Video (MP4): tcr! - Five Minutes to Cicero A.D.

Personnel

vocals: rob dickinson
left guitar: kenny tipton
right guitar: matthias downing
bass: ian murray
drums: adrian mcbrain
programming: james barker

Other

Writing, recording, mixing, mastering, artworking: tcr!

High Court Records, Pink Room Studios, Geneva, Illinois

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Audio (MP3): tcr! - fix your wig

Personnel

Vocals: Gibby Jourgen
Left Guitar: Kenny Tipton
Right Guitar: Matthias Downing
Bass: Ian Murray
Drums: Adrian McBrain

Other

Writing, recording, mixing, mastering, artworking: tcr!

High Court Records, Pink Room Studios, Geneva, Illinois

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Video (MP4): 20230111 - The Sleepless Moons

Audio (MP3): 20230111 - The Sleepless Moons

It’s an older, original song but it still checks out 🚀 definitely share this with your friends 👽

I am ready to go back to outer space. It’s my place, recognize the faces, the foreign shapes. I know the people of my race. And you are catching there at home plate and I’m clear off in left field. Not at the second stupid base waiting to make a double play. I’m out in orbit waving goodbye as I rocket far away.

Rain delay. Too much dumb, damn static in our game. Can’t hear the signals, too much atmosphere. Houston, we have a problem: I’m burning up here. Arm’s singed to rubber. Bottom of the ninth and I’m patrolling Pluto.

The only way to win…

Lover, you just never knew what it was like to kick around in my shoes, sleep with my childhood rules learned in Sun, Sunday school. And I won’t count the sleepless moons I tried to appeal them for you. The shoes are broken in, the fans have gone. The laces are long, the currents are strong and I could drown in my freezing swimming, swimming pool.

Behind in the count. Risky day for lift off, stars dealigned. Three balls and two strikes, zero gravity. Jammed comms, windshield cracked from your impact. Who’s that in the dugout? Guess I struck out. Broken hearts hemisphere.

Tears in space…

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Audio (MP3): 20210401 - Cosmic Journey (2021 soundtrack)

Video (MP4): 20210401 - Cosmic Journey (2021 soundtrack)

Continuing with the black and white musical theme, I spent a couple months of this portion of the pandemic adding electronic music to a trimmed down 1936 Russian space opera movie. If you like stop animation and CCCP rockets and ambient techno beats, this is for you.

In the year 1946, the Soviet space program is undergoing turmoil. Professor Sedikh, who is planning to lead the first manned exploration to the Moon, is denounced by his rival Professor Karin as being too old and too mentally unstable for the mission.

This journey clocks in around 12 minutes 33 seconds and sure, listening to the audio-only version is grand, it’s not as grand as the video-and-audio coupling. The music more closely follows the movie scenes whereas with my previous black and white work I wrote the music first and adapted the footage to the melodies.

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Audio (MP3): 20210111 - Steam Locomotive Musical

Video (MP4): 20210111 - Steam Locomotive Musical

Here we have a 1930s steam locomotive with drums, an upright bass, a couple of pianos, and a string section. The original video was over 18 minutes long so I chopped and rearranged to fit the music I put together. I guess this is the kinda thing I do in a pandemic.

I had originally planned for the music to go with some winter driving footage but that didn’t pan out. When I came across New York Central Railroad clip I knew that was it. I’ve always had a love for trains, might have something to do with my dad being an engineer when I was growing up.

The original black and white train footage came from The Mighty Hudson Steam Locomotive.

🚂 🎹 🎻

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Audio (MP3): 20201229 - House Burning in Black and White

Video (MP4): 20201229 - House Burning in Black and White

A few piano melodies while a house burns in black and white 🎹🔥🏠

Reminds me of the lower end of the Peanuts theme in certain parts.

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Audio (MP3): 20201226 - Pandemic Violins

Video (MP4): 20201226 - Pandemic Violins

It’s winter in a pandemic. It’s Christmas time. I’m on vacation. I sit and write and record music. After listening to The Beatles sing about Eleanor Rigby on a two hour loop, I got hooked on violins stabbing and stomping about. The music sounds best with headphones.

Nothing happens in the video. I needed something visual because most of the social medias don’t do just audio. The footage is public domain and fairly boring.

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Audio (MP3): 20201127 - Birds with piano

Video (MP4): 20201127 - Birds with piano

If you need to relax after your Black Friday, please enjoy a little piano and birds in my bird bath. Being November in Illinois the birds won’t get to do this much longer.

#diariespodcast #diariesvideo #naturerocks 🎹 🔊

Audio (MP3): 20201124 - stubborn elephantz mp3

Please enjoy another song I wrote/played/recorded sometime in the early 2000s. Except for the elephant samples. The elephants own their own copyrights.

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Audio (MP3): 20201108 - Slow Mo Milkweed

Video (MP4): 20201108 - Slow Mo Milkweed

On weekends when I don’t have Maggie I often pretend like I’m a cinematographer who knows how to play the piano.

I also had Milkweed seeds all over my face when I was done.

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