Tripecac - Wonday

I was in a horrible mood this evening, and decided to pour everything into a song. Here it is: created, recorded, and uploaded all within 3 hrs. The name has a few meanings:

1. It was late fall (my favorite time of year) when I recorded it.
2. I was trying to create a dark, relentless groove like The Fall.
3. I felt like my mood had fallen big-time since the previous week.
4. I had a "f*** it all" attitude about socializing at that point.

Simple, repetitive catharsis.

Simple, repetitive instrumental which ever so gradually builds into a "heavenly" chorus.

Created in about an hour and a half on the eve of a 25-night visitation.

I didn't intend to finish this song in one day, but I got really into it and didn't want to risk losing the energetic vibe by waiting another day. Since it qualifies for Wonday, I'll put it on this album, but I really intended it to be the second song on Padden Drift. Does it matter which album's it's on? Not really. (Does it matter if I use improper grammar on this web site? Not really.)

Okay, so about the music... I like the groove, but I think there are too many breaks (where the instruments drop out). The solos are semi-interesting, but I wish the solo section had been longer. Oh well, at least the mix is relatively crisp!

The name comes from the type of beans I had for dinner tonight. It's also the name of my family's old station wagon; like Tripecac, it just kept going and going...

The title is a pun on "sleep over". The song is very simple and short. I finished it in a couple hours. Sorry if its mindless cheesiness degrades Wonday.

It's different, at least. It's got nice string parts. And I like one of the solos. I forget which one, though.

Okay, so it's not that great, but rules are rules. So that!

This started simple, and ended simple. For some reason, I started humming along to it. And then I started singing. I quickly recorded myself for about 5 minutes. Then I hopped back into the MIDI, where I stretched the song out and added the solo bridge section. The result is very stripped-down and mellow. The only drums are a faint click track (which I recorded manually).

The vocals were completely improvised, recorded in two takes. Any repetition you hear is coincidental, except for the ending verses, which are copied and pasted from the beginning. The lyrics are about intentions. The ended up sounding kinda sad and introspective. When I picked the name for the song (before I recorded any music) I thought it would be thumping and sassy. Oh well.

At some point I realized that I could finish the song in the same evening. It was a long haul; I went about 90 minutes over my "deadline" of 8:01 PM but I finally managed to finish it. If it feels unpolished (particularly the clunky transition from the solo section back into the verse), you now know why.

By the way, the super-long ending "...for just a little longer..." was my attempt at injecting some humor.

This took less than an hour. It's utterly mindless. The title comes from the sunburn we got when hiking on Mount Rainier, which was covered in snow.

G had just left for a month in Sicily. I did okay while I was at work that day, but afterwards I felt lost. I recorded this to harness and direct the emotions into something positive (and kill time).

The bass line rips off some other Tripecac guitar jam (I don't remember which), and the second guitar part is super-repetitive. The vocals were improvised. I really didn't feel like spending any more time on it, so I kept it short.

I finished it the same day, so it had to go on Wonday. Hopefully it won't kill the album too much. It does a pretty good job of capturing my mood that day.

I was testing a new wiring setup. For the first time, I was able to smoothly record SPDIF input from the Pod Pro. I also split the Triton's outputs into channels 3/4 for the mic and L/R for the rest of the instruments. This let me record the guitar, Triton instruments, and vocals on separate input channels. Up until now, I'd never been able to record vocals while listening to MIDI at the same time.

Since it was just a test, I didn't intend to complete anything in one sitting. Once I added the vocals, though, I realized that it didn't fit with either Aminals or Vegibles, so I decided to finish it quickly in order to put it on Wonday. It ended up taking most of the day.

The lyrics were completely improvised and very repetitive. They don't mean anything deep. Or anything, really. They're similar to the faux-angst of "The Blank".

I recorded and finished this in about an hour on the day that G took 2 CPA exams. The vocals are my side of a phone conversion with her. Yeah, kinda one-sided, eh? I was 2 Coronas and a couple chugs of wine to the wind.