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life comes rolling in... |
| Secret Agent Man (theme song) |
It won't make sense to anyone else, but to my ears, this is a cool theme song for the next Bond movie. |
| Hawaiian Sunset | This was called "untitled" for a long time. Every time I played it I imagined myself on a beach watching the sun set. And Hawaii seemed like a nice place to do that. |
| The Avalanche | Originally written for acoustic guitar, this song was moved over to the stick and took on a new quality. |
| I Go Crazy | This one has a long history. It was recorded for my first wrinklemuzik CD. But the label I was signed to went bankrupt before we were finished mixing. It was in the middle of a recession and i could not get another label interested. I've been trying to get this song out for years. |
| Imagine That |
Originally written on 12 string acoustic using an alternate tuning. It transferred easily to the stick. |
| New York (on a Sunday afternoon) | Another one that was called "untitled". When I was between 8 and 12 years old my family lived in East Brunswick, NJ. One set of grandparents lived in Queens. On many Sundays we would drive into the city and visit. On the way home, going down 2nd Avenue, we would pass an ice cream parlor that I think was called "The Flick". They showed silent movies and served ice cream. I would always plead with my parents to stop, and every once in a while we did. For some reason, that's what I thougfht of when I played this song - driving down 2nd Avenue on a Sunday evening. The bizarre sound in the backgroud of the piece is an ebow going through a harmonizor. All the other stringed instruments are stick and warr guitars. |
| I Spy | "I Spy" had two sets of lyrics. One set was about the Iraq war and was anti-war anti-Bush. But that was getting stale and I had just retruned from a vacation in Australia. So this was more fun for me and every time I sign it I'm reminded of what the Great Barrier Reef looks like. |
| 2nd Ave, 62nd St. | My high school friend Joe Ruiz wrote the lyrics to this song. We were in a band together and Joe couldn't come up with any music he liked for these lyrics. I really loked the lyrics and gave it a shot. It was originally written on acoustic guitar. When I wrote an arrangement for stick/warr, the song become more subdued and better matches the lyrics. |
| Life Comes Rolling In (with the fog) | see "I Go Crazy". |
| Sibella | A quiet way to end the CD. I wanted to give this a woman's name, but wanted something orginal. So I borrowed it from a friend who doesn't use it (she goes by her middle name). It was written before we got to know each other (or I knew her real first name). Played on a 12 string Warr Artison Guitar using the peizo pickups. |
| Fire | another instrumental (I was going to leave this off the CD). I was persuaded to leave it in, as a bonus track. |
