A 2013 cover of Joy Division's Atmosphere.  All instruments and vocals by Dane.

Atmosphere (Joy Division)

Created by Dane on Boss RC-505 Looper, Schecter 7-string electric, Fender Pugilist distortion, Strymon Big Sky reverb.

Crags of Aikerness

Cover of Threshold by Sex Bob-omb.  I rewrote some lyrics and added a verse from the White Stripes' "Expected," cause it's the same song, just much slower.  At 165bpm, this is the fastest song I have ever played in any genre.  All instruments, drum programming,  and vocals:  Dane

Threshold (Sex Bob-omb)

Autumn Rains

Music and lyrics copyright Dane Gregory Reese, 1995.  This is a funky driving song I wrote long ago to express my anger at ignorant anti-immigrant bigotry in the US.  This song uses an electric guitar loop, acoustic rhythm guitar, electric solos, drums, shaker, and didgeridoo.  Vocals and all instruments by Dane.  Recorded 2014.

Mexican Bus

In this cover of PJ Harvey's "To Bring You My Love," I altered the lyric to magnify its blasphemous curses to the utmost, calling for inspiration on Eros as God of Destruction, while tipping some hats to Led Zep, Rolling Stones, and The Stooges.  I mirrored the original instrumentation to some degree, but intensified periodically.

To Bring You My Love (PJ Harvey)

Music and lyrics by Psychedelic Furs.  Arrangements, all instruments, vocals:  Dane

Sister Europe 2 (Psychedelic Furs)

Music and lyrics copyright Dane Gregory Reese 2014.  A new remake of a song I wrote very long ago.

She Is Come

Love So Strange

Leave it All Behind

Loops, guitars, vocals, drums:  Dane

Today 
Everything is alive
And today is forever
Forever is the day that never dies
And everything is trying to talk to you

And all things move
And all things grow
And everything that moves and grows is in tune
With the wheel that turns on the day
And the day turns blue

And all is true
And all is empty
And all is true and empty;  empty is all

Forever Today

Green Three Scorer

Incomensurate Loops, guitars, bass:  Dane

El Paraguas

Loops of figures with 5, 6, and 7 beats per measure, with bass and guitar solo

La Sirena

Music and lyrics copyright Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte, 1977

In this treatment, Disco meets its great grandchild, technometal.

Arrangement, keyboards, vocals, guitars, drum programming by Dane

In this treatment, Disco meets its great grandson, technometal.

I Feel Love! (Donna Summer)

Music and lyrics copyright Ray Davies 1964.
Why do a cover of this already-great song?  I wanted to try a very tense, grungy sound on it.  
Drums, guitars, keyboards, vocals:  Dane

All Day and All of the Night (The Kinks)

Music and lyrics copyright Dane Gregory Reese 2024 All Rights Reserved. 
Guitars, percussion, vocals:  Dane

The night's cauldron appears
Rimmed in pearls, adorned in lanterns
The long sound of the sea
Empties back to its echoing chambers
Murmurs nothing to mold the silence

And you may flap your darkened wing to
Bring the tails of forgotten moonbeams
And call the sails to the ancient sands
Where the sprite of morning shines

When once the twilight looms no longer
Her woven garment all frayed and torn
And draws the weave out from the darkness
To mend her shining ebon shroud
And calls on gently whispered evenings
To bring an end to the day

Night's Cauldron

Led Zeppelin is well known for taking traditional Southern Blues songs and turning them into giant glamrock spectacles.  Here I reverse the process.   But the result owes much more to Jimmy Page's guitar riffs than to Blind Wille Johnson, whose original version of the song bears little resemblance to this version or the Zeppelin version.  Also, in the lyrics, I replaced Jesus with Osiris as the receiver of souls.

In My Time of Dying (Led Zeppelin, Blind Willie Johnson)

Plane of Souls

A reimagining of Brian Jonestown Massacre's I've been Waiting, with new lyrics written in the style of Percy Blyth Shelley.  Vocals, guitars, percussion, xylophone, and treatments:  Dane

Still Sleeping (BJM Reboot)

This song explores the intersection of the potential and the manifest, the past and future, at the crossroads of being.  It happens to sound a bit Cowboyish.  And bluesy.  Vocals, all instruments:  Dane.  Text and music copyright Dane Gregory Reese, 2017, all rights reserved.

In the dawn stands a man
With a letter in his hand
And the letter tells a woeful tale
Of a woman who is held in a jail

And every step that he has taken
Has brought him here
Standing at the crossroads

And on a fencepost a raven's perched
As the sunlight strikes the steeple on the church
And the pale moon sits on a hill
It's disappearing, yet it lingers still

Every step that he has taken 
Has brought him here
Standing at the crossroads

And on the left side is endless desert
To the right lies the distant restless sea
Back behind him is the ruined past
Straight ahead is the unborn yet-to-be

Every road that lies before him
Is a perilous road
Both good and evil

And what befalls a man by evening
Is a hazard's throw
When you're standing at the crossroads

In the dawn still stands a man
With a letter in his hand
And in his pocket he has a gun
His shoulders shiver in the rising sun

Every road that lies before us
Is a perilous road
both good and evil

And on every step that we have taken
Falls the shadow of a man
Standing at the crossroads

Standing at the Crossroads

Lyrics and music copyright Dane Gregory Reese 1986 all rights reserved. Sythesizers, drums, percussion, guitar, bass, vocal: Dane. Another post-apocalyptic piece of mysanthropy that despises humanity and its thanatic greed. Hectic, frantic, and chaotic, this very lopsided twelve-beat measure barely holds together, just like civilization itself.

Dane Gregory Reese:  On Which Dies

Maharashi Technology

Caught in the Fray

Words and music copyright Dane Gregory Reese 1998.  This full-on electric guitar rock-out is a love song I wrote to a very special person in my life.

Dane Gregory Reese:  Molly's Song

Anonymous medieval lyric

Maiden in the mor lay
In the mor lay
seven nist full

Seven nist full and a day

And wel was her mete
What was her mete?
The primerole and the...
The primerole and the violet

And wel was her dring
What was her dring?
The cheld water of the...
The cheld water of the welle spring

And wel was her bower
What was her bower?
The rede rose and the...
The rede rose and the lily flower

Maiden in the Mor Lay

End of Days

Creating music from a place of authenticity.  I do not make music to impress anyone or to show off my musicianship, but only to share what I am feeling.  I love to hear the authentic, independent works of others.  I live in a world of sound and vibration, and welcome the presence of friends.

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