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Just A Moment (instrumental)

Caress Of A Jagged Eye

Season Of The Witch

Faith Mystic's beautiful words and vocals sampled prominently in this original instrumental piece, parts of which originated as a recording of a jam I did with Jennifer Raviv!

Sacred Vessels - featuring Faith Mystic

A remix of "Pulses"
Cubase 3
Mac OS 8
2001
This is the second of a four-piece remix cycle. Listen to the whole thing here: https://soundcloud.com/eddierifkind/sets/pulses-remix-cycle

Descent

Originally a guitar loop experiment, with female Australian English voice synthesizer, guitar & bass, esoteric words recently written and inspired by the dark beauty of the drag world. You Are The Muse.

You Are The Muse

Take the stems of All That Remains, Marco Middlesex's anthem / duet with Raquela, on which I played guitar, orchestrated by the brilliant Leo Frappier, and let my twisted brain play with them in Logic Pro. I bring you... the Darkadelic Mix of All That Remains.

All That Remains (by Marco Middlesex) - Darkadelic Remix

Voice synthesis and ugly guitar paint an echoing soundscape of a misguided technological venture... in ancient days of our computer age, as our digital narrator puts it.

Now There Is

welcome, losers. 
welcome fear. 
fly down lower. 
join us here. 

welcome damage. 
welcome you glorious freaks. 
fly down lower. 
set those demons free. 

sometimes i feel like a hero, 
sometimes a heartbroken fool. 
there is no time anymore. 

we're all angels and fuckers 
in the same living breath. 
there is no time anymore. 
(your soul on fire)
credits
from sand in the mind's eye, track released December 22, 2015

No Time Anymore

Here's a preview of a new song! Buy the whole thang at eddierifkind.bandcamp.com!

Back (shell shock)

This is a musical 'backing track' intended to be paired with my art. I have only scratched the surface of its application. All instruments except for drum loops and AI Drummer played and composed by Eddie Rifkind.
Purchase the full 25-minute-long composition here: https://soundcloud.com/eddierifkind/the-endless-spiral

The Endless Spiral - extended sample

Synthesized vocal lyrics:
a little message
a little message
delivered slowly inside you

a little message
a little message
delivered slowly inside you

forget the lies
forget the day
forget the ocean

forget the news
forget the dirt
forget the fear

die this one time
die, this one time
and laugh a thousand tiny deaths

take off your soul
take off your soul
and wear your hatred like a crown

forget the lives
forget the past
forget the planet

forget your love
forget your god
forget consequence

run to the sweet forgiving embrace of death
dive into the heart of the blossom
take that pleasure inside, take hypocrisy's ride
lusting just for that cleansing nirvana

Eastern Premises

Lyrics inspired as much by modern times as my earliest memories as a child in the Soviet Union. Lyrics, vocals, bass and guitar by Eddie Rifkind. Artificial intelligence drummer by Logic, produced by Eddie Rifkind.                                                      
                             
LYRICS:

i'm only like you 'cause i have a pulse
i'm only like you 'cause i need to scream
i'm only like you 'cause i hunger today
i'm only like you 'cause i still pay

when would you like to escape?
to meet all over again?
when did you first see the wall?
when should we make it fall?

i'm only like you in that i can run
i'm only like you in that i can't hide
i'm only living in the petting zoo
i am the one that you never knew

when would you like to escape?
to meet all over again?
when did you first see the wall?
when should we make it fall?

i'm only like you 'cause i have no mission
we're lovers, we're brothers in the arms of television
we're just two shadows of a greater need
to play games for the deity of greed

when would you like to escape?
to meet all over again?
when did you first see the wall?
when should we make it fall?

The Deity

A weird and wonderful work of inner and outer spaces, by yours truly. Check out the new music video: https://youtu.be/bllYDLmJH_E

Buy the track on Bandcamp: https://eddierifkind.bandcamp.com/track/shooting-star

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Shooting Star

Yep, it expanded beyond voice synthesis into a sprawling musical sketch which has been grown and reduced down to a finished composition. Enjoy the abundance of sound!
https://eddierifkind.bandcamp.com/track/death-for-the-pie

Death For The Pie

The beautiful intro to an epic song in progress: Silent Protests to an Absent Enemy, featuring Jarod Flores of Yeshua and the Hightones (https://soundcloud.com/hightonesreggae)and the Wet Bandits (https://soundcloud.com/wetbanditsj)doing an unearthly performance on saxophone!

Hireath

Buy The Whole Song

Silent Protests to an Absent Enemy INTRO

https://eddierifkind.bandcamp.com/track/artmosphere

Lyrics:
I took a drink
felt like I kept the dream alive

I thought I'd blossom but I
think I'll just survive

those are the happy thoughts
that laugh at self-expression

that is the prankster
mad libbing all of life's lessons

the perils of oz
i love this place
it make us die
just to celebrate

we're looking at the beauty
we're stupid in our duty

freedom did not pan out
like on TV

poetry didn't line up
with destiny

find the thing you love
and let it kill you
chosen family
no more enemies

i took a smoke
felt like I kept the dream alive

I'm still inside, haha
but now I question why

Extra Chaos

Artmosphere

This is the new (2016) addition of lyrics and guitar, as well as a new arrangement, to the instrumental piece, "Descent" from my 2002 album Participating Asylums May Vary. The original was itself a remix of "Pulses," from the same album. The entire 4-song evolution can be heard in its entirety here: https://soundcloud.com/eddierifkind/sets/pulses-remix-cycle

Descendant

Recorded in 2001. Vocals by Eva Kritt. Three remixes of this piece have been created. You can hear the entire evolution here: https://soundcloud.com/eddierifkind/sets/pulses-remix-cycle

Participating Asylums May Vary

Pulses

Several samples including a metal coffee cup, a Tibetan singing bowl, a guitar, a MUNI train, and my breath create this jagged rhythm in progress. Enjoy!

The Yearning (instrumental) - working draft

A Little Piece... an instrumental... or is it waiting for LYRICS?

A Little Piece (instrumental)

Instrumental version of the song by Transexual Fetus. All instruments by Eddie Rifkind. Based on music composed by Roxy Storm and Devin Cherubini.

Thing (instrumental)

This is a goodbye among many. Written days after the death of David Bowie, reflecting my own observation of the sorrow and shock felt within the creative community.

lyrics:
goodbye to 
the thin white duke 

how brave are we 
without you? 

never ask permission 
just give birth to vision 

goodbye to 
the thin white duke 

do we sparkle 
without you? 

you gave us permission 
you gave us a reason 

anointed in glitter, 
how do we survive? 

- synth break! - 

tapped into 
the universe 

gave the blessing 
and the curse 

mirrors see us through 
feeling brave and true 
in drag and in face and 
stark naked on that stage 

goodbye to 
the thin white duke 

we're the children 
without you 

anointed in glitter, 
how can we survive? 

be a great bullshitter 
to stay alive

From Extra Chaos, released December 12, 2016
Copyright 2016. All rights reserved.

Anointed in Glitter

A new re-edit, with new vocal and instrumental tracks, of a piece I originally composed in 2001.
https://eddierifkind.bandcamp.com/track/mercy-18

Mercy 18

So To Speak, One Might Say

The second remix of All That Remains by Marco Middlesex! 
Original music stems performed and recorded by Leo Frappier, Marco Middlesex, and Raquela. 
www.reverbnation.com/marcomiddlesex 
www.raquela.com
credits
released February 28, 2018 
Written by Marco Middlesex 
Music by Leo Frappier 
Vocals by Marco Middlesex and Raquela 
Guitar by Eddie Rifkind 
Remixed by Eddie Rifkind

All That Remains - Angels 'n Whiskey Mix

It's cute! My first ever experiment with a looper pedal... and plenty of attitude, of course.

New March

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWhEnVcAVFc
When it comes to dark times and creative inspiration, these days truly are... a perfect storm. The title of this track is a total swindle. It's a remix / instrumental I've been messing with for YEARS - and will probably continue to in the future.

Noam Chomsky - Ticking Towards Midnight
http://radioopensource.org/american-socrates-life-mind-noam-chomsky
Audio used under Creative Commons licence https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/

Desert Shade (A Perfect Storm)

obsession  - instrumental

Just a quick sound demo of a gorgeous sounding guitar pedal. I hand-painted an original weird design onto it. You can buy it at my reverb shop: https://reverb.com/item/20618278-chicago-stompworks-triangle-big-muff-pi-clone-hand-painted-by-eddie-rifkind

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Hand-Painted Triangle Muff Demo

An abstract sonic painting using analog delay oscillation, digital reverb, a Violet Ram's Head Big Muff fuzz pedal, looping and amp simulation in Logic Pro.

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Building Blocks - an abstract audio painting

Album art is an ink drawing by Eddie Rifkind.

A Shining God - SAMPLE

This is guitar meditation in a series of piece recorded with an op amp big muff clone, an analog delay pedal, and Logic Pro.

Watch this Video

Call An Ambience

This is a dark guitar meditation in progress. Tones used: Hubcap John Fuzz Face, Nobels Natural Overdrive, MXR Phase 90

A right step in the wrong direction (working draft)

This is a cover of an original song by 12 Rounds. 
Instruments & production: Eddie Rifkind
Vocals: Angie Melfa

Something's Burning - 12 Rounds cover - with Angie Melfa

This is a cover of an original song by Sparklehorse.
Instruments & production: Eddie Rifkind
Vocals: Angie Melfa

Pig - Sparklehorse cover - with Angie Melfa

Industrial Rock/metal with dark, eccentric, goth/industrial vocal stylings. Album art is an ink drawing by Eddie Rifkind.

Feeding

MAKING COMPLETELY SELF-INDULGENT MUSIC SINCE 1989. instagram.com/eddierifkind
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Eddie Rifkind is a guitar pedal builder, visual artist and musician in San Francisco, California, U.S.A. His music varies widely in style, and has been compared to everyone from Machines of Loving Grace to the Legendary Pink Dots to David Bowie to KMFDM to Led Zeppelin to Dead Can Dance to Killing Joke, drawing influences from those and many other eclectic and inspired rock, post-rock, post-punk, industrial, metal, blues and classical sources. He also does his own cover art.

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