While I'm working on my new CD, here's my last album, from 2007... Butterfly Moon
(Link to free mp3's below)
Butterfly Moon began in the mid 1990's when Jeff Fasula came over to lay down some bass tracks that would become "Riding The Esker", "Big Bang", "April In Sedona" and "Starlight Shadows.
At the time we were going to call the project "Internal Groove Tool". But, things happen (or don't) and the music sat in limbo for a few years...
After a divorce in 2001, and hearing Lucinda William's dark and hauntingly beautiful "Essence" CD, I was inspired to start songwriting again...
I bought a little Zoom PS-02 portable 3 track digital recording studio to help transfer my emotions to one's and zero's, and quickly had 3 songs! "Broken", "Butterfly Moon" and "Betrayal".
I went back and finished the songs that Jeff & I started, with heavy use of the E-Bow, and discovered a "sound" was happening. With the ambient style instrumentals, and the new vocal originals, I thought it might be cool (and save time) to try recording my own arrangements of some "cover" songs I really like by the Beatles, Dada and Ben Folds. My guitar playing sucks, so I called my friend Mark Loy to play the main guitar parts.
Before "Nowhere Man", "Dim" and "Still Fighting It" were complete, I dug up, and completed an old piece of music I had done for a TV commercial, and made it longer. It became "Fog Birds".
"By This River", a beautiful Brian Eno song, was pulled from the depths of my old Mac Classic. This was my first attempt at using Vision, a (MIDI) Digital Sequencing Software application.
In order to learn how to use the software, I tried to replicate this song, that's why it sounds more like Brian Eno's original version, than my own.
It turned out OK, so I put it on the album. Eno's (Much better) version is on his 1977 album, "Before And After Science".
Butterfly Moon was recorded on my old Tascam 38, (8-tracks 1/2" inch analog tape.) and mixed to DCC. (Digital Compact Cassette)
Here's where to go for free mp3 downloads of Butterfly Moon (Songs 1-12)... Enjoy!
public.me.com/xrsmith
Photo #1... Butterfly Moon. The cover.
Photo #2... Liner Notes (A road south of Winslow, Arizona)
Photo #3... CD label. New version, without song listing, and using a different font.
Photo #4... Backside. New version, using a different font, and no song times.
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