An ongoing collaborative project kicked off for Team Trabian by Jimmy Marks.

Jimmy wrote the song and recorded a base track. I wrote and produced another round of arrangement. And here we are!

Learn more here: https://github.com/trabian/themesong

Different Again - Spector Indie Folk Energy - Nov 17

Released 11 July 2012 

Produced with Brian Douglas Phillips 
Rattletrap Audio 
www.rattletrapaudio.com 

Featuring -
Drums: Fred Mandujano 
Violin: Andy Tindall 
Bass: Dalton Chamblee
Cello and flugelhorn: B. Sterling Archer 

05 Cradle To Cradle

04 Notes From A Hotel Room In Minnesota

03 The Fall

02 Meet People Make Things

01 Anchors Away

The first experiment in a collaboration between Brent Dixon and violinist Rachel See. 

The process:

Rachel recorded a series of brief musical phrases on violin. Each was unrehearsed, unrelated, improvised on the spot, recorded at 120 BPM, and in the key of E minor. "Even if you feel like you made a mistake, keep it," was part of the game.

She sent me a folder with the collection of recorded phrases, about 20 in all. I used editing software to construct selections into a layered composition, adding the cello for some bass progression and flow.

The result is a composition by both of us and neither of us.

"Komorebi" is a Japanese word for when sunlight filters through the trees - the interplay between the light and the leaves.

Komorebi

A song I co-wrote and co-sang with my friends in Golden Solid.

More on them: goldensolid.bandcamp.com

Lyrics:

The booze on your breath
against the side of my neck
was a prop while we rolled the tape.
I lost all my words,
my lungs filled with water,
and I watched but tried not to stare.
(God, I dont know why I bother).

We peeled off our clothes
like we were pinned to the ground.
We shook off our names
like we shook off the noise from outside.

This old pile of bricks
is falling to shit.
We're counting days till the whole thing blows away.
Holed up like a ghost,
you'd planned to head to the coast.
But you were so free
that it wrapped you like a rope.

Get lost on the road
like we don't want to be found.
Like fools we compose
to turn our mistakes into sounds.

Get Lost - Golden Solid

A musical sketch from a Sunday afternoon. Still work to do to make it fully formed thought. But please enjoy nonetheless. 

Recorded in Garageband using built in laptop mic. Sounds include: Djembe, wind chimes, bullroarer, rain stick, water glass, guitar, vocals. 

Lyrics from "Into My Own," by Robert Frost.

Photo by i.Anton (www.flickr.com/photos/126235219@N04/)

Sketch - Into My Own

Sketch - Penobscot

Member of the Crash Network (now: The Cooperative Trust, trust.coop) answer the question: "What does the Crash Network mean to you?"

. . . 

Background music: "Your Kingdom Come" from "Feedback," by Derek Webb

Buy here: http://www.derekwebb.com/#tab1

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