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Recorded sounds provide a rich and extensive palette of colors and textures.  I like to glean what I can from single short samples of sound.  I particularly like squeaks and creaks.  Lately, I've become enamored with the enormous selection of vinyl records available on archive.org.

Schmidley Smichkey, a.k.a Benjamin Lovett, is a composer, sound designer, multi-genre violinist with a penchant for quirky sounds, silly humor, and loose-leaf tea.  

His music combines acoustic and electronic sounds into an off-beat, playful, and densely layered infusion that sings, creaks, booms, and rattles.

https://youtube.com/@Mr.AndrewsGarden?feature=shared 
Mr. Andrew's Garden was across the street from our house when we lived in Seattle.
This was in 1959, before the World's Fair and the Space Needle.
We would visit the Garden when we could, and every day was different.
The Chinese would visit on weekends, in the afternoon.

It was a  huge garden and the Andrews were always busy working in it.
Avery and Sarah, Mrs. Andrew's grown children, lived there with them.
Sarah lived above the garage and Avery lived in the garage.
Avery fought in Korea and had a habit.
Cradle Needle was written for him.
Sarah was just wrong.

Michael Patrick Francis, my older brother, would always take the lead in our journeys.
Everything in our selections is a memory of what happened. Do not become confused. The Garden is as deep as your imagination.
We hope you enjoy your visit.



Mr. Andrew's Garden-

Robert and Mary Andrew
Avery Marshall Chalk
Sarah Elizabeth Chalk
Joshua (Sarah’s infant son)
Kolin (Joshua's Brother)
The Chinese
Susan (She lived next door with her parents.) 
Elana Magnet (Susan's older sister)
John (The part-time Gardener)
Iris (John’s wife)

Instruments used on "Mr. Andrew's Garden"
Yamaha CS 70M
Yamaha CS 40M
Oberheim Two Voice
ARP
TX81Z
Lexicon 
Sequential Circuits 610
M-100 Modular Synth
Telecaster Deluxe
Blipblox
Digital Design’s LS161 Monitors
Klipsch Heresy Speakers 1979
Various Garden Tools...

Psych sounds, dub vibes and a whole bunch of FX in operation
SoundCloud collabs most welcome. Remixes, guitar bashing, conceptualising (a big word for a guitar player, I know) or whatever you have 😎

Member of the transatlantic music machine that is The Eclectic Collective

Member of Mid-Wales’ premier cheezepunk band The Recursives - watch us get down and boogie!!

https://youtu.be/f0CnN7FsIzM?si=4yCzlCMsylbIjKLx

https://youtu.be/E_tYwc83XPs?si=MjmQbwNeRpNXRhQS


Logo and cover art by Marianne

You may wish to check out my older dub based stuff here 
https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/TwJYv9QgWsDdKNvu9

every song a new adventure.
Dedicated to those who have heard it all.

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