Joel Stevens

Mark Williams wrote this song some years ago, and I learned it in college. Decided to throw it down based on Brian's request. In any event, very minor reverb on both the guitar and the vocals, compressor and eq on both, and a volume booster.

To celebrate my refound ability to use the music room (jonathan's been around for a while) I threw down a song in about three hours. It is a homage to Jonathan's ability in Settlers of Catan (Seafarers edition). For the record, we played around 10 games, I won all but two, which Elly won. Enjoy!

Finally decided on a band name, "Monicker". Created a fancy flash website for it, Monicker Music. Check it out!

rerecorded the song with Elly singing

Production Notes

Charles wrote this guitar part a while back, but we never got anywhere on the lyrics. I decided to throw these down, although it turned out to be about the most pathetically sad song ever. Ah well... In any event, very minor reverb on both the guitar and the vocals, compressor and eq on both, and a volume booster.

Lyrics

Night after night
she dreams in colors
but day brings grey
and she discovers

all the thoughts she has
tangled up and sad
with nowhere to go

day after day
she walks in circles
but night brings grey
and she discovers

all the dreams she has
tangled up and sad
with nowhere to go

she thinks
she dreams
she thinks
she has

one more thing to do
tangled up and blue
with nowhere to go

Production Notes

Charles wrote this song in November and I finally got around to producing it. The entire song is based on Minor 7 piano trills, a simple vocal melody, and has a dueling cello part (two different expressions panned left and right). For the piano, we used "The Grand 2" and the cellos are "EWQL Symphony Gold." Standard vocal chain, and two very subtle background vocals (see if you can hear them).

Lyrics

the night time is dark here
the day time is dim
pitter patterns

salt water in the bay
catching falling rain
safety in twos
lay me

clouds drifting over head
sun splits in two
hey music
the pattern is pitter

Production Notes

This is a new love song Charles wrote. We messed around with a lot with bringing in disparate parts and then doing a build up at the end.

Drums were battery 3 per usual on electronic stuff. Standard vocal chain. The intro is the guitar part with melodyne chopping out notes and then effects run on top (flange, reverb, and some others). Mostly the mixing and production is where all the effort came in, and I think it came out well (especially with the new monitors and headphones I just got).

Lyrics

my code is in 4
your code is in 2
we speak in 10
one each finger

take my hand
we'll count on the future

if you aren't real
then what am I?

my code is code
your code is my code