Eraserhead, The Song
I get to be home for a week by myself. It’s like Christmas and my birthday all rolled into one. Naturally this sort of thing always makes me think about the song Eraserhead by Bruce McCulloch. If you have never […]
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The Band That Never Was
The newest episode of my favorite podcast is out, which means i’m going to take a minute and go all fanboy over it. Did you ever have band in high school or college? Ever do theater in high school or […]
The Chatterlaine Trilogy
Today we shall feature a little music. Moody and mellow for your melancholy Monday. Back when i lived in NY i was working on a project and ended up with an extra track that i was unable to use at […]
New Album: Fairy Tales for the Lost and Wandering. Listen Now.
And finally we end with the full album. Fairy Tales for the Lost and Wandering is a series of short, melancholy, original fairy tale-esque stories set to music. They are sung, they are spoken, the music ranges from simple to […]
Listen To A Fairy Tale (A Scene In Ice)
Well, we can safely assume the Americans in our audience will be out of commission today as today is the sacred Day Of The Mixing Of Beer And Explosives (and honestly, it’s basically as awesome as it sounds). We shall however continue […]
Listen To A Fairy Tale (Piston Brown. New & Improved!)
Let’s listen to something a little more upbeat today, shall we? As mentioned before, what started out as some simple piano and voice demos has now become a fully produced album. This week i shall play some selections from it […]
Madame Chatterlaine (Listen To A Fairy Tale! New & Improved!!!)
A little while back i posted a few demo tracks featuring original fairy tales made into song form with acoustic piano. I liked the idea, the stories but other than one song (Diedre) the tracks with only piano left me […]
Bohren & der Club of Gore
Today we feature an excellent band making modern noir music, Bohren & der Clud of Gore. It’s ambient jazz technically, but it sounds like what youo would think heavily chilled, dark modern noior music would sound like. Sparse, slow, moody […]
Fairy Tales For The Lost And Wandering
Collected all together here in one post is a 5 song experiment in storytelling: telling 5 original, melancholy fairy tales using only piano and voice. How well it’s pulled off is up to you to decide. But not only can […]
Listen To A Dark Fairy Tale: Dear Departed Diedre
For the next few days we’re going to do a track a day of a different dark tinted fairy tale. It’s a… it’s a series of tracks of a work in progress. I honestly have no idea what i’m actually […]