One of mine, with arrangement by Nathan Robbins. Well, he did it on piano, so I kinda copied his arrangement. And changed it. So, kind of Nathan-esque.

Written by Kurt Ares, James Lucier, and me (Randy) way back in like 1994. Ancient!

Older song, reworked string section, and now with a muted trumpet line by the phenomenal Sam Bunker.

Originally from 2000 or so, recorded on the old StarMax mac clone waaaay back. Redid just about everything in the intervening years, including new vocals today.

Another song, cleaned up from 2005

Frequent collaborator Bryn Corbett aka Particledots sent me manipulated electric piano tracks and I a returned a mix and stems with multiple Pro-One tracks from which he created the final mix. He wields a mean blender.

Yves Baar sent me a midi piano file from Belgium and I found that if I slowed it down 20% and converted the piano to trombone and french horns that I was able to work closely with the synth - doubling and countering his melody.

Bryn dropped and alternative track in our box that was culled fro his previous elemnts but manipulated into a lurching schizoid glitch piece that I loved. So - I slowed it down and used noise removal in Audacity to add more strangeness to it…

I couldn't help but finally make a layered arpeggiated piece along the the lines of Philip Glass. I put it out there for a taker and Bill Grundmann wrote "I hear voices". I had no idea how many and how disturbing they would be. He created a mini…

After Chris recorded his guitar tracks for track two here - we jammed this little piece out direct to a Zoom H2 recorder with no overdubs or editing in post. Chris Cochrane is a gifted guitarist with a emotional and visceral approach to his instrument…