Marsh Arms

Project for August 2006: Attempted 24 songs in 24 hours with zero preparation/advance work. Failed! Recorded 12 songs in 14 hours.

01 Wolf Marsh
02 Bear Marsh
03 Horse Marsh
04 Goose Marsh
05 Deer Marsh
06 Mouse Marsh
07 Night Arms
08 Fire Arms
09 Rock Arms
10 Wind Arms
11 Water Arms
12 Wood Arms

1. My 4:30 AM wake-up song. Like a gentle alarm clock. At 4:30 AM this seemed like the best song ever.
2. Your friend the spirit-bear has to leave you and go back to the spirit-world. Say goodbye as he sinks under the water and disappears!
3. Good old MicroKorg and delay pedal.
4. The geese have a long way to go on their migration-journey. Days and days of flying for hours. But they can make the best of it by singing this song as they fly!
5. Desperate for something. Not much to say.
6. I guess it’s a song about a messed up relationship. It’s like I’m a codependent spider-woman and I’m trapping my prey, who I want to love me, but I’m keeping him captive.
7. Just…made for atmosphere. Improvised and doubletracked.
8. It’s about a crazy ceremony held before a bunch of people go burn down a neighboring village. I was starting to get totally burned out…this marked the eighth hour of the project and I was getting into a phase of “why should I bother with this crazy project?” So I just wrote words really fast and made this up as I went along.
9. I was totally burned out here. Vocoder is often a cop-out for me.
10. I felt pretty awful by this point. Also, I just reused the drums from “Brighter Places.”
11. I just didn’t want to invest the time in it.
12. I thought, “try to make a more manly song for a change.” Hmm… Not so great. So I decided to call it quits.