an obvious sort of satori

alright. i finally got enough of this sorted out to try and start posting stuff..

the game is to get a song a day finished, and a song a day on the net.. maybe not the same song, though.. we shall see.

today i'm posting 'An Obvious Sort of Satori'.. based off a poem i wrote a few years back about trying to be an enlightened buddhist monk and then fathering a child. i didn't think much of the poem at the time, but the music i was recording had an odd country samba mix going on.. it reminded me a lot of Beck, and the lyrics seemed to fit.

anyhow, i recorded a couple of guitars over this drum machine samba beat, and did the vocals a few times, trying to layer them up kinda oddly.. then i put the harmonica on for the breaks.. and then went back and distorted one of the vocal overdub tracks.. and then i programmed a little hi-hat percussion track - it's pretty subtle but i liked it enough to keep it in.

emily's been working on trumpet parts for a few things, so maybe i'll get one of those up next.