I forgot this track existed until I was planning a recording session last weekend and my female vocalist was like: “Sounds good. Let’s do it!”

My response: “I have a song called ‘Let’s Do It,’ but I think it’s too dirty for you.”

We’re winding down in the Citizen Nowhere project and I’m unsure that anyone besides me knows what a big deal this is…

…okay, that was a TAD of an overstatement, but it’s closing off a particular sound for me, a sound I’ve been embracing since 2003, when I grew out of acoustic instruments and.. BAHHH! None of this needs to go here.

Each of the back 4 albums of Citizen Nowhere has had something like a pre-launch single. “Recessed” will be no different.

May I present: Debris.

As I’m writing this, it’s the Saturday before Easter. Depending on how this weekend goes, this video might get cross-posted across my sites on Monday. Or I’ll let it languish here until CitzenNowhere.com is done, then release the whole album. Who knows?

I’m taking it day by day since there is little else to do with it besides mixing and promoting it while I’m mixing. But how much should I really promote something I do mostly for myself in my free time?

Jeez, life is complex.

On 6/25/2009 I made a “non canonical” cover that was so cool-looking to me that it basically justified the existence of a non canonical album.

In case you don’t know about the Citizen Nowhere project, it is going to end up being 8 albums. It started in 2003 and you can get six of the albums by CLICKING OVER TO THIS POST and the seventh at THIS POST.

That means there is one more to go and the post directly below this one (at least if you are reading this on the Listen Or Don’t section of my blog), you can hear “Loose Lips,” which will be on Citizen Nowhere 8.

But “Loose Lips” got me thinking about how I wanted 8 to sound, and I realized that the nearly-complete album I thought was #8 really wasn’t. It was a bunch of tracks that didn’t fit. Most of them were about the Recession, some were left over from previous albums, but it wasn’t fitting together and it wasn’t providing a listening experience.

So: there will be two additional “albums” of material before I close out Citizen Nowhere with the 8th album. This track, “Escape Sometime” will be on the disc called: non canonical, b-sides. There will also be a non canonical, instrumentals that will have - you guessed it - instrumentals only.

Despite the preview/”leak” track here, the B-Sides album will probably come out second.

non canonical, instrumentals will be the first release, and you will get that within the next two weeks. It’s really neat. I almost thought about making a cover that looked like it was an original motion picture soundtrack to a movie I’ll never make…

Hmmmm.

Maybe I’ll still do that.

If I find a way to escape sometime…

dontdownloadme “Escape Sometime” by Citizen Nowhere off Citizen Nowhere, non canonical, b-sides

I’m not going to pussy foot around why this song is posted now. It was a series of events that lead me to the oft-forgotten “Joy Of Sex,” Tyler Patrick Hart’s seven-minute-and-five-second opus off his 2002 high school project techno album.

First, I needed to reduce the amount of music I had on my laptop because of expanding production efforts in visuals and music (more craziness out of the Citizen Nowhere/Mystery Project camps), an the other was that I can now e-mail this post to Tai (or at least link to it from his Facebook wall) to remind him that he still hasn’t zipped the whole damn 2002 album and sent it over to me yet.

I have “Joy Of Sex” as a WAV file for some damn reason, and I din’t think I’ve had a copy of the album since it’s inital release.

Why would I get a copy of this at all? Well, whatever the official name of the electronica album was, I had a hand in co-producing some of Ty’s tracks. Honestly, until I hear it again, I can’t tell how much I really did. In my mind I did entire tracks by my lonesome, only to take the ACID 3.0 file and have Tai do a final mix on it (it was his grade, after all).

“Joy Of Sex” is loops-based and - once again, this is from my sketchy memory - I think it was the track that convinced the Monarch High School choir/electronic music teacher Mr. DuFresne that Tai could throw together an electronica album over the semester. He did, with a little help from myself and Keith Dickerhoffee (who I recently saw again in Boston). Keith was/still is a pretty good DJ and - once again, this may be a false memory - suggested inserting the female orgasm sounds that start around 3:12.

While Tai was working on this project, Serious Bob was being born using the minor recording skills he acquired on this project.

Funny thing: if you paid Tai and I’s rent and food costs for a semester, I’m pretty sure we’d make at least 5 albums of varying genre and feel. One semester = 1 electronica album and 1 Serious Bob demo is actually low-production for us. However, both our parents and our peers had no idea that the radical shift to electronica and acoustic joke rock took place that semester, and most of them were probably expecting VOID.

download link “Joy Of Sex” by Ty Hart

So, Tai: send me the rest of this shiznat!

[NOTE: Contained Within is the final version of "As Long As She Stays Kind," updated from the previous post]

Elliott and I danced around each other in high school for a very long while until we were both thrown into Monarch High School Theater and found our niche. I don’t know why Elliott was so into theater, and it was too early for me to know that the rest of my life (thus far only a few years, but no big obstacles on the horizon) would be dedicated to making stories that help people escape from the real, experience something new, etc.

Elliott and I grew closer over through theater and finally through Serious Bob.

Though The Bob deserves some credit for our friendship, the one memory that springs to mind when I think of Elliott and I personally was the one time he got to direct me in a one act play. It was called “Actor’s Nightmare” and he allowed me to play the lead as if it was just Dave Gonzales who had wandered onto the stage. This left many small-town-high-school-theater goers singing my acting praises. After I was cast in another one act and my lack of true acting ability was revealed, everyone kind of shut up about it.

So thanks, Elliott, for spurring a brief period of acting by allowing me to not act at all.

The Doric Order is what Elliott started calling himself when I spent years mixing Serious Bob’s third album. They were some pretty catchy home-recorded tunes that still live on, in my mind, for being honest Elliott.
Before any of the tracks that will later be posted here as “The Doric Order Demos,” Elliott would just plop down in whatever room we were all in and play us a song.

Damn, if I don’t miss that.

More importantly, every Doric Order song was about Elliott: Elliott’s love for (his soon-to-be wife) Kate, the strange relationship between Elliott’s step-mom and Elliott himself, there was even a song he wrote for me when I tried to quit Serious Bob after a heavy depression, a Citizen Nowhere album and months of getting nowhere on Serious Bob III.

Now, Elliott would like to make a career out of music.

I hate my own voice when I hear it played back, and a lot of Elliott’s vocal mixing here sounds like he might have the same fear. I’m assuming this is something that could be corrected with a little vocal training and hours in the booth (or, more frequently, a room with a mattress up against the door). Regardless, I am going to assume this is not finished and will not post it for download until I get the thumbs up.

But press play and fall in love with Elliott and Kate. It’s hard not to.

 Download link “As Long As She Stays Kind” - Elliott Goldbaum