If I remember right, Mark Wilkinson and Doug Abram came up with this melody. Someone correct me. There are so many versions of this song. This is the spaghetti western japanese animation gunfight version. Doug on Drums, Thom on guitar. One take, improvised based on the musical theme. So... much... fun.... playing this one....
Recorded on Doug's Yamaha MT4X cassette 4 track!

Why You Pay More

Mama Teresa
Mark Wilkinson: Piano, Vocals
Doug Abram: Sax
Thom Chrastka: Drums!! (Drums?!)

Split
Mark Wilkinson: Acoustic Guitar, Acoustic Piano
Doug Abram: Acoustic Saxaphone, Acoustic Drums
Dersu Burrows: Acoustic Drums and Percussion
Thom Chrastka: Electric Guitar and Vocals (digitally enhanced)



Mama teresa

A song based off of a scene in the Kurosawa movie, "Ikiru". The lyrics are the translation of a song sung in the movie. The music was made by yours truly.

Ikiru (Life is Brief)

Found on a cassette, recorded in the living room on Wenonah Ave.

Tom Chrastka (Age 9)

We love Elvis, boy is he cool.
We love Elvis, asleep in his drool... 
1993, Bottled Ovaries... 

We Love Elvis

Transition for a drunken scene in Sam Shepard's "True West". Enjoy. 

Red Sails In The Sunset (Guitar)

The climactic chaotic everyone is arriving to see the old man and old woman scene from Ionesco's "The Chairs" using Astor Piazzola's "Knife Fight" as the blueprint for this piece. 

The Chairs "Doorbell" Climax

This song was a tough nut to crack when Space Karate was trying to arrange the Song Reader. It always sorta sounded like a lemonade commercial. Kinda whatever...
One night, I couldn't sleep, set up my stuff, get lost in a pile of echo. After a while, I thought... "Dreamy..."
Tried it. Liked it. Showed it to the peoples. They seemed to dig. 
Please dig this too. 
Enjoy. 

Last Night You Were A Dream

Found on old SD card from Zoom recorder. Working on music for True West at LVLT. There's other versions, this one is the best of the worst. 

Bowed Guitar Red Sails Rough Draft

"This is our song... This is our song...." (Now jump around a whole bunch). 


Bloody Feverish Violence

November '93. Old Favorite. Lyrics by Miguel Echemendia, bouncey drums by Miguel Echemendia, bass by Senor David Howard, Guitar and Vocals Thom Chrastka. 
First time recording in a studio. First time recording my own backup vocals. 

Thomas Chrastka

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