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Once Remembered

(I Am) Sleep Deprived

Souffler Sur Le Café

This is an early bass tune. I had only been writing/recording/playing/singing for about 6 months when this tune happened. My beau at the time called it my "bass symphony". Extra, given that it's essentially a punk song, at least nearly as punk as I ever get... which is actually pretty true to the MO. Anyhow, I'm especially chuffed about this tune as I believe everything about it has stood the test of time. Certainly not something I can say about all of my earliest works! This tune has aged well, & I'm happy to have such a clean tape recording mix of it to work with. This take has pretty much stayed as it was, ripped from the cassette mix o' the moment that I harvested it from. With 4-track tape recording, you have to mix live, & I spent a lot of time doing different mixes & learning what worked best. 
Anyhooo... Njoy!

On A Bender

MITA LUPA : On A Bender :: 4-Track 1994

A light-hearted piece for a change! This one was born by me singing to a pigeon in my garden. He or she kept coming to the patio asking for more peanuts and I started singing to it. I took some videos as I thought it was funny how the pigeon seemed to listen with its head turning side to side and even bob along in the same rhythm (that's how it seemed at least)! This went on for a few minutes. 

I sent a couple of videos to Morten who then created this! I love how some spontaneous funny moment can be turned into a little song :) It's a great memory of this moment too. Singing to animals is fun!

Vocals: Heidi K
Dance & head bobbing: Garden Pigeon
Production by @mortenjeamland

Cover: Heidi K, modified by Jeamland

The Pigeon Dance Remix

Deadline

Orchestral Fantasy about the famous Christmas Carol : Tochter Zion (Zion's Daughter).
Tributes to the great adored, barock composer G.F. Händel, who owes the original melody.

Tochter Zion

Bored

St. Mary’s Hand

There might be nothing more
Than what you thought she said
That all those streams flowing may someday be
Nothing more than a dried-up riverbed
N’ all those voices of dissension
Are nothing more than figments inside your head

Take St. Mary’s hand
Into Bedlam you will land

There was an abundance of choice
Until the choice was no longer theirs
It stood unconcealed
With its burdens to be bared      
She bore witness
As belief fell away from their prayers

Take St. Mary’s hand
Into Bedlam you will land

With a cold wind blowing
Through your winter of discontent
Release is coming
You best hope it’s heaven sent
Or the other axe might just fall
N’ be the point to what it was she meant

Take St. Mary’s hand
Into Bedlam you will land

Nothing changes but change itself
Humbled opinion is spreading fast
You board up your doors and windows
N’ hope it ain’t gonna last
She speaks in platitudes
To placate any curse that’s been cast

Take St. Mary’s hand
Into Bedlam you will land

It’s crowded at the bottom
All who thought they were up have fallen now
Talking in terms most unbecoming
In an attempt to dissuaded somehow
But she wanted different answers
While they dined on the last vestiges of the fatted cow

Take St. Mary’s hand
Into Bedlam you will land

From pillar to post
They make their way
Walking without purpose
As the ol’ hinge of life just screeches away
She kept on with the situation
And led none astray

Take St. Mary’s hand
Into Bedlam you will land

St. Mary's Hand

My band Mad Hatter  in New Jersey 1988 although this is just me (Ziggy Richards)  doing guitar bass and vocals and the drummer John Rickerhauser. Recorded on a Yamaha MT-4X 4-track cassette recorder. The vocals were recorded by slowing the tape slightly to get my voice higher! Hey, Robert Plant did the same thing on Song Remains the Same!

You Wanna Love Me (Mad Hatter - 1988)

Some of my earliest songs, mostly recorded on a Yamaha MT-120 cassette 4-track.

MITA LUPA : On A Bender :: 4-Track 1994

Mita Lupa II ::early years::