This is a guitar compilation I recorded in one day.  My mom wanted her old nylon string acoustic back but I wanted to record the riff I made with it first.  Then one riff lead to another... the solo work is unrefined and sloppy but it is really just a draft.  There were lyrics for it but as I have been thoroughly reminded by friends and family I should never sing...

Moon

I wrote this song a long time ago... been meaning to add more to it... but IDK.  Part of me thinks it stand pretty solid as a play an sing piece. 

Oh and by the way I KNOW I shouldn't sing (as even my mother and wife as told me I'm terrible) but this song really needs the lyrics soooooo...  you're stuck with it.  (Unless you don't listen to it).

This was recorded all at once not my normal layering way of recording = more guitar mistakes... ohh well.


Easier

Sometime I like to just free play and let whatever lyrics come to mind flow out of me...  This is the edited version of that recording.  Basically I just removed the dead space and the screwups.  For some reason this is another really sad song.  I was going way back thinking about one of my first memories...

GOOD TIMES!

Imprint

This was recorded during my first run of recording after I came back from deployment in 2006.  This song is for my brother John, love you man.

Again

This is my favorite song that I have ever written.  I wrote it for Sarah back in 2007ish when we first met.  She is my soon to be wife.

I still think I suck at singing though... so does my wife ;)

Animal

This song is about something really stupid I did a long time ago... Typically Moto, sad acoustic and bad signing.  YOUR WELCOME!

I recorded this one back in 2007 with Animal and Again.

White

Yet another sad acoustic song from Moto and my bad singing.  Back in 2008 I was still writing music I just got fed up with recording it on my computer (and just plain hate quality cuz my voice sounds better when it's recorded on my blackberry)

I decided to post some of my low-fi recordings from my phone.  I should really re-record these someday.  Yes I screwed up in the middle and the ending... YAY LOWFI!

Fade

Another LOWFI recording from my phone.  I wrote this one partly with an old friend but he never wanted to finish it... so I did.  The lyrics are based either an old book or poem called the "invisible Man".

Invisible Man

Another LOWFI recording on from the good old blackberry (I don't even have that phone anymore).  This is probably on of the most technical guitar intros I ever wrote... so technical in fact that I have completely forgotten how to play it.  Honestly it would take me like a month to remember how to play this one...  

Anyway I scrapped the idea a the time cuz it sounded to christian... with the chorus...  (there is only signing at the end).  Maybe I'll teach myself this one again someday.

Persevere

This is a very long and very depressing song... This is the unrevised freestyle recording of me at during one of my worst lows...  I didn't change a thing and honestly I could even see the guitar while I was recording it so it's full of strange errors and dead spots.  It is very RAW.  I never really thought I would share this because for me it was just my own personal version of therapy... Music got me through some rough times.  (First world problems... couldn't help it :) ) 

I really glad I haven't been this low in a long time.  But I still love this song because reminds me that things have been worse and I've made it through.  For all those who have ever been really low and know I hope you made it through. 

Joe Motacek