Part of the Sunny, Sorta project. Music & Lyrics written by Angie Fights Crime. there's a bomb in the back as we head down the tracks but we can only go so fast there's a man on our trail pack of dogs with no tails this kind of excitement…

The piano track is a mangled version of the already-mangled piano from the previous song ("The Saucers Arrive"). The plan was to try to improvise in a way that was somehow rhythmically compatible with the skittering piano track. The guitar track…

Also nearly unchanged from the demo version, although it still needs a bit of revision. Kept the title this time. 5 tracks guitar 1 bass 1 Indian toy/souvenir bowed instrument of unknown name Sorry for killing the comments when I deleted…

Previously uploaded under the working title of "squiggle," but pretty much unchanged. 4 tracks feedback guitar, 1 drum machine 1 vocal (whistling) track -- not sure if the really out-of-tune parts are cool or awful. Sorry for killing the comments…

24-hour album. This album is a collage of several disconnected pieces recorded & mixed over 18 hours or so. I've left it as a single long track, but here's a sort of navigational guide if you want to skip around: 0:00 - 1:30 = Living…

The execution is not perfect, but the concept works.

The lyrics continue the theme of the previous track, if you care about that sort of thing.

I guess this would be the "centerpiece" of the album. Like the rest of the album it really stumbles along the line between droney and simply repetitive, and it needs a bit of a reworking to reach its potential.

Short(?) intro to the album; counterpoint to the extended outro "Mantra 2"

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…

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

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.

Divine hand or black swan?

The image of cherry blossoms folding into a gravel footpath is from a poem by Kanoko Okamoto. Originally from RPM '07 album, this version has been reworked a fair bit.

Originally for (unfinished) RPM '08 album. This song and "shortwave" together probably required more component audio tracks than my entire RPM '09 album, which is one reason RPM '08 didn't see completion.

Originally for (unfinished) RPM '08 album

The first part of this was a "hidden" untitled track on my original RPM '07 album; the second part was conceived as an intro to "shortwave" but it seemed to make sense to re-sequence them this way.