Fairy Goodnite Kisses

These three songs are the only songs
I have fully composed and finished
within the last year or so.

They are the last songs that I will release
under the name Duane Almond.
Starting fresh with a new project,
Sleep Fighter.

Still recording, just a different way.

Tracklist:
01. Self Soothe 2:58
02. Holding Rooms From You 3:28
03. I Can Take Another Look at You 11:00


Enjoy Fairy Goodnite Kisses (Click to DL entire release)

NOTE: This file is a .zip, so if you need any help downloading or playing any song, I have added instructions under 'DL FULL RECORDINGS' on the left.

LIVE AT THE ABSINTHE LOUNGE

I setup my tape recorder
at the Absinthe Lounge
this past Sunday.

Then ripped both tapes
to share the recordings.

Tape A:
01. Velcro
02. toast.

Tape B:
01. Zebrateeth
02. Bubble Dungeon

Enjoy Live at the Absinthe Lounge

VELCRO

Playing a show
as Velcro
with Thom tonight.

We are opening for
Bubble Dungeon
Zebrateeth
and Toast.

You can listen/download/follow everyone at
Bubble Dungeon: http://bubbledungeon.official.fm
Zebrateeth: http://www.zebrateeth.blogspot.com
Toast: http://www.toastmusic.blogspot.com
Night Eros: http://nighteros.bandcamp.com

I will be taping the show
as well as selling
two handmade CDs (Mature Fruit/Growing Season Combo)
and two tapes of Winter Log.

WINTER LOG

This is a rip from
a 60 minute cassette tape.
Compiled of live practices
and improvised jams
from November 2010 to January 2011.

I started this process
to help me remember songs.
Both sides we recorded without overdubbing
and straight to my tape recorder.

Log Entries:
Sweet (Side A):
01. Peanut
02. Untitled Piano 1
03. Untitled Piano 2
04. Untitled Piano 3
05. (Drum Break)
06. Untitled Piano 4
07. Untitled Piano 5
08. Goblet
09. Away at the Ballet
10. Medicine (Double-time)

Bitter (Side B):
01. Upright Jam
02. Electric Jam
03. Gibberish Jam
04. Spirit Jam

Savory (Download-Only Bonus):
01. Untitled Jam



Enjoy Winter Log (Click to DL entire release)

NOTE: This file is a .zip, so if you need any help downloading or playing any song, I have added instructions under 'DL FULL RECORDINGS' on the left.

MATURE FRUIT/GROWING SEASON HANDMADE PACKAGING

Totally completed.
Finished a couple weeks ago or so,
but I was waiting for the holiday to end
to mail out about a dozen.
And waiting on some email replies
as well.

A couple weekends ago,
I picked my personal favorites
and took them on their very own photo shoot
in the leaves
in my backyard.

Now I need to get my ass in gear,
address all the boxes
and visit the post office.

Version numbers and names by photo:

Chicken Pox: 1, 2, 3, 13, 14, 15

Sparrow's Egg: 4, 5, 6, 16, 17, 18

Dry Pickles: 22, 23 

Wavy Dirt: 7 , 8, 9

Warm Vanilla: 19, 20, 21

Faded Stone: 10, 11, 12

Dry Pickles (Orange Leaf): 24

CD PACKAGING PROCESS

Finished constructing 
18 out of 24.

Need to pick 
more leaves 
to tie to the outside cover.

In the process of
making a list 
of who I would like to 
mail these to.

CD PACKAGING

I am in the process 

of printing a cutting 

CD sleeves 

for two of my releases.

These sleeves then go into 

their own sleeve 

of cover paper 

from a collection of paper 

that I have had laying in a box 

from school.

When I get further along 

I will take more photos of 

the finished product.

I'M YOUR DREAMS

Filled the one minute gap
at the beginning of
'I'm Your Dreams'.

Thought this was very necessary
if I am releasing a tape,
so someone won't miss
one of the best songs
on 'Mature Fruit.'

GROWING SEASON

The Growing Season is the period of each year when native plants and ornamental plants grow; and when crops can be grown.

This is a companion piece
to my earlier release
Mature Fruit.

These songs combine my
childlike rhythm
and soothing guitar play.

I soon will be selling this
as a double EP on
cassette and CD.

This collection of songs was recorded
during the months of
April through July, 2010.

Tracklist:
01. Upright 1:15
02. Pretzels & Vegetables 4:14
03. Deep Tissue 2:28
04. The Difference 3:07
05. Bear Cans 1:44
06. Underwater Bottle 3:25
07. Baby Day 4:02



Enjoy Growing Season 192 320 (Click one of the bitrates to DL entire release)

NOTE: This file is a zip file, so if you need any help downloading and playing this song I have added instructions under 'My Update' at the left of the screen.

BROTHER SONGS

This is a collection of
what I think are my better works
from over the past year.

'Brother Songs' starts out with
some of my first songs
ever recorded.
Shows my progression
to keyboard and
how my songwriting
has evolved.
As well as my range.

I have grouped the songs
together in pairs (or brothers)
by similarities, location or time period.
Excluding Vibes and Heat,
which stand alone.


Brother Songs:
01. Pool House 4:11
02. The Build/What About the City 6:38
03. First Haunting 2:28
04. Sunkissed Baby Tomatoes 2:50
05. Neighborhood 3:18
06. It Burns & It Breathes 2:33
07. Vibes 1:22
08. Power Organ 3:00
09. Pluck 4:48
10. Fell in a Thorn Bush 3:01
11. Heat 2:06
12. Nite Light 2:05
13. Dirty Blonde 2:07
14. Every Nite 4:02
15. Open My Mind 3:36



Enjoy Brother Songs (Click to DL entire release)

NOTE: This file is a zip file, so if you need any help downloading and playing this song I have added instructions under 'My Update' at the left of the screen.

RERELEASES

I am re-releasing
three of my personal best
to whomever would like to listen
under my new moniker,
Duane Almond.

I am re-releasing them
so I can submit them to music blogs.

High Lights:
01. Nite Light 2:05
02. Dirty Blonde 2:07
* High Lights was created on a cold afternoon last January.. and is mainly composed of me playing keyboards and electric guitar.



Pool House
01. Pool House 4:13
02. The Build/What About the City 6:38
*Pool House was one of my first recordings with a borrowed Fostex MR-8 ouside on my back patio, back in July of 09.



Rainboat
01. Rain/Boat 13:32
* Rainboat is a set of songs, melted together at the seam at a time when I was experimenting with my slide on the electric and new effects pedals with rhythm clapping.



Enjoy High Lights/Pool House/Rainboat (Click to DL zip of all)

NOTE: This file is a zip file, so if you need any help downloading and playing this song I have added instructions under 'My Update' at the left of the screen.

MATURE FRUIT

I am very, very trilled to share
Mature Fruit,
my first release
using the moniker,
Duane Almond.

I received a lot of
help and contribution
from Kris on majority of the songs.

This collection of songs was recorded
during the month of
March, 2010.

Track Listings: 
01. Break & Take a Vacation 2:25
02. Soft Core 3:19
03. Highway Fly 0:55
04. Shoo Shoo 1:48
05. Thick Coat 3:02
06. Spring Roll 2:36
07. I'm Your Dreams 3:29



Enjoy Mature Fruit (Click to DL entire release)

NOTE: This file is a zip file, so if you need any help downloading and playing this song I have added instructions under 'My Update' at the left of the screen.

DIRTY BLONDE REMIX

Check out
this remix of
'Dirty Blonde'
by Best Ghost.

First version/take
and first remix of
any of my material.

Looking forward to
working on more songs
in the future.

Definitely has potential.

HIGH LIGHTS

It has been cold this weekend..
so I have been indoors.
I wrote a couple songs
on Friday nite.

Both of these songs I created
in a very short period of time
and I often mumble out lyrics.

Enjoy High Lights (Click to DL)
Personal Favorite: Nite Light
You can also listen to them
in the player on the right.

Also I added a new song
that I recorded on New Years Eve
titled 'Heat'.
You can DL or listen
in the Aaron Bandana player
on the right.

NEW PLAYERS UP!

I have put up some
new players
of full EP recordings
on my site
on the right.

There aren't any brand new recordings,
but you can stream
the music
from any browser.

Enjoy!

BLABBERMOUTH

Here are a collection of songs that I wrote between the months of April to June on my laptop. I am very satisfied of all of these songs.. they have been reworked quite a bit from the original recordings and they are the first collection of songs that I have finished that were created on my computer opposed to the MR-8. 'Control Myself' is one of my Brother Songs that I played with and layered adding instrumental effects to. 'Sunkissed Baby Tomato Plants' and 'Saturday, Maurice Built My Father's Fence' were created using no guitar and mainly consisting of keyboards.

Enjoy Blabbermouth (Click to DL)
Personal Favorite: The First Haughting in Months

NOTE: This file is a zip file, so if you need any help downloading and playing this song I have added instructions under my Status Report at the right of the screen.

FALLING

So I got a lot accomplished today.. besides freaking out that I mailed a ticket off with the postage stamp 2 cents below postage (long story). I watered my freezing plants, worked on a chalk drawing and created a song on the MR-8, which I split in four parts.

Falling is me attempting to play keyboard on multiple tracks with all my peals hooked up to the MR-8. Not a whole lot of singing in these songs.. more of me just trying to work the distortion pedal in and out of sequences of made up rhythms. Most feature heavy reverb and some tracks feature heavy tremolo.

Enjoy
Falling (Click to DL)
Personal Favorite: Mom Gave Me a Comforter for College

NOTE: This file is a zip file, so if you need any help downloading and playing this song I have added instructions under my Status Report at the right of the screen.

RAINBOAT

Friday I picked up my new pedal at the post office.. that night I put together a new song with the new reverb/delay pedal. I paired it up with another song that I had created earlier that week.


I am still in need of a camera, so I just took a photo with my cellphone. The gray pedal on my floor is my used RV-3 pedal from eBay I just received in the mail. Today I want to take it into Guitar Center and see if they can test it to see how well it is working.. I think I hear a slight buzz with the pedal, but with my inexperience I am not sure if this is normal or not.

Once again.. these songs are not for everyone, as they are both experimental and mainly composed of first attempts at some new techniques. The first track is mainly techniques using the glass slide on the electric and the second track is composed of using the RV-3 for vocals and acoustic guitar with rhythms of hand clapping and leg slapping.

Enjoy Rainboat (Click to DL)
Personal Favorite: Rain

NOTE: This file is a zip file, so if you need any help downloading and playing this song I have added instructions under my Status Report at the right of the screen.

HIGH SCHOOL JAZZ BAND

I recently came across this CD, I played Bari Sax in the 2nd jazz band during high school. This is for my homies. Memories.

Naaman Forest High School 2nd Annual Evening of Jazz (Click to download)

NOTE: If you need any help downloading and playing this song I have added instructions under my Status Report at the right of the screen.

BROTHER SONG ONE

This song is titled 'The Colors'. I have decided to finally start working on an album of my collection of songs I have written over the last couple years. I thought it would be a good idea to upload each song as I download them, so when I am finished with recording all the songs I will upload the entire album. I want to rework them and possibly remaster them.. maybe even add extra tracks or percussive rhythm to them.

This song I wrote maybe a year or year and a half ago. I had just gotten a capo and tried different placement on my guitar til I found something I liked. This was one of the first songs that when I played for Kristin she liked.

Please any feedback about the recording would be great. I am not sure how these are coming out on your end.. sometimes I have to adjust my volume on my computer for it to sound correct.

Enjoy The Colors (Click to DL)

NOTE: If you need any help downloading and playing this song I have added instructions under my Status Report at the right of the screen.