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Here's the
Smoke Benders, folks. We took Hank Williams' lamentation of an unlucky prisoner from its original waltz time and put a NOLA second line feel under it. Cause, hey, who doesn't like a NOLA second line feel, right? Video at
YouTube and
Vimeo.
posted to MeFi Music by flapjax at midnite
at 6:24 PM on January 25, 2012
(2 comments)
Another one featuring the amazing WaveDrum. Video
here.
posted to MeFi Music by flapjax at midnite
at 8:08 AM on December 24, 2011
(2 comments)
Impromptu version of the holiday classic. This closed out the night for the
Smoke Benders' last gig of 2011. Video
here.
posted to MeFi Music by flapjax at midnite
at 3:20 AM on December 22, 2011
(3 comments)
Dusted off ye olde
WaveDrum (it's been a while) for a solo gig the other night, and played it over a simple bass line (from ye olde JUNO synth) which I have on ye olde iPod, for a new version of a song that appears on ye olde
Roomful of Ghosts, and which ye can see on ye olde
YouTubes and
Vimeos.
posted to MeFi Music by flapjax at midnite
at 6:52 PM on December 10, 2011
From the latest
BIG SYSTEM gig. Mostly drumming going on here (
WaveDrum and
talking drum), but the one verse I broke into (never got around to the next one) is from an old song of mine (someone uploaded it to YT
here), and that was enough to give this one a title. Video at
YouTube or
Vimeo.
posted to MeFi Music by flapjax at midnite
at 5:56 PM on December 8, 2011
(1 comment)
From the inaugural gig of my new clatter trio, the Metaphors, here's a tune I posted (in a
solo version) here earlier this year. Video at
YT or
Vimeo.
posted to MeFi Music by flapjax at midnite
at 11:24 PM on December 2, 2011
(3 comments)
Took part in a poetry event recently and read this song, one that I posted here at MeFiMu
back in 2007. Video at
YouTube or
Vimeo.
posted to MeFi Music by flapjax at midnite
at 8:18 PM on November 19, 2011
(2 comments)
From the historic Grandma's House sessions, it's
another tubular twosome! Video
here.
posted to MeFi Music by flapjax at midnite
at 6:01 AM on November 17, 2011
(2 comments)
Another world premiere, friends, from a tiny little joint in deepest Koenji. Once again I'm bangin' on the back of my diddley bow, with nothing else but a drone and a stombox to accompany my mournful cries. Lyrics and video
here.
posted to MeFi Music by flapjax at midnite
at 1:30 AM on November 9, 2011
(2 comments)
My daughter and I playing some plastic tubes. Video
here.
posted to MeFi Music by flapjax at midnite
at 6:41 AM on November 7, 2011
(14 comments)
A brand new song I performed for the first time a coupla nights ago, at a little joint in Koenji, Tokyo. Video at
YouTube or
Vimeo. Lyrics
here.
posted to MeFi Music by flapjax at midnite
at 5:37 AM on November 6, 2011
(2 comments)
The second in my new series, Songs of the Mundane. It's written specifically for a video, which is, of course, viewable at
YouTube. The version I'm posting here features vocal and dulcimer only: thought I'd start posting alternate mixes here to MeFiMu since I almost always link to a video version, and why not make 'em different, right? The version you can hear with the video has several percussion tracks, and, of course, a butterfly...
posted to MeFi Music by flapjax at midnite
at 5:45 AM on October 13, 2011
(1 comment)
This song, the start of a new series called Songs of the Mundane, was written and recorded specifically for
this video.
posted to MeFi Music by flapjax at midnite
at 6:57 AM on October 11, 2011
(9 comments)
The title says it all! But be sure to check out the
video, and see the trees where these mellifluous little bugs were parked while offering up their enticing sonatas!
(pssssst! and find the dove!)
posted to MeFi Music by flapjax at midnite
at 8:48 PM on September 7, 2011
(3 comments)
Recorded this at home the other day, using the stick dulcimer and a stomp box. Lyrics and video
here.
posted to MeFi Music by flapjax at midnite
at 11:30 PM on September 3, 2011
(2 comments)
Another tune recorded in the woods of Nagano Prefecture. Video
here.
posted to MeFi Music by flapjax at midnite
at 6:54 PM on September 1, 2011
(2 comments)
How I spent 4 minutes and 52 seconds of my summer vacation. Recorded yesterday, in the woods. Video
YouTube or
Vimeo.
posted to MeFi Music by flapjax at midnite
at 6:52 AM on August 19, 2011
(5 comments)
Return of the
Smoke Benders. Video
here.
posted to MeFi Music by flapjax at midnite
at 8:56 PM on August 3, 2011
(7 comments)
The Smoke Benders return once again, to kick out the proverbial jams. Flubbed the
lyrics a little bit, but hey, it's only rock and roll. Video
here.
posted to MeFi Music by flapjax at midnite
at 5:42 PM on July 16, 2011
(2 comments)
This month's Challenge got me to thinking: with 'hate' being such a profound and powerful emotion, isn't it odd that there are really so few songs that really employ it as an idea or as inspiration? I mean, 'love'? Heck, you can't
spit without hitting a love song, but
hate, that's a different story. So anyway, this is a song of hate and love. Love and hate. Simple as that. Video
here.
posted to MeFi Music by flapjax at midnite
at 9:21 PM on June 29, 2011
(3 comments)
From deepest Ikebukuro, in the heart of downtown Tokyo, it's the Smoke Benders, trying our damndest to boogie, y'all. Video
here.
posted to MeFi Music by flapjax at midnite
at 4:38 PM on June 26, 2011
(1 comment)
Once again, friends, it's the Smoke Benders: Daysuke on tuba, Naoya on drums, and me on pocket drill, diddley bow, light-triggered synth and vox. Live in Toyama, Japan. Video
here.
posted to MeFi Music by flapjax at midnite
at 5:19 AM on June 5, 2011
(3 comments)
MeFiMu debut of the Electric Drum! From the Smoke Benders' recent Hokuriku tour, this is a tune I've posted before in a
solo version. Video
here.
posted to MeFi Music by flapjax at midnite
at 5:37 PM on May 26, 2011
(6 comments)
Here's another one from the Smoke Benders' recent Hokuriku tour. Clocking in at 8 minutes, it's a wee bit longer than previously posted tunes here. It goes through summa them changes and all, and includes some psychedelic diddley bow solos. Video
here.
posted to MeFi Music by flapjax at midnite
at 4:52 PM on May 23, 2011
(3 comments)
Once again, it's that song that I just can't stay away from. This time it's coming at you from the Hokuriku region: live in Kanazawa, Japan, from my trio, the Smoke Benders. Our tuba player Daysuke Takaoka is channeling the deep didgeridoo spirits on this one. Video
here.
posted to MeFi Music by flapjax at midnite
at 10:21 AM on May 19, 2011
(8 comments)
Breaking out ye olde Hungarian mouth bow once again for this little number, recorded live at gaijin haunt What the Dickens in Ebisu, Tokyo, on the first day of May in the year of Two Thousand and Eleven. Video
here.
posted to MeFi Music by flapjax at midnite
at 2:02 AM on May 11, 2011
(4 comments)
i put down the phone / left a bag of cookies on the corner / filled my brain with a soft white light / sent all my 8-track tapes / to my cousin down in mississippi / took my foot off the pedal, and gave up the fight... A brand new song, live in Tokyo, May 1, 2011. Video
here.
posted to MeFi Music by flapjax at midnite
at 6:50 PM on May 6, 2011
(14 comments)
Recorded live at Super Deluxe, Tokyo, April 22, 2011. I'm playing strumstick and stompbox. Video
here.
posted to MeFi Music by flapjax at midnite
at 11:14 PM on May 2, 2011
(4 comments)
Here's
another tune from an earthquake/tsunami disaster relief benefit show that i was part of on April 8, 2011. This one is a traditional gospel number. Video
here.
posted to MeFi Music by flapjax at midnite
at 4:42 AM on April 26, 2011
(4 comments)
Many of the gigs I'm doing these days here in Tokyo are fundraisers for Tohoku quake/tsunami disaster relief. This tune was from one such concert. The video for it has been added to the
Artsts Support Japan YouTube channel, and it can be seen
here.
posted to MeFi Music by flapjax at midnite
at 9:15 PM on April 18, 2011
(8 comments)
Another tune recorded in a former elementary school classroom on Awaji Island, Japan, during my March exile from Tokyo. Video
here.
posted to MeFi Music by flapjax at midnite
at 5:55 PM on April 14, 2011
(2 comments)
Just came across this the other day, fishing around in one of my drives. I recorded it four years ago as a simple take, direct to 2-track in one pass, with
WaveDrum and vocal. I think I'd originally intended to add more tracks and flesh it out, but listening now I thought, hey, it's OK as is, stripped down to barest essentials and presented as a live take. Unfortunately, since the vocal and drum are on the same stereo track, I couldn't do as much post processing as I would've liked (especially comp on the drum) but c'est la vie.
posted to MeFi Music by flapjax at midnite
at 4:52 PM on April 5, 2011
(2 comments)
Playing the djembe that lives at Cozmo's Cafe, Shibuya, Tokyo. The first tune is my own, the second is a traditional southern number I heard on one of the Alan Lomax Smithsonian collections:
Alabama: Deep River of Song. Video
here.
posted to MeFi Music by flapjax at midnite
at 10:37 PM on April 2, 2011
(5 comments)
Recorded this too late for inclusion on the current Japan-related podcast, so I'm posting it here.
posted to MeFi Music by flapjax at midnite
at 7:12 PM on March 31, 2011
(15 comments)
Yet another tune recorded in a classroom at the former elementary school were I was a refugee for a few days. Here I'm playing a berimbau they had lying around. Not playing it in the usual way (caoiera-style, you know), but just kinda strumming it. Your basic one-note accompaniment. Video
here.
posted to MeFi Music by flapjax at midnite
at 7:22 PM on March 25, 2011
(3 comments)
Another tune recorded during my brief exile on Awajima Island. Video
here.
posted to MeFi Music by flapjax at midnite
at 8:24 PM on March 23, 2011
(6 comments)
Over the last few days, at a former elementary school on the island of Awajishima, I recorded a number of songs. This one is the newest of those: written on the train out of Tokyo on 3/17 and recorded on 3/18, in a rather reverberant hallway/stairwell. Video
here.
posted to MeFi Music by flapjax at midnite
at 4:36 PM on March 22, 2011
(2 comments)
Live at Cozmo's Cafe, Shibuya, Tokyo, February 17, 2011. Video
here.
posted to MeFi Music by flapjax at midnite
at 5:38 AM on February 19, 2011
(4 comments)
Breaking out ye olde stick dulcimer again for this one, plus the trusty stompbox. Live in beautiful downtown Shibuya, February 10, 2011. Video
here.
posted to MeFi Music by flapjax at midnite
at 3:54 AM on February 11, 2011
(3 comments)
Two musical minds meet, in the deepest reaches of space....
posted to MeFi Music by flapjax at midnite
at 7:37 PM on January 31, 2011
(16 comments)
Just a worthless little ditty, in response to some hilarious comments in a thread over at MeTa. Said comments start
here. I'm working on an accompanying video: something involving a dancing merengue dog, wearing a powdered wig...
posted to MeFi Music by flapjax at midnite
at 7:10 PM on January 30, 2011
(6 comments)
Just a straight-up, no-frills, bar band cover. Video
here.
posted to MeFi Music by flapjax at midnite
at 6:04 PM on January 27, 2011
(4 comments)
I posted a
solo version of this song here before, but this time around my new band the
Smoke Benders shakes 'em on down. From our second gig, at the tiny Bar Isshee, Shibuya, Tokyo, January, 20, 2011. Video
here.
posted to MeFi Music by flapjax at midnite
at 4:43 AM on January 22, 2011
(9 comments)
Live in concert at Barrelhouse, Ikebukuro, Tokyo, on December 12, 2010. Vocal and stick dulcimer. Video
here.
posted to MeFi Music by flapjax at midnite
at 7:48 PM on January 14, 2011
(7 comments)
Here's another tune from the Smoke Bender's
[previously] first gig. Video
here.
posted to MeFi Music by flapjax at midnite
at 8:38 PM on December 29, 2010
(6 comments)
Live in deepest Ikebukuro, Tokyo. Accompanying myself on my Hungarian mouth bow. Video
here.
posted to MeFi Music by flapjax at midnite
at 10:46 PM on December 26, 2010
I've just started a new band. It's a rollicking affair, kind of a neo-primitive, New Orleans funk/blues explosion, with tuba, drums, and yours truly on diddley bow (etc) and vocal. This is the first song of the first set of our first gig, and was a completely impromptu, unrehearsed affair. These guys can read my mind, and I think it's gonna be a really fun band. Well, it's already a really fun band, actually. I do hope you enjoy it. Video
here.
posted to MeFi Music by flapjax at midnite
at 4:43 AM on December 21, 2010
(4 comments)
This is a live version of a tune I
originally posted here back in 2007. Video
here.
posted to MeFi Music by flapjax at midnite
at 4:43 PM on December 19, 2010
(3 comments)
Yesterday I dashed off a little song for the
alligator bites an electric eel thread. I actually do this kind of thing pretty frequently in Mefi threads, but this one garnered more favorites than usual, so I was inspired to record it today. The bare bones arrangement (vocal,
diddley bow and stomp box) reflects the fact that I only had about an hour to do this thing...
posted to MeFi Music by flapjax at midnite
at 9:23 PM on December 17, 2010
(2 comments)
Brought the strumstick out the other night, for a solo gig in beautiful downtown Ikebukuro. This is a tune I've posted here before, in
another incarnation. Video
here.
posted to MeFi Music by flapjax at midnite
at 5:32 AM on December 16, 2010
(1 comment)
