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13 years

Ananda — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 02:15:03 +0000

On Saturday, Amy and I celebrated the 13-year anniversary of our “first date” by going to Kodaikanal for the day. Pretty fun, but nothing much to report, except for a few silly pictures:

And, a chance for me to reminisce by posting a very old recording of Amy’s story:

Amy’s Story (ogg) | Amy’s Story (mp3)

Amy's Story

A precursor? Probably. A promise? Perhaps.

Ananda — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:58:25 +0000

I was making a feeble attempt at cleaning out some of the clutter in my living room, and I quickly got distracted when I remembered that I had brought back a copy of the booklet that had accompanied the DWAB “One Final Episode in Our Attempts at Persistence” record. What should I do? Continue cleaning? Or scan the booklet and post it online?

It was a tough decision, but I ended up deciding to go with the booklet option, so here it is…. Lots of mellow drama….

Perhaps this is a precursor for some other things (like a big book with all my old stories, poems, and drawings combined) but I’m not in a position to make any promises at the moment. I guess it all depends on how much procrastinating about straightening-up of the house I need to do.

DWAB: The Song that Didn’t Make it

Ananda — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:35:02 +0000

I know… you are all rockin’ out so hard to the new DWAB album “New and Found Songs Keep the Music Playing” and you just don’t know what to do with yourselves while you wait for new DWAB music.

Well, your wait is over since I found another song that I hadn’t included on NAFSKTMP. I couldn’t figure out what to call it, so I simply called it “The Song that Didn’t Make it.”

Download:

OGG | MP3 – The Song that Didn’t Make it (crusty)
OGG | MP3 - The Song that Didn’t Make it (clean)

To add to the findings, I also found my original cover ideas for this album which, by the way, are dated 2004 (just to give you an idea of exactly how lazy I’ve become in my old age).

DWAB: New and Found Songs Keep the Music Playing

Ananda — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:06:00 +0000

New and found songs keep the music playing, but not nearly frequently enough. Being away from my artsy friends and living in a place where I doubt people would pay much attention to what I’m doing tends to take away some of the inspiration for writing songs. That’s not to say that I’ve lost interest, but that it takes a little bit more effort to get around to actually picking up my guitar and trying to come up with something new.

But here you have something new, and this new thing is a composite of some extremely old songs I’ve “discovered” on my backup CDs as well as some more recently recorded songs. Without a doubt, this is the most disjointed DWAB release to date, and this is in large part because of how scattered the recording dates are. Nevertheless, I felt it best to go ahead and stick them together, and get them out there. . . .

The songs were recorded over the span of about 10 years, some in Santa Barbara, some in Madurai, and one in Boston. They were named in totally logical illogical ways such as being based on an addition to my house, the country that one of my instruments came from, the way one of my students said a particular word, or a surgery I had.

This is also the first DWAB release that includes “cover songs” of sorts. For example, “One Sunday Afternoon” is actually a Stephen Hero song that never got recorded (and even if it were to get recorded, it would sound nothing like what I’ve recorded here). Similarly, “De Colores” is a traditional song that I recorded for my Spanish class as a special project. And “Paul ’s Space Bar”? Well. I’ ll let you figure out what the original song was. Ben and I butchered it so badly that. . . well, it has become something totally new.

Listen online, or download the songs in your choice of FLAC, MP3, or OGG while you browse the gallery of associated artwork….

Pick your format:

FLAC | MP3 | OGG – Starting Early
FLAC | MP3 | OGG – Kudil Song
FLAC | MP3 | OGG – Ho-Ros-Ko-Poe
FLAC | MP3 | OGG – Hi Drociele, crowin’ under the coconut trees….
FLAC | MP3 | OGG – Plugs (mellow)
FLAC | MP3 | OGG – One Sunday Afternoon
FLAC | MP3 | OGG – Phonecall to Bolivia
FLAC | MP3 | OGG – Paul’s Space Bar (quick mix)
FLAC | MP3 | OGG – The long road to nowhere in particular always seems to get us right back to where we started
FLAC | MP3 | OGG – De Colores
FLAC | MP3 | OGG – Plugs
FLAC | MP3 | OGG – Silence
FLAC | MP3 | OGG – The long road to nowhere in particular leads us to the sewers

Here’s the booklet:

Hi Drocoele, crowin’ under the coconut trees….

Ananda Mahto — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 07:40:32 +0000

Wow. Another post so quickly. And more new music.

This was recorded at the same time as the songs in the previous post, but I didn’t get to play around with it before I had to go in for a surgery. Well, the surgery is over, and now I’m at home relaxing, and I decided to fiddle around with the recording a bit. So, here you have it! Another new DWAB song!

Hi Drocoele, crowin’ under the coconut trees….

Yes, the crows can really be that bad during the day (although I admit there was some looping involved). And no, that’s not exactly how the song was supposed to end, but I’m probably going to be lazy and never get around to recording it properly, so I guess this is better than nothing, right?