Back in high school I was lucky enough to have two excellent friends who were also great musicians — Heroic Imp and SKP. They’d jam, and I’d make up some words — insta-tunes, written and recorded in one night. And…
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Zibby Zabble
There was music there. Musicality, I like to think. And there was a little guitar. And enthusiasm. “Say! Say! Say!” And there was that kid, that funky funky kid — and that unusual groove. What was her deal? It like…
Downed Them All
For this week’s tune, I sent bass and a pair of keyboard tracks to Yaniv Soha — my frequent co-conspirator and the recently ousted former CFO of yanivsoha.com. Yaniv added vocals and atmospheric guitar and, hey presto — here are…
A thin slice of terror
Here’s a wee thing (voice talents: eb and xian) — 26 seconds of sound, a 415K mp3. It’s a scrap. A found object. A thin slice of terror. And, as an added bonus, it’s also an almost entirely misleading trailer…
Till It’s Light
As we ramp up production here at the house of Vortex, I’ll be aiming to post a tune every week or two. Today’s is a collaborative effort recorded a few months back and written in the key of Leon Russell.…
Banana Hands
I think most of us have been there at one time or another. I know I have. And I don’t mean that metaphorically either. Here’s a piano/vocal song about those times, and what we were thinking. And maybe even a…
Double Agent of Love, instrumental
Here’s an instrumental thang that I’ve been noodling around with for the last week or so. It goes kinda like this: da da da da, da da da — blinnngggg, da da da. Oh, ya know, it’s a wee thing.…
Second Hand Rose
As a follow up to our smash hit “Bye Bye, Blackbird, here’s the second in a continuing series of occasional piano/vocal jazz standards plucked from bygone days. This time, we’re headed all the way back to 1921 for “Second Hand…
Bye Bye, Blackbird
I’ll be posting a few (usually fairly short) tunes up as we go. Some solo multitrack homebrew this and that. Some long-distance musica-collabarativo. And the occasional piano/vocal jazz standard from 1926. Here’s the first tune out the gate, a piano/vocal…