Based on a true story:

PHONE DEMOS AND STUDIO COMPLAINTS

Meryl’s blasting vocals on the phone
The 89 is cringing
The music stand supports the talking bone
Levels red and deadly through the console with the eq fighting
The G3 takes a beating but endures
Cat leaping upper floor - Furnace booms
One blender and a fridge swapping tunes
This dark booth is not too sound proof
There’s always a toilet flush! FLUSH!

Hi, come on in. Not doing anything but recording
and that’s not important, not important at all...

Upstairs phone rings:
No, this is not Mr. Noodleman’s house
Upstairs phone rings:
Must check my messages every 15 minutes
Upstairs phone rings:
Must leave an incredibly long fax about
cheap flights to your neighboring states...

Start again...

Dish washer lifting off - Water zooms
Loud beeping - Louder cough from next door
And what’s more, this booth smells like cork
“But that’s good for sound”, Rupert says.
I think he’s insane...

Credits:
JT : Vocals, Instruments
Recorded and Mixed at Sonic Underground Studios, Stony Brook, NY 

Phone Demos & Studio Complaints

John Tabacco is an American composer, singer songwriter, producer, recording engineer, multi instrumentalist and graphic artist. He has engineered /mixed and mastered music for hundreds of New York recording artists as well as projects released on BMG: The Kemelions, RCA: Faze, Rampage/Rhino: Rhett Forrester, Columbia: Rebbie Jackson, Rykodisc : Bob Marley, Columbia: Chris Jasper, Electra: Sonia Dada and Nickleodeon’s Are You Afraid Of The Dark? He is the CEO of It Iz What It Iz Music Publishing which currently holds over 750 songs in its catalog. He has been an associate producer for IndiMusic TV and hosts a bi-weekly radio program (CLAM RADIO) on college radio WUSB.fm since 1999. He is currently the head of A&R at Modern Voices Digital Distribution.

His musical background consists of extensive study of orchestration with noted 20th century composer John Lessard, harmony with the late electronic music maverick Bulent Arel, and composition with Stony Brook University professor Peter Winkler. He received his BA in Music from Stony Brook University in 1983. 

Like an unfolding musical diary / puzzle, Tabacco’s music and art are constantly being re-worked, juxtaposed and intertwined. His style is a melding of pop - jazz -rock - avant garde / aleatory, classical and comedy.  He has been recording his music non stop since 1979.

Of note: In 1989 the satirical, absurd house song "Go House Yourself" co-written by Tabacco, Pati and DiMauro reached position 39 on Billboard's dance chart. 

In 2014 Tabacco signed a record deal with Texas, indie label, Muffin Records. They released his CD “Unfulfilled Shopping Carts Syndrome” internationally.