song | recording info | favorite / pick of the week |
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go far | Jon: drums sampled from "Voyage" on the cassette Voyager, March 1980 - 5 second loop.
Andy: bass; two acoustic guitars [std], one with a quarter-note echo; three vocals, one with very slight delay for doubling effect.
Recorded in 1995 in mangobananas studio, Ithaca, NY. | 2014.04.06 |
farms & gears | Jimmy Buffet's Coral Reefers: congas and percussion sampled from "Everybody's Got a Cousin in Miami" on the CD Fruitcakes -6 second sample looped.
Andy: acoustic guitar (3 tracks)[std], clavinet bass, vocals (3 tracks)
Recorded in 1995 in mangobananas studios, Ithaca, NY. | ♥︎ 2015.01.11 |
hold the moment | Randy Huiskens: almost frantic drums sampled from the very end of Voyager 94, June 1994 when he played Food Chain's "Who's Deli" drum part - 3 second loops, manipulated.
Pete Downes: guitar vibration at beginning and ringing through the tune.
Andy: tongue clicking and cheek popping, frisbee bass drum, slap bass, acoustic guitar with a 1.5 note echo, more slap bass, electric guitar stums & electric guitar noodles both with slight MXR Distortion+, three vocals.
Recorded in 1995 in mangobananas studios, Ithaca, NY. | 2015.01.25 |
wanda | Andy: four acoustic guitars [DADFAD]
Recorded in 1995 in mangobananas studios, Ithaca, NY. | ♥︎ 2014.08.03 |
blue pilot | Jon: drums sampled from "Voyage" on the cassette Voyager, March 1980 - 1.5 second loops.
Andy: loop resampling, layering, and reconstruction with snip from "go far"; bass; two electric guitars [std]; vocal; with some 327 ms delay treatments (bass breakdown, & guitars).
Recorded in 1995 in mangobananas studios, Ithaca, NY. | |
the only things alive | Jon, Tim, and Andy: drums (L), more drums (R), and congas sampled from the song "chimichanga" from the cassette E.B.A. chimichanga, October 1995 - 26 second loop, plus 36 seconds more in the bridge.
Andy: acoustic guitar, bass, electric guitar through MXR distortion+ (outtro), pan pipes (bridge), three vocals
Recorded in 1995 in mangobananas studios, Ithaca, NY. | 2014.05.18 |
deep root vibration | Andy: 12'x12' roll of sheet vinyl beaten in the middle with my knuckle is the bass drum, a paper towel tube is the accent beat, then two acoustic guitars, piano, bass, vocals, and an acoustic guitar solo
Recorded in 1995 in mangobananas studios, Ithaca, NY. | |
spider | Jon Morse & Jorge Cuevas: congas from a cassette tape made in April 1989 at Eastern Heights Studio - 7 second sample looped.
Andy: acoustic guitar [CGCGBbD], electric guitar through MXR Distortion+ [std], vocals, rice in a film vial (looped), large skillet lid (looped), blown beer bottle.
Junior: purring at beginning and end
Recorded in 1995 in mangobananas studios, Ithaca, NY. | ♥︎ 2015.01.18 |
ninenteenninetyfive | Andy: acoustic guitar (two tracks)[FADGAC], vocals (two tracks)
This was my first test of Deck II, with mostly nonsense babbling lyrics.
Recorded in 1995 in mangobananas studios, Ithaca, NY. | |
zoe said to wanda | Andy: percussion (thumping mic and tapping pencil on a desk), three acoustic guitars [DADFAD], piano, two vocals.
Recorded in 1995 in mangobananas studios, Ithaca, NY. | |
pen digital disc | Jon Morse: drums sampled from "Silence" on the cassette E.B.A. at Brown Carpet Studios December 1987.
Andy: acoustic guitar (2 tracks) [CGCGBbE], electric guitar (2 tracks) [std], vocals (3 tracks).
Laidback deadlike groove, noisy drum sample, cool humming harmonies.
Recorded in 1995 in mangobananas studios, Ithaca, NY. | |
jump up from your desk | Ayman Mobarak: samples of San Francisco street noises, samples of tearing paper.
Barbara Cain: sampled from voice mail.
Andy: constructions of samples & loops, bass guitar, electric guitar [std, with 333ms delay], vocal [real mic with 227ms delay].
Recorded in 1995 in mangobananas studios, Ithaca, NY. | |
gus | Ayman Mobarak: five-string fretless electric bass guitar
Andy Wyatt: acoustic guitar (2 tracks) [std], electric guitar [std], vocals, bells & pan pipes & keys, bells & b-vox.
Excellently tuned pipes & bells, by happenstance, cool lead-in of talking, improvised lyrics. Made by layering tracks in Ithaca on top of a mono digital track of Ayman and me jamming in his apartment in Los Gatos, CA in May 1995.
Recorded in 1995 in mangobananas studios, Ithaca, NY. | |
clea | Eric Krivitzky: bass, knee slapping, vocals.
Andy Wyatt: acoustic guitar, knee slapping.
This is Eric's song, totally incredible. He made up the bass riff while jamming on his new bass, and we got a groove going. He got right into recording it, with a few loops, and some loopy lyrics! Wow. Passing on the craft... (Eric was 15 years old.)
Recorded in 1995 in mangobananas studios, Ithaca, NY. | |
the eleven eleven hour | Pete Downes: vocals, bass.
Andy Wyatt: acoustic guitar, backing vocals.
Recorded in 1995 in mangobananas studios, Ithaca, NY. | |
crazy creek | Pete Downes: hi hat, two electric guitars, shouting in the bathroom.
Ayman Mobarak: tape of Berry Creek, Big Basin Redwoods, CA (Feb 94), played through a boombox while piano & bathroom shouting were recorded.
Andy Wyatt: wire drum brushes slapped together, acoustic guitar, bells, piano.
Recorded in 1995 in mangobananas studios, Ithaca, NY. | 2014.12.07 |
fun work | Pete Downes: hi hat, acoustic guitar, vocals.
Andy: foot on mic stand, bass, electric guitar.
Recorded in 1995 in mangobananas studios, Ithaca, NY. | 2014.11.23 |