Hungry Ghost Editions now out on Bandcamp

Hungry Ghost Editions gathers up instrumentals from the mid-1990s.

Nothing To Do on Bandcamp

Now on Bandcamp, Nothing To Do, a whole big slew of songs from the mid 1990s. Tray card tells the story.

Halloween tunes vol. 2

Ghost Town



The ectoplasmic bustle.


Lounge Star (Hungry Ghost version)



The mellow moans of all alone.


Whiskey Drinkas



A spirit seeking spirits.


3rd Day of Fog



Play Misty for me?

light beneath a bushel basket

St. Barley Day


A fun, spritely instrumental. Previously posted, just not too often heard.

Shambelle #1


Shaking and shuffling along, holding together as it falls apart, it's a fave. And also not so often heard.

22 May 04


I rather like this one too. One of a few late night/early morning meditations that fell together.

Maybe it needs a better name than a date, but long phrases come to mind:

"at night a pulse arrives"

"the last one found"

Low Field


Spacing out just a little more . . .

Better Set Sail, Guide, Wearier and Wary Of

Better Set Sail


The wraith of Herman Melville would not be impressed. Tho' he might find his toe tapping and his voice joining the chorus erelong . . .


Guide



A more arch variation on the theme of composite identity found in say Wire's "40 Versions".


Wearier and Wary Of

Whiffle Sod, Blossom King, 20 Baht, Hipnowash

Whiffle Sod



Blossom King




20 Baht




Hipnowash

Low Field, Ah Fuzz, Lo Estate

Low Field


I used Low Field as background music for this short bit of video.

Ah Fuzz




Lo Estate

Thinking Sinking, Skipping, Nothing Put Together, You Know It's So

Thinking Sinking


I'm kinda proud of this song. It's no ray of sunshine lyrically, but it says what it says with something I'd dare call beauty. As close as I get . . .


Skipping



A friend once called a novel of his "a hopeful book about despair". That might apply here. And whether it does, I like funny songs.


Nothing Put Together



It may seem too clever by half, but I'd just seen Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina in Jean-Luc Godard's Pierrot Le Fou at the Brattle. JPB's character blows up by the sea at the end of the movie. My song has a nominally happier ending.


You Know It's So (Go Up)



More of that "hopeful . . despair" stuff. A gently pointed rejoinder to anyone close enough to hear.

Homage to The Wild World of Animals, Opti-Suite, Resurrect

Homage to The Wild World of Animals


I guess the name of the show was Wild, Wild World of Animals, aired in the 1970s.

The spare synth-based theme music was some very cool indeed (check out this YouTube vid courtesy love2register) .

Broadly speaking and after the fact, it was this long ago music that my piece brought to mind. Thus the title . . .

Opti-Suite



Resurrect

When The Devil Can Come Out & Play, More of Them, Who In The Heck Are You

When The Devil Can Come Out and Play


More of Them



Who In The Heck Are You?

Odd Slim, Lounge Star, Wombaloo

Odd Slim


Lounge Star (Hungry Ghost version)



Wombaloo



The above are three instrumentals from a period I sometimes regret beginning and other times regret ending.

All three were MIDI sequenced and as such reflect some of my feel while reducing my flubs. That makes them glossy . . .

All of them also have some kind of fun with the sounds they use. That makes them faves of mine . . .

Some snippets from other such are online elsewhere. In the great by & by, I'll post them here.

ye very olde k music sites

The New Noise K Page of Music
I still like the animated GIFs here. Mostly downsampled WAVs of short excerpts.

Twilight Extended
Another musical persona.

Left Behind, Right Through

Left Behind


Right Through
(Also on Box.)

As it is with children, it seems bad form to have favorite songs, much less to profess them. Every song or instrumental created has its value, its own identity.

But from terms of ego & striving, some things work out more the way you wanted. And better still, some things surprise you to the point of rising above one's abilities or intentions. The fact that you made them (and may've even made them with noticeable flaws) can't stop them from joining in the mystery of the world at large. And leaving you feeling more humble than proud.

I like being surprised that way.

These songs surprise me, as do some of these others (Be Here Soon, Deep and Drifting come to mind). All of them surprise me here and there, but my faves surprise me most.

Without positing or denying some metaphysical substrate, I see mystery in the world as it exists. And it's nice occasionally to add to that mystery and not simply observe it.

Egypt Lane, Deep and Drifting

Here are a couple of songs I made a few years apart.

Egypt Lane


Deep and Drifting
(Also on Box.)

Both songs mention snow. And both trade in a dim if not dark sort of incandescence that can come from how snow can cover or scatter or hold onto the light.

Egypt Lane was inspired by if not literally about the landscape around a little road of the same name. That landscape figures prominently in a homebrew music video I made for the song. Plus another version. And a recent video of the area.

Deep and Drifting was written about 3 years before with no particular landscape in sight. There's more of a heat without light aspect, a terrain imagined. And the singer, "dressed in white", isn't seeing the snow, he is the snow. A single flake holding on.

Anyway, some friends seem to like Egypt Lane, consider it a favorite. At least one friend likes Deep and Drifting. And as you might guess, I like them both.