jasmine and rose (slowed)

Recorded Friday February 17, 2023... it's a prototype over a Karaoke Version track for an upcoming recording for that other project! It came out pretty well I think for having laid down just the two tracks, and then some added wiggling to land the fish in the ol' S.S. Podstream! It's a keeper!

The Soundtrap project link is available here: https://www.soundtrap.com/signup?ref=37fcd322f858a098ec55a00df2878aa9

Lucretia My Reflection (orig. The Sisters of Mercy)

Nerves (bauhaus cover)

night shift - siouxsie and the banshees

Scars on the soul. Fire in the veins. The long road ahead.
Broken Highway is Frost Livingston’s return to the open road — a blues-soaked, southern-rock journey through heartbreak, survival, and redemption.

Each song burns with truth — from the storm-soaked swagger of “Whiskey Rain” to the late-night ache of “Cold Coffee Blues” and the triumphant fire of “Crash and Rise.” It’s the sound of a man who’s been through hell and came back driving harder than ever.

Gritty guitars, cinematic storytelling, and southern soul collide across 14 tracks that tell the next chapter of a life rebuilt from the ashes.
This isn’t just blues — it’s life behind the wheel, headlights through the dark, and faith that refuses to die.

“Broken Highway isn’t about where you’ve been — it’s about how far you’re willing to go.”

hd_1. broken highway

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I hope I do this song all the justice it deserves. Excellent classic, impossible to replicate.

From album 'Floodland'

Dominion / Mother Russia (Sisters of Mercy Cover)

Whiskey and Water

Gangue Morcego feat. Natasha Durski - Cascade - Brazilian Tribute To Siouxsie And The Banshees.

Cascade - GANGUE MORCEGO feat. Natasha Durski:

Amphetamine Logic/Some Kind Of Stranger (The Sisters Of Mercy cover)

Gotham Disc 1

Silent Hedges

Moonchild - Fields of the Nephilim

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.

Lucretia My Reflection (orig. The Sisters of Mercy)

Podstream Studios