[recorded in glorious 4-trak at lotek studios in the '90s] straining to maintain straining to maintain a sense of dense intensity vainly feigning pain of a spurious immensity a furious refrain of precarious opacity nefarious pretence…

Dedicated to my furry companion of eight years and counting!

featuring Mathias Kom on trumpet, horns and backup vocals Black Widow Black Widow don’t hesitate Lock the door, draw the shades In your web I have been caught Not enough to fill you up Leave me a skin A shell of the man that I was…

Best thing I've ever written. I still have no idea what it means.

High 'n Mighty (t boudreau) Well look who made it halfway I truly must be blessed I made a few mistakes and caught a couple of breaks I guess And I always do it my way I make it up as I go along I think I earned some slack to take a…

A rubbish track by Tess got the Sandbags treatment here - the results only hold shades of the original. And it's just as well. Includes 91dreamloop.wav by NoiseCollector Sandbags - composition, production, special effects Tess - original…

Naively conceived, written and published in February 2012 for "Contemporary Chamber Music" (vol.1), an RPM12 album. The titles of the pieces in album are follow each other in a certain order - see album description.

words by The Goods,E.G. & K.G. . music by me M.F. . our preferred rpm track . this song is about a coward and what he has coming, based on an assault of one of our loved ones. you can hear the anger. that is cool!

Track 5 from "Vines" by The Anchorage Drift

Away From Creation W/M by OsCKilO Pick me us up and set me down , In a box high off the ground. It is what I’m used to out of life. This is up and there is down. In between we carry on. Up and down the stairwells to the heights Look upon…

sci fi

Apocrypha is a progressive rock song in the sense of Rush more than ELP or Yes. I had come up with the guitar and via my GR-20 the strings - everything else you hear was performed by my long time collaborator Frank Miller (Phantasm777) - so that…

Ahh, drone. Funny how extremely slow, repetitive, yet heavy phased guitars drown out the world and still make a melodious impact. Technically not much I would agree, but after listening to Xela's recitation, man, it just moves me. There is a done…

a song made with my mate we call ourselves medicine and poison here are the lyrics I was always told to think about What I know, what I know And if all I knew Is getting by Broken hearted, broken hearted I’ll fake my love Like all of you did…

rpm #3,, from a future themed piece to be called "the dark doll house" a place where yellow orange light drifts through soft gray curtains,,far away a child's laugh echos down the stair case,,

Apologies to Ian Anderson this is not an off the record version...

Overnight the world went fake Everything has been replaced With pale imitations Gray reflections The food has no taste Surrounded by automatons Programmed not to see what's going on Cheap props and flimsy sets A tired plot and bad effects…

rpm 2012 #2

I'm not sure how I came up with the name for this one.