No Wings Talk on Electronic Cottage site

Posted this noise memoirish essay on the Electronic Cottage site.

As its many hyperlinks may take you back here or hereabouts, the point really is to tie in what's already in plain sight here with the many other voices and stories awaiting at EC.

So, there.

Flecting One

Yes, again with the noisy improv video.

Not To Say now on Bandcamp

Not Brite now out on Bandcamp

Ghosts Of New Jerusalem -- now on Bandcamp

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.

Zsa Zsa's Bra on Bandcamp

D00d . . . Zsa Zsa's Bra . . . On Bandcamp . . .

Bengal Burlap now at Bandcamp

I'll be honest.  I've no clue. 

But stuff like "Grunt Grunt Pig" and "Encounters With Insects" is now downloadable via Bandcamp.



Price varies according to my whim.  And yours.  Sometimes the album minimum price is 5 bucks US.  Sometimes it's zilch.   (Sorry,  I'm going through a crazy time right now . . . )  But from that minimum on the rest is up to you--name your price.   In any case, the album of 11 tunes is the value package.

Meanwhile, still considering reupping the soon to be dead streaming links.

Crowd 4 Lot--video

Crowd 4 Lot is an odd hobbyhorse hybrid. Some audio from a museum opening was doctored a bit in Audacity and varispeeded and otherwise twisted in Berna.

But the original audio of these very slowed down bits of overlaid video are also part of what's going on.

Dream One, Meat's Meat

Dream One Meat's Meat More 12-Bit Jimson found on cassettes of yore. One spooky but arguably soothing, the other creepy in a Modest Proposal sort of way.

pinned down again

This is a pin I homebrewed circa 1982 to commemorate a fave post-punk band, Orange Juice.

The fine construction/New World craftsmanship is easily seen . . .


Their "Breakfast Time" (b-side to "Simply Thrilled Honey"), their work in general and that of other bands on Postcard Records was some influence on my own more rusticated inventions:

Instrumental for Plug


Something in the mood of another Orange Juice song, "In A Nutshell", might be heard in these:

Be Here Soon


A Love For All The Ages

the author of Grunt Grunt Pig

I couldn't fully claim that distinction without crossposting here.

a legacy

My middle brother passed away late last month.

And for better or worse, for anyone in earshot, he had made some contributions to my music. Direct or indirect.

His old sax that he used to play fell into my untutored hands to be used in numerous tunes:

the ever popular Grunt Grunt Pig


the skronky Bobo


the comparatively refined Music and Candlelight


And tho' I'm leery of words like "inspiration", my brother was somewhere in mind when I wrote these:

Cascade


Who in the Heck Are You?


as well as . . .

Halloween tunes vol. 1

Who In The Heck Are You?



Lost in the swamp . . .


Glen/Harry



"Insane, ee-ane, ee-ane, ee-ane . ."


Creepy Death Dude



Woo, scary . . .


Faraday Cage



Decor from Better Ohms & Gardens.

Almost Gentle, Child Star

Almost Gentle (Also on Box.)

There's also an alternate recording of Almost Gentle.
Both versions are on Mood Wring Reenactment.

Either way, another unreliable narrator song. Was going for a little John Donne action, too, with the schizoid marriage of opposites--violent and "almost ready to love". Wouldn't want to drape any more words on this stark frame.


Child Star

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

Provisionally Yours, Someone In There, At Night

Provisionally Yours


Somewhere around the spring of 1985 I had the presence of mind to go shopping for an actual guitar amp.

Through the Auto Trader I found a Fender Twin Reverb for sale. The owner was an electrical engineer who lived in Eclipse, worked for GE and gigged in country bands. He was looking to sell the Twin and get a more reliable Peavey combo instead. I liked the amp, he showed how to check speaker polarity with a battery and that was it.

Soon after I was putting that tremelo & reverb to heavy use recording the likes of Provisionally Yours and working up my Howard Devoto impression.


Someone In There



At Night



This was recorded some years after being written. I like it musically and like the arrangement done here. Even tho' this meant to be a classic unreliable narrator kind of tune, the lyrics still spook me.

Literal minded folk (of either a dark or a protective frame of mind) be warned--this just ain't your song. Go behave.

Wheel's Reinvention, My Sweet Plaything, Fried Chicken Blues

Wheel's Reinvention



My Sweet Plaything



More spookiness of the unreliable narrator variety.


Fried Chicken Blues



Another scary tune . . one that pushes some of the already dark lyrical impulses of the Blues clear 'round the bend.

I'm Fine, You'll Find Me

I'm Fine


The musical idea for this came from playing a wonky baritone uke (found at Savers).

You'll Find Me



In geeky fashion, I may most like this one for the diseased guitar tone (same part tracked twice with the same amp, a Smokey, but very different speakers) & the low-tuned wobbly intonation. Use of a bizarre old Teisco-ish electric tuned to something like open B sus 2 qualifies this as funky clunky.