An attempt at covering Worthikids' (absolute BOP of a song)"Up" in FL Studio during 2020. 

Mix is probably not all that good, but I'll improve it when I (eventually) record the lyrics (I've been sitting on this for a little while).

Worthikids - "Up" (Instrumental Cover)(8 - 25 - 2020)

Recorded 8:23 PM July 12th >>> 6:22pm, July 13th, 2021, in two rooms in Australia (electric guitars were recorded in a separate room to other acoustic instruments).

Harper - Vocals, Acoustic Rhythm Guitar, Acoustic Fretless Bass, Volca Beats Drum Machine, Electric Lead and Rhythm Guitar, Mellotron (Vibraphone and Violins), Recording, Mixing, Producing, Vocal Treatments, Arranging. 

Guitars were tuned to D Standard.

Song written by 'Lou Reed' and 'The Velvet Underground' 

Suggest some songs, I might cover one.

(If you correctly name all the songs in the coda, you'll get a prize of some sort. I haven't decided on what it is yet)

Cowbelladona - All Tomorrow's Parties (Nico And The Velvet Underground Cover)

Ashamed To Have Spoken (Luna's Theme)

Recorded and mixed on a couch from 10-11pm on the 7th of February 2022

Harper: Lead and backing vocals, Korg Volca drum machine programming, melodica, recording, mixing. 

Suggest some covers, I may do one

Cowbelladonna - Ain't That Peculiar (Marvin Gaye micro-cover)[Jazz-y Melodica Ver]

Guided By Voices - Game Of Pricks (Cheesy Dance Cover) Alien Lanes 27th Anniversary

Recorded and lightly treated throughout April 4th, 2021

Harper - Vocals, Electric Lead and Rhythm Guitars, Electric Bass, Acoustic Drum Kit, Recording, Mixing, Producing. 

The guitars featured on this track were tuned to D Standard

Song written by Robert Pollard (Guided By Voices) 

Suggest some songs, I might cover one.

Cowbelladonna - Hit (Guided By Voices cover)

The Bends

A bunch of radiohead soundclowns (not funny)

A mashup of numerous Death Grips vocal stems and Kraftwerk's 'The Telephone Call'

Kraft Grips

Cowbelladonna returns for its two year birthday with a cover of Cornershop's iconic 1997 single 'Brimful Of Asha', from the album 'When I Was Born for the 7th Time'.

Recorded between 1:30pm, 28th to 3:49pm, ‎30th of June ‎2023. Electric and Acoustic instruments recorded in two different rooms in Australia. 

Guitars on this track were tuned to D Standard. 

This track is the first of Harper's to be recorded with the Tama Metalworks 5.5 X 10" Snare Drum (thanks to A.M) 

Cowbelladonna Is: 
Harper -Vocals, Acoustic Drum Kit, Electric and Acoustic Guitars, Acoustic Fretless Bass Guitar, Digital Mellotron (Strings, trumpet and organ), Yamaha YC Reface Synthesizer ('Wah' Cutoff Effect), Shaker, Macintosh Text To Speech (muffled and reversed at the start) Recording, Mixing, Arranging, Audio Treatments.

Cowbelladonna is also: 
Too lazy to use a metronome 

Music and Words originally written by Tjinder Singh. Guitar solo inspiration is pretty obvious 

Cowbelladonna - Brimful Of Asha (Cornershop cover) [Celebrating two years of Cowbelladonna]

A cover of the Dirty Projectors' iconic 'Swing Lo Magellan' (from the album of the same name), performed in the sleepy, stripped down style of Unknown Mortal Orchestra's rendition, but with a few more layers. 

Recorded between 8:30 > 9:30 pm, 2nd of August, 2023. Recorded on one bed in Australia.

Guitar used on this track was tuned to D Standard. 

Cowbelladonna is: 
Harper - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Taps.

Written by David Longstreth, Arrangement inspired by Ruben Nielson 

Cowbelladonna - Swing Lo Magellan (Dirty Projectors Cover) (à la UMO)

A demo of the song "The Map" recorded in a style similar to Radiohead's "A Moon Shaped Pool" 

pardon the bad singing, I'm the big sick >=<


The Wholly Smoked is: 
Harper 

The Wholly Smoked - "The Map" Demo (Thom Yorke style)

Gun reform now, USA. Stop police brutality.

Cowbelladonna - Ohio (Neil Young)

Original song is "A Dream Goes On Forever" by Todd Rundgren

Find it on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHJ2Dqh-I10

TODDWAVE -  夢 ブラスト処理 1989

The Wholly Smoked is: 
Harper Maitland: Vocals, Guitar 

The Wholly Smoked - "More Real" (Live In A Tunnel)

Recorded and mixed from 4 >6:06pm, the 21st of March, 2024 entirely within a bedroom. 

Cowbelladonna is: 
- Harper: Vocals, Guitars, Bass Guitar, Drums, Mixing, Recording. 

Song originally by Dave Grohl / Late!

Cowbelladonna - Marigold (Late! cover)

A song written and partially recorded in late 2022 for the album "Wolf Games", released in 2023. Was scrapped and put on the backburner until now. 

Harper on all instruments (Acoustic Drums, Words and Voice, Parlour Guitar, Slapped Electric Bass, Melodica, Mixing) 

The Wholly Smoked - Doing Something Bad (unused 'Wolf Games' song)

The Blue Flamingo

Snooping Through Jansen's MP3 Player (Old)

Yes, I'm going through an MF DOOM phase.

RIP 1971 - 2020

MF DOOM - Rap Snitch Knishes (Instrumental Cover)

This is just a place where I might put a song or two every now and then. 

home to:
-Eye Tentacle Twin (long running electronic / video game music project) 
-Cowbelladonna (purposefully unpolished project based on a dream I had about a badly rehearsed folky rock band) 


https://tapelady.bandcamp.com/

Eye Tentacle Twin

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