All recorded on a Yamaha MT-120 Cassette 4-Track. Portland, OR, 1993-1994. (any other places & years will be mentioned). Some I've recently remastered a bit, some I have not.

I made a LOT of music that first year! If you hear something you'd like for me to re-visit with a modern production, holla.

Adding tunes randomly with time. 
Please also  check out my main page at soundcloud.com/mitalupa 
& my wonderful duo with Mark Corrin, Octobuse, at soundcloud.com/octobuse 
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Mita Lupa :: A few of my EARLIEST TUNES first months in no particular order

Frost

Cenderez

Remastered - 2014
Inspired by local folk music

Denlik

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 simple song for days when it feels like we are waiting for the world to end.

Cover art by Ari Vinion﻿ http://arissweetcreatures.wordpress.com/

Lyrics:

If it feels alright,
It's gonna be alright

You're the only one left 
to give this to
I've but one thing to say,
you know it's true:

If it feels alright,
It's gonna be alright

I've been losing my mind 
inside this cage
But I stay here 
'cause you don't learn love with age

If it feels alright,
It's gonna be alright

I would bleed for you
if you want me to
They stare right through
Got my eyes on you
and I watch you move

I can't leave it behind
Don't wanna leave it all behind
I wanna make it alright
It's gonna be alright

If it feels alright,
It's gonna be alright

Be Alright

Driving heavy electric distortion and soaring vocals and violins

Seafloor

ukes, keys, beatbox and vocals by andrew salvner

a b-side to the free cassingle 'it's christmas time' available here https://lilspaceman.bandcamp.com/album/its-christmas-time

stronger 'cause of you (hamster-box remix)

if you play this song reversed it's pretty much kinda  https://soundcloud.com/lil-spaceman/spacejump

cellphone recording.  keyboards and creaky chairs by andrew salvner (aka lil' spaceman)

this is the ending.  the whole thing has been on the youtubes for years.  it was a promo i made promoting my first series of cassette singles.

the last twenty seconds or so of cassingle

the evil wizard ferguson
(has an) evil wizard plan
(he's drinkin') evil wizard black and tans
(in his) evil wizard minivan

(he's got) wizard's enlightening (that means that he understands)
(he's got) wizard lightning (that shoots from the tips of his hands)

from the tips of his hands
evil wizard plans
drinking black and tans, in the minivans

bass guitar and vocals andrew salvner (aka lil' spaceman)
sped up and re-eq'd in 2025 / originally recorded on 4-track cassette in 2011.

evil wizard minivan on speed

1k hands, instrumental

two guitar tracks, 4 track cassette recording and then edited in audacity.  guitars and said editing by andrew salvner (aka lil' spaceman, amongst others)

radar

Here's my heart on my forehead.

Bass, keys, vox. Recorded in Watsonville, CA on cassette 4 Track, 1998. Possibly the sweetest (most touching, gentle) song I've recorded yet. 

Lyrics:

The sea is the vessel of my love.
The sky, a reflection of my faith.
I'm happy for the sparkle in your eyes, and
I'm glad to have you in my life.

Well, the sea is swelling every day,
the sky is repeating what I say, and
everything I'll ever wish for you is
everything you want and need, it's true.

My heart is filling to the brim, and
my spirit is longing to let you in, and
I'm sorry that I never said before, but
I love you with all I am
and more.



With All I Am (4-track, '98)

REMASTER From THREADBARE, early mix of earliest 4 Track songs, 1993-94

Mita Lupa on: Music, lyrics, vocals, instruments, engineering, production, mixing.

Mita Lupa - Fungus Town 1994

MITA LUPA : Fungus Town :: 4-track 1994

With Brandon D. on 12 string guitar.
Me on drums, vocals, engineering.
1994, Portland, OR

Fresh master mix-remaster 4/2020

Mita Lupa -Woman Eating Tuna Fish Sandwich With Sunglasses On 1994

MITA LUPA : Woman Eating Tuna Fish Sandwich With Sunglasses On :: 4-track DUO 1994

Early mix from my earliest 4 Track songs, 1993-94
NOT a remaster (yet)

Mita Lupa on: Music, lyrics, vocals, instruments, engineering, production, mixing.
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CRYPTIC

Ever the world, ever eluding
Climb the fences of the old school
Get your boards & go aborting
Cryptic messages for solving

Finally handsome in the sunshine
Try on the ladies with the hats
If, then, you should have some backbone
They may shuffle to the mix

Mita Lupa - Cryptic 1994

MITA LUPA : Cryptic :: 4-track 1994

Early mix from my earliest 4 Track songs, 1993-94
NOT a remaster (yet)

Mita Lupa on: Music, lyrics, vocals, instruments, engineering, production, mixing.

Mita Lupa - Sometime in the 20th Century 1994

MITA LUPA : Sometime In The 20th Century :: 4-track 1994

Composer/songwriter. Musician. Lyricist. Producer. Engineer. Crypto-mythologist.
Sound/Literary/Visual Artist. 
Creating sensory-scapes & exploring multimedia storytelling. 

My tools include: vocals, keys, synths, bass, guitar, computer hardware/software, words, found objects, dreams, sound effects, field recordings, analog tape, electro and musical acoustics, pain, love, hope, fear, prophecy. I also write for instruments I do not play (such as chamber).

Recipient of the Kennedy Center's ACTF award for 'Excellence in Sound Design' (in theater). Multiple sound & music theatrical scholarships & fellowships. Award-winning, published short fiction author. 
As Octobuse: Semi-finalist in the International Songwriting Competition. Octobuse also featured in The Guardian's music section. 

I'm available for work - film/theater/dance/TV + - internationally :: Please send inquiries to mitalupaATgmail.com 

Besides my solo work, I've done some collaboration, including as 1/2 of the previously mentioned avant-pop duo, OCTOBUSE :: soundcloud.com/octobuse :: with Mark Corrin (soundcloud.com/markcorrin) of Manchester, England. 


Updated 11/2022

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

With All I Am (4-track, '98)

Mita Lupa

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