Name: Russians by Carl Brahms
Duration: 6 min 39 s
Description: A song I wrote when I was a kid dreaming of sugar plums.

A song I wrote when I was a kid dreaming of sugar plums.

Russians

From the Nothing Personal full-length record.

Normalized Relations

Your Best Guess

I wrote this when I was 18.  It's from the out-of-print cassette tape called 'Lightbulb, Fork, String.'  

I will feel so good when you're gone.

First draft of the song Close As I Can, which would appear later on Nothing Personal.

Unable

Somewhat of a Before/After of 'You Who Enter,' which will be on the next record.  I think this one is done for the most part.

You Who Enter (original draft)

You Who Enter

The A-side to the Disconap 7" record.Probably dating from around 2000.This was my first attempt at "real" lyrics, and while I can't say it holds up too well, I'm still partial to it for purely nostalgic reasons.
And yes, the fact that it spells 'ritalin' backwards was my ham-handed attempt at being clever.


Nilatir

I'm actually excited about this one.  Like everything else, it needs a ton of work, but I think it's starting to resemble a real song.  Or at least it will if I can find the right vocal melody.  

I'm including the original loop for comparison's sake, since there's a fair amount of changes that have occurred since I wrote it.  (It hasn't been trimmed, so it's basically 3 minutes of the same thing with a short coda at the end).  

Incidentally, the original loop was featured in a short student film which I have unfortunately lost the link to.



Department of the Interior (old)

Department of the Interior

I wrote this on my laptop sitting at the kitchen table.
It took a long, long time to write. 
I can easily point to 20 things I don’t like about it.

But now that’s it’s done, and maybe just for right now, I feel a bit like that quote about Richard Nixon going “up the walls of life with his claws.” So I have that going for me.

Russians

Carl Brahms

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