Sample Songs

Jessica Christian from Virginia requested a song titled either “Dress Down Heroes” or “Heroes in Jeans” that would encourage faculty and staff at the school she works at to participate in “dress down” weeks. Staff can contribute $10 and get to dress casual for the week, and the money goes to Relay for Life, a cancer research charity. To craft this epic ballad, Karl enlisted Ryan Murphy on drums, Grant Sutton on bass, Sean Shipley on lead guitar and Josh Lawrence on brass keyboards/lyric tweaking.

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Panchitah from LA, California submitted a custom song request for ‘a fun song to make me smile while I’m all borked and stuff. You know, “Dont worry be happy” style. Also, about how forgetful I am’. Karl says: ‘I may have missed the mark a little bit as far as the actual request goes, but I think I acheived a sort of Bobby-McFerrin-sings-Tom-Cruise’s-opinions-on-the-pharmaceutical-industry vibe, and hope this helps the executive producer feel less borked in general.’

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The Evening Bite –

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Breanne Kato from California requested a reggae song about Pete, her ‘algae-eating aquarium fish’ who ‘couldn’t care less that Skeletor the goldfish [his previous aquarium roommate] is dead.’ Karl obliged:

Pete the Algae-Eating Aquarium Fish by Karl Eifrig Download the song (right- or command click & select ‘Save as..’)

He produces the monthly Mozomedia Music Podcast with the assistance of Craig Higdon, who plays the D.J. Harris, Tom Merritt, who brings the SubBrilliant News, and the works of many musicians and friends.

Songs

Never Get Clean –

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Sonick: “I had the music for Never Get Clean recorded and the whole song in my head for years, but only recently (as of 5/09) recorded the vocals while housesitting for a friend, possibly disturbing the downstairs neighbor.”

Diwata — a custom song request

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Kai Balbin from Orange County, CA suggested the song title ‘Diwata’, which is a Filipino word for ‘goddess’ or ‘fairy’, and requested the song sound like ‘maybe sigur ros meet radiohead meet the album leaf/roots of orchis.’

Cultivations

Sonick: “I don’t play any of the music on what I call cultivations – instead midi tracks are computer generated from various programs, and my main work is in arranging (choosing the virtual instruments and mix) and pruning and splicing (tweaking/deleting midi notes).   Cultivations are also my way of cheating to make up for my deficiencies.  Someday I hope to be able to play the stuff I’ve ‘grown’ via cultivation.”

Hark! The Sword Flies Through the Aire -

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Jimmy ‘the Suit’ Jazz -

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Heat Alpert -

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DJ Saunter lives an apparently hermetic life in Austin, Texas. His communication with us is sporadic and takes two forms: a) pictures of his hamster, Qix b) the occasional song. For this we are thankful.

Sample Song

Dr. Shoes –

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The mp3 above is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license. You are free to distribute and remix it (with credit) for non-commercial purposes.

These two na-er-do-wells from a lost valley in the Siskiyou mountains of… wait. Na-er-do-well haint really right. I mean, they na-er-really do bad nuther. I guess they’re just na’er dos.

Anyway, that’s all beside the matter. What’s the fore of the matter is that they make a kind of uncouth, lo-fi version of music called “Siskiyou Stomp.” They make that music with instruments like their voice, and some strings.

There’s a dog what runs the show by the name Walt. The other two go by Stompin’ Jim Hambone and Smilin’ Jim McGee.

They’re rough round the edges, and rough round the middle, and rough round the edges of the middle. And they drink. LOTS.

Songs

Trouble is My Name –

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A Trip to Romany –

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Crossed into the Void –

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Underwater in November –

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The following epic rock song was a collaboration with The Clive Royal Project. Clive Royal open-sourced his original song which was inspired by the Sword and Laser online bookclub. Here The New Old Men added guitar, drums and keyboards to Clive Royal’s vocal track.

The Sword and the Laser (with The Clive Royal Project) –

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‘Dragging My Rope’ was a custom song request.
Dragging My Rope Through the Cow Pasture –

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I’m Going Shopping –

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Younger –

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Geek Patrol –

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Write Down –

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Masters of Poh is the duo of Vaara Ylhäälta and Mauno Salmi, who both studied for years under the legendary Finnish avant-garde composer Seppo Perälä.  However, after Perälä insisted on months of re-takes of the recording of his re-interpretation of Wagner’s Ring Cycle (to be performed by Ylhäälta and Salmi on toy instruments), the two finally broke from their former mentor, and are now exploring fertile fields of proggy weirdness.   They are sometimes joined by co-traveller Ismo Koivu.

Listen to Songs

Hardcore Robots –

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Xeno Grid –

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Kitchen Sink is instrumental collaborations between Eddie P. (Karl Eifrig) and J.J. Sonick (Josh Lawrence), surveying acoustic loveliness, poignant noise, snakey ambiances, electronic tumblings, non-Euclidean landscapes and mistaken beauty.

Sample Songs

Psychedelicized Insane Quintet –

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Cansada –

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Also available on the album ‘Space Time Compression Handbook’, available for free download below

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Get More Kitchen Sink Songs Online -

• The new Kitchen Sink song ‘The Dusty Circle’ is available on Auricular Audio Magazine 13.
  

Download Full Kitchen Sink album -

• Download the full 15-song Kitchen Sink album ‘Space Time Compression Handbook’ (60 MB)

Watch Kitchen Sink Video

Stop-motion animation by IndoCauc Productions – the team of J.J. Sonick and Tito Royale – for the Kitchen Sink song ‘Cansada‘:

Pookie cooked up eclecticrazy 4-track goodness in various living rooms and bedrooms of early ’90s Houston, Texas. Eddie Piss, Madame Maenad and J.J. Sonick concocted tasty indie rock, crunchy new wave, wistful sideways pop, damned silliness, saddened alt-country, industrial screaming and more, all the while praising the orange cat that was the band’s namesake, and offering you a ticket to the Land of Poh in the bargain. Hop aboard.

Sample Songs

Fine As Wine –

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The Ballad of Johnny Ray Pierre –

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Self-Referential –

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The three mp3s above are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license. You are free to distribute and remix them (with credit) for non-commercial purposes.

Get the Whole Album Online –

Preview & download more songs and the entire Pookie album:

• iTunes
• Amazon MP3 Downloads
• eMusic
• Rhapsody

Watch Pookie Video

Edited from super-8 animation JJ Sonick made as a kid, here’s the video for the Pookie song ‘Self-Referential’: