from the album "not Great", out November 2021 on Gold Bolus Recordings

written by Dave Ruder
vocals by Dave Ruder
violin by Andie Tanning
viola by Karen Waltuch
cello by Isabel Castellvi
mixed by Stephe Cooper
mastered by MP Kuo

not Great

I just got a Sequential Circuits Six Trak keyboard (originated in 1984) so it seemed appropriate to cover something from the era.  Hence, after an afternoon's work: Apollonia 6's Blue Limousine, presumably written by Prince aka Jamie Starr.  The interlude is my memory of a song by Adam Tinkle we used cover in Why Lie? (whylie1.bandcamp.com) along with Blue Limo, and there are a handful of other references throughout.  No ownership of any of those songs is claimed. 

Blue Limo (Apollonia 6 cover)

A nice & slow & sparse version of Rogers & Hart's Blue Moon.  Arranged & performed by Dave Ruder.  From the collection Fixations, Winter 2016.

Blue Moon

An excerpt from Dave Ruder's composition The Gentleman Rests (2015). Commissioned by the Jerome Foundation and performed at Roulette in Brooklyn, NY on 3/3/15.

Performed by Michele Kennedy, Kyra Sims, (voice), Karen Waltuch (viola), Brandon Lopez (bass), Sam Morrison (Rhodes), and Dave Ruder (conductor)

The Gentleman Rests, Section J

from the forthcoming album Qualms Rectified on Gold Bolus Recordings, coming fall 2017

words & music by Dave Ruder
performed by Dave Ruder
plus
Sam Morrison - synth
Jordan McLean - trumpet
Michael Hurder - trombone
Karen Waltuch - viola
Valerie Kuehne - cello
Jonathan Zorn - additional drum programming

It Started As A Ripoff

An interpretation of Gershwins' Oh Lady Be Good, arranged and performed by Dave Ruder. From the EP Fixations 2, coming Fall 2018

Oh! Lady Be Good

A cover of Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg's Jane B, which is itself a cover of Chopin's Prelude in E Minor. Since the conceit of Jane B is that Birkin is singing about her own salacious murder, I've switched the last verse to English and maintained the conceit but switched the words/details.

Part of the EP Fixations 2, released October 2018

Jane B Dave R

Turning a bit of the outro of Feist's My Moon My Man into 6.5 min of music. From the EP Fixations 2. All instruments, voices, and electronics by Dave Ruder

My Moon My Man

Pious Rious by Dave Ruder
performed live at Hart Bar on Nov 10th, 2019 by Dave Ruder (vocals & guitar), Jack Reilly (guitar & vocals), and Marshall Yarbrough (drum & vocals)

Hart Bar 11-10-19

Pious Rious (live 11-10-19)

A cover of No! No! No! to Draft & War as covered by the Minutemen on Ballot Result. It's hard to understand the words so I only did the parts I could get all the lines. They say someone named Sambia wrote it, I couldn't find that version. Anyway down with imperialism, US and otherwise.

Dave Ruder

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