Song: “No Brakes”
Hopefully this sounds even a little bit like coasting down the Williamsburg Bridge with no brakes… More songs at here. Click here to listen to “No Brakes,” by Nick and Rachel
Read MoreNo Sexy Regrets: Learns the Hard Way!
Fans of the project will remember M. Amy’s drum machine in the first, eponymously titled No Sexy Regrets recording. Namely, me learning how to play it, butchering a few choice tracks in the process. If you held on after that, you might fondly recall the shaker next to the mic recordings in No Sexy Regrets: [...]
Read MoreSong: Eyeliner (One Track, Unplugged)
Recorded this song for the most recent No Sexy Regrets (you can listen to that version in the AMR jukebox) – wanted to try it again with a little more structure but ran into exactly one million recording problems. Finally decided that old ways were the best ways and did the following unplugged one track: [...]
Read MoreVideo: The Long Version (No Sexy Regrets)
First and final take, recorded with Joe Yoga, Rachel Rabbit, Mark Fullmer, Bat Matthews, and Michelle Leona on July 4th, 2010. Video courtesy of a telephone. Also: new facebook page here!
Read MoreSonic Telephone: No Parking Between Sings
UPDATE: New Remixes Posted Below Friend of a Friend and AMR Music Month champion Mark Fullmer came to me today with a remix project called “No Parking Between Sings,” which is basically a collaborative music happening akin to hot-potato or telephone. How it works, via Mark: Download the original track, then use your sound editing [...]
Read MoreAMR Music Month: “The Cause of the Effect”
Click to listen to “The Cause of the Effect” by Scott Davis Context: “I wrote it in the car on the way home and sung it into my phone, then got home, ate indomie, and recorded it. Oh, and I think you’ll enjoy the the end of the song for obvious reasons [ed.: "Obvious" because [...]
Read MoreAMR Music Month: “Bleeker St.”
Click to listen to “Bleeker St,” performed by Mark Fullmer Context: A couple weeks back, as I sat transcribing the lyrics for “Beijing Huan Ying Ni,” my mp3 player got stuck on “Bleeker Street,” a Simon & Garf. number from their pre folk-rock phase (and did you know folk-rock wasn’t even really their idea?). Well [...]
Read MoreAMR Music Month: “Across the Universe”
Click here to listen to “Across the Universe,” by Mark Fullmer Context: Yep, second time this month I broke my promise not to do covers, but if the first time (“Vespers”) was well worth it, this time…well let’s just say I have reasons which will become evident on March 18th (cue mysterious Mark laugh). On [...]
Read MoreAMR Music Month: Beijing Welcomes You
Click to listen to “Beijing welcomes you,” by Mark Fullmer Context: I’ll be leaving for China in June for 2 years to serve in the Peace Corps. So. There you go. The song title translates as “Beijing welcomes you,” and I think this is sort of the Chinese equivalent of “It’s a Small World.” It [...]
Read MoreAMR Music Month: “New Young Americans”
Click to hear “New Young Americans,” by Nick Courage Context: I was having a latency problem all AMR music month, which sounds sexual but isn’t – just a frustrating recording issues. Actually, had a tough time expressing myself all February; was misunderstood by strangers, had some half-hearted vitriol slung my way. Tried to push through [...]
Read MoreAMR Music Month: “Po’ Man’s Blues”
Click to hear “Po’ Man’s Blues,” by Mark Fullmer Context: The musical inspiration for “Po. Man’s Blues” came mostly from The Beatles’ “Dizzy Miss Lizzy”, with a dash of Sammy Davis Jr’s version of “Have a Little Talk with Myself”. Personally, the most enjoyable part of recording the thing was laying down the bass line. [...]
Read MoreAMR Music Month: “The Crusades” (Dalai Lama via David Lynch)
Click here to listen to “The Crusades,” by Mark Fullmer Context: Ever since I was a kid, I always wondered what a David Lynch film about the Dalai Lama would be like. This is my musical realisation of that film. I suppose the composition also has a personal meaning, as it imbricates three spiritualities I’ve [...]
Read MoreAMR MUSIC MONTH: “Rebecca True & Charlie Kind”
Click to hear “Rebecca True & Charlie Kind,” by Mark Fullmer Context: I was driving home from this sushi place–I don’t know, probably the only one in town–and I had my radio on the local NPR. Really local, if you know what I mean. It was Mexico music hour, apparently, and I fell in love [...]
Read MoreAMR Music Month: Hot Kristeva (Rap)
Click here to listen to “Hot Kristeva (Rap),” by Mark Fullmer Context: Back when I was in grad school–near the end, clearly, when all of us second-years were a bit slap happy from postcolonial hybridity and the fictive imago–a murder of us flocked to our T.A. offices in a solemn effort to compile the most [...]
Read MoreAMR Music Month – “My Love”
Previously: AMR Music Month (Introduction) AMR Music Month – Track 1 This one’s a laffer for all you pre-Valentine’s day <3 birds, lyrics after the jump: Click to hear “My love,” by Mark Fullmer Quick Housekeeping: All you folks participating in AMR music month, send me your mp3s! I just remedied my own recording situation [...]
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