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Category: Santa Cruz

For about a year I lived in Santa Cruz, and I’d brought my simple Tascam four track with me. Sometimes August, who lived in the same house, would play bass, but for the most part I was just recording things on my acoustic and playing around with rudimentary recording ideas.

Santa Cruz

Happy Valentine’s Day

https://brigleb.com/wp-content/uploads/1995/01/1995-Ray_Daniels-Happy_Valentines_Day.mp3

The melody came from my discovery that I could randomly drop blocks onto the grid in a music app, quantize it and tweak it a bit, and it wouldn’t sound half bad.

Featuring disposable drums at the mercy of a three-button mouse.

January 1, 1999June 7, 20171999
Santa Cruz

I’ll See You Again

https://brigleb.com/wp-content/uploads/1995/01/1995-Ray_Daniels-Ill_See_You_Again.mp3

Very insistent that we would see each other again. No room for debate or discussion there. Wasn’t in the mood to write a ton of lyrics, it is a song of economy.

January 1, 1995June 7, 20171995, Favorite
Santa Cruz

Return of Castro

https://brigleb.com/wp-content/uploads/1995/01/1995-Ray_Daniels-Return_of_Castro.mp3
January 1, 1995June 7, 20171995
Santa Cruz

January 23rd

https://brigleb.com/wp-content/uploads/1995/01/1995-Ray_Daniels-January_23rd.mp3

The idea here was to base a simple song around the effect of a handheld tape recorder being paused and un-paused repeatedly, during a recording. Most of the vocal sounds were August.

It sounds strange now.

January 1, 1995June 7, 20171995
Santa Cruz

Pool

https://brigleb.com/wp-content/uploads/1995/01/1995-Ray_Daniels-Pool.mp3

The very definition of a throwaway track.

January 1, 1995June 7, 20171995
Santa Cruz

Mister Splinterer

https://brigleb.com/wp-content/uploads/1995/01/1995-Ray_Daniels-Mister_Splinterer.mp3

An attempt at writing a song around a theme. Not sure how I got the vocal effect on the four track, but I suspect I panned the vocal to one side and everything else to the other, treating it as a two track and then putting the effect on one side on the computer.

January 1, 1995June 7, 20171995
Santa Cruz

Sentimentalities

https://brigleb.com/wp-content/uploads/1995/01/1995-Ray_Daniels-Sentimentalities.mp3

One of my better attempts at four-tracking with an acoustic guitar and a simple song idea. Intended to overdub a horn section in the middle there, but much like with The Who singing “cello” on A Quick One, I just never got around to it.

January 1, 1995June 7, 20171995
Santa Cruz

Without You

https://brigleb.com/wp-content/uploads/1995/01/1995-Ray_Daniels-Without_You.mp3

An attempt at writing a love letter to a girl I’d just started dating.

January 1, 1995June 7, 20171995
Santa Cruz

Drink Budweiser

https://brigleb.com/wp-content/uploads/1995/01/1995-Ray_Daniels-Drink_Budweiser.mp3

The idea being that Budweiser drinkers are likely to enjoy sniffing superglue is a contentious one, and is still up for debate in some circles.

January 1, 1995June 7, 20171995
Santa Cruz

Collage

https://brigleb.com/wp-content/uploads/1995/01/1995-Ray_Daniels-Collage-1.mp3

Kind of more a collection of the sounds I was making in Santa Cruz than anything else. I suspect I’d just discovered Propellerhead’s software. Something like that. But a lot of this is just me playing around with a tape recorder as well.

January 1, 1995June 7, 20171995

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