California Drifting (Radio Edit)

This is the companion song to Marc Zegans' upcoming book of poetry "Boys In The Woods" soon to be released on Crane Maiden Press. 
Lyrics written by Marc Zegans
Music written & performed by Peg Simone (gtr, voc, piano)

Connect The Dots

I'm gonna take you down that long black lonesome road
to the far side of your screams
On a faded broken two lane to the bone white witchwood tree
Long tattered yellow lines running asphalt torn and cracked
To the sorry spot you left; won't never take you back.

I'm gonna take you to a place so cold your skin splits and bleeds
While you stand in your denim shirt tellin' lies and smokin' weed
I'm gonna bring you back to this old swamp Yankee town
Where kids train rockets in the boneyard, dive in quarries, crash and 
drown

I'm gonna take you to the place built to kill your dreams
Where tannins choked out the fish who swam in rusty streams
The place with the packies, the townies and the narcs
The place behind picket fences lonely, cruel and stark

I'm gonna take you to the place my friend near burnt down
I'm gonna take you to just one more shit New England town
With the gone grey houses and the rotting brick mill
The rusted Rotary sign and the toxic river spill

If you come there with me, bigger fool than I
Where people give up livin' just to wait and die
Chopping off tall poppies, cutting you down to size
You'll know true why I left and won't apologize

Connect The Dots

Live Performance of Whispers as Loud as a Mountains Fingerprint at Pacific Grove Juice and Java open mic 11.17.17

Whispers As Loud As A Mountains Fingerprint 11.17.17

Xazziel Song Performed live at Pierce Ranch Wine Tasting Room 10/14/17
credits
from Jeddy and The World Vol. I, released January 2, 2018 
Words and Music by Jeddy grant 
Ocean sounds provided by Pointe Lobos California State Park

Xazziel Song 10.14.17

As of recently I have made soundscapes prior to my shows that are more or less formatted to a song or two of mine. These soundscapes are saved to my Boss RC-30 and during my shows are queued for me to play my songs over. Since the RC-30 has two tracks I used the second track later to record the guitar and vocals. This is the finished product of both tracks recorded solely on my RC-30.

Nothing/Still

Soundscape Created using my bass guitar and many different noise makers. This is another example of a track I may use to accompany me  live.

Pest.Them Crawling Worms (Soundscape)

This track was made in gratitude for my friends Ian and Trevor who both were so kind to gift me with new gear to experiment with. Here I play around with a Volume pedal and pitch shifter.

SquidFish

Improv Jazz waltz performed during the Typewriter Underground At Henry Miller Library in Big Sur, 6/15/18

Vocals and typerwriter: River Navaille 
Drums:Trevor Lucier
Bass vocals and effects: Jeddy Grant

Is Holy

In this track River Navaille shares the fears and struggles we collected from our audience before the show as Trevor Lucier and I build a struggle-scape to lead the group into Nirvana's "Something In The Way" from their second studio album, Nevermind. Big shout-out to all the audience members who contributed to the Morticai and Friends performance by sharing these vulnerable thoughts, to my friends and band mates who shared the stage, and their valuable time with me, Kurt Cobain for writing a song that could convey such barriers, and to Elliot who you can hear loudly and proudly singing along in the track.

Vocals, Bass, Percussion/FX, loops/scapes: Jeddy Grant
Vocals, FX, Loops/Scapes: Trevor Lucier
Reading, Vocals, FX: River Navaille

Something In The Way (Nirvana Cover)

8/11/18

Morticai and Friends:
A night of music and self-reflection. Morticai, with the help of his friends River Navaille and Trevor Lucier creates a space that invites vulnerability within the listener as we ask our audience to share their fears and dreams with us. Catch some familiar songs laid out over our soundscapes as we relate music to our struggles, and find answers to how we can care for ourselves and for others.

0:00-4:20- Welcome to Morticai and Friends (JungleScape)
4:20-6:45-The Bear Necessities.
6:45-10:15-River shares the Audience's fears (StruggleScape)
10:15-16:15-Something in The Way (Nirvana Cover)
16:15-30:00-Audience shares dreams and fears (Dreamscape)
30:00-34:50-Turn the World Around (Harry Belafonte Cover)
34:50-40:30-Quiet Moment (Tina Shares her daily goal and promise.)
40:30-44:30-Bear Necessities (Reprise)
44:30-50:05-You Have to Make Space
50:05-58:01-Lovely Day (Bill Withers Cover)/ River reads The Audience's bear necessities/Good Night

Thank you to River Navaille who helped me by engaging the audience and Collecting their fears, by being that channel of vulnerability for those who could not share themselves, for going into this with faith, for providing their voice to lay eerily over the room. Thank you to Trevor Lucier who came to my aid to provide light percussion and who with great care created with me soundscapes to lay underneath our songs and coherently lead our audience along with us; For singing proudly behind me and trusting in me when we were all unsure where we may go next. I could not have done it without you two. And to the audience: Thank you to each one of you. For trusting us when things got muddy, For opening up and sharing, for singing along, and for being exactly who you are.

Morticai And Friends 8/11/18

Holy As Fuck

Psychedelic folk and ambient soundscapes made by a desert folk currently coastal vibing.

Pest.Them Crawling Worms (Soundscape)

Morticai

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