The Ecuador Three - Neverending Sums

The Ecuador Three - Neverending Sums

The Peace and Love EP

1. The Ecuador Three - Easy (Thus Do All)
2. The Ecuador Three - Gideon
3. The Ecuador Three - Handshake Drugs
4. The Ecuador Three - Hey (or how the band did its thing)

Wanted: Musicians (Dublin area)

I'm starting a band to play originals (and covers that I can pass of as originals) and need

• a drummer
• a bassist
• a keyboard player

If you're able to sing and/or write songs, it'd be a huge plus. Here are some tunes:

The Ecuador Three - Hey (or how the band did its thing)
The Ecuador Three - Easy (Thus Do All)
The Ecuador Three - Gideon
The Ecuador Three - Handshake Drugs
The Ecuador Three - Dublinism

Helm's Deep y'all

16 year olds write songs, 16 year olds forget about songs, 26 year old man digs up songs he wrote when 16, finally records album, thinks wistfully about how things have changed, chorus til fade... by Rob Matthews and His Mate Hamish.

Helm's Deep (102mb zip)

Handshake Drugs/Marquee Moon

Now with added cornet! (by me, not by that guy)

The Ecuador Three - Handshake Drugs

The Ecuador Three - Handshake Drugs

Here's a mostly pointless cover of Wilco's Handshake Drugs the veers into Television's Marquee Moon for a few minutes in the middle. Contains viola. And doubletracked tambourine.

The Ecuador Three - Handshake Drugs

Coltrane in slow motion

"Hey what's up with Don the bassist, he's looking like shit"
"Don started doing heroin"
"Jeez, how could he be so stupid"
"All the really good jazz musicians did three things. They read the Bible. They did heroin. And they practised a lot. Don wants to get better, so he's started reading the Bible and doing heroin."
- I Love Music thread

I've been listening to a lot of John Coltrane lately. It's not just that his playing is fast - it's more like he's playing amazing melodic lines and he just happens to want to play them extremely quickly. They'd be just as interesting slowed down. By way of example, here's India at half speed:

John Coltrane - India (The Ecuador Three treacle remix)
 

Jenny Is A Fox

This is one of those tunes where I tried to put too much stuff in and it never quite came together as I planned, so I uploaded it so I can leave it and finish something else. Oh well. I'm one track closer to finishing the Peace And Love EP (provisional cover above).

The Ecuador Three - Jenny Is A Fox

The Ecuador Three - Gideon

Quick little cover of the My Morning Jacket song recorded in just under an hour on a rainy Saturday afternoon

The Ecuador Three - Gideon

Opus Dave

There comes a time, it seems, in every young man's life when his friends sit him down and make him listen to the album they've been writing about him behind his back for the past two months. Here it is: (all tracks credited to The Retro Cowboys of Delta Dineenadelica)

1. Opus Dave
2. The Curse of Dave Dineen
3. (Baby, I'm) Dave Dineen
4. The Legend of El Dineeño
5. Pin Stripe Revolution
6. 13 Choses Qui Sont Meilleures Que Dave
7. (The Tale of The Bastard Child of The Suitor To) The King of The Midweek Scene
8. Dance It Off With Dave Dineen
9. Hey, Mr. Dave Dineen!
10. Dirty For Double D
11. The King of The Midweek Scene (Suite)
12. Bad Bad Dave Dineen / The Dangerous Dave Dineen Rag

Easy (Thus Do All)

I thought I was onto a winner with this one until I realised that not only did it rip off Place Your Hands by Reef, but Wide Open Spaces by The Dixie Chicks. Oh well...

The Ecuador Three - Easy (Thus Do All)

Undercurrent

Here are two old (2004) tunes done for a college video documentary project. They're pretty much pastiches/ripoffs (try and guess which one is trying to be Four Tet, and which one is DJ Shadow). Nevertheless, I remember being pretty proud of them at the time, young and foolish as I was.

Dave Dineen - Speaker Music
Dave Dineen - Title Music

The Ecuador Three - Hey (or how the band did its thing)

A (slightly work-in-progress) song for ye all.

The Ecuador Three - Hey (or how they band did its thing)

Retro Cowboy Delta Dineenadelica

Another far-fetched flight of fancy, this time courtesy of Norman Davey.

Retro Cowboys of Delta Dineenadelica - The Curse (a preview from the Album "Songs In The Key Of D Dineen)

Guitar Army

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Glenn Branca is seeking 80 guitarists and 20 bass players for his upcoming performance of "Symphony No.13 (Hallucination City)". This performance will be in Dublin on July 15 at Grand Canal Square as part of Analog.

I'm seriously considering doing this - the avant garde (ahem) leanings might not be to the likings of Stuckists like Rob Matthews (he knows who he is), but I reckon it would be an amazing thing to see, nevermind take part in.

Original Press Release

Rhys Chatham - A Crimson Grail (Part One) (400 guitars)

Neurovision

Take three musicians. Sit them down to watch the spectacle that was the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest. Soak in alcohol. Add instruments and a dash of Tull. Record.

Neurovision (7 songs, 63MB zip)

And now, ladies and gentlemen, SKING!

Here's an oldie from a fried Mars bar eating mate of mine. I can't figure out the lyrics for the life of me, but I think they have something to do with the vertical movement.

DJ Sking - Can't Go Up, Can't Go Down

etree Friday

I've been meaning for a while now to put together some kind of post about the etree/archive.org Live Music Archive - a monstrous collection of live bootlegs that you could get lost in for weeks. It does skew slightly towards the jam band side of things, but there's enough variety to guarantee that you'll find something you like.

My Morning Jacket - Gideon - Bonnaroo, 2006-06-16

The Dismemberment Plan - Sentimental Man - The Middle East, 2003-07-24

Gomez - Get Miles - Cleveland Odeon, 2003-05-08

Rogue Wave - California - Bimbo's 365 Club, San Francisco, 2006-03-30

By the way, the above photo is of a random Nigerian guy hugging commentator Eamonn Dunphy during Wednesday's Ireland/Slovakia match in Croke Park. With thanks to Wes Gorman.

De Blues

Rob Matthews (seen here on the left) would have you believe that this is not the work of his own hands, but an unearthed gem from 1926, talking about an old Dave Dineen, and not any contemporary person of the same name. Affectionate mockery or vicious satire? You decide...

Blind Lemon O'Hara - Dave Dineen (1926)