Just for something different, here's a kind of Christmas track. This is the instrumental version. A version with vocals is coming, but it works well as an instrumental so I'll release both.

Letters to Santa [instrumental, version 1 - OLD]

Starred

Soon

Fun collaboration with poet Adam Cooper :)

January and June 

lyrics by Adam Cooper

Blood-red skies and dirt brown eyes
The only specks of colour inside
in my honestly
black-white mind

Quaking Earth and stormy seas
The only cracks of sound tonight
In our hollowed-out 
wrecked burned tree

I was January and you were June
I was flowing water and you were flame
And between you and I
only distance filled the air

Thunder, sighs and empty days
The only remnants from then
Of the mess we made
At least I tried

I was January and you were June
I was flowing water and you were flame
And between you and I
only distance filled the air

January and June

Looking back to the time you went and stole my braces
Body Attack was our nickname years before they caught us
My anxious arms are brushing up to yours
Oh is this love or something?

If you're a girl you should spread your wings, the world should know it
If you're a girl then your head will be gone in the morning
You don't believe me, you don't remember
That it was love or something

I don't believe that good things come to those who gloat
All that I know is this feeling in my bones

That I control what I control and I know what I know
It spent so many years just buried inside of me
Reawakened by the will of the burning sun
Now I'm riding on a fast wave
And I know what I know, I control what I control
I was dead until I saw your shining face
If I'll make it out alive I'll never know
Cause I'm riding on a fast wave

What do you do when the one you want is two years older?
What do you do when your mom and dad won't let you near them
What do I do? When your brother died I was not enough
What do I do? when the judgment comes and Jesus doesn't come

I don't believe that good things come to those who gloat
All that I know is I'll drink before I go

Cause I control what I control and I know what I know
It spent so many years just buried inside of me
Reawakened by the will of the burning sun
Now I'm riding on a fast wave
And I know what I know, I control what I control
I was dead until I saw your shining face
If I'll make it out alive I'll never know
I'm riding on a fast wave

A piece of trash, a heart attack
And you said I don't believe you
This thing I lack, a monkey on my back
And you said I don't believe you

Am I imagining you?

Fast Wave

Key 13's winning(!!!) entry "Misaligned Aardvarks" for the 2024 Fedivision Song Contest, representing The Island of Nothing.

Misaligned Aardvarks

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Recorded ~1994, this is a 20-minute cassette album composed, produced and recorded by Chicago drummer and composer Benjamin Kerr Miranda (1972-2015).  The seeds of Ben's fearless harmonic experimentation, preternatural facility with polyrhythms and asymmetrical structures, plus his lifelong love affair with discovering "natural" music hidden in technology are all beginning to flower here. Tracks include:

SIDE 1:
Candala
Pit of Me
Two Table Tops
SIDE 2:
Never Silent
Paraffin
Whimper 

Kerr Tape

- i was a little bit sad and i felt like doing a weezer cover so here, have it
- this time it's RAW (as in i only used the nice audio recording app on my ipod... ZERO editing on garageband woot) (as if it sounds any better)
- i hate classifying myself as "indie" but whatevs
- dear friends, get out of your victimhood mentality bs please
- nice album cover, right?

NO OTHER ONE -- WEEZER COVER

These are songs that I've taken and turned a little melancholy for a new series of mine called "Will it Sad?".

Super Mario Theme - Will It Sad? - Minor Key Cover

Here is a cover of Kanye West's "Coldest Winter" from 808 & Heartbreaks

Liberties were taken with song structure and chord progressions. The idea was to turn into an even moodier song. It's toned down, slowed down with a lot more instrumentation.

Inspiration drawn heavily from Sigur Ros and their () album which sounds like the absolutely coldest winter

Coldest Winter (Kanye West Cover)

What made Ming so merciless? A broken heart spurned by a distant lover.

The Moon Is In The Sea

Based on The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night time. This is a first take at an old song.

Rawk.

References, Beatles, superchunk, detholz and talking heads

Bury It

There Is A Monster In Me

Music one day... Lyrics the next. Recorded over the two.

You did the math and followed its path
But now there’s nothing turning up golden
The alchemists have all grown old

On those days when you lose everything 
You just have to settle your loses
I sacrificed my bike
To the gods of the great lakes
The harbor was dark, light muffled sparks
And omen from the place you are 
Going
To see the second coming   		 

All your talk has soured, friend
Now that your words have all gone wanting

I wouldn’t open that door
Where the wolves of the hour are prowling	
Hold it in tight, a faint little light

The wolves will hide in their corner

You won’t see them 
You won’t feel them   
But they will still be listening

The Gods Of The Great Lakes

There is no such thing as purpose. And no longer any place. There is only Software across all Tyme and Space.

Hereworld vs Afterworld Demos

Software

Negative Players is a theoretically fantastic  Indie/Alternative Rock band from Southwest Michigan. 

Beatles + 90's indie rock = (Elliott Smith * Pavement) / Superchunk

https://negativeplayers.com/
https://www.facebook.com/negativeplayers/
https://twitter.com/NegativePlayers

Coldest Winter (Kanye West Cover)

Negative Player

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