Click on the thumbnail to view a printable cd sleeve.- Title: Still Testing
- Artist: Tripecac
- Timespan: 2019
- Theme: more tests
- Length: 63:29
- Tracks: 8
- Lyrics: 8
- MP3s: 8 play all locally
- Rating: ***½ [3.5] (1 rating) rate this album
Track List
| # | title | lyrics | time | download | listen | started | recorded | rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beesy | lyrics | 7:05 | download | listen locally | 2019-01-21 | 2019-02-25 | *** (1) |
| 2 | Piucchini | lyrics | 9:13 | download | listen locally | 2019-03-04 | 2019-03-18 | **** (1) |
| 3 | Museday | lyrics | 10:07 | download | listen locally | 2019-04-01 | 2019-05-06 | *** (1) |
| 4 | Patients | lyrics | 5:09 | download | listen locally | 2019-05-13 | 2019-06-10 | **** (1) |
| 5 | Proguess | lyrics | 5:22 | download | listen locally | 2019-06-17 | 2019-07-22 | ***½ (1) |
| 6 | Catchupin | lyrics | 10:33 | download | listen locally | 2019-07-29 | 2019-09-02 | *** (1) |
| 7 | Beehind | lyrics | 8:00 | download | listen locally | 2019-09-09 | 2019-10-14 | ***½ (1) |
| 8 | Nerdseed | lyrics | 8:00 | download | listen locally | 2019-10-21 | 2019-12-09 | *** (1) |
| Total | 63:29 | play all locally | album rating: | ***½ (1) | ||||
Notes
So here it is, 2019, approaching the end of yet another decade, and my music is still in the "testing" phase.
Imagine someone tapping on a microphone, cautiously saying "testing, testing, 1 2 3"... over and over again... for decades... Well, that's Tripecac!
And this album is, very much, yet another collection of Tripecac tests. It's semi-interesting for a couple of polite listens, and then destined to join the dusty stack of Tripecac CDs in their pile near the stereo... or the back of the closet.
Well, at least there is a Tripecac album this year. It was harder than ever to find time to make music. School holidays, sick days, and appointments all seemed to fall on Monday, my designated music day. Whenever I felt like I was gaining momentum in music-making, I found myself forced to lose yet another Monday, and the train of musical thought was lost. So, if these songs sound unpolished and inconsistent, that's the excuse reason: lack of Mondays.
On the positive side, sometimes it's that rough inconsistency which makes an otherwise boring/awkward song (looking at you, "Piucchini") transition into something less boring toward the end. Perhaps my emotional disconnection with unfinished ideas, combined with impatience for finishing them, lends many of the tracks an air of urgency, and "life". If I'd been able to indulge the original ideas longer, I might have felt too "precious" about them to risk "tainting" them with wild, repetitive jams at the end. And I believe it's those irreverant jams which are the highlight of the album.
And that, my tiny audience, is the main advantage of Tripecac remaining in this perpetual "testing" phase: it keeps the music (and its production) fast, free, and fun. For me, at least. And I guess that's what counts, right?
Hello? Is this thing on?
Songs
Beesy
- Still Testing track 1
- started: 2019-01-21
- recorded: 2019-02-25
- length: 7:05
- Travis Emmitt - Kontakt 5, vocals
- mp3: download listen locally (flash player)(HTML5 player)
Nonsensical afrobeat-ish loopy thing. About bees. Again. Sorta.
Lyrics to "Beesy":
leave me alone 'cause i'm beesy
leave me alone 'cause i'm beesy
leave me alone 'cause i'm beesy
leave me alone 'cause i'm beesy
i can tail your head antennae
buzz buzz buzz buzz
i know it doesn't make any sense
i know it doesn't make any sense
i know it doesn't make any sense
like a lira a franc or a deutchmark
Piucchini
- Still Testing track 2
- started: 2019-03-04
- recorded: 2019-03-18
- length: 9:13
- Travis Emmitt - Kontakt 5, Battery 4, vocals
- mp3: download listen locally (flash player)(HTML5 player)
This is a weird one. It starts off trippy and quiet, but gradually gets louder and dancier. It only really comes together toward the end. You have to plow through mounds of "zucchini" to get to the good stuff.
Sigh.
Editing.
It's like seasoning.
And I'm in too much of a rush to do anything than throw a handful of salt at the bowl.
And hope it hits.
Oops, sorry! Did I get some in your eye?
Lyrics to "Piucchini":
i once looked at the sky and saw another world i once looked at the sky and saw another world i once looked at the sky and saw another world i once looked at the sky and saw another world and it was full of zucchini and each zucchini wore a bikini it was not a pretty sight so i closed my eyes and dreamed about squash squash
Museday
- Still Testing track 3
- started: 2019-04-01
- recorded: 2019-05-06
- length: 10:07
- Travis Emmitt - Kontakt 5, Dimension Pro, vocals
- mp3: download listen locally (flash player)(HTML5 player)
Kinda dumb and repetitive, with thick reverb, reminding me of the tests I used to make with Logic.
The title and lyrics refer to the fact that these days I usually only have 1 day a week (Monday) with enough time to work on music without fear of interruption.
Lyrics to "Museday":
i only have one day i only have one day i only have one day i only have one day [scat]
Patients
- Still Testing track 4
- started: 2019-05-13
- recorded: 2019-06-10
- length: 5:09
- Travis Emmitt - Kontakt 5, Battery 4, vocals
- mp3: download listen locally (flash player)(HTML5 player)
Not really about anything. Just a bad pun.
The lyrics make refrence to my songs being "tests". Aren't all great works of art basically "tests"?
Wait. Did I say that?
Lyrics to "Patients":
you're testing, you're testing patients we're losing, we're losing patience you're testing, you're testing patients you're testing, you're testing our patience and now we're losing, we're losing patience and i'm losing, i've lost my patience and you're testin', and you're testin' and you're testin', and you test and test and you're testin', and you're testin' and you're testin', and you test and test and you're testin', and you're testin' and you're testin', and you test and test and you're testin', and you're testin' and you're testin', and you test and fail like a somersault by a snail or a rat trying to climb out of a pail with a crab holding onto its tail or undelivered mail you're testing, you're testing patients and now we're long long gone we're losing, we're losing patience it's such a long long song and you're testin', and you're testin' and you're testin', and you test and test and you're testin', and you're testin' and you're testin', and you test and test and you're testin', and you're testin' and you're testin', and you test and test and you're testin', and you're testin' and you're testin', and you test and fail
User Comments:
- "i like this song!" [****] - (2020-04-17)
Proguess
- Still Testing track 5
- started: 2019-06-17
- recorded: 2019-07-22
- length: 5:22
- Travis Emmitt - Kontakt 5, vocals
- mp3: download listen locally (flash player)(HTML5 player)
I like progress!
So...
Question: Does this song exhibit progress?
Answer: Well, you see, on one level, you could say that it, ummm...
Answer: Um, actually, your guess is as good as mine. Get it? Uhh...
Answer: Heck no!
Well, at least I have an excuse! And it's a beaut!
You see, work on the song was interrupted by multiple sick days and 2 weeks of school holidays.
And that caused me to lose all creative momentum.
And interest.
Right?
Right???
...
...
...
Answer: Next.
Lyrics to "Proguess":
1 i won i won i won i won 2 too too too too too many too too too too too many games
Catchupin
- Still Testing track 6
- started: 2019-07-29
- recorded: 2019-09-02
- length: 10:33
- Travis Emmitt - Kontakt 5, vocals
- mp3: download listen locally (flash player)(HTML5 player)
I'm slipping behind in music making these days. I've just been wayyyyyy too busy with work to keep up with my desired song-a-month schedule.
This song, which had a 3 week interruption in the middle, laments that fact, and does so in a painfully obvious fashion.
Not that "fashion" has anything to do with it. Or me.
Also, this song is extremely very long and repetitive, which is my usual super-cheap-o strategy for filling up minutes on a tape (or CD) when I feel I don't have time to "write" (ahem) new material.
Yep, super-cheap-o.
Obviously.
And painfully.
Enjoy.
Lyrics to "Catchupin":
i've got a lot of catchupin' to do i've got a lot of catchupin', don't you? i've got a lot of catchupin' to do if i want to catch up with you i've got a lot i've got a lot to do to do to do i've got a lot i've got a lot to do to do to do i've got a lot i've got a lot to do to do to do if i want to catch up with you
Beehind
- Still Testing track 7
- started: 2019-09-09
- recorded: 2019-10-14
- length: 8:00
- Travis Emmitt - Kontakt 5, vocals
- mp3: download listen locally (flash player)(HTML5 player)
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
But long, oh so deliciously long!
Thank you, Trav!!!
Lyrics to "Beehind":
hey, yes you on the floor hey, yes you at the door hay, you can feed it to a horse hay, if you eat it you'll go hoarse ok, joke's over does that mean the song's over too? after only a minute and a half? really that's it? no no i don't no we don't no he don't no
Nerdseed
- Still Testing track 8
- started: 2019-10-21
- recorded: 2019-12-09
- length: 8:00
- Travis Emmitt - Kontakt 5, vocals
- mp3: download listen locally (flash player)(HTML5 player)
Ths one's really bird-brained.
Get it?
No?
Lyrics to "Nerdseed":
oh we're gonna plant the nerdseed nerdseed oh we're gonna plant the nerdseed nerdseed oh they're gonna eat the nerdseed nerdseed oh they're gonna eat the nerdseed nerdseed
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