The HOA / Words and music by Brian Travis. (c)(p) 2021 Taste This Moment Music 

This is a song about aggressive property management and the 2020 lockdown.

The HOA

While watching an episode of The Great I was struck by an exceptional  song choice that a music supervisor made by using The Wild One by Suzi Quatro over the end credits. While listening to the song I envisioned it as a T-Rex song and wanted to re-imagine the production as if Marc Bolan recorded it. The idea kept bothering me until I picked up my guitar and learned the song, came up with an arrangement and layed it down. The result is now posted here...

The Wild One - Suzi Quatro cover by Brian Travis

This is a song about the distressing amount of natural disasters occurring as a result of the climate crisis. 

Words and music by Brian Travis.
Harmony vocals: Lili Katz
Sound recording and music video production (c)(p) 2022 Taste This Moment Music. All Rights Reserved.

The Deep End

Before The World Ends (c)(p) 2010 Taste This Moment Music.
Words and music by Brian Travis

This is a demo of a song called "Before The World Ends". It's one of 10 tracks I've written for a forthcoming album of childrens songs that aren't for children entitled "Death By Misadventure".

Before The World Ends

"Temporary" music and lyrics by Brian Travis. (c)(p)2002 Taste This Moment Music. 

This song was originally released on the Brian Travis Band 2003 release "Past The Breakers". To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the release of that album, I've re-recorded a 2023 version of "Temporary" originally written about the suicide of someone I was getting to know at the time. Her suicide was tragic and it moved me to write this song. It's dedicated to Paulina and  anyone whose ever lost anyone before they were meant to...

Temporary 2023

Tarnished / words and music by Brian Travis. (c)(p)2019 Taste This Moment Music.

I've come to realize that my music is generally inspired by the songs on the second side of albums.

Tarnished

"Expedition Bullsh*t" Words and music by Brian Travis (c)(p) 2021 Taste This Moment Music

This is another podcast theme I was hired to write for a podcast called "Expedition Bullsh*t" coming soon from host Jeff Fulton.

Expedition BS

Beautiful Mistakes (c)(p) 2024 Taste This Moment Music. Words and music by Brian Travis

Check out the lyric video on the Brian Travis Band youtube (and please support my music by subscribing to my channel):

https://youtu.be/huC6ay7uMi0?si=si6CxB3QjMjlDZ9H

Beautiful Mistakes

“Everything” words and music by Brian Travis
 (c)(p)2024 Taste this Moment Music 

This song was born of 2024 election anxiety and general feelings of being overwhelmed. This is an acoustic version recorded on my iPhone with no instrumentation other than my voice and guitar. A more fully produced version is forthcoming.

Everything (Acoustic Version)

"Amity" Words and Music by Brian Travis. (c)(p) 2025 Taste This Moment Music Publishing.

Songwriting is weird. Sometimes you write a song that is a beat by beat plot synopsis of Jaws for no reason whatsoever…

Amity

I wrote a beat by beat plot synopsis of the film JAWS. This is the fully produced version.

Amity (Produced Version)

"Albatross" Words and music by Brian Travis (c)(p) 2021 Taste This Moment Music. 
I wrote this track after reading the tale of the ancient mariner who killed an albatross that was following a ship filled with a crew of sailors. To atone for the bad luck it brought the crew he had to carry the dead albatross from a rope around his neck for the rest of his days. More terrible things happened. The end. The final verse is about a modern leader who incited insurrection at The White House on Jan 6th 2021. He too now carries the weight of his deeds in spite of how much he refuses to accept blame.

I made an animate music video for this song. You can view it on my YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/y6SXsDozQto

Albatross

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