Ornaments is a Christmas album project dreamed up by my friend Jeremy Cordy. He approached me in early November 2009 with the idea of gathering the various musically talented friends we had to try to put together something beautiful. I couldnʼt be more pleased with the results.

Comprised of almost entirely original songs, the project was an attempt to fill a few gaps in the Christmas music we were used to hearing all the time and explore some different scenarios and ideas.

Download: Ornaments.zip (51.8 MB)

B-Sides: There are some songs we didn’t quite finish in time. As they get wrapped up and released I’ll update this post with links.

• Santa Claus Is Coming To Earth – Justin Edwards
• Chanson Pour Noël – Justin Edwards

Download the updated notes pdf: Ornaments Lyrics and Notes (160 KB)

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Genetic Engines demo by medwardsmusic

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A musical colleague of mine who performs beneath the veil of a shifting team of collaborators known as Night Shall Eat These Girls And Boys has a song that immediately caught my ears. The song isn’t flashy, doesn’t sabotage nor reinvent any genres, nor does it have a mind-blowing production value in the humble recording I will provide here.

However, the song is just plain good. In the end, that is more important to me. The technology and production value can always come later. This guy knows how to write songs, and you can’t buy that.

Lily and I are learning, becoming friends
we do this by keeping very far away
we’ve already yelled and kicked and cursed
our drinking throats devoid of thirst
and now that it’s done, i’ve found the silence left to be much worse

lily will not accept our love is dead
she is crouched to the floor, arms wrapped about her head
she doesn’t cry or guilt or dread
jog memories and unmade beds
her head held high
she leaves the house with tail between her legs

lily says she does not know who i am
so cold and so sarcastic to my friends
in my defense i’ve been this way
for weeks and months before today
she looks at my friends
but doesn’t count herself as one of them

i have begun to see somebody else
and sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn’t help
she’s smart and sweet and kind and all
and generally keeps me enthralled
but when I’m down, I’m still not sure exactly who to call

Hear their music at their MySpace page.

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This song was previously put out as a demo on the Pseudobook Music Blog, so I feel no qualms with posting this refreshed mix of it, with redone vocals. More to come!

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I played around recording a song with a LOT of voices only. After I was more-or-less finished I took it and reversed it for kicks. Check it out:

backwardsvoicedemo

Here’s the original song:

Time To Rest (Orange Juice)

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Recorded this direct line-in to my macbook (which gives it a raunchier, lower-fi sound) as a demo process for what is to come this summer. I hope to do a LOT this summer, and aside from Stop Don’t Stop, Dunvint, and other projects, I hope to get a full length out of my own songs.

Without further ado:

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Here’s a home recording of the song I did live for the JustinKenya Benefit concert. Perhaps more to come?

Get into 3 part harmonies around the 2 minute mark!

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