The Hungry Ear

waiting then stalking, capturing and devouring fresh, wide-eyed melodofauna. bojibbety is the cry of the soon to be sated Hungry Ear.

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Tuesday, June 28, 2005

An Update

Today, I programmed the drum track and recorded a guitar track. Tomorrow I will review what I have done and perhaps add to it rather than scrapping it.


good listening today?

guided by voices Bee Thousand

sonic youth Dirty

and oysterhead The Grand Pecking Order


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Monday, June 27, 2005

theme music and ongoing recordings



Suspended Animation by Fantomas: some reviews


Umbilical is nearing completion. I've discarded every guitar tone I was going to use and now that I have accepted every guitar tone that I will use, I will complete this recording, ha!

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Thursday, June 23, 2005

Fantomas&Ipecac Recordings

I have discovered the perfect background music for completing sudokus. It's 'Suspended Animation' by Fantomas; their new recording on Ipecac Recordings. Of course, I'm certain I could have completed today's sudoku without it but I like to have activity music . It leads to memories: "Remember when you heard 'Suspended Animation' for the first time and you completed that day's sudoku?" Now that's a memory, bo diddly!

Of course you could also chase your favourite cartoon cat around the house and neighbourhood to this delightful 43 minutes and change. You decide.


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Sunday, June 19, 2005

What's Good Listening Tonight?

Another Bill Laswell remix, Trojan Dub Massive Chapter Two and now I should go get Chapter One.

Naked City Grand Guignol. The remastered version I have includes a vocal, by Mike Patton, on Grand Guignol.

And a live performance by Painkiller called Talisman. Painkiller was a trio with Bill Laswell, Mick Harris and John Zorn. Bo Diddly!

I almost acquired a copy of the new Audioslave release this week. I picked it up, I turned it over and I thought about their other release also produced by Rick Rubin. Top quality from end to end more than 70 minutes of well-crafted-rock-music; which I seldom listen to; and yet when I do listen to it I wonder why I don't listen to it more often; and then I forget about it; and what was the point of this anyway: I didn't buy it. Poor Audioslave.

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Monday, June 13, 2005

Sister Audio

At the time I wrote this I thought that it would be the last song that I would ever need to write and that I had achieved perfection in a composition, to quote myself, 'eternity in a dream or in a bottle.'

I was mistaken and now realize that the current three songs I am working on are the epitome of the song-writing craft and that once those are recorded and committed to the silent halls of perpetuity I will once again be safe from the songwriting scourge that lurks in every sub-atomic particle of these our great and hoorayed multiverses. Bo diddly!

Listen with headphones. At the time of this recording I was referring to this project as, 'The Apartment Headphones.'

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Thursday, June 09, 2005

What's

Yes, the more I write about it, the more I think about it, the more I want to add to it. The lyrics are about the search through the deep, deep cosmos to find an entry point into the previous universe/multiverse, the Umbilical of the title. Everybody dies except the searcher.

Rather than scrapping what I've recorded up to now I started recording another version with the 128bpm section becoming a shorter 138bpm section. The bass intro has been trimmed to 8 bars rather than 16.

'Last man on the road' may get recorded on my next two days off. It will not be as complicated. Mercy me.

What's good to listen to, this week? Maybe some of this:


Kyuss ...And the Circus Leaves Town

Material Seven Souls


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Wednesday, June 01, 2005

Naked City

That's right, 'Naked City.' Five CDs remastered with the added bonus of Mike Patton providing vocals on a new version of 'Grand Guignol.' What have we got here? Naked City, Grand Guignol, Heretic, Radio, Absinthe and a booklet of 'Naked City' ephemera. Bo Diddly!

Yes, it's a box set and it's the only one I've seen here since it was released in March. so I grabs it see and makes my way to the door via the checkout counter where the women are dressed in black, tattoos and piercings. Yet for all that I still get, 'did you find everything you were looking for?' I'm buying a 5 CD box set and she thinks I might have missed something. I know she's trained to ask me that but I would prefer someone telling me that I've made a wise choice and I will not rue the day of this sublime purchase. Bo Diddly!

sometimes I get that and the checkout person drools a little over my purchase and then I pump them for more info about what I'm buying, maybe I'll get directed to the secret stash; maybe, one day, it will appear to my ears.


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