape,evoked by flute and synthesizer.