Rabbits Full of Magic
21 December 2011
Last Minute Show with the Dust Bunnies
The MUSIC ROOM will feature the Dust Bunnies this Friday the 23rd, so come on out for a fuzzy, dreamy evening of tunes before your big holiday weekend. Or, if you hate Christmas, that's fine, cos most of the stuff I play is slow and sad and depressing anyways. But noisy! So yay! I've been practicing my theremin alot recently so hopefully I'll really nail those difficult but fun parts.
Dust Bunnies is more or less my main solo project, an embracing of the folk tradition of taking standards and putting a personal touch on them. As it was birthed from a lovelorn emotional state, I perform what I think are some of the most beautiful love songs of rock history. So there will be some Velvet Underground, some Leonard Cohen, some Ricky Nelson, etc. But it won't all be sad songs - I'll be doing "Silent Night" for the Christmas touch as well.
I've made quite a few videos on youtube but given copyright law and the state of the internet, I'm sort of fearing the day when they are all taken down because they are unlicensed performances. My grandparents generation tended to have a piano in every house before the widespread use of records, so the only way someone could hear a song is if they got the music out and played it themselves. Kind of sad that that tradition is being destroyed in the search for profits and an accompanying rockist sense of authenticity. But whatever, enjoy it while you can!
You can download a few Dust Bunnies tracks below, including a few that I don't really play live because they are more straight-ahead than the usual DB 101 Strings-play JAMC set:
Sunday Morning
Dream Lover
Alabama Song
Head On
Virginia Plain
Pet Cancer
The Lottery Song
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11 August 2011
We Could Make a Record
Dust Bunnies - The Lottery Song
Dust Bunnies - The Lottery Song Chillwave Version
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10 August 2011
"The Lottery Song" by Harry Nilsson
Dust Bunnies - The Lottery Song
Typically fuzzed-out, buzzed-out cover in the vein of old school Dust Bunnies. Really weird guitar sounds. Original song by the brilliant Harry Nilsson.
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14 April 2011
25 December 2010
Merry Christmas
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15 September 2010
Dust Bunnies New Video Works
"Telstar" by Joe Meek's backing band The Tornados is one of the all-time most optimistic, futuristic songs ever released, and here I've given it the Dust Bunnies treatment. This debut comes with the above video, a series I am working on for the Dust Bunnies DVD that will be released while performing on Oct 1 at the Deerhunter Halcyon Digest release show! Also these videos will be projected behind us during the show! I have recruited viola player Nirvana from Book Of Colors to help with this show as well, so it will definitely be something special.
I've also completed a second new Dust Bunnies video, a 6 minute visual accompaniment to the first song recorded under this project, "Sunday Morning" by The Velvet Underground. This was filmed while on a ship crossing from Denmark to Germany last weekend and has been heavily affected through carefully timed color shifting, brightening of footage, and several methods of superimposition. Keep your eyes here for the premiere of the "Sunday Morning" video:
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24 January 2010
Dust Bunnies: the lost industrial noise record
Dust Bunnies
In Dust We Trust (2004)
full album download
01 Attaque
02 Casiostration
03 Dance
04 Drawn And Quartered
05 Eat
06 Orchestras Of Pain
07 Smash My Blood
08 Squirm
09 Stop And Cut
Before The Dust Bunnies was a shoegazey kind of thing I had originally thought up the name to describe this collection of what I imagine to be industrial/harsh noise music I made in 2004. All these tracks were improvised on Yamaha and Casio keyboards during the mixing of the first Kiwis album, and later were chopped up (and sometimes looped) in CoolEdit. At the time I was listening to Fad Gadget and more importantly Die Todliche Doris.
I hadn't thought of this record for years and I never played it for anyone, but I recently listened to it and decided I liked it and slapped together some cover art (image taken from the legendary State Of The Art AMIGA demo from Spaceballs. In a perfect world I could afford to put this on vinyl and give it away from free.
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19 January 2010
The Dust Bunnies "Falling" by David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti
When I'm choosing songs for The Dust Bunnies to perform there's really no way of telling what will work better because usually the tempo is slowed down tremendously, the melody is heavily emphasized, certain counter melodies that before were buried in the mix are brought to the forefront, droning synth strings are added, the whole thing is distorted, etc. But sometimes I come across a song that I've known and loved my whole life and it is the perfect match in every single way.
David Lynch & Angelo Badalamenti's "Falling" is like that. It's the perfect song for The Dust Bunnies to do, because basically it is a proto-Dust Bunnies recording. All the elements are there; the synthesized strings, the shadowy vocals, the soaring melodies, etc. Released originally in 1989 on Julee Cruise's Floating Inoto the Night, this became the theme to Twin Peaks, the greatest television drama of all time. I must have been 9 or so when the show was on and was too young to watch it, but I have memories of my parents watching it, and memories of this haunting drifting down the hall from where I was playing my videogames.
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03 January 2010
Dust Bunnies Cover "Falling" by David Lynch
03 December 2009
The Dust Bunnies
The Dust Bunnies are an alternate universe band. It harkens back to the late 19th century, back before there was recorded music, and the only way to hear a song was to hear someone play it. Universal/BMG never existed to tell people they couldn't play someone's song without giving money to a corporation that owned the copyright. Imagine recorded music never existed past piano rolls, but that nevertheless the same wonderful songwriters of the 50s and 60s wrote the same songs. Only instead of using electric guitars they used electric orchestras. This is somewhere near the feeling I am reaching for with these Dust Bunnies performances and the below recordings:
All My Loving
Dream Lover
Da Doo Ron Ron
Falling in Love Again
Sunday Morning
Up there you can see/hear a Dust Bunnies version of "Dream Lover", which includes samples of Jesus and Mary Chain, The Paris Sisters, and Kenneth Anger's "Kustom Kar Kommandos". The whole song is basically a Kenneth Anger/Paris Sisters tribute/ripoff because I completely love that arrangement and I only wish I could have gotten a better harpsichord sound. In my version there is theremin playing with a soaring 8-bar break between verses that Bradford came up with when we played a Wet Dreams show at the old Rob's House three or four years ago.
I also recorded a wonderfully trippy version of "Silent Night Holy Night". I played this song on theremin ten years ago at my first ever live performances under the name The Ralph Nader Audio Circus, and then covered it on my 8-Bit Christmas CD in 2001. That recording will be available here in a few days.
Tonight I'm playing my first show at 529, which has a pretty good sound system and fun stage lights so it should be quite suitable for a Dust Bunnies performance. It's with A Sunny Day in Glasgow and Lyonnais. Farbod and Farzad from Lyonnais has been working on the first Dust Bunnies 7" release for his label Geographic North. They design the beautiful minimalist artwork for each release.
I've been recording some new tracks for the show too, and I am really really excited about them. In the past I always tracked in Internet Audio Mix and did post production in CoolEdit, which is my favorite old-school sound editing program of all time. In the past year I've been learning Ableton Live so with these new recordings I have found a way to get higher quality sound but still have it drenched in noise.
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18 June 2009
Dust Bunnies Play Prom (Plus New Song for Download!)
Tomorrow night Dust Bunnies got a last minute offer to perform at the Eyedrum Prom, which will be an Eyedrum show with a prom theme. Don't know too much other than that. I never went to prom cos I was one of the losers in high school and this isn't for a school or anything so I'm guessing it's basically an excuse to get dressed up. I have a thrift store sky blue three piece suit that I only wear in just such an occasion.
Bradley talked me into it, cos at first I didn't want to cos I'm already performing with Victor Victroovious. Anyways I woke up early today and recorded a new song to play, its a slow dance (really really slow) version of the Velvet Underground song "I Found a Reason", which is one of the most beautiful songs ever. If you haven't heard Dust Bunnies it is basically orchestral noise karaoke...
Dust Bunnies "I Found a Reason"
and if you haven't heard, this was the first Dust Bunnies song
Dust Bunnies "Sunday Morning"
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