SUBTITLE: "Album Oriented Radio Experience"


PhD project board... 
https://trello.com/b/0MjNRH6b

The Mariner's Song Project

The final two songs – non-final mixes – from the "Covid Sessions / Mariner's Song Project" recordings of 2021-2022 by Ian McAvoy and Joel Flynn that began in San Jose, CA and Campbell River BC, then eventually migrated over to Vancouver's Podstream Studios for completion. Side A is a cover of Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes" but done as a duet w/ the help of Rachelle Boily of Vancouver indie band The Broken Islands. Side B is a piano-only version of the Billie Eilish James Bond theme "No Time to Die".

*final mixes will be available for the NFT version, now that the house of cards has predictably collapsed ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Mariner's Song Project - In Your Eyes (Single)

Preview track from a forthcoming full length vinyl LP record that is currently in digital design prototype form (as part of the "Album Oriented Radio Experience" and "Box Set View" research projects). This is an unfinalized mix from March 2021 of music performed and produced by Ian Bruce McAvoy with vocals by Joel Flynn on the 1972 Steely Dan song "Do It Again" from the album Can't Buy a Thrill.

https://trello.com/c/QxEQsMbo

Do It Again (orig. Steely Dan)

mix 2 vocals recorded May 18, 2021

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuthering_Heights

Kate Bush's 1978 song "Wuthering Heights" is most likely the best-known creative work inspired by Brontë's story that is not properly an "adaptation". Bush wrote and released the song when she was 18 and chose it as the lead single in her debut album. It was primarily inspired by the 1939 Olivier–Oberon film, which deeply affected Bush in her teenage years. The song is sung from Catherine's point of view as she pleads at Heathcliff's window to be admitted. It uses quotations from Catherine, both in the chorus ("Let me in! I'm so cold!") and the verses, with Catherine admitting she had "bad dreams in the night". Critic Sheila Whiteley wrote that the ethereal quality of the vocal resonates with Cathy's dementia, and that Bush's high register has both "childlike qualities in its purity of tone" and an "underlying eroticism in its sinuous erotic contours". Singer Pat Benatar covered the song in 1980 on her "Crimes of Passion" album. Brazilian heavy metal band Angra released a version of Bush's song on its debut album Angels Cry in 1993. A 2018 cover of Bush's "Wuthering Heights" by EURINGER adds electropunk elements.

Out on the wily, windy moors
We'd roll and fall in green
You had a temper like my jealousy
Too hot, too greedy

How could you leave me
When I needed to possess you?
I hated you, I loved you, too

Bad dreams in the night
They told me I was going to lose the fight
Leave behind my wuthering, wuthering
Wuthering Heights

Heathcliff, it's me, I'm Cathy
I've come home, I'm so cold
Let me in your window
Heathcliff, it's me, I'm Cathy
I've come home, I'm so cold
Let me in your window

Ooh, it gets dark, it gets lonely
On the other side from you
I pine a lot, I find the lot
Falls through without you
I'm coming back love
Cruel Heathcliff, my one dream
My only master

Too long I roam in the night
I'm coming back to his side, to put it right
I'm coming home to wuthering, wuthering
Wuthering Heights

Heathcliff, it's me, I'm Cathy
I've come home, I'm so cold
Let me in your window
Heathcliff, it's me, I'm Cathy
I've come home, I'm so cold
Let me in your window

Ooh, let me have it
Let me grab your soul away
Ooh, let me have it
Let me grab your soul away
You know it's me, Cathy

Heathcliff, it's me, I'm Cathy
I've come home, I'm so cold
Let me in your window

Heathcliff, it's me, I'm Cathy
I've come home, I'm so cold
Let me in your window

Heathcliff, it's me, I'm Cathy
I've come home, I'm so cold

Lyrics by Kate Bush ©1979

Wuthering Heights (orig. Kate Bush)

Recorded in April 2022 at Podstream Studios, Vancouver BC. Prototype mix. Production by Ian McAvoy in San Jose, CA. Vocals by Joel Flynn & Rachelle Boily a.k.a. the Flynn-Boily Initiative (FBI). Merchandise available at local Walmarts across North America!

https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/FBI-Federal-Bureau-of-Investigation-Law-Enforcement-T-Shirt-M/3KTYLGKA8P8H

In Your Eyes *duet* (orig. Peter Gabriel)

A "weighty" interpretation, recorded in May 2022 at Podstream Studios, Vancouver BC. Prototype mix. Piano & production by Ian McAvoy in San Jose, CA. Vocals by Joel Flynn, with a call back to Chris Cornell's "You Know My Name" from an earlier Bond film...

https://soundcloud.com/podstream/006x7-life-of-a-spy

No Time To Die (orig. Bilie Eilish)

A piano version of an old Talk Talk tune from the 1986 album "The Colour of Spring", written by Mark Hollis and Tim Friese-Green. Music performed and produced by I. McAvoy, with vocals added remotely by J. Flynn in the online collaborative audio platform Soundtrap...

https://www.soundtrap.com/signup?ref=5f727ee0372826487781c7ec941db6b0

Living In Another World (orig. Talk Talk) - the anticipated "b-side"

Anthonys Song...a.k.a. Movin' Out (orig. Billy Joel)

Devil Woman (orig. Cliff Richard)

Kashmir (orig. Led Zeppelin) - August 17, 2022

Comfortably Numb (orig. Pink Floyd)

Angie (orig. The Rolling Stones)

OLD ADVENTURES IN LO-FI... 

Next to a small little cobblestone street on the edge of Vancouver's Gastown used to be a bunch of rehearsal spaces for local bands, with all the aesthetics, trappings, and varmints of a set from David Fincher's Fight Club. Matt Wilson, the ex-bassist from from late 90s Campbell River rock band halcyon days had a shared room here with his other band and in late 2008 suggested to former bandmates Joel Flynn (vocals, acoustic guitar) and Derek Lee (drums) to come on by and make use of the space. After the sudden passing of Flynn's father in December of that year, the ex-Riverite singer needed some music to work through the situation. He recruited two other ex-Riverites, his nephew Luke Schuss on guitar and Erin Lahay on piano/keyboards. 

To honour the infamous old singing fisherman - Flynn's father Doug, who had moved on to Fiddler's Green - the five-piece put together a bunch of mostly Irish-themed songs to play at a St. Patrick's Day memorial at the Media Club. The nameless group continued to get together and learn songs, some new originals and holdovers from the halcyon days era, but mostly just a bunch of cover songs that were fun to play. Borrowing Flynn's nom-de-plume of that he used for his digital media art experiments, the band played one other show at the Media Club in July of 2009, but never did anything else outside the walls and microphones of, ahem, "Cobblestone Road Studios". 

Of course, "studios" is saying a bit much, as it is basically a 15'x15' room with some randomly placed microphones. These consisted of either a Rode Podcaster or an iPod nano with a Belkin stereo mic attachment, which were later thrown together into multitrack Garageband projects. Yet this bare minimal approach did the lo-fi job and the Campbell River collective continued to play away in the space until it was closed down in early 2010. Some informal recording took place during this time, but was more note-taking and reference material for the band members than anything else. 

Later in the year, while backing up all these recordings to a new hard drive, Flynn ended up losing most of them when the brand new drive crashed within a  week (damn you LaCie!). File recovery software couldn't identify the Garageband files, and the old "throw the drive in the freezer" last resort couldn't get the drive spinning. The still nameless band never ended up finding another full rehearsal space, or play another show as a full band, while the lost Garageband recordings are still sitting unrecoverable on the busted LaCie (with the eye-catching design by Porsche). 

FAST FORWARD: While rummaging through discs, drives, and other piled up office stuff in early 2011, Flynn came across an old recovery disc from the busted LaCie drive. On it were some raw and rough mp3s taken during the group's rehearsals in 2009 that he gave a listen. With Erin now on a two-year 'round the world adventure, and the rest of the band still in limbo with other projects and a lack of a regular rehearsal space, Flynn decided to collect and coordinate some of these lo-fi recordings through a SoundCloud page, which has now been repurposed for Podstream Studio's uses.