Aesop's Fables EP

Another holiday EP folks. 8 tracks, 15 minutes. These EPs are getting shorter and shorter, but also better I hope.

It's called Aesop's Fables. Tracklist:

1 Aesop's Fables
2 That Rumba
3 Transparent Backflipping Camels 3
4 Ambiguity
5 Up On The Hill
6 Transparent Backflipping Camels 4
7 The Tinker's Lament
8 Elevator Chase

Jesse did all the stuff you hear: keys, guitar, bass, drums, manditar*, violin, viola, scratching, sampling, programming, recording, & composing. Plus he recorded it all on half-inch tape, for that je ne sais quoi he's always on about. If you record something onto tape with the level too high, it compresses rather than clips. Tape compression is lovely. For example, the piano on the last track is recorded "too" high...

Thanks for checking it out my friends. Drive safe. Happy New Year!

* combination guitar and mandolin. Shaped like a mandolin, looks & sounds like one, except it has 6 strings rather than 4 pairs, and the strings are tuned like a guitar rather than a mandolin.

Word On The Street EP

umm, so I'm hosting files at divshare now. It's better. All the old links still work though, for the time being.

Anyways, here's some music from Rafferty Records or whatever, it's 13 tracks:

01) Pansy Groove
02) Chinwax
03) 12-Inch Mandatory Boot Screef 2010
04) I Am No Thief
05) A Word That Means Something Else
06) A Special Moment
07) The Lusty Skeleton
08) Feelin' Better
09) Everybody Likes Strawberries
10) Purple Groove
11) Tikki Tembo
12) Dog's Grandchild
13) What A Wonderful World

All the music is by me (Jesse Lee) except the last one, which is by Bob Thiele & George Weiss but arranged by me. Incidentally, Louis Armstrong recorded that song in 1968, and it didn't do very well in the States but topped the singles charts in the UK, making Mr Armstrong the oldest man to top the charts, at 66 years old. (His record in that regard stood until 2009.) 20 years later, in 1988, the single was re-released in the US and made it to #38. So now you know that.

I had a bit of help on this recording, from Kyran Kennedy (vox on #08), Brian Rosen (perc on #08, flute on #05, plus I used his drum kit), Ben Euerby (sax on #02), and Ty West (I used his guitar and rig for tracks 02, 03, 05, 08, and 12, plus I received a certain amount of funkiness from his via osmosis. The good kind of funkiness.)

Get this EP right here if you dare. Peace.

Painting Excercising and Making Blended Drinks EP

Jesse and Rafferty bring you Painting Excercising and Making Blended Drinks EP. It's called an EP because that's what really short albums are called, even though it has 17 tracks. All but 2 of the tracks are under 2 minutes. This EP features live instrumentation and sampling. Recorded in Jesse's livingroom.

01 - 0:16 - Intro
02 - 1:10 - Splash Damage
03 - 0:39 - PEB 1
04 - 1:26 - Steppin Out With Mr BabyMan
05 - 1:54 - PEB 2
06 - 5:34 - Treat Your Mother Right (featuring Mr T)
07 - 0:32 - Transparent Backflipping Camels 1
08 - 1:02 - Reading Rainbow
09 - 0:23 - PEB 3
10 - 2:09 - Crying Across America
11 - 1:39 - Genuine Hero
12 - 0:29 - Some Junk
13 - 1:50 - Funky Bachelor
14 - 1:17 - Transparent Backflipping Camels 2
15 - 0:24 - PEB 4
16 - 1:45 - Capo 3
17 - 1:33 - Shaking

Download your own free copy here. It's called 240EasyTofuRecipies because my file hosting service keeps deleting it, so I'm trying a different and more boring name. Maybe it will stand this time. Thanks to Douglas Haddow for inspiration. Happy holidays.