Long Gone Away redux

Long Gone Away





A largely identical, slightly different mix.

This song was playing in head most mornings late last month. (Now playing: a song I haven't written yet.)

Long Gone Away

Long Gone Away


The Marble Index is one of my favorite albums.

Still I had to laugh when I read (some damn place) how the professionals mixing the record did as much as they could as fast as they could. The songs, written and sung by Nico and arranged by John Cale, were simply making these guys suicidal.

One might cite Plato and Aristotle and argue than music and the broader swath of arts & culture may either invoke bad feelings or deliver us from them through catharsis. I'd guess it works either way, to the point that positive thinking and primal screams can by turns harm or help.

In any case, if a song or whatever really wants to be written and played and recorded--well, good luck doing otherwise. Tho' you may have to mix it yourself.

Tho' not the iced over river crossing that is The Marble Index, such was the story of the song above. At times couched in broad social terms, an elegy for & goodbye to what's behind.

Long Gone Away--video

Homebrew music video of Long Gone Away using old Super-8 footage and some of the Night Wanderer stills.

songs & such: R-Z

Listed by title from R through Z, links to song & instrumental postings on audiokayness:

Rajan Clik

Red Mellow Carry (original version with just the funky old acoustic)

Red Mellow Carry (with an added bass part)

Reggio

Resurrect

Right Through

Robot Angels

Rocker Wait

Rocky Rajah

Rubber Band Z-Box Blues

Running Scared

Runnymede Turn

Sad In All Directions

Safety First

Say When

Scrape Bottom

Second Plateau

Shambelle #1

Shambelle #3

(Pink) Shambelle #4

Shookup Hollow

Short Fridge

Shorthand Jive

Skipping

Slap and Keen

Slide Back

Smashed In Doors

(So Far Away) Long Gone Away

Someone In There

Someone's Giving It All Back

Spectral Cakewalk

Spiritus Monday

Spoken Wave Stepdown

Spring Is Gone

St. Barley Day

St. Mary Sun

Still We Love

Sunshine Sentry

Sun Rises

Surfy Meditation

Sweet Days Gone

T-Improv

Tag Sprung

They'll Hardly Say

Thinking Sinking

Till The Very End

Too Far

Took Root

Touch Nothing

Tremble Melt

Try

Turing Chicken

Turning Reed

Unmooningwise

Urgent Zebra

Veteran's Day

View In White

Waiting With The Lost

Walker Rumination

Wandered Past

Warble Nite

WatUSpace

Waver Patient

Wayohh

Wearier and Wary Of

WeaslThrum

Weeds 'Hind The Rose Room

Wel Don 2

Wheel's Reinvention

When The Devil Can Come Out and Play

When You Go Away

Whiffle Sod

Whine-oleum

Whiskey'd

Whisky Drinkas

Whisper Down The Well

Whisper Slowly

Who In The Heck Are You?

Wick (Not Exist)

(Homage to the) Wild World of Animals

Winter Palace

Wishing Well

Wither Thou Goest

Wombaloo

Wound Beneath The Ferns

Wrong Move

Years End

You Know It's So (Go Up)

You'll Find Me

Zoobish Call

songs & such: I-Q

Listed by title from I through Q, links to song & instrumental postings on audiokayness:

I'm Fine

I'm Off

Instrumental for Plug

Instrumental Frenzy

Intravenous Swarm

It Shouldn't Be This Way

I've Got a Doll Now

June Bug In August

Just Bones

Justine

Kitchen Improv

Last I Drove To Value City

Last March Out

Last We Heard

Left Behind

Lifted

Listen (demo version)

Lo Estate

Lonesome Yodel

Long Gone Away

Lounge Star

Low Field

Mary Magazine

Meat's Meat

Middle of May

MixRDrone

More Neon

More of Them

Music and Candlelight

Musica Musica

My Sweet Plaything

Never Young

New Rub

No Hold

Not The Place

Nothing Put Together

Oboe Arabesque (aka The Hurling Dervish)

Odd Slim

On The Drift

On The Fall Line

Opti-Suite

Ordinary

Our Preschool Speakers

Outside My Door

Over To Pons

Parlor Apparition

Penguin Beach

Pink Shambelle #4

Previous October

Provisionally Yours