For a limited time, you can play along with every song on “Music for Chasing Squirrels” for the low, low price of nothing. This Bandcamp-exclusive album includes backing tracks and pdf leadsheets for concert, B-flat, E-flat, and bass clef instruments.
Download it today for free or whatever price you choose.
“Music for Chasing Squirrels” is here! A follow-up to last year’s “Music to Squeak By”, it’s another album of guitar-driven instrumentals with odd and unexpected twists.
First off is “Mrs. Harvey’s”. Named after Longmont’s historic bakery, it’s an up-tempo tune in mostly 6. “Nines”, the second cut, is a funkier version of Graphite Addiction’s “Mental Morphology”. “Cibeles” and “Blues for Phrygia” are two sides of the Phrygian Dominant coin, one an uptempo Latin and the other a Swing Waltz. Side A ends with “Dearest”, a ballad in memory of lost love or alternately a lost invoice. Same difference.
“Fossil Creek Tunnel” starts Side B with its portrait of an incomplete trail. “For C and D” features C major and D minor triad masquerading as a jazz standard. Almost 21 years in the making, “Near Majority” is a musical joke taken much too far. “Somewhere West of Wichita” is a welcome return to normalcy. Almost. Continuing on that road, the record closes with “Actually, Actually”, which as close to country as I dare venture.
Check it out today streaming, at Bandcamp, on CD, or on lathe-cut vinyl. Thanks for listening!
-Vic Dillahay
Graphite Addiction’s 2007 debut release has been reissued in a limited run of lathe-cut vinyl!
15 years ago, we played a CD release party at the sadly long-gone Deja Brew in Longmont. We had no idea that the next decade and a half would bring dozens of gigs together and 5 more albums. And now the original album is available on vinyl – as we originally sequenced and mixed it.
Check it out at the Curious Automata store, and thanks for years of listening!
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Then this is an improvisation on acoustic guitar recorded in a single improvised take on June 26th, 2021 at The Foundry in Loveland, Colorado.
This is “Umm…Whaaat?”, a guitar and vocal improvisation by Richard Ellis. He played it on July 23rd, 2021 at Spring Creek Music .
It is one continuous track. It is 25 minutes and 5 seconds long. It is completely improvised. It is presented exactly as it was performed, with no edits or overdubs.
The cover is by Kiley Ellis.
You should listen to it now.
Former student ty_makes_music’s impressive “take a hint” is a tale of romantic disillusionment and self-realization. With great songwriting and production, it’s definitely worth a listen!
I just added leadsheets for Music to Squeak By to the Scores&Books page. They’re free to download so enjoy their quirky handwritten messiness!
