School for Robots

Drumz

An incomplete selection of music I've played on.

Selected Session Work

released 01 October 2013 
Curtis Killian - vocals, electric guitar, 8-bit guitar, aliens 
Clinton Degan - electric guitar, pocket piano, choir synth, judas priest vocals 
Abram Taber - electric bass, synth bass 
Frank Hegyi - drums, samplepad, tambourine 
Cullen Corley - maracas 

Recorded by Elio Deluca at the Soul Shop in Medford, MA. 
Produced by School for Robots & Luke Sullivan 
Mixed & mastered by Luke Sullivan

Mega#@$!ing Man

Another work in progress from some of our last home recordings at the end of last year. This song came to me in a dream, David Bowie was like a lounge singer/waiter or something in a restaurant I was eating in, and was just singing "Hoola Deranged" to that melody. It was perplexing. He then spilled water on me.

Clinton Degan: vocals, guitar; Frank Hegyi: drums, SPD11, percussion; Maxwell Butler: piano, organ, theremin; Curtis Killian: guitar, vocals; Abram Taber: bass;

Recorded at home with initial engineering by Luke Sullivan.

Lyrics by Curtis, Degan and Frank:

hoola deranged

queen of the strange
a fish in the drain
yeah she's all of these things

you've got nothing in your brain
just mechanical pain
an expensive display

yeah you might be insane
or partly unchained
i think god made you that way

come on on
come on on
come on
 
hoola deranged

perpendicular plane 
beezelbub's play
in a backgammon game

yokahoma by train
see the hoofchamber maid
in her bilbo beret

little peach giant james
peanut butter in flames
with a side of raisins

come on on
kimono
kimodo
comode

hoola deranged

vernacular saint
elbow scratchy with grain
and a new coat of paint

the ol' in out of phase
put you back in your plaze
in a cortizone daze

forget what i say
just be on your way
with the hoola deranged

Hoola Deranged

That Is Something

A Rock & Roll song about throwing yourself out of a window.

Defenestrated

Saddlebag started out as a 3-year-old riff and half-finished chorus inspired by riding my bike with a tambourine in my saddlebag.

Featuring Abram Taber of A Bit Much and www.reallybadreverb.com on bass and Frank Hegyi on drums and percussion. Recorded on Monday, February 13, 2012, as seen in this video still (video forthcoming).

Saddlebag

One & Two

2010 Branson single release - 256 kbps MP3 file

Sirens

You Had Me At Goodbye

A country song written for Joey Clift's reboot of Sufjan Steven's shelved Fifty States Project.

R. K. Vallury: lead vocals, acoustic guitar, banjo
Maxwell "Bunny" Butler: piano, Hammond organ, drums and percussion, backing vocals
Jere Mendelsohn: acoustic guitar, reso-phonic guitar
Dan Wessels: upright bass

Music and lyrics by R. K. Vallury

Produced by Vallury & Butler

Engineered by Maxwell Butler

Butte, Montana (I Ain't Goin' Back)

Chicopee (avec les Funquois)
Performed by King Oaf
Maxwell "Bunny" Butler: vocals, Fender Rhodes, Hammond organ, clavinet, claviset, synthesisers, drum programming
Written and produced by Vallury & Butler
Engineered by Maxwell Butler

Our Fifty States Project - Massachusetts

Chicopee (avec les Funquois)

Another song written for Joey Clift's 2020 reboot of Sufjan Stevens' shelved Fifty States Project.

R. K. Vallury: lead vocals, guitars

Maxwell "Bunny" Butler: electric pianos, Hammond C-3, synthesisers, bass, drum programming and percussion, backing vocals

Farmer Samm: 1982 Ford LN9000

Lyrics by R. K. Vallury

Music by Vallury & Butler

Produced and arranged by Vallury & Butler

Engineered by Maxwell Butler

2020

Pure Michigan

A song written for the "Moon" album of Joey Clift's Our Fifty States Project, a 2020 reboot of the shelved Sufjan Stevens effort.

R. K. Vallury: vocals
Maxwell "Bunny" Butler: piano, dulcitone, synthesiser, backing vocals
Chris Elliott: muted cornet
Prashant Vallury: electric bass
Vincent Fossett, Jr.: drums

Lyrics by R. K. Vallury
Music by Vallury & Butler
Produced and arranged by Vallury & Butler
Engineered by Maxwell "Bunny" Butler

Earthrise

Funky House / dance music. Made with MPC and guitar in Boston, MA.

Hoola Deranged

Curt Killian