Liquid

Baby times equal good times, extended times at home with peoples of various shapes and sizes. A whole lot of gettin' real familiar with one another and the fluids we produce. Don't worry, we won't explore the details of that one. But i digress. As mentioned previously, tiny folks have a way of putting things in perspective for the older dudes and duderellas who painstakingly took the steps to bring them into this groaning world. Many other plans have been put on hiatus for a hot minute while we adapt to life as a family of four. Until then, there are treasures being mined, and projects bubbling just under the surface.

Back in june of twenty ten, i sat in the summer sweat shoppe and recorded a little ukulele-accompanied tune known as 'words'. In the same sitting, i scratched the surface a bit with this guy who we call 'okay'. Dig.

Demo Vault - These Four Walls

MP3 > THESE FOUR WALLS (DEMO)

Way back in say 2004-2005ish i was working on this little tune under the working title “these four walls.” I enjoyed composing and recording this guy, but something about it just didn’t work. Bits and pieces of the lyrical content rolled around in my head and regurgitated upon paper several times in an attempt to salvage something from the wreckage. Often they were forced against completely different chord progressions and melodies and such. I finally threw in the towel until the scattered remains of a speck of an idea which initially inspired the song rose like a phoenix eventually becoming “freedom has a new name.” It all started here. I removed the lead vocal track from this version of “these four walls,” but some of the backing vocals along with a few delightful oohs and ahhs slipped through the cracks.

Demo Vault - East of Eden

MP3 > EAST OF EDEN (WRITING DEMO)

Back in the early winter of 2007 i wrote and recorded a set of songs on glorious analog tape running reel to reel through a tascam four-track recorder. One of those songs became known as ‘east of eden’. It began as this impromptu strummage.