Music & Book Projects

ALBUMS!

The dumbest timeline, one in which I'm a musician, continues. Listen in stereo for optimal satisfaction. 

A pair of darkly meditative improvisations recorded late night, 2024 election day in the U.S.

 

Recording this album began with a jovial mood--laughing and wacky, lighthearted fun. While that's evident in a couple of the tracks, most feel dark or depraved. Malevolent uncertainty, like David Yow on stage. Having a ball but, ooph, things got dark. That's this album.

 

Samples and effects, primarily. For fans of "Mack the Knife."

 

 A compilation featuring one favorite track from each of the albums released in my first year making music.

 

    "There's only two kinds of people in this world: People you can deal with and people you've got to handle." Went apeshit with awesome, obscure samples on this album.

 

Celebrating the death of Henry Kissinger, released the day after his master ordered his return.

 

Happy Thanksgiving!

 

As we neared the end of the fourth year of a viral pandemic that's killed millions--and with WWIII seemingly imminent, if not already kicked off--it seemed like as good a time as any to consider human mortality and the celebration that this life is. 

 

Cuban-born Alejandro Ramirez Casas has survived to the traditional U.S. retirement age of 65 as of Oct. 9, 2023! Lil’ Alejandro is known worldwide as Al Jourgensen and heralded for his influential artistic endeavors such as Ministry and Revolting Cocks. Titles are inspired by the birthday boy and his output; not affiliated in any way with him. 

 

 My wife calls some of these tracks "creepy." I prefer "malevolent atmospheres."

 

Clocking in at more than 46 minutes, this is a set-it-and-forget-it experience. Hit play, go on with the your day with my musical musings tickling away somewhere deep inside your brain...or something, I don't know. 

 

Includes tracks spanning 10 recording sessions over two months.
What implements were used to conjure up these sounds? A little bit of everything I've got...including my first incorporation of the melodica in a special cameo! 

 

Groovy, atmospheric, briefly scary (according to my wife) and almost 19 minutes long. I used a TD-3 and a pile-o-pedals.

 

The recording came in hot, maxing out through the compressor often. I love it but simultaneously don’t know what to do with it...so, enjoy! 

 

This was released simultaneously as another 33-minute-long, single-track album ("Blood Brain Burial"). While there are some tonal similarities between the two albums--primarily the saturated doom and/or surreal malevolence--by the very nature of their origin (created in the same week using most of the same equipment), "Mashed Potato Eyes" offers some blissed-out moments of groove.

 

Blood Brain Burial was originally intended for inclusion on the previous album ("Bourgeois Bohemian Gonorrhea"), but doing so would have pushed that album to more than 90 minutes in length. Thus, here it is as a super-special standalone thing.

 

Stuff used: IYV ILS-300; Behringer TD-3, RD6; Electro Lobotomy Distortion Wave Shaper; Caline Snake Bite, Stack Attack, Time Space Echo Delay; Lakato Looper; Pigtone Super Chorus; EQD Astral Destiny, Rainbow Machine.

 

The usual implements are employed herein. 

 

Loud shout out to David at Electro Lobotomy. Thanks for crafting such unique and killer aural-disturbance devices! Goodness has never sounded so disgustingly crunchy. 

 

My third original album released in my first month of making music.

 

A quartet of four of my earliest recordings, collected and released in honor of my mother's 70th birthday. Happy birthday, Mom! 

 

My musical debut! Enter this expecting an array of simple experimentation. The paraphernalia used to create these sounds: IYV ILS-300, Behringer TD-3, Behringer RD-6, Caline Time Space Echo Delay, EQD Astral Destiny, EQD Rainbow Machine.
 

BOOKS!

2016