Music

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08 Aug: One Last Moment

Mary Kelley's latest song, “One Last Moment,“ was released recently and is now available on all the usual outlets for digital music, including iTunes, Amazon and Spotify. The song is part of an audio triptych Mary and I have produced on the subject of the earth’s impending ecological crisis. Fear not, for we have endeavored to avoid pedantics in favor of pithy drama…
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09 Apr: HMV At Chung King House of Metal

His Master's Voice was my first serious band in New York City, active between 1982 and 1986. After numerous ups and downs, personnel changes, and landing and losing a record contract, we were all ready to move on. Before we did, in the summer of 1986, we went to a serious 24-track studio – Chung King House of Metal – to document some of our better material. We recorded five songs, and got no further with the recordings than some rough mixes. But I saved the tapes...
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08 Feb: 5 Kinds of Bad

Just completed a fun project for a "smoky alcoholic blues" combo, the Jam Messengers. Their new CD, entitled "5 Kinds of Bad", will be released shortly by Sour Moon Records, an indy label out of Bath, England. The tracks on the CD were recorded at various times and places, with recording equipment that ranged from live television sessions to iPhone field recordings. My job was to engineer the masters for the CD, making sure the final tracks would provide the needed kick…
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06 Nov: John Donne’s Song

Mary Kelley's song "John Donne's Song" was released on November 4, and is now available on all the usual outlets for digital music, including iTunes, Amazon and Spotify. We had some fine contributions on this recording: from regular collaborator, Dave Lebolt on harmonium, tiple and dulcimer; Factrix guitar ace Bond Bergland on mandolin; vintage instrument aficionado Edmond Badoux on hurdy gurdy; and from harmony vocalist Katherine Wethington…
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19 Oct: HMV’s “The Underground”

This song was recorded in 1986 by my band, His Master's Voice, which was active in New York City between 1982 and 1986. This song was recorded during the same session as the song I posted last month, "Steal the Sun." It is the only song we recorded that featured second guitarist David Lee, who was with the band for a short time in 1986, on loan from another stellar East Village band, Tongues on Fire…
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27 Aug: Steal the Sun

This song was recorded in 1986 by my band His Master's Voice, a group which was active in New York City between 1982 and 1986. This is the first of a number of posts meant to announce the release of some of the better recordings I have in my archives. These recordings will date from the 1980s through to the present day. The release order will be somewhat random, depending on what I get inspired to finish first…
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31 Jul: Mary Kelley’s “Epilogue”

Mary Kelley's song "Epilogue" was released a couple of days ago, and is now available on all the usual outlets for digital music, including iTunes, Amazon and Spotify. I played multiple guitars, produced and mixed the track, in addition to doing the graphic design. The song is the first of a trilogy of songs we have planned on the subject of the Earth's likely impending ecological disaster…
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20 Jun: Purgatory Re-emerges

Rob K — trash-blues artist extraordinaire, and front half of both the Jam Messengers and the Workdogs — has broken through to academia. Rob's solo work, the Purgatory Home Companion, has come to the attention of the Dante scholar Arielle Saiber, associate professor of romance languages at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Professor Saiber is co-editor of a blog called Dante Today – Citings and Sightings of Dante's Works in Contemporary Culture…
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10 Feb: “I Wonder Why” Released

The latest track from singer-songwriter Mary Kelley, entitled "I Wonder Why" is now available for download on iTunes, Amazon, and other major sources of digital music. It can also be streamed on Spotify, YouTube, and other streaming music services. This is the latest in a series of songs I produced for Mary, who is a long-time friend and collaborator. Mary's blog post on the development of the piece can be viewed here. Links to other singles…
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14 Dec: “Deep Sleep” released

Another Mary Kelley track, titled "Deep Sleep", was released to all the major digital music outlets on October 6, 2014. I would describe the song as a spooky psychedelic lullaby. The instruments used were electric guitar, a Kurzweil synthesizer, various guitar loops, and a chorus of multiple Marys behind the lead voice. Mary also plays a solo on her 1980s-era wind synthesizer, called "the Steiner." Strange and wonderful. "Deep Sleep" is now available…