You will not be burned

Thanks for the kind words Katie. Happy birthday Dad, this one's for you.

You will not be burned



Click here if you want to download this; you're comments are appreciated!

The last post Do you believe (2008rmx) had a broken streamer; I just discovered that sorry Mr. Kranky.



It's right as rain now.

Do you believe (2008rmx)

Choppy weirdness. Hope you can dig it.

downer, dude

Do you believe this?

This jam is all about trust and faith, even when things don't seem to go right.
Jesus still can make it happen.

Do you believe this?



Download, free of charge... for now!

Be looking for remixes and remastering today; LOTS to do!

VU/SY/JAMC/MVB/No Age inspired multi-instrumentalist wanted

Last nite

I wasn't AWOL yesterday, but sometimes I feel like a factory, just churning out pieces without care or concern, and while that may appear as so, and may even be so at times, all the sounds here are original and unique and very personal.

Last nite is about the time in a relationship when it's time to make decisions. Is it you and I or or we just waiting for someone better?

On again/off again relationships only lead to scarring and Lord knows we don't need more of that.

Here is the movement in 3 parts.

Last nite - before the fight

Download Last nite - before the fight



Last nite - during the fight

Download Last nite - during the fight




Last nite - after the fight

Download Last nite - after the fight




Son, if you are reading this; I love you and miss you very much. I hope you had a good birthday weekend. Sorry I wasn't a part of it. This is just another example of the proceedings of divorce.

96

This one is for my 12 year old son. I haven't celebrated his birthday with him since he was 10, and unless God leads me to profit and some for m of success, I don't know if I'll ever have the honor of having a party for him. When you're 12, fun is not free.

96




Here's the download.

Just testing

Posted via my iPhone.

Good times are ahead!

KCB2

KCB2 is a collection of songs I will be performing tonight as Truco at the Kirkwood Ballers Club. It's gonna be a fun night.
I'm making progress in my quest for a sufficient day job; I know the Lord will provide.

These songs are fairly simple and are here to help me prepare via recital; but if you like them too, well that's always good!

The goal of the songs is not to say look at me, I'm so creative, but to say I know and I'm there too and I know a way out of it.

I look at this as a type of ministry, and maybe, just maybe these songs and the struggles embodied in them can do some good.  Just maybe we don't have to get so F-ed up to deal with our lives, maybe just maybe we could pursue truth and live righteously.  I know I'm not perfect but hopefully, we're all aware of our imperfections and are looking for a way out of negative behavior.

KCB2 has:

what are all these things that we have

download

I know the way

download


just can't keep on

download

Kul

Today was a double feature. First hang on; now this.

This jam is something of a mantra.
The lyrics are simply
Keep cool
Everything will work out

Try it. I'm sure you'll think it's

Kul

... and of course, I'll share! Here's the downer load

Hang on

Is there anyway I can convince you I didn't labor over this all day and really did diligently look for a j-o-b instead? Would you believe me if I was focused and upbeat all day and had total confidence that things would get better within days?
How about if I agreed that better was work, virtually any work making X amount (I need min. 70k to pay my bills and survive middle-American).

I know, what if I told you the results are out of my hand, all I can do is keep on doing what is right and

Hang on



Of course you have this via the down low.

PS - Everything was working, it may have been a local bandwidth issue... new jams later today; the mornings are for day job hunting.

Live sucks when the service you use to share files and of the app used to stream said files is jacked.

Hope its temporary and just happening to me.

Please don't flood my inbox over this I'm on it; promise.

Saying 15

Be somebody to be already. Make up your mind, quit being the sucker sap loosing your lunch to the bully in the cafeteria. Don't bury your aggression in passive-aggressive internet lash-outs; suit up and boot up, cut/style the mop and get a job.
Why go to jail? God will help you, just do the right thing; you know what to do. Listen, this is not a Tony Robbins moment but still, it's sink or swim, survival of the fittest - and if you're anything it's definitely fit.

Take Saying 15 to heart

when you on the down low.

California King Bed

This jam is about Joanna and how she always had these stomach pains in the mornings; poor duck!

Let's hope the mastering works with me on this one; these jams have been severing during the compression and finalizing stages within Garageband (so American to blame the app and not the user). I didn't focus on the drums as I usually do because Jonesy made a good point how it's cool to have them be a background tap.
Quite the opposite of what I've been doing lately.

California King Bed



down loud

I'm about to drop a new jam from the she think's she's dying sessions this weekend... It'll be called California King Bed; I'm also gonna remaster Kirkwood Ballers Club and High Maintenance... get it right boy, maybe I'll save ya!

I'm gonna start recording and playing under the alias/handle Truco.... spanish for Trick. Tricks are for kids and I'm not doing so well as an adult

Relax, it's almost over kid

... This may one of the last transmissions from me; I just am losing the will to fight. When the Federal government is spending money to bail American businesses out of debt; while it's funding a war on debt; you know we're in crisis, has a generation.
But I am losing hope and brightness with each rejection note.
I am finding sleep and the rest as the reality of swimming in a lake of fire grows closer each day.

I am almost certain my God will not rescue and satan will win.
Lost another one to dietech.

High maintenance

High maintenance

Kirkwood Ballers Club

This jam is being dropped by Ed since that was the name I played under last night at KBC (Kirkwood Ballers Club). It's sort of a transcendental voyage from Inman to Poncey by way of a fugative driven hybrid and a trusty Jazzmaster (trusty = locking tremolo)

Kirkwood Ballers Club

¡esta transferencia directa está sí para usted!

I did KCB last night, it was a ton of fun; I got a chance to connect with a chunk of the Atlanta scene in a very cool way. Should I still be alive this time next week, I'll be sure to do the club every thursday.

I liked the people there and want to make more friends.

Why not try it out, see if it fits

Why not try it out, see if it fits

download


... less dialogue, let the music do the talking.

much much better

I've spent much of the day reorganizing the files that comprise the jams you can listen to and download here... still may have some cliffhangers but I'll find them in no time.

I've got to nominate someone trust worthy to delegate and maintain my creative legacy should I not be able to proceed.
This would involve logging into the services I use to stream and host, at least monthly, just to keep them available.
Of course if this person could market them in anyway, she may be able to profit. Maybe Heather and Joanna could actually turn a dime on the event of my death.

so close, so close and yet so far

I've got a ton of material here! The blog has only been online since late June and yet there are about 50 streaming tracks and almost as many downloads; the issue with filefreaks is no small matter for me; if anyone can think of a sable alternative, let me know.

What I need is a efficient way to stream and distribute this music. Your feedback is always appreciated.

Dammit

It appears the filefreak lockout is making all the jams unstreamable. This technical glitch will be tended to immediately; download what you want to hear.

Insomniatic

This jam is all about missing California (Los Angeles in particular) while getting no sleep in Atlanta and facing possible suicide.

Insomniac



Here's the download, mate.

It's only called Insomniac because it was arranged, composed, recorded and mixed completely after midnight.

While drinking California white wine and missing Los Angeles; the dust, the brown skinned beauties, the ocean, and the food.

F-ing aye

I'm not sure if I'm fast and good or just fast and steady; heading toward good; but either way, I somehow can't log into my filefreak account ( the site that hosts the streaming jams) and without logging into that at least every 45 days, those files can be deleted which means that retroactively, some of the stuff buried in the archives of this blog might not stream.

Not a real problem seeing how there's not exactly teaming masses demanding 85 Lives jams, but still... I like to know my stuff is fit and ready; like me.

If you find that something can't be played or downloaded or anything at all, let me know. I like to stay fit and ready.

The Light

This is the jam

Listen; all that woe is me crap has to go. Greater men have suffered through worse and the Lord did not let them down, even when it seemed like there was no chance for survival or success. Stay the course, keep focused; get stronger and better; speak truth, live truth and do not even think about forsaking Him once he helps you out of your self created hell.

The Light



Free download, just for you.

Big up to Tricia and the fine folks over at Buckhead church.

Hi Bradford!

keep on

Trust and rest.
Hope and pray.
Fear and anxiety.
Hopelessness and despair.

Either way, life just keeps on, so we must

Keep on



Please note, this may be the worst thing I've ever shared with you. It's so sloppy and bloated with unnecessary and conflicting rhythm patterns; almost all of which would work just fine with the drum and bass. It's all by design mind you, and the best part, truly is the ending; not because it's ending, but because it's uniform and familiar.

Like me.

Delayed Gratification

Sometimes you can't be all about action. Sometimes you have to wait. Sometimes waiting is the action; the struggle is in the waiting.

Delayed Gratification

Here's the download

Venge

All you gotta do is hope and believe....

Overly idealistic crap? Hardly. I woke up today realizing, to more than nominal extent, I am in control of my destiny. My words, actions, reactions and decisions shape my destiny. I have a direction and a vision of what I want my life to look like and what I want to accomplish with it, and to this end I must be resilient and full of faith and vigor, knowing that Abba Father, will make my paths straight.
I can get there. I am pulling up from yesterday's downward spiral.

Venge; is about the pull up.



Listen to it on your way to work on Monday, here's the download.

drop top mustard tahoe says...

Reality check

I'm in trouble. I have been ever since the divorce. It's gradually gotten worse. 

The tally of woes:

1. Not much left in ye old savings and loan

2. un-employed. I'm actively interviewing and my employment status should change soon, but yo no trabajo.

3. I have to leave 3443 a month early because I somehow cannot seem to maintain the lease noise conditions. Those drums will get you every time, even if you get the smiles from the neighbors and play in the middle of the day. I got till Halloween.

4. The newest one yet;  my DUI from back in Dec 07? Yeah I missed my court-date, it's now a full on bench warrant. I talked to the bail bonds guy, he said call my attorney on monday; see about a reschedule.

- JK

I'm pretty fucked right now. I know it. I'd go to Home Depot right now and by some rope and hang myself in the middle of the night from my lovely pool view balcony or hope on a Marta train to Art center northbound and get off and drop in front of the southbound, but either of those pain release measures will bring me to new levels of pain, eternal pain. See I believe in the Holy Bible (I'm so uncool, I know) and since I believe in the Holy Bible, God and Jesus and such, suicide would be a sin committed without an opportunity for forgiveness; and if he's playing by the book, he'd send me swimming in the lake of fire with Kurt and Jimi.

There's always the chance of running for the border, but either way I'm sure I'm jacked.

Arizona, Trinity... If you kids read this, be glad your Mom has someone responsible and stable for a replacement. Your dad is on a losing streak and may not have even seen the bottom yet.

This I know. I'm not selling gear or anything. I'm not gonna be a total neverwas.

Why Bother?

5.5 hours later...

The big hold up was the lyric track (I think Bradford would agree; such is usually the case). What a nerdy fan-boy I must seem, (I think Bradford would agree)...gez

Truth is I thought most of the music coming from Atlanta sucked for many years till the last couple when I discovered Black Lips/Deerhunter. Before then there was fragments of cool stuff but I felt it was never up to par, and of course I aimed at setting that right, if I could only get/keep/maintain a line-up.

Maybe my stuff is really, really bad but I've numbed myself to how bad it is so I can keep going and get better? Who knows.

Wny bother



Here, it's Friday, have a mp3 download on me; er on the house.

hi

I'm way inspired today and I'm going to be giving you something real special real soon. See you later!

PS- I'm not afraid and I know that everything is going to work out as planned.

Time to find

This is a gem from last spring, written and performed at the P'Cheen show.

It's hopeful and endearing; i could not write this way today.

Time to find



any feedback will be appreciated. I'll even make it downloadable it you'd like.

Purge

Too much bad drama is occurring in my life, and this typically makes me realize my life needs adjusting. Nothing is really happening for me in Atlanta, I've put quite a bit of effort but most of the people I'm meeting are more jacked than me, or have a cleaner slate than me, thus won't really want to get too involved with me.

I don't do drugs; I run about 3-4 miles a day, and do musical arrangements and photography all day while looking for a new day job.

Looks like my days at 3443 are over. That's probably for the best, I need an intown residence where I can set up drums, have a practice space as well sleep in relative safety. And a pool for the kids; somewhere in the 30307/30312.

No girlfriends! Loneliness and desperation has led me to make some bad decisions; it's time to take those conditions and pure it over the music I am making.

I want to

FU, I'll get a job

Here's a new BSWS jam for you (people to like, and for you sucka MC's you just can't byte)...

This one sounds very wintery and snow-flakeish... don't even ask me what that means, just comment and tell me you get it.

FU, I'll get a job

The title comes from a very fed up place, you understand.

Download by request, sorry fellas. You do know I could change my mind pretty fast on this type of thing...

can't stop won't stop

Just another Kotton Krown, track; not very polished, very raw and tribal. You don't like this kind of stuff trust me.

can't stop won't stop



PS - The Kotton Krown demo directory is not shared, if you still want some of it; operators are standing by.

Dismissing...

I don't blame you I said as I jumped into the sea; swimming one way into the horizon
Past the breakers.
My time had come and gone and everyone but me seemed know it.

Besides I'm not very good at being average.

Highland Cops

This demo is online primarily as a means of getting the tracks to Asha of Kotton Krown. It's not a finished, presentable to Thurston Moore kind of thing - yet.

Highland Cops (or how I found hope)

Here's the download to a directory of demo-ish stuff, you can use it but share your results!



PS - It'll only be pub for about 48 hours.

Introducing...

A new mini line up composed of the young and beautifully talented Asha and myself the youthfully weathered dreamer of time and space. We're teaming up to create music and play out as much as possible. We're going to start by doing the Kirkwood Baller's circuit. I'll upload the demo as it's being mastered.

The naming genelogy went from Neo-Wave to Velvet Touch and is currently Kotton Krown... let's see if it sticks.

Rebelious Ways

I can't believe this jam came thru me when I'm having such a lackadaisical Saturday afternoon.
Rebelious ways

You haven't responded yet I keep offering... what does that make me? Here you go; another download.

Drip Honey

Very enchanting and potentially sensual...
Seriously, she'll lead you the wrong way... I know you wanna check out her components but but beware!, she's a maneater!

Take this to heart, young man... watch out for those that Drip Honey
Don' t olvida decir el " ¡Gracias por el download"!

Veil are doves

This is could be the jam... I need to remaster it, most of the lyrics minus the chorus didn't make it... I'll do it (and share it for download) if you ask - nicely (as in comments).

Fri. 9.5.08 7:10EDT - Remastered, just for you...

Veil are doves

Download


That's Ms. Nikki Schipper on the cover; thanks Nikki!

May you ever be intoxicated with her love

You're only young and dumb once... and when you fall in love then, especially the kind of love that brings children and a home into your world, well you sort of never really get over it, you just learn to love the life you live.

...aye, but matey, once you were young, perhaps you still are, either way; hold her close and;

May you ever be intoxicated with her love

*... this track may bit come off a bit sloppy, but if you want it, comment and I'll post a download. All you gotta do is ask, sorry Asshole Rose fans.

IFC is now showing Pitchfork videos between scheduled programming. Amazing. Even seen a clip of Girl Talk rocking ATP with Bradford on stage... that dude is everywhere. Me? I seem to just a step early or late; definitely out of step.

Who knows, my moment in the sun may come sooner than I hope.

So you LOve so much A missionary in Bangladesh right?! We do too!

That track introduced two new intergral parts of this whole music biz thing..

1. A publishing company? Look out for Yo Gusto Publishing to pub this stuff
2. A record label? Another Chance Records... besides if your slick enough to visit this blog, you know labels are not much more than social clubs nowadays... except of course when you get to a juncture when you need distribution...

A missionary in Bangladesh

Ok, now we're getting somewhere!

Listen, why pretend you're someone your not? And trust me I never dug most of that religious music. So where do people like us fit in? We believe in Jesus but we like Sonic Youth. The answer is simple, we make our own scene!

I've used the Holy Bible for lyrics before and it always sounds right. The words have focus, power, vision and are truly timeless.

This song is dedicated to my first born, Arizona.

A missionary in Bangladesh

Cheerfully, I give you this song as a download because it will help you and make you feel good when you listen to it!

:D

ps - This obviously is a Yo Gusto production!

Click (you did that on purpose)

We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun... The key word being had. Drinking and sleeping together can only go so far; it's fun but it's not so healthy and won't really make anyone's life any better, maybe just a little less lonely and even then only for a moment.

Still, all of that came from a real special place, hearts that wanted to be connected and in touch. May that spark never die and may we find peace.

Click (you did that on purpose) was born in such an atmosphere.

Download it here... this is a good 'un.

Spellbound

"Too much beer"
"Too muddy"
"Sounds awful"

Pretty much describes almost all of Labor Day weekend 2008. What a waste. I want to bury myself under a rock. So

Spellbound

download it, if you must