Click on the thumbnail to view a printable cd sleeve.- Title: Kim 13
- Artist: Trex
- Timespan: 1988
- Theme: tapes 23,24 for Kim
- Length: 47:39
- Tracks: 10
- Lyrics: 10
- MP3s: 10 play all locally
- Rating: ** [2] (1 rating) rate this album
Track List
| # | title | lyrics | time | download | listen | started | recorded | rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trek | lyrics | 10:10 | download | listen locally | 1988-06-0? | 1988-06-16 | ** (1) |
| 2 | Trek Jam | lyrics | 6:46 | download | listen locally | 1988-06-0? | 1988-06-16 | ** (1) |
| 3 | Trek Chatter | lyrics | 1:48 | download | listen locally | - | 1988-06-16 | * (1) |
| 4 | We're Heathen (original) | lyrics | 6:09 | download | listen locally | 1989-01-18 | 1989-01-21 | *** (1) |
| 5 | Heathen Chatter | lyrics | 1:30 | download | listen locally | - | 1989-01-21 | * (1) |
| 6 | Numb [IPECAC] | lyrics | 3:32 | download | listen locally | - | 1988-12-23 | *** (1) |
| 7 | Calling Luke | lyrics | 3:34 | download | listen locally | - | 1989-01-21 | * (1) |
| 8 | My Familiar Chatter | lyrics | 1:00 | download | listen locally | - | 1989-01-21 | * (1) |
| 9 | My Familiar (2) [IPECAC] | lyrics | 3:19 | download | listen locally | - | 1988-12-23 | *** (1) |
| 10 | Final Kim Chatter | lyrics | 9:51 | download | listen locally | - | 1989-01-21 | * (1) |
| Total | 47:39 | play all locally | album rating: | ** (1) | ||||
Notes
This documents the final 2 tapes for my cousin Kim, recorded in June 1988 and January 1989. IPECAC was underway, and my solo music was reaching a creative peak with Five Dollar Drummer. This tape acts like a sampler of those efforts. There are no new songs here, just lots of chatter.
With that, I'm finally done digitizing the Kim tapes! I finished on 2008-05-14, which was exactly 7 months after Kim brought me the tapes at my sister's wedding. I spent far more time editing and documenting these CDs than I did creating the original music! That's the story of my [musical] life.
Songs
Trek
- Kim 13 track 1
- started: 1988-06-0?
- recorded: 1988-06-16
- location: Charlottesville
- other names: God's Name
- length: 10:10
- Travis Emmitt - piano, talking
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This is was my solo recording of "Trek", which was the first real IPECAC song. Unlike the IPECAC versions, this one is piano only, except for some hummed sax parts about a minute in (and some gargling at the end). There are lots of mistakes, but the essence of the song is there.
"God's Name" was the original title. I later renamed it "Stop All Time", and finally settled on "Trek".
Lyrics to "Trek":
today is june 16th 1988 this song is called god's name and it's very long and i hope it's good 1 2 3 4 [scat] 1 2 3 4
(c) 1988 Trex
Trek Jam
- Kim 13 track 2
- started: 1988-06-0?
- recorded: 1988-06-16
- location: Charlottesville
- length: 6:46
- Travis Emmitt - piano, vocals
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This was on the tape under "Trek"; I must have recorded over most of it. It's a lot jammier, straying frequently from the composition. Parts are annoying but other bits are kinda cool.
Lyrics to "Trek Jam":
one last time and [scat]
(c) 1988 Trex
Trek Chatter
- Kim 13 track 3
- recorded: 1988-06-16
- location: Charlottesville
- length: 1:48
- Travis Emmitt - talking
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This talks about "Trek" and the birth of IPECAC. You can see how excited I was to be playing with Jon.
This refers to having made [at least] two recordings of "Trek" for IPECAC. One was "yesterday" (with the slow parts) and one was "last week" (with the fast part). Since "Trek (1)" on Apostrophe is the earliest IPECAC version and contains only the fast bit, I'm guessing that was the "last week" version. I don't know about the one recorded "yesterday", which was supposed to only have the two slower parts. None of my recordings of "Trek" fit that profile. Maybe Jon has another tape somewhere?
Lyrics to "Trek Chatter":
yes that took up half the tape what did you think of it? i bet it was real dumb and i thank you if you even bothered to listen to it i'll listen to it now and i'll add something onto it, all right all right, i just listened to it and there are a few mistakes that are quite obvious and at parts it is really boring and monotonous and just as stupid as crap all day yesterday, wednesday i just stayed home and then i went to a friend's house where we practiced songs and that was one of the songs we practiced but we did better together because like the saxophone where it goes [scat] the saxophone part goes [scat] i can't really sing it but i know how it goes because i wrote it and like both of us were like totally stunned because you know i don't have a saxophone see i wrote the piano part at home and then i said "jon, i have a good song for you, we can practice it" he said "okay, fine, gimme the sax part" i said "i haven't written one" he said "you haven't? well write one" i said "ok" so i came home and i wrote a sax part for him and i had to transpose, you know, make it from piano to sax and then i did the same for piano to cornet so i have 3 parts: a piano part, a sax part, and cornet so we did that yesterday; we played it together and it was like totally awesome how the sax sounded it's a very slow song and we didn't play the whole thing yesterday we recorded the first half which was [scat] and then we recorded the other half a long time ago it was like last week, it was [scat] we recorded all that before i just blended the 2 together for you, all right, special 'cause it's in the same key and it's both for piano and it doesn't matter a bit beyond that all right
(c) 1988 Trex
We're Heathen (original)
- Kim 13 track 4
- wrote: 1989-01-18
- recorded: 1989-01-21
- location: Charlottesville
- length: 6:09
- Travis Emmitt - Casio CT-310, vocals
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This is the original mix of "We're Heathen". It has one or two fewer tracks than the one on Five Dollar Drummer.
In the intro, you can hear me mention IPECAC. This wasn't really IPECAC though; Jon had nothing to do with it.
Lyrics to "We're Heathen (original)":
INTRO: here we go this is experience that is more scary than a rollercoaster this is ipecac, let's go, we're heathen, let's go, let's go let's hit it oh god i'm scared [screaming] we're heathen, we're heathen heathen, heathen we're heathen, heathen heathen, heathen CHORUS: we're heathen, heathen we don't believe in god we're atheists, we're humanists we don't believe, we don't; why not? we're heathen, we're heathen we don't believe in god we're atheists, we're humanists we don't believe, we don't; why not? VERSE: god is just a figurehead another name for conscience why not teach us common sense instead of preaching nonsense? trust in god, that's what you say trust in god so blindly never stop to reason first just so you won't worry CHORUS: we're heathen, we're heathen, we're heathen yeah we're heathen, we're heathen, we're heathen yeah we're heathen, we're heathen, we're heathen yeah we're heathen, we're heathen, heathen ??? you know let's go, ha ha ha VERSE: stop being so naive stop being gullible stop being misdirected start being sensible make the decision turn against religion be independent show us your wisdom CHORUS: we're heathen, we're heathen we don't believe in god we're atheists, we're humanists we don't believe, we don't; why not? we're heathen, we're heathen we don't believe in god we're atheists, we're humanists we don't believe, we don't; why not? VERSE: stop being so naive stop being gullible stop taking misdirected start getting sensible so make the decision turn against religion be independent and show us your wisdom BRIDGE: heathen, we're heathen, heathen ... we're heathen, heathen, heathen ... heathen, we're heathen, heathen ... we're heathen, heathen, heathen ... VERSE: start getting sensible stop being sensible END: i i think we're in hell [scat] i think we're in hell
(c) 1989 Trex
Heathen Chatter
- Kim 13 track 5
- recorded: 1989-01-21
- location: Charlottesville
- length: 1:30
- Travis Emmitt - talking
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This provides a date for "We're Heathen (original)". I turnes out that IPECAC never did record a version of the song.
Lyrics to "Heathen Chatter":
yo, can y'all hear me hey that's good i'm using my um, i can't use any profane words but'll just use c r a p p y microphone now because the other one's too big to hold yes i'm a weakling, that's it that song is called we're heathen and since you're religious you might as well record over that or burn the tape or something just burn it along with all the antichrist crucifixes or whatever you have are there such things? no, oh, well, that shows how much i known that was just a whimsical little song that i put together today without jon's help wait is that a cut in the wires no it's just solder, never mind that was just a little song that's gonna go on our next album it probably won't be best of ipecac '89 or '88 to '89 because that one hasn't come out yet and i'm very frustrated right now; do you know why? you're supposed to say: "yes, travis, i worship you, but i still want to know why" because first of all for my birthday i got this little thing that you can put tapes in; it's like a tape drawer and one of them doesn't shut and i'm really getting pissed at it i don't know why it doesn't shut, probably because it's just, you know the people that made these ah there we go, all right, it shut never mind i can't insult them ah, you missed what a chance ok this next song will be numb i don't have enough time to make a remake of this because i plan to send this tape in the near future this is numb with jonathan helping me, right this is from our catharsis album and i'll play you numb and i'll play kill the monkey but before i play kill the monkey i'm gonna try to get luke marshall on the phone so you can hear him, all right here we go, this is numb from catharsis travis emmitt and jon, ipecac
(c) 1989 Trex
Numb [IPECAC]
- artist: IPECAC
- recorded: 1988-12-23
- length: 3:32
- Travis Emmitt - Casio CT-310, vocals | wrote: music, lyrics
- Jon Friesen - sax
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"Numb" was yet another attempt on my part to push IPECAC away from jazz and towards pop/rock. You see, I wanted us to be a rock band, and Jon wanted us to be more of a jazz band. I think as long as IPECAC failed to meet either of our expectations, neither of us felt "gypped". "Numb" had nice lyrics, and a solid melody, but it failed to make us rock stars. Sigh.
I liked this song enough to end up recording it four more times: twice for IPECAC (on Best of IPECAC 2 and Fake Reverb 2). and twice as Tripecac (on Archives and College Collage). Unfortunately, none of the versions made me happy.
The panning is extreme. Jon's sax was in one ear, and my keyboard and voice were in the other. I don't know if this was intentional or not.
Lyrics to "Numb":
VERSE A:
there was this girl you liked so much
you tried so hard that she left you
another guy came and took your place
and you were left to suffer
your world it seemed to collapse
and moping in complete and utter ruin
you grew a shell about yourself
to shield you from the world (and the women)
further and deeper you slipped
from life's painful reality
and into the solace and the universe of
your endless, comforting dreams
VERSE B:
you don't want to feel the world around you
you'd rather be numb than feel the pain
you don't want to take the blows you're given
you'd rather just slippin' away
CHORUS:
you're numb
blood frozen
afraid to let your feelings show
you're numb
blood frozen
you'd rather hide than take the blows
VERSE B:
your heart became broken so you froze it
you immobilized your blood to numb the hurt
and now that your heart is hardened
you try to set yourself from the world
CHORUS:
you're numb
a turtle
hiding safe beneath your shell
you're numb
and miserable
you dug your hole; but it went to hell
[repeat]
(c) 1988 Trex
Calling Luke
- Kim 13 track 6
- recorded: 1989-01-21
- location: Charlottesville
- length: 3:34
- Travis Emmitt - talking
- Luke Marshall - talking
- Carrie Marshall - talking
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I called my friend Luke, who was soon to join me and Jon in making music. Luke was on the phone with Allen, another musician, who ended up playing with us and Anand in the Anchovies. Although the conversation has nothing to do with music, it shows my tendency to "direct" people, at least when it came to creative pursuits.
If you think this recorded conversation is painful, you should hear the one that opens up Archives ("Convo with Kim"). I was quite inconsiderate back then.
Back then.
Lyrics to "Calling Luke":
CARRIE: hello TRAV: hello is luke there CARRIE: who is this TRAV: this is travis CARRIE: travis TRAV: right CARRIE: he's on the phone with allen TRAV: oh really CARRIE: oh, bron tell me to tell you to tell jessica hi TRAV: all right CARRIE: hold on, bron's going down and telling him something TRAV: hello LUKE: hi TRAV: hey, all right ok, now the point of this is my cousin wants to hear your voice, right LUKE: your cousin TRAV: yeah so i have the phone hooked up to some recording equipment LUKE: ok TRAV: so that you can talk to her and it will be recorded on tape um, the purpose is just to see if i can record your voice over the phone LUKE: what kind of stuff did you want me to say TRAV: i don't know, talk to her about australia or about school or something LUKE: oh, ok TRAV: first you have to tell her hi you have to tell her hi first ok go LUKE: hi, my name's luke, i'm from australia he's one of my friends, i think, i'm not sure about that [laugh] anyway he's in my english class TRAV: really cool LUKE: uh, yeah, thank you travis uh, um, let's see jon's in our english class too you might have heard about jon, you probably have i'm not sure about anyone else you might have TRAV: anand and josh LUKE: anand and josh, yeah, they're more friends anyway, you probably want to hear me say g'day so g'day mate now's that um, i'm really not sure what to do here TRAV: ok, talk about australia, like the wildlife LUKE: ok well, there are kangaroos in australia but they don't hop around all over the place ok you have to go out to the country to see them and that's where they, um, are around like squirrels TRAV: do they make good meat LUKE: um, well, you can eat them except you usually make soup of out them you don't just eat the whole kangaroo you cut off their tail and make a soup out of that TRAV: ooh, their tail LUKE: yeah TRAV: cool, that must have a lot of muscle in it, to make it so tough LUKE: well, it's also got a bone in it, a great big bone in it TRAV: ok now tell her how you've adjusted to american life LUKE: travis, is this an interview or what TRAV: well, sort of i just thought of all these questions LUKE: ah, let's see there hasn't been much to adjust to except that everybody's a lot nicer here i thought that it would be a lot tougher i thought, i mean, there's be druggies sitting out in the hall shooting themselves up TRAV: oh yeah LUKE: uh, travis TRAV: yeah you're doing good, you're doing good ok say some common australian words that aren't used in america LUKE: ok um fair dinkum TRAV: what? LUKE: fair dinkum it means it's pretty cool or um let's see i guess you call a friend a cobber TRAV: how do you spell that? LUKE: c o b b e r TRAV: cobder? LUKE: no, just cobber c o b b e r TRAV: oh, cobber LUKE: yeah TRAV: i guess that's pretty cool LUKE: um, there's a bunch of other words TRAV: um, like scones and all that LUKE: what TRAV: like scones s k o n e s LUKE: no, it's, uh, s c o n e s TRAV: oh, i'm sorry LUKE: and they have them in england anyway TRAV: oh man all right, you did pretty good LUKE: is that all TRAV: i guess ok, ask her if that's all LUKE: is that all TRAV: [mumble] i couldn't understand what she said i think it was like encore or something like that ok let me go turn off the tape recorder and then i'll be back [scream] well here i am that was luke marshall all the way from australia that's so far that he can't even work legally in the u s of a
(c) 1989 Trex
My Familiar Chatter
- Kim 13 track 7
- recorded: 1989-01-21
- location: Charlottesville
- length: 1:00
- Travis Emmitt - talking
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Introducing the next song. I had trouble getting the tape to play. Kinda funny.
Lyrics to "My Familiar Chatter":
this next song is a little bit better than no song at all and the name of it is called my familiar and it's from the catharsis album it's the last song and is the one that jon thinks is possibly the best ipecac song of the decade the name again is my familiar written completely by yours truly, travis emmitt and here we go, my familiar my familiar where is it? oh here my familiar come on man, get that fast forward here we go, my kill the monkey oh here it is my familiar, yeah
(c) 1989 Trex
My Familiar (2) [IPECAC]
- artist: IPECAC
- recorded: 1988-12-23
- length: 3:19
- Travis Emmitt - Casio CT-310, vocals | wrote: music
- Jon Friesen - sax, vocals
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This was our second version of "My Familiar", which originally appears on Fake Reverb. I like this version a lot better. It's super-sped up, though.
I sampled the narration and monkey noises for a later Tripecac song: "Millions of Monkeys" (on The Hermit).
Lyrics to "My Familiar (2)":
INTRO: kill the monkey kill the monkey... kill the monkey tonight we must go now OUTRO: and suddenly millions of monkeys swarmed the house, broke and busted in every window, and strangled the poor it was a gruesome sight but a sight worthy to be seen by the naked eye stripped of its... god this is dumb!!!
(c) 1988 Trex
Final Kim Chatter
- Kim 13 track 8
- recorded: 1989-01-21
- location: Charlottesville
- length: 9:51
- Travis Emmitt - talking
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These are [mostly music related] excerpts from the final bits of chatter to my cousin Kim. I was hyper. It's here mostly to fill up space.
Lyrics to "Final Kim Chatter":
that was my familiar, written by travis emmitt, yeah all right, those were the 2 hits from the catharsis album are there any more that you haven't heard well there's that best of ipecac album you might have listened to that you might have not i doubt you have 'cause you seem to detest ipecac you seem to hate it and i guess that's only natural because ipecac is easily hated um, i know what i can do for you that's sort of nice i've got a song, ha ha yes, it's a new one; it hasn't been recorded yet it's one of those precious 3 the 3rd of which i played for you as the first song on this tape and the stupid drawer on this tape thing oh it shuts quite cooperatively after a little enforcement um [blowing nose] i'm gonna put you on this thing it's called i need a little help the singing is awful, right i recorded this, i think it was yesterday and my dad says our music is rather ok but the rest of it sucks cow manure actually it doesn't um, a slight problem i'm such an idiot i left that tape in the car so forget that that's in the car and my parents are on a date doing who knows what i was really surprised that you said that the line my life is as cloudy as the water in my fish tank and the fish are gonna die that that came from me now, i've said some pretty insightful things but i never knew that came from me that seems like something a poet would say i probably was so drunk at the time that i don't remember so it doesn't matter no, actually i haven't gotten drunk in a while this is why ipecac is not published because of this awful voice this awful singing doice [spit] voice a very stuttering braind here we go my life is as cloudy and my fish is now so cloudy but it's eyes are bulging and and it's gonna die i wonder what that implies i wonder what that implies gonna yell real loud so you cannot escape you can't even turn off the tape recorder because you'd have to get so close to it it will deafen your ears so you're running away you're running away and suddenly you throw a rock at the tape recorder and [crash] and your little cousin laughs with delight because you missed [laugh] that wasn't me; it was zippy, the dog across the gully we have a gully that we have to drive up each day just a gully, just a little rut in the earth, right it's a path and we have to drive up our cars they're not really cars those little stomper toys those little trucks that are battery operated we just stand on one of those or at least walk beside it that is how we get home from school we walk beside a stomper bus no actually i am in a hyper mood if you haven't noticed i apologize for my hyper mood because hyper mood is bad bad bad i should be choked like we choke woodie when he's in a hyper mood i apologize again honestly, i am honestly apologizing um, i'm sure there is a song that you want to hear that is recent but i have my 2 best recent ones in my dad's car and i'm only talking slow to impress all the wildflowers ahhh that is my latest yodel practice i have to go ahhh 5 times a day 42 hours a day 57 hours a day 123 hours a day until i get it right so ahhh i'm gonna do this next one really loud so you better get away get near the door and you can't hear me 'cause it turned it down so you gotta turn it up a little bit i promise you i will not go very loud that just destroyed my vocal chords i am now talking with the voice of a 3 year old i swear i must have ripped something in my throat it feels so bad god [gagging] well that's just a little dramatization i know this is a really bum tape and i know you really don't want to listen to this and actually even if it was music you wouldn't listen to it because music isn't all that great especially coming from me because i don't know what i'm doing; i'm nowhere near professional and no ipecoc, ipecoc, that's nasty, that is nasty ipecac i'm shouting too much i should really quiet down ipecac is not on the radio yet you know why not because our songs are not good enough to put it simply they just ain't and you're probably thinking "i think they're great travis, really swell" uh-huh now i bet you're gonna write in your letter "well, travis, i skipped to the other side because i really didn't want to hear you make a fool out of yourself but then you told me to come back here and listen to the rest of the side so i did and it was pretty cool" well, i have to tell you something, kim this isn't gonna be cool, all right, it's not it's gonna be dumb everything i do is dumb it's all lower class it's just dumb especially my music which really reeks except for our latest stuff; i guess that's okay my voice, my voice, my voice is quite dead my voice is quite dead as i said 1 second ago and you know what i said 2 seconds ago? i said my voice is quite dead as i said 1 second ago and you know what i said 2 seconds ago and you know what i said 2 seconds ago anyways kim, kimberly, kimmie, k, red joy, red joy oh yeah, i looked over all the lyrics i've ever written they're pretty rotten how could you like some of those old songs like, this year, and something like there was this girl who was in the oh, something like that some special to me and like and as you're walking in the call she's not a lot prettier after all something something something something something something oh and now i wish she'd talk to me hey boyfriend comes, i let her be or something like that something really, you know, trivial those were bad lyrics and what i'm writing now are bad lyrics too but still they're a little less bad they're like a slighter degree of bad please please please i feel a song coming on i really do it's gonna sound pretty stupid but it's not gonna be long please please please please please please please don't listen to what i said said said said said said said said yesterday on the phone with you it was a nice surprise, a nice thing for you to do and this song does not do that phone call justice thanks so much for the phone call this is really dumb and that wasn't but i'm stupid i can't sing so i better stop any day now church is ok i'm glad that some people go to make the ministers feel wanted and i'm sorry about that song called we're heathen, we're heathen, we don't believe in god [groaning] i'm sorry, my voice is going, i'm really sorry first let me be a little non-serious ok ready go number 1, my friend horn isn't sounding too good number 2, my voice is slurring, isn't it number 3, my voice is still slurring, isn't it number 4, my voice is still slurring, isn't it number 5, my voice has stopped slurring, hasn't it all right, now it's time to be serious again do you really like this stuff no, i can say it's craaaa crazy yeah that's right honestly, i do not enjoy listening to my tapes like this one i do not enjoy listening to them again because i know what i'm gonna say each time maybe you will enjoy listening to them more because you don't know what i'm gonna say [shriek] i didn't do that, honest, honest it was yeah this little statue of a hippopotamus i have in my room is my voice slurring if it is, then just tell me, like pinch my nose or something [shriek] i sing you a lullabye really quick lullabye go to sleep you better or i'm gonna crack my voice [burp] i didn't do that; it was daffy; she burped [scat] i'm not gonna sing it, i swear [scat] [scream] i didn't do that; it was daffy; she burped anyways, jon doesn't get that much mail doesn't get that much females either [scream] that wasn't me; it was daffy; she burped [scream] that wasn't me; it was woodie; he farted [sound effect] that was a helicopter shooting down daffy no no no no it wasn't, it wasn't, it was shooting down woodie no i'm kidding, it was me, it was me doing sound effects trying to sound real cool again bye bye bye bye...
(c) 1989 Trex