Playlist

Recorded

March 24, 2019

Puyallup, WA ca 1966

The Witch (Live) - The Sonics [from Boom]

somewhere in the back of the palate of those wailing shrills is an emulation of Screamin' Jay

Nice Work If You Can Get It - Thelonious Monk [from The London Collection]

so he's a singer at one with rhythm

a Satie-esque end game

New Lace Sleeves - Elvis Costello [from Trust]

this song's kind of all over the map

Fire - Bruce Springsteen [from Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band Live 1975-1985]

odd bridge

an out of affect experience

briefly

it jars a bit I think

Immediate Impact Zone - Infamous Menagerie [from Kill Rock Stars]

its implied architecture

repetition structures

social inventions

mini ritual

about as great a thing as it could be

Dudley's Song - Dean Evenson [from Native Healing]

not completely without merit in the pitch play department

though rather enclosed, as in a vitrine

Sweat Sex - Thee Emergency [from Can You Dig It]

comin' on like The Who and all

full stadium roar

an altar call

Sow Took The Measles - Train Case [June 2011]

I take pride in the fact that I convinced Karen and Neal to record the songs they were playing for their Mom. 

Opus - Jon Forshee - Joshua Charney, piano [from Open Space CD 36]

playful figurations

downright melodramatic!

all riled up

a really tremendous solo piano piece, probably some several gradations over my technical abilities. {frowny face}

Mt. Rainier National Park

March 26, 2019

Got To Get You Into My Life - The Beatles [from Anthology Vol. 2]

bared of orchestra

organ, bass, drums, vocals

lifted from the mix

or the rest of the mix leached away

how ideas are tried

Child of Heaven - Lake Washington Singers, Betty Eisenbrey, director [December 1971]

from my Mom's private tape

Track 8 - Empire Brass Quintet [from American Brass Band Journal Revisited]

another unnamed track that came into the mix through Karen's family

Banned Rehearsal 97 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Neal Kosály-Meyer [June 1986]

chorale tune is the thing

shabby by this time with no rehab done

correcting part work or grading

we spin some disks

let's shout

sight singin'

somewhere in this book is a good chord

sorry

false alarm

March 28, 2019

Laugh or Cry - The Vagabonds [a Rescued Record]

somewhere between the Buzzcocks and Simon & Garfunkel

this 45 was found in a box

Lost Tracks - Dean Evenson [from Native Healing]

Mt. Rainier National Park

piety without content

mood mix

so seeming mistrustful of what it could be

of what any bit could be

form lines reverberated out, dissipated

Liebeslied (Amended) - Keith Eisenbrey [Chapel Performance Space June 5, 2010]

When I returned to Seattle in 1984 Ben Boretz gave me the original pencil score of his (now withdrawn) unfinished composition Liebeslied (for a pianist alone) - composed in the early 70's. I copied it (in ink on vellum, and later with engraving software) and performed it several times over the next couple of decades. At some point Ben suggested that I re-compose it. Liebeslied (Amended) was my first go at it, my amendments consist of making a half-hearted but personally intriguing stab at drawing out the opening section, and revoicing a few of the big chords in the middle. This was not a particularly successful performance, due to my usual chronic rushing - and I still have trouble getting my paws around those big crashy chords.

Hammer in a Bag - Pouch

Sean Delaney's go to move is a Godzilla shriek 

containing multitudes

as shrieks go, high class indeed

Huge Guy in the Mosh Pit - St. Rage [June 25, 2016]

And it's Neal and Karen again! Your Mother Should Know impersonates Karen's fictional high school garage rock band. This recording benefits from being turned up loud. Sloppy but earnest.

March 29, 2019

Hear Us - Era of Peace - Lake Washington Singers, Betty Eisenbrey, director [April 1966]

the choral first person

as an operatic invention

derived from the congregational first person

the creepy politics of combinations

subversive anti-individualist propaganda

Nutty (take 1) - Thelonious Monk [from The London Sessions]

playing a polyvocal game with a sensibility that concerns where within phrase length spans one can play loose and off and where one is to play flat and plain

in order to play at platformers or web slinging

on the audio grid

The Emerald City (from a broomstick)

Forest Fire - Dead Kennedys [from Plastic Surgery Disasters - In God We Trust]

grown men impersonating 10 year old boys

as they thought themselves 

bethinking themselves

besmirched

This Is My Day - Julian Lennon [from The Secret Value of Daydreaming]

this arrangement is crying just crying for a big orchestra and a 100 voice backing choir

those synths just don't quite cut it

Loch Ness - The Velvet Sidewalk [from Kill Rock Stars]

some musics are sudden floriations

others are the belowground parts of the soil fungus

we rot music

Track 2 - The Seattle Chamber Music Festival [July 2001]

oh such glorioso amateur intonations! so robust! spritus maximus.

discointonations

dis-co-intonations

disco into nations

a half reeler silent accompaniment

morally upliftingly 

Workin' Man's Blues - Bob Dylan [Key Arena, 2006]

playin' the old guy 

playin' the old tunes

does anybody believe in this anymore, what he's saying?

Sow Took The Measles A - Train Case

When I first started recording them I kept a bunch of versions. this is one.

Karen has a superpower. She can sing.

The Ship - Brian Eno [from The Ship]

the soundtrack

to the film

of the finding

of the ship

das Rheingold's anacrusis

instrument of death to all

its sepulchral nature even at birth

vowels shaped at liminal register deep

epitaphony 

reverberance plucked by cotton candy tongue out

the after wave

And Your Bird Can Sing - The Beatles [from Anthology Vol. 2]

you can't see me

the poster child of isolation recording

Echo Song - Lake Washington Singers, Betty Eisenbrey, director [December 1971]

works it out nice

within its chamber 

the layers of media transfer 

as they successively disengage

Untitled Track - Throbbing Gristle [from Greatest Hits]

like something Pete Comley might have said

Banned Rehearsal 98 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Neal Kosály-Meyer [June 1986]

heart felt cry of bluesy oh city to ope

sprite at its funmaker makiest

"It Hurts" - Neal's sudden song

when we aim we are dead on laser bent

we are the generatoration 

that shreds the past

we are the past shredders

Port Macquarie, New South Wales, 1986

"this is banned rehearsal number ninety eight / the last banned rehearsal in this house for a long time"

actually probably the last ever full session

karen and I made some assembly rechoireds and some telepaths, but by the time there was a quorum again we had moved to the Front House, in front of the Half House, Greenwood, where we were

this hits on a large quantity of cylinders heretofore never known

intervals energize persistence

a sister worthy shaman fellow

accuracy presumes rectitude

precision does not

we dredge down

on

one 

to

one

(funny that karen should worry about echoing in her books the girl boy boy dynamic of Harry Potter plots, when banned rehearsal was all of that long beforetimes)

Love's a Hard Game to Play - Stevie Nicks [from Timespace]

a sexy viola register there Stevie

pretty hot

In Session at the Tintinabulary

March 25, 2019

Banned Rehearsal 978 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer

I played piano because I just had it tuned and because it's fun

March 29, 2019

"Mrs. Ramsay rose, Lily rose." - Keith Eisenbrey

Frankie and Johnnie [from Études d'exécution imminent] - Keith Eisenbrey

Port Macquarie, New South Wales, 1986

Karen has been in Portland for a conference since Wednesday, so Friday morning I took advantage of the relative quiet of a morning with nobody else up and about to record some takes and tests. Mrs. Ramsay (yes, it's from Virginia Woolf) is a piece I wrote shortly after Slow Blues and that I don't have a solid studio recording of yet. Frankie is an opera that comprises the 13th Etude of my work in progress Études d'exécution imminent. I hope to work on patching these together tomorrow to see if they tick.