Sick Day Songs

Here a couple of songs I made to today to kinda embrace being ill. The first and third track are some samples I took while spending time with our drummer with special effect cuts of conversations around my school. Track two is a distorted, reverb conversation with Alexis and Angel. I transformed these into mini sonic sickness soothing tracks, sort of...

Sick Day Songs
01. Light
02. Atmospheric
03. Bring Down

The previous link was a Rapidshare link because Mediafire wasn't working at the time. I fixed that though.

The Flu...

SUCKS.

Abditive Abature Split LP

Here is a rather lengthy split that Motion Sickness of Time Travel and I have been working on for the past 2 weeks or so. The requirement was that each side be 30 minutes long. While Rachel met hers, I have roughly 25 minutes or so. So it's almost like a split album? But not really? I made the second picture, and she did the first. Happy new years everyone. I hope you guys dig this. I know I do.






































Motion Sickness of Time Travel
Side a:
01. Dark Room
02. Enchantment Versus Mind Control
03. Deceptions or The Murky But Beautiful Left-Hand Path
04. Watching The Leaves Float In Dirty Water

Spiid
Side b:
01. Until The Truth Comes Out Like The Sun
02. Melatonin
03. Fighting
04. Garbage
05. Before Bed

The best part about all of this is that you can purchase this release! Coming soon to cassette on the one and only Hooker Vision. AND you can download it for FREE. It's only 4 dollars in person and then 7 through the mail.

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Band Practice - 12/29/2009

Happy Holidaze

I hope everyone has had a wonderful holiday season!

This is what I've been referring to as my "baby." I got it as a Christmas present. It's a Fender Stratocaster. The color is awesome, it isn't anything like this picture. I haven't been able to find a similar color anywhere online. But it's a sort of platinum, baby blue. Here is a picture of a "surf green" model:















Along with a new guitar, there has been a lot of other awesome news I haven't shared with anyone yet. In The Jaws of a Dandy Lion now has a drummer! I like to think of this as we are now an official band, all the pieces are there. Nothing is going to come from our new drummer until after the holidays. But before you hear anything new, I'm going to be posting a new EP the girls and I have worked on. And probably before I post that, I will be posting a new split that I've had the honor to work on with Rachel, aka Motion Sickness of Time Travel. Until there, you can and should check out her new album...HERE!

Deerhunter @ Lollapalooza 2009

The weather outside is extremely shitty so I'm forced in. So I had a reason to get around to this. I've wanted to do this for a while, I just never did, but here is the setlist and my bootlegged recording of Deerhunter playing Lollapalooza this past summer when I was in Chicago. Bradford claimed to be tripping out pretty hard on viruses.















Setlist:
01. Intro (2:37)
02. Cryptograms (4:58)
03. Never Stops (3:07)
04. Wash Off (7:10)
05. ''tripping banter'' (0:50)
06. Little Kids (4:09)
07. Hazel St. (4:54)
08. Nothing Ever Happened (7:29)
09. What Goes On (VU cover attempt, trip banter) (2:06)
10. Saved By Old Times (4:07)
11. Vox Celeste (3:40)
12. ''mayan waterpark banter" (3:34)
13. Cover Me Slowly (1:27)
14. Agoraphobia (3:05)
15. ''madeline's request'' (2:53)
16. Circulation (6:36)

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Biko

It's hard to get kittens to sit still for photos.

Insomnia Puzzle

My boyfriend and I were up all night with our new cat, Biko. Which means "dear" in Igbo, a language spoken in Nigeria. We found him wondering the streets and he came up to us and hasn't left us alone since. We named him that because he's such a dear, sweet, loving cat. I'll try to post pictures soon. But, yeah, anyways, Jeremy and I came up with this song tonight because neither of us could sleep. It's a combination of 2 random samples I choose and altered, and 2 random samples he choose and altered. Enjoy?

Insomnia Puzzle
















P.S. Here is a picture of a random, evil washing machine that warns you to use it at your own risk. The risk I'm afraid I don't understand.

Do Not Chew Or Crush EP

All of this was recorded back when I had my old hard-drive. I just edited a couple of small things from the originals. "Lockjaw" features a Liberace sample and "Orange Horse" was recorded for Eloise. All-and-all, these songs were just fun to make. The theme here is insomnia.





















Do Not Chew Or Crush EP
01. Lockjaw
02. Shy Sleeper
03. Orange Horse
04. Poor Aim

Year Long Project

I got this idea from Grant not too long ago. And I thought I would start it this weekend since I'll be visiting Freda tomorrow. But Grant suggested I record an album out at Freda. I instantly knew I wanted to. But I didn't want it to be that simple, I wanted a different edge to the original idea. So I'm going to be taking this one slow. Real slow. I'm going to begin what I'm simply just calling "Freda" at this point this fall and then releasing it next fall. I want to capture Freda in every season. Broken leaf fractals of fall, the shivering slivers of winter, the summer sun, the flower-child energy of spring. I want to record each season as half of one side. A couple of songs for each season. I want this to be my best work yet. I'm going to take everything really slow and see how it goes. I'd like to hear about any ideas anyone has to offer. Mostly on what instruments I should use, some new angles/ideas, suggestions?