Dogs from hell yeah! Throws me back 30 years in time. The exciting part :)

Thanks to Angelina Gauna (https://soundcloud.com/angelina-graciano-gauna) and Luis Santos (https://soundcloud.com/luissantos-1-1) for initiating this interpretation with their vocal performances, and allowing me to chip in on keys.

(Thumbnail image of postage stamp featuring the artistic work of Martha Poppe and celebrating the composer Heitor Villa-Lobos obtained from Wikimedia Commons; it's public domain)

Melodia Sentimental (Villa-Lobos) with Angelina and Luis

The late great music educator Barry Harris would do this thing where he would draw 4 numbers randomly from the set of integers 1 through 8, and then improv a tune on piano based on the drawn numeric sequence.    Youtube has a clip with one such occasion, where the sequence 2-6-4-7 was drawn: https://youtu.be/0-IRJsAi0ek?t=91.  My simple interpretation here on soundcloud is in the spirit of tribute.  To accompany my keys I also used a beginner level lap steel guitar (electric) I recently got (been trying to learn basics of C6 tuning w/ fingerpicks... I'm not good at it but it's fun and I like the added atmosphere).

Barry Harris 2-6-4-7 (a tribute interpretation)

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DOWNLOAD IT HERE: https://tij-official.bandcamp.com/track/bleed-through Written by Barry Snaith & Erika Bach July 2014 
Voice: Lola Demo https://soundcloud.com/lolademo
Instruments and Voice: TIJ
Blister-inducing Guitar Solo: Darren Chilton https://soundcloud.com/spectrum_one

After many a ‘heated debate’ between the fantastic Lola Demo and I, we finally got the track we both wanted without shedding  too many tears. I must have gone through a whole box of tissues.
The trials and tribulations were many - Erika’s laptop broke before we even began and I soon learned that a small Greek island isn’t the place for speedy repairs. My Mac then died on me - unsurprising after the beatings I give it. Then we had a few ‘issues’ about the subject matter and my gory artwork (which I’ve since altered in the light of current horrors). Then I wanted to enlist the astounding skills of the (surely) extra-dextered Darren Chilton, much like Eddie Van Halen on Michael Jackson’s Beat It. Turns out he also had no computer (Darren, not Jacko) so we had to liaise via internet cafés in Tokyo. Darren's only brief was to 'make it as fucked up as possible'. Eventually a truly global song was born (Tokyo, Ithaca, Wakefield). 
I’d also like to say that, once computers were revived, Erika and Darren were so quick to provide their stellar contributions, whereas I laboured faaar too long over the mix, which eventually Erika mastered superbly over at Ithaca Manor.
Anyway, here’s the result. I hope you like it. Loved working with them both. Please listen to their music, you won't be disappointed.

Produced by TIJ 
Mastered by Lola Demo

lyrics by Bach & Snaith July 2014 and we did bleed through them.
BLEED THROUGH 
Halaal! Hallal! You’re bleeding me dry… 
You cannot tell me what I need - what I should want from my life. 
There is no cure for what I feel. No medication to make it right. 
It’s not easy shaking off the damage. 

'Undead Girl Walking'. Halaal! Halaal! You’re bleeding me dry. Hanging on a hook. It's a struggle but you’re good and stuck. Guess you’d be out of luck if you weren’t up so high. 

Bleed through. I know you want to. 

Already dead. I’m already dead. Already bleeding from the back of my head. You’re so wrong. This is genocide. Doesn’t it make you want to cry. Already dead. 

Undead Girl Walking. Halaal! Halaal!  You’re bleeding me dry. I’m hanging on a hook. I struggle but I’m good and stuck. Guess I’d be out of luck if I didn’t feel so high. 

Bleed through. I know you want to. 

Halaal! Halaal! Halaal!
Goodbye.

released 22 August 2014

Bleed Through - TIJ & LOLA DEMO (feat. DARREN CHILTON) AVAILABLE TO BUY NOW.

Haven't done one of these things in a while; felt an itch to get an Ableton session view groove going, try stuff, and see what sticks.  As material, chose a foundational Ellington tune that seems to be a common "try this well-known classic as the first jazz standard you attempt" suggestion offered by people who enjoy playing interpretations of jazz standards.  Simple interpretation here in the spirit of tribute.

C Jam Blues (Duke Ellington)

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Vocals + lyrics: She's Excited! (https://soundcloud.com/she-s-excited)
Keys, bass + initial backing track: Greg (https://soundcloud.com/g-c-ess)
Aleatoric method, guitar, beat + production: Wou-Wou & The Wormling

Chords, tempo, time signature and lyric themes were all picked out at random using dice, coin flips and pulling prompts from a hat.

Artwork by Wou-Wou & The Wormling (https://www.instagram.com/wouwouandthewormling)

0304: Plastic or Steel (feat. She's Excited! & Greg)

Find Another Way is a an exhortation to stop shooting Brumbies from helicopters and find another way to preserve our native wildlife. It is from the point of view of the Brumbies themselves. It was written and sung by Robyn Youlten: Acoustic Guitar by Robyn Youlten; Flute parts by Chris Scheri; Drums and percussion by Liam Webb; recorded live by Chris at Liam's rehearsal room and mastered by Chris Scheri at Studio7.

Find Another Way

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LYRICS:
"Plastic hearts and thimble heads all wrapped up with rubber bands
hunted by toy buffalo kings, bad dreams poison everything
shoot their arrows - pop their guns;
you lose yourself in ghost radio. In a signal made of smoke.

Our feet are lost in the willow trees. Sound alarms. Frost bite comes to eat
You shove em out in the quaking light, their shining breasts bend the light
in velvet crumbs they die and tower, where all the hours go.

They say they love you but only they need, like hummingbirds come to feed;
boys and girls on mounting pins, under a glass in a dusty bin; with worn limbs tattered at their seams, 
on empty beds, unbuttoned eyes and heads;
would you look at all the mess!
Don’t recognize them. Melted and burned, by the wrath of ray gun baby feels.
Mouth glum. Hearts of power. Warm to the bone, the bandages on fingertips hold the little ones 
hold the hands that shake!


Crooked eyed queens and fat little kings. Sucking on flowers. Fucking on dreams. Their nibs and stoles on pillow trees, drinking of reek and smoking bees. And I'm afraid their apple brains had all grown roots, unglued the stars from their beds, knotted limbs from wooden heads "



Artwork: 'Madame McAllister and the Twin Sippers' used with permission of the voraciously talented Kristian Adam

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Unbuttoned Eyes

Genre-fluid. 
DEBUT ALBUM RELEASED ON SEJA/CANDY BOMBER MUSIC: https://sejarecords.bandcamp.com/album/gig-economy
Formerly known as The Inconsistent Jukebox. I have been exclusively recording as m1nk with Erika Bach (lola demo) for the past 4 years and put the TIJ stuff on hold for a while. In between the next m1nk release we are both releasing solo material. Watch this space for previews of the new stuff.
New single out 31st October -  'SIng Me Something SInister'. Taken from the forthcoming debut solo album 'Gig Economy'. WATCH VIDEO HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4ZhwYgG6M8
You can also follow my current and future work with Erika Bach (as m1nk) here: https://soundcloud.com/m1nk and http://www.m1nk.com
https://sejarecords.bandcamp.com/album/m1nk-em-one-en-kay
I've had the very good fortune and honour to associate my own music here on SC with some truly astounding  and generous graphic & surrealist artists: Smiler Street Art (London) https://www.facebook.com/smilerstreetart/, Eric Lacombe (France) http://www.ericlacombe.com/home.php, Belgian surrealists Mothmeister https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/mothmeister. Please do look at their work, you won't be disappointed. Stay here and listen a while first though.
I'm also finding other amazing stuff here on Soundcloud that I would have never heard elsewhere, a few of them I've had the pleasure to collaborate with.: Heidi Harris, Konokunok, Narcisse Noyé, Dolll, Richard Devine, Joaquin Mendoza, Vasco Morais, Keldari Station, Musicaserj, & Cathrinta, Luciole Langevine, Renaud Deback, Lola Demo, Anda Volley, Ang Kerfoot, Dana Dau, Chris Pendergraft, Faerytale and many more. I could go on (and usually do). Check them out, you won't hear their like in many other places. 
Also look out for my playlists here on Soundcloud which feature other artists: 'Favourites From The Cloud', 'Soundscapes'  and 'The Siren, She Sings' (which also has a blog). You may even be in one of them.

Thanks to Isaac for my (full) name. Check out his eerie upload, https://soundcloud.com/aminimalvirus/inconsistent-jukebox. Genius. It crept up on me late one night (one of those tracks that you didn't select but came on in someone else's stream) and I genuinely thought I was going mental. When you hear it you'll see what I mean.
DOWNLOAD SINGLE HERE: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/bold-ego-fledgling-feat-ang-kerfoot-richard-brown-remix/id1165683158?app=itunes&i=1165683231
DOWNLOAD  MINI-ALBUM HERE: https://tij-official.bandcamp.com/album/useless-weapons
BUY DOUBLE SINGLE: itunes.apple.com/gb/album/likey-n…are/id1171468402
Keep breathing. Stay creative. Be original.

Bleed Through - TIJ & LOLA DEMO (feat. DARREN CHILTON) AVAILABLE TO BUY NOW.

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