meanwhile

...some music.

I cant let a week go by without making up or recording a song.

Bwana

Bwana
Lindsey Buckingham

Yet another cover. This one is from Lindsey Buckingham’s first solo album.

Step to the Left

Step to the Left
Joven Kerekes

I feel like this election thing isn’t going well. Everyone is worn down by all this craziness into a kind of passivity or resignation. I mean, in 2020 people were riled up. This isn’t the same. Its attrition.

Also i think it was a mistake to run a woman. There are going to be a certain amount of people in America who just wont vote for a woman no matter what and with the margins so small, we cant afford to lose those votes.

Maybe I Think Too Much

Maybe I think too much
Paul simon

This is a lovely song by Paul Simon that I have recorded a number of times. Its from the album that was meant to be a Simon and Garfunkel reunion. In the end Paul Simon erased Garfunkel’s voice from all the songs and put it out as another solo album.

The Note

The Note
Joven Kerekes

Take it up to a hilltop
Fold it into a plane
Throw it skyward
Again and again

Jenny Was

Jenny Was
joven Kerekes

Jenny wasn’t stealing
Stealing has no meaning
Jenny wasn’t stealing
until she was

Falling Water

Falling Water
Joven Kerekes

She fell asleep at four
And dreamt about a place
Where people never speak
And she awoke snow blind

We Come Apart

We Come Apart
Joven Kerekes

Here’s a nice sketch of a song I did in 30 minutes. If you can write and record a song in under an hour, it will usually turn out well — or at the very least, fresh.

This one will be on my next album.

We Didn’t Know we Knew

We Didn’t Know we Knew
joven Kerekes

This one started out as the Day Tripper riff done on a steel drum. That was it. After it became something else, I modified the Beatles riff so as to be original so that I could include it here.

Tarzan and Batman

Tarzan and Batman
Joven Kerekes

This is from a silly playground song we would sing as kids. One of many. However, I don’t intend to ever record the Popeye variations of the already very lewd Barnacle Bill the Sailor. Please don’t ask me to.

Aren’t You Going to miss me?

Aren’t you going to miss me?

This is a silly, little ditty I produced quite some years ago. When I went to add a guitar to it, I realised that I hadn’t figured out the chords, which is usually the first thing.

Dropout Boogie

Dropout Boogie
Don Van Vliet / Herb Bermann

Just recorded this for fun in one sitting. Its a cover of a song from everyone’s favourite paranoid schizophrenic, Captain Beefheart. This is from his first album “Safe as Milk” from way back in 1967. It was in my dad’s collection.