Hypnotic Suggestion

Four more ditties for your listening pleasure. The first and last are further explorations of electronic music. They both feature plenty of moog and the last song has the moog double-tracked. There’s also plenty of mellotron, and the korg keeping the beat. The two middle songs are my attempts at sentimental songs. Appropriate for Valentine’s Day I suppose. 1. Obsolescence (4:47) 2. Aphasia (5:20) 3. Seaham Harbor (2:14) 4. Arctic Holiday (3:32)

I guess the funk in my last podcast has inspired me to make another extended funk jam. "Confunktivitis" is a serious condition that can lay you up for a week, according to the vocals. If it sounds like a lot of noise, it's because it took 14 separate tracks to get all that funk into one song! The second song is inspired by the sneaky prowling of a cat as well as my attempt to make a song with three distinct sections that go together, and the last song is my attempt to integrate a vaguely sitar sound from my Korg keyboard into a song. 1. Confunktivitis (7:36) 2. Soseki's Cat (4:52) 3. You're a Sitar if You Think You Are (4:20)

This is a few of the songs I've done with the loops that come with Garageband. I figured I'd try a few songs by layering them over a repeated loop. The first song has as many keyboards as I could cram into one homage to seventies funk. Organ, clavinet, a simulated moog, and a simulated "muscat pluck," whatever that is. The loop is the basic drum track, shaker, and the clavinet. Everything else is my overlaid track, including bass, extra drum sounds and embellishments. The piano in the second song sounds like a loop but it's not a loop. The only loops in this one are the drums and bongos. The mellotron, piano, and guitar are thrown on top of that. The last song is actually three piano loops. First, a two chord pattern, followed by an ascending piano loop bridge, and finally a descending piano loop, all of which are labelled "70's ballad" on Garageband. And since I can't drum very well I used Garageband drums and percussion (except my drumming and woodblock percussion at the end over the percussion loop). The mellotron choir, echo piano melody, and guitar are my additions to give it kind of a big ending The picture is some solar coronal loops. 1. Funkmatized! 2. Secret Agent in a Moroccan Cafe 3. Solar Loops

This is a fairly short podcast of my latest musical doodling. I figured it was time for an eight minute indulgent space jam so that's there in the middle. Then I threw on a short thing I did with vibraphone from another keyboard. It didn't come out perfect, but it has some discordant mellotron so I figured it would be good to include. 1. Splashdown (3:45) 2. Epic Funky Space Jam (8:06) 3. Vibraphone song (2:20)

A selection of songs by rock bands and musicians that decided to take it to another level. Including Mighty Baby and their later incarnation, The Habibiyya, as well as the George Harrison produced Radha Krishna Temple. Let the music lift you to an ethereal place of bliss. 1. Mighty Baby--Egyptian Tomb 2. The Habibiyya- Mandola 3. Popol Vuh--Lacrime Di Re 4. Julie Tippetts--What Is Living? 5. The Habibiyya--Two Shakuhachis 6. Roger Bunn--Road To The Sun 7. Radha Krishna Temple--Sri Isopanisad 8. Julie Tippetts--Now If You Remember 9. B.B.Blunder--New Day

Well it seems like a good time for more of my noodling. There’s mellotron on the first and last song, but as you can tell from the titles it doesn’t really fit on the middle two very well, which are my impersonations of your standard seventies fare. The faux-Steely Dan song was the result of a challenge, kind of, and you’ll be glad to know that I’m sparing you the lyrics, which mention an El Camino and rhymes “shiraz” with “Mr. Delacroix”. However, the song features a muted trumpet solo from a separate keyboard and plenty of cowbell! Clock song is kind of incidental music. The whole thing is about fifteen minutes. 1. Phase the Answer In The Form Of A Question 2. How To Write A Fake Meters Song (pts. 1 and 2) 3. How To Write A Fake Steely Dan Song 4. Clock Song

Another selection of my compositions put together using Garageband, most of them featuring some mellotron sounds. Usually some combination of the choir, brass, and flute sounds (give or take a sound), but on the first song I used the organ and strings that come with Garageband, and “Mellotron Song” has brass, flute, and 3 violins (no choir sound). The whole thing is about twelve minutes of mellifluous electronics. 1. Missing Planet (2:18) 2. 2003UB313 (3:00) 3. Mellotron Song (2:26) 4. Ni Fun Ni Ju Yon Byo (2:24) 5. Scattered Disc Object (2:20)

About 43 minutes of Marx Brothers songs. Mostly Groucho, but some Chico and Zeppo too! Margaret Dumont in the supporting role… 01. Hello, I Must Be Going (Animal Crackers version) The Captain Is A Moral Man Hooray For Captain Spaulding 02. Dr. Hackenbush 03. I’m Against It/ I Always Get My Man 04. His Excellency Is Due 05. Hymn To Freedonia 06. Everyone Says I Love You (Chico) 07. Lydia The Tattooed Lady 08. Everyone Says I Love You (Zeppo) 09. Chico Piano Piece #1 10. Everyone Says I Love You (Groucho) 11. Go West, Young Man 12. Captain Spaulding/ Hello, I Must Be Going (version #2) 13. Oh, How That Woman Could Cook! 14. How D’Ye Do and Shake Hands (Groucho with Jimmy Durante, Jane Wyman, and Danny Kaye) 15. Father’s Day 16. I’ll Say She Is 17. Chico Piano Piece #2 18. Hello, I Must Be Going (version #3)

Groovy female vocalists mostly from the sixties, including four pictured above. Swinging sounds, many with a pop-psych twist! 43 minutes of podcast with the occasional pop-psych guitar sound, and with helpful commentary along the way! The first song is pretty loud so don't crank the headphones or it may kind of blast your ears with french pop... 01. Annie Philippe--C'est La Mode 02. France Gall--Nefertiti 03. Brigitte Bardot--Contact 04. Samantha Jones--Today Without You 05. Spring--Fallin' In Love 06. Sharon Tandy--Hold On 07. Cilla Black--Abyssinian Secret 08. Clothilde--La Chanson Bete 09. Doris--Wouldn't That Be Groovy 10. P.P. Arnold--(If You Think You're) Groovy 11. Francoise Hardy--Tiny Goddess 12. France Gall--Made In France 13. Beverley--Happy New Year 14. Margo Guryan--Sun

For your listening pleasure I present to you two of my own compositions here. "Funk Song" and "Spacerock Song" which you can guess are my forays into funk and spacerock, respectively. Because that makes for a very short podcast, I have also included the Barnaby Jones theme, hearkening back to the heady days of Quinn Martin productions and the seventies. Not note perfect, but these are experiments after all. Then another cover of The Monkees "Porpoise Song" and finally my "Spacerock" song again with more distorted guitars. It's all only twelve minutes so it makes a great break from work. Also feel free to use these songs to entertain friends, liven up work, play at special events, etc. 1. Funk Song 2. Spacerock Song 3. Barnaby Jones Theme Song 4 Porpoise Song 5. Spacerock Song (distorted guitar version)

A full hour of psychedelic pop, and sixties pop inspired by comps Jagged Time Lapse, Chocolate Soup, Hen's Teeth, Spinning Wheel, Fading Yellow, Pop-In, and Datura Dreamtime. From England, Australia, New Zealand, and U.S.A. (Thanks Marmalade Skies for pic!) 01. Phil Cordell--Red Lady 02. Virgin Sleep--Secret 03. Steve and Stevie--Shine 04. Peter Sarstedt--Once Upon an Everyday 05. The Twilights--Paternosta Row 06. Tony Hazzard--Fade Away Maureen 07. Ron Grainer Orchestra--Boy Meets Girl 08. Secondhand--A Fairy Tale 09. The Quotations--Hello Memories 10. The Wallace Collection-- Baby, I Don't Mind 11. The Gremlins--Blast Off 12. The State of Micky and Tommy--Nobody Knows Where You've Been 13. Rolling Stones--2,000 Light Years From Home (instrumental track) 14. Elli--Don't Forget 15. The Merry-Go-Round-- Missing You 16. The Toast--Time of the Year 17. Le Cirque-- Land of Oz 18. Nashville Teens-- I'm the Lonely One 19. The Idle Race--Sitting In My Tree 20. Excelsior Spring--It 21. Vegetable Garden--Hypnotic Suggestion 22. Mike Furber--I'm On Fire 23. Bee Gees-- Please Read Me 24. Paper Blitz Tissue-- Boy Meets Girl