feb 13 2014

After the Hole - Lyrics

All I seen is what I thought I would have seen
At the end all I found were other ends

Suddenly I know, you live to know after the hole

On the screech of the city brakes I heard your name
Feel as though we're living in a recurrent dream

Suddenly I know, you live to know after the hole

And the life is after the hole

And the life is after the hole

Strange Part of the Country

After the Hole

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Out NOW!

Order the 12" or Digital --> http://wonderwheelrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/soukura-ep 

Wonderwheel Recordings is proud to present the debut EP & a remix 12" for new signing Alsarah & The Nubatones. Called “The New Star Of Nubian Pop” by The Guardian, the album was produced solely by Alsarah who describes the sound of Silt as “East African Retro Pop” - it’s music that harkens back to the hazy sounds of 1960s and 70s Nubian music with its haunting instrumentation, soaring vocal melodies, and pentatonic arrangements. 

The original song “Soukura” with is a small taste of her upcoming album Silt (out on 3/11) and gets a signature deep and entrancing Ancestral Soul remix by African house legend Boddhi Satva . Perennial Wonderwheel favorite The Spy From Cairo gives "Nuba Noutou" a dubby dancehall re-rub, and label head Nickodemus takes "Rennat" into late night house territory with his remix, letting only the slightest of vocals come through and build tension until the final moments of the tune. 

Alsarah, is a Sudanese born singer, songwriter and ethnomusicologist. Born in the capital city of Khartoum, where she spent the first 8 years of her life, she relocated to Taez, Yemen with her family to escape the ever stifling regime in her native country. She abruptly moved to the US in 1994, when a brief civil war broke out in Yemen. Now residing in Brooklyn, NY, she is a self-proclaimed practitioner of East-African retro-pop. Working on various projects, she most recently has been working with The Nile Project and was featured on their debut release, Aswan (named 1 of the Top 5 “Must Hear” international albums by NPR). She has also collaborated with French producer Débruit on the album Aljwal, released this past November via Soundway Records UK.

Silt (Remixed)

Nuba Noutou (The Spy From Cairo Remix)

Alsarah & The Nubatones - Nuba Noutou (The Spy From Cairo Remix)

a medley of commercial soundtracks and jingles recorded in the 90's

MONDO MUSIC demo

20 years in Everything But The Girl, 10 years with Buzzin' Fly, now Ben Watt returns on guitar with the title-track from his brand new solo album 'Hendra', accompanied by friend, album-collaborator and ex-Suede guitarist, Bernard Butler. The album - his first for thirty-one years, produced by Ewan Pearson - is out on April 14 (except North America, Apr 29). It also features a rare cameo appearance from Pink Floyd's David Gilmour.

'Hendra', the album, is available to pre-order (UK) on:
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Hendra

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Taken from the Patterns EP - out now on Method Records (UK) and on Monday Records (US/Canada).

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Patterns

I Can't Keep Up

Another reclamation project.  I'm guessing this one was from about 1993 and restoring it presented more difficulties than usual since each section seemed to have it's own problems.  I was able to salvage it but I think I might have even had a little divine intervention to help me fix one part.  This is from my film scoring days and is third in the spy-music trilogy.   It depicts espionage at an airport. 

The Ski Mask Affair

Sliman Elmaghribi - Yaffo Zint Elbldan - Zakiphon - 1960s

This is my second track for my FAWM album 2024. This one's a play on drowning ships and how "situationships" always sink. I used a ton of effects for the vocals & threw in a ton of glitches, reflecting how broken those types of relationship dynamics end up.

Mayday, Mayday, Situationship Going Down!

Dark, lounge inspired cover that is a radical departure from the original. This could really be an original song if the lyrics were different

Light my Fire (redux2004)

A five minute slice of (true) life with a mannered jazzy soundtrack augmented by some industrial type noise . I call this my Twin Peaks soundtrack song because of the juxtaposition between the lounge style music and rhythmic noise.

From "Death of a Child" by Final Church

Tony the Barber

My homage to Henry Mancini...Growing up in the early 60's his music was always around during family gatherings.
The title is a short poem lamenting change....

Woods where we played
Are now shopping malls
Filled with of children
Unaware that raspberries and blackberries
Once grew there....

From "Death of a Child" by Final Church 

Raspberries and Blackberries

Lament on the passing of time...
A hiccup here and there, but a learning experience in the digital format...The fretless bass is a keyboard with a pitch wheel, I'm very proud of the result...

From "Death of a Child"

A Reason to Smile

A departure in demo form.
Strings, 2 Pianos, plus a Woodwind or two.

 Fear of the dark can be shared by adults and children....yet in the end we realize that "Monsters" teach us  to overcome and understand "We all have a closet that never gets opened at night"

We all have a closet that doesn't get opened at night

Collaboration between Adam Kane(Drum samples) and myself...
My intention was to use   themes from our "Heretic"  past (Bedlam to be exact), insert EVPS (recorded voices of the dead) for color and texture.

 There are stylistic nods to King Crimson: They were a huge influence on my playing during the 1970's--(the guitar solo is loosely based on Fracture ,not to mention Adams drum samples of Asbury Park and the EVP that sounds like the Easy Money " Laugh Box")
  To achieve a sort of "live" feel most of the playing is one take and not 100%.....this also has to do with computer latency issues( and eventual data loss) that forced me to stop before it could be cleaned up properly

Phone Calls From The Dead

MoooRooo is a collection of original compositions by Adam Kane.  MooFloo sound collages have been moved to soundcloud.com/mooflew

MooVeeToonz:  Music from films scored by Adam
MooRoo:  Modern trip-hop and other eclectic genres with collaborations from other key friends

The Ski Mask Affair

MoooRooo

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