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The Challenge goes on! Two new mixes just in from the uber-talented and oft overheated mind of reclusive madman MC DD von H. Both build on the original piano number plus eb’s stellar vocals. First up is Radio Cauliflower, a radio friendly mix with guitar, beats, bass, beach sounds, and more. Then comes something really … Read more

About a week and a half ago I posted a short piano number and asked folks to mess around with it. Here’s a brief recap of the excellent and harmonically vivid versions we’ve gotten back so far: Cauliflower Melon (the original piano piece) Cauliflowermelonslide (Bob Myren’s remix with slide guitar) Melancholy Flower (eb’s version with … Read more

To briefly recap, a week ago I posted a short piano piece and asked folks to mess around with it. Bob and eb tossed down swank slide and vocal interps respectively. Now the Dread Pirate Yaniv Soha joins the fray. For handy compare and contrast, here’s the original piano piece, Bob’s slide, and eb’s piano/vocal … Read more

Last week I posted a wee chordy piano piece and asked folks to mess around with it and send me the results. First in was a sweet slice o’ slide from Bob Myren. If yer just joining the fun, here’s the original piano piece — Cauliflower Melon — and here’s Bob’s remix — Cauliflowermelonslide. Today … Read more

Yesterday I exhorted folks to take this wee chordy piano piece I’d recorded (aka Cauliflower Melon) and mess around with it — add guitar, verb, drums, guitar, slice it up, and what have you. Lo and behold, this morning — the very next damn day! — my old and excellent pal Bob Myren came through … Read more

Tune-making and MVRT have both been considerably waylaid of late by hard disk problems and assorted other distractions. But last night I got Pro Tools working (yay!) and recorded this wee, chordy piano piece. And with this piece comes the following open invitation to a collaborative fun-time challenge project: if you like to screw around … Read more

Here’s another one of them there standards, with keys and vocals and antique steamer howl and yes, perhaps, yes indeed: the sound of time itself. It’s a confusing, some might say outrageous sentiment for this holiday week: The Best Things in Life Are Free, written by B.G. DeSylva, Lew Brown, and Ray Henderson back in … Read more

Here’s an all-new micro-tune featuring the legendary Jake Vortex on tenor sax. We call this one Bean Thread Noodles, because much like traditional bean thread noodles, it’s made from ground mung beans. Oh yeah! Seriously though, I have no idea what that means. Mung beans? That can’t be right can it? Is that a typo? … Read more

Good golly do I love the standards. A while back, you may recall, I posted covers first of “Bye Bye, Blackbird,” and then (with a lotta help from eb and Eileen Dahl) “Second Hand Rose.” Great tunes, both. Here’s the third in this ongoing series of let’s-just-say-non-traditional piano/vocal/guitar takes on jazz standards — “For Every … Read more

It was a more innocent time, way back in October of 2004 when I first wrote about Yu-Gi-Oh! and Zach Braff, and my secret rage. We’re all a lot older now, hey? And perhaps a bit wiser too. “What is Yu-Gi-Oh!?” Well, it’s a card game. And a movie. It’s a franchise. It’s a way … Read more