This is the “hidden” track on Cult Of Nice. It’s not really hidden on the CD, per se. It’s just track 12 – but there’s a 13 second delay before it starts, and it’s not listed on the liner notes on the CD. But everywhere digital, it’s just there. I did this one all by …
Such sadness in this piano! Such sadness in the poem! I’m not even sure what the deal is with this poem – it totally sounds like a poem is dead poem, but Tamara’s mom isn’t dead. But it’s surely more complex than that. There was a time I understood more about this poem, but at …
When we were doing this album, I felt like this one was the best mixed. I also feel like it has a different quality than the rest of the album. It seems more like one of those mellow electronica things I’ve heard. Or something. I also think it feels more light (i don’t mean as …
I was standing underneath the portal thing out front of my dad’s house watching the rain just pour it’s little ass off and soak our town. It reminded me of standing under the portal deal on the stage at the Wild West Show in Six Flags in Houston. Being Houston it would rain a lot …
This one’s fun. I used samples of Tamara from the song “Possibility”, and made them link to a beat, and made them slightly higher in pitch, and put several versions of her so it was more than in one in spots. So it ends up just saying “Go on, go on, go on, go on” …
Man I think this poem by Tamara is amazing. This was her A#1 Grade A Signature Slam Piece that she would always whoop ass with. I’ll never forget the picture of her downstairs in the Cantab in Boston, with the place so damn packed you could barely move, and her standing up straight and belting …
This piano part is exactly the piano from a song I was doing long ago called Popcorn Dream – but I never actually put out that song. The poem, Flatlands, was one that Tamara used a lot in slams. This one was pretty easy to do live because it’s just me playing this relatively easy …
In this one, I have samples of these Buddhist guys, you can hear ’em real clearly! I actually got this sample approved and paid for it. Nice! We took Tamara’s poem Ash, and also some of her reading from the Tibetan Book Of The Dead, **EDIT** – in which she uses the word “apathy” instead …
Yellow And White, by Third Option This was one of my slam poems that I used a lot. I ended up retiring it from slam as I got better in slam, because it actually doesn’t fit the form well enough to consistently get great scores. It doesn’t have the right rise and fall of energy …
Possibility, by Third Option I may have talked a little about this one before. There was a licensing company called Raw42, and I was giving them tracks to shop to TV and movies and such, and they rejected this track because it violated the rule that said no samples. So I wrote back and said …
