the oldies

I've been pretty productive lately. I've gotten 3 songs most of the way recorded in the last week: More to See, Station, and Origami. These are the three oldest songs I'm putting on the album. I'm not all that prolific as a writer, and some of these oldies are really good so I need to get them recorded and out there so I can feel some closure and move on with my new ideas.

More to See is one of the first songs I ever wrote. It was one of those things that just suddenly pours out of you all at once as if it was already fully formed. I'm still not really sure if I actually wrote this song or if I just transcribed it. But it's one of my favorites.

I wrote Station around the time I finished college. It's a slow ode to disillusionment, which was my specialty at the time. I played it with Shannon and Kevin during the post-Stragglers days, but it fell by the wayside when we became Ålushus.

Origami is from the Brooklyn era. I started playing this thing that had a really complex fingering, and then I realized that it would be easier if I just re-tuned my guitar to DADABE. It has a very mystic feel, much different from the rest of the stuff on the album. On both this one and Station I have recorded two rhythm guitar parts and panned one all the way to the right and the other to the left.

After I add some lead guitar parts and backwards magic these songs will probably be finished. It all makes me nostalgic for the confining simplicity of a four-track tape recorder.