Indyish Podcast » Works in Progress

Suoni Podcast: The Poster Art of bree,ree.

SolarDog — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:35:10 +0000

An interview with Todd Stewart on screenprinting and working with the Suoni Per Il Popolo festival…

Some tweaks, and a new rough draft

Risa Dickens — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:06:04 +0000

So myself and Matthew Hiscock got to make music together again yesterday, and we played around with a song I’d written I’ve been calling Willow. This version of Willow is pretty raw, it’ll get a bit more polished and less off-key-for-me in the coming days… and I’ll post those versions too!

He also added some tweaks and AHHHss to our earlier version of Bones, so if you want to follow progress along, I’ve uploaded it here as well.

Letters In a Book

SolarDog — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 05:51:09 +0000

Preview of a rough version of Letters In a Book. Featuring Jean-Frederic Lizotte on violin.

Bones Better

Risa Dickens — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:32:21 +0000

Here’s a more polished and tweaked version of my song Bones in the Orchard, produced and harmonized by Matthew Hiscock. A rawer draft is here, if you want to compare. This one has some real nice producer-style things, and is the higher quality wav file..

Home Studio - Open Source Song

Matthew Hiscock — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 14:55:28 +0000

Inspired by this post by Brave Radar - Help Complete This Song - over on the Indyish blog, we downloaded the original track by Jeff from The Desks, added beats, lyrics, guitar, harmonies, accordion and well, here you have it… (Risa Dickens on added vocals and lyrics, Bodega on the rest.)

Big thanks to Jeff for sharing the song - Such a cool idea!

Bones in the Orchard

Matthew Hiscock — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 14:26:55 +0000

Quickie 1 hour podjam with quite acceptable results, if we don’t say so ourselves!
Song by Risa Dickens. Bass, guitar, beats and mix by Matthew Hiscock.

wonder as i wander

sarah pearson — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:06:05 +0000

Normally when I’m in the rough stages of a new song or cover, I like to share it with my roommate or a friend for feedback before I start making clearer choices about interpretation. Now I’m gonna attempt podcasting these early sketches, in the hopes of gaining a wider range of responses.

Eeek.

Lately I’ve been digging up old traditionals that I’ve grown up with - songs I sang in choirs, folk songs my mom used to sing at bedtime, melodies from films I grew up with and never forgot. Here’s the latest one I’ve been working on: it’s a Christmas carol called “I Wonder as I Wander.” (I just recently learned that it’s an Appalachian melody - funny, I’ve stumbled upon several amazing soul-rockin’ tunes lately that all happen to be Appalachian…)

I hope for this to be the first in a series of Works in Progress: Folk Tunes and Traditionals from Sarah’s Living Room.

I recorded this in the same session that I first plucked out the chord progression, so it’s totally in the rough: the chords are not at all yet in my fingers in this recording, and I’m still uncertain of the words. But it’s still a kick-ass song! Take a listen.

“Far Above the Sky” Preview

SolarDog — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:13:15 +0000

Here’s a rough, unmastered version of a track that I’ll be including in the first EP off the Solar Dog Records label. Far Above the Sky.

Ca the Yowes

Risa Dickens — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:15:40 +0000

Sarah Pearson sings all parts, James Finnerty on guitar. A gorgeous 30 minute recording session. This is going to be part of a Readings podcast soon, but I couldn’t resist putting it up as is before I go and read all over it.

Jam 2: The Rainy Sixteen Countdown

SolarDog — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:31:50 +0000

Okay, so this isn’t so much a “jam session” as much as a work in progress. But I thought it was podcast worthy so I’ve decided to post it anyway.

Sometimes the need to express a musical idea surfaces and can only be communicated fully by spontaneously playing out those ideas. This session is pretty much the result of that process. The first track in the piece manifested itself through a free improvisation that eventually solidified into a cohesive musical line. The line stuck with me and it was from there that the rest of this one minute, thirty-odd second song evolved. After the first three tracks were laid down, I began looping the session to discover if there were more ideas hiding under the surface. That’s when Angela MacKenzie overheard the peice and started humming what she thought to be the “missing melody”. So I lifted her melody, tracked it, added some percussion and that was that.

I can imagine adding some vocal ideas to compliment the piece, but I figured that’s something I might come back to another day. So in the meantime, here is the first version of what I call “The Rainy Sixteen Countdown”. The title came from the merging of two ideas that were part of the creation of the song; 1. It was written on a rainy Saturday afternoon and 2. Each additional track I’ve layered enters after a four bar progression, which of course equals a sixteen beat countdown.

Rainy Sixteen Countdown