Drone

A very very long psychedelic ambient drone rock song with multiple sections, some choral, some tribal handpan with didgeridoo, some funk, some blues, and some jazz.  Took me forever to make this one, lots of post filter work and manual audacity adjustments.  Trying to really get a continuous drone feeling across multiple genres.  I had to "Paul Stretch" the ending if you know what I mean.  Long Saturday and I'm not done yet and it's 4am.  Gonna start making a composite music video of me playing multiple instruments in a new song to add to Nullanon series.  I enabled this entire song to be free download and creative commons, meaning you can mostly do whatever you want with it.

The Long Drone

The Long Drone (Free Download, Creative Commons)

The image artwork for the album cover and waveform were created in watercolor by Rachel Rodgers, my sister.  This piece is a classical drone/ambient, where I attempt to have a constant lower drone noise behind a high pitched dissonant lead.

The accompanying video with effects is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2eHw1aFOP0

Watercolor Life

Collaboration with Brendan Dempsey.

https://soundcloud.com/brendan-dempsey-3

Bass guitar, Korg Radias.

No Preconceptions

The 11th song in the Path Of The Nullanon.  Starts out with some drone into some heavy rock, then some soul hammond b3, then some reggae to close it off.

LYRICS:
Remember when it was simple?
When everything was hit or miss?
Now it's all just ups and downs at every turn.
Did we ask for this?
One moment you're above it all,
But then you fall.
Then you wake up,
And you're back on top.
Sometimes we just want things to be the same,
But things keep changing.
Chromatic game.

Chromatic Game

Some drone with distorted guitar, then some funk, organ soul, and jazz flute.

Solipsistic Fear

Ambient world music on a TE OP-1 keyboard.

Cold Smoked Salmon

Dust Plumes

Psychedelic Rock with a little bit of organ.  This is mostly what I call a "Drone" song, attempting to keep a continuous dissonant chord going through the entire song.  Lots of echo pedal.

Sudden

Psychedelic Rock Drone.  Completely on TE OP-1 Keyboard.

Catatonic

Brendan Dempsey on bass, NOSTRUMUVA on TE OP-1 Field keyboard. Psychedelic Rock.

Chromium Catalyst

Morning song to wake up. It's melancholy but that's how most days are anyway. Starts out with some organ drone which continues through most of the song, a bit of soul, then into some trance then metal, and ending with some dubstep to get you fully awake.

Wake Up

Experimental meditation oscillation song. TEOP1 Field keyboard, started with a layer of mid-level digital organ with some weird timber effect in it, then added an almost walking jazz bass accompaniment, then went back and added a higher layer of some more ethereal stuff.  The point of this song is drone background for some thinking/working.

Preoccupied Oscillation

LYRICS:
Where are the things we forgot?
When we look away, where do they go?
Is there some dark place
That hides our missing dreams?
If we look closely at the smoke, does it have seams?
Can we open the dark place
And get our dreams back?
Nothing is left to decide.
It's all been planned and performed in your mind.
Everything left is just fodder for cannons of hopes from the past.
Anything that's not nailed down is now free to escape, and take up the time,
Filling the emptiness forwards in front of your face, at last.
We aren't tied.
We aren't tied down.
We aren't tied down, anymore.
We aren't tied down!
Keep your eyes off the ground!
Arms to your sides!
Then turn around!
March towards the entrance!
Left Right Left Right!
Open the door!
Walk through the doorway!
We aren't tied anymore!

We Aren't Tied Down

For reasons unknown but time will tell...
Multi-instrumentalist, all types of music, all types of methods.
Occasional collaborations with other artists.
Sometimes I post the sheet music if it's piano.
Lately, my favorite instrument is a TE OP-1 Field keyboard.