Tommy Strange: Waiting on the Corner

From his myspace page...

From his myspace page...

I first heard Tommy Strange when he was the singer for Strawman (which, if I remember correctly, was Scarecrow at the time). I think the first stuff I heard was on Allied Recordings’ “Sign Language” compilation, and I thought it was pretty cool. So, when I was on one of my San Francisco music-shopping trips and I saw a solo 7″ for Tommy Strange, I figured there would be no harm in picking it up.

It turns out that I like the Tommy Strange music much more than the Strawman songs. His voice and guitar playing just fit together much better as a solo performer.

Anyway, here are the songs:

Hi Drocoele, crowin’ under the coconut trees….

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!

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?

The long road to nowhere in particular always seems to get us right back to where we started

It has been a little while since my last song, so I decided to get back onto my rooftop and spend some time with my cats and the crows and record something new. This time, I also decided to fiddle around a little bit and do something with the recordings on the computer. (Also something I haven’t done in a long time.)

The songs were recorded with my Cowon D2 media player and my new Samsung mobile phone. How’s that for lo-fi hi-fi?

DWAB: Kudli Song

Sulu inspects my rooftop kudil just after construction.
DWAB: Kudil Song

I haven’t recorded anything in a long time, so I decided to take my digital camera onto my rooftop hut and record one of the songs I’ve been working on. Knowing how lazy I am, this might be the only version you’ll ever get to hear! If you listen closely, you can hear all the random noises I hear from my rooftop, like the chanting from the nearby mosque and so on. In fact, you don’t even need to listen closely to hear my cell-phone notifying me that I received a text-message while recording the song…. Fun times!