Recorded February 2003 - June 2003 in Sydney, Australia

This is a track from my abandoned "Weekend Follies" album, which was recorded in my parent's basement in Mercer Island, Washington during the summer of 2003. This track was recorded during Seafair weekend. That's one of the "Blue Angels" flying…

This is a track from my abandoned "Weekend Follies" album, which was recorded in my parent's basement in Mercer Island, Washington during the summer of 2003.

At the end of 2003, I was recording a bunch of covers in my basement in Portland, Oregon. This was the only original recording from that time. I was pretty bummed out at the time...

I wrote this song for a musical Thanksgiving party that Sudara threw in Santa Fe back in 2002.

A spacey electronic number. Part of my song a week project. http://yelyah.com/song-a-week/

These are 3 variations to the mexican "the cockroach" popular theme

My evening challenge: compose and record a piece in an evening. I stitched together a couple of demos and added a virtual Harry Partch instrument.

My evening challenge: Compose and record something in an evening.

Divine hand or black swan?

The original mix (on the RPM '09 album) was drenched in mic hiss. I used noise reduction to remove about 2/3 of it for this version (it didn't seem right to remove it completely). I roll off the noise reduction at the end for the au naturale outro.

The plinky sound is an acoustic guitar prepared with a drumstick stuck under the strings.

I was just playing along with a looper pedal, trying to work out some ideas for a "real" song. I was just recording straight to a single stereo track and not worrying much about my playing or the mix. But when I listened back afterwards, I thought…

This is my version of circle C