Week Eight

Ozan brought me a 2 dollar sipsi from Istanbul. Soft guitar loop provides rhythmless repetition for a rough and nasal sipsi melody. I am clearly not proficient on this instrument. Performed by sipsi and SG. (3 minutes, 51 seconds).

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Week Seven

"Son of a Gun" by the Vaselines. The Vaseline's most well-known and oft-covered song (except perhaps "You Think You're a Man") gets a new reverb-laden Ventures melody before the song's familiar melody arrives midpoint. An arrangement I perform live - performed here by red guitar, SG, wurlitzer 200a. (4 minutes, 27 second).

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Week Six

Guitar improvisation heard through the mechanics of a crappy sony walkman. As the tension building chord is strummed recordings begin of a small town Nicaraguan marketplace at dawn. Shops are closed. The gate is locked. Smoke rises from the market's kitchens as they prepare breakfast.
Performed by guitars and recordings. (3 minutes, 10 seconds).

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Week Five

I am welcomed back from vacation. Nylon strings provides the plucked drone for a conversation between two very distinct voices - the lithe combination of pedal steel and chiming wurlitzer sing out one incidental melody, muted blacksploitation guitar and bass answer. The conversation does not repeat. Performed by Showbud, Wurlitzer 200a, SG, bass, nylon. (4 minutes, 10 seconds).

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