Hey everyone… I decided I didn’t like the mix/lack of complexity in the first version of Workaround, so I’ve remixed it and added some stuff… My heart wasn’t in it the first time (I just wanted to finish something)… I like it a whole lot better now… take a listen again:

     Workaround (MP3, 3.9 MB)

Sometimes you need to get something done. Sometimes things stand in your way.

We recorded this one on the same day we did People Say, but I was lazy and uninspired. Here it is now.

     Workaround (MP3, 4.2 MB)

So lately I’ve been searching around for some good music to listen to and found the site of Catbird Records. I haven’t plugged stuff that wasn’t my own here before, but it seems like a good idea. I liked pretty much every song I downloaded from here. All their releases seem really solid and totally my kind of thing. I had already been into Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin (especially the album Broom), so it makes a lot of sense. If you like my stuff, I think you’d probably like much of what Catbird has to offer.

Instead of using iTunes to do it (which I have tried in the past, only to find my tagging didn’t stick, or I was doing something wrong), I found this little free tool that was clean, simple and quick, and I’ll be using it to do the tags from now on: the Stamp ID3 Tag Editor.

I saw giant swarms of birds changing direction quickly in the stormy sky on my drive home. Some landed on electric wires momentarily, but most flew around frantically, as though none of them knew where they were going, but were all thinking the exact same thing.

     Sit Up, Sit Down (MP3, 4.9 MB)

This is a fun upbeat one and I did all the non-drum recording in Sonar 7, which I’m learning lately. The drums were recorded with one SM58 set up in front of the drum kit. They sound pretty nice for the extremely simple setup.

We’ll be doing more songs under the name Marshmallow Mission (which is my friend Dan Bernard on drums and me doing everything else), using the same quick ‘n’ dirty drum recording technique.

Also, perhaps of interest is that this song is kind of a rework of That’s What People Say, from my earlier work, Songs of the Month 2005.

     People Say (MP3, 5.7 MB)

…since I’ve made anything I thought was worthwhile to put up here! But I have some plans… Gonna get together with Dan this weekend (I hope) and figure out (and hopefully record) some drums on a couple new songs I’ve got. Also… still working on my upcoming well-recorded EP How Does It Know?. It’s been slow going, because I’m working hard on all the parts and with various people with various schedules… Maybe that’ll be ready in 6 months? I have no idea. It’s going well, though. There will be saxophone.

So, anyway, yeah, I guess expect some new songs here in a few weeks, under the name Marshmallow Mission (my new moniker for music of the kind you will hear in a few weeks). Thanks for continuing to listen!

Well, if you’re an iLike user, you should totally click on it if you like the stuff I’m doing here at this site. I’d like that. Thanks!
-Sunil

Ok guys, new category: [SONG]… Just single songs not as part of a “Release”. These won’t be shown on the Releases page, but perhaps someday in the future I’ll package a bunch of [SONG]s together to make a [PTSXXX]. edit: who cares? they’re all up there now. these are the kinds of decisions you have to make when you have a fake record label. -ss

Anyway, this one is called Hold It Till It’s Gold and came to me while on a bike ride. It gave me an opportunity to mess around with the Alesis ControlPad I got a little while ago.

     Hold It Till It’s Gold (MP3, 1.7 MB)

Hey there everyone… Just a quick note to mention that Part Time Songs has a presence on Facebook now. A Facebook “page”, if you will. If you’re on Facebook, you should join up, and get future updates in a Facebook-generation friendly way.