A cover of Blue Öyster Cult's "Dominance & Submission" done with a swing feel and a bassline that tips its porkpie hat in the direction of Pink Floyd's "Money."

Dominance & Swing-mission

ICS-1.wav

An experiment with overlaying a figure in 6 over a bass line in 4. 
Chapman Stick, three guitars, and drum kit.

ICS February2016

Creation for May ICS -- Recorded in 4 hours, guitars, stick, e-drums. The metronome bled through the tracks, it's not supposed to be there. >:-(  I'm no drummer, so the lack of drum skills will show. FWIW!!!

ICS May 2016 - Sinuous

A guitar and stick theme. Ray Vellani on Stick, melne on guitar/ebow guitar. From about 1984 or so...

Stick Talk

A fun EDM/electronic version of Wayne Shorter's "Footprints" from goofing around in Garage Band.

Footprints EDM

A sound collage with field recordings, live drums & percussion/glockenspiel combined with Garage Band drum loops, incorporated with an inspired saxophone sample from the Horse Lords' "Encounter II/Intervention II" from the LP "Interventions."

Crossings: Trains of Jack London Square

This piece is a story of two very different mornings. It was the "final exam" project for my ProTools class -- to assemble parts from Beatles "Benefit of Mr. Kite," "Good Morning," and "I Am The Walrus" along with parts recorded live in class with different tempos and keys into a piece of music. Enjoy!

(Good?) Morning

"The Ballad of High Noon," by Dimitri Tompkin and Ned Washington. 
Recorded by melne sometime around 1999-2000, as a gift for my Father, because it's his favorite song ever.

The Ballad of High Noon

Song by Horace Silver
Paul Fogel, alto sax
Jérome Jeannin, baritone sax
George Mynatt, piano
melne, guitar
Elaine Bulloch, bass
Hugh Rodman, drums

Señor Blues

This song was the first fully completed song that I wrote at the age of ~18. Inspired by the lyric content and general emotional feel of Blue Öyster Cult's "Morning Final." Recorded on a Dokorder 1/4" reel-to-reel 4-track that I had acquired through a trade for a Fender Stratocaster, which opened up the ability to create fully realized song demos. Salvaged off of a nearly 40-year-old cassette, and sound quality will attest to that!

Streetwise

"Iksi, kaksi, ta en taxi!" the old Finnish tongue twister goes...
Kaksi, which means 'two' in Finnish, is a duo comprised of two-fifths of the Bay Area's CoverGrrlz.

Recorded for Green Monkey Record's second annual Holiday "streaming Album of the Month," Kaksi reinvented "Jingle Bell Rock," the holiday classic originally made famous by Bobby Helms.

To hear the entire record, which represents the kind of heady eclecticism that the Northwest is all about, please visit http://www.greenmonkeyrecords.com and click on "Album of the Month"!

Arranged and performed by Kaksi:
The World Famous Melne – vox, guitar, bass
Tymber – drums, percussion and cheer!

"Jingle Bell Rock" written by Joe Beal and Jim Boothe
Recorded at TekStix Productions, Mountain View, CA

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