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Selection of Works *2022*

Selection of Works *2023*

Vocal Tracks (2012-present)

2024

2025 (updated regularly)

in the mermaid museum

no more evas (go outside)

any P / any Q

forbidden west

preview of the new Clouds for Sale album called chemical wedding, out soon

"here i flow"

undescended self

emergency room ragtime

theme from transgenerational trauma cops

saltwater creeps

from the finally-to-release People As Backgrounds (formerly/subtitled Summer of Retrogrades)
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save us only from
dealing with the overly friendly boys
writing all these letters
he was frowning dangerous

oh, he's so aghast
(he saw, i guess)
what does invention (intention) do
when people did not eat
w/ fork or spoon?

it's too soon

the sun's full brightness
possibly relevant still
daemon with the overly friendly voice
caught up in the gospel

we want more for
his great black eyes
we were born for
his great black eyes

the Book thus put
in every vulgar hand

Clouds for Sale - A Friendly Voice

anybody's devil

dominant halos

brass orchid bebop

taboo deformations (demo version)

untitled mood

guff hierarchies

just trying to learn a song

the original is quite good i mean you should probably
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jZHsm3E_ZM

the lyrics, with some dispute:

a solar flare
silent as a snow angel
red cold pomme peche
falls from the tree without a witness

give in to it 
to see is never to become or to be

a star explodes
silent as a snow angel
a glass-winged prayer
flutters in my throat and limbs

give in to it
to see is never to become or to be

snow angel V3 (califone cover raw demo)

sunstops

old long since

lol and behold (sketch)

or: water: we meet again
or: most relaxed at sav-a-lot

puke vibe heal song

signed a bull (sketch)

#1 ghost (Instrumental unfinished)

teaching norms to cats (demo version)

glaring rocket blues (live jam)

rise to bottom

new albume at: https://cloudsforsale.bandcamp.com/album/people-as-backgrounds

this track isnt even on there

commodifying generative belief systems while rome burns

collab w shdwtek (https://soundcloud.com/shdwtek)
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we all are creatures 
mostly of anxiety and lust
asked to set the children straight
well, tell it to 'em well:
it's good

sell it to the messanger
rise of nation sepulcher
a fish'll tell a tale
i'm livin' ocean 
but i'll tell you bout
the planet while i'm fallin'

(i only spin)

i'm only spinnin' round the risin' 
of the land in this world
this sobject comin'
to the writers of the letters
frownin' boredem 
by the zen of 
"i don't gotta metaphor 
"if i don't wanna"

voting for another day
just live it like you love

(but) 

dont want to live a life 
one crisis to another:
"s'why so sunny, brah?"
right? while we're all 
violent femme horizon
cameraman ephemera

man, fuck your man immortal
cuz he ain't no friend of mine
then you'll find you're
gonna tell it to another
when you dyin'

1 crisis 2 another

this is a description of the song that i wrote

a fanfare, a goof (feat. Daoyan 导演)

this was kind of inspired by really enjoying the polish national ballet's production of dracula recently.

fun fact: the two synth lines, the low one and the brighter keys that come in are the same music in a kind of round structure and just happen to go together.

dracula double date

there may not be a good vox mix :O


wisdom
blown away
(all of it)
on some holiday
(some part of me)
so-so

it doesn't really even matter
something's always coming
and all of this comedy,
a quasi-sensible reality

all this sun,
all this on a day
all this will blow away
like wind on a holiday

(going, gone
and on and on
all the days)

even if i could see you
when i'm gone
i probably still would not

Quasi-Sensible Realities (bad vox mix)

i wrote this over a year ago but a constellation of songs and words have grown out around it in the year since and they're coming together now for the next album 
last one, still free, is here: https://cloudsforsale.bandcamp.com/album/people-as-backgrounds

this new one will be called WIDE VIEW and is somewhat of a departure from the last one and for me at least more akin to what i was doing before i started this journey over 20 years ago.  i found some of these old tracks and may share some of them soon. 
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said he got philosophy
from that time he caught gnosis
tamagotchi all day,
and they all bae

someone gonna talk to himself
by a vowel
heard it'd be insane
if he won't

go well down, tempo
some of us are too scared
to even count

evidence lies compound
won't call you on it
always got a sob story
all-sorry, are we?

probably

tell that bitch,
'to each his own'
everybody's somebody's
number one ghost

(singing:)

everyone's gone today!
nobody saw the way!
storm comin, darlin!
whoa! awe!
we're all going down,
so very far!
oh, get out!
they all done
gone away!
...

so i got what i wanted,
all the horses
haunted ever after all
all i wanted,
all the voices
haunted, combined:
"never ever have i..."

Number One Ghost

a long time ago (maybe 20 years now), we made a now-lost live album called Diving Fools which i really loved (all my physical copies were stolen, of all things). we have continued to make a lot of music together over the years, but this track reminds me a lot of the type of what we were doing back then. 

point is, he's on lots of tracks and isn't always credited and is basically a de facto clouds for sale member, but this track is a good example of how it wouldnt sound anything like how it does without him and i wanted to emphasize that. 

you check out his solo work over here:  https://soundcloud.com/shdwtek

standing waves

foundational track for the band ive been working with for the past few years. ive shard some snippets on here before, the ones that feature Daoyan 导演 and Old.Tv.  ill be sharing two other tracks over the course of the weekend in preparation for the release of the 15 song album sometime this year.

Banana Bones

because i was making this while distracting myself from doing my taxes, i rendered this track without saving it. and so like taxes, it is what it is. 


taxman is laying eggs in the front yard (sketch)

crebus flies again (sketch)

Banana Bones are LL Gaddy III, Tyler McGee, Brandon Spangler

Minnesota Shuffle

Oh boy! This is a wonderful track that I'm very excited to put up as a preview of an EP that I contributed to with a friend and talented producer and rapper. This is a beat I made not too long after first getting into production; so roughly 10 years ago. It's always been something of a darling that I've been afraid to "kill" by committing it to any one project, but I feel pretty darn good about this! 

I will give credit for some innovations on the original (which you can find on here as "Dopebeat") that Winkyface added. He took the one track I've always felt proud of and made it something I look forward to listening to all over again!

Summer of Retrogrades

Never Is a Thing I Wouldn't Say (Preview)

adapted from Swimming in Circles in Copenhagen by Anne Carson
piano sample from Weldon Irvine's Here's Where I Came In
produced and performed by winkYface
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The palace guards telephoned to ask for shards
I sent out the hard dogs

(Dark swallow)

It is no simple red, he said
Each thread spun from a different reason
for marrying

This sparkle of anyone, 
all too soon,
flaming

Claiming to have no word for ‘desire,’
you brimming burning glukupikros liar,
you candybitter being

I defy you to find those deep approaches
where ordinary air is
The tough wound plucks itself

(Dark swallow)

Between grief and nothing,
I’d take grief
(I’d take nothing)
Perhaps we overvalue conversation

The palace thief overturned 
his dear ones leaf by leaf
For his eyes loved faint things

The palace vices are obvious
at salt prices
Poor blue boys went lookin
for a stark market

Only the human can fall out being
(philosophers say)
or dread this all day

I got out, closed the car door
They looked straight ahead

On the palace (stone blood paper) ash,
I wrote your name and asked for cash
Funny...

If I dip myself in this acid
are you sure my devils 
will bleach away to pure?

(Dark swallow)

Giggling and beautiful
they stood in the doorway
discussing their erections

You drove off lookin for candy
I wrote ‘salt’
Funny...

Dark swallow, you do return
(you do return)
but not to my balcony

With deep love, 
your Master

Dark Swallow (after Anne Carson)

music by shdwtek
lyrics by declairing and winkYface
produced by shdwtek and winkYface
performed by winkYface
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Something about the joy of being alive

the only thing that explains pools
and even then, just barely

pour a cold one out
for our warm boys, son

my gently singed face
up against your sweating sun

there’s the burden:
put a bird on it

you said you could go far 
on romanticism and heat

just give me a bowl, 
perhaps one made of dust

and access to fresh drinking water

One must imagine Sisyphus full of stars

but art is a series of proxy battles 
fought by mercenaries

and no one takes the time
to unburden deep revenges anymore

- but is this what’s wrong with modern people?

*

You came in like a dreadhorse, 
actually

your name’s an old theater
playing Damn Yankees

a hard stream of soft water
stretching ego muscles hella

this sharpness lies in you

Imagine me on the banks

pointing back at the island 
of Blackbeard’s treasure

yelling “GET WRECKED!” at culture 
from the depths of a mountain,

a hot-take oracle in a horny landscape

This is the arc of mutual self-acceptance:

the how-was-your-evenings 
and taboos and darkness

the temporary nature of foam art 
and absolute zen

just
KEEP IT A HUNDRED
then

Back to the nothing landscapes
all the mountains disappear

one thousand years of blue
and still come back stronger

let inner gods force reconciliation
on each other

by paint-by-numbers annihilation
in a tower in a tunnel

Dreadhorse, actually

weird you can't wear
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