a place to be loud

[green glass] about damn time.

finally. here is the follow-up to the smash hit super success "sorry to be leaving."

i think there is a theme here.

sorry to be leaving

truly.

here is a little 3 song EP sort of thing. one song is a reworked version of something that appeared on kidsounds. the other two are very new. written and recorded in the last week or so.

as relocation occurs, recording toys must be placed in boxes and stowed away. figured it'd be best to go  ahead and get this out as is, rather than wait for more material to materialize.

download here.

kidsound

this is a 36 minute piece.  it was pretty much all recorded on the handheld tape deck.  field sounds and mostly unfinished, acoustic numbers.  it's all one track as i can't help but feel that's how it just ought to be.  i enjoy it.  hope someone else does as well.  song titles coming soon.



download at archive.org
note: i wouldn't be surprised if a few of these tunes resurface sometime in the future in different forms.

nothing is better than you

it's about time.

it's been a while since anything has been finished and posted. this is the newest hodge-podge of songs. some acoustic and some electric. most pretty noisy, made by things of wood and wiring and metal and plastic.  i tried to crawl a bit beyond the shell with some of them.  i don't know how far i got, but i am fairly pleased with a few.

some recorded digitally, some on tape, some from tape to homemade vinyl back to digital, etc.

1. an intro

2. plain clothes jane

3. a postcard from me to me

4. control

5. do you know

6. dogs

7. hidden tracks

8. compound

9. tornado dream

listen and download at the archive

notes of non-interest: the original working title was "nothing is better than you, anything would be better than you."  -- nothing meaning nothingness.

i reckon there will be another "handholder" tape coming soon chock full of the left overs from this one.

Post title

here's another one.


have a few other things recorded and a few things that need to be recorded.

i need drums

this is from whatever is coming next.

nobody is looking for you

i really don't feel like writing some sort of introduction.
this is a thing that is made up of other things.

listen & download

that last one is kinda noisy.

handholder vol. II

here is another tape of random junk recorded on the old tape cassette deck.  some songs have been on other recordings. some have not.  the ones that have been recorded time and time again were really just recorded to give to a friend.  these are all just me by my lonesome. listen & download at the archive.

i hate naming songs.





some day you'll look down at your child and say, "you know, i listened to that stuff way back when no one knew about it."

and your child will look up at you and respond, "what are you talking about?"


oh, and i think there will be another little EP or some sort of recording being finished and posted soon, sometime in the next week or two.

oh, other update: i am steadily making progress on improving the sound quality on these homemade records.  i've been cutting on super thin polycarbonate sheets, so they're quite flexible/flimsy/fun. if you want one, let me know.

so much for the big plans

so what's been keeping me busy/not posting rubbish? remember that record lathe thing? well, it's up and running now. which means things are now running around in the sub-lo-fi abyss. below-fi? lower-fi?

chlorophyll? more like bore-ophyll.

i've been experimenting with cutting some 7" records on lexan polycarbonate (much thanks to Michael of Secret Message Machine, again). they're starting to come out a bit better each time.  of course, any sort of punch-y note ends up with a bit of a bendy-wobbly-is-this-thing-spinning-at-uneven-speeds kinda sound.  however, you may notice that voices and some stuff sounds better. i have to adjust the speed to compensate for differences between the lathe and a 45 rpm player.
they're all one-offs. they're square. they're clear.

i may try to play a show sometime.  see if i can put this plastic burden on some other folks.

now, to rest on my laurels.

you on the run:

colors on the run:

song for mike (not mike's song):

mad as hell:

i am a spaceman, scribbling my name on the face of God.

experimental.
lo-fi.
new.
listen.

1. i am a spaceman
2. aphelion
3. perihelion

these internets are just a fad. like the yo-yo.

so with all this commotion about web hosts n shit, some things on mediafire may or may not get barfed up like last night's Blatz 'n' fish tacos. it shouldn't, but it might.  either way, it doesn't matter much.  almost everything is up on archive.org.  but should you find something down, let me know and i'll get it back up. shut up. i know what you're thinking.

an introduction to worms

new ep.
some stuff that's been heard before in different forms. most of it was recorded on my handy little cassette recorder. a bit in ohio. a bit in seattle. a few songs and some random street noise stuff.

1. an introduction
2. a funny farm with your name written on it
3. secret songs
4. william of orange
5. once through the market

listen & download

coming soon (buy yourself some ear muffs)

updates from the place where i am:

1. a new ep - some recently recorded music and found sounds. primarily on handheld cassette.
2. a collection of outtakes and unused songs. these will range from pretty darn old to pretty darn new.
3. after i drunkenly fried my 4-track (not quite sure what happened, but it happened) i have purchased a new multitrack recorder. it should be waiting patiently for me in ohio when i return. after which, i intend to get started recording another ep of sorts that i have been wanting to get down for a while now. all songs written. just need to be recorded.
4. the split with Halaka and Pile Records now has over 300 downloads on archive.org. So thank you very much to everyone who checked it out. Also, thanks to those guys for including me in it. Go take a listen.

that is all.

one year

wow. one year ago today i started this thing.  gee, i really feel like i've accomplished something.  thank you to anyone who is listening.  much appreciated.

so in honor of this momentous occasion (not just mere coincidence) i will be posting the newest tape-o-noise later on today.

coming soon

hope to have this next tape finished up within the next two weeks or so.

in the same vein of the "william of orange" tape.  but "william of orange" was really recorded in only two days.  it was recorded in a rush to have something for a friend to hear before getting together to mess around.  don't get me wrong, this will be rushed too.

anyway, there will probably be some overlap in songs on the tapes.  i don't know, i've enjoyed recording it so far.

archive.org

hello folk(s).

recently started uploading a lot of this junk to archive.org (which is a pretty awesome source) and i will be adding more over time.

two reasons. one of which is to make some sort of attempt to get this stuff out there in another capacity.  two, yet another way to back up hard drives, cassettes, etc.

everything that will be going up on archive.org will be listed under "appalachian yard art" as the "creator." while this isn't really the case, i'll be using that name to keep everything grouped...i suppose i see "appalachian yard art" will be used merely to identify the collection of recordings, and the individual artist names used with each recording basically only serves as a personal shortcut for separating and categorizing the projects based on what i hoped to accomplish with each one (which of course is very little).

this probably seems stupid. it is.

p.s i am aware no one reads this or cares for that matter.